1972

Happy New Year. Hope it's everything you want it to be. This column comes at you courtesy of Post-Doc-Rock Steve Shirey of the Carnegie lnstitute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Steve, Lauretta, and son Steven were recently seen at a Carstensen bash in Princeton with other classmates Mike Sack and Ted Lippman. • Fred Bickford: "I left BCI Geonetics last fall and since then have been helping my brother in his log cabin business. Expect to get back to work in minerals or hydrogeology within a few months. Awaiting birth (at long last) of our first child."

Update, February 15, 1991: "I have a new address, corresponding with yet another new job. The Arizona job ended unexpectedly in mid-December when the mining company for which I was working ran out of money. Starting next week I'm going to be working for EG&G Idaho on environmental permitting and hydrology at the government reactor site near Idaho Falls."

• Doug Charlton: "Current Status: managing officer of SO-plus-person environmental engineering office of Converse Environmental, a national firm. Desperately seeking good staff in environmental engineering and geological sciences. Also director for international operations for same company. Current business: start-ups of multinational environmental firms in .Eastern and Southern Europe as part of international operations. Interested in Dartmouth Environmental Studies program . . . spent several hours with Konrad von Moltke in Washington, D.C.—good guy!"

• Joe Davis: "New job—senior staff advisor to the Frontier Group at Maxus. Working on new play ideas domestic and international-just finished Bulgaria and starting Louisiana."

• Dave Dethier: "Life races along. I've shouldered running the sciences for Williams for two years—will be nice to retreat from that mountain of paper one-and-a-half years from now. My research seems to be in New Mexico these days, but I continue to work on aluminum recycling in our local experimental forest."

• Scott Emery: "I'm a neurologist in Fairbanks, have been in Alaska 11 years, and have two children. There used to be geologists up here but most have gone to Nevada."

• Peter Meyer: "I am now on the faculty at Rhode Island College and teach courses in geology and oceanography. My students range from the best in the state to one who can't divide 50 by 100 because the bottom number is bigger than the top number. It's a challenge, but I enjoy it. I also maintain an office at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where I manage to spend two or three days a week during the academic year and am hill-time during the summer. My research focuses on the relationship between volcanic and plutonic processes at mid-ocean ridges."

• Eric Potter: "Good news for 1990:1) Baby daughter Emily born 1/24/90; 2) Promoted and transferred to Denver area 4/1/90. Present position: manager of geological technology. Present home is on the Fountain Farm, with superb views of Lyons and Dakota hogback as well as Precambrian foothills!"

• Roger Thrall: "Living in East Thetford, Vt., with my wife, JoAnn Kruzshak, and our daughters Lindsay 8 and Julie 4. JoAnn teaches first grade in town, and I have for some years owned and operated a surveying and mapping business here. Spend probably 100 days a year in the woods—a never-ending source of interest and inspiration (as are my daughters). I hope the next 20 years don't go by as quickly as have the last 20, but I'm afraid they might."

• Bob Tsigonis: "I bought a gold pan from the Geology Department before leaving Hanover in 1973 on my way to Alaska. Have been here ever since, working primarily as an environmental engineer doing recreational mining as time allowed. In April '90 I began working for Fairbanks Gold on the Foit Knox Project, a very large, low-grade gold intrusive. My wife, Jean, is a family-practice physician. Our children are Abraham, Elizabeth, and Abigail. Our family is healthy, happy, and joyfully serving our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!"

Mail, phone, fax all welcome (212/6842979). Keep your cockles warm.

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My college students range from the best in the state to one who can't divide 50 by 100 because the bottom number is bigger than the top. Peter Meter '72