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Hon. '62, a CSM faculty member from1922 to 1959 and Professor Emeritusof Chemistry at the time of his death inMay 1978.William B. BurgerThe Mines Medal was also presentedto Dean Emeritus William V. Burger, whoserved CSM as dean of students, registrarand other positions from 1947 to1964, He then was employed by theCSMAA, until his retirement in 1978.John W VanderwiltThe third recipient was Dr. John WVandenwiit, Hon. '62, Trustee and PresidentEmeritus of CSM, who served as atrustee from 1947 to 1950 and aspresident from 1 950 to 1 963.1^)1 M j h ( UV4 I i.ili|>MIM C ().DALE L. PINKERTON, '57PRESIDENT3445 Dahlia, P.O, Box 328Commerce City, Colo. 80037OFFICE (303)571-0321 HOME (303) 841-4371ALLIED CHEMICAL SCHOLARSHIPS—Allied Chemical recently donated two $1,500 scholarshipsto the Coiorado Schooi of Mines; one to the geoiogy department and the olher to thechemical engineering department. From left to right are CSM chemical petroleum-refining Prof.Michael Jones, Allied Chemical's T. Ray Bennett (Union Texas Petroieum Division's senioremployee relations representative), CSM geology department head Prof. Joe Finney and AlliedChemical's T. K. Wiggins (Union Texas Petroieum Corp. employment manager).ine health and safety—how much isenough?That's one of the toughest questionsin the mining Industry, for management,labor, government and academia alike. ItIs a question with many answers, all ofwhich will be explored at the Sixth Instituteon Mine Health and Safety, to beheld November 12-14, 1980, at theColorado School of Mines.Cost effective health and safety is thechosen theme for the Institute, whichwill address how to optimize fund allocation.Presentations will be made byrepresentatives of industry, labor,regulatory agencies and academiciansfrom Mines and the Occupational Healthand Safety Section at Colorado StateUniversity.According to Institute Director Prof.Robert T. Reeder, technology continuesto improve working conditions in mines,particularly with the emphasis on decreasingair-borne Irritants and carcinogensand safety features for both explosivesand equipment.Requests for further information andInquiries should be addressed to Prof.Reeder, director, Institute of MineHealth and Safety, Colorado School ofMines, Golden, CO 80401. Registrationfor the institute is $110.00.G. H, Bryant, '53Consulting Services for Coaland Uranium40 Inverness Drive EastEnglewood, CO 80110(303) 773-3322Two retiring Colorado School of Minesprofessors were rewarded with ProfessorEmeritus designations at the 1980Colorado School of Mines Commencement.The two are Jean Paul Mather ofMineral Economics and A. W. Schlechtenof Metailurgy._Mather is considered one of thenation's top mineral economists, Aformer president of the University ofMassachusetts, he began his academiccareer at Mines in 1938 when he taughteconomics, served as Assistant Registrarand Business Manager and was AdministrativeAssistant to the Vice Presidentof Mines until he left in 1943.He came back to Mines In 1969 asProfessor and Head of Department ofMineral Economics and remained in thatposition until his retirement this month.During that time, the department wasupgraded to include a master's and adoctoral program,A. W. Schlechten, who joined theCSM faculty In 1963, has been a leadingfigure in American metallurgy. He isthe Alcoa Foundation Professor ofMetallurgy; Director of the W. J. KrollInstitute for Extractive Metallurgy andProfessor of Metallurgical Engineering.He has also served the school as VicePresident for Academic Affairs, from1 968 to 1971. He was head of the MetallurgicalDepartment from 1963 to1968.He holds degrees from the MontanaSchool of Mines and MassachusettsInstitute of Technology.Prior to coming to Mines, he was headof the Metallurgical Department at theUniversity of Missouri at Rolla and previousto that served as head of themining and metallurgy department atOregon State College (now University).The Colorado School of Minesbaseball team surprised its fans duringthe weekend of April 19-20 as theOredigger nine finished second in thethird annual Denver Metropolitan AreaBaseball Tournament.The tournament began on the wrongfoot for the Miners when they dropped a10-1 decision to the University ofSouthern Coiorado. Mines trailed 2-1after six innings, but the Indians scoredeight runs in the final inning to put thegame away. Mines could muster but twohits against University of Southern Coloradopitching.After finding themselves in the loser'sbracket of the tourney, the Minersbounced back to defeat Chadron StateCollege 6-5, Chuck Riebe was thehitting star for the Miners, pounding outthree hits in as many trips to the plate,John Galbavey smashed a two-runhomer to help the Miners' cause.In their third game of the day. Mineswas pitted against Metropolitan StateCollege, and Mines came out a winnerby a score of 11-6, The Oredigger batsexploded for 1 0 runs in the fifth inning.Tom Lamport went three-for-three, andSteve Sellers turned in a stellar reliefperformance. Sellers entered the gamein the third inning after Metro State hadamassed a 6-1 lead and shut out thevisitors from Denver the rest of the way.On Sunday the Mines baseball teamfound themselves playing RegisCoiiege. The Miners won that gameeasily, 14-4, Ray Oletski pitched athree-hitter for the Miners, The hittingstarts were numerous. Brian Vaughncracked a home run, Scott Palm had abases-loaded triple and Mark Carter hadthree hits in three times to the plate.As a result of the win against Regis,the Miners were in the championshipgame against Denver University. TheOrediggers lost 19-9, although thegame was much closer than the scorewould indicate.Coach Jim Darden said that Minessuffered from a lack of pitchers for thechampionship game, while Denver hadtheir top pitcher ready to throw. Dardenadded that if several balls had bouncedthe other way. Mines could have beencloser. Mines did pound out 16 hitsagainst the DU pitchers. Jim Ricattawent 4-4 with two doubles, TomLampert went 3-4 with a pair of doublesand Mark Carter belted a three-runhome run.Mines also had two other games recently.They played a doubleheaderagainst Chadron State and swept thetwin bill from the Eagles by the scores of10-9 and 4-3, In the first game, JohnGalbavey tripled to start the last of theseventh inning and scored on MikeVigil's sacrifice fly. In game two, Galbaveytripled again In the last of theseventh and drove in Don Wingert withthe winning run.The Colorado School of Mines golfteam finished back in the pack in allthree divisional standings. The Orediggerswere eleventh in the RockyMountain Intercollegiate Golf Association,sixth in the Rocky Mountain AthleticConference meet and seventh in theNAIA District 7 tournament.In the RMIGA, the Miners had a teamstroke average of 336,4,The RMIGA was led by Colorado Universitywith a team stroke average of304.6, followed by Air Force Academy,Southern Colorado, Northern Colorado,Western State, Wyoming University,Colorado State, Denver University,Mesa College, Mines, ColoradoCollege, Regis College, Adams Stateand New Mexico Highlands,The Miners shot a 369 at TamarronCountry Club in their first match of theseason. That was good for a seventhplacefinish. In subsequent matches, theOrediggers fired a 327 at BroadmoorSouth, good for a seventh-place finish; a324 at Eisenhower Silver, which putthem in tenth place; a 385 at the LakewoodCountry Club, for a twelfth-placefinish; a 340 at the Pueblo CountryClub, which gave them a tie for eighthplace; 348 at Columbine, good for atwelfth-place standing; and -343 atEisenhower Blue, which put them inninth place.In individual standings, Jon Boucherand Steve Pease were part of a fourwayfie for 36th place with a best fivegamescore of 420 strokes, for a strokeaverage of 84,In the RMAC meet, Mines took sixthplace out of a fieid of nine teams, whilein the NAIA District 7 tournament, theOrediggers finished seventh in a field ofeleven.TheIVIining\_ompanyby Jack HancockIn an unusua! match the Mines' tennisteam defeated a collective team of thebest players from Rockmont Collegeand Metro State in the final match of theseason 6-3. The win over Rockmont/Metro leaves the Orediggers 8-1 on thedual meet season for 1 980, The pivotalmatch for the Miners was at No. 6singles where Craig Burson defeatedthe No, 2 player for Rockmont in threesets. With the match already won, Minesforfeited the No. 3 doubles because of asore arm developed by Craig Burson inhis singles match. Winning all three settennis in the match, the Orediggertennis team ended the season losingonly two three set tennis matches duringthe entire season, while winningeighteen three setters.With seven freshmen and threesophomores, the outlook for the nextyear is certainly bright. With sometalented newcomers indicating they willbe working on the ladder next year, the1981 tennis team could be muchimproved.DAVID E. SMINK, P.E.Petroleum Consultant(303) 892-1732928 MIDLAND SAVINGS BLDG,444 1 7th StreetDENVER, COLORADO 80202KELLOGG EXPLORATION CO.Geologists — GeophysicistsAirborne Geophysics DivisionWilliam Crowe Kellogg, '43425 E Las Flores OiveAltadena. Calif 91001and2000 Spindrilt DriveLa Jolla. Caiil.Phone: 21 3—794-1973S714--454-7126Contractor Servicesfor theMining and ConstructionIndustryBus Avery '68303/395-2443STRIPPINGMININGHAULINGSITE DEVELOPMENTHAUL ROAD CONSTRUCTIONT.M.C. P.O. Box GG, Buena Vista, Colo. 8121128 the mines magazine • \me 1980the mines magazine • june 1980 29