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Allen W. Hatheway
Consulting Geological Engineer
Rolla, Missouri & Big Arm, Montana
allen@hatheway.net
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Steven Sznyter
Digital Computation Specialist (retired)
Redding, California
merwinite@shasta.com |
Warren J. Nokleberg
Research Geologist, US Geological Survey
Menlo Park, California
wnokleberg@usgs.gov |
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Summer Field Class of 1960 at Tar Springs-Huasna, near San Luis Obispo —
Standing, from left: Professor John Christie, Len Ettinger, Rick Burgess, Larry Patzkowski,
Dean McHenry, Gottfried Kesse, Steven Sznyter, John Miller, Irv Neder, Ted Theodore, Warren
Nokleberg, and Virgil Bell; Kneeling, from left: Allen Hatheway, Larry Hurst, Dean Kelly,
Gordon Pine, Don Ellis, Ron Surdam, Professor Clarence Hall, and graduate student teaching
assistant Charles Corbató. |
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ABSTRACT
Careers in the practice of geology have a nominal life of about forty years. During
this time the practitioner is thrown into a sea of personal, family, and societal
influences and likely is buffeted in many ways until the choice is made or forcefully
encountered to give up formal employment as a geologist. This accounting tracks the
post-graduate careers of 17 classmates of the summer field geologic mapping course at
a strong geology department in the well-funded days of abundant faculty and staff and
even a dedicated and staffed geological library. The authors submit that the net
impact of the class is a mirror of the times, 1960-2005.
INTRODUCTION
Pacific Coast American geology departments were somewhat unique in their heydays,
which we regard as approximately 1910 through 1980. For these seventy years, there
were limited campuses and the major state and private research universities could be
counted on the fingers of both hands. This was before the proliferation of campuses.
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