Lakehead University Geology - Journal Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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Ronald Bennett Ron is the guiding light , the shepherd if you will, within our geology department. For friendly advice or a good ol’ Scottish yarn, Ron ' s the man to see! He was the Chief Laboratory Technician at the Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland from 1936 to 1967. In 1967 he joined the Geology Department staff at Lakehead and, as our principal technician, he does specialized work related to faculty research projects. Outside of the university Ron is an active participant in Kaministiquia community functions. He is an avid fisherman and carpenter, and enjoys putting his homebuilt sauna to good use. Sam Spivak - Chief Draftsman Principal Technician Map Librarian The majority of my working hours (in this second decade as an employee of this fine establishment) are spent preparing maps, diagrams, teaching aids and special displays as well as a substantial number of illustrations for research publications. A fair amount of time is spent in the maintaining of and cataloguing of new acquisitions to our map library. A regional seminar on cartographic techniques was held at Sir Sanford Fleming College early in 1979. I was fortunate to have attended this seminar for the purpose of acquainting myself with some of the new ideas for, and methods of, map production. My extra curricular activities within the university include organizing and participating in the annual student-faculty-staff hockey games as well as being an active participant on the squash courts .

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K.H. (Howard) Poulsen , B.Sc. (Physics) B.Sc. (Geology) Background ; Exploration Geophysics 1961-71 High School Teacher 1968-69 Research Assistant for J.M. Franklin 1972-75 Senior Technician and Faculty Assistant, Lakehead University 1975-present In addition to my full-time duties as departmental hockey convener and as Hoots’ official interpreter, part of the past year has been spent maintaining and supervising the geochemistry laboratory. The initiation of the graduate program has seen a renewed demand for geochemical analyses performed both by myself and graduate students. Our whole rock and trace element analytical programme, while centered in our own laboratory, relies heavily on apparatus housed in the Science Instrumentation Laboratory which is maintained by Dr . T. Griffith and his staff. Our students are very fortunate to gain hands-on experience in this facility on equipment that actually works! Aside from the above departmental responsibilities, the past year has been occupied with my continuing research interest, the Precambrian geology of the Rainy Lake region. Of particular interest to me was a workshop on the geology of the International Boundary held at Fort Frances in May 1979. Valuable discussions were held with officers of the Geological Survey of Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ontario Geological Survey, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and university representatives. Seminar presentations were followed by visitation to numerous outcrops. It might be pointed out that the most memorable exposures were seen at an establishment known as Nick ' s Zoo where the role of fluids in geology was heartily discussed. Unfortunately I failed to record the attitudes of minor structures in my notebook so that stereographic representation of the results is not possible.

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Ain Raitsakas Ain was born in England, but was fortunate enough to have emigrated to Canada at an early enough age to avoid the obviously deleterious effects of such a birthright. He was educated at the University of Waterloo and at Lakehead University . Since 1973 Ain has been associated with the Geology Department through his work with the federally supported Seismographic Station at Lakehead, lending a prestige and sophistication to the department that is uncommon in such an earthbound discipline. Bill Mcllwaine Bill was born in Toronto and received his early education there. His high school and university educations were obtained in England and at the University of New Brunswick respectively. After spending fifteen years working in the bush, ten of them as a field geologist with the Ontario Government, he decided that more of his time should be spent at home. With this in mind. Bill joined the Geology Department staff at Lakehead in 1978. As a lab technician much of his time is spent at the grind in the geology lab in the basement of the Centennial Building. It is here that all of the departmental thin sections for teaching and research are prepared.