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The Magazine of Colorado School of Mines

Volume 96 Number 1Winter 2006

A Project with Character:Reservoir Characterization

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New Grads Charged to LeadWorld Energy Future page 20

Referendum C:What it means for Mines

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Listen Up!

Was very interested in the article in the fall Mines magazine titled “Listen Up” concerningthe Internet radio station at Mines. Back in 1948, spearheaded by John Morgan EM ’49, webuilt a carrier current station using a war surplus aircraft transmitter. The station waslocated in the basement of the gym. Our call letters were, of course, KCSM. The RF wasintroduced into the power AC via a capacitor. We covered most of Golden, although therewere some dead spots due to the vagaries of the power company distribution system. Ourgoal was to broadcast football games, although we also did some basketball. Away gameswere played later, having been recorded on a tape recorder. We also played some music – atfirst there were many eager disk jocks, but the demands of studies whittled away some ofthe initial enthusiasm.

I regret that I cannot dredge up the names of some of the pioneer sportscasters (some werevery good, too) but, alas, time has stripped them from my memory. I do not know howlong the station lived. I left after graduation in 1950.

Daniel Butner EM ’50

Humanitarian Engineering

I read your article "Humanitarian Engineering" and I must correct Dr. Cecil on hisperception of how the Peace Corps functions. He stated, “Unlike the Peace Corps or theU.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Habitat’s global village projects donot import U.S. home-building materials and technology, but rather help the localhomeowners and laborers with their designs and construction techniques based on locallysupplied materials.”

I served in Peace Corps-Panama in 2002-2004. During my three-month training period, itwas beat into my head that Peace Corps volunteers would become human resources wherethey served. In my village of 1,000 people, I became part of a group of womenentrepreneurs who wanted to start an income-generating chicken project. I helped themaccess the value of their bamboo, mud and grass (which can be used in place of concrete),tools and labor. With this, we wrote a budget together that proved the community wasinvesting more than half the value of the project. What was missing was the money topurchase chicks, their food and medicine. The women submitted this budget and proposalto USAID, which they wrote, and thus learned a valuable skill for future projects. The totalthey actually received from USAID was less than $300. USAID will only fund Peace Corpsprojects if the community shows that half of the amount needed is community-contributed.

The work of Peace Corps volunteers should never be depicted as unsustainable or culturallyinsensitive. My colleagues and I lived in these communities for two years, not two weeks.We truly understand the challenges our neighbors face in the developing world.

Whitney Trainor BSc Geop ’01

Correction: The thickness of the gold leaf on Guggenheim Hall is not .025 inches asreported last issue. It is much thinner, closer to .000025 inches.

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Mines is published quarterlyby the Colorado School ofMines and the CSM AlumniAssociation for alumni andfriends of the School. Minesmagazine is a criticalcommunication serving theColorado School of Minescommunity. Its mission is tokeep readers informed aboutthe School, to further thegoals of the School, and theAlumni Association and tofoster connectedness.

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John U. Trefny, PresidentColorado School of Mines

Alan Mencin ’79, President CSM Alumni Association

Anita Pariseau,Executive Director CSM Alumni Association

Maureen Keller, EditorCSM Alumni Association

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Letters to the Editor


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Mini-Grants at Mines: Endowing Excellencein Engineering Education 14

Facing the Future: Learning to Compete in a Global Economy 16

About Our Cover: Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, director ofthe Office of Science for the U.S. Department of Energy, was thecommencement speaker at Mines in December. He urged the newgraduates to apply their creativity to solving the world’s energyproblems and outlined future possible energy solutions. “These are the opportunities for you to use your talents, learning andcommitment to literally save the world,” he told them. Thecomplete speech starts on page 20.


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Study-Abroad Students Focus on Their Host CountriesThe annual international student photo contest


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Research for Fun and ProfitAn interview with Mines’ new vice president of research

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Students Participate in World Petroleum Congress 7

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The Passage of Referendum C and Defeat of Referendum DWhat it means for Mines12

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People Watch 26Retirement Doesn’t Keep Larner Away From Office....

Undergraduates Assist with 27Iraqi Development Plan

Notes & Quotes 28Philanthropy at Mines 30

Harry Campbell donates over $3 million.....................Staying Connected 32In Memoriam 36On the Move 38From the Archive 46

The Demise of College Yearbooks

A Project with Character: 20 years of reservoir characterization

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Students Participate in World Petroleum Congress

From left: Nicolas Jonard (France),Vikram Balasubramanian (India),

Omotayo Soyemi (Nigeria), MatthieuDelaby (France),Benjamin Pope

(USA), AzukaEnenmo (Nigeria),

Donald Walker(USA), Jennifer

Rano (USA),Alejandro Nebreda

(Venezuela), andChih Wei Khor

(Malaysia).Donald Walker presented a special

gift to Jean-Pierre Favennec,Director of the Center for

Economics and Management atthe French Petroleum Institute

(IFP), to thank him for the supportof the IFP in organizing the trip

and in the fundraising effort.

Omotayo Soyemi poseswith a traditional Zulu

warrior during a visit tothe Lesedi Cultural

Village.

Matthieu Delaby andNicolas Jonard listen

intently duringpresentations .

Ten CSM graduate students from six countries in theInternational Petroleum Economics and Managementprogram, offered jointly by the Economics and BusinessDivision and the French Petroleum Institute, attended the 18th World Petroleum Congress in South Africa in September.

“This was the first time in its 72-year history that thecongress has been held in an African country, a reflectionof the growing importance of Africa to the petroleumindustry,” says Donald Walker, a student organizer of thetrip. The congress is held every three years by the WorldPetroleum Council. More than 3,000 delegates from thepetroleum industry, government, academia and non-governmental organizations attended. Walker led thefundraising effort that allowed the Mines students tomake the trip. Most of the sponsors were from thepetroleum industry including Total, which donated morethan $16,000, Forest Oil International, Encana Oil and Gas,CGG Americas Inc., Williams Production RMT and theOrganization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

According to Walker, “The goal of the trip was two-fold.First, we wanted to learn as much as possible about the energy industry. Second, we wanted to expand ourcultural awareness by learning about Africa.” Thecongress’ focus was on how the energy industry canpartner with government, academia and civil society tomeet the world’s rapidly growing demand for energywhile protecting the environment and operating in a waythat is socially responsible.

The congress featured big-name speakers including LordJohn Browne of Madingley, BP chief executive; RexTillerson, president of ExxonMobil; Total’s explorationand production president, Christophe de Margerie; andEivald Roren, president of the World Petroleum Council.

In addition to hearing speakers, congress participantsalso could choose from more than 100 specialpresentations or roundtables chaired by leading industryexperts. “The idea of promoting transparency and fightingcorruption was a significant focus of the congress,” saysWalker. Other issues addressed climate change, the roleof technology and how to attract more young people tothe industry.

While in South Africa, the 10 Miners also toured a coal-to-liquids plant, visited historic Johannesburg, Pretoriaand Soweto (formerly home to Nobel Laureates NelsonMandela and Desmond Tutu) and took a photo safari in agame preserve.

“Mines is at the right place at the right time,” says John Poate, theSchool’s new vice president for research and technology transfer.He’s referring to Mines’ potential to expand its reputation as aleader in energy, earth resources, environment and materials asoutlined in the strategic plan.

“There are excellent people here: faculty, staff and students,” hesays. “The four key focus areas outlined in the strategic plan arecritical issues facing the United States and the world. Developingsolutions will require innovative research and Colorado hasunique strengths and advantages.” The area already is home to theNational Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), the NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the NationalCenter for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the newFitzsimons campus of the University of Colorado Health SciencesCenter, among other key players. Plus, Colorado is an attractivelocation where innovators might want to set up business.

Poate said he sees his job as “enhancing where we are already, thengrowing the research area. The faculty, staff and graduate studentswill have to drive this.” He continues, “My main role is to act as acatalyst for them. I want to build a research-friendly environmentto facilitate the endeavors of the faculty. For example, I’ll workwith them on proposal writing. I’ll help establish the rightcontacts within industry, labs and other schools.”

Hiring and retaining outstanding faculty are essential tomaintaining and enhancing the School’s reputation. Poate says,“We will have to come up with competitive start-up packages and maintain competitive salaries to retain these stars. But oncethey’re started, their research will primarily be covered by thegrants they bring in. Research-intensive faculty create a sense ofexcitement about science and engineering for students. So many exciting things happen in the R&D arena that a technicalinstitution would be a pretty dull place without vibrant research.There is nothing like the excitement of discovering or measuringsomething no one else has seen before. That’s what it’s all about.”

Currently Mines has 26 research centers on campus. “That seems alot for an institute of Mines’ size,” says Poate. “What I will do iswork with faculty and administration to focus on critical areas inenergy, Earth resources, environment and materials and build acritical mass of internationally recognized centers. I expect anatural merging of research will occur. Large centers are needed togenerate the funds for state-of-the-art equipment and thepersonnel to maintain them.

“At the same time I’ll be working with my U.S. and internationalfriends in the industry and national labs and other universities tosee how Mines fits in and develop joint programs. These are the

sort of activitiesthat will help mefocus on theright ideas andhelp develop thetech transferprograms.”

Before joiningMines in January,Poate was chieftechnologyofficer and vicepresident ofAxcelisTechnologies, aleader in themanufacture ofion implantationmachines for thesemiconductor industry. Prior to that, he was dean of the Collegeof Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute ofTechnology. The bulk of his research career was at Bell Labs wherehe was head of the silicon processing research department. Poateholds a doctorate in nuclear physics from the Australian National

University. He was the John Bardeen Award winner of TheMetallurgical Society in 2002.

Research for fun and profit is Poate’s philosophy. He takes thisoutlook from the then-vice president of research at Bell Labs,Nobel Laureate Arno Penzias, whose motto was “physics for funand profit.” Poate’s broader, more inclusive outlook is more suitedto Mines.

Times have changed and so has research. “The 20th century wasthe century of physics. The 21st century will be the biologycentury,” Poate says. And how will Mines play in this arena?“Mines already has some excellent programs in biology such asbiogeochemistry, environmental microbiology and biomaterials.Another burgeoning area is nanoscience and nanotechnology,where Mines also has some excellent research efforts.”

“At the research level, we’ve got some excellent stuff going on,”says Poate. “Now we’ve got to pull all it together.”

By Maureen Keller

Research for Fun and ProfitAn interview with Mines’ new vice president of research

“The 20th century was the century of physics. The 21st century will be

the biology century.”

From left, Thomas Petrie, Bryan Cooney andMeng Ersheng

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Amery Named IWRA Fellow

Hussein Amery, Liberal Arts andInternational Studies, has beenappointed Fellow of the InternationalWater Resources Association (IWRA).This is the highest rank of

membership given to members, described by IWRAPresident Aly M. Shady as“among the best and brightestin the business of waterscience.” Amery has writtenextensively about water politicsin the Middle East.

Kim Williams, an EngineeringLeader

Kim Williams, associate professor inthe Department of Chemistry andGeochemistry, was selected toparticipate in the Women inEngineering Leadership Institute inAnaheim, Calif., in November.Sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation, the institute is targetedat mid-career women engineeringfaculty who are prime candidates forassuming leadership positions inacademia in the near future.

Sue Anne Berger ’82 does an electric

pickle demonstration for the Mobile Science Show.

Mobile Science ShowAccelerates

Mines has received a $50,000 DanielsFund grant to support its MobileScience Show (MSS) program, a K-12 educational outreach programthat aims to improve teachercompetency and student aptitude inscience.

Sue Anne Berger MSc Min Ec ’82,MSS program director, created theprogram in 1991 to enrich scienceeducation through hands-on teachertraining and student instructionthroughout Colorado. “The MobileScience Show is pleased to have theDaniels Fund as a partner ineducating elementary teachers and

students in the dynamic and vitalfield of science,” she said. “Thefunding will allow the program tobring valuable training and suppliesto hundreds of area school childrenand teachers.”

During the 2005-06 school year, theMobile Science Show will visit 10Jefferson County elementary schools.The program will then extend intothe 2006-07 academic year,increasing student competency inscience while giving teachers excitingnew ways to combine scienceinstruction with other subjectmatter.

Co-directors Erdal Ozkan and Hossein Kazemi of the Marathon Center of

Excellence for Reservoir Studies in thePetroleum Engineering Department hosted areception in November for the opening of the

center’s new research office.

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DecemberCommencement

Raymond Orbach, director of theOffice of Science at the Departmentof Energy, was the speaker at themidyear commencement ceremonyin December.

Of the 273 degrees conferred, 142were bachelor of science degrees, 109

were master’s degrees and 22 weredoctorate degrees.

During commencement ceremonies,honorary degrees were awarded toOrbach, as well as to Meng Ersheng,retired chief geophysicist of China’sBureau of Geophysical Prospecting,and to Thomas Petrie, co-founder ofPetrie Parkman & Co. and formermanaging director and senior oil

analyst of The First BostonCorporation.

A Mines Medal was presented toBryan Cooney, who has servedMines for more than 20 yearsas a curator of thepaleontology collection for theDepartment of Geology andGeological Engineering andfor the Geology Museum.

Raymond Orbach

Mines football players celebrate graduation.

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The U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency’s Board of

Scientific Counselors hasappointed Robert Siegrist,director of Environmental

Science and Engineering, to itsnew subcommittee on land

preservation and restoration.

Fuel Cell Research

Mines has won a U.S. Department ofEnergy grant for approximately $1.5million over five years to helpdevelop commercially availablehydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Energy Secretary Samuel W.Bodman said, “Investments in fuelcell and hydrogen research todaywill enable America to lead theworld in developing clean,hydrogen-powered automobilesthat will reduce ourdependence on imported oil.”

Andrew Herring, associate researchprofessor in Chemical Engineering,will lead the team that conductsresearch on the polymer membrane,an integral part of a hydrogen fuelcell system, to advance membrane

durability and extend shelf-life,while simultaneously bringing downthe cost.

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VP Knows Financeand Fourteeners

Hille Dais has been appointedinterim vice president for financeand operations. She served as anassociate vice president at Minesfrom 1999 to 2003.

Prior to that, she was senior financeofficer for the Colorado Commissionon Higher Education, manager ofadministrative support for theColorado Department of Revenue,analyst and associate staff directorfor the Colorado Joint BudgetCommittee, and an analyst in theColorado Governor’s Office of StatePlanning and Budgeting.

An avid climber, Dais has reached thesummits of all 54 of Colorado’s“fourteeners.” Born and raised inHamburg, Germany, Dais earneddegrees from Metropolitan StateCollege of Denver and the Universityof Minnesota.

CANstruction Project

At the Castle of Cans Food Drive inNovember, students, faculty and staffraised awareness about hunger inColorado, donated nonperishablefood for the holidays, and appliedtheir engineering skills to aCANstruction competition.

The drive resulted in 8,798 poundsof food, distributed in ThanksgivingDay boxes to members in need in theMines community, and the restdonated to the Food Bank of theRockies. Beta Theta Pi fraternity wasthe overall winner of the contest.

NSF Award

Jason Liu, assistant professor in theMathematical and ComputerSciences Department, received aNational Science FoundationCAREER award for his project“Immersive Large-Scale NetworkSimulations.”

The prestigious award supports the“early career-development activitiesof those teacher-scholars who mosteffectively integrate research andeducation within the context of themission of their organization.”

Hall of Fame

Arthur Lakes, a Mines geologyprofessor from 1882 to 1891 afterwhom the library is posthumousleynamed, was selected for the JeffersonCounty Hall of Fame in October.Lakes is best remembered fordiscovering theJurassic dinosaurspecimens atMorrison in 1877.In addition to histeaching role atMines, he also

founded the Geology Museum andestablished its mineral collection,and he wrote numerous technicalpapers on the geologic resources ofthe Front Range and JeffersonCounty. Lakes died in 1917.

Project of theYear Award

Environmental Scienceand Engineering DirectorRobert Siegrist has been presented with the StrategicEnvironmentalResearch andDevelopment Program(SERDP)Environmental RestorationProject of the Year Award for hiswork on the Department of Defenseproject “Reaction and TransportProcesses Controlling In SituChemical Oxidation of DNAPLs.”Other researchers on the project,

selected from more than 60others, were Michelle Crimi PhDEnv Sc ’01, Tissa Illangasekare andJunko Munakata-Marr.

From left, Robert Siegrist, Tissa Illangasekare,

Michelle Crimi and Junko Munakata-Marr

Representatives of the Northrop Grumman Corporation presented a large check last fall to the Florence Caldwell Scholarship fund. Accepting the donation were members of Mines’ Society of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter.

From left, Gary Repetto of Northrop Grumman, SWE President Katherine Muterspaugh, SWE adviser Candace Sulzbach BSc BE ’81, SWE Vice President Agata Dean BSc Eng ’04

and Stefanie Hill of Northrop Grumman.

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Voters from the State of Colorado,home of America’s most restrictive

limit on state spending, went to the pollsNov. 1, 2005 to decide the fate ofReferendum C – a measure intended toallow a temporary time-out from the state’sconstitutionally imposed spending cap,known as the Taxpayers Bill of Rights orTABOR.

If passed, TABOR’s spending limit (equalto inflation plus population growth) wouldbe suspended for five years and wouldallow state lawmakers to spend anestimated $3.7 billion that would haveotherwise been refunded to taxpayers. Theextra revenue would be used for education,health care, and transportation needs, aswell as for pension plans for police officersand firefighters.

While not the first state to pass aconstitutional spending limit, most believethat TABOR as approved in a 1992referendum is the nation’s most restrictive.Under TABOR, if state revenues do notmeet expectations, then spending is cappedat a lower level and the base fordetermining the next year’s spending limitis reduced. Proponents of Referendum Cbelieve this provision exacerbates theeffects of economic downturns, such as theone experienced by Colorado earlier thisdecade, because spending is limited by theprevious year’s cap, therefore preventingpolicymakers from restoring cuts made toservices during hard times.

In November, the voters of the State ofColorado adopted Referendum C, but alsorejected Referendum D.

Referendum C will provide a temporarytime-out from the revenue limits imposedby TABOR and allow the state to keepexcess tax revenues above the TABOR-imposed limits for the next five years. Itwill also permit the state to spend theserevenues on health care, public education(K-12 and higher education) andtransportation. Finally, Referendum C willset the new TABOR base using the highestannual state revenue collections over thenext five years as the new base for futureTABOR limitation calculations.

Referendum D would have permitted thestate to borrow up to $2.1 billion to beused for state infrastructure needs intransportation, K-12 and higher educationbuildings, and local fire and policepensions. It would have taken effect only ifReferendum C was also approved and itwould have increased the revenue thatReferendum C allows the state to keep by$100 million each year into the future,beginning in Fiscal Year 2011.

As of early December, the School still didnot know the specific impact on highereducation in general or to the ColoradoSchool of Mines in particular. It is believedthat with the passage of Referendum C, thestate will not be forced to cut its budget inFY 2006-07 and the state will haveadditional financial resources and fundingoptions available to it, which would nothave been available without the passage ofReferendum C.

Higher education could see increased statefunding in FY 2006-07 for the first timesince 2001. Such funding could be in theform of (1) increased student stipend levels(currently $80 per credit hour); (2)additional state student financial aid;and/or (3) additional state funding supportfor “fee-for-service” agreements, whichhelp fund graduate education andspecialized educational services (i.e., high-cost engineering programs at CSM).

The state could begin to restore prior cutsmade over the last four years to severalstate departments and services. Forhigher education, it is hoped thatthe state might begin to at leastpartially fund prior unfundedenrollments experienced bypublic higher educationinstitutions since FY 2001.During this time, highereducation enrollmentgrew by more than20,000 student full-time equivalents(SFTE) with noadditionalfunding from the state.

The ultimate decision on what levels ofstate funding might be available and howthe state might allocate any new fundingwill be made during the upcominglegislative session, which began in January.

At this point, the impact of thesepossible changes in state funding,

the CSM Board of Trustee’s finaldecisions on tuition levels for

next year and the overallcampus budget are stillunclear. The CSM Boardof Trustees have untilFeb. 15 to submit itsFY’07 tuition proposal

to the state legislatureand will likely not

finalize theoverall campusbudget untilMay or June.

While much is unknown at this point,the 2006-07 state budget process has begunin earnest. In November, the governorpresented his plan for spending theReferendum C revenue and outlined his FY 2006-07 budget request of $6.5 billionto the Legislative Joint Budget Committee.

For the current 2005-06 fiscal year, thegovernor would like to spend the majorityof the funds available from Referendum Con state transportation needs ($296million). The Colorado Commission onHigher Education plans to request asupplemental fund for the current fiscalyear of $49.5 million to partially coverunfunded enrollment in public highereducation.

For the upcoming 2006-07 fiscal year, over$500 million is projected to be available inexcess TABOR revenues. Some of thehighlights of the governor’s FY 2006-07budget proposal include distributingReferendum C dollars in equal parts toper-pupil funding in K-12 education,College Opportunity Fund vouchers forstate college and university students andMedicaid premiums. He also wants toprovide for a 3.64 percent performance-based increase in salaries for state classifiedemployees, marking the first time the statehas funded performance pay whileexcluding salary survey adjustments.

Also proposed is providing $8.4 million inadditional general fund dollars for health,life and dental insurance benefits for stateclassified employees in order to bring thestate to 75 percent of the averageprevailing private sector employercontribution to benefits. Other items in

this proposal include paying the Fire andPolice Pension Fund obligations, restoringthe Senior Homestead Exemption andproviding $50.5 million for controlledmaintenance and $46 million for statecapital construction projects.

For higher education, the governorproposes to increase the CollegeOpportunity Fund stipends from $2,400 to$2,580 (based on a 30-credit-hour load fora full year); increasing fee-for-servicefunding to colleges and universities by$29.1 million; increasing student financialaid by 6 percent ($4.7 million); andlimiting resident tuition rate increases to2.5 percent.

Overall, the governor’s budget requestwould boost general-fund support for theDepartment of Higher Education by 10.2percent in FY 2006-07 under his proposal.

With the failure of Referendum D, the statewill not be able to issue bonds and will notbe able to begin several state capitalconstruction projects immediately, but willhave to deal with these infrastructureneeds through the normal state budgetprocess on a pay-as-you-go basis.

With Referendum C passing, the School ishopeful that it can secure enoughadditional state capital funding tocomplete the current Center forTechnology and Learning Media (CTLM)capital project as it was originally designed.The School will request funding of about$2 million to help offset the higher-than-expected costs of construction, which haveescalated since the original funding requestwas made several years ago due to theimpact of national and world events suchas Hurricane Katrina and rising oil prices.

The School will continue to keep thecampus and alumni updated on majordevelopments regarding the School’s statefunding outlook for next year.

Dan Montez is CSM’s associate vicepresident of finance and operations.

The Passage of Referendum C and Defeat of Referendum D:What it means for Mines By Dan Montez

Estimated Additional

Fiscal Year Funds Available2005-06 $440 million2006-07 $577 million2007-08 $646 million2008-09 $703 million2009-10 $822 million2010-11 $995 millionSource: Office of State Planning and Budgeting

CSM State Funding & Resident Enrollment FY01 to FY06

FY 2000-01 FY 2005-06 % ChangeTotal State Funding $19,495,658 $17,187,980 - 12%Resident SFTE 2,251 2,886 +28% State Funds per Resident SFTE $8,661 $5,956 - 31% per

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For Mines faculty, the return of the highlyeffective Curriculum Development Mini-Grant Program inspires creative new waysto think about engineering education. ForMines students, the reinvigorated programhelps ensure that their education willequip them with significant advantages aspracticing scientists and engineers. Theprogram awards up to $5,000 to facultyfor undergraduate curricular reformprojects to enhance student learning andmore fully incorporate elements frommultiple disciplines into teaching andlearning models at the School.

Mini-grant funding brings educators’ mostinnovative curricular design ideas tofruition with wide-ranging benefits for theMines community. Thanks to generousendowment gifts from President and Mrs.John Trefny, and Gerald ’68 and TinaGrandey, the seeds of innovation haveonce again been sewn. “These mini-grantsgive the faculty some support fordeveloping new ideas about how to teachand how to learn,” said President Trefny,

“and we’d like to see that continue intoperpetuity.” By creating endowed funds tosupport this important initiative, donorshelp protect the program from budgetaryfluctuations and ensure that it is sustainedlong into the future.

Global energy demands andunprecedented advancements inengineering practices and technologiesmean that Mines must work harder thanever to stay at the forefront of engineeringeducation. Dedication to curriculumadvancement is evident at Mines today, asit has been throughout School history.Visionary faculty members have workeddiligently to keep Mines on the leadingedge of engineering education.

Mini–Grants and theMovement for ReformThe mini-grant program stems fromdiscussions held at Mines in the early 1990s. The movement wasspearheaded by an energetic “think tank”whose ranks included President Trefny,head of the Department of Physics at thetime. This multi-disciplinary group offaculty sought to implement progressivechanges to keep the School’s engineeringcurriculum fresh and accessible.

Trefny became vice president for AcademicAffairs and dean of faculty in 1995,bringing with him a strong desire torenovate undergraduate education andgreat ideas about how to translate thatdesire into action. The National ScienceFoundation (NSF) issued a request forproposals that year for projects exploringengineering education reform. Trefny tookthe reins on behalf of Mines, authored awinning proposal in collaboration withthen-Associate Vice President NigelMiddleton and others, and shepherded theinstitution through a comprehensivecurriculum reform process.

Their success in securing NSF funding forcurricular reform was cardinal for the

School. Faculty mini-grants were fundedboth by the NSF grant and internal CSMfunds from 1997 to 2001, when statebudget cuts forced the program’stermination. During its five-year tenure, 47of 101 proposed projects were funded,with every department on campusreceiving at least one grant of up to $5,000and more than 6,700 students reaping the benefits.

At the height of the original mini-grantprogram the School gained nationalattention for its successes. The programproved that even small amounts of moneycan be leveraged to produce powerful and far-reaching effects on engineeringeducation. In a 2004 paper, a team offaculty authors note, “As seed money for change, the program was a goodinstitutional investment because the grants affected the faculty recipients, theircolleagues and departments, and studentsat all levels.”*

Mini-Grants Move Mines Forward Mines’ 10-year strategic plan sets forthambitious goals for enhanced research,innovation and technology transfer – goalsthat the newly-revived mini-grantprogram will help the institution reach.Endowed support for the program ensuresthat curricular assessment and innovationremain central to the educational prioritiesof the School. Mines has become a majorcenter for engineering education research,and mini-grants help sustain an under-graduate curriculum that serves as adistinctive model for similar institutionsworldwide.

The creativity fostered by Mines’ culture ofcontinuous improvement is evinced notonly by the mini-grant program but alsoby the Center for Engineering Education(CEE). Initially established in 2000 to servegrowing faculty interest in engineeringeducation research, the center hasdeveloped into one of the School’s most

valued assets in just over five years. RuthStreveler, CEE director, notes, “I ampleased that curriculum mini-grants havereturned to CSM. The mini-grants notonly directly support curriculum reformbut also help to foster faculty discussionand excitement about improving studentlearning.”

President and Mrs. Trefny’s endowmentgift helps further the School’s initative tocontinually advance engineeringeducation, ensuring its versatility andrelevance in contemporary society. Geraldand Tina Grandey chose to supportcurriculum improvements by designatingtheir endowment gift for projects that helpprepare the next generation of engineersfor work in the increasingly global arena ofnatural resources. Such projects serve aspowerful engines of change in engineeringeducation at Mines.

Nigel Middleton, executive vice presidentfor Academic Affairs and dean of faculty,has remained a strong proponent of Mines’mini-grant program. Reflecting on its pastsuccess, he notes, “I had the privilege ofbeing on the administrative side of themini-grant program in the 1990s and sawthe cumulative and highly beneficial effectof all of the grants on the institution-widerevision of the Mines curriculum. Withthis reinvigoration of the mini-grant

program, I am optimistic that we canrestore our abilities to stimulate curricularinnovation and maintain Mines’ leadingedge in science and engineering education.Contributions to this meritorious programbring immense benefits to the outstandingquality of a Mines education.”

Mini-Grants Motivate ChangeAll Mines undergraduates are familiar withthe acronym EPICS (Engineering PracticesIntroductory Sequence), as every studenttakes the two-semester course. During theinitial mini-grant program, this corecourse was redeveloped. Four years offunding allowed the faculty teaching thecourse to improve content delivery and

instructional technology in the classroom.As a result of this crucial funding, everyundergraduate benefits from an up-to-date, engaging EPICS curriculum that laysthe groundwork for the rest of theireducational experience at Mines.

Like EPICS, physics courses are required ofall Mines students. When the mini-grantprogram began at the School, faculty werereorienting their approach from a lectureformat to one that more fully engagedstudents. Mini-grant funding was criticalto the development of this new approach,allowing Dr. Thomas Furtak to redesignPhysics I, now a national model for“active-engagement teaching.” Summermini-grant funding also enabled Dr. JamesMcNeil to conduct external research onphysics curricula and improve the

Physics II course at Mines. Advancedphysics segments are now carefullyintegrated, providing students with adeeper understanding of the course

content. These mini-grants impactedthousands of students, and Mines’ physicsprogram is widely recognized for itssuccesses.

Dr. Frank V. Kowalski of the Departmentof Physics received funding from the newmini-grant endowment in 2005 for hisproposal, Differentiated Learning in aLaboratory Course. He will design labcurriculum that allows instructors to teachwriting skills to those who need themmost, while nurturing advancedexperimental skills in those who alreadyexcel at writing. This visionary programwill explore how to better meet the uniqueneeds of each student, while ensuring allMines students develop excellentcommunication skills.

Thanks to the pioneering efforts ofPresident Trefny and other facultymembers over the years, as well asphilanthropic support from Mines’community of donors, the renewal of theCurriculum Development Mini-GrantProgram will help the School sustaincontinuous curricular improvement andmaintain its leadership in engineeringeducation now and into the future.

By Trisha Bentz Kendall

Mini-Grants at Mines: Endowing Excellence in Engineering Education

*http://www.mines.edu/research/cee/minigrants.htm

“The mini-grant program helpedanchor the Writing Across theCurriculum (WAC) program atColorado School of Mines. Prior to1998, few CSM faculty members hadparticipated in WAC workshops.Between 1998 and 2001, 38 Minesfaculty members received stipends forparticipating in the summerworkshops. The workshops gavefaculty participants additional toolswith which to design, implement anddevelop technical, writing-intensivecourses. The workshops earnedconsistently high evaluations fromfaculty, and at least one representativefrom all CSM departments anddivisions participated, making WAC amore integral component of programcurricula at Mines.”— Dr. Jon A.Leydens, CSM Writing Programadministrator and assistant professor,Liberal Arts and International StudiesDivision

“EPICS introduced me to the ideathat engineering is an exercise inteamwork. This concept has been theunderpinning of my educationalexperience at Mines. Last year, I had areservoir engineering internship withBP Alaska and the technological andteamwork skills I learned at Minesintegrated seamlessly into thebusiness world. I was able to easilyadapt to the technology used in theoil industry and my experienceworking on teams was useful in avariety of settings all summer long.”— Heather Frenier, Class of 2007

EPICS students present their work.

Interactive learning in the Physics Learning Studio

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S uccessfully competing in a globaleconomy is a major challenge of

our time. Today’s students are muchmore likely to work for a companywith an international base than theywere 50 years ago. They are morelikely to work abroad. And they’remore likely to have to compete onan international scale.

The petroleum industry provides agood example of how the worldhas changed. In the 1950s, oilcompanies usually made one-on-oneagreements with rulers of oil-richcountries and were able to controlprices. In the 1960s, a group of oil-producing countries formed theOrganization of Petroleum-ExportingCountries (OPEC) in order toinfluence oil and gas productionand price. But today, the market iswide open. Oil has become aworldwide commodity that everyoneneeds. No one entity controls themarket so it has become moreimportant than ever to train studentsto understand how supply anddemand works.

Mines has taken a step towardaccomplishing this with its newMaster of International PoliticalEconomy of Resources (MIPER)degree, first written about in thesummer 2005 issue of Mines. Sincethen, the Colorado Commission onHigher Education has given itsapproval and the first new master’sdegree could be awarded as early

as May to DeAnn Craig BSc Chem’73, BSc CPR ’80, MSc Min Ec ’02,PhD Interdisciplinary ’05,currently a member of CSM’s Boardof Trustees and a long-timeproponent of the School’s teachinginternational political economy.

The new degree is built aroundpolitical and socio-economic studiesof resource-producing and resource-consuming regions of the world,combined with quantitative studiesin relevant statistical tools and inengineering technologies forresource development. As such,International Political Economy ofResources (IPER) is a multidiscipli-nary field that focuses on theanalysis of the interaction andintersection of the state and themarket on an interstate and globalscale, with particular reference tothe resource industries. Cultureunderpins and governs the politicaland economic universe, and IPERalso stresses the importance of theactions of state and non-state actorsacross borders. It is ideally suitedfor educating global resourcesengineers and helping them acquirenecessary political, economic, andcultural skills, sensitivity andappreciation to successfully compete in today’s global environment.International political economy is ayoung discipline that has beenaround since the mid-1970s, but the degree from Mines will be thefirst in the world to explore the role of the state and the market on resources.

Philippe Dunoyer, a former Minesstudent, CEO of Total PetroleumNorth American and, for the past

Facing the Future:

Learning to Compete in a Global Economy

10 years, adjunct professor in theSchool’s McBride Honors Program,says teaching students aboutinternational political economygives them a roadmap to how theworld works. “It teaches them howto ask the right questions. It’s not anadvanced scientific discipline, butmore based on observation andcommon sense,” he says.

Dunoyer began his career as ageophysicist in the field but soonwas promoted to corporateplanning and managementpositions. “I would have had amuch better learning curve if I’dknown IPER first,” he notes. “I knewnothing about economics. Therelationship between the state,markets and culture is the totality ofwhat makes economies function.”

With the introduction of the MIPERdegree, Mines is helping trainfuture industry leaders. “We can nolonger produce engineers who arejust technical,” says Eul-Soo Pang,Liberal Arts and InternationalStudies professor and one of theforces behind the creation of thenew degree. “If our graduates’knowledge is only technical, theywill hit a ceiling [in their careers].The attitude of oil and miningcompany executives is entirelydifferent today than it was 10 yearsago. Then, it was ‘if you have thetechnical knowledge, we’ll train youin our business.’ Today, they realizethis doesn’t work. Businesses don’twant just an engineer. They wantsomeone who can look at the bigpicture. They want someone whoknows where the action will be in30 years.”

Mines hopes to give its student anedge by giving them a globalperspective. Pang and Dunoyerteach introductory courses ininternational political economy andsay Mines students rapidly grasp itsimportance. “The whole world isone big marketplace todaywherever you work.” says Dunoyer.“What happens in one part of theworld is felt on the other side of the globe.”

Pang envisions expanding theprogram to include 20 to 30students. “We want a third to beAmerican and two-thirds to beinternational,” he says. We wantour students to start early in aninternational environment. It’simportant for Americans to knowtheir competitors.”

“And 21st century engineers needto understand how the world is puttogether,” adds Dunoyer.

By Maureen Keller

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In the mid-1980s when TToomm DDaavviiss PPhhDD GGeeoopp ‘‘7744 decided to form aconsortium to study reservoir characterization, the oil and gas industry was

experiencing exploration successes.They didn’t care much about older,more difficult fields. Much of the“characterization” that did take placeprior to drilling was done on largemaps flung across tables or tacked towalls. However, Mines liked the ideaof interacting with industry and theindustry liked the idea of supportingstudents at the School. The actualcharacterizing of reservoirs was alittle less clear in terms of importance.

Now 20 years later, the oil and gasindustry is interested in resources fromharder-to-extract locations and CSM’sReservoir Characterization Project

(RCP) has become a model of community-basedresearch. Mines graduatestudents study and provideanswers for companies that are

striving to enhance productivity in existing fields. As oiland gas supplies become more difficult to extract andconsumption increases, it’s vitally important to figure outhow to get the most from each reservoir. So far, theproject has produced an enormous body of workunlocking secrets about fracture orientation, fluid flow,lithology characterization and enhanced oil recovery.The project has graduated hundreds of students whohave gone on to attain significant professional status.Perhaps the greatest testament to RCP’s success is thenumber of oil companies that line up every two years,begging the project board to consider their problem sitesas worthy of study.

“I think a lot of people in the early days thought that if you did a 3-D surveyand tied in some of the wells, you were doing reservoir characterization,”

Davis said.“Everybody lookedat it as a static thing– you did it onceand were done.”

But Davis and some ofhis colleagues sensed a change on thehorizon. Even before the inception of the RCP, he joined CSMgeology Professor Bob Weimer to team-teach a class called IntegratedExploration and Development. Robert D. Benson BSc Geop ’76, MScGeop ’84, PhD Geop ’97 joined the RCP as co-director in 1988. Daviscredits Weimer with helping him focus on the framework of reservoir char-acterization through their work together on reservoir studies.

As exploration began to dwindle, oil companies realized they needed tofocus more on production. It was time to develop ways to maximizeproduction in existing fields. The RCP took up the challenge of studying andcharacterizing reservoirs in an attempt to explain and predict how eachindividual reserve will behave under production.

The concept of the RCP was for oil companies to offer up their fields for atwo-year phase of study during which time numerous experimental thingswould be tried to better explain the behavior of the reservoir. Companieswere encouraged to support the RCP with money and the donation ofequipment, services and personnel.

The first two-year phase ofthe project was the studyof the Silo field in theDenver Basin. Amoco hadfound oil in 1983 but hadproblems with recovery.Initial production fromwells was good, but felloff as much as 90 percentwithin a few months. Noone could explain why.The Silo site becameRCP’s guinea pig.Using shear wavetechnology, the RCP

gained an understanding of the complex reservoir and eventuallydetermined that horizontal drilling would be the best way to developSilo, which became the first horizontal field in the Rockies.

Since then, the RCP has progressed to Phases X and XI, developinga couple of patented technologies along the way and adding a vastamount of knowledge to the field of reservoir characterization.Recently, the national press reported that CO2 had beensuccessfully injected into reservoirs as a way to enhance oilrecovery and reduce greenhouse gases at the same time. Thattest took place as the RCP’s Phases VIII and IX in the Weyburnfield in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada.

A Project with Character

In 20 years, the Reservoir Characterization Project has gone from an unconventional

new approach to an established and vibrant consortium.

Bob Benson, left, and

Bob Weimer during a

RCP-hosted core

workshop. Photo

courtesy of Jim Emme.

A seismic observer that recorded our surveys

from Solid State Geophysical of Calgary.

Tom Davis, left and Pete Maxwell from

Input Output. Input Output provided seismic

recording equipment for the latest surveys at

Rulison Field, Colo.

Mines students Kjetil “KJ” Jansen and

Lauri Burke help out.

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“The success of the Weyburn project could have incredible implications onreducing CO2 emissions and increasing America’s oil production,” U.S.Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said recently in a speech he gave in theMiddle East. Bodman added that if the process were used in all the oil

fields of western Canada, “we would see billions of additional

barrels of oil and a reduction of CO2 emissions equivalent to pullingmore than 200 million cars off the road for a year.”

The Reservoir Characterization Project has helped establish CSM asan involved participant in industry problems, not an “ivory tower” withfew ties to the real world. President John Trefny says, “Feedback aboutRCP reflects that about the School as a whole. We are recognized asbeing in tune with and responsible to societal needs. The consortiumapproach to support for RCP is replicated throughout the campus…andbrings several hundred industry leaders into advisory roles for the School;alumni working in the various industries add thousands more to theseranks. Collectively, these individuals help us remain relevant and effective.”

Rhonda Duey is exploration technology editor for Hart’s E&P in Houston.

By Rhonda Duey

Vecta - Exploration of Houston provided this photo

of the seismic source used at Rulison Field.

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I am delighted to be here with you this morning to honor the 273 degreerecipients of this distinguished institution. For more than 130 years,Mines has pioneered in the application of the most sophisticated scienceto outstanding energy and environmental problems facing this nation andthe world. You are blessed with a proud heritage and internationalrenown. It is your opportunity to continue the proud traditions of this veryspecial institution.

I am here to honor you, the graduates, and to suggest ways you canfulfill your mission in the discovery and recovery of the Earth’s resources,their conversion to materials and energy, their utilization in advancedprocesses and products, and the economic and social systems necessaryto ensure their prudent and provident use in a sustainable global society.The Colorado School of Mines is committed to serving the people of Colorado, the nation, and the global community by promotingstewardship of the Earth upon which all life and development depend.

What a wonderful mission, one which could not be timelier. And crucial.

Of course, I am speaking about energy, once thought to be cheap,unlimited, and freely available to our nation. Today, all three aspects arein trouble. And so is our globe. Availability of sufficient environmentallyfriendly energy sources to meet the needs of a rapidly growing anddeveloping world population is the most pressing problem our civilizationhas ever faced.

The world’s energy appetite will at least double by the end of thiscentury (some claim it will triple). The environmental consequences couldbe catastrophic. Greenhouse gases are accumulating in our atmosphereat an alarming rate. For CO2 alone, the atmospheric concentration isapproaching 400 ppm, 40 percent higher than when fossil fuels began tobe burned, and may exceed 1,000 ppm by the end of this century if nolimiting measures are taken. To give you an idea of how difficult aproblem this is, pick a value for an acceptable CO2 concentration: 550ppm, 650 ppm, 750 ppm… It really doesn’t matter. To stabilize at eventhese very high (and alarming) concentrations, and not go higher, theamount of carbon neutral energy required at the end of this century willmore or less equal the Earth’s total energy consumption at the beginningof this century.

The world therefore has a two-fold problem: Where will this new energycome from and how can it be carbon-free? The most optimistic estimates

of carbon-free renewable energy capability are a maximum of 17 percentof today’s energy consumption. Even with this very optimistic estimate,where will the remaining 83 percent come from?

A global search for massive amounts of carbon-free energy will requiretransformational changes and disruptive technologies in order to provideclean reliable economic solutions. We cannot fulfill the world’s energyappetite with current prospects or incremental improvement to existingtechnologies. Electricity was not discovered by perfecting the candle.

There are three points of departure: increase conservation, largelythrough increased efficiency; greatly diversify energy sources and createinfrastructures for them; create and implement long-term (decades tocentury) energy visions and strategies.

More simply, increase conservation/efficiency and increase production.We must use less energy and produce more of it. Let me expand onthese points.

Increase conservation, largely throughincreased efficiency.

In the United States, electricity production uses about 40 percent ofprimary energy, and of this amount, about 70 percent is waste orrejected energy. Overall, about 60 percent of United States’ primaryenergy is lost in waste or rejected heat. With less than 5 percent of theworld’s population, the United States consumes about 25 percent of theworld’s energy (but produces only about 18 percent). Even if the UnitedStates were to be 100 percent efficient in the use of energy, this wouldamount to but 15 percent of the world energy consumption, notnegligible, but far less than the doubling to tripling of the world’s energygeneration required by the end of this century. Nevertheless, whenamplified globally, more efficient use of energy can play a major role.

Greatly diversify energy sources andcreate infrastructures for them.

At least four transformational technologies possess the potential forsignificant amounts of clean reliable economic energy: solar energy

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New Grads Charged to Lead World Energy Future

This was the address given at the Mines December commencement.By Dr. Raymond L. Orbach

utilization, advanced proliferation-resistant nuclear energy systems,fusion power and biologically derived fuels.

Solar energy utilization can be solar-to-electric, solar-to-fuels, or solar-to-thermal conversions. Sunlight provides by far the largest of all carbon-neutral energy sources. More energy from sunlight strikes the Earth inone hour than all the energy consumed on our planet in a year. Yet solarelectricity provides less than 0.1 percent of the total electricity supply,and renewable biomass (sustainably grown) provides less than 0.1percent of all total energy consumed.

For solar-to-electric conversion, novel approaches to exploiting newtechnologies (thin films, organic semiconductors, dye sensitization andquantum dots) offer fascinating opportunities for cheaper, more efficient,longer lasting systems.

With respect to solar-to-fuels, application of revolutionary advances inbiotechnology to the design of plants and organisms can lead to moreefficient energy-conversion “machines.” Designs of highly efficient,artificial, molecular-level energy-conversion machines, exploiting theprinciples of natural photosynthesis, promise substantial energyproduction opportunities.

In the area of solar-to-thermal conversion, solar radiation as a source ofheat, using high-efficiency thermoelectric and thermal photovoltaicconverters coupled to solar concentrators, have the potential to generateelectricity at converter efficiencies of 25 percent to 35 percent. Chemicalconversion sequences can convert focused solar thermal energy intochemical fuel.

In regard to the development of advanced proliferation-resistant nuclearenergy systems. Current “once through” nuclear reactor policy leavesspent fuel rods with long-term heat loads and radioactive decay. Disposalof light water reactor waste must be included as a cost of energygeneration from nuclear fission sources. Once-through spent fuel,subjected to chemical separation, offers many potential options formanaging its constituent parts including transmutation of radionuclide infast-spectrum reactors; recycling plutonium in existing light-waterreactors or advanced thermal reactors; stabilizing of fission products inrobust waste forms; and transmutation of long-lived fission products.

These reductions sharply reduce repository requirements allowingexpansion of nuclear energy generation sufficient to meet a significantpercentage of world energy requirements.

In the development of fusion power, as we speak, the seven parties tothe International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) have nearlycompleted an international agreement that will guide fusion energyresearch for the next two decades. Fusion energy uses deuterium from

water and lithium to create tritium, fusing deuterium and tritium intohelium and a fast (14 MeV) neutron. Deuterium and lithium are abundantand cheap, the helium will escape from the Earth’s gravity, and theenergy of the neutron will generate electricity or produce hydrogen.

The fusion process is the same as that which powers our sun andpromises unlimited safe clean energy for the world. In a conservativeestimate, about a third of today’s global energy usage can be generatedwith fusion power reactors by the end of this century.

Two examples of biologically derived fuels are biofuels derived from plantcell walls, otherwise known as cellulose ethanol, and hydrogen producedfrom water using energy from the sun, known as biophotolytic hydrogen.

The long-term goal of cellulose ethanol would integrate bioprocessing,now three steps (breakdown of raw biomass using heat and chemicals,use of enzymes to break down plant cell wall materials into simplesugars, and fermentations of the sugars into ethanol-using microbes) intoone. This requires the development of genetically modified, multidimen-sional microbes or a stable mixed culture of microbes capable of carryingout all biologically mediated transformation needed for completeconversion of biomass to ethanol.

Under certain conditions, green algae and cyanobacteria can use energyfrom the sun to split water and generate hydrogen. Research tounderstand and develop predictive models of hydrogenase (the enzymethat cleaves water to produce hydrogen) structure and function, geneticregulatory and biochemical networks, and eventually entire microbes, canlead to an “ideal” microbe to use in hydrogen bioreactors, or the “ideal”enzyme-catalyst to use in bio-inspired nanostructures for hydrogenproduction.

These four examples of transformational change and disruptivetechnologies, if successful, will reduce the gap between energy demandand production, while at the same time stabilizing atmospheric CO2 atlevels the Earth can live with. The combination of conservation and cleanreliable energy production can lead to a sustainable, abundant energyfuture for our world.

These are the opportunities for you to use your talents, learning andcommitment to literally save the world. Never before has the need beengreater. You have been blessed with inquisitive and intelligent minds.Combined with the blessings bestowed upon you by this remarkableinstitution, you have been empowered to change the future of our world,for the better. The Department of Energy, your government, urges you totake the challenge. No better group of young scholars exists.

Dr. Orbach is director of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Ath

leticsw

inter 2006

By Greg MurphySports Information Officer

CSM Athletics

First time in program history

The Mines volleyball team enjoyed thebest season in School history as it posted asingle season School record 20 winsagainst 11 losses.

In addition, the Orediggers qualified for the RMAC tournament for the firsttime since 1997 and earned a berth in the NCAA Division II NationalChampionships for the first time in thehistory of the program.

CSM opened the season by winningthree matches in California and then posting a 3-1 record at its owntournament in Volk Gymnasium. The onlyloss was a 3-2 setback to nationally rankedWashburn.

Following a 3-2 win over University ofColorado-Colorado Springs on Oct. 2,CSM stood at 13-3 overall and hadwinning streaks of six straight and fourstraight matches. The Orediggers woundup going 19-9 to finish the regular seasonand went to the RMAC tournament as the No. 7 seed with an 11-8 mark in the conference.

In the opening round, CSM handedsecond-seeded Mesa State a 3-2 loss beforefalling to third-seeded Metro State, 3-2, inthe semifinals.

Despite that loss, the Orediggers secureda berth in the national tournament, butfell in the opening round, 3-0, atNebraska-Kearney, the top-ranked team inDivision II for much of the season.

Junior middle blocker Amanda Rebolwas a unanimous First Team All-RMACselection, while sophomore setter AshleyPagel was named to the Second Team andsenior libero Sarah Alsbrooks to theHonorable Mention squad. Alsbrooks wasalso named to the Southwest All-RegionSecond Team.

The squad broke 15 School records this season.

Winter Sports Off to Good Starts

Men’s Basketball: The Oredigger men’sbasketball team stands at 2-2 early in the2005-06 season. CSM opened its seasonby defeating nationally ranked Nebraska-Omaha and Pittsburg State in VolkGymnasium. Junior center Ian Elsethleads the team in scoring (12.5 ppg) andrebounding (6.3 rpg).

Women’s Basketball: CSM got off to agreat start by defeating Johnson andWales in the season opener, but thendropped two tough games to Wayne State(Neb.) and Northern State. Junior IvaTomova leads the team in scoring at 13.3points per game, while senior AshleyGronewoller is averaging 11.7 points and5.7 rebounds per game. Junior forwardAngela Pearson is close to averaging adouble-double at 9.0 points and 9.0rebounds.

Wrestling: The youthful squad hasstarted out the season with two openevents and by hosting the four-team JackHancock Dual Invitational on Nov. 18.Senior 125-pounder Jesse Blattner andfreshman 141-pounder Corey Swansonare tied for the team lead with six winsand three falls apiece.

Swimming and Diving: The men standat 6-4 overall, while the women are 5-6this season. Both teams are gearing up for the North Central ConferenceChampionships from Feb. 15-18 in GrandForks, N.D. Senior Scott Harrison isleading the men’s team, while sophomoreRenee Rainguet leads the women’s.

Men’s Soccer EnjoysDream Season

The men’s soccer team enjoyed the bestseason in School history as it earned aberth in the NCAA Division II NationalTournament for the first time.

CSM finished the 2005 season at 13-7-4overall with three of the losses going toRMAC rival Fort Lewis, who advanced tothe NCAA Final Four.

CSM started the season with five straightwins. Following two straight losses, theOrediggers won four of their next fivematches and also tallied a 0-0 draw withFort Lewis College (FLC), who did not loseor tie another match all season.

Mines entered the RMAC tournament asthe No. 3 seed and advanced to the finalson penalty kicks over Metro State beforefalling to FLC in the finals.

In the national tournament, CSMadvanced to the second round on penaltykicks over Incarnate Word, but lost to FortLewis in the second round, 1-0.

Seniors Mike Dixon and Rafael Riberioearned First Team All-RMAC honors,while juniors Daniel Lockley and KevinGalloway and sophomore Craig Thompsonwere Second Team picks. Masaki Hemmiwas honored as the RMAC Freshman ofthe Year.

Dixon tied the single season school-record with 16 goals this season and ledthe team with 35 points.

CSM Cross-CountryRuns Into Record Books

The Mines men’s and women’s cross-country teams competed at the 2005 NCAA Division II NationalChampionships Nov. 19 at Prado RegionalPark in Pomona, Calif., and each squadturned in its best performance in programhistory.

The Oredigger women, who placed 14thin the country two years ago, finished fifthamong the 24 competing teams with 194points on the 6-K course, while the men’ssquad, making its first appearance at thenational championships in School history,finished sixth with 234 points on the 10-Kcourse.

On the men’s side, junior Joel Hamiltonled the way as he placed eighth overall in31:51.30 to earn All-American honors andsix team points. Junior Larry McDaris,who competed at nationals as anindividual last year, finished 36th overall in32:56.90 to earn 27 points and also earnedAll-American accolades.

Rounding out the top five for theOrediggers were senior Ryan Miles whowas 55th, junior Michael Rooney whofinished 82nd and junior Clifton Oertliwho was 102nd overall.

Seniors Hannah Davey and HeatherBeresford once again led the women’steam as they placed 36th and 37th,respectively, to earn 27 and 28 teampoints. Davey finished in 22:35.30, whileBeresford was right behind in 22:35.70.Each also earned All-American accolades.

Freshman Megan McKee was 53rd,senior Serena Gardiner was 54th andjunior Melanie Peddle was 74th to roundout CSM’s female finishers.

Mines Football Enjoys 5th Straight

Winning Season

The Mines football team enjoyed itsfifth straight winning season under HeadCoach Bob Stitt as it finished the 2005season at 6-5 overall and in second placein the RMAC at 6-2.

It is the first time in program historythat CSM football has had five consecutivewinning seasons.

CSM stood at just 1-3 four games intothe season, but finished the season bywinning five of its final seven games,including a 42-27 win over Adams State inthe season finale to clinch a winningseason.

A total of 13 players earned All-RMAChonors at the conclusion of the season,including senior Justin Gallas who was theRMAC Special Teams Player of the Yearand Wide Receiver of the Year. Gallas wasa First Team pick at wide receiver and kickreturner and was a Southwest RegionalFinalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy.

Senior Travis Yenne was a First Teamselection and the RMAC Linebacker of theYear, while senior Jared Heath alsogarnered First Team honors and wasnamed the RMAC Linebacker of the Year.

Running Back Bryan Florendo was the other player to earn First Team All-RMAC honors.

winter 2006

Volleyball TeamQualifies for NCAA

Tournament

Amanda Rebol

Women’s Soccer Has OutstandingInaugural Season

The women’s soccer team enjoyed anoutstanding first season as Head CoachFrank Kohlenstein guided the squad to a7-8 overall record.

On Aug. 25, the squad opened theseason with a 1-0 overtime win againstMidland Lutheran at Brooks Field asfreshman Caitlyn Ruegger netted apenalty kick with 28 second to play in thefirst overtime.

CSM then went on to win four of itsnext six matches and had a 5-2 record onSept. 17 following an 8-0 blanking ofJohnson and Wales.

Despite losing six of its final eightmatches, the Orediggers showed that theywill be competitive in the RMAC nextseason as three of the losses were by one goal.

In 2006, the Orediggers will begin full-time play in the RMAC with a fullconference schedule.

Senior Liz Major led the team with 15points on a team-best seven goals and oneassist. Ruegger added nine points on fourgoals and one assist, while freshman AnnNewman tallied five points on one goaland a team-high three assists.

Sophomore Marissa Burson was strongin the goal as she posted 72 saves and four shutouts.

Heather Beresford

Joel Hamilton

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Study-Abroad Students Focus on Their Host Countries

Sixty-three photos weresubmitted for this year’s fall2005 Education Abroad PhotoContest. About 12 to 15 percentof graduating CSM seniors havestudied abroad for a semester.The photo contest is open tothose students who studiedabroad during the 2004-2005academic year, as well as tointernational students whostudied at CSM. These are someof the entries, which includeColorado and foreign locations.

Dachau, GermanyJenn Phillips

Verona, ItalyTyler Micheli

Image of the InvisibleTokyo, JapanJordan Self

Old Man ReadingAsturias, SpainGuillermo Saiz

Prayer FlagsErawin National Forest, ThailandJeremy Paulus

Nature at its BestAspen, Colo.Gaurev K. Gupta

”Arte“Valencia, SpainMatt Diaz

GRAND PRIZE WINNERVibrant ColorChinaMike Iwata

Mangao GrottosDunhuang, ChinaEmily Dunham

Over the Tranquil WatersChengdu, ChinaAndrea Struble

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Last spring, Professor Graham Davis was about to move into the final section in his undergraduate class, EconomicDevelopment, when a special call for helpcame in. Lt. Col. Robert Gilchrist PhDMin Ec ’99, a professor of economics at theU.S. Air Force Academy who is temporarilystationed in Baghdad to assist with theIraqi reconstruction effort, asked Davis forhelp with prioritizing Iraqi’s developmentneeds as outlined in the NationalDevelopment Strategy. “Ultimately, thegoal is to assist the Iraqi government bysuggesting emphasis using a prioritized,time-phased plan for implementing thestrategy,” Gilchrist wrote.

Davis challenged his class to take up thistask. Each class member had already beenworking on a development strategy for adeveloping country of their choosing, buthere was a chance to put theory to work ina live case. The class was divided into 10groups, each taking a look at a specific

development challenge within Iraq. Afterseveral class meetings, the group came up with a coherent set of prioritiesemphasizing Iraqi-led housingconstruction and construction-related jobtraining as a core proponent of short-termdevelopment. This would simultaneouslyreduce the severe unemployment in Iraq,rebuild communities and provide a basicneed, while providing a means by whichsmall businesses in Iraq could berevitalized, either in the constructionprocess itself or via supply to theconstruction effort. The class also

determined that the Iraqis should haveself-determination over the planning anddesign of their communities, to create asense of ownership of the reconstructionprocess. Once trained in construction, thissame Iraqi labor force could then be usedin the massive reconstruction effort thatwill be needed to restore and rebuild Iraq’sinfrastructure.

Last May, the class connected to CentralCommand at Camp Victory in Baghdadvia a live two-way videoconference andpresented their results. Gilchrist wasdelighted with the advice the studentsprovided, noting that some of the ideaspresented were priorities that might haveotherwise been overlooked. The exercisebrought home to these students theimmense task that lies ahead in Iraq.

Davis is an associate professor in theDivision of Economics and Business.

People watchUndergraduates Assist with Iraqi Development Plan By Graham Davis

Ken Larner Geop E ’60, PhD Geop ’70,who had been CSM’s Charles Henry GreenProfessor of Exploration Geophysics,retired last fall. That’s the official word, butCSM campus has hardly seen less of him.In spring, he agreed to teach but plannedon a small work load with four-dayweekends. This, however, would not be thecase. “I became drawn (by myself) intoeverything going on in the department justas I always had done,” Larner says, recallingonly two four-day weekends for the entiresemester. He admits that he had less timeto vacation at his Grand Lake cabin thanbefore he retired. “So I decided to take asabbatical in the summer. I decided thatretirement was a soft constraint; sabbaticalis a hard constraint. But I knew that wascheating. What happens when the semesterstarts?”

Dave Hale has assumed the C.H. Greenprofessorship, but Larner took thecomfortable path by moving his books andmaterials into the office just next door.Larner is adamant, however, that thissemester he will not be at the Schoolenough to justify having an office, so he isslowly vacating that office.

Since retiring, he has volunteered withseveral organizations. EvergreenScholarship and Bootstraps, or ESBI, is anorganization in his Evergreen/Conifer,Colo. community that collects anddistributes scholarship money for college-bound high school kids in the area. Larnerserves on the committee that selectseligible recipients. Larner has alsocommuted to Lowry Air Force base to helpthe Salvation Army with HurricaneKatrina relief.

Throughout his career Larner earnednumerous awards including the MauriceEwing Award, the highest award of theSociety of Exploration Geophysicists, in1996. Also, he says,“It was very special thatin the semester after I retired I was selectedto be a CSM University EmeritusProfessor.” Larner says this award was trulyspecial because his association with Minesgoes back 50 years when, as a junior inhigh school in Florida, the idea of gettingto study geophysics at Mines became anobsession for him. Larner says he has nevercared to display his awards. “You can’t sellthem or give them away,” he smiles, so heboxes them up. “It’s nice if I receive an

award but I forget about it almostimmediately.”

Awards may not impress this hard-workinggeophysicist but a well-turned phrasecertainly catches his attention. “I am inawe when I read a well-written novel,” hesays. Currently reading the political novelSnow by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk,Larner says he particularly appreciates IvanDoig because of his lyrical mastery of theEnglish language. Another favorite writeris his wife, Nancy, who is currently lookingfor a publisher for her children's book, TheMouse in the Rabbi’s Study, which wasinspired by a dream she had about themouse infestation in their Evergreen houselast winter.

“I feel the CSM geophysics department isoutstanding, with great talent and warmthamong both faculty and students,” Larnersays. This statement seems profoundly truebased on how much of his retirement isspent working. So, if in the next couple ofyears you have occasion to be in contactwith this dedicated professor, you mightvery well find him at CSM.

Retirement Doesn’t Keep Larner Away From Office By Carolyn Hendrex



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Sig Ep Reunion PlannedRichard LaPrairie BSc Min ’74, P.E., isplanning a reunion for friends and family ofthe Colorado Delta Chapter of Sigma PhiEpsilon in Reno, Nev. in June. If you’d like toattend but haven’t been in contact with LaPrairie,visit www.lmiengineering.com/06party.html for more information.The 2002 and 2004 reunions drew about 50 alumni each from asfar away as Australia.

Czarnowsky ’75Pens NovelAlan Czarnowsky BSc Min ’75has written a novel, Dear Katy,Love Dad, published byXlibris Corporation. It is thestory of three generations ofMines graduates and muchof the story takes place oncampus and aroundGolden. As described onthe book jacket, it “is astory about personaldiscovery. When WillReed inherits the old hat box, hefinds a lifetime of letters from hisgrandfather to his mom. Lettersfrom an estranged dad, who triedto cast influence to a daughterfrom across a continent andoften from across an ocean. AsWill begins the examination ofthe letters, he figures tounearth his heritage, to learnmore about his grandfather,and to garner a few familystories to share with his own10-year old daughter. But Willdiscovers much more. Enough to change hislife forever.”

Alumni Raise Money for Food BankBrian BSc ’98 and Mindy BSc Econ ’01 Arbuckle raised $2,114for the Food Bank of the Rockies in November with their firstannual Sun Salutation-A-Thon at the Green Mountain yogastudio they own. The studio’s students and teachers gatheredsponsors to donate money for each sun salutation they couldperform at one time over the weekend of November 11-13. Eachsun salutation has at least 12 postures that move with the breath.The students performed at least 40 sun salutations each with the

top performerscompleting 80 and108 sun salutes. Onehundred percent ofthe donations weregiven to the food bankto help feed the needyfor the holidays. TheArbuckles founded theiryoga studio last spring inArvada, Colo.

Goss ElectedState ASCEPresident Christoph Goss, BSc Eng ’97, PhD Min ’00, P.E., has been chosenpresident of the Colorado Section of the American Society ofCivil Engineers. The Colorado branch is the eighth largest branchof ASCE in the country. Goss works for Deere & Ault ConsultantsInc. in Longmont, Colo.

Science,Technology

and EthicsThe Encyclopedia of

Science, Technology,and Ethics, published

last August byMacmillan Reference,includes articles by 13Mines professors. CarlMitcham, professor inthe Division of LiberalArts and InternationalStudies, was editor-in-chief. The four-volumeset includes about 700articles by 400 authors from more than 30 countries. Theencyclopedia covers moral issues raised for humans since theearliest technologies through the scientific advances of today.Authors from Mines include Hussein Amery, Juan BautistaBengoetxea, Maeve A. Boland PhD Geol ’05, John Franchi, TinaGianquitto, James Jesudason, Jon Leydens, Juan Lucena, CarlMitcham, Suzanne Moon, Barbara Olds and Eul-Soo Pang.

Abu Dhabi • Albuquerque • Anchorage • Ankara • Austin • Bakersfield • Boise •Boston • Boulder • Calgary • Caracas • Casper • Charlotte • Chicago • Cincinnati •

Colorado Springs • Columbus • Dallas • Denver • Fort Collins • Golden • Grand Junction• Houston • Jakarta • Kansas Ciy • Kuala Lumpur • Las Vegas •

London • Los Alamos • Los Angeles • Miami • Minneapolis/St. Paul • New York •Norfolk • Oklahoma City • Peoria • Phoenix • Portland • Raleigh-Durham • Reno •

Salt Lake City • San Diego • San Francisco • Santiago • Seattle • Singapore •Tucson • Tulsa • Vancouver • Washington, D.C. • Wichita • Your City?

Young Alumni of Mines! (Including those Young at Heart)

Coming to a city near you!Thursday, April 13, 2006 (Save the Date!)

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MAY 10 - 13REUNION 2006

Things to do:■ Check website to see who’s coming and what’s being

planned (www.alumnifriends.mines.edu,then click on “May reunion” at bottom left)

■ Find Stetson■ Book hotel room

Golden Hotel, 800 11th St., Golden. 800-233-7214.

Ask for Mines Reunion block of rooms.

Sheraton West, 360 Union Blvd., Lakewood.

303-987-2000. Ask for CSE12A.

Table Mountain Inn, 1310 Washington Ave., Golden.

303-277-9898. Ask for Alumni Reunion block of rooms.■ Mail in registration form, or register on-line

(www.alumnifriends.mines.edu, click on

“online Event RSVP”)■ Participate in reunion class gift (www.oia.mines.edu/give)

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Platinum Level$3,000,000 to $4,999,999John P. ’52 and Erika H. Lockridge▲

J. Robert Maytag▲

Gold Level$1,000,000 to $2,999,999Hugh W. and Ann Evans●

F. Steven and Gayle Mooney■

James L. ’59 and Arlene H. Payne●

Silver Level$500,000 to $999,999Charles and Eileen Bruce★

Charles R. Fitch■

Irene V. McKinney★

Copper Level$100,000 to $499,999Bernard M. and Marie J. Bench★

Phil A. Bowman★

Richard J. and Donna Gardner★

Gerald W. and Bettina B. Grandey★

Edwin J., Jr. and Nien Hodder★

Vernon A., Jr. and Kaye Isaacs★

Allan G. Provost★John U. and Sharon L. Trefny★

Harry A. Trueblood, Jr.★

★New Member■ Moved from Copper Level● Moved from Silver Level▲ Moved from Gold Level

Recent individual gifts of $25,000 ormore to Colorado School of Mines include:

Dr. Lonnie L. Abernethy established acharitable gift annuity with a donation of$100,000. The principal from the annuitywill be added to the Lonnie & GertrudeAbernethy Fellowship in Ceramics and theLonnie Lee Abernethy III Fellowship inCeramics in honor of his parents and hisson.

Harry D. Campbell ’42 donated realestate with a value of $2,227,896 toestablish an endowed chair in petroleumengineering, support curriculumenhancement and add to the CampbellEndowment for Excellence in Football.

Steve ’64 and Dollie Chesebro’ made agift of $25,000 to support CSM Athletics.

Marshall ’67 and Jane Crouch made a$34,000 payment toward their $100,000Transforming Resources campaign pledge.This gift will support The Mines Fund andthe Geology Department, as well asprovide discretionary funding for fourprofessors in geology and geophysics.

In honor of his 50th reunion, Joseph R.Dunbar ’56 made a generous gift of$100,000 in continued support of theWyoming Scholarship Fund.

Gerald ’68 and Tina Grandey made giftstotaling $50,000 to support the GrandeyEndowment for the McBride HonorsProgram Fund, the Grandey CurriculumMini-Grant Endowment Fund and TheMines Fund.

S. Bruce ’60 and Eleanor Heister made a$25,000 gift through the Ayco CharitableFoundation to support the McBrideHonors Program in Public Affairs Fund.

Ralph L. Hennebach ’41 continued hissupport of the Hennebach VisitingProfessorship program with a gift of$107,750.

Alfred T. Ireson ’48 contributed $5,000to The Mines Fund and $40,000 to theAlfred T. Ireson & Family ScholarshipFund. He also directed a matching gift of$5,500 to the Ireson Scholarship. The giftmakes Al a member of the SimonGuggenheim Society for the seventhstraight year.

Vernon “Bud” Isaacs ’64 made a gift of$75,727 to pay off his pledge to the MinesRecreation Center early.

With a generous gift of $160,550,Harold M. ’68 and Patricia Korellestablished an endowed scholarship fundthat will help two undergraduate studentsfrom Wyoming pursue engineering degreesat Mines. An additional $250,000 willname the Outdoor Recreation officeswithin the new CSM Student RecreationCenter.

Francis ’52 and Mary Labriolacontinued their support of Mines with anunrestricted gift of $25,000 to The MinesFund.

Carolyn V. Mann, loyal friend of theSchool, continued her support of the Johnand Carolyn Mann Graduate Fellowship inGeology Fund with a gift of $50,000.

Timothy M. ’80 and BernadetteMarquez made initial pledge paymentstotaling $750,000. Their total $10 millionpledge, the largest in Mines’ history, isdirected to the construction of a new,state-of-the-art Petroleum EngineeringBuilding.

Robert E. III ’68 and Ann McKee madea generous gift of $150,000.

Terry ’67 and Carol McNulty made asignificant current gift of $25,000 to theArthur Lakes Library to purchase textbooks for the Department of Metallurgicaland Materials Engineering.

Lawrence A. ’62 and Kay McPeekdonated securities totaling $249,051 toestablish the Robert Weimer and JohnHaun Graduate Fellowship in Geology.

A distribution of $140,232 was receivedfrom the Raab Charitable RemainderTrust, established in 1988 by Hilary ’37and Margaret Raab.

Charles E. ’61 and Louanne Shultzcontinued their support of the ShultzAthletic Scholarship Fund with giftstotaling $89,190.

A distribution of $131,850 was receivedfrom the estate of Fil Van Voris ’39. Thegift will establish the Van Voris EndowedScholarship Fund.

A gift of $65,000 from James R. Weber’71 established the Jack R. and Mary D.Weber Endowed Fellowship Fund in honorof his parents.

Recent corporate andfoundation gifts of $25,000 or more toCSM include:

The ARCS (Achievement Rewards forCollege Scientists) Foundationcontributed $49,000 toward scholarshipsfor nine students.

BP contributed $26,600 to support thedepartments of Chemical Engineering,Engineering (Mechanical Specialty), andPetroleum Engineering; the MinorityEngineering Program (MEP); and theSociety of Women Engineers (SWE).

The Burlington Resources Foundationcontributed $25,000 to support thePetroleum Engineering Department.

The Adolph Coors Foundationcontributed gifts totaling $268,800 insupport of the William K. CoorsDistinguished Chair in ChemicalEngineering and the Herman F. CoorsProfessorial Chair.

The Viola Vestal Coulter Foundationcontributed $35,000 to support the CoulterChair for Mineral Economics.

The Daniels Fund contributed $50,000to support the Mobile Science Show,benefiting K-12 schools in the JeffersonCounty area.

The Halliburton Foundationcontributed gifts totaling $45,000 tosupport 3-D prototypes in engineeringeducation and an adjunct professorship inthe Department of Petroleum Engineering.

Landmark Graphics contributed$60,000 to support a graduate studentstudying under Dr. David Hale.

The Li Foundation contributed $42,000to support the Li Foundation Fellowshipprogram.

The Marathon Oil CompanyFoundation contributed $100,000,completing their $300,000 pledgeestablishing the Marathon Center ofExcellence for Reservoir Studies.

Newmont Mining Corporationcontributed $30,000 to supportimprovements in the experimental EdgarMine.

Schlumberger contributed $25,000 insupport of the Department of Geophysics’Center for Petrophysics.

As a member of Mines’ 1939 undefeated football team and apetroleum engineering major, Harry Campbell PE ’42understands the many important dimensions of a Mineseducation. With his recent gift of $2.2 million, Campbell’sgenerosity provides endowment support to help continue theSchool’s legacy of excellence in both academics and athletics.

Part of Campbell’s donation will endow a chaired professorship inthe School’s world-renowned petroleum engineering department.A portion of his gift will also be allocated to Mines’ football team,adding to the Excellence in Football Endowment that Campbellestablished in 2001.

“Harry Campbell’s generous gift demonstrates his tremendousdedication to Mines. We are honored that he has chosen to make

such a significant contribution to the School’s academic andathletic programs, and will apply these gifts to ensure that ourstudents continue to benefit from a well-rounded and challengingcollege experience,” said Mines President John U. Trefny.

Campbell translated his own success in the classroom and on thefootball field to success in the oil fields, building a distinguishedcareer with several oil companies before founding his ownbusiness in 1972. As he puts it, “My own experience at Colorado

School of Mines as a student-athlete taught me the skills thathelped me to achieve professional and personal success. With thisgift, I want to sustain Mines’ tradition of rich academic andathletic programs that help students develop leadership qualitiesand strong characters.”

From left, senior quarterback Danny Medina, Harry Campbell, Coach Bob Stitt and senior linebacker Jared Heath.

Petroleum Engineering Department Head Craig Van Kirk and Harry Campbell

Century Society New InducteesThe Mines Century Society honors those individuals who have distinguished themselves through a lifetime of extraordinary

philanthropic support for the School. Alumni and friends whose cumulative gifts to the School total $100,000 or more are recognizedthrough society membership and their names permanently displayed in the Ben H. Parker Student Center. This year, eleven additionalnameplates were added to the Donor Wall and six previous members of the Century Society raised their lifetime giving to a new level.

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Anaheim, Calif.Candy Sulzbach BSc BE ’81, Sally RautioBSc Pet ’00 and Lori Stucky BSc Eng ’97were among those who attended theSociety of Women Engineers convention inAnaheim in November.

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Officers

Alan J. Mencin BSc CPR ’79President

Kathleen A. Altman BSc Met ’80President-elect

Roger Newell MSc Geol ’71Treasurer

Lori Stucky BSc Eng ’97Secretary

DirectorsRobert W. Applegate Jr. BSc Phy ’03Arthur T. Biddle Met E ’61Vicki J. Cowart MSc Geop ’77 Marshall C. Crouch III Geol E ’67 Brenda J. Eckles BSc Geop ’94 Scott Gustafson BSc Geop ’77, MSc

Min Ec ’79John Howe BSc Geop ’83Paul JohnsonEric May BSc CPR ’99Don Ott Geop E ’63Pat Phillips Met E ’61 Laurence G. Preble PRE ’61 Charles R. Russell Sr. PRE ’54 Candace Sulzbach BSc BE ’81Terrance TschatschulaJennifer Van Dinter BSc Geol ’97

StaffJanet Blair, Administrative AssistantKathy Breit, Associate Director

of Campus Programs andMembership Services

Carolyn Hendrex, Student InternMaureen Keller, Editor/Publications

CoordinatorAnita Pariseau, Executive DirectorBob Pearson PE ’59, Associate

Director of Sections and Geographic Programs

Jo Marie Reeves, Records ManagerKaitlin Schmidt, Student Assistant

1600 Arapahoe StreetP.O. Box 1410Golden, CO 80402Office: (303) 273-3295

(800) 446-9488, ext. 3295Fax: (303) 273-3583E-mail: [email protected]

CSM Alumni Association

The Importance of Establishing Developmental Relationships

In November, the Alumni Association invited students andalumni to a campus event on the importance of mentoring.Joe Mahoney ’86, founder of Just in Case BusinessLighthouse, a consulting firm that helps companies exploreand solve problems through the case-study method, led thegroup in an interactive exercise. Students in attendanceoutnumbered alumni three to one, and many of the youngalumni present expressed interest in being mentoredthemselves. Our alumni population, with a deep breadth of knowledge from industrieslocated worldwide, are in possession of a precious commodity: their own experience.Who better to share it with than a fellow alumnus/na or future graduate? This is ameaningful way to get involved with the Mines community, with bountiful rewards forboth mentors and protégés alike.

Participants in this mentoring event were asked to fill out a questionnaire so that theOffice of Alumni Relations can build a database of potential mentors and protégés andprovide a conduit for budding networking or mentoring relationships.

Later in December, the Office of Alumni Relations staff, together with other keystakeholders in the campus’ Career Center, Office of Institutional Advancement, AthleticsDepartment, Special Programs and Continuing Education office, as well as CSMAAboard members and career specialist vendors, were invited to participate in a mentoringcase study and brainstorming session. The diverse group generated many worthwhileideas, and all agreed that the key ingredient in a well-executed mentor program is thehuman touch. This is where I call upon Mines’ greatest resource, its human resource, theMines community, and you are an integral part of it.

Please consider offering your advice to a budding mind of either a student or anotheralumnus/na. Your location need not matter; with the proliferation of e-mail andaccessible cell phones, relationships can bud and grow from a distance. If you would liketo learn more, please send me an e-mail at [email protected] or feel free to give me acall (303-273-3296). If you would like to share your ideas and feedback on how best tomake this program work, I welcome them. My goal for this year is to find a successfulmentor match for each of the students or young alumni who attended our mentoringsession—that magic number is 40. May I count on your help?

With all the best for the happiest new year.

For the greater good of Mines,

Anita PariseauExecutive Director

Grand Junction, Colo.About 40 alumni and friends held a tailgateparty before the Mines-Mesa State game inlate October.

Chino, Calif.Miners in Southern California traveled to Chino to watch the Mines track team compete. The event was followed by a picnic.

Spokane, Wash.Quite a few Miners showed up at theNorthwest Mining Association breakfast in December.

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John H. Barney ’57 Lance R. Barron ’74 Marshall B. Belden Jr. ’69 Harry J. Briscoe ’70 Darek T. Bruzgo ’95 Samuel Chang ’88 William F. Clark ’77 Joseph E. Furtado ’98, ’02 Rebecca A. Furtado ’01 William Mark Hart ’97 L. Roger Hutson ’82

Robert E. Irelan ’68 Ronald R. Jones ’67 John T. McDonough Jr. ’69 Joann M. Menebroker ’91 Bryant M. Mook ’01 Anita PariseauElizabeth J. Reagan ’00Katherine A. Stachowiak ’97 John S. Stachowiak ’97 Guenael O. Wagner ’05 Loic F. A. Wagner ’04

New Life Members

International

Tim Marsh BSc Pet ’76 (left) and Richard LaPrairie BSc Min ’74,former fraternity brothers, met up in Beijing in August. Theyhadn’t seen each other in at least 30 years. LaPrairie owns LMIEngineering in Reno, Nev.

For the most up-to-date information on whatalumni events are scheduled around the countryand the world, go to www.alumnifriends.edu andclick on “News and Events” at the top. Then scrolldown to the calendar listings.

In memoriam

CARL DAVID BAER EM ’52 died March 10at age 75. His career spanned 45 years. He

worked on baseand preciousmetal and coalprojects on allcontinentsexcept forAntarctica. Hewas a life-longmember of theAlumniAssociationand a strongbooster ofthe mining

industry. Baer is survived by his children,Diane, Dana BSc Min ’76 and Debb.

RICHARD J. “RICK” CARLSON MET E ’69,MSC MIN EC ’81, PHD MIN EC ’04 ofGolden, Colo., died Oct. 19. He was 57.

Carlson was born in Oregon and moved toColorado at age 9. After graduation fromMines, he served as a second lieutenant andcombat engineer in Germany from 1969 to1972. In 1983, Carlson moved to SouthAfrica, where he worked underground as acertified explosives specialist. He onceescorted a caravan of cars through war-tornMozambique. He also worked in corporategold mining offices in Johannesburg. In1993, Carlson returned to Colorado to take care of his parents. He taught atMetropolitan State College of Denver, RedRocks and Colorado Technical UniversityOnline. Carlson was a longtime member ofthe Denver Barbarians rugby team andcoached the first women’s rugby team atMines. In 2000, he was inducted into theColorado Rugby Hall of Fame. Carlson issurvived by his longtime companion,Marcia Simmons.

JOHN CHARLES “JACK” DINGMAN JR. PRE’52 of Houston died July 30 of cancer atage 77. After graduation from Mines,Dingman went to work for Jefferson

Chemical. Heretired fromTexacoChemicalCompany.Afterward, hebeganconsulting asDingmanEnterprise andco-foundedOptimized Gas Treating.

Dingman was an active member ofMemorial Drive United Methodist Church,a veteran of the U.S. Navy, and was one ofthe founders of SPEBSQSA, a group thatpromotes barbershop quartets, in Austin,Texas. He is survived by his widow, Mary, adaughter, a son, three grandchildren and a sister.

FRANK D. HOTTER GEOL E ’59 died ofcancer June 18 in Belleville, Ill. He was 68.Hotter was born in Greeley, Colo., and after

graduation from Mines, joined the U.S. AirForce. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in1982. During his time in the military,Hotter earned a master’s degree from Ohio State University. He also pursued advanced studies in geodetic science. After

retirement, he became a design engineer foradvanced systems for McDonnel Douglas(now Boeing). He retired in 1992. Hotterwas a member of the Masonic Lodge,Scottish Rite and Shriners Hospital forChildren. He is survived by his wife of 48years, Bonnie, two daughters and sevengrandchildren.

BENJAMIN F. RUMMERFIELD SR. GEOL E ’40died of natural causes at home in Tulsa,Okla., Aug. 31. He was 87. In addition tohis Mines degree, he earned an AdvancedManagement Program certificate fromHarvard Business School. Through the

1950s, Rummerfield was instrumental inthe design and manufacture of newlyminiaturized and portable seismic and welllogging recording equipment for use in thefield. This instrumentation was used inRome for the detection and discovery of St.Peter’s tomb within the Vatican. In 1960,Rummerfield founded GeoDataCorporation and worked domestically andinternationally in recording, mapping,brokering and storing hydrocarbon andminerals exploration data. In 1963 heparticipated in the early success ofindirect geophysical detection by the U.S.government of secret underground nuclearbomb tests in the former Soviet Union.Rummerfield earned numerous awards and accolades including Honorary Life

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Membership from the Society ofExploration Geophysicists, OutstandingService Award from the Metropolitan TulsaYMCA and the Distinguished AchievementMedal from CSM. Rummerfield was aleader in many civic and professionalorganizations. He was a past-president ofCSMAA. Rummerfield also was a painterand one of his paintings was reproducedfor the cover of Mines magazine in 1980.Rummerfield is survived by two daughters,two sons, a brother, three grandchildren,one great-grandchild and two stepchildren.

FRANK M. STEPHENS JR. MET E ’42 diedJuly 1 at age 84. A native of Colorado,Stephens was happiest in sight of a

mountain stream – most often with fly rodin hand. He was a research engineer andsenior technical adviser at BattelleMemorial Institute, vice president andtechnical director at Parsons-JurdenEngineering, vice president of technologyat Hazen Research, developer of the ICHprocess for production of iron carbide andfounder of the Iron Carbide DevelopmentCorp. In addition to his Mines degree, hereceived an honorary doctorate and theDistinguished Achievement Medal fromCSM. Stephens is survived by Sally, his wifeof 63 years, two daughters, a son, 10grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A third daughterpredeceased him.

RICHARD VAN HORN GEOL E ’47 ofGolden, Colo., died June 30 at age 85. He

was a retired geological engineer. Van Hornwas both a surficial mapper and a landslideexpert. He produced numerous reports onthe geology, sedimentary deposits and

landslides of the Denver-Golden area. Healso conducted similar studies in Utahalong the Wasatch front, and participatedin the U.S. Geological Survey effort to mapthe geology of the State of Kentucky. Beforeattending Mines, Van Horn served in theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He was amember of The American Association ofPetroleum Geologists, Association ofEngineering Geologists, Utah GeologicalAssociation and the Mines AlumniAssociation. His hobbies included skiing,golfing, swimming, canoeing, dancing andhiking. He was a Boy Scout cub master andscout master and an Explorer adviser. Hewrote or co-wrote more than 100 geologicreports and gave many geologic talks toschool children, adult groups andprofessional societies. He and his wife,Alice, who predeceased him, had five children.

DONALD J. VANORDEN GEOL E ’56 ofMidland, Mich., died Sept. 19 at age 74.VanOrden served as a first lieutenant in theArmy Corps of Engineers during theKorean Conflict. In 1956,he joined Sun Oil Company and worked in various production engineeringassignments until 1973. Later assignmentswere as district engineer in California and chief operations engineer in Dallas.VanOrden retired in 1987. He was a

Registered Professional Engineer and a member of the Society of PetroleumEngineers. He also was a member of theAmerican Petroleum Institute, IndustryAdvisory Committee at CSM and on theboard of directors of the Michigan Oil andGas Association. VanOrden is survived byhis wife of 38 years, Charli, two sons, four

grandchildren, a great-grandchild and a sister.



Consolidated Pacific Bay Minerals Ltd. inVancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1974Lance R. Barron BSc Min is retired

in Weston, Colo.J. Michael Boyles BSc Geol is a

senior research scientist at the Institutefor Energy Research for the University ofWyoming in Laramie.

Timothy J. O’Connor BSc Min is acivil engineer for Engineering Surveysand Services in Columbia, Mo.

1975Bruce R. Bergeson BSc Met is

division process improvement managerfor Aleris International in Novi, Mich.

Charles K. Chambers BSc CPR is asenior chemical engineer with CWI inColorado.

Cathy D. Cutrell BSc Geol isknowledge engineer for BEA Systems Inc.in Denver.

Robert J. Green BSc Min isventilation engineering supervisor forBHP-San Juan Coal Company inWaterflow, N.M.

Glenn L. Krum BSc Min, MSc Min’77 is a geological adviser for ExxonMobilin Houston.

Robert E. Larson BSc Math, BScPhy, MSc Phy ’80 is principal physicistfor ITT Industries in Colorado Springs,Colo.

John R. McConnell BSc CPR, MScCPR ’77 is senior operations engineer forXTO Energy Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas.

Kirk A. Nobis BSc Min is seniorproject manager for Norwest Corp. inSalt Lake City.

Gary R. Resh BSc CPR is productionmanager with ICL Performance Productsin St. Louis.

Raj Sharma BSc CPR, MSc CPR ’77,PhD CPR ’81 is an adviser for NationalTechnology Enterprises Company inSafat, Kuwait.

1976Ronald L. Brinkman BSc Met is an

electrical distribution engineer for FlintHills Resources in Corpus Christi, Tex.

Paul M. Brunner BSc Min ispresident and chief executive officer of

the Boart Longyear Company in SaltLake City.

James P. Daniel BSc Min is vicepresident of business development forVulcan Materials Company inBirmingham, Ala.

Steven R. Gasser BSc Met is hotmetals manager for Asarco Inc. inHayden, Ariz.

Howard E. Janzen BSc Met, MSc Met’77 is president and chief executiveofficer for Janzen Ventures Inc. inLeawood, Kan.

Gregory T. Kelleher BSc Geol isexploration manager for Devon Energyin Houston.

Richard P. Wilson Jr. BSc Met issenior metallurgical engineer forAnderson & Associates in Houston.

1977Randal S. Barnes BSc Met is external

affairs manager for Newmont GhanaGold Limited in Ghana.

Stephen M. Hamburg BSc Pet is vicepresident of Miller and Lents Ltd. inHouston.

Robert L. Koch BSc Min is chiefengineer for Oxbow Mining LLC inSomerset, Colo.

Dean G. Liley BSc Pet is newventures manager for NewfieldExploration Company in Denver.

Eric E. Morti BSc Geol is retired inCarbondale, Ill.

W. John Robinson Jr. BSc Geol, MScMin Ec ’91 is senior reservoir engineerfor Chesapeake Energy Corp. inOklahoma City.

Jeffrey A. Russell BSc CPR ispresident of J. Russell & Associates inConroe, Texas.

R. Gordon Schupmann BSc Met,MSc Met ’78 is turbo wheel programmanager for Hitchner ManufacturingCompany Inc. in Milford, N.H.

1978John A. Bettridge BSc Pet is

operating manager for the SouthwesternProduction Corp. in Denver

Leonard H. Lamb Jr. BSc Met istechnical director for Motor Castings Co.in Milwaukee.

W. Scott McDaniel BSc Met isdirector of technology for KaiserAluminum in Spokane Valley, Wash.

Frederick N. Williams BSc Phy isoperations manager for Yankee AtomicElectric Company in Rowe, Mass.

1979Richard J. Gaugler BSc Met is a

project manager for ConocoPhillips inWilmington, Calif.

Richard L. Hesseltine BSc CPR isvice president of Ceritas Energy LLC inHouston.

Veronica P. Rovero BSc BE is a mathand science tutor at Aims CommunityCollege in Windsor, Colo.

Lawrence T. Shade BSc CPR isproduction supervisor for GeneralChemical in Augusta, Ga.

1980 Kathleen A. Altman BSc Met is an

associate professor in the Mackay Schoolof Earth Sciences and Engineering atUniversity of Nevada in Reno.

Michael J. Bogenreif BSc Min ispresident of Ajax Investments LLC inTallahassee, Fla.

Robert W. Hanna BSc Geop is anexecutive for ExxonMobil in Houston.

Philip O. Johnson BSc Pet is apartner for Triumph Energy Inc. LLC inWestminster, Colo.

Michael G. Maslowski BSc Geol isexploration manager for Coeur d'AleneMines in Idaho.

Kenneth W. Snodgrass BSc CPRmanages the Atlantic Basin LNG supplyfor Shell Gas & Power in the Netherlands.

Thomas E. Stevenson BSc CPR is apartner for Web Fueled Technologies LLCin Katy, Texas.

David A. Thompson BSc Pet isinvestment appraisal manager forConocoPhillips in Houston.

1981Kenneth E. Beeney BSc Geop is chief

geophysicist with Devon Energy inHouston.

Philip E. Brinkmann BSc Min isplanning and controls adviser forExxonMobil Development Company inHouston.

Timothy A. Deines BSc Pet isengineering manager for Marathon OilCompany in Houston.

James J. Emme MSc Geol is anindependent consultant in Denver.

Bryan J. Evans BSc Min is projectmanager for Washington GroupInternational in Denver.

Stephen C. Freeman BSc Pet isprincipal consultant for corporatestrategic planning for Chevron in SanRamon, Calif.

Frank J. Marrone BSc Geop, MScMin Ec ’87 is a financial adviser forAmeriprise Financial in Houston.

Gary W. McFaddin BSc CPR, MScCPR ’85 is president of CompliancePartners Inc. in Fort Collins, Colo.

Thomas L. Young BSc Geol isadvanced services manager for SmithTechnologies in Oberursal, Germany.

1982Daniel W. Andrews BSc CPR is

financial consultant for RBC DainRauscher in Denver.

Dwight A. Burford BSc Met, MScMet ’84, PhD Met ’87 is director of theAdvanced Joining Technology Lab atWichita State University in Kansas.

James F. Evans BSc Met is a researchengineer for AK Steel Corporation inMiddletown, Ohio.

Roger M. Flahive BSc Pet, M Eng Pet’84 is president of Erdolmann EnergyLLC in Denver.

Donald E. Hulse BSc Min is generalmanager for Minera San Xavier S.A. deC.V. in Cerro de San Perro, Mexico.

Timothy J. Inks BSc Pet is seniorreservoir engineer for Noble Energy Inc.in Denver.

Kamal A. Sandarusi BSc Geop issenior staff geophysicist for Chevron inHouston.

1983Rex A. Bigler BSc Pet is manager of

opportunity assessment for Chevron inHouston.

Daniel G. Collins BSc Geol is asoftware engineer for NorthropGrumman in Boulder, Colo.

Jennifer A. Maiolo BSc Geol is aproject engineer for Frontier-Kemper

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1949George H. Fentress Geol E is retired

in Loveland, Colo.

1950John R. Weyler PE is vice president of

Turan Petroleum Inc. in Santa Ana, Calif.

1951E. Geoffrey Jeffreys Geol E is retired

in Daphne, Ala.David C. Jonson Geol E, MSc Geol

’55 is vice president of exploration anddirector of Aurelio Resources Inc. inAurora, Colo.

Joseph H. Sullivan Geol E isexecutive director for Sacramento CountyTaxpayers League in Sacramento, Calif.

1952Joseph H. Kurz Geol E is retired in

San Antonio, Texas.

1954A. Joseph Rozada PE is retired in

Dallas.

1955Patrick J. Early PE is retired in

Naperville, Ill.Charles O. Spielman Geol E is an

independent geological consultant inMonte Vista, Colo.

1956Robert W. Howard PE is retired in

Woodbury, Minn.

1957Ralph T. Simermeyer Geop E has

retired (again)!Robert B. Steck Met E is senior vice

president of Garden State Securities inWall Township, N.J.

1958Benson L. Joseph Met E is vice

president of California Saw & KnifeWorks in San Francisco.

1960L. Douglas Patton Geol E is chief

operating officer for Consortium of PlantBiotech Research on St. Simons Island, Ga.

John R. Smith PE is a manager oncontract with Alaska Venture for ShellExploration & Production Company inHouston.

1964John H. Gray PRE is retired in

Kingwood, Texas.Thomas L. Hughes EM is retired in

Golden, Colo.Ronald B. Mellor PE is a field

superintendent for Niko Resources inDhaka, Bangladesh.

Lloyd J. Nordhausen PRE is vicepresident and refinery manager forFrontier Refining Inc. in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Edwin J. White EM has retired and isa consultant for the Denver MachineShop.

1965Larry J. Hoppe Met E and wife

Cheryl operate Trumpeter Inn Bed andBreakfast in Friday Harbor on San JuanIsland, Wash. They would love to haveMines alumni visit the inn.

Stanley M. Lukezic Met E is retired inLivermore, Calif.

Keith S. Olson EM is retired in Buhl,Idaho.

William R. Wilson Met E is presidentand chief executive officer for NewHorizon Uranium Corporation inArvada, Colo.

1966Stuart E. Bennett PRE is a dentist at

Foothills Dental Spa in Arvada, Colo.Paul Brennecke Met E is production

manager for Steel Works Inc. in Denver.Arthur F. Helbig EM was married in

Indonesia in March 2005. His wife isnamed Yatini. Helbig is productionmanager of Bogatyr Access Komyr inKazakhstan.

Thomas F. Kellett PRE is outsourcingbusiness development manager forIntertek Caleb Brett in Houston.

David B. Pearcy Geol E is a seniorgeologist for Cimarex Energy Companyin Midland, Texas.

Richards C. Thomas EM is presidentof Tec Industries Company in BonitaSprings, Fla.

1967Joseph D. Stewart PRE, MSc Min Ec

’89 is senior petroleum engineer at BerryPetroleum Company in Denver.

Ronald E. Versaw EM is projectmanager for Tetra Tech EC Inc. inLakewood, Colo.

1968Charles E. Brooks III Met E, MSc

Met ’70 is retired in Chandler, Ariz.Edwin Darling Phy E is director of

maintenance and production support forAramark Uniform Services in Irving,Texas.

Jack R. McClellan PE ownsMcClellan Consulting LLC in Gilcrest,Colo.

Robert B. Merrill Met E is retired inMadison, Ohio.

Danny L. Taylor Math E, MSc Math’73, PhD Min Ec ’80 is an associateprofessor of mining engineering atMackay School of Earth Sciences &Engineering at University of Nevada inReno.

Gary R. Williams EM is a mine safetyand health inspector for the U.S.Department of Labor in Albuquerque,N.M.

1969Joseph A. Gill Geop E is retired in

Richardson, Texas.James A. Heist PRE is vice president

of CDS Technologies in Cary, N.C.Andrew Hoover EM is retired in

Littleton, Colo.Michael Kowalski MSc Geop is

retired in Raton, N.M.John D. Low Met E is vice president

of operations for Asarco LLC in Tucson,Ariz.

William F. Martin Jr. BSc Min, MScMin ’73 is president of MineDevelopment and EngineeringCorporation in San Clemente, Calif.

John T. McDonough Jr. Geol E is vicepresident of Chile-Argentina for BarrickGold Corporation in Salt Lake City.

Raymond F. Stewart Geop E ownsQuaker State Oil Company in Bakersfield,Calif.

1970Larry A. Cramer BSc Met is a

consultant for Cramer Consulting inLimpopo, South Africa.

Robert J. Dearinger BSc Met ispresident of Robert Dearinger &Associates Inc. in Huntington Beach,Calif.

Ronald L. Gist BSc CPR, MSc CPR’72 is senior principal for Purvin & GertzInc. in Houston.

David J. Spottiswood PhD Met is anemeritus professor for Curtin Universityof Technology at Western AustralianSchool of Mines.

Bruce T. Stanley EM owns GrandMesa Alpacas in Cedaredge, Colo.

1971Robert E. Brady Jr. BSc Chem is

retired in Lakewood, Colo.Nicholas J. Cavaleri PE is an

independent consultant in Longmont,Colo.

Wesley P. Nason BSc Min is vicepresident of pipelines for VECO AlaskaInc. in Anchorage.

Daniel J. Townsend BSc CPR isdirector of operations services for ZachryConstruction Corp. in San Antonio,Texas.

1972Alvin L. Crandell BSc Phy is chief

metallurgist for Glamis Marigold Mine inWinnemucca, Nev.

Richard J. Laman BSc Math ispresident of SMH Engineering inLakewood, Colo.

Pamela R. Tittes BSc Met, MSc MinEc ’77 is principal of Tittes ConstructionConsulting LLC in Denver.

1973Thomas W. Haycraft BSc CPR is

strategic planning engineer for CITGOPetroleum Corporation in CorpusChristi, Texas.

Kent F. Perry BSc Pet is director ofE&P research for the Gas TechnologyInstitute in Des Plaines, Ill.

George F. Sanders Jr. BSc Geol, MScGeol ’75 is vice president for

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Constructors Inc. in Steamboat Springs,Colo.

Neal P. Mares Jr. BSc Pet is aproduction engineer for BP America inHouston.

1984Michael E. Baldus BSc CPR is a

contractor in Phoenix.Dyanne Bush BSc Met is a network

analyst for HNTB Corp. in Austin, Texas.Jeffrey S. Childs BSc Pet is the

commercial director-GOM explorationwith BP North America in Houston.

Munehiro Fukuda MSc Geochem isa senior consultant for Sowa ConsultantInc. in Matsudo, Japan.

Frank E. Gibbs BSc Met, PhD Met’98 is program director for CH2M HillInc. in Englewood, Colo.

Thomas S. Glanville MSc Min Ec ismanaging partner for Eschelon EnergyPartners in Houston.

John Andrew Kurtz BSc Geol is ahydrologist for the Arizona Departmentof Water Resources in Phoenix.

Bruce L. Niemeyer BSc Pet is areamanager for Chevron in Lafayette, La.

Robin F. Randall BSc Pet is anengineering manager for Baker HughesInc. in Houston.

David C. Raymes BSc Geop is NewEngland regional manager for KleinfelderInc. in Windsor, Conn.

Andrew F. Rosenfeld BSc CPR is ananalyst for Impala Asset Management inSan Francisco.

Brett Smith MSc Geop is president ofEnvironmental Compliance AssociatesLLC in Richland, Wash.

Thomas R. Strong BSc CPR is abattalion chaplain for the U.S. Army inOlympia, Wash.

David R. Treadwell BSc Chem, BScCPR is president of Quintillion MaterialsResearch LLC, working in nanocrystallineceramics, in Ann Arbor, Mich.

1985Robert E. Moore BSc CPR is

engineering director for Valero Energy inHouston.

Sandra L. Perry MSc Geol ownsPerry Remote Sensing Ltd. in Englewood,Colo.

Mark O. Reid BSc Pet is director ofengineering and operations for Denali Oiland Gas in Houston.

Patrick S. Troyer BSc CPR is seniormanager of planning for Valero in SanAntonio, Texas.

1986William S. Davis III BSc Geop is

senior scientific application analyst forPioneer Natural Resources in Denver.

Jeffrey Dyck BSc Met, MSc Met ’88 ispresident of Cascade Steel Rolling MillsInc in McMinnville, Ore.

John G. Kunkle BSc Min is lieutenantcolonel and deputy district commanderof the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inSt. Paul, Minn.

James F. Mattern BSc Geop ispresident of VB Equities LLC in VeroBeach, Fla.

Susan E. McFaddin MSc CPR, PhDMin Ec ’92 is treasurer for CompliancePartners Inc. in Fort Collins, Colo.

J. Fred Mueller Jr. BSc Geol ispresident of Northern Oil Inc. inPasadena, Calif.

Jan M. Nietzer BSc Geol is a seniorexploration geologist, North Africa andNear East, for Petro-Canada in London.

Gary S. Nordlander BSc Pet isoperations engineer for Whiting Oil andGas in Denver.

Gregory F. Piper BSc Pet is seniorvice president for Prisma EnergyInternational in Houston.

Suzanne (Lewis) Vaupel BSc CPRand husband, Ron, welcomed twins Lukeand Eleen on Aug. 3.

David M. Wheeler MSc Geol isexploration manager for El PasoProduction Company in Golden, Colo.

Karen L. Wiemelt BSc CPR is apartner of Pallavicini LLC in Arvada,Colo.

Daniel S. Wilkinson BSc Geop ispresident of Wilkinson Research Inc. inLakewood, Colo.

1987Clay L. Hoes MSc Min Ec is vice

president of Ameriprise Financial inMinneapolis.

Laga Ak Jenggi BSc CPR is head ofplant operations for Petronas Fertilizer inMalaysia.

Mark K. Levorsen MSc Geol is seniorhydrogeologist for the URS Corporationin Denver.

Denise M. Lytle BSc Pet is seniorevaluation manager for CDX Gas inDenver.

Dominic J. Ricotta BSc CPR is seniorcounsel and assistant secretary for theApache Corporation in Houston.

Thomas E. Street BSc Chem isprincipal of Satago Consulting LLC inDenver.

David H. Thornton BSc CPR isoperations manager for EquatorialGuinea Global LNG Services in Spring,Texas.

1988Patricia Glora Chambers BSc CPR is

executive director of Blue Sky Bridge inBoulder, Colo.

Anthony W. Fabrizio BSc Phy, MScMat Sc ’91 is vice president ofmanufacturing and quality for RobinsonBrick Company in Denver.

Dean J. Gipson BSc Eng is seniorproject manager for PBS&J in San Diego.

Monte L. Madsen BSc Pet is the westcontinent operations manager for FMCTechnologies in Denver.

Yassir Sindi BSc CPR is managingdirector for Al Fariz Food Industries inJeddah, Saudi Arabia.

1989Kennedy Technology Group, the

company of Jon Jambor BSc Eng,celebrates its 10th anniversary fabricatingand selling audio interface products for

airplanes and motorcycles. Jambor willrelocate to Aurora, Colo., later this year.

David A. Pritchard BSc Eng is vicepresident of Pritchard Concrete inGolden, Colo.

Anthonius W. Vervloet BSc Eng is asenior drilling engineer with Unocal inBangkok, Thailand.

Abdul Wahid MSc Met, PhD Met ’92is director of electronic industry for theDepartment of Industry for the Republicof Indonesia in South Jakarta.

1990Spencer G. Bird BSc Eng is vice

president of operations for CaliforniaSaw & Knife Works in San Francisco.

Julia B. Hoagland BSc Eng is apartner in the modern luxury living teamat the Corcoran Group in New York City.

Michael R. May BSc Eng is projectmanager for URS in Denver.

Penny Hill Ouellette BSc Met isnational project director for the OrionRegistrar in Longmont, Colo.

Steven M. Ouellette BSc Met ispresident of The ROI Alliance LLC inLongmont, Colo.

Robert A. Todd Jr. BSc Eng is aresident at Great Plains Family Practice inOklahoma City.

1991David J. Hagerman BSc Min is

production manager for Martin MariettaMaterials in San Antonio, Texas.

Thomas J. Harris Jr. BSc Eng isassistant production manager and headof programming for California Saw &Knife Works in San Francisco.

Wayne R. Harris MSc Geol is seniorstaff explorationist with Norsk HydroExploration and Production in Texas.

Margery J. Lemieux MSc Min Ec isregional finance officer for Mercy Corpsin Portland, Ore.

Michael J. Orobona BSc Geol is asenior geologist for Hibbing TaconiteCompany in Hibbing, Minn.

John J. Tanigawa BSc Pet is vicepresident of Merrill Lynch Energy andPower in Houston.

Peter H. Townsend M Eng Geol is anassociate for NewFields in Denver.

John H. “Trey” White III BSc Min ischief engineer for Kinross GoldCorporation in Republic, Wash.

1992John J. Dugas BSc Eng is director of

network implementation for Earthlink inPasadena, Calif.

Lisa R. L. Fisher MSc Geol is vicepresident of Tomassuk Minerals &Energy in Golden, Colo.

Andrew P. Villamagna Jr. BSc CPRwill graduate from the Medical Collegeof Virginia in May.

1993Heather Coursey BSc Eng married

Mike Puterbaugh last June. The coupleresides in Oak Park, Ill., where Heatherworks for UPS.

C. Wes Dickhut BSc Geol is ageotechnical engineer for John P. StopenEngineering Partnership in Syracuse,N.Y.

Denise M. Dihle BSc Eng ispresident of Three Sixty Engineering Inc.in Arvada, Colo.

Wendy BSc Eng and Rich BSc Eng’94 Duncan vacationed with theirchildren in Canada last summer.

Curtiss P. Dwyer BSc Eng, below,became a Roman Catholic priest inDecember. At left is Andrés S. EscalanteBSc Eng. At right is Christopher J.Castelli BSc Eng ’94. The three wereroommates at Mines.

Gerald S. Grishaber BSc Eng isoperations manager of West Africa andthe Mediterranean for Global IndustriesLtd. in Houston.

Carl A. Lakner BSc Pet is asustaining engineer for SchlumbergerOilfield Services in Rosharon, Texas.

Joseph M. Molloy BSc Eng, MSc EnvSc ’04 is a safety engineer with theColorado Public Utilities Commission,pipeline safety section, in Denver.

James D. Parry BSc Pet is regionaloperations manager for IndagoPetroleum in Dubai, United ArabEmirates.

Heather L. Sebastian BSc Eng ismaster scheduler for the Las Vegas SandsCorp. in Las Vegas, Calif.

1994Debra M. DeCrausaz BSc Eng is a

land development manager for Intrawestin Snowmass Village, Colo.

Keith D. Engler BSc Pet is vicepresident of business development forSavant Resources in Denver.

Glen D. Frank BSc Eng, M Eng EngrSys ’98 is senior construction managerfor H.R. Gray in Columbus, Ohio.

Paul J. Hughes BSc Eng is a networkengineer for Community Banks ofColorado.

Dirk A. Kolnsberg BSc Eng is amanager for Accenture LLP in Houston.

Gregory E. Kushnir BSc Mathmarried Galina Medvodovskaya Aug. 7.The couple resides in Connecticut whereKushnir is assistant vice president of AleaAlternative Risk.

Laird D. Little MSc Geol isgeological adviser for ConocoPhillips inAnchorage, Alaska.

Tim Piwowar BSc Geol and his wife,Leslie, announce the birth of son,Gabriel Grayson, born Sept. 22. Gabejoins older brother Timothy “Trey”

Joseph III. Tim is a geologist with ShellE&P in New Orleans.

John W. Robinson PhD Geol ownsNorth Ranch Resources LLC in Denver.

Samuel S. Roushar BSc Eng isassistant lead structural engineer forShaw Stone & Webster in Centennial,Colo.

1995Roxann

BSc Eng, P.E.,and MatthewHayes BScCPR, P.E.,announce thebirth ofdaughterBonnie Belle,born May 4. Bonnie joins big sisterBreanna Grace. Matt is a projectengineer for the Town of Castle Rock.Roxann is an adjunct faculty member forthe Engineering Division at CSM.

Whitney A. High BSc CPR, M EngCPR ’96 is a medical doctor in Aurora,Colo.

Mark J. Jachimiak BSc CPR is anattorney for Wood Ris & Hames inDenver.

Richard J. Murtland BSc Eng is anapplications engineer for UGS inScottsdale, Ariz.

1996Matthew D. Holecek BSc Eng and

his wife, Katherine, announce the birthof their second daughter, ClaireElizabeth, born Aug. 15. She joinsMadeline Marie who was born in 2002.Matt is a business development analystfor Sunoco Logistics Partnerships inNederland, Texas.

Darvin H. Jones MSc Min Ec isproject manager with Noble Drilling inSugar Land, Texas.

Susana Lopez BSc CPR is pursuing amaster’s degree in petroleum engineeringat Heriot Watt University in Scotland.

Nicholas J. Newell BSc Eng is seniorautomation engineer for Macromedia inSan Francisco.

Jess A. Peonio BSc Pet is senioroperations engineer for Orion Energy inDenver.

C. Jason Pinto BSc Pet was marriedlast summer in Indonesia. His wife isnamed Wuri. The couple resides inBeijing, where Pinto is a senior drillingand completion engineer for ApacheCorporation.

1997Kimberly A. Lacher BSc CPR is a

reservoir engineer for Hunt PetroleumGroup in Dallas. She earned an MBA infinance from Southern MethodistUniversity.

Robert J. Spang MSc Geol is a staffgeologist for Amerada Hess in Houston.

1998Darrin J. Filer BSc Math & Comp

Sci is IT manager for Cook Vascular Inc.in Vandergrift, Pa.

Joseph E. Furtado Jr. BSc Eng, MScMin Ec ’02 is a process/programmeranalyst for RMO Inc. in Denver.

Randall B. Ollmann BSc Eng is aproject manager for Peter McCoyConstruction in Beverly Hills, Calif.

1999Ronald E. Avila BSc Math & Comp

Sci is an Arvada, Colo., police officer.Matthew W. Caldwell BSc CPR is

with Strata Engineering Inc. in Boise,Idaho.

Jesse Chuhta BSc Phy married LauraMcGee in Pacific Palisades, Calif. lastyear. Jesse is an engineer at Boeing.

Paul A. DeBricker BSc Eng ’99 is anassociate at Goelzer Investment

Management in Indianapolis. He earnedan MBA in finance and strategy fromPurdue University.

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Michael P. Diederich BSc Econ, BScCPR is market research manager forMicrosoft in Redmond, Wash.

Carl Randel Jr. BSc Pet marriedSamantha Gaines in Evergreen, Colo.,June 17.

Kelly (Nikel) Reiber BSc Pet and herhusband, Derek, announce the birth ofson Isaac Thompson born June 9.

The Rev. Richard A. Williams BScCPR married Marnie Broadhurst Aug. 24.Williams is pastor of the FourthPresbyterian Church in Chicago.

2000Gayle C. DiRienzo BSc CPR is an

operations engineer for Mayne PharmaInc. in Loveland, Colo.

Mischa N. Gibson BSc CPR is apipeline safety engineer for Williams inHouston.

Sally J. Rautio BSc Pet is anoperations engineer for Kerr-McGee Oil& Gas in Evans, Colo.

Elizabeth J. Reagan BSc CPR is apatent attorney with Merchant & Gouldin Denver.

Isaac M. Rutenberg BSc Chem, BScMath & Comp Sci is a patent agent forReed IP Law Group in Palo Alto, Calif.

2001Viki Renae Binstock BSc Chem Eng,

a captain in the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers, has been deployed toAfghanistan.

Hans J. Eggers BSc Eng is anengineer for the U.S. Air Force atVandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

D. Benjamin Esplin BSc Phy is apatent agent for Pillsbury Winthrop ShawPittman in McLean, Va.

Rebecca A. Furtado BSc Eng is asupervisor for Utility Engineering inDenver.

Amy L. Osborn MSc Geol is an Earthscientist for Chevron in Sugar Land,Texas.

Nilton Pinheiro BSc Pet is a reservoirengineer for Sonangol Pesquisa eProdução in Luanda, Angola.

Joshua D. Wagner BSc Min is anindustry representative for CaterpillarInc. in Decatur, Ill.

Katrina E. Yancey BSc Chem Eng is areservoir engineer for BP ExplorationAlaska in Anchorage.

2002Robert A. Cambron II BSc Eng is a

design engineer for Triverus LLC inPalmer, Alaska.

Lewis P. Christensen BSc Eng is a B-52 navigator for the U.S. Air Force inBossier City, La.

Joshua D. Crumb BSc Eng, MSc MinEc ’03 is a project analyst for theEuroZinc Mining Corporation inCanada.

Nichole S. Detering BSc Eng is anengineer with Parsons in London.

Matthew Griego BSc Chem Engmarried Pamela Lilley Dec. 4. He is anengineer with Public Service Company ofNew Mexico

Tyler D. Hall BSc Phy, MSc Engr Sys’04 is a systems engineer for Raytheon inTucson, Ariz.

Craig H. Neuman Jr. BSc Eng is anenvironmental engineer for LyondellChemical Co. in League City, Texas.

Timothy A. Norick BSc Phy, MScEngr Sys ’04 married Kara M. PerrotteJan. 15, 2005. They are expecting theirfirst child in February. He is an electrical

engineer for Lockheed Martin SpaceSystems in Littleton, Colo.

Christopher J. Richings BSc Min is amine engineer for Phelps Dodge inEmpire, Colo.

Erin L. Roethlisberger BSc Phy is asystems engineer for Lockheed Martin.

Dawn A. Schippe BSc Geol is ageologist for Indian Affairs in theDivision of Energy and Mineral ResoucesManagement in Lakewood, Colo.

Christopher R. Sutton BSc Geol is ageologist for Rosetta Resources in Denver.

Jeremy J. Yarrow BSc Math & CompSci, MSc Eng & Tech Mgmt ’03 is a mathteacher for Eaton High School in Eaton,Colo.

2003Jason A. Burke BSc Eng is a field

engineer for Schlumberger in Lafayette,La.

Sara J. Depperschmidt BSc ChemEng is a chemist for Leprino FoodsCompany in Denver.

Matthew R. Ellsworth BSc Eng, MScEng & Tech Mgmt ’05 is a patentagent/technical specialist for SheridanRoss in Brighton, Colo.

Tammy L. Foppe BSc Chem Eng is areservoir engineer for Shell RockyMountain Production LLC in Denver.

Jeffrey J. Jantos BSc Eng and JessicaZwier were married April 30 in

Evergreen, Colo. Matt Frary BSc Eng,Tim Lynch BSc Eng, Rafer ChambersBSc Eng and Jordan Dimick BSc GP ’04were groomsman.

Jesse L. Kuchinski BSc Chem Eng isa process engineer for ZAP Engineeringin Lakewood, Colo.

Que Nguyen BSc Phy is a solutionsdeveloper consultant for Avanade Inc. inSeattle.

Jeffrey M. Pargas BSc Eng is anengineer for Atkinson Construction inOakland, Calif.

Jessica V. Sigala BSc Geop is aseismic analyst for the U.S. GeologicalSurvey in Golden, Colo.

Keith P. Swedhin BSc Eng is aconsulting engineer for Huitt-Zollars Inc.in Denver.

Craig W. Wieland BSc Eng is acompletions engineer for EnCana Oil &Gas (USA) in Denver.

2004Emily L. M. Bostwick-White BSc

Chem Eng is a design engineer forPioneer Astronautics in Lakewood, Colo.

Emily Anne Brooking BSc ChemEng and David Sievers BSc Chem EngweremarriedMay 22 inMorrison,Colo. Emilyis anengineerwithBearpawEnergy andDavid is an engineer with JM HydeConsulting.

Scott S. Brown BSc Eng is amanufacturing engineer for GuidantCorporation in Temecula, Calif.

Erin Cathcart BSc Eng is an LCRanalyst for Level 3 Communications inSuperior, Colo.

J. Weston Davis BSc Eng is anengineer with Behrent EngineeringCompany in Wheat Ridge, Colo.

Payman Farrokhyar BSc Math &Comp Sci is territorial manager for theIngersoll-Rand Company in Arlington,Texas.

Becky Ferega BSc Geol and RyanKowalski BSc Geol ’02, MSc Geol ’04

were married Sept. 17 in Golden, Colo.Becky is a geology technician at YatesPetroleum and Ryan is a staffengineer/geologist at Kleinfelder. Thecouple resides in Lakewood.

Richardo Labo Fossa MSc Min Ec isco-founder and senior consultant forDRM: Mining and EnvironmentProfessionals Association in Dundee,Scotland.

Paul Hopkins BSc Eng married LottaVikund July 16, 2004 in Skelleftea,Sweden.

Chad M. Isaacs MSc Min Ec isfinancial analyst of corporatedevelopment for Berry PetroleumCompany in Bakersfield, Calif.

Dustin L. Johnson BSc Math &Comp Sci is a financial adviser forAmeriprise Financial in Denver.

Christopher J. Krier BSc Eng is astructural design engineer for NolteAssociates in San Diego.

Jamie Jackson BSc Eng is a projectmanager in Shanghai, China for IMINorgren.

Jennifer L. Nesbitt BSc Eng is anenvironmental engineer forEnvironeering Inc. in Houston.

Michelle L. Powis BSc Eng, MSc Eng& Tech Mgmt ’05 is an engineer forBoeing in Seattle.

James W. Sannan BSc Eng is a fieldengineer for CH2M Hill in Everett, Wash.

Franco F. Sivila BSc Pet is anengineer at San Francisco XavierUniversity in Sucre, Bolivia.

Sharon K. Yacob MSc Geochem is ageologist for Greyfox Energy in Argyle,Texas.

2005Maytham I. Al-Ismail BSc Pet works

for Saudi Aramco in Al-Jish.Khalid A. Al-Majnouni MSc Chem

Eng is a lab scientist for the SaudiAramco Company in Jeddah.

Amar J. Al-Shehri BSc Pet works forSaudi Aramco in Jeddah.

Rezki Anindhito MSc Min Ec is acontractor for PT Perusahaan Gas Negaia(Persero) in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Rees G. Arnim BSc Pet is aproduction engineer for SouthwesternEnergy in Conway, Ark.

Derek E. Bass BSc Eng is a designengineer for Aeroflex Colorado Springs,Colo.

Keil A. Beaver BSc Math & CompSci, MSc Math & Comp Sci is a softwareengineer for Northrop Grumman inAurora, Colo.

Stephanie M. Fox BSc Chem is aprofessional research assistant atUniversity of Colorado Health ServicesCenter in Denver.

Andrew T. Gates BSc Eng is anapplications engineer for AdvancedCoordinate Technology in Denver.

Blaise H. Hara BSc Eng is apharmacy systems analyst for KaiserPermanente in Aurora, Colo.

Kristopher S. Hill BSc Chem Eng is aprocess engineer for AES Inc. inHiawatha, Iowa.

John C. Hottenroth BSc Eng is anapplications engineer for NationalInstruments in Austin, Texas.

Carolyn S. Houser BSc Min is anengineering planner for Phelps Dodge inDelta, Colo.

Jolene R. Hurt BSc Eng is a designengineer for J.R. Engineering in ColoradoSprings, Colo.

Julie A. Ruckman BSc Econ is acredit specialist for the Bank ofOklahoma in Denver.

Suzette C. Shivers BSc Math &Comp Sci is a research analyst for CoronaResearch in Golden, Colo.

Genevieve A. Shope BSc Pet is a fieldengineer for Schlumberger in Loma,Colo.

Jeffry H. Simanjuntak MSc Eng &Tech Mgmt is a pipeline engineer for PTPerusahaan Gas Negara in Jakarta,Indonesia.

Rajinder Pal Singh PhD Chem Engis lead engineer for Pall Corporation inCortland, N.Y.

Michael G. Skowron BSc Math &Comp Sci works for Fast Enterprises inFranktown, Colo.

Andrew D. Slaby BSc Math & CompSci, MSc Eng & Tech Mgmt is a softwareengineer for Northrop GrummanMission Systems in Lakewood, Colo.

Gregory D. Slagel BSc Math & CompSci is in software implementation for FastEnterprises in Golden, Colo.

Cassandra E. Smith BSc Chem Engworks for Air Liquide in Parker, Colo.

Brett A. Sollee BSc Eng is a civildesign engineer for S.A. Miro inHighlands Ranch, Colo.

Timothy G. Spriet BSc Pet is areservoir engineer for Venoco Inc. inLower Lake, Calif.

Laura L. Stadterman BSc Chem Engis a nuclear engineer for the Puget SoundNaval Shipyard.

Russell S. Stimatze BSc Chem Eng isan associate technical professional forHalliburton in Golden, Colo.

Obai A. Taibah BSc Pet works forSaudi Aramco.

Surassawadee Tanprasat MSc Geol isa geologist for PTT Exploration andProduction in Bangkok, Thailand.

John W. Thompson BSc Eng is anassociate mining engineer for KennecottEnergy in Gillette, Wyo.

Joseph M. Torres BSc Eng is anengineer for Lockheed Martin in Golden,Colo.

Michael A. Torres Jr. BSc Math &Comp Sci works in import/exportcompliance for StorageTek in Louisville,Colo.

Nalita A. Trujillo BSc Eng is a fieldengineer for Schlumberger in SantaMaria, Calif.

Sean W. Tyler BSc Math & Comp Sciis a software engineer for NorthropGrumman in Englewood, Colo.

Andrew A. Van Der Volgen BSc Engis a U.S. Air Force second lieutenant inArvada, Colo.

Brynn M. Vasboe BSc Geol is anengineer-in-training for Kumar andAssociates in Arvada, Colo.

Robert T. Wagner BSc Min is amining engineer for Arch Coal inWyoming.

Terri D. Wagner BSc Math & CompSci, BSc Econ is a software configurationsanalyst associate for Lockheed Martin inLittleton, Colo.

Jeffrey C. Ward BSc Eng is a designengineer for Xilinx in Lakewood, Colo.

Scott M. Washington BSc Eng is anenvironmental engineer for LehighSouthwest Cement Company in Redding,Calif.

Eric S. Williams BSc Eng is anengineer for TriState Generation andTransmission in Golden, Colo.

Shawn S. Winter BSc Chem Eng is aprocess engineer for Chevron in SanFrancisco.

Daniel K. Winterholter BSc ChemEng is a facilities engineer for KinderMorgan in Snyder, Texas.

Jeffrey P. Wojtkiewicz PhD Appl Phyis a laser scientist for Quantronix inBellport, N.Y.

Brian J. Zadler PhD Appl Phy isdoing post-doctorate work at the PhysicalAcoustics Lab in Superior, Colo.

Molly M. Zeller BSc Eng is a projectmanager for Water RemediationTechnology in Arvada, Colo.

Andrew T. Zimmerman BSc Eng is agraduate student at University ofMichigan in Ann Arbor.

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The Demise of College Yearbooks– a Growing Trend By Robert Sorgenfrei

46 MINES WINTER 2006C0LORADO SCHOOL OF MINES MINES WINTER 2006


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Just obtain a matching gift form from your (or your spouse’s) employer’s personnel office,fill it out, and mail it to:

Colorado School of MinesOffice of Institutional Advancement

1600 Arapahoe StreetGolden, CO 80401-1842

Please ask your human resources representative if your company has a matching gift program, or visit http://www.matchinggifts.com/mines.

For additional information, please contact: Rosie Turner, Director of Annual Giving, at (303) 273-3153 or [email protected].

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The amount of the match depends on companypolicy, but it can be as much as 3:1. You will receiverecognition in Mines’ giving societies for thecombined total of your gift plus your employer’smatch.

Last year, matching gifts brought in over $300,000 toupgrade classroom and lab equipment, acquire newlibrary holdings, support faculty development, andprovide merit and need-based scholarships forMines students.

Why not multiply your contribution to Minesthrough your company’s matching program?

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Many thanks to corporations whose matching gift programs provide major support to Colorado School of Mines:ExxonMobil Procter & GambleAnadarko HalliburtonShell Oil Company Vulcan Materials Company

From thearchive

The last time Mines published a yearbook was for the 2000-01 schoolyear. The lack of a yearbook to document the school year and serve asmemorabilia for graduating seniors is not something unique to Mines. Allover the country at both large universities and small colleges, the demiseof the college yearbook is a national trend. For example, at the Universityof Arizona, the yearbook was discontinued in the late 1990s. Two yearsago, the students there tried to revive it, and for all their efforts, couldonly sell 450 copies. This was on a campus with an enrollment of morethan 34,000. In the Computer Age, the medium of print is less appealingto today’s students, and the average price of a yearbook at around $85 nodoubt puts off many students. The yearbook seems a dated andexpensive purchase in an era of instant messaging.

The Mines yearbook, The Prospector, was first published in 1913. It soon became a campus institution with an editorial staff in charge ofproducing one at the end of each school year. In 1924, The Prospectorwas not published because of alleged mismanagement and mishandlingof funds. This caused a big uproar and shows how important to thestudent body the yearbook had become. Yearbooks were published duringthe first years of World War II, but as enrollment shrunk, so did theyearbook. The 1944 Prospector was a thin plastic spiral bound book ofonly 50 pages. In 1945, there was no yearbook at all. In 1946, TheProspector resumed publication and grew in size each year as enrollmentskyrocketed with veterans on the GI Bill entering Mines.

The yearbook of 50 years ago is typical of the ones produced by Mines,year in and year out. In 1955, the uranium boom was in full swing andthe yearbook reflected this with artwork on the cover showing an old-time prospector with pan, pick and shovel along with a Mines studentclimbing a rock outcropping holding a Geiger counter. This theme oflinking the mining past with the present was depicted in drawings on

several other pages in the book. Photographs ofthe administration, the undergraduate classes,

fraternities, social clubs and athletics

feature prominently in the book. Variouscampus events such asHomecoming, E-Days, FacultyFollies, and an event called Mineson Television, dealing with theuranium boom are documented. DeanMartin and Jerry Lewis chose theProspector Queen for the year. Asidefrom photographs of buildings, studentsand athletic events, the advertisements thelocal merchants placed in the back of TheProspector are interesting. In the ads arephotographs of places in downtown Goldenlong vanished and thriving businesses that arejust memories now.

College yearbooks are for the most part a relicof the past. There will not likely be a way tobring them back, and with their passing,something is being lost. Unlike the class of1955, the class of 2005 will not have adocument preserved in archives or ontheir home bookshelf that serves as a visualand printed record of places and eventsthat marked their last school-year andtheir passing from Mines into theprofessional world. The old-fashionedprint yearbook, for all its anachronisms,does preserve a moment in time in a waythat new technology does not.

Robert Sorgenfrei is librarian/archivist of theRussell E. & Lynn Wood Mining History Archive,Arthur Lakes Library.

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