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

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    4. View of north entrance to the building.

    5. Close-up of entrance to the auditorium.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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19

September, 1967

In January, he went to Washington, D.C. to participate in the AGU meetings and for the NAS-NRC Fellowship Awards Committee meeting. March was an exceptionally busy month for Bill. He lectured on Pre-Cambrian development of the Mid continent region at S,M.U. and led a field trip to the Big Bend area as part of the exploration course sponsored by Mobil Oil Corporation's Field Research Laboratory. He went to Palo Alto, California for an AGI Executive Council meeting, to the GSA South-Central Section meeting in Norman, Okla homa and to the annual Texas Academy of Science meet ing in College Station.

In June, Bill went to Edmonton, Canada to present a paper at the International Union of Geological Sciences and the Con ference on Pre-Cambrian of the World, and he stopped off for a short visit with one of his students, Hugh Balkwill. In July he went to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts to participate in the NSF Advanced Science Seminar on Rock Mechanics held at Boston College, taking time out for a one-week field trip to Rio de Janeiro. In August he went to New York to attend GSA Program Committee meetings, and from there to Wash ington, D.C. for a meeting on the Fulbright Awards Com mittee, returning just, in time to get "the new building settled" before the new school year starts.

Ed Owen faithfully commuted to Austin from San Antonio during the school year to guide the Geology Technical Sessions and program of speakers and to supervise the research of graduate students — and all this without pay ! He serves on the Advisory Council of the Geology Foundation and is a part time consultant for Southern Minerals Corporation. Ed con tinues to be active in national and local geological organiza tions. He gave talks at meetings of the Corpus Christi and West Texas Geological Societies on "The Economics of Oil Discovery — an Historical Critique," and attended the annual AAPG meeting in Los Angeles. In June he was Visiting Lec

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

turer for a Short Course in Petroleum Geology at the Univer sity of Tulsa; the rest of the summer was spent ni working on his manuscript, "History of Petroleum Geology," for AAPG.

Al Scott spent last August and part of September teaching the field course in coastal geology at the Marine Institute at Port Aransas and this summer he is working in the clastic facies section for Esso Production Research Company in Hous ton. During the year he taught courses in historical geology and paleoecology, and taught part of the course in sedimenta tion given at Midland, where he got to see many old friends. He was in charge of the Teaching Assistants for the freshman geology course and headed the departmental Awards Com mittee which reviews all applicants for fellowships and assist antships.

In March Al participated in the Gulf Universities Research Corporation workshop at Harlingen, Texas and on spring vacation he led a field trip for Esso in the Corpus Christi-Fort Worth-Austin areas. He also attended the AAPG meeting in Los Angeles in April and in May went to Baton Rouge, Louis iana for the Symposium on Deltaic Sedimentation, sponsored by the Coastal Studies Institute of L.S.U. Al is still working on Recent sediments and hopes to begin work soon on an atlas of Texas Gulf Coast depositional environments. He's also getting interested in Cretaceous analogues in North and Cen tral Texas.

Jack Wilson continues his supervision of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at Balcones Research Center. The Lab has been granted its own budget, effective in September 1967, for the first time by our administration. Jack taught courses in general geology and vertebrate paleontology and made several short fossil -collecting trips to the Big Bend coun try during the year with his graduate students. In November he went to GSA in San Francisco and to Berkeley for the

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