C L AS S NOTES Ken d’Entremont, BS/ME 1984, now an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Utah, recently published a textbook. “Engineering Ethics and Design for Safety” draws on his years spent managing real-world product-safety efforts and aims to prepare students for ethical decision making in their careers. William “Bill” Champion, BS/ChE Ken d’Entremont 1983, was named to Peabody’s board of directors. Previously, he served as principal at Gladiator Mining Group LLC and in several executive management positions at Rio Tinto PLC. His experience in the metals and mining industry ranges across materials, countries and companies.
1970s
Linda (Headley) Repking, BS/ChE 1975, worked in the oil industry for nearly two decades after graduation, then chose to stay home with her children. She returned to the field in 2006 as a senior design engineer at Jacobs Engineering and was pleasantly surprised to see how many women had since entered the
profession. She quit working in 2012 and lives in southern California, where she enjoys gardening, cycling and visiting extended family.
1960s
Richard “Dick” Linda (Headley) Repking visits campus, touring the distillation column in the Harshbarger Building. Edwards, PhD ChE 1964, was the college’s first chemical Byron Garretson, BS/EE 1958, grew engineering PhD recipient. He also up in Phoenix, attending grade school served as associate and acting dean of the and high school with Craig M. Berge, College of Mines, received the U.S. Navy’s after whom a UA Engineering design Purple Heart for his service in World War program is named. After his college II and helped bring the UA into the PACgraduation, he worked for the Salt River 12 Conference. He celebrated his 100th Project, earned a master’s degree, and birthday in 2020. worked internationally with companies E-Systems and Aramco. Since his retirement in 1995, he has done some s contract work and now lives near San Robert M. Jones, BS/ME 1958, retired Antonio, where he stays active playing from his own company, Vibrometrics, tennis and basketball. in 2019. It was his fourth retirement, after leaving the U.S. Air Force in 1979, the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1990 and SKF Reliability Systems in 2001. He has published two engineering books and now lives in Las Vegas, where he enjoys astrophotography. Four retirements later, Robert M. Jones is enjoying astrophotography.
1950
FROM THE ARCHIVES Thank you to all the people who wrote in to help identify the photo on the back cover of our last issue. It pictures Martha Whitaker, MS 1993 and PhD 2000 in hydrology and water resources, collecting data about soil moisture near Tombstone, Arizona. “Why should we care about soil moisture? Because it is an important and sensitive input to climate change models,” Whitaker said. “My MS research helped researchers better understand soil moisture variability (on a small scale), in comparative contrast to satellite data.” Whitaker is now an assistant professor of practice in the UA Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences.
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