University of Texas at Austin Libraries Home | Mobile | My Account | Renew Items | Sitemap | Help
support us
University of Texas Libraries
details contents options

Table of Contents

  1. Newsletter (University of Texas at Austin. Department of Geological Sciences) ; no. 16, 1967
    1. Here It Is!

    2. Geology Faculty News

    3. Notes from the Bureau of Economic Geology

    4. The Geology Foundation

    5. Deaths

    6. Enrollment and Degrees

    7. Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards

    8. GEOLOGY ALUMNI NEWS

    9. NOTE TO ALUMNI!

    10. DEDICATION OF THE NEW GEOLOGY BUILDING AND A SYMPOSIUM:

  2. Illustrations
    1. Untitled

    2. View of the new auditorium. The walls are paneled in ash and the seats are upholstered in a beautiful blue velour.

    3. Untitled

    4. View of north entrance to the building.

    5. Close-up of entrance to the auditorium.

    6. Untitled

    7. Graduate student conference room on the fourth floor showing the nineteen different varieties of polished stone.

    8. (Above) Typical classroom in the new building. (Below) Faculty conference room on the third floor.

    9. Untitled

    10. Unusual shot of the north entrance to the building. This gives a good view of the "sunshades."

    11. Untitled

    12. Untitled

    13. Untitled

    14. (Above) Departmental Chairman Bill Muehlberger in his swanky new office. (At right) Faculty members attending Budget Council meeting in the conference room adjoining the Chairman's office. Reading left to right are Ed Jonas, Pete Flawn, Bob Boyer, Jack Wilson, Keith Young, Sam Ellison, Bill Muehlberger, Ronald DeFord, Charlie Bell, Virgil Barnes and Bob Folk. (Bottom) The structural geology laboratory.

    15. Untitled

    16. Untitled

    17. Untitled

    18. Dan Barker in his new office on the third floor.

    19. (Above) Charlie Bell goes over his lecture notes in his third floor office while (below) Bob Boyer checks out manuscripts for the next issue of the Journal of Geological Education.

    20. Untitled

    21. Sam Ellison looks most dignified in his new second floor office.

    22. Bob Folk sports a new Tahitian shirt (and a beard)—souvenirs of his recent trip!

    23. Sam Ellison and Graduate Student Luis Ardila do some "checking" in Sam's laboratory which adjoins his office.

    24. Ed Jonas, new Graduate Advisor for the Department.

    25. Charlie Bell at his microscope in the Palezoic Paleontology Laboratory on the fourth floor.

    26. Dan Barker admires his new atomic adsorption spectrophotometer.

    27. Ernie Lundelius with his "bones" in his second floor laboratory.

    28. Another close-up of the projecting "sunshades" on the south side of the building.

    29. Earle Mcßride, Assistant Chairman of the Department, in his office on the third floor.

    30. A rare shot of Ed Owen—rare in that it's hard to catch him still long enough to get a photograph!

    31. Jack Wilson makes some last-minute notes for a manuscript. Jack's office is in the second floor complex.

    32. View of the departmental office on the first floor: Staff personnel, reading from left to right, are Miss Rita Ray, Mrs. Gloria Hull, Mrs. Lavergne Sanders, Mrs. Birdena Schroeder, and Mrs. Joyce Best.

    33. Mrs. Thelma Guion, our Geology Librarian.

    34. Mrs. Mary Gaddis, secretary to the Graduate Advisor.

    35. View of the stacks in the Geology Library.

    36. Peter Flawn, Director, in his new quarters on the fifth floor.

    37. Entrance to the Bureau of Economic Geology.

    38. Bureau staff members in their new conference room. Left to right: Miss Josephine Casey, Virgil Barnes, Bill Fisher, Peter Flawn, Gus Eifler, Joe McGowen and Ross Maxwell.

    39. The Bureau's new Cartography Laboratory.

    40. Chris Kendall, postdoctoral fellow from England, in one of the drafting rooms on the fourth floor.

    41. Newest members of the Geology Foundation Advisory Council are (left) John F. Bookout, Jr. and (right) Ray A. Burke.

    42. J. Ben Carsey

    43. Hunter Yarborough

    44. View of the reading room in the Geology Library.

    45. Graduate students and faculty at "morning coffee" in the fourth floor conference room.

    46. Graduate Student Moayad Shaflq in his new office on the fourth floor.

    47. Forty Years Ago! This photo was taken on the UT campus May 18, 1927. Reading from left to right: Dr. John Lonsdale, Mr. King, Dr. Wrather, Dr. Gould, Mr. Moody, Dr. Elias Sellards, Dr. Frederick Simonds, Dr. Fred Bullard, Dr. F. L. Whitney, Mr. Allen and Mr. Arthur Deen. In the front, sitting: Mr. Gordon Damon (with hat) and Mr. Adkins.

    48. Thirty Years Ago! Richard J. Hughes, Jr. sent us this picture of the 1937 Geology 20 class. If we're not correct in listing the names of the people in the photo, please let us know! Left to right: Gus Eifler, Gordon McNutt, W. H. Cardwell, Blake Cochrum, J. M. Fouts, Jr., T. C. Tillotson, P. O. Geddie, John Henry McCammon, W. G. McCampbell, J. M. Frost 111, J. P. Smith, Joe Champion, unknown, J. D. Burke, H. V. Reeves, and R. J. Hughes, Jr.

    49. Twenty Years Ago! This photograph was sent to us by G. Allan Nelson and Bill Calloway of Denver. It is the Geology 60A class taken in July 1947 by Dr. Fred Bullard at Curtis Field, Brady, Texas. Allan says he and Bill "identified parties as best we could with assistance from Joe Keyser." So here goes! Top row, left to right: John C. Osmond, Jasper L. Starnes, Joseph E. Keyser, G. Allan Nelson, William O. Calloway, Thomas D. Barrow, Henry L. Fulghum, Everett Carlson, William Roper, Hewitt B. Fox, Henry Wyneken, Harry Williams, Jack Hunter, John W. LeSassier, Fernand J. Souya, Bruce Kirk, Weaver H. McCracken, and Gus Eifler. Middle row, left to right: Ralston Brown, Edward McFarlan, Jr., Morrison Walker, John G. Champion, Charles Hornberger, Robert D. Carter, Raymond M. Richardson, Coyle E. Singletary, J. P. Hill, William J. Fennessy, and Ray A. Burke. Bottom row, left to right: Frederick C. Smyth, Buddy Hayes, Morton Biggers, O. D. Weaver, Herbert Brewer, Jack Lassiter, Charles Worrel, and Clem E. George.

    50. Truman Stewart, Instrument Maker, in the machine shop in the new building.

    51. Untitled

    52. Untitled

September, 1967

15

Bob Folk sports a new Tahitian shirt (and a beard) — souve nirs of his recent trip !

Sam Ellison and Graduate Student Luis Ardila do some "checking" in Sam's laboratory which adjoins his office.

in micropaleontology, general geology, the geology of petro leum and geology for high school teachers. Next fall he will again teach a special small section of general geology for stu dents with superior scientific background. This summer Sam taught the nine-weeks Earth Science Summer Institute course and "time left over" was spent in writing papers. His "Third Supplement to Conodont Bibliography and Index" appeared in the April 1967 Texas Journal of Science.

Peter Flawn, Bill Fisher and Pete Rodda all took active parts in teaching this year in addition to their work for the Bureau of Economic Geology, and Virgil Barnes continues to to work closely with our graduate students. The activities of these men are reviewed more fully in the section of this News letter devoted to the Bureau.

Bob Folk left the campus in mid- June (right after moving into the new building) with his graduate student, Jim Dob kins, for Tahiti to do research on shape development which was supported by funds from the Geology Foundation. Unfortunately, after having been in Tahiti for only a few weeks, he came down with pneumonia and had to return to Austin. His recovery was a slow process, which made him un happy since he had planned to spend the rest of the summer working "furiously" on the Simpson Desert sands of Australia and finish his paper on bird urine. But at least he got to spend some time reading lots of desert and red-bed literature !

During the school year, Bob taught courses in sedimen tation, carbonate petrology and the petrography of sandstones. He also served as one of the instructors of the sedimentation graduate courses offered by the University at Midland last fall. He co-authored a paper, "Portrait of P. D. Krynine," which appeared in the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, and has one in press in the Journal of Geology, "Geomorphology of Sand Cays of Alacran Reef." Last November, he presented a paper, "Sands of the Simpson Desert, N. Territory, Aus tralia," at GSA, and as soon as the meeting was over he trav

eled to Boulder, Colorado to give a lecture. This was at the first annual convention of the Friends of the Microscope So ciety. He was an AGI Visiting Scientist, lecturing at the Uni versity of Mississippi and Mississippi State College. Bob also found time to add a Chinese pagoda to the top of his house and he is still avidly gathering foreign coins and stamps for his collection (this last is a hint for our exes ! ) .

Claude Horton, who holds a joint appointment as Professor of Physics and Geology, again taught the graduate course in geophysics as well as remaining active in the Physics Depart ment. Claude's prime research interest is in acoustic waves and two papers on this research were published during the year in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Another paper, "The Electrical Conductivity of the Earth's Mantle," appeared in Magnetism and the Cosmos. He is chairman of the Visiting Scientific Committees for Woods Hole (Massa chusetts) Oceanographic Institution. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and he attended its annual meeting in New York City in April. Claude's summer was spent in Austin revising the manuscript of his book, tenta tively titled Signal Processing of Acoustic Waves.

Earl Ingerson was awarded two research grants during the year, one from the University Research Institute for hydro thermal research and the other from NSF for the study of age and formation of caliche. He taught general geology and the graduate course in geochemistry this year and next year will teach a course in structural petrology. In the fall he went to Mexico to check area 3 around Zacatecas and Durango for thesis and conference courses, returning in January to con duct geological field investigations in the area southwest of Torreon and to visit phosphate deposits at Conception de Oro. In December he made a tektite search in Grimes County and in March went to Karnes County to check uranium deposits.

As President of the International Association of Geo chemistry and Cosmochemistry, he presented the opening ad