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PUTERA ROCKS HER SENIOR YEAR
H
alle Putera (’16) finished an eventful senior year at Franklin & Marshall College, graduating cum laude with a major in geoscience, winning two awards from F&M’s Department of Earth and Environment, and participating in a flurry of internships and field experiences. In the spring between her junior and senior years, Halle spent five weeks in Montana attending the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Black Hills Field Camp. Then, last summer, she and another geoscience major were selected to assist F&M professor Stanley Mertzman in conducting geological fieldwork at Mt. Shasta, a 14,000-ft. active volcano in California. Halle mapped igneous flows and studied the cilica content of molten rock around and under the volcano, which last erupted 300 years ago. Her work could help scientists determine when the next eruption is likely to occur. Halle’s work at Field Camp paid off when her camp director nominated her to participate in the 2020 Cooperative Summer Geosciences Internship Program sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). After a rigorous interview process, Halle was selected to work with Dr. Walter D. Mooney, a research seismologist and geophysicist with the USGS and a world leader in geophysical studies of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle. Dr. Mooney currently is a visiting professor at Stanford University. Read more about Halle’s experiences online at dock.org/LamplighterExtra
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DOCK Mennonite Academy
John Lichty (’85) was recognized with an article in the Goshen News for running his first ultramarathon, and using the run as a fundraiser for a charity his church supports. Lichty has run marathons before, but was scheduled to run in his first ultramarathon in April when it was canceled due to Covid-19. Lichty mapped out his own course in and around Goshen, and ran 40 miles on Saturday, April 26—raising more than $4,000 for The Window, a charity providing food, clothing and other services for low-income residents in the community.
