Terence Parker has been named executive vice president and provost. Parker, who came to Mines in 1994, has served as Engineering Division director since 2006. During that time, student enrollment in the graduate program in engineering and the annual research award level has more than doubled. Undergraduate student enrollment has also increased, with more than

John P. Davis ’56 of Tonopah, Nev., died on January 26, 2011. Born in New York in 1934, John grew up in Santa Barbara, Calif., and attended Laguna Blanca High School. A member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, he graduated from Mines with a professional degree in mining engineering and worked in the mining

Robert Gerald “Bob” Brunger ’42 of Murrysville, Pa., died on December 22, 2009. Born in 1921, Bob attended both Denver Christian School and South High School. A member of the Tau Beta Pi honor society at Mines, he met and married Alberta Ham before graduating with a professional degree in metallurgical engineering. After working briefly

Comment on “A Rough Road to Riches” Excellent article. I worked with Tim [Marquez] in The Netherlands. Great to see that he has done so well. Lovely family. John Thompson

“When a kid has a bicycle … it’s liberating, it’s freeing,” says Dick Banks ’53, who has spent 15 years promoting safe cycling among elementary school children, imparting important life lessons at the same time.

Dear Readers, It took a fellow alumnus months to convince Bill McElduff ’82 that the role he and his colleague, Donal Fitterer MS ’88, played in completing the bottom kill of the blown out Macondo oil well would be of interest to readers of Mines magazine. Listening to Bill’s voicemail, it took me all of

Comments on the new website: Great job! Congratulations. Don Wilson ’58

With construction soon to begin on the new student health center to be situated on the northwest corner of Elm and 18th Street, the future facility was named the W. Lloyd Wright Student Wellness Center, after former Colorado School of Mines physician Dr. W. Lloyd Wright. Once completed in the spring of 2012, the $2.8

Colorado School of Mines was ranked seventh in the final installment of the 2010-11 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup NCAA Division II winter standings, as announced on March 31st by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).

Real Joseph Balthazar ’62 of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., died on August 21, 2010. Real was born in 1932 in Albans, Vt., close to the Canadian border, 1where he grew up with his two sisters and his mother during the Great Depression. His father died in 1937. Drafted to serve during the Korean1 War in 1950,

With a $150,000 grant through HP’s Catalyst Initiative, Mines is helping to develop more effective approaches to STEM education worldwide with the use of tablet PCs in the classroom.

On October 30, 2010, a group of 23 alumni from classes 2001 to 2004 who are former members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club gathered in Evergreen for a reunion. Listed alphabetically, the following attended: Janelle (Bohn) Bartschere ’03, Dustin ’03 and Stephanie (Wolfe) ’03 Bennetts, Tamara (Hockett) Carey ’04, Randy Davis ’01, Jordan

At an event held at the University of Colorado, Boulder in November, the first eight individuals inducted into the 13-school Golden Buffalo Battalion Army ROTC Program Hall of Fame included two Mines alumni and one professor. The ceremony included Hugh W. Evans ’49; Vernon “Bud” A. Isaacs ’64; and the late Colonel Wendell W. Fertig,

Praise for Bridge Building Thank you for the very informative and enjoyable article about the construction of the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. Mr. Zanetell and his team have provided a practical and aesthetically pleasing solution to a problem others avoided. All of the participants, the crews, the contractors, the suppliers, the designers and the managers

John “Jack” Powell Babcock, Jr. ’45 of Rialto, Calif., died on March 14, 2010. Jack was born in 1923 and grew up in Paris, Ill. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he graduated from Mines with a  professional degree in petroleum engineering  before serving in the U.S. Navy as an electronics,  radio, radar and sonar

Praise for Bridge Building Congratulations! This is the best issue in my memory (which, alas, is not as good as it was when I was at Mines 50 years ago). Terrific articles, well written, very well (alright, extremely well) illustrated. Within a day of receiving my hard copy, I had read it cover to cover

Colorado School of Mines recently received 12 large gifts: The Adolph Coors Foundation contributed a total of $275,000 to support the William K. Coors Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering and the Herman F. Coors Professorial Chair in Ceramics. Harry D. Campbell ‘42 made the final $157,769 pledge payment on his $700,000 commitment to Marquez Hall.

Mines hosted the fourth largest Spring Career Day on record in February. A total of 1,700 students and recent graduates attended the event in the Student Recreation Center, where 145 organizations staffed booths with about 400 recruiters, many of whom were in familiar territory. “Typically one-third are alumni,” said Jean Manning-Clark, director of career services,

• The Mines men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams both placed first at the Colorado College Classic January 21 – 23 in Colorado Springs, winning the Orediggers the combined team title with a  core of 1,341 total points (women – 582; men – 759). • Wrestling’s Brandon Sheldon placed first in the 174-lb bracket

Samantha Bauer ’06 and Brandon Richardson ’07 were married on September 20, 2008, in Estes Park, CO. Seven Mines alumni were in the wedding, including Gary Bauer ’74, father of the bride. Many other Mines graduates attended.   H. Scott Bromley ’09 and Jaime L. Thorpe ’10 were married on November 6, 2010, at Washington

You’re 60 years old. You’ve had a successful engineering career, spanning four decades and several continents, and you are retiring as president and chief operating officer of a mining company with a thousand employees. Businesses are clamoring for your expertise as an independent consultant, and job offers come in from South America and Africa. What

In 2010, when industry and governments around the world woke up to the fact that China had developed a near monopoly on the production and supply of rare earth minerals, alarm bells sounded and industry and government leaders went looking for experts to consult on the issue. One of the people they quickly identified was

1954 Arden L. Bement, Jr. is director and D. A. Ross Distinguished Professor, Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. (Read his interview in the 2010 fall/winter issue, available at minesmagazine.com.)   1955 Robert A. Metz is a vice president, chief geologist and director for United Mines and lives in Tucson, AZ.   1956 Charles E. Stott,

Praise for Bridge Building The fall/winter issue was one of best magazines Mines has ever published. I especially liked the article “Constructing a Landmark,” featuring Dave Zanetell ’87. It was extremely well-written and informative about a great engineering achievement. Clint Eddy ’62

With funding from the Army Research Office, physics professor John Scales and a number of students and colleagues may have come up with a safer and more economical approach to the problem of landmine detection.

Ralph E. Anderson ’52 of San Antonio died on August 6, 2010. Ralph was born in 1930 in Richmond, Ill., and attended Richmond-Burton High School. A member of the Blue Key International Honor Society, he graduated from Mines with a professional degree in petroleum refining engineering before embarking on a 41-year career with Amoco. His

Before launching into the important business prompting this letter, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself, having only recently taken over as president of the Colorado School of Mines Alumni Association. I graduated from Mines in 1983 with a BS in geophysical engineering, after which I obtained a law degree from the University

The Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum’s exhibit at the 2010 Denver Gem and Mineral Show was recognized with the Donna Chirnside Trophy, which is awarded annually to the most outstanding exhibit at the show. Nineteen museums attended this year’s event. In this photograph, Bill Chirnside ’74 awards the trophy to Bruce Geller, Mines’ museum

To mark Mines magazine’s 100th anniversary, we offer an abbreviated history in two parts. With about 40,000 pages published to date, this history is gleaned from samplings taken at 10-year intervals: 1910, 1920, 1930 and so on. Part I, included in this issue, covers the years 1910 – 1960, while Part II, slated for the spring issue, will cover the years since 1960. To augment this retrospective, and to enable readers to take their own journey through the last century of Mines magazine, more than 100 issues have been scanned and made available as searchable PDF documents. To access these, simply click on 100-Year Archives menu option above.

Colorado School of Mines was ranked first among public institutions for 30-year net return on investment for graduates who paid in-state tuition, and second int he same category for graduates who paid out-of-state tuition.