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2008 - Rod Feldmann and Doug Owen (B.S. 1970) in the Craters of the Moon National Monument park office where Doug is a ranger.

2008 – Kent State Geological Society Mineral/Fossil sales table at the Spring Kent Business & Community Expo. Sales personnel include Karen Smith, our departmental Secretary for the last 25 years, and Mike Reynolds, KSGS Vice-President for 2007-08. Due to their effort, supplemented by that of several faculty members, about 3 hours at this Expo generated $104 for KSGS, the Department’s undergraduate club which has been in existence since 1949 (almost 60 years!!). By selling refreshments, minerals, fossils, and tee shirts, etc. 3 days/week in McGilvrey Hall, KSGS supports it’s activities which include raising $1000-2000 annually for Summer Field Camp scholarships awarded to geology majors. Additionally, the club continues to be a major player in the annual Fall Picnic and Spring Banquet social events.

2008 - Melissa (Guster) Haney (M.S. 1993) at her Denison University 30th reunion with Bob Malcuit (M.S. 1982), former Chairman of the Department of Geology & Geography there and the one who inspired her to become a geologist. Bob is retired and still living in Granville, OH while Melissa is an Environmental Geologist with Burgess & Niple in Akron.

2007 – Akin Balogun and Dick Heimlich outside Memorial Gym following the May graduation ceremony at which Akin received the M.S. degree. Akin came to KSU from Nigeria with a strong commitment to petroleum geology and an excellent supportive course background which was expanded further in our program. In Nigeria, he received a Shell Development Co. Academic Recognition award and, while at KSU, he was voted Outstanding M.S. student, received one of our Amoco Alumni Research Grants, and a major Geological Society of America Research Grant. Under Joe Ortiz, his thesis advisor, Akin conducted research involving the application of Diffused Spectral Reflectance to determine high-resolution lithostratigraphy in the Rose Run Formation of eastern Ohio. After a summer internship in hydrocarbon well-logging in Oklahoma with Geosearch Logging (President, Joe Struckel, KSU B.S. 1969), Akin presented his M.S. research at the AAPG Eastern Section Meeting where he was interviewed by four petroleum firms. In April he accepted on offer from Occidental Oil & Gas Corp., and he is now a Geologist in the firm’s Houston office.

2007 - 50th birthday!!!!!! celebration party (with friends and families) for Jim Hanlon, Rick Reeve, and Larry Wickstrom. First row (L-R): Larry Wickstrom, Rick Reeve, Al Coogan, Jim Hanlon, Bill Bennett. Second row (L-R): John Thomas, Doug Gonzalez, Lori(Heath)Coogan, Chuck Moyer.

2006 - Members of the Kent State Association of Engineering Geologists in Pittsburgh where KSAEG received a plaque for its award as the "Outstanding Student Chapter" in the U.S. for 2006. First row (L-R): Steve Maliszeski,
Ben Berndt, Lisa Nowicki, Nicole Wendlandt, Abdul Shakoor. Second row (L-R): Aleks Prvanovic, Dale Bole, Akin Balogun, Mark Whyde. Third row (L-R): Darrel Schmitz, President of AEG national, and the award presenter.

2006 - Terry Cookro (B.S. 1973). Terry is co-owner of a petrographic consulting business in Denver, CO and she also works as an environmental and floodplain specialist for FEMA at various disaster sites across the country.

2006 - PAUL HOHBACH (B.S. 1975) standing on the rim (14,400 feet altitude) of the Grasberg Open Pit Mine, Sudirman Mountains, Indonesia. Pit diameter is 1.3 miles, making it the third largest open pit mine in the world. Together, the open pit and underground components place this as the largest gold mine and the third largest copper mine in the world. By-products here include silver and zinc. Among his worldwide minerals-exploration consulting ventures, Paul has done mapping and geotechnical work in the underground portion of this mine and may be returning later in 2008. Although located at the equator, snow lies on the distant mountains at the rear of the photo.

2006 - Rick Cisler (B.S. 1976) breaking in another volcanologist (his son, Juan Ricardo) on the slopes of Mount Misti, above Arequipa, Peru!!

2006 - Winter Break - Tema Oil and Gas Co. wellsite in Wise County (near Dallas, TX) where undergraduate majors, Brett Egresi and Andrew Adgate, were engaged in hydrocarbon well-logging for Geosite, Inc.

2006 - Winter Break - Brett Egresi and Andrew Adgate at Tema Oil and Gas Co. well in Wise County, TX.

2006 - Winter Break - Undergraduate major, Andrew Adgate, bringing well cuttings into trailer for analysis at Tema Oil and Gas Co. wellsite in Wise County, TX

2006 Undergraduate major, Brett Egresi (Summer Intern with Geosite, Inc.), in front of a drill rig, Dickens County, West Texas.

2005 Petrology Tweed, Ontario Field Trip. Dick Heimlich telling it like it was.

2005 Structural Geology West Virginia Field Trip.

2005 Summer Field Camp in the Black Hills SD. Excursion to Craters of the Moon National Monument. 1st row (L-R) Pete Dahl, Mark Whyde, Kyle Carey, Sandi Kandel, Tina Sciara. 2nd row (L-R) Steve Woodward, Mike Cahill, Jim Tilocco, Erin Steele.

2005 Andy Moore, Field work (mapping and sampling tsunami deposits) in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, right after the 12/26/04 Indian Ocean Earthquake/Tsunami.

2005 Kent State Association of Engineering Geologists members attending the 0hio-Allegheny AEG Chapter-sponsored Rock Slope Stability Workshop in Pittsburgh. (L-R) First row: Brad Shotwell, Mohammad Babar, Aleks Prvanovic, Nichole Wendlandt, Arpita Nandi, Yonathan Admassu, Ahmad Dalqamouni. (L-R) Second row: Lisa Nowicki (right of center) and Akin Balogun. (L-R) Last row: Dan Bole and alumni (Rich Ruffolo, Dan Martt, Brian Greene, Marty Woodard).

2005 Paleontology Field Excursion, Gulf Coast, Florida. (L-R) Rod Feldmann, Joel Allen ('05) and Carrie Schweitzer.

2005 Fall Picnic. (L-R) Dick Heimlich, Samantha Orogvany, Matt McClellan, Brian Meeks, and Justin Bina

2005 Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists + One from Ohio - L to R, Rich Ruffolo (M.S. 2006), Dick Heimlich, Jay Winter (B.S. 1982), and Dan Martt (M.S. 2002) squinting into the sun.

2005 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip, Marmora iron mine waste pile

2004 - Jason Lambright at Kandahar Airport in Afghanistan. An Army reservist, Jason has spent 13 months in Afghanistan and Iraq during two tours of duty and he completed 9 months of training in Army schools. Although this activity interrupted his education several times and delayed his graduation date, he managed to complete the B.S.degree in 2004 and is about to be promoted to First Lieutenant (classified as an engineer officer). Interested in a career in engineering geology, Jason is currently employed at J & L Laboratories in Wadsworth, OH where his duties include engineering soil testing in the lab as well as field work involving site evaluation and drilling-program design, among other activities.

2004 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

2004 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip, Hidden Valley Campground

2003 Field work in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Rod Feldmann and Carrie Schweitzer sampling the intertidal zone.

2003 Field work in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Rod Feldmann is always prepared.

2003 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

2003 Dan Holm, Field work in UT

2003 Annual Fall Picnic. (L-R) Kathy Price, Ben Westfall (rear), Dick Heimlich, and Lisa Nowicki.

2003 - Sigma Gamma Epsilon Chapter. 1st row (L-R) Tim Shevlin, Nicole Miklus, Tamie Jovanelly, Amy Turner, Joel Allen, Mary McKenzie, Ed Barefield. 2nd row (L-R) Rich Ruffolo, Clay Loehn, Merida Keatts, Dave Waugh.

2002 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

2002 Andy Moore, Field reconnaissance of the 1883 Krakatau, Indonesia Eruption/Tsunami.

2001 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

2001 - Annual Spring Banquet (Rusty Nail Restaurant) - Extremely happy with the food (hadn't arrived yet!) are:
_______, Cheryl (Weirich) Damaske, Scott Girard, Caryn Moore and _______.

2001 - Annual Fall Picnic. Hard-driving volleyball players are (L-R): Chris Wargo, Danielle (Kuntzman) Heaton, Al Hajdarwish (leaning), _______, _______, Dick Heimlich (hanging in there), and Christie O'Boyle.

2001 Engineering Geology field trip to Kinzua Dam in NW Pennsylvania L-R Christie O'Boyle, Jim Johnson, Ryan Tinsley, Brian Greene, Abdul Shakoor, Al Hajdarwish, and Carl Dokter

2000 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip.

1999 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

1998 - Maurika Fell and weathered remnants of glacially-polished and striated granite near Tenaya Lake on Tioga Road, Yosemite National Park, CA.

1998 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

1998 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Sonia Bacon, fearless and anxious to view the rocks, with Dave Harris and Sean O'Melia, totally traumatized by the black flies (and not as anxious to be able to see the rocks)!

1998 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD.

1998 Precambrian Geology Field Trip, Kapuskasing-Sudbury, Ontario. (L-R) Daniel Holm, Dan Schweitzer, Tom Butler, The Twins (Danielle Urich and Dawn (Urich) Talor.

1998 Daniel Holm with students on Precambrian Geology Kapuskasing-Sudbury, Ontario field trip

1997 Annual Spring Banquet. Daniel Holm studying his notes.

1997 Annual Spring Banquet. Dale Henderson and Shawn Rapp "wowing the crowd"!

1997 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

1997 Annual Spring Banquet - Don Palmer and Rod Feldmann discussing candidates for the Thirst for Knowledge Award

1997 Annual Spring Banquet - Pete Dahl, Blunder of the Year award recipient, explaining uses of the perforated Baggies he had purchased; Mark Pomfrey helpless or helping

1996 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

1996 - Colleen (Bonner) Myers in the Engineering Geology Lab preparing samples for her M.S. thesis research.

1995 - Annual Holiday Party. Smiling Colleen (Bonner) Myers gleefully awaiting (hands tied behind her back!) the arrival of a cream pie which Abdul Shakoor subsequently planted in her face! No Emergency Room visit was needed.

1995 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

1995 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. 1st row (L-R) Paul Hale, "the Pulverizer", with Mark Pomfrey, Carrie Schweitzer, Todd Surrena, and Jenny Forsythe observing in quiet amazement!

1995 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. (L-R) Mindy Bishop, Andre Petryna (in rear). Dick Heimlich leading the sing-along and Todd Surrena drinking beer and staring at the lyrics

1995 Badhu Bhaduri and Colleen (Bonner) Myers in McGilvrey Hall.

1994 Engineering Geology Pittsburgh, PA Field Trip. 1st row (L-R): Todd Surrena, _____, Colleen (Bonner) Myers, _____, _____, _____. 2nd row (L-R): _____, _____, _____, Joe Lichtinger, Paul Hale, _____, _____.

1994 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD. At Mount Rushmore National Memorial. 1st row (L-R): Ann Darling___, _____, Dresha (Kumher) Schaden,_____. 2nd row (L-R): Jeff Stump, Wendy (Bigley) Rodusky, Paul Rodusky, Jessica (Anderson) Maisano, Kathy Pickford, Colleen (Bonner) Myers, _____. 3rd row (L-R): _____, _____, Reuben Kent, Fred Wise, Steve Lower, _____, _____, _____.

1994 Summer Field Camp, Blacks Hills, SD: L-R: Nate Hull, Mike Mencin, John Miller, Kim (Darrah) Kronke.

1994 Harry Filkorn, Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD.

1994 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

1994 - Laura Pfaff wedged in a small cave developed in Grenville Marble. Petrology Tweed, Ontario Field Trip.

1993 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip

1993 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Lunch time in Bancroft, Ont.

1993 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Hank Fahnenbruck showing Stu Bouscher and Paul Rodusky how to break rock. Behind Hank is Jason Kuchnicki.

1992 Structural Geology Field trip in central PA

1991 Dick Heimlich, Sue Koepplinger, and the gang at the Madoc, Ontario talc mine. Petrology Tweed, Ontario Field Trip.

1991 – Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD. First row (L-R): __________, John Snyder, Ed D’Amato. Second row (L-R): Dan DeSantis, Pat Duncan, Jeff Root, Ed Gardner, Dave Salem. On the sign: Don Obermeier.

1991 Summer Field Camp. Mount Rushmore Visitor Center, Black Hills, SD. L-R First Row: Jeff Root (red bandana), Mike Graf (behind hat), Dan DeSantis, Pat Duncan (horizontal!), Ron Frantz, Cathy Sitler. Second Row: Dave Salem, Ed D'Amato, John Snyder, Tim Miller, Pete Dahl.

1990 Kent State Association of Engineering Geologists members assembling desk pads for the 1990 AEG National Meeting in Pittsburgh. Background (L-R) Chuck Burke, Tom George, Lori Miller, Rose Gabet, Rakesh Sarmon, and Todd Fisher.

1990 Fishing in Lake Erie. Dale Tshudy (cigar!) and Pat Duncan.

1989 Summer Field Camp, From left to right, front row then back: Rik Orndorff, Pete Dahl, Margaret Kasim, Bob Onderko, Drew Lonergan, Barb Cawley, Ed Haber, Brenda Abke, Teri (Smith) Phillips , Cathy Hajcak, John Zampino

1989 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. 1st row (L-R) Denise (Harrington) Ketcham/Don Obermeier, Andy Putnam, Ann Martin; 2nd row, Christie Tallman, Lynn Bonacci, ______?, Mike Graff.

1988 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Foreground, Matt Morissey; 2nd row (L-R) Julie Coffman and Barb Cawley; 3rd row (L-R sitting) - Chris Albaugh, Art Slayton; Background (L-R) - Bob Princic, ____________, _____________.

1986 Alistair MacDonald's going away party
Top row: unknown against wall; Bob Illes; Brian Young; John Wilson; Tim Roeper; Lisa Stillings; Rich Kurlich's forehead; Tim King; Alex Sergoloupolous; Wayne Bevan; Diane Fox (now Kurlich)
Middle row: Peggy Ronning; Joe Hau; Joe Francis; Cory Vernon; Larry Park; Alistair MacDonald; Sue Finta;
Front row: Tom Mignery: unknown; Melissa (Guster) Haney; Tedd Ronning; Kathy (Magner) Panetta ; Sandy Taft; Kathy's roomate?; John Johnston

1986 Letting off some graduate-school steam. (L-R) Tim Roeper, Brian Young, Mark Jones, and Joe Francis.

1985 KSAEG members L-R, Tim Roeper, Mark Jones, Mark Ruof, Bob Illes, Sandy Taft, Melissa (Haney) Guster, Tim King, and Brian Young) about to feast

1983 - Glenn Frank in his office. Glenn was hired in 1953, retired in 1984, and passed away in 1993.

1983 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip.

1983 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD.

1982 - Sigma Gamma Epsilon Chapter. 1st row (L-R) Rosie Moore , Kathy Kaufman, Larry Wickstrom. 2nd row (L-R) Dave Hose, Pat McConnel, Tom Bjerstedt, Tracy Clause, Don Hilton. 3rd row (L-R) Mark Schmidt, Denny Brock, Patty White, Karen (Vogel) Nappi, Sherry Weisgarber, Dawna Yannacci, ______, Kris (Teepen) Garcia, Rick Reeve. 4th row (L-R) Mark Schmidt, Park Petersen.

1982 Paleontology Kelleys Island Field Trip. Rod Feldmann tells it like it is! Students sitting on the M. Devonian Lucas Dolostone

1982 Geochemical Exploration field trip, Serpent Mound, OH. (L-R) Denny Brock, John Blackman, Sue McCauslin, Mark Schmidt (rear), and Kurt Hollabaugh.

1982 (L-R) Mark Schmidt and Pete Dahl engaged in field work ?, at McMurdo Station, Antarctica!

1981 Summer Field Camp. Can you find these folks? Tom Bjerstedt, John Spurney (TA), Pat McConnell, Tom Shalala, Dave Boucher, Dr. Don Palmer, Glenn Frank, Tony Mitri, Bill Freeman, Tom Morsefield, Rosie Moore (TA). Gary Barker, Bill Valentine, John Blackman, Chris DiCato

1981 The Geodes (Geology intramural softball team) (L-R) 1st row: Sherry Weisgarber, _________, ________, ________, Rick Reeve. 2nd Row: Tracy DeMeza, Dave Michael, Laurie Hillebrand , ______, Dave Hose. 3rd row: Ron Shadrach, _____, Pat McConnell. 4th row: _____, _______, Mark Tebbe, Tom Shalala, Tom Bjerstedt.

1981 Taylor Valley camp, Antarctica; just prior to burial by the active glacier in the background!

1981 Mark Schmidt (resting) and Pete Dahl (tidying up the camp) in Antarctica.

1980 - Jim Hanlon in final stage of thin-section preparation. Rock Preparation Lab, McGilvrey Hall.

1980 Jack Lanigan engaged in heavy-duty point counting.

1980 (L-R) Non-KSU person, Gary Rogers, Pete Dahl, Don Palmer, and Mark Schmidt conducting field work in Antarctica.

1977 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Left corner is Terry Rau (red bandana), center is Dan Biros demonstrating his shuffleboard form.

1977 Don Palmer working with the Bison Seismic System.

1977 Yoram Eckstein with the Deep Borehole Thermister Probe used in the geothermal energy research program.

1977 Barry Miller in the paleontology research Lab.

1977 Pete Dahl feeding a dissolved sample into the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer.

1977 Ernie Carlson studying well cuttings.

1977 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Lower left, Steve Decatur, Denny Middleton, Tony Owens and Emmanuel Ayeni.

1977 - Glenn Frank on the crest of a small anticline (big time deformation for Ohio!) in Stebbins Gulch, Geauga County, OH.

1976 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Left corner is Bob Worstall ………..right corner is Mike Metzger. In between, many!

1976 Field Trip to Cuyahoga Gorge Park, Akron (L-R) First row: Mike Padrutt, Many Perez, ______, Frank Gay, Roy Cox, Don Van Buskirk, Second row: _________, Bill Robertson, Larry Young, Tom Trebonik, Back row: Jeff Johnson.

1976 Summer Field Camp, Measuring the Deadwood section, Deadwood, SD

1976 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD. Foregound (L-R): Tom Franko (at the edge), Kent Greenes (“the leader”, fording the river!), Paula Trevor (from MD), __ ?__ (back to camera), Tex Gilmore (with Pittsburgh Pirates cap, nervously waiting to see if Kent makes it across!).

1975 Petrology Field Trip, Tweed Ontario. Nazila (Emadian) Hummer and Bill Holden.

1975 Summer Field Camp, Emmons County, ND. Cooling off in the Missouri River.

1975 - Al Coogan and Rod Feldmann conducting field work for the "Geology of the Southern Great Lakes" book. Crane Creek State Park, OH.

1973 - Tom Kammer (with hair!) determining the attitude of foliation in a muscovite schist layer. Petrology Tweed, Ontario Field Trip.

1972 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD. "A slight problem in a bad place"

1972 Barry Miller and vesicular basalt boulders near the St.Croix River. GSA field excursion, Minneapolis, MN.

1972 Banquet - Faculty Duet Left to Right: Dick Heimlich, Glenn Frank

1972 Economic Geology field trip to Sudbury, Ontario. Skip Skotte and Terry Cookro at the Discovery Site.

1970 Barry Miller gleefully picking nonmarine molluscs for microscopic study.

1970 Glenn Frank, in action in the classroom, just 4 months prior to the May 4 shootings on campus. During this calamity, Glenn risked his life by placing himself between demonstrators and the Ohio National Guard troops, seeking more time to persuade students to leave the scene for their safety.

1969 Bob Malcuit and huge spodumene crystals, Etta Mine, Black Hills, SD

1969 - Barry Miller, with great intensity, using the Gravermeister tool to clean fossils. Barry was hired in 1963 and
retired in 1996.

1969 - Al Coogan gazing wistfully at rudist clams in a block of polished limestone. Al joined the faculty in 1966 sand retired in 1998.

1969 - John Mrakovich cleaning fossils with the Gravermeister tool. Providing careful supervision is Rod Feldmann, the kid standing next to him! Rod was hired in 1965 and retired in 2000 (although he is extremely active in the Department daily conducting funded research, advising M.S./Ph.D students, and teaching courses for his graduate students).

1969 Banquet (left to right) Gene Szmuc, Dick Heimlich and Tom Phelps. Dressier in those days!

1969 Banquet - Faculty choral presentation!
Left to right: Gene Szmuc, Bob Sitler, Jon Rau (barely visible), Glenn Frank, Ernie Carlson, Al Coogan, Rod Feldmann, Art Wittine.

1969 Bruce Limberg and Maggie Ross at Niagara Falls

1968 Dick Uthe and migmatite in the Beartooth Mts., MT.

1968 Lou Orlowski examining migmatite in the Beartooth Mts., MT.

1968 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Blowout on the road! To the right, Art Wittine getting out to inspect.

1968 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD. (L-R) _______, _______, Kathy Fritz, Milt Cooper.

1968 Lee Kettren, Gordon Nelson, Lou Orlowski, and petrified tree trunk in Lamar River Valley, Yellowstone National Park

1968 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD, Art Wittine demonstrating strike & dip measurement, Boulder Canyon

1968 Marty Ross sitting on a dolerite dike in his thesis area at Bald Mountain in the Bighorn Mtns, Wyoming.

1968 Summer Field Camp, Black Hills, SD. Jon Donald (submitted photo), first row, dead center with sunglasses.

1968 Summer Field Camp. Rod Feldmann wades in Boulder Creek, Black Hills, SD.

1968 Summer Field Camp. Dick Heimlich informing the troops that the foot of Steamboat Rock (Bighorn Mountains, WY) is not an ideal location for an outdoor lunch!

1968 Economic Geology trip to the Lake Superior Iron District. Gordon Nelson, Doug Kohout (deceased), and ________?

1967 Petrology Upstate, NY field trip.

1967 Petrology Upstate, NY field trip.

1967 - M.S. research in the Bighorn Mountains, WY. Gordon Nelson and gneiss exhibiting highly-weathered joints.

1966 - Economic Geology eastern PA field trip. Lee Kettren and Jim Lawson examining a talc vein cutting the Cedar Hill serpentinite, Cedar Hill Quarry, southeastern PA.

1966 - Economic Geology eastern PA field trip. (L-R) Denny Rogers, Lee Kettren, Jim Lawson, Larry Costick, Tom Iivari, Pat Pawar. Cedar Hill serpentinite, Cedar Hill Quarry, southeastern PA.

1966 - Economic Geology eastern PA field trip.

1966 - Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip.

1966 Petrology Tweed, Ontario field trip. Jeff Snyder ("Tiny") and _______? Unloading at the Park Place Motel, as a precursor to exfoliation!

1966 Economic Geology field trip to Eastern PA . (L-R) Jim Lawson, mine guide, Lee Kettren, Pat Pawar, Denny Rogers, Tom Iivari. Cornwall Iron Mine

1966 - Fall Picnic. Barry Miller (with pipe) and Ed Frederickson (with cigar). Barry (deceased, 2007) taught courses in introductory geology, paleontology, and glacial geology (See writeup in the Alumni News section). Ed (deceased, 1982) was chairperson of the Department during the period 1964-1976. He taught introductory geology and paleontology, and oversaw initiation and early development of the geology M.S. program.

1966 - Fall Picnic. John Anderson (army cap), Jon Rau (pipe), and Gene Szmuc (sun glasses) with wife, Anne. John Anderson taught introductory geology, structural geology, and geomorphology. Hired in 1965 and retired in 1991, he currently lives in Cedar City, UT. Jon Rau taught introductory geology, hydrogeology and geomorphology starting in 1962. In 1970 he left KSU for his wife's hometown, Vancouver, BC where he joined the geology faculty at the University of British Columbia. He currently resides in Thailand. Gene Szmuc (deceased, 1976) was hired as our Stratigraphy professor in 1957.

1966 - Fall Picnic. Second row. Dave Bennett (left) and John Mrakovich (right).

1966 John Anderson (in standard military field gear pledging allegiance to something) on the Petrology Upstate New York field trip.

1965 – Dave Bennett and sandstone exposed in a Stark County, OH coal strip mine.

1965 - Economic Geology Southern Appalachian field trip. (L-R) __________, Paul Socha, Mohammed Saidji, Bob Jones, Jean Metzler, Ned Brown.

1965 Miami University Summer Field camp, near Dubois, WY. Bob Peterson (sitting right of center, red jacket) and Mohammed Saidji (second from right) Grand Tetons in the background.

1965 - Economic Geology Southern Appalachian Field Trip. (L-R) Karl Matulin (horsing around), Bill Mackie, Ned Brown, Mohammed Saidji, Tom Iivari. Spruce Pine, NC Pegmatite District.

1965 Petrology Upstate New York field trip. A brief biological interlude wherein Gordon Nelson is trying to impress Carol (Cvetkovich) Scholl!

1965 Economic Geology field trip to Cornwall, PA magnetite mine. Ron Morton in the open pit.

1965 Glenn Frank near the kiln door, on field trip to the Fairfield Brick Company in Zoarville, OH.

1964 – Economic Geology Cornwall, PA Field Trip. Dick Heimlich pointing to axial plane of overturned fold in limestone near the magnetite open pit mine.

1964 - Economic Geology Cornwall, PA Field Trip. ( L-R) Bob Jones and Paul Socha examining basalt chill zone near magnetite mine.

1963, Dick Heimlich, Field mapping in the Bighorn Mountains, WY

1963 Field trip to the Bestone Sandstone Quarry in Chardon, Ohio. Karl Matulin taking a bath!

1962 Erwin Runge and Janet(Groves)Brown examining the Catoctin
Greenstone along Blue Ridge Parkway near Waynesboro, VA.

1962 - Karen (Decker) Cole plane-table mapping on the KSU campus.

1962 Paricutin Volcano, Mexico. Janet (Groves) Brown and Bob Fankhouser.

1962 Economic Geology field trip to Cornwall, PA magnetite mine. Dave Wracher collecting on Big Hill Dump.

1961 Summer Field Camp. Roger Thresher and stadia rod on Elkhorn Peak, Black Hills, SD.

1961 Summer Field Camp. Tentmates (L-R) Roger Thresher and Larry Carpenter at St. Mary Campground, Glacier National Park, MT.

1961 Summer Field Camp. (L-R) John Baum, John Plummer, Arie Janssens, Larry Carpenter, Ray Plummer, and Glenn Frank (in the extinct, hopefully!!) hot spring. Near Angel Terrace in Yellowstone National Park, WY.

1961 Summer Field Camp. Glenn Frank (standing) and the troops prostrate. Glacier National Park, MT.

1960 Bob Sitler. In 1957 Bob was hired as Assistant Professor of Geology. In 1965 he was named Acting Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and two years later, Acting Dean of the Honors College. In 1968 he returned full-time to the Department as Professor of Geology. He died of cancer in 1974 at age 45.

1960 - Summer Field Camp. Plane-table mapping, Elkhorn Peak, Black Hills, SD. (L-R) __________, Ray Plummer, Bob Osborne (deceased), and Larry Carpenter.

1960 Summer Field Camp. (L-R) Arie Janssens (sitting), Larry Carpenter (standing, glasses, cowboy hat), Glenn Frank (back, in background), John Plummer (with axe). Rising Sun Campground, Saint Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, MT.

1960 Summer Field Camp. Bruce Thompson at fault scarp in Red Canyon. West Yellowstone Earthquake area (MT), one year later.

1960 Summer Field Camp. Larry Carpenter (red shirt) and fellow students along a crevasse in the Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, MT.

1960 Summer Field Camp. (L-R) Larry Carpenter (red shirt) and Glenn Frank (black cowboy hat) at fractured terminus of Grinnell Glacier (covered with ablation till), Glacier National Park, MT.

1958 Kent State Geological Society. L-R First Row; Jerry Wendel, Sally (Caylor) Scott, Jim Johnson. Second Row: Glenn Frank, Bob Sitler, Don Thomas, Gene Szmuc. Third Row: Dave Stanonik, Roy Anderson, Tom Blair, Paul Cosma, Dick Upole.

1957 Summer Field Camp, Catskill Mountains, NY. L-R: Tom Blair, Jack
Cornelli, Reeves Isard, Erwin Runge, Glen Willey, Glenn Frank.

1957 Kent State Geological Society. L-R First Row: Ron Mayhew, Nancy Nelson, Mike Skopos, Sally (Caylor) Scott, Jim Gliozzi. Second Row: Bill Watson, Carl Savage, Larry Sheatsley, Erwin Runge, Bob Fleming, Glenn Frank.

1950 Summer Field Camp, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. (L-R) Front row, Frank Crawford, Ed Criley, Don Gifford, Larry Summers; (L-R) Middle row, Glenn Frank, John Higgins, George Carlyle, Dick Thompson; Back row (L-R) Carl Savage (Professor), Bob Holt.

1948 First Kent State Geology Summer Field Camp, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Left to right: Prof. Carl Savage, Bob Hall, Howard Beilhart, Herb Stewart (deceased), Jules DuBar, Jim Barkes.