Author: Oliver Dewey

Theodore ‘Ted’ Wirt Nelson ’34 of Westfield, N.J., died February 23, 2011. He was born in 1914 in Missoula, Mont., but was raised in Casper, Wyo. He graduated as valedictorian of his high school, and earned his...

Paul Leo Placek ’49 of Salt Lake City, Utah, died February 7, 2010. Born in 1927 in New Ulm, Minn., Paul attended East High School and graduated from Mines with a professional degree in metallurgical engineering. For 30...

Herman ‘Ted’ Theodore Schassberger ’50 of Bend, Ore., died August 22, 2010. In 1923, Ted’s family moved from Germany to New York, where he was born in 1925. After his mother’s death, Ted’s...

Robert ‘Bob’ D. Sloan ’49, MS ’52, PhD ’57 of Santa Barbara, Calif., died August 29, 2010. Bob was born in 1927 in Loma Linda, Calif., but grew up in nearby Redlands. At Mines, he was a member of...

John S. Southworth ’38 of Burbank, Calif., died November 8, 2010. He was born in 1915 in Lake Huron, Mich., but in 1922 his family moved to California, where he attended Glendale Public Schools. John was a member of the...