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Memorial Notices On Thursday, April 16, 1998, Julian Szeicz, 33, lost his life in a snow avalanche, near Watson Lake in the Yukon, Canada. The accident happened while he was doing field work with two graduate students, both of whom survived. Julian completed his PhD in 1994 with Dr. Glen MacDonald at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, on climate change and vegetation dynamics at the subarctic tree line in NW Canada. During 1994-1995, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he conducted research in southern Chile. In 1995, he joined the Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He quickly developed an international reputation in the field of paleoenvironmental reconstruction and analysis, with research collaborations in Canada, USA, UK, Australia, Chile, and Argentina. Julian married Barb Zeeb in Sept., 1997. Barb is a paleolimnologist who completed her PhD on chrysophyte cysts with John Smol, at PEARL, Dept. Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. They made many friends, both in the Kingston area and in the scientific community at large. We have lost an important friend and colleague. If you wish to send a message, please use the following address: knoxj@qsilver. queensu.ca, subject: Julian. A scholarship fund is currently being arranged.
W. Hilton "Hilt" Johnson passed away on November 30, 1997 at his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico after suffering from cancer for 7 months. Hilt retired from the University of Illinois in August of 1995, after 33 years as a faculty member and 4 years as a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Geology. He earned his B.S. from Earlham College in 1956, served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1958, and earned his M.S.(1961) and Ph.D. (1962) degrees from the University of Illinois, both in Geology. Hilt was a dedicated and popular teacher of both undergraduate and graduate students and spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s teaching field camp in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming and in 1992-93 in the Wasatch-Unita Mountains, Utah. He was a well-respected Quaternary geologist known for his many years of work on the Quaternary stratigraphy, glacial periglacial geology, and geomorphology of the Midwest. Memorial services were held in Las Cruces on Dec. 3, 1997 and Feb. 12, 1998 in Champaign, Illinois. |