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188 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K WA L L A C E County,Colo., thanks to a thoughtful and effective attorney.We made the agreement work and I remain in ca- sual contact with Britann. I continued my mapping work in western Montana through, and long after, the divorce. My kids went with me to Montana for part of each summer. My children thought that all dads got into heli- copters to go to work in the morn- ing and whenever a seat was open in the helicopter the kids could take a f light. My kids have looked up at mountain goats as the heli- copter traversed along a cirque headwall; looked down on herds of “red” elk (the native elk) from the helicopter; seen bear sows with cubs traversing mountain meadows from the helicopter; and done “engine out” landings in the helicopter. My children occupied USGS field camps in Philipsburg, Mont., where they became experts with gold pans in local streams, got an introduction to f ly fishing and went on helicopter-based traverses with me. My children also lived in Missoula, Alberton and Fish Creek during my times of field work in western Montana. They lived with me during the school year, and spent summers with their mother except for their time with me in Montana. A main commitment during my time at the USGS was to train minor- ity students to take over mapping tasks as project leaders. I worked with the Minority Participation in Earth Sciences program for my en- tire career at the USGS, an effort that was inspired by Dr. Marie Morisawa (chair, earth sciences,Antioch) who suffered blatant discrimination from colleagues because of her gen- der and because she was Japanese. My goal at the USGS was to train minority students so well that they could not be denied jobs as profes- sionals. It was during work for the USGS that I did a one month Temporary Duty assignment in Saudi Arabia in 1984, followed by another in 1985. The pressure by management to take a permanent assignment in Saudi Arabia was intense. My chil- dren, then beginning high school,de- clined an education in Switzerland that would have been provided by the State Department (an opt-out that is now lamented by both chil- dren). I consented to work in Saudi Arabia in 1991 but from my base in Denver, which meant that I traveled to Arabia twice each year to do field work and spent the remainder of the winter in Denver with my children. My reconnaissance mapping skills were needed by the USGS in Saudi Arabia and I was assigned eight quadrangles at 250K scale to complete in four years and to co- ordinate (also known as compete) with the French Geological Survey (Bureau de Recherche Géologiques et Minières). Having remnant com- mand of French from Besançon, I had a leg up in dealing with French staff, where I made several friends. A positive element from my work in Saudi Arabia was that I got to map for three months in Montana and I got to map for three months in Arabia. I was in reconnaissance map- ping heaven! Part of my agreement with the USGS mission in Jeddah was to train young geologists to map and write reports.The teaching part of my time in Arabia was very rewarding. It was during this period that I met Marten Ann Poole, and we found much in common including a love of mountains, wilderness and wildlife. After a few years of cau- tious dating we decided to throw our lots together and we moved to the mountains southwest of Denver. Living in the mountains was a dream come true for Marten Ann and for me and I gained two step-children! We enjoyed seeing elk, bears, coy- otes, foxes, turkeys and deer at our doorstep. In 1995, the USGS underwent a reduction in force (RIF) and I was downsized. I immediately signed a contract with the USGS mission in Arabia to continue their mapping program. This entire RIF event was illegal according to observers but I moved on immediately and became a geological consultant, an occupa- tion that I continue today. I worked with some amazing people at a vari- ety of companies over the next few decades, and my learning curve was, and remains, steep. While working for various companies and with the USGS mission, I also made geologic maps for the Colorado Geological Survey and that was very satisfying work for nearly a decade. After MartenAnn and I returned from a work period in Saudi Arabia in 1996 she was diagnosed with lung cancer. She died from that dis- ease early in 1997. I met Margaret in 1999 in Denver as I completed a long-term job in Reno, and we married in 2001 in Hawai’i. All of our children were grown and on their own which uncomplicated our lives consider- ably. We remain in the mountains southwest of Denver. Margaret has an M.B.A. from George Washington University, and she was a bond ana- lyst at a regional investment bank in Denver. Margaret recently retired. The USGS mission left Saudi Arabia in 2001 and I remained as a senior advisor to the newly minted Saudi Geological Survey (SGS). I continued reconnaissance geologic mapping and training functions in Arabia for the SGS while living in Denver for a decade until I deter- mined in 2011 that the SGS map- ping team no longer needed my help and I resigned. Besides, work- ing in Arabia was difficult and hard for an old man. While working in Australia in 2007 I made a geologic discovery that changed my career permanently: my discovery was that I could deter- mine migration pathways of hydro- carbons that were expelled from the A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z