1938 President Ray C. Treasher

Ray C. Treasher was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 28, 1898. At the age of five he moved to Sterling, Illinois, and to Sunnyside, Washington, at fourteen. In 1916 he started to Washington State College, but took time out during World War I, returning to college in 1919. He was again out for two years, and in 1922 completed the rest of his collegiate work.

RAY C. TREASHER (Charter Member)

After three and a half years of mining engineering, Mr. Treasher switched to geology and was graduated with a B.S. degree in geology in 1925. A teaching fellowship in 1925 allowed an M.S. degree in geology. He was instructor in geology at Washington State College in 1925-1926 on a one-year contract.

In 1926 he went to University of Oregon on a teaching fellowship with work toward a PhD. Lack of finances terminated that work and he taught geology and science in Livingston, Montana, and Longview, Washington. The depression "froze" him in that work until 1936,when the Oregon State Planning Board employed him to write a bibliography of Oregon geology. Following that assignment he worked for slightly over a year with the Corps of Engineers, Portland Division, on a mineral survey of the Pacific Northwest.

In 1937 Mr. Treasher went from there to the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries of the State of Oregon, where he served in Portland until 1940. During that time he joined the Geological Society of the Oregon Country and served a very enjoyable year (1938-1938) as president of that remarkable group.

In 1940 he went to Grants Pass for the Oregon Department and was in charge of the field office until late in 1943, when he accepted a position as engineering geologist for the Corps of Engineers at Sacramento, California. There he worked under the direction of another ex-member of the G.S.O.C., Mr. Claire Holdredge, where he still remains at this date (1950).

Early in 1950 Mr. Treasher assisted in organizing the Sacramento Geological Society, a group of about fifty professional geologists in the Sacramento area, and served as chairman for several months during the organization period.

Ray Treasher was married in Livingston, Montana, on Christmas Eve, 1927, to a schoolgirl chum, Miss Jessie Landon. They have no children. His hobbies include color photography, fishing and geology.