The Academy Awards Banquet in the Robbins Atrium: Michigan Tech VP Dale Tahtinen speaking, far left

Gerald G. Carlson, '74 MS Geology, President & CEO Copper Ridge Explorations Inc., Vancouver, BC Canada, with Wayne Pennington, Department Chair, presenting the award

Hilary Dussing, '79 Geological Engineering, Technical Manager(Gabon), Shell Oil Company

Philip Ellsworth, '50 Geological Engineering, Chief Geologist-Minerals, Kerr-McGee Corp., Retired, Oklahoma City, OK

Kenneth Hatfield, '50 Geological Engineering, Geology Instructor, Lake Superior State University, Retired, Sault Sainte Marie, MI

Charles Knobloch, '80 Applied Geophysics, JD Law, Computer Science Geophysics, Petroleum Headquarters, ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX

Walter Rognerud, '71 Geological Engineering, MS Geophysics, Advanced Senior Geophysicist, Marathon Oil Corporation,
Houston, TX

Richard Wunderman, '83 MS, PHD Geology, Volcanologist, Smithsonian Institution

Award to Secretary Amie Ledgerwood

Richard Wunderman, Charles Young and William_Rose

Charles Young, Philip and Margaret Ellsworth

Dean Bob Warrington and Chair Wayne Pennington

Academy members Allan Johnson and Kelly Campbell, with mining student Joseph Dase

Academy members Kelly Campbell and Abe Mathews, Sr

Mr and Mrs Gerald Carlson in the Seaman Mineral Museum where a reception was hosted prior to the banquet

Academy inductee Walter Rognerud with retired Geophysics professor Mrs. and Dr. Loyal Bacon and Cheryl Rognerud (Sundblad), also an alumna, in Biology '71, and is now a Research Clinical Chemist, Texas Childrens Hospital, Houston, TX