Douglas W. Bainbridge (prof. 1954-1960) of Cortez, CO, died in May 2007, in Cortez. Following an undergraduate degree at Wisconsin and work with General Electric during World War II, he joined the Institute of Engineering Research at Berkely, where he received an MS in 1952 and a PhD in 1957. The Colorado School of Mines was his first teaching position. He was later department chair at Oregon State University before retiring to Colrado in 1973. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of X-ray crystallography. Doug's wife of 61 years, Lucille, died with him. They are survived by their sons, Robert and David.

Blair Burwell '47 of Rifle, CO, died on November 23, 2006, at Grand River Hospital in Rifle. Blair was born in Denver in 1920. He lived in Mexico with his parents until he was five years old, at which point they moved to Rifle Gap, CO. While attending the Rifle schools he met Virginia Bailey, whom he married in Golden in 1941. Blair enlisted in the Navy during WWII, serving with honors in the Pacific. A third generation graduate of Colroado School of Mines, Blair earned his degree in mining engineering. Serving as a trouble-shooter for AMEX Mining, he traveled throughout the world and enjoyed sharing stories of his adventures, particularly of Africa, the Pacific Islands and the Arctic. Blair returned to Rifle 10 years ago. He is survived by his wife, Virginia; his daughter, Pamela Burwell; and five grandchildren. He was redeceased by his brother, Alan; his son, Blair; and his daughter, Peggy Kasik.

Robert Davison '43 of Englewood, CO, died on April 22, 2007. Robert was born on Valentine's Day in 1921 in Montgomery, AL. He graduated from Mines with a degree in geological engineering, before serving as a second lieutenant during World War II with the 977th Engineer Maintenance Company. After the war he remained in the Army Reserves. After his marriage to Sasia Wolak in 1945, he moved to Boulder to study law at the University of Colrado. After graduating at the top of his class, he was hired by the newly formed Holland & Hart law firm in Denver. During his 26-year career with the firm he became a nationally recognized expert in mineral law. During the Korean War, he was recalled by the Army Reserves and served from 1950 to 1952. He was a member of the Colorado Bar Association and the Denver Bar Association, and he served as both director and president of the Colorado Mineral Law Association. A member of the Board of Editors that wrote the American Law of Mining, Robert also served as a visiting lecturer at the CU Law School. He was a director of Mesa Fiberglass Corporation, QED Oil Company and Torchmark Insurance Corporation. He published the Telluride Times newspaper from 1975 until 1981. He was active in civic life, serving as mayor of Cherry Hills Village, CO, for three terms between 1960-1966. He was appointed president of the Denver Community College Development Program by Governor John Love in the 1960s, and from 1970 until 1985, he served as a trustee of Denver Zoo. He is survived by his wife, Stasia; his daughter, Nancy Wyman; his sons, Robert and Thomas; and four grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son, John.

Richard DeVoto '61 died in his home in Genesee, CO, on August 21, 2007. A native Californian, Dick graduated from Palo Alto High School. He attended Dartmouth College where he earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering. He then moved west to begin work on his doctorate in geological engineering at Mines, supported by a National Science Foundation scholarship. He enjoyed a 45-year career in natural resources exploration, development, management and education. He worked in the petroleum industry, first for Mobil Oil Co. in Libya and then Shell Oil Co. in Casper, WY. He returned to Mines as a professor in 1966 and retired in 1987. Following retirement, he worked full time for Canyon Resources as president and CEO, a company he co-founded in 1979. He was also a founding director of an affiliated company in Australia. Dick was a respected academic who published extensively. He was also a creative and enthusiastic teacher and graduate student advisor. His sporting interests included handball, tennis and mountain climbing - he ascended all 54 of Colorado's fourteeners. His passions involved exploring the natural world, history, traveling, reading, and being with good friends and family. Dick is survived by his wife, Judy; his three children, Rob, Julianne and John; Judy's three children, Jennifer, Jeffrey and Gregory; and nine grandchildren.

John Emerson '38 of Grand Junction, CO, died March 27, 2007, in his home. Born in San Jacinto, CA, in 1914, he came east to attend Mines, graduating with an engineer of mines degree. Following Graduation he worked in the mining industry in Colorado, California, and Nevada. John married Mary Hastings in 1941, with whom he had three sons. In 1956, he moved to Grand Junction to work for Union carbide, whre he eventually became manager of the Colorado Plateau Operations, and from there was promoted to general manager of Western Mining and Milling Operations. In 1977, Union Carbide honored John for his many contributions and successes by renaming the second largest tungsten mine in the U.S., The Emerson Operations. John was a charter member of Bookcliff Country Club. He enjoyed tennis and golf. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; Colorado Mining Association; Mining Industrial Development Board, State of Colorado; Western Governors' Advisory Board; and Western Board of Governors, American Mining Congress. In 1972, he was awarded Mines' Distinguished Achievement Medal. He was on the board of directors for First National Bank from 1979 until 1985. He was also on the executive board of Grand Junction's St. Mary's Hospital from 1980 until 1986, serving as board president in 1986. His wife and three sisters preceded him in death. He is survived by his brother, Lee; his sons, Jack, Richard and Stuart; eight grandchildren; six great grandchildren; and his dog Jake, his loyal friend and companion.

John E. Hatch '36 of Davenport, IA died on April 13, 2007. John grew up in Denver and attended Mines on a scholarship. After earning his degree in metallurgical engineering, he worked for Youngstown Sheet and Tube in Youngstown, OH for four years. In 1940 he began working for ALCOA, and simultaneously enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology to begin working on his MS in metallurgical engineering. Having earned this degree in 1948, he went on to make a substantial contribution to the aluminum industry: in the fifties he helped develop alloys for the wings of the Boeing 737 and 747; in the sixties he worked on the aluminum beer can; and in the seventies he helped to develop large ingot capabilities for ALCOA, which represented a significant contribution to the aerospace industry. In 1956, he came to Davenport to direct the computerization of lot tickets, standard practices and order entry. His career with ALCOA culminated in Pittsburgh where he headed up the Primary Products, Forging, Rigid Containers, and Foil Division. After retiring from ALCOA in 1977, he began teaching metallurgy at Carnegie Mellon University. While teaching at CMU he edited the book Aluminum: Properties and Metallurgy (1984) for ASM, which remains an industry standard today. Beyond his professional life, John was active in church matters in both teaching and minisering capacities. His wife of 65 years, Alverta, predeceased him in 2002. He is survived by his three duaghters, Carol Baldry, Judy Ashford and Rush Haas; and six grandchildren.

Jean Paul Mather (prof. 1938-1943, 1969-1980) of Amherst, MA, died in June 21, 2007. Born in 1914, in Del Norte, CO, he attended Mines from 1932 to 1935, before going on to the University of Denver where he earned his bachelor's degree in economics. He completed graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago in 1939 and received an MBA from the Unverisity of Denver, College of Business Administration in 1948. He also held a master's degree from Princeton, where he had completed study and research toward his PhD. He taught at Mines as a professor of economics from 1938 to 1943, before moving on to teaching positions at the Unversity of Denver and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He served as president of the University of Massachusetts from 1954 to 1960. His legacy at that institution includes overseeing the establishment of its College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and the School of Nursing; increasing the university's emphasis on research; and increasing capacity for a boost in enrollment of 10,000 in advance of the Baby Boom generation. After leaving UMass, he served as president for the American College Testing Program, the Purdue University Research Foundation, and the University o City Science Center in Philadelphia. In 1969, he returned to Mines, where he established the Mineral Economics program. He retired in 1980 and moved to Pittsfield, MA. He remarried in 1981 and subsequently moved to nearby Lennox. He is survived by his daughter, Barbara Johnson; his second wife, Harriet Roberts Mather; seven grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Marie.

Daniel McFadden '63 of Greybull, WY, died on August 10, 2007 in Princeton, IN. He grewup in Indiana, attending Mount Vernon High School before comoing to Mines on a football scholarship in 1959. Three years after he graduated with a degree in mining engineering, he formed Frontier Constructors with his partner Dyke Howell '63, launching the enterprise with a pickup and a $500 loan. When he retired in 1995 from his position as founder and vice president of Frontier-Kemper Constructors, the firm was one of the top 400 construction companies in the U.S. Included in its portfolio of copleted projects are the bridges and tunnels of the Glenwood Canyon section of I-70 in Colorado and the Hoover Dam visitors' center elevator shaft and tunnel, which is bored deep into the canyon wall near the dam. After retiring, he moved to Greybull with his wife, Sandy, to run a horse ranch. Along with ranching, he also helped to guide hunters, and regularly volunteered for the Body and Spirit Therapeutic Riding and Hippotherapy Program. In 1999, he helped establish Engineering and Construction Innovations, Inc. with his son Shane and several other partners. He was a member of many organizations, including Safari Club International and the Elks Club. In 2002, Mines awarded him a Distinguished Achievement Medal honoring his many lifetime achievements. He was preceded in death by his sister, Yvonne Grabert; and his brother, Michael McFadden. Dan is survived by his wife of 43 years, Sandy (McGowen) McFadden; his son, Shane McFadden; his daughter, Kimberly McFadden-Effinger; and three grandchildren.

Emery Steffenhagen '41 of Nashville, TN, died on April 14, 2007. Born in Lake City, MN, in 1014, Emery attended high school in Lake City, MN before attending the University of Minnesota. He graduated from Mines with a geological engineer degree and went on to enjoy a 28-year career with Shell Oil Co, where he rose to the level of senior production geologist. He spent six years with USGS from 1975 to 1981 before retiring. After living in and around Louisiana for 39 years, he and his wife, Mary, moved ot the mountains near Nashville, in the early 1980s - a region and topography he enjoyed. His interests included woodworking, gardening and bowling. He is survived by his wife, Mary; his daughter, Ann Schumacher; his son, Bill; his brother, Donald; and three grandchildren.

Vesper Vaseen '39 of Lakewood, CO, died on March 28, 2007. Born in the Denver area, he completed his degree in metallurgical engineering at Mines before taking the position of assistant sanitary engineer for the State of Colorado. He joined the U.S. Army in World War II and served until 1946 as a sanitary engineer at two Army bases. Leaving the Army with the rank of major, he went to work for a private engineering firm in Denver, where he was responsible for drawing up the original plat for what became the city of Thornton. He later platted a number of other town sites and subdivisions in the Denver area, and developed several water and sanitation districts. In 1966, he took a position with Stearns-Roger as a project engineer, where he nurtured his talen for invention. While at Stearns-Roger he filed a voluminous number of patent dosclosures on a wide variety of subjects including lasers, solar power, odor scrubbers and auto emissions control. In 1980, he founded AVASCO Consultin Engineers and devoted himself full-time to his inventions. In the years that followed, he successfully developed new technologies in fields as far ranging as mining, power generation, medicine, educational games and brewing. HE also authored more than 70 articles and technical papers - his personal papers and notes were donated to the School in 1996. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, June Novak Vaseen; his daughter, Gail Vaseen Hardesty; his son, Dale Vaseen; two granddaughters; two step grandsons; and a great-granddaughter. Editor's note: Mines magazine regrets that the photograph printed alongside Vesper Vaseen's obituary in the previous issue had been incorrectly identified as Vesper. We extend our sincerest apologies to the family for the error.

Also In Memoriam

Eduardo J. Regalado '42......................................August 21, 2005
Harold. L. Mendenhall '38....................................May 21, 2006