1992 President Evelyn Pratt

1992 - Evelyn Pratt

I was born in Pittsburgh, PA, but don't know much about it, since we moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, when I was 4 months old. Dad worked in my uncle's music store until the Depression hit; when we moved to New York City. I was 5. Mother and Dad were employed as cottage parents in a delinquent boys' facility –no place for a little girl. For 2 years I lived with an Irish Catholic woman and her 20-something daughter.

My parents got me back when Dad was hired by the U.S. Post Office... We rented a second-floor apartment in a NJ town across from NYC.. One day we smelled smoke; our landlady was moving things to the garage. The town's volunteer fire department arrived, and they carried Mother, me, and the dog I'd rescued from under the bed, down to safety.

A year later, to Mother's delight, Dad was transferred to Denver. (As a teen, Mother had lived in Boulder and loved it.). WWII hit; we moved from a North Denver rental house a block from my junior high to a nearby suburb. Eventually I got a scholarship to the University of Colorado, where I majored in biology instead of geology because "women geologists can only teach or look through a microscope." The UC Hiking Club was a godsend.  I hiked and/or rock climbed with them every Saturday.

After graduating, I took a "help repair Europe" trip to Bosnia and London. I’d earned a fellowship at the University of Washington, and returned by bus from Montreal to Seattle. Lovely weather all across the country, but it rained from Snoqualmie Pass to Seattle, and I said to myself, 'I’m staying in the Pacific Northwest ONE YEAR." And more than 60 years later, I'm still here...

1993 President Esther Kennedy

1993 - Esther Kennedy

lN MEMORlAM - Longtime member and Past President Esther Kennedy dies

Esther was born m French Gulch, California, on July 17, 1912, and died in Portland, Oregon , on March 29, 2010.

She was an avid amateur botanist, birder and geologist, and enjoyed sharing her knowledge with others on hikes, walks, and field trips. She was president of the Native Plant Society, Oregon Agate and Mineral  Society  and Geological  Society  of the Oregon Country. She and husband Bill joined GSOC in 1975, and she served as president in 1993. In addition to her presidency, she served  as  librarian, on various committees, and was Chairman of the Banquet Committee for several years. She not only organized the banquets but supervised the making of the place cards. Because of her artistic talent, one year she hand-painted all of the banquet place cards! Each place card was a different scene from the President's Field  Trip. Her  President's Field trip was "Puget Lowlands to Cascade Highlands," with the assistance of John Whitmer. We learned about Puget Sound and the North Cascades, including Anacortes, Concrete and Washington Pass.

She was always gracious, cooperative and available when anyone help with anything.

She is survived by her daughters, Helen Sinclair of Portland, Barbara Kennedy of Crooked River Ranch and Kathryn Persing of Redmond, son Bernie Abrahams of Wetmore, Colorado, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

1994 President Dr. Donald Botteron

1994 - Dr. Donald Botteron

A memorial service was held for Dr. Donald Botteron Tuesday July 31, at Capitol Hill United Methodist Church. He died July 24, 2001 at the age of 84. Dr. Botteron was born July 29, 1916, in Columbus, Ohio. He was raised in Wood River Illinois, and graduated from the University  of Illinois. He earned a doctorate in chemistry from Northwestern University. He was a professor of organic chemistry at Syracuse University, from 1943 until retiring in 1981, when he moved to Portland.

He was president of GSOC and Portland Astronomers (now Rose City Astronomers) . He led GSOC on a trip with Ellen Morris Bishop to the Wallowa Mountains for the 1994 President's Campout. In 1941 he married Elizabeth Louise Lamb. Remembrances can be sent to the Oregon chapter of the Nature Conservancy.

2009 President Carol Hasenberg

Carol volunteered for a second presidency of GSOC largely due to the fact that she wanted to get retired amber guru and UC Berkeley professor George Poinar, living in Corvallis, Oregon, to speak to GSOC. Poinar’s talk was excellent. You can read about the talk and Poinar’s work in the June 2008 article of The Geological Newsletter entitled “A Life’s Work In Amber: Unpeeling The Amber Onion.”

2009 - CAROL HASENBERG, TRINITY, AND NICK THE CRAZY DOG

Carol’s second President’s field trip was of the overall geology of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and the hydrology of the Deschutes River Basin. The trip’s guest leaders included Richard Conrey of Washington State University, Ken Lite of the Oregon Department of Water Resources, Todd Cleveland of Deschutes County Planning, Robert Jensen, USGS, and Richard Bartels of GSOC. The group also toured the Earth2O bottling plant in Culver, Oregon.

The photo shows Carol and her Australian shepherds Trinity and Nick, who accompanied her on a GSOC field trip to the Oregon outback in 2008.

Since her presidency Carol has remained on the board of directors and has continued to work on The Geological Newsletter, which has now become a yearly archive document. She is currently the field trip director for the society. - csh, 2024

2010 President Larry Purchase

In 1943, I was born in Pendleton, OR. My youth was spent working on my family wheat and cattle ranch. After graduation from Pendleton High School, I left for Corvallis to attend Oregon State University. In 1965, I received a BS degree in Range Management. In 1966, I was drafted into the Army, and deployed to Vietnam in 1967. After four years of active duty, I went to work for Bonneville Power Administration doing environmental work. While working at Bonneville, I became Lieutenant Colonel in the army reserves. After 42 years of Federal Service, I retired in 2008.

2010 - LARRY PURCHASE

I am married to Wenonah, and live.in Vancouver, Washington along the banks .of the Columbia River. We have two daughters, and three grandchildren.

Over the years I have always been interested in geology and fossils. I became a member of GSOC in 2006, and served as their president in 2010-2011. Other clubs I belong to are the "Ice Age Floods", North American Research Group, Oregon Archaeology Society, National Speleological Society, and Mt. Hood Rock Club.

My retirement years have been very rewarding. My GSOC and NARG fossil trips to the Oregon Coast, Columbia River Gorge, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Washington State have been great. I have had a chance to meet new friends, professors, authors, and professionals working through the universities and museums. But by far my association with members of GSOC has been the best, and I'm looking forward to many more fantastic years. Retirement has been good!

Larry’s 2010 President’s Field trip to Delintment Lake, Oregon, was a return to the site of GSOC’S first President’s field trip. He did this to commemorate GSOC’s 75th anniversary.

2011 President Rik Smoody

Rik Smoody has a MS in EE, from the days when Computer Science did not have its own department. He is a software architect and peripatetic consultant. Rik has worked for Tektronix, Sony, John Deere, AggFlow, and numerous other clients. He is a Polymath, or at least Polyscience: also a punster. Geology is one of many scientific interests. He has a commitment to education without ceilings.

2011 - RIK SMOODY

Rik reported that his President’s Field Trip was blessed with good weather, excellent speakers and gorgeous views of Mt. Rainer’s glaciers, dams and the featured topic of aggradation. The guide used for the trip, Pat Pringle’s “Roadside Geology of Mount Rainer National Park and Vicinity,” is highly recommended for anyone wanting to take a self-guided tour.

2012 President Jane Walpole

Jane Walpole planned a President’s field trip with Dr. Scott Burns as a leader. They had a tour of landslide sites on day 1 and a tour of Oregon wine terroir on day 2.

2012 - Jane Walpole

2013 President John Piccininni

Nature or a developer had placed career hints and puzzles in the vacant lot behind my boyhood home. Two large pink granite glacial erratics with thick layers of mica were more colorful than a candy   store. At 8 or 9 years old in the 1950's I didn't have a camera or a rock hammer, but I looked, poked and wondered. A short distance away, my street intersected Gun Hill Road up which George Washington's troops hauled their cannons during an early retreat from the British. The sparkling surface of a vacantlot at this intersection was Manhattan Schist. It was covered with deep glacial grooves and scratches pointing north - northeast towardnearby New England.  Another puzzle.

2013 - John Piccininni

By education I am a physical geographer with a background in geology. As an undergraduate I was in a Geology and Geography Dept. in a college within the City University of New York. Since it wasn't a large department, majors tended to take courses in both fields and at both campuses. As I moved further into geology I realized that I couldn't graduate with a double major. Lacking several math and peripheral science prerequisites for the geology degree, it would have been unwise to stay beyond four years. If I did, my Vietnam era student deferment would end immediately.

I began my graduate degree at the University of Chicago. Geomorphology was taught in my Geography Dept. as were fun courses such as Pleistocene Environments. I spent time with folks in the Geophysical Sciences Department (where J. Harlan Bretz had an office). They had funding for field trips around the country during breaks and for local trips on weekends. Soon I developed a fanatical interest in caves and karst geomorphology, and I became a lifetime member of the National Speleological Society. I grew in many ways during my travels on caving, climbing and backing trips.

In Chicago I met my wife Remy, a surgical intensive care nurse at the UC Hospitals. After 6 years in water quality programs at EPA's Regional office, we moved to Portland. We live in a 100+ yr. house on the Alameda Ridge and have two adult children. For nearly 30 years I worked for BPA as a surface and ground-water quality specialist in environmental, hazardous waste, and Fish & Wildlife programs. While in the hazardous waste program, I benefited from the excellent hydrogeology training courses offered by the National Ground-Water Association.

As a new GSOC member I didn’t know many local geologists. Past GSOC presentations appeared to focus on the Columbia River Basalts, Ice Age Floods and local geologists. Most GSOC members were not geologists and probably lacked a broad historical geology context. So, as Vice President, I invited a range of geographical geology presentations. Other guest speakers covered relevant topics including landslides, earthquake hazards, and shale gas production.

2014 President Sheila Alfsen

I was born in Chicago, Illinois; my father was a physician in Chicago’s Loop and my mother had been an entertainer and involved in community development before raising a family. Unfortunately, she left this life far too early, and as a result my family moved across the country a couple of times. I had the chance to travel within the United States and observe the differences in locations on both sides of the continent.

2014 - Sheila Alfsen

My young adult life was spent high in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon where I grew a subsistence garden, raised livestock and rode horses. I became a certified farrier and dreamed one day of riding the Pacific Crest trail from Mexico to Canada. After marriage, I raised two stepsons and gave birth to three children. I was deeply involved in my children’s education, and planned one day, when they were older, to go back to school to become a teacher.

I always had a fascination and love for the natural world, so my first geology class was a real eye opener! For the first time, all the questions I had pondered regarding the landscapes and oceans were answered. I realized that I could still enjoy places for their natural beauty, but understanding their geologic history and formation greatly deepened my appreciation. I have the privilege of introducing many high school and college students to the geologic wonders of this remarkable planet!

My initial involvement with GSOC gave me the chance for continued professional development; attending lectures and field trips as well as opportunities to know and work with many geologists. As vice president I was able to continue the quality of presentations we were accustomed to. As president, I answered requests for school presentations and developed outdoor programs for children. Our President’s Field Trip was a time slice of the Oligocene environments on each side of the Cascades. We celebrated GSOC’s eightieth birthday during my office with a banquet that featured renowned plate tectonics expert, Tanya Atwater.

Upon completing my year as the president of GSOC, I was made the outreach coordinator and can continue fulfilling our mission as a speaker and educator. It has been an honor to serve the Geological Society of the Oregon Country!

2015 President Janet Rasmussen

2015 - Janet Rasmussen

I first began coming to GSOC meetings over 20 years ago. Right away I knew had found “my people.”

Now, a second term as GSOC President has allowed me to pursue several goals made easier by having previous experience in the office. One goal was to increase our membership by speaking out at our Friday evening meetings to encourage and welcome newcomers. There have been more new members than ever due to social media outreach. A second was to get more involvement from Portland State University Geology Department, in part by seeking speakers from the retiring, current and new faculty members. Both of these goals succeeded.

A third goal was to lead a field trip to one of our most remote areas of the state. I contacted many geologists who had worked in SE Oregon, but none were available to come so far—though many were tempted. Instead, they offered support and technical advice, even unpublished material, from which I could compile a field guide and lead the trip myself. I had not learned so much since getting my degree, and it was a great pleasure to make several scouting trips to the area as well. Local folks were very helpful as well and generous with their time and expertise. Bonds were forged with local residents of SE Oregon as well, which will only strengthen with time.

GSOC is a source of wealth: friendship, adventure, travel, and the latest science.

Historical note from Carol Hasenberg in 2024:

This was Janet’s second term as president of GSOC. The highlight of this presidential term was the President’s field trip to Steens Mountain area in September 2015. Shown is a picture of Janet on that trip.

2016 President Bo Nonn

2016 - Bo Nonn

Bo Nonn planned a President’s field trip to the Oregon coast which was much enjoyed by the participants. He also addressed the GSOC annual banquet with his experiences climbing all 16 High Cascades Peaks. Refer to the May/June 2017 issue of The Geological Newsletter for a description of the talk.

-Carol Hasenberg, 2024

2017 President Rik Smoody

2017 - Rik Smoody

Rik took a second term as president in 2017, and due to his interest in many disciplines of science, he decided to plan a president’s field trip to the path of totality for the 2017 total solar eclipse. The location of the camp was at a member’s home in Mill City, near Detroit Lake. This location also afforded opportunities for day trips to the Opal Creek and McKenzie Pass areas.

-Carol Hasenberg, 2024

2018 President Paul Edison-Lahm

2018 - Paul Edison-Lahm

The focus of Paul’s presidency was strengthening GSOC’s volunteer base and community connections, especially our longstanding relationship with the PSU Geology Department and the professional geology community beyond — as well as establishing ties with other geoscience and outdoors organizations.

One of Paul’s earlier projects in outreaching to potential GSOC members was to establish an informal meetup hour on the fourth Saturday of the month at a local restaurant near his home in the Woodstock neighborhood. Here people were asked to come and bring interesting rocks to discuss with the group. He advertised this group on the GSOC website and the social media platform Meetup.

During Paul’s presidency, Paul worked to establish closer ties with college students from Portland State University (PSU) and his alma mater, Reed College. During this period, he met an enthusiastic student named Andrew Dunning. Andrew had wanted to study geology ever since his parents took him on family vacations to Death Valley. He was still in his lower undergraduate years at PSU when he started making geology education/travel videos available on the internet.

During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Paul’s meetup group morphed into an online geology forum, and Andrew Dunning was a key element in its success. Geology Talk, as it was originally called, featured Dunning doing a 20-minute Geology News broadcast outlining interesting geologic events which had transpired around the world in the past month. Other programming on Geology Talk included short talks by invited speakers that ranged between professional geologists, society members, and students.

After the COVID lockdown subsided, the Meetup program was reestablished, and the Geology Hour (formerly Geology Talk) was continued. These programs broaden the depth of programming for GSOC and have maintained contact with the students of PSU. Andrew Dunning has left PSU with his master’s degree, and other student moderators and presenters have taken his place.

Paul also worked to establish ties to GSOC’s sister organization Central Oregon Geoscience Society, or COGS, based in Bend, Oregon. GSOC has done several joint field trips with COGS. Paul’s presidential field trip in 2018 to Camp Hancock is one example of that collaboration, as part of the program included a get together of GSOC participants and COGS members at the Clarno Palisades for a picnic and a walk through the fossil-laden palisades lahar deposits.

The Camp Hancock trip also was a collaboration with another group with which Paul had long-term ties, the Rose City Astronomers. Participants in this field trip got to attend geology hikes and lectures by day and watch the stars by night. Geology sessions were led by John Day Fossil Beds National Monument geologist Dr. Nicholas Famoso, and also Dr. William Orr, emeritus from University of Oregon and Karyn Patridge, a researcher studying volcanology in the John Day area. Paul’s lavish field trip guide included all of these items and a historic review of the work of Lon Hancock, a world-renown amateur paleontologist of the John Day and Clarno formations (and a former GSOC president). Refer to the article “Camp Hancock and John Day Basin Field Trip – A Fond Memory,” in the November/December 2018 issue of The Geological Newsletter for a recap of that amazing trip.

Another of Paul’s projects geared towards attracting prospective members into the society was reinstituting geological tours of the downtown buildings in Portland. Paul researched the stone used in many of the downtown buildings and trained a group of society members to lead small groups in the tour. One of the tour offerings attracted 80 participants! Paul still does these tours on occasion.

Paul also created a biking tour of the east bank of the Willamette River with DOGAMI geologist Ian Madin, and that tour has been run several times as well.

Paul Edison-Lahm has not finished his creative communication and outreach work with GSOC. As of 2024, he has remained the Communications Director for GSOC and continues to accomplish amazing results for the society’s mission.

-Carol Hasenberg, 2024

2019-2020 President Sheila Alfsen

Sheila’s second term as president came when the society was making radical changes to its board of directors. The society’s bylaws were changed to a model for the presidency in which the president could stay in office for 1-2 years plus one year on the board as Past President. The rest of the board consisted of a secretary, a treasurer, five managing directors, and two members at large. The Vice President position was removed.

2019-2020 – Sheila Alfsen

So Sheila stayed in office for two years. And what interesting two years it turned out to be! Along with the changes in the structure of the board of directors, the board decided to find a membership platform to manage events, members and member dues, and we found it in Wild Apricot, a Canadian based company whose platform worked well for our non-profit group.

Newly elected treasurer Barbara Stroud and Paul Edison-Lahm did the lion’s share of the work in converting GSOC membership data into the new platform. They did an outstanding job, and the platform went operational in January 2020.

Then in January and February of 2020, reports were coming in of a pandemic starting to bloom. In February the first Oregon cases were being reported, and our annual banquet was scheduled for March 8. After weeks of struggling with the decision to have the banquet and the risks to members that it would pose, Sheila decided at the last minute to pull the plug on it. Shortly thereafter the COVID-19 lockdown officially began.

The board of directors was very concerned that the lockdown was going to be the end of the society. However, reports were coming in about using online meeting software to do presentations. And there was the example of Nick Zentner from Central Washington University broadcasting live from his backyard on YouTube. Soon the board of directors were meeting on Zoom. Sheila thought that she could do a pilot presentation on Zoom and we could monitor the response. She did a pilot GSOC meeting on April 18, 2020, titled “Assembling Oregon Geology,” a project she had been putting together for outreach talks, and as this was a success, then she began lining up speakers for online meetings. Since no one knew how long the lockdown would last, this would ensure some continuity in the club’s existence until in-person meetings could be resumed.

The lockdown online meetings were the beginning of a new era for the society, and instead of being a detriment, they actually boosted the society’s range, membership, and depth.

What a great legacy to leave as president!

-Carol Hasenberg, 2024

2021-2023 President Clark Niewendorp

2021-2023 - Clark Niewendorp

Clark Niewendorp is a 25-year resident of Oregon and a retired geologist with a wealth of experience. His educational background includes a B.S. in Geology from Southeast Missouri State University and an M.S. from Western Michigan University. Beginning his career as a mine geologist in 1980, he gained experience in the Kentucky-Tennessee oil fields, environmental consulting, and a decade with the South Carolina Geological Survey. In 1999, he relocated his family to Oregon and retired in 2018 after 19 years with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Since his retirement, Clark has been on the GSOC board of directors for five years, leading the group for three of those years.

Historical note from Carol Hasenberg, 2024:

After Sheila Alfsen’s presidency, Clark Niewendorp became president of GSOC, and his was the task of navigating the society out of the COVID pandemic and into what we feel is a new golden age. During the first couple years of the COVID pandemic the membership at GSOC had nearly doubled, as well as the geographical range of the members.

As many improvements to the GSOC business workings had been made during the previous 3 years, the focus to the presidency was to maintain the quality of the online meeting productions, resume the production of quality field trips and eventually to resume in-person meetings with hybrid technology. An incredible amount of time at board meetings was spent discussing issues like microphone quality, lighting, relations and communication with PSU staff, and the like. Numerous test runs were conducted to ensure that the meetings ran smoothly with minimal technical issues. We would like to recognize the hard work that Sheila Alfsen, Paul Edison-Lahm, Carole Miles, Gary Joaquin and Barbara Stroud put into making production quality a priority.

Also during this time the board started discussing creating our own scholarship fund for PSU geology students. Originally the board favored naming this fund after Oregon pioneer geologist Thomas Condon, but after Bev Vogt passed in 2021, it was decided to honor her memory by naming the fund after her.

Clark also organized and led a number of excellent field trips during and after his presidency. He used his experiences as a geological mapper for DOGAMI and as a mining engineer to develop field trips to Table Mountain, Quartzville mining district, Clackamas River Basin, Wasco County, and Detroit Lake. He also has done 2 Friday night lectures for GSOC - “The Oregon Gold Rush” in 2021 and “The Iron Dream” in 2022.

Clark has often said that he owes the success of his presidency to the very strong and cooperative team that was the GSOC Board of Directors during his term. We felt in our turn that Clark was an outstanding captain of that team.

-Carol Hasenberg, 2024

1995 President Clay Kelleher

I am a lifelong Oregonian, born in Portland in 1946. I became very interested in physical geography at age 10, but focused on mathematics both at Grant High School and Oregon State University. At OSU I met Barbara Underwood, and we married in June 1968. I earned a BS in August 1968, but am officially listed with the class of 1969.

1995 - CLAY KELLEHER

The principal hobby of my youth was chess.  I took this quite seriously, playing mostly against adults and finishing in second place in both the 1963 and 1964 Oregon Championship tournaments.

I barely avoided the Vietnam-era draft by joining the US Navy. I was assigned to the "Data Processing" specialty due to the many computer courses I had taken in pursuit of my math degree. My first and only assignment while in the Navy was at the Pentagon in the office of then-Commander Grace Murray Hopper. The mission was to promote use of the programming language COBOL throughout the Navy.  I wrote much of the software used to verify the accuracy of COBOL compilers and served on a COBOL subcommittee of the American National Standards Institute.

In spite of good job offers in the DC area, I had an intense desire to return to Oregon and upon discharge in 1973 accepted a COBOL programming job at Portland Public Schools, then in 1976 with Standard Insurance Company. Standard had a flexible work policy that allowed me to take classes at PSU, where I got a BS in Geology in 1990. My goal had been to begin a second career but I never made the transition because it would have necessitated a significant pay cut. From 1997 to early 2000 I programmed for the Oregon Senior & Disabled Services Division. I began working as a programmer for Multnomah Education Service District in 2000, and plan to retire in 2017.

I discovered GSOC at a seminar I attended in 1986 and learned that their twice-monthly luncheon meetings were held in the building where I worked. I held the chairmanship of the luncheon programs in 1991 through 1993 and was surprised to be awarded a GSOC Fellowship at the 1993 banquet. I accepted nomination for the Vice Presidency for 1994, after being told that the principal duty was to "introduce speakers for the Friday evening programs". That sounded easy enough.  Surprise! I became President in 1995.  My President's Field Trip was headquartered in Vernonia and covered the geology of the Coast Range from Cascade Head to Astoria.  I accepted a second Vice Presidency in 2003 followed by the Presidency in 2004. I regret there was no President's Field Trip that year.

Though I have never practiced geology professionally I have come to appreciate that "Geology is Everywhere", my way of expressing that a person can usually find something of geologic interest wherever he or she takes time to observe, even in a big city.

1996 President Richard 'Bart' Bartels

I was raised in Sioux City, Iowa, and earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. My academic career included teaching two years at the school of Mines, seven years at the University of Minnesota, and seven years as a visiting professor at the University of Bahia, Brazil. After an abortive attempt for a Ph. D. degree at Memorial University at St. Johns, Newfoundland, I made a career change and am presently working for the Internal Revenue Service in Portland as your friendly customer service representative.

1996 - RICHARD "BART" BARTELS

Current interests include unraveling the geology of the Pacific Northwest and enjoying the great outdoors with Beverly·Vogt.

 Historical note from Carol Hasenberg in 2024:

During and after his first presidency, Bart conducted a series of Wednesday night seminars monthly for the society. They were my introduction to the society. He also led and collaborated on several field trips. He was the guy who could always identify your minerals and would always bring his heavy rock hammer on trips to expose the unweathered surfaces of the samples.

1997 President Paul Brown

Paul Brown, is the 1997-98 GSOC President , himself. Conveniently, Paul is a practicing psychologist, so that if we suffered any phobias or neurosi on the trip, he was available for handy consultation. His notes are exceptionally clear and lucid, indicating that he might be one analyst who actually listens to his patients.

1997 - PAUL BROWN

The 1997 President’s Field Trip topic was “East Flank of Mount Rainier and Yakima, Washington: Transition Zone Between Cascade Volcanic Arc and Columbia River Plateau,” led by Paul Hammond of PSU and a GSOC member.

1998 President Beverly Vogt

I was born and raised in the Midwest. I received a B.A. degree in English with a minor in music from Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska, and taught English and public school music for eight years in various places in Nebraska, Missouri, and Minnesota. I moved to Oregon in 1972, where I earned my B.A. and M. S. degrees in geology from Portland State University. I worked for the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries from 1977 until 1997 as a geologist, editor, publications manager, and outreach person. I am retired but spend time at DOGAMI and the Nature of the Northwest Information Center, which I began, as a volunteer.

1998 - Beverly Vogt

I am divorced and have two sons, two daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren. I have lived with my best friend, Richard Bartels, since 1988. We study, talk, and observe geology whenever we can.

Historical note from Carol Hasenberg in 2024:

The above bio, written by Bev at the time of her presidency, does not begin to address her value to the society. She was a much respected member of the society and, along with her partner, Bart Bartels, got the society through the lean years. I often helped out with some of her projects, doing map-making for field trips and such, and she helped me by working on the activities schedule for the newsletter for a number of years while she was the secretary of the society. I will always value her friendship.

Bev passed away in 2021 and you can read her website tribute here.