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THE CLASS AND ITS FATE - Class Member, Career Path, Contributions & Honors
Steven Sznyter (BS ’63, Geology—with minors in Math, Chemistry, Physics and Geography, plus 257 semester units in Computer Applications)
Joined Control Data Corporation as an Information & Technology Specialist . . .
retired after 30 year’s of service . . . suffers the usual limitations on
disclosure attendant with high security clearances.
Ronald C. Surdam (BS ’61)
Remained at UCLA to complete PhD in ‘67 (Geology/Sedimentology) . . .
directly joined the geology faculty at the University of Wyoming and served
there until his retirement . . . prominent expert on the zeolites.
Distinguished Professor
Ted Theodore (AB ‘61)
theodore@usgs.gov
Completed PhD at UCLA (‘67, Igneous Petrography) . . . directly joined USGS
where he remained as a very accomplished and highly published researcher until
his retirement in 2003.
(Image: Ted Theodore and his wife Dolores, who passed
away in May 2004 after their being together for 46 years, at the critical
outcrop that led Ralph Roberts in the late 1940s to propose existence of the
middle Paleozoic Antler orogeny. Ted’s hand is on conglomerate belonging to
the Middle Pennsylvanian Battle Formation and Ted and Dolores are standing
on feldspathic arenite of the Late Cambrian Harmony Formation. Photo taken
in 1999.)
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