What’s been happening:

My formal education at Penn State, coupled with my co-op experiences at the Friedensville Mine prepared me for the future. I honed and matured my operational mining skills at Friedensville. Many helpful lessons were learned when we closed the mine in 1984. I was off to adventures in gypsum. First in Grand Rapids, Mi and then to southern Ontarion for an education in continuous miners, road headers, not drum miners. Back to Grand Rapids in 1992 and Oh, happy day, Penn State joins the Big Ten. Corporate buy out and I am off to Ohio, Buckeye country. I was Plant Manager for the Celotex wallboard plant in Port Clinton. Corporate buy out and close the plant. Closure went smoothly and I was sent to manage and then close a ceiling tile plant in Pittston, Pa. It was nice to be back in PSU territory for a while. Then the big jump out to Southern Utah and WMMI. As a subsidiary of Saint Gobain, we took a 500K mine to 1,500k in a year and we continue to progress. Marlene and I have lived in the rolling hills of PA, flatlands of MI, on an island in Ohio, a foreign country and a desert. All that is left is a swamp. Our PSU alum daughter practices law in Orlando, FL. If and when grandchildren come, Marlene will push for the swamp. No matter where we are, WE ARE PENN STATE!