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3/28/2006
As some of you know, when I receive phone calls, visits or correspondence from alumni, I usually ta
the correspondence in a folder for the Newsletter. Some of you have sent e-mail messages, and I t
can, however, sometimes my computer refuses to send a return - something in the way messages
guess. I don’t really know why they won’t go. Anyway, the following represents a collection of notes
year; I hope it is not too out-of-date.
Glenn Hermansen (85) is returning here to enter our graduate program in January, and my unders
Chris Haring (95) is also. Glenn had been doing LUST work in central Wisconsin. Current alumni i
program, including those enrolled part-time, are: Craig Neidel (95), Kevin Deichmueller (95), Joh
Laura Janczak (96), Paul Lee (74), Shannon Fulton (92) (thesis defended), Rey DeCastro (94),
(95), and Brian Probus (93).
Art Sanders (95) has joined the Oil and Gas Section of the ISGS. Brian Rimmey (95) is employed
with Caterpillar in Peoria. Steve Holdaway (95) is in graduate school at Colorado State U. and Pat
graduate student at Wright State. Dianne (Henrich) McKinley (92) has gotten married and is empl
chemist for an environmental firm in the suburbs of Chi-town.
I had a recent visit from George Garklavs (75). He is currently the District Chief of the Water Reso
the USGS in Minneapolis. He said he would like to hear from his compatriots and can be reached a
. I also had a recent visit from Mike Maske (81), who works for the National I
Mapping Agency (the old Defense Mapping Agency), in St. Louis. The agency is a repository for ge
and GPS point information. He says that if you work for a company that is willing to share geophysi
him a call: . He recently bought a home in Waterloo, IL.
An e-mail from Joe Rob Christman (77), from whom we haven’t heard in many years, says he rece
degree from Iowa State in 1980, then went to work for Chevron in New Orleans. In 1994 he moved
Resources in Ft. Worth, where he continues to work on Gulf energy projects. He has a wife, five-ye
and two-year-old son.
An e-mail from Dan Wendell (79), another long-heard-from soul, sent me word that he is alive and
Sacramento, working for CH2M Hill. His correspondence allowed me to inquire about an old high sc
mine from whom I hadn’t heard in 20 years and hadn’t seen in 40 years. I had heard that he was los
sailing around the world. He used to work for CH2M Hill. Dan made the connections I needed and I
my old friend was still alive and living in California. Several weeks ago my friend flew in here for a re
Dan.
Lisa (Johnston) Crowell (83), who has changed her first name to Elishiva, sends word (as of Jan.
graduate student in biology at the U. of New Mexico. She combines her geology and biology backg
such things as ostracods from prior lake levels during the Pleistocene. She has two children, ages 2
her husband has received a post-doc at the Center for Advanced Studies. She offered some nice re
John Foster.
Ray Gorka (80) is working for the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States - Gas Re
in the Denver area. He is about to finish his M.S. degree in environmental policy and management.
Courtney Brooks (89) stopped by a few weeks ago. He had been doing environmental work involv
closings in Florida, but is now consulting in environmental training in Ft. Sill, OK. Rob Sloan (86), w
part of the oil patch, now works for J. A. Jones, an environmental construction company in Jackson
Pete Lennarson (85) uses his second degree, in horticulture, to operate a pest control business in
He and his wife, Laura, also an ISU grad, have two children, ages 4 and 5. Neil Pope (74) lives in D
works for Galileo International Systems. As of last March, Alex Hutson (94) was teaching outdoor s
educational site in Geneva, WI. I saw Mo Manning (86) recently. She is still teaching earth science
at Illinois Central College in Peoria.
A surprising number of folks are still in the oil business. Chuck Wiles (80) is still finding oil and arra
projects in Illinois and Indiana. He is also doing some consulting with a West Texas company. Chri
works as an independent consultant in oil and gas in Michigan, and occasionally gets to do some p
Illinois. In the summers of 1995 and 1996, he went on a T-Rex dig in Buffalo, SD, stopping by field
way. Jerry Nott (78) is also still in the oil patch. He works for Shell on production in South Texas. H
two children are 11 and 13 now. Tony D’Agostino (78) works as an independent consultant in Mid
done some work with PEMEX, of Mexico, and had studied microfossils from Russian samples. He a
Little League Baseball. Other alumni still in the oil patch, that I am aware of, but some of whom I ha
directly, are Harold Orndorff (78), with Shell Western in Bakersfield, Bob Koch (79) in Indonesia,
Chevron in California () and Gary Carnaghi (76) in Tulsa.
Dave Elbow (71) sent me a note just after the last Newsletter, said that he is still flying for Northwe
training to be a pilot for a 747. He has a cabin in Alaska, so he included a picture of himself and Lin
of salmon that would amaze you. Linda also caught a 125 lb. halibut.
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