ALUMNI NEWS NOTES

Denise (Collins) Waite: Jon and I are living outside of Philadelphia with 2 kids. Stop by and keep us sane. The pool is open and beer is cold. If anyone is looking for a job, SECOR is hiring at all levels and from coast to coast. Contact me at dwaite@secor.com (submitted 6/03)

Tom Hankins: Working at Ransom Environmental Consultants, Inc. in Newburyport, MA as a Project Geologist and Client Services Specialist. Working primarily with industrial/commercial clients and regional utility companies to solve their environmental issues such as spills, storage tanks, material handling, and general safety. (submitted '96)

Jill (Bourns) Hayes: Received Master's degree in Art Therapy in '91; working now in a state psychiatric hospital in Rome, GA with acutely disturbed adolescents; married, one daughter, on child on-the-way. (submitted '96)

Andy Heymann: Working as a property accountant for a real estate company in Manhattan. (submitted '96)

John Hopper: Finished up my PhD thesis at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory last summer and am now a post-doctoral fellow here in Denmark. I'm working on trying to understand continental rifts and break-up using numerical modeling and looking at geophysical data from rifted margins. Right now I'm looking at the East Coast of Greenland as part of a large project here at the Lithosphere Center to study N. Atlantic break-up in the vicinity of the Iceland hot spot. I spent several weeks in the field in Greenland this summer (including the famous Skaergaard Intrusion), spent a month last summer offshore on a seismic ship, and we'll be back next summer to do more seismics. I now live here in Copenhagen and things are going really well -- Copenhagen is a great city to live and work in, though my Danish lessons are coming along very slowly. Rachel O'Brien (geology student from '85) lives a few blocks away. I'll make sure she e-mails you too... (submitted '96)

Lisa (Hu) Filer: After a 8 year hiatus from environmental consulting field to stay home as a full-time mom, I am excited to return to the work force this fall as a lower school science teacher at a fabulous, Quaker private school. I am looking forward to teh challenges of a new career. I am a mother of two boys ages 8 and 5, and my husband teaches geology at Towson University. (submitted 6/03)

Keith Klepeis: From April26-May 6, I led a GSA-sponsored geological field excursion to Fiordland, New Zealand to examine the deep roots of a ancient mountain range. Art Goldstein came along and it was just like the summer OC outings at Colgate! The trip accommodated 38 people and involved numerous helicopter trips and use of a yacht to access remote locations. (submitted 6/03)

Chris Vyhnal: Paper from PhD submitted to American Journal of Science -hoping to give a talk at GSA in New Orleans. Looking for work!! Call me if you need a geologist. (I have an article that might be a kick for the newsletter - "Stable isotope chemistry of fermenting beer" was a lab for undergrads in the geology department here at Dartmouth. Let me know if you're interested.) (submitted '96)