Graduates began to look to Colgate for prospective graduate students and employees. Bruce Selleck '71 and Kim Waldron '81, and senior lecturer Dianne Keller '81 returned to Colgate to help foster the kinds of opportunities they had experienced. When I was a first-year student, my role models were the junior and senior lab assistants. They worked with the faculty, and that is what I wanted to do. Keller, whose AB was in geography and whose MA was only the second in Colgate history, works with colleague Richard April on his acid rain research.
Success builds on itself.
Professor Arthur Goldstein studies faults in the Appalachians and has directed the summer field and research program for geology conecntrators. Professors Charles McClennen and Paul Pinet, who teach oceanography, shared a recent grant to study the southeatern Lake Ontario Coastline. McClennen's research has taken him to Antarctica and Italy, and he coordinates Colgate's Sea Semester. Pinet's teaching specialties are marine geology and sedimentology, and he has published widely on oceanography and coastal processes, and has recently authored two sucessful oceanography texts. Beyond intellect, they have in common what they bring to the Geology Department - a passion for teaching.