Category: In Memoriam and Honorarium
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Letter from Member
December 12, 2013 ESCONI old-timers may remember Allan Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa, who died on November 22, 2013 at the age of 101. He sold and/or donated large amounts of interesting micro material to the micromount group on several occasions in the 1980s and was a familiar name to that group at that time. …
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Obituary for Harry Whittington
Via Telegraph: Professor Harry Whittington, who died on June 20 aged 94, was the former Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge and the world’s leading authority on fossil trilobites; in later life he led painstaking research which revealed a “Cambrian explosion” and raised disturbing questions about the processes of evolution….
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Andy Hay Memorial Scholarship
From the Northeastern Illinois University Newsletter for NEIU Donors February 2004 Friends and family of Andrew A. Hay, distinguished university fellow in the earth science department, recently established the Andrew A. Hay Memorial Scholarship fund. The earth science department will award the scholarship. It will be open to earth science majors who have a grade…
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In Memoriam
Don Brazda Jr, son of Don Brazda, long-time ESCONI member and former President, passed away on September 7. Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 500 N. Dearborn, Suite 305, Chicago IL 60610
