Curriculum Vita
EDUCATION Ph.D. - University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1973
Major: Earth Science Education with associate science
areas in biology-ecology
Dissertation: Comparative Analysis of the Earth Science
Curriculum Project and a Metric Booklet Approach
to Teaching the Metric System
M.S. - East Texas State University, Commerce, 1970
Major: Earth Science
Thesis: The Palynostratigraphy of the Rico Formation,
San Juan County, Utah
B.S. - Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, 1969
Major: Earth Science Minor: Chemistry
(with teacher certification)
Senior Research: Laboratory Synthesis of a Promising
Anticarcinogen Organic Molecule
A.A. - Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky, 1963
Major: General Science
RESEARCH AREAS: Meteoritics - Petrology and petrography of meteorites
and implications to early solar system environs and
genesis.
Stratigraphic palynology - Paleozoic
Geochemistry - low temperature
EXPERIENCE 1982-Present
Professor of Physics and Earth Sciences and chairperson,
Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Mercer University,
Macon, GA
Duties: Teach courses in physics, chemistry and the earth
sciences; schedule courses and laboratories; evaluate
personnel; prepare budgets; hire and supervise student
workers; supervise grants and awards. Have designed and
established curricula with majors and minors in earth
sciences and physical sciences. Established teacher
certification in earth science, physical science, broad-
field science (interdisciplinary between the biological
and physical sciences) and chemistry
1975-82 - Professor and Assistant Division Chairman, Division
of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Wayland Baptist
University, Plainview, Texas
Duties: (Same as above)
1973-75 - Assistant Professor of Physical Sciences and Direc-
tor of the Eight-College Consortium Project, Physical
Sciences, Alcorn State University, Mississippi
Duties: Taught physical sciences; chaired Eight-College
Consortium Project in physical sciences at Alcorn; helped
revise and update the Eight-College Consortium Project in
physical sciences in Washington, D.C. and at summer insti-
tutes in Boston, Massachusetts; taught graduate courses
at University of Southern Mississippi-Natchez, 1973-75
1972-73 - Instructor of Chemistry, Pearl River Junior College,
Poplarville, Mississippi (replaced chemistry professor who
was on one-year leave)
Duties: Taught general and organic chemistry and con-
ducted labs for each; taught graduate extension course in
physical science for University of Mississippi, 1973
1971-72 - Graduate Assistant, University of Southern Missis-
sippi, Hattiesburg
Duties: Assisted in instruction of physical science
courses
1969-70 - Assistant Instructor, East Texas State University,
Commerce
Duties: Directed laboratories in earth science
Spring, 1969 - Teacher, Tates Creek Junior High School,
Fayette Co., Kentucky
Duties: Taught earth science, physical science and
mathematics (one-half year addition to faculty to absorb
student overload)
(Favorable references from all former employers
can be obtained upon request)
WORK
EXPERIENCE 1966-67 - Technical Research Chemist, International Nickel,
Suffern, New York (left to return to school)
Duties: Analytical chemistry and ferrous metallurgy
1965 - Technical Mineralogist, Union Carbide Nuclear Research,
Tuxedo, New York
Duties: Mineral geochemistry and X-ray diffraction
analysis
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES -Member, Administrative Board, Llano Estacado Museum, Plain-
view, Texas, 1975-79
-Chairman and Director of editing the physical sciences pro-
gram of the Eight-College Consortium, 1974-75
-Panel leader, 1975 and participant, 1974, International
Metric Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi
-NSF Fellow, Michigan State University, participated in ISCS,
summer, 1974
-NSF Fellow, Penn State University, Stable Isotope Studies,
summer, 1973
CIVIC -
COMMUNITY Arch Keys Lodge - Free and Accepted Masons, Plainview, Texas.
ACTIVITIES Martha Bowman Memorial United Methodist Church, Macon, GA,
member; Adult Sunday School Teacher.
Plainview, Texas Chapter Experimental Aircraft Association,
(licensed pilot)
American Philatelic Society, member
Plainview Stamp Club, Vice President, charter member, 1981-82
Macon Philatelic Society, Vice President, 1984-85
Pi Kappa Phi, National social fraternity, member and academic
advisor, 1984
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS -Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary earth science society
-Geological Society of America, associate member
-Phi Delta Kappa, professional education fraternity
-Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
-Texas Academy of Sciences, life member & Fellow
-National Association of Geology Teachers (served as
Membership Chair, Mississippi Section, 1974; editor of
Texas Section, 1979-81; Secretary-Treasurer,
1981-82)
-National Science Teachers Association
-Hi Plains Rock Club
-Federation of Rock and Mineral Societies of the South-
east United States
-Georgia Academy of Science, member, Section secretary
1991-92, Chair 1992-93 (Geosciences)
-Meteoritical Society, member
-Planetary Studies Foundation, Founding member, member
Advisory Board (1988-pres.)
HONORS -Fulbright Scholar Dependent, Taught graduate courses
in Meteoritics at Sofia Kliment Ohridsky University,
Sofia, Bulgaria (1990-91)
-Awarded National Academy of Science grant and National
Research Council grant to travel to Bulgaria to
negotiate an inter-academy program to train Bulgarian
scientists in the analyses of extraterrestrial materials
and initiate joint programs with NASA in the U.S.A.
(1992-93)
CREDENTIALS- On file at
Placement Bureau
University of Southern Mississippi
Southern Station
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
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