John C. Worley (‘49) spends his
summers/falls in Bozeman, Montana,
and his winters/springs in Rockport,
Texas.
Fred Cropp (‘54)
currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada,
near the Spring Mountains.
Ray Chapin (‘72) is Vice President of Lake
Erie Construction, in Norwalk,
Ohio. He also lives in Norwalk.
Kazuhiro Aoki (‘77) continues to work
and live in the remote region of Hokkaido.
His wife Sachiko and their daughters Lisa (20), Yuka
(17) and Emi (15) are still living in Tokyo
and visit when they are able.
Martha (Edick) Delong (‘78)
continues to enjoy teaching mathematics in New Zealand. Her husband, Mike Henderson, resigned
from Shell after 20 years. Life has
become much more peaceful since.
They have had the opportunity to see more of New Zealand with their four
children: Caroline (13), Anna (11),
Jamie (13) and Emma (11). Martha
and Mike felt that Martinborough and the surrounding Walarapa were outstanding. Martha says, “Rough and wild would
best describe the countryside and coastline. And let’s not forget the excellent
pinot noir grown there.”
Marynell Lent (‘81)
lives in Southington, Connecticut. She writes, “Had you told me at Wooster I would be
teaching Earth Science to High School students I would not have believed it. I am now in my third year teaching
Science at Cheshire
High School.” Marynell’s
husband, Steve Brown, works for an environmental consulting firm. They have two boys that keep them on the
go.
Ben LeVan (‘84)
stopped by in June. He now works
for Paychex in West Henrietta, New York, as the Human Resources
Manager.
Nancy Neagoy Rice (’85)
wrote in February that she and husband Dan were expecting their first baby in
May. Nancy
is currently working in management at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
and says “I sure don't get out in the field often enough to make a quick
stop in Wooster, unless you count monthly trips
to our central offices in Columbus
as "out in the field"!
Julie M. (Ferguson)
Haines (‘86) works for BergerWorld
where she has recently been promoted to Senior Vice President. Recently Julie was voted by her
colleagues, and subsequently congressionally approved, to serve as the Chair of
the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Environmental Technologies and Trade
Advisory Committee (ETTAC) where she advises U.S.
policymakers on increasing the United
States’ competitiveness in the export
of environmental products and services.
She writes: “The work we do is a wonderful blend of science,
policy, economics and social science – you knew I’d find a
use for that dual Geo-PoliSci degree after
all!”
Brian Carl (‘87) works for a domestic oil
production company in the Houston,
Texas, area (or as Brian now says
“awl” production company). He and his wife, Karen, have two
children, Alena and Marissa. Alena (7)
enjoys reading and loves to dance. Marissa loves to do whatever her big sister Alena is doing.
When we last heard from Andrew Kear
(‘92) he was applying to doctorate programs at the University of Colorado
at Boulder Environmental Studies and the Colorado State University Department
of Political Science. His goal is
to teach at the college level.
Andrew feels that “Only through education and dialogue can we
become better stewards of the earth…This knowledge can be passed on and
refined through teaching.”
Steve Smail (‘94)
and wife Jess welcomed their son, Wesley August Smail,
into the world on November 7, 2003.
Dori Farthing (‘95) moved to New York to start a
tenure-track position at SUNY-Geneseo. She writes: “The University
of Dayton (and Dayton itself) has been a good place, but I
am ready for a change and I am excited for this new adventure. SUNY Geneseo
is a public liberal arts university in western NY. Years ago, the school made a conscious
decision to focus on undergraduate education and that fits me well. Geneseo is
just south of Rochester and east of Buffalo. It is home to some good rocks
too...though they are sedimentary ones, and I will still have to travel to see
some metamorphic or igneous rocks.
Supposedly it is possible to find trilobites in rocks on campus. I certainly will let you know as I scope
out the local geology. Once I get
settled, I would love to have visitors and I can give you the local geology
tour. I have been hired as a petrologist/mineralogist and am joining a department that
is doing good work in the area of undergraduate education. The campus is in the middle of a large
building campaign that entails the construction of a new science center. This means that the whole geology
department (rocks and all) will be moving into a new space. Also in the plans are new
microscopes which is right up my alley.”
Sean Flynn (‘95) writes: “I
graduated from The University of South Carolina with a master’s in Earth
Resource Management in 1998. I then
attended The Ohio State University College of Law, obtaining my J.D. in
2001. Since then, I have been
employed as an associate at Baker and Hostetler in Columbus, Ohio. As a member of the firm’s
Environmental Team, a substantial and growing part of my practice is devoted to
environmental law.”
Stephen Q. Dornbos (‘97)
is now an Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His website
address is http://earth.usc.edu/research/paleolab
/stephen_dornbos.htm.
Ro Fernandez (‘97) has moved from Columbus, Ohio, to Denver, Colorado. His real estate title company,
Tri-Source Title Agency, has opened two more branch offices in Cincinnati
and Denver. Last we heard from him he has no
complaints – “the weather is great and the mountains are
beautiful.”
Megan (Mandernach) Shober (‘99) is working as a Nuclear
Engineer at the State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family
Services. Megan has volunteered to
teach Sunday School this year, “as an outlet for
all the teaching juice” inside of her. She’s having a great time with the
kindergartners and first graders and has grown to appreciate the art of
coloring, which can keep them happy for a good twenty minutes each week. It keeps her on her toes for
changes/decisions that may be made in the future.
Allison Cornett (‘00) and Michael Vanden Berg now live in Salt Lake City, Utah,
and are engaged to be married later this year. Allison is finishing her master’s
degree at the University
of Cincinnati.
Laura Clor (‘01)
graduated from the University
of New Mexico with her
M.S. She spent the summer months
working at national parks/preserves in the western part of the United States.
Russ Kohrs (‘01)
is teaching at the Broadway High School in the Shenandoah
Valley. His wife,
Sarah, is teaching Latin part-time at Spotswood High School. They feel very blessed to be employed by
the same school district and are enjoying themselves very much. Russ has not lost sight of other
professional pursuits and plans to write and co-author several publications.
Sara Austin (‘02) is completing graduate
work at Oklahoma
while she continues to work at Devon Energy. Sara purchased her first home. Her new address is 912 N.W. 49th Street, Oklahoma
City, OK 73118.
Kathy Bremar (‘03) is attending graduate school.
During the summer she worked as a contractor at the Smithsonian Natural
History Museum.
Her duties were more along the lines of collection management. She found this
to be tedious but rewarding work and has decided that collections management is
the path she’d like to pursue.
Kathy plans to present a poster on some of her findings on crinoid ontogeny at this year's GSA meeting in Denver.
When we last heard from Rich Poole (‘03) he was living in
wonderland after the birth of his son, Austin Jackson Poole, who was born on
January 30, 2004. He writes about
his wife Becky and son:
“Becky was awesome, and Austin
is as healthy as possible, and I'm just amazed and off in
wonderland.” Congratulations
to the Poole family.
Nick Welty (‘03) wrote during the summer and said he was collecting surface and
ground water quality data from several locations in Michigan, mainly near
Traverse City and south of Lansing.
The collected data will be used in EPA hydroecologic
computer models coupled with GIS to examine stressor-response relations. Nick attends Michigan State
University.
Although we as a department celebrate the
accomplishments and news we have from our alumni, we are also saddened by the deaths
of the following alumni and friends:
Edward F. Jolliff (x’38), Fort Myers, Florida
April
4, 2004 (WOOSTER,
Fall 2003)
Conrad
F. Matter (‘56), Columbus,
Ohio
September
2003 (WOOSTER, Spring
2004)