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MESSAGES FROM THE FACULTY

Over the past several years, I have been extending my geochronological-tectonic investigations in the Adirondacks. The results have been exceptionally rewarding, and we now have a very detailed picture of Adirondack geologic history during the interval 1350-1000 million years. While large gaps of understanding still exist, a reasonably sound plate tectonic picture is emerging. As in the past, I have been able to involve a number of students in this research, and we have (I think) been of mutual benefit to one another.

During late August of 1995, Cathy and I went on a 7-day horse trek into the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. We rode all the way to the Continental Divide where we could look out over the most spectacular scenery imaginable. I am taking 10 Colgate students on the same trip this summer and will do so again in 1997. I would like to make it available to alumni as well. Interested?

Looking ahead, I am scheduled to take the Australia Environmental Studies Group in the spring semester of 1997. Cathy and I are very much looking forward to six months in one of the finest places on earth! Following this, I shall take the Wales Study Group (Natural Sciences) in the spring of 1999. Upon my return, I shall enjoy a year on sabbatical and retire as of June 2000. There will be a BIG party, and you will all be there. Thereafter, I shall repair the new cabin that Cathy and I are building on Canada Lake, and, from that vantage point, I shall fondly remember each of you as petrology students staggering under the load of your Opportunity. Then I shall have a martini - or two - or more. It would be wrong not to.