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Group at Top of the World "Open Bar," Beartooth Pass. Kneeling, l to r: Rich Leishman, Woody Lutz, Chuck Malick, Dave Houseknecht, John Miller, Bill Schweller.  Standing, l to r: Art Montana, Joe Drahuschak, Jesse Costolo, John Hill, Lance Anderson, Dave Froehlich, Barry Voight, Fred Schriefer, John Roth, Bob Hershey, Mel Podwysocki, Skip Colflesh, Bill Franz, Larry Meyers, Mary Karandosovski McGuire (behind Mark's hat), Mark Jacobson, Brian Beard. Thanks to Hank Reif for the photo and identifications.

Field Camp 1972

Students In 1972 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.  A pre-camp cross-country excursion was available as Geol 471. Thanks to Hank Reif for the names of those attending.

Lance C Anderson Brian Beard Skip Colflesh
J(esse) Houston Costolo, III Joseph M (Joe) Drahuschak, Jr. Bill Franz
David J (Dave) Froehlich Robert M (Bob) Hershey John H Hill
David W (Dave) Houseknecht Mark Jacobson Mary Karandosovski McGuire
Richard G (Rich) Leishman Sherwood S (Woody) Lutz Charles A (Chuck) Malick
Larry Meyers John J Miller, Jr. Henry E (Hank) Reif, Jr.
Robert W Reynolds John E Roth  
Fred E Schriefer William J (Bill) Schweller W T Williams

Faculty (thanks to Hank Rief)
   Deane Smith (cross-country), Barry Voight, Art (Boettcher) Montana, Derrill Kerrick (Dillon project)

TA
   Mel Podwysocki (MS68, PhD74)

Where They Stayed
    YBRA, Red Lodge, Montana

Main Projects
   Elk Basin, Beartooth front,
Heart Mountain detachment, Dillon metamorphics in the Ruby Range

From the YBRA Annual Meeting Minutes, courtesy of Russ & Linda Dutcher: "Penn State will have 26 students in camp off and on for 5 weeks beginning July 11.  Their group will be led by Art Boettcher with 4 other faculty members."

Click here to see another group photo AND recollections of the 1972 field camp

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge: (thanks to Hank Reif and Skip Colflesh for the photos)

Horizontal rocks. Must be on the trip out.

swimming

mine tour?

petrified wood

Campgrounds on the XC trip. Thanks to Skip.

Shell Canyon, Wyoming

Top of the World Bar, Beartooth Highway

Top of the world

Same photo as top of the page, different scan

Snow at YBRA

more snow at YBRA

Stillwater, Montana

Packed in the Tetons

Mary McGuire on the right

around the campfire

bear in Yellowstone

somewhere in Arizona?