1995 President Clay Kelleher

I am a lifelong Oregonian, born in Portland in 1946. I became very interested in physical geography at age 10, but focused on mathematics both at Grant High School and Oregon State University. At OSU I met Barbara Underwood, and we married in June 1968. I earned a BS in August 1968, but am officially listed with the class of 1969.

1995 - CLAY KELLEHER

The principal hobby of my youth was chess.  I took this quite seriously, playing mostly against adults and finishing in second place in both the 1963 and 1964 Oregon Championship tournaments.

I barely avoided the Vietnam-era draft by joining the US Navy. I was assigned to the "Data Processing" specialty due to the many computer courses I had taken in pursuit of my math degree. My first and only assignment while in the Navy was at the Pentagon in the office of then-Commander Grace Murray Hopper. The mission was to promote use of the programming language COBOL throughout the Navy.  I wrote much of the software used to verify the accuracy of COBOL compilers and served on a COBOL subcommittee of the American National Standards Institute.

In spite of good job offers in the DC area, I had an intense desire to return to Oregon and upon discharge in 1973 accepted a COBOL programming job at Portland Public Schools, then in 1976 with Standard Insurance Company. Standard had a flexible work policy that allowed me to take classes at PSU, where I got a BS in Geology in 1990. My goal had been to begin a second career but I never made the transition because it would have necessitated a significant pay cut. From 1997 to early 2000 I programmed for the Oregon Senior & Disabled Services Division. I began working as a programmer for Multnomah Education Service District in 2000, and plan to retire in 2017.

I discovered GSOC at a seminar I attended in 1986 and learned that their twice-monthly luncheon meetings were held in the building where I worked. I held the chairmanship of the luncheon programs in 1991 through 1993 and was surprised to be awarded a GSOC Fellowship at the 1993 banquet. I accepted nomination for the Vice Presidency for 1994, after being told that the principal duty was to "introduce speakers for the Friday evening programs". That sounded easy enough.  Surprise! I became President in 1995.  My President's Field Trip was headquartered in Vernonia and covered the geology of the Coast Range from Cascade Head to Astoria.  I accepted a second Vice Presidency in 2003 followed by the Presidency in 2004. I regret there was no President's Field Trip that year.

Though I have never practiced geology professionally I have come to appreciate that "Geology is Everywhere", my way of expressing that a person can usually find something of geologic interest wherever he or she takes time to observe, even in a big city.

1996 President Richard 'Bart' Bartels

I was raised in Sioux City, Iowa, and earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. My academic career included teaching two years at the school of Mines, seven years at the University of Minnesota, and seven years as a visiting professor at the University of Bahia, Brazil. After an abortive attempt for a Ph. D. degree at Memorial University at St. Johns, Newfoundland, I made a career change and am presently working for the Internal Revenue Service in Portland as your friendly customer service representative.

1996 - RICHARD "BART" BARTELS

Current interests include unraveling the geology of the Pacific Northwest and enjoying the great outdoors with Beverly·Vogt.

 Historical note from Carol Hasenberg in 2024:

During and after his first presidency, Bart conducted a series of Wednesday night seminars monthly for the society. They were my introduction to the society. He also led and collaborated on several field trips. He was the guy who could always identify your minerals and would always bring his heavy rock hammer on trips to expose the unweathered surfaces of the samples.

1997 President Paul Brown

Paul Brown, is the 1997-98 GSOC President , himself. Conveniently, Paul is a practicing psychologist, so that if we suffered any phobias or neurosi on the trip, he was available for handy consultation. His notes are exceptionally clear and lucid, indicating that he might be one analyst who actually listens to his patients.

1997 - PAUL BROWN

The 1997 President’s Field Trip topic was “East Flank of Mount Rainier and Yakima, Washington: Transition Zone Between Cascade Volcanic Arc and Columbia River Plateau,” led by Paul Hammond of PSU and a GSOC member.

1998 President Beverly Vogt

I was born and raised in the Midwest. I received a B.A. degree in English with a minor in music from Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska, and taught English and public school music for eight years in various places in Nebraska, Missouri, and Minnesota. I moved to Oregon in 1972, where I earned my B.A. and M. S. degrees in geology from Portland State University. I worked for the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries from 1977 until 1997 as a geologist, editor, publications manager, and outreach person. I am retired but spend time at DOGAMI and the Nature of the Northwest Information Center, which I began, as a volunteer.

1998 - Beverly Vogt

I am divorced and have two sons, two daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren. I have lived with my best friend, Richard Bartels, since 1988. We study, talk, and observe geology whenever we can.

Historical note from Carol Hasenberg in 2024:

The above bio, written by Bev at the time of her presidency, does not begin to address her value to the society. She was a much respected member of the society and, along with her partner, Bart Bartels, got the society through the lean years. I often helped out with some of her projects, doing map-making for field trips and such, and she helped me by working on the activities schedule for the newsletter for a number of years while she was the secretary of the society. I will always value her friendship.

Bev passed away in 2021 and you can read her website tribute here.

1999 President Carol S. Hasenberg

Carol Hasenberg grew up in West Virginia in the steel town of Weirton. Her interest in the Pacific Northwest began when she went with her parents on a car trip to Oregon in 1963 at the age of 7. She was not able to return to Oregon until after her college graduation, but she decided at an early age that this was where she was going to live. Her interest in geology began when she worked for an oil exploration geologist in Michigan while attending Michigan State University. After her graduation in Landscape Architecture from that school, she moved to Portland and got her first job as a draftsman at NERC0, a subsidiary of PP&L which mined coal in Wyoming and Montana, another geological connection.

1999 - CAROL S. HASENBERG

After working for several years as a landscape designer, she went back to school in 1984 in Civil Engineering and had a modest career designing at a structural engineering consulting firm and performing seismic hazard assessment projects while teaching at Portland State University. Her interest in Geology solidified while taking engineering geology courses and learning about the Cascadia Subduction Zone and earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.

Carol joined GSOC in 1995 mainly due to Richard Bartel’s very interesting and informative seminars. She was President in 1999-2000 and 2009- 2010. She has been the newsletter editor since 2000 and is still very active in the club as of 2015. Her President’s Field Trip in 1999 was to Steens Mountain, Diamond Craters and the Alvord Desert. Guest speakers included PSU’s Michael Cummings, biologist Rick Hall from the BLM, and GSOC Past Presidents Richard Bartels and Evelyn Pratt. Unfortunately she did not put together a field trip for the trip, and her response to questions regarding this was, “Was I supposed to do that?”

Another accomplishment of Carol’s presidency was the creation of the first GSOC website. The announcement of this is in the April 1999 newsletter. GSOC was lucky to get the gsoc.org domain name for their organization, as shortly afterward the Girl Scouts of Orange County tried to register with that domain, and there was a bit of confusion until that was resolved.

After her presidency was completed, Carol became the GSOC newsletter editor and has remained so for many years.

2000 President Ray Crowe

I have had years of experience with many of the sciences which steered me in the direction of writing a newsletter, the Track Record, and this book combines many of those disciplines. A sample of my interests and memberships should give the reader a brief glimpse of my background: collector of minerals, rocks and fossils, Fellow of the Geological Society of the Oregon Country, Lepidopterists' Society, Oregon Archeological Society, Missoula Floods Chairman, U.S. Weather Bureau, paper mill quality control tech, U.S. Air Force, antique and book shop owner; CRT technician. amateur astronomy, computer programming, Weather Bureau observer, stampand coin collector/dealer,  and Director Western Bigfoot and International BigfootSociety. Hated school, loved reading-antique and used book shop owner, but did complete a year at Portland State University and completed several military courses, some now quite dated like electronics (what is a vacuum tube? Kids ask).or slide rule calculating.

2000 - RAY CROWE

A wonderful wife, Theata, shared many of the fun experiences of chasing butterflies, collecting fossils, or being hostess at a meeting of Bigfoot enthusiasts.

Ray’s 2000 field trip was of the Ice Age Floods as recorded in the geology of eastern Washington.

2002 President Thomas Gordon

My interest in geology started as a child. Having been born is Missouri in 1947, and going all over the west growing up, as my father worked as a logger, carpenter, and heavy equipment operator, I saw many different land formations. My parents always made sure we visited the local parks and monuments as we traveled and went on vacation.

2002 - Thomas Gordon

Working as a printer, I also got a degree in English from Portland State University, and took several courses in geology along the way. These courses helped me to research, plan, and lead my President's field trip for the Geological Society to Mammoth Lakes, Mono Lake, and Yosemite.

I continue to be interested in geology, never having found a "leverite" yet-(leave that rock where you found it).

2003 President Sue Ikeda

No bio is available for Sue Ikeda. Her President’s Field Trip for 2003 explored the Umpqua River Basin and the southern Oregon Coast of Douglas, Coos, and Curry Counties. Heavily featured were the geology of the Tyee and Coaledo Formations.

2003 - SUE IKEDA

Field trip advisors Carol Hasenberg and Bev Vogt did a reconnaissance trip and got great information for the trip from Gerry Black, former geologist for the Oregon State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Ron Metzger of SWOCC, and a field trip guide entitled “Field Trip Road Log for the Cenozoic Stratigraphy of Coos Bay and Cape Blanco, Southwestern Oregon,” by geologist John M. Armentrout.

Bev was not able to attend the actual field trip so Carol Hasenberg led the group with additional help from a knowledgeable participant, Guy Di Torrice, then known as Oregon's "Fossil Guy". The itinerary for the trip included stops along the Umpqua River valley, John Dellenbach Dunes trail, Fossil Point in Empire, Oregon, Bastendorff Beach and Sunset Bay near Cape Arago, Shore Acres State Park, Bandon Marsh, Bandon Jetty, Humbug Mountain, Port Orford, and Cape Blanco.

Pictured is Sue Ikeda at the end of the field trip with her trunk full of rocks, and her bumper sticker reads “Have a Gniess Day.” What else?

- Carol Hasenberg, 2015

2004 President Clay Kelleher

This was Clay's second presidency of GSOC.  See 1995 for his bio.

2004 - CLAY KELLEHER

2005 President Charles Carter

Charles Carter - November 2012

I was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1939. As a young boy I remember trips to the beach with my parents and just going off by myself to collect agates and fossils. Later on would come a trip to the Priday Ranch for thunder eggs and to Idaho to visit my maternal grandparents and look for agates and petrified wood in the Weiser area.

2005 - CHARLES CARTER

After three years in the Army, I studied geology at Portland State College and took classes from Professors Hammond and Van Atta (Professor Allen was on leave the first year I was there, and I don't remember why I didn't have a class from him my second and last year there.) After graduation in 1964 I went south to look for work and ended up as a field assistant/lab tech for the Alaskan Branch of the USGS at Menlo Park, California. After a year there, I returned to school at San Jose State and from there went on to Johns Hopkins, where I met and married Sally.

I then took a job with the Ohio Geological Survey, and worked out of Sandusky, Ohio, for 10 years on research largely related to Lake Erie shore erosion. Our two daughters, Katy and Anna, were born there. We then moved to Akron, where I taught for 19 years as a sedimentologist/stratigrapher in the Geology Department at the University of Akron.

We moved to Beaverton in 2001, and Professor Burns at Portland State encouraged me to join GSOC. What a good idea! I enjoyed the field trips and talks and just meeting interesting and energetic people, plus learning some new geology that I had missed in my frantic two years at PSC. After several years with GSOC, my father's banjo and the world of plants and animals beckoned to me, but I still fondly remember my time with GSOC.

2006 President Bonnie Prange

My two years first as VP and then President of GSOC was certainly not something I would have foreseen since I have no formal geology education beyond a few general ed college courses. What I do have is a BS in Biology/Botany from Humboldt State University in northern California and a Masters in Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College. I became interested in the revegetation aspects of mine reclamation while preparing for graduate school and decided to focus on rehabilitation of degraded landscapes. This interest led me to post­ graduate contract work with the state of Washington and Thurston County where I assisted in the development, implementation and enforcement of mining regulations. Private sector·employment as a consultant to the mining industry followed.

2006 - Bonnie Prange

My work in the reclamation field has provided me with some practical applied science knowledge of slope stability, stratigraphy, and mineralogy. Fossils too - I've had an interest in paleontology since I first knew what the word meant.

Growing up in western NY State I amassed a carefully labeled collection of fossils from the creek beds and escarpments that provided hours of blissfully unsupervised entertainment for a curious child. With better guidance and more self-knowledge at the college level I probably would have found my niche in the sciences as a plant paleontologist.

As I gradually retire from the consulting business, I find myself happily indulging in many interests that were put on hold over the years: studying lichen and mushroom taxonomy, monitoring migratory dragonflies (with the Xerces Society), maintaining an aviary of canaries and finches, and spending lots of quality time with my beloved horse Mateo and donkey Oliver.

2007 President Richard ‘Bart’ Bartels

At the time of Bart Bartel’s second presidency, Bart and his partner Bev Vogt were at the center of the society. Bart had been leading GSOC geology seminars for a number of years and Bev was the society’s secretary. Not only that, but they were instrumental in finding good speakers for the Friday night lectures and helped plan many other activities in an effort to rebuild the society. Bev and Bart organized a field trip to the Klamath River with guest speakers Jad D’Allura and Bill Elliott from Southern Oregon University for the 2007 President’s Field Trip. The following year they led an excellent field trip that featured Christmas Valley and Summer Lake.

2007 - Richard Bartels

By 2011 Bev and Bart had reached an age where physical problems made it difficult to be so involved with the society. I remember with sadness the rock seminar they held in their back yard for their closest GSOC friends to announce their departure from society leadership. But they did lead one more field trip in 2013 to the recently discovered Crooked River and Wildcat Mountain Calderas near Prineville.

GSOC member Dave Olcott took over Bev and Bart’s role as major field trip planner for a number of years. His first GSOC field trip, the Waste, Wind and Water trip from 2009, was a great success and he subsequently planned several other trips with Steve Reidel and Terry Tolan that focused primarily on Columbia River Basalt and the Ice Age Floods.

One of my fondest memories of Bart was during the Waste, Wind and Water field trip. We got off the bus on top of the landfill at Arlington for a tour of the landfill. Bart immediately bent down and picked up a rock - a hand-sized chunk of beautiful green marble that had come from a countertop. We all laughed that Bart could find an interesting rock even in a garbage dump! I took a picture of Bart and his rock and this is the photo I put in this article, and I still have that rock in my collection.

-2024, Carol Hasenberg

2008 President Janet Rasmussen

Janet Rasmussen was born April 10, 1950, in Pendleton, Oregon. She met her first husband, Dave Logsdon, in Alaska, and married him in 1972. While she took many college courses after high school, she mostly stayed home to raise their fourchildren: Lisa, Reuben, Grace, and Russell. She later obtained her nursing degree while living in Keokuk, Iowa, Dave's hometown. They divorced in 1989 and she returned to Oregon with her children.

2008 - JANET RASMUSSEN

Once the children were grown, Janet quit her full-time nursing job and went back to school for a geology degree, working part-time as a nurse. In 2003 she met her husband, Doug Rasmussen, of McMinnville. They married in 2004 at the site of the cabin they were building in the Elkhorn Mountains of Baker County, Oregon. She received her BS in Geology at Portland State University in 2005, and her MS in Water Resource Science at Oregon State University in2009. Janet and Doug both enjoy attending geology lectures and field trips, spending time at their cabinand working on Doug's farm in McMinnville. They live in Corvallis, Oregon.

Janet has served on the Board of Directors and as webmaster for GSOC. She was President in 2008-2009. Her 2008 President’s Field Trip featured the gold mining country of Baker City, Sumpter, and Granite, Oregon.