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Heart Mountain, Sunlight Basin, Wyoming Credit: Phil Norbeck

Field Camp 1967

Students In 1967 the Geological Sciences Major included options in Geophysics, Geochemistry-Mineralogy-Petrology, and Geology.  Geology and G-M-P required Geol 470, Introduction to Field Geology, during the academic terms and summer Geol 472, Field Geology.  Thanks to Terry Engelder for the names for 1967.

Faculty
   Dick Parizek (cross-country trip), Duff Gold, Russ Dutcher, Barry Voight & Rob Scholten (Yellowstone trip)

TA
   Mel Podwysocki (MS68, PhD74)

Where They Stayed
  YBRA, Red Lodge, Montana

From the YBRA Annual Meeting Minutes of July 2, 1967, courtesy of Russ & Linda Dutcher: "Dutcher reported that the five week Penn State Field Course consists of 15 students, including 2 women.  R. Dutcher and Barry Voight from Penn State are faculty for this course."

Main Projects
   Line Creek, Elk Basin, Clark's Fork, Rattlesnake Mountain, Beartooth front

Terry Engelder remembers that they also took a "trip through Yellowstone and into southwest Idaho (led by) Barry Voight and Rob Scholten.  I have been fly fishing once in my life and that was with Barry Voight's rod on the Madison River during the trip through Yellowstone and into southwest Idaho."

Duff remembers that on an excursion to the New World Mining District in the Cooke City area, there was an avalanche.  All roads out were blocked.

Barry Voight remembers that "I took the 1967 class to the Yellowstone/Tetons/Hebgen earthquake areas. Also took them to visit Scholten in the field in SW Montana, where RS almost got in a fist fight with a contractor named McCrosson (I think) who threw his clothes on the wet floor at the local swimming pool. I remember we had a water polo game there."