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YESTERYEARS By Michael D. Sublett Glacial Deposits 30 Years Ago, Volume 8, 1979-1980 Computers really were available for cartographic projects three decades ago; but the maps then emerged from “the Department’s computer mapping library maintained at Julian Hall,” according to an article that Professor Donald E. Luman wrote for Volume 8, entitled “A Sample of Computer Cartography Output.” Words, seldom seen now, like CALFORM, SYMVU, SYMAP, and SYMAPVU appeared in his five-page piece. These were the programs that Don, fellow geographer George Aspbury, and their students used on the mainframe computer in Julian. Accompanying his page of text were several maps, including a perspective drawing of Illinois showing farmland values by county, an “isarithmic slope map…of 3300 points depicting the area encompassed by Timberline Subdivision at Goodfield,” “a planimetric line-printed map, as well as the two-point perspective line plotted map” of nationwide precipitation on 9 November 1977, and a “low-order trend surface” map of Washington state showing family income. Don soon left the Department to teach at Northern Illinois University and now works for the Illinois State Geological Survey, on the campus of the University of Illinois. Glacial Deposits 20 Years Ago, Volume 18, 1989-1990 Computers made the news in the late 1980s as a novel way for registering our students. Donna L. Mau, Student Editor for Volume 18, interviewed Professor Eric Johnson, the Geography Advisor, for her article, “Easing Up on Registration.” Dr. Johnson told her that “the new system makes looking through a stack of student files [file folders] unthinkable.” Every record that he needed to advise majors was available “by the touch of a few keys.” If a graduating senior wanted to know whether “his or her senior hours are completed,” all Eric had to do was give the computer a “matter of seconds” to find the answer. Making life for students even easier was the computer feature that allowed “a student to change majors to Geography or Geology without all the running around back and forth between department offices and Hovey Hall.” Donna graduated and worked several years at Walgreens headquarters. Eric Johnson retired in the late 1990s and has since passed. Glacial Deposits 10 Years Ago, Volume 28, 1999-2000 Computers were playing a huge role in the preparation and publication of Glacial Deposits by the time Volume 28 appeared. In my annual editorial, I suggested that the cover that year was “worth a few lines” because for the first time, after 27 issues, we had “the chance to publish items in full color,” which we did on the inside and outside of the front and back covers. Key to a color process that the Department could afford were the Director of Printing Services, David Nelson, “and their new Heidelberg Quickmaster DI (digital imaging) color press,” which retailed “for just under $500,000.” Jill Freund Thomas, in charge of rendering our graphics (then and now), was “able to go all out with color efforts on type, logos, photographs, and maps.” I noted that we were just then beginning to use digital photographs (one of incoming faculty member Dagmar Budikova and another of President Vic Boschini). The other photos in that volume were film prints that Jill had to scan and prepare for the printing press. Dave Nelson retired in 2010, but the Heidelberg continues to march. 56
MEMENTOS OF CHILE In addition to their logbooks for recording daily highlights and impressions of Chile, Professors Jim Carter and John Kostelnick had their cameras at the ready. John gets credit for the top and middle images. Jim took the last one and also the shot of Santiago on page 30, the final page of the article about their trip. Santiago is fond of hills and heroes. Cerro San Cristobal, with its communications towers and statue of the Virgin Mary (at the crest), forms a backdrop for the equestrian statue of Chilean General Manuel Baquedano, hero of the War of the Pacific (with Peru and Bolivia). It would be hard to miss the giant Cross of the Third Millennium in Coquimbo, which is a few hours by highway north of Santiago. The cross, at 300 feet, is just a bit taller that Watterson Towers on the Illinois State campus and commemorates the onset of the third thousand years of Christianity. Some young professors are risk takers. John Kostelnick fulfilled that role by allowing companion Jim Carter (safely behind camera) to talk him into riding a giant bungee device into the Chilean troposphere. This image occurred just prior to launch. To John’s left is an employee of the amusement firm who got a free ride, because no other paying customers appeared on the scene.
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