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Executive Committee with organizing Chapter dinner events, a Section night out at a professional baseball game, and in organizing that year’s Annual Section Meeting which was held at the Ohio State University Faculty Club. 2014 was also a big year as the Section worked to revise the out-of-date Section bylaws, for which Colin provided valuable input and a fresh perspective.
In 2015 Colin continued his efforts
on behalf of the Section by assisting with securing guest speakers, organizing summer field trips to Ohio Caverns and to the Shale Hollow Nature Preserve, and assisting with other Section initia- tives. In late 2015, Colin was elected to be the 2016 Secretary and continued expanded his efforts in 2016 in his new role. In 2016, not only did Colin fulfill his role as Ohio Section Secretary, he continued to assist in securing guest speakers and organizing Section events. In late 2016, Colin was elected for the 3-year term that includes President- Elect, President, and Past-President.
Starting in 2017 , Colin increased his
efforts for the Section and honed his lead- ership skills. 2017 was another good year for the Section with an array of dinner meetings with excellent guest speakers including Ohio EPA Deputy Director Laura Factor and the first iteration of the Section’s successful Vapor Intrusion
Training Course. Colin was integral of all of 2017’s efforts. Colin also got his rst taste of the inner working of AIPG National through his attendance of the 2017 Annual Meeting in Nashville.
In 2018, Colin led the Ohio Section
to another successful year as President. Under Colin’s leadership, the Section conducted a successful technical field trip to the Serpent Mound Impact Structure in southern Ohio, a second Vapor Intrusion Short Course, student events, and dinner meetings. This year included the creation of a new student Chapter at Youngstown State University and the now annual tradition of holding the Section’s Fall Meeting in Northeast Ohio.
In the fall of 2018, Colin again attended the AIPG National Meeting in Colorado Springs as one of the Ohio Section’s representatives. While there he was floor-nominated and voted on to the Advisory Board for the 2019 National Executive Committee. As a result, Colin capped off his successful leadership of the Ohio Section with a new trajectory, involvement at the National Level in 2019 and beyond.
Through 2019, Colin continued to
be directly involved with the Ohio Section as Past-President and, among other things, assisted in organizing the
Tales from the Field My Year of Fun and Games Episode 1: Experiences with the Zambian Army John L. Berry, CPG-04032
In 1970 I was quietly doing my job evaluating the copper potential of the Bwana Mkubwa South Prospecting Area in Zambia when I got caught up in one of those situations in which everything happened at the same time and darned near everything went wrong. Bwana Mkubwa Mine had already begun operations, but the Mine Geologist was due for 5 months of long leave. At the same time the company was rushing the concentrator plant to completion (the ore was being railed 45 miles to the Rhokana concentrator in Kitwe in the mean- time), and for this they needed 1 million gallons of water a day: I was on the spot so I could sub for the mine geologist and also sit the wells and the pumping
tests.Then the Ndola Lime Company suddenly needed some exploration done. So of course I could do that, as well. To cover all these bases I was given the assistance of a new young geologist, Terence Faria. Terence was a Goanese Indian, a Roman Catholic and able to speak Portuguese as well as English and Konkani, the main Indian language of Goa. He was very anti-Indian because of the armed conquest of Goa by India in 1961.
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Oct.Nov.Dec 2020 Our Prospecting Area extended across the Gunnery Range
of the Zambian Army’s Tug Argan Barracks. This barracks is, incidentally, named after a World War II battleground in Somalia where the Northern Rhodesia Regiment (among others) fought bravely for four days against an Italian force ten times its size. One of the Northern Rhodesians won the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest military award for valor. The British lost the battle, but inflicted much heavier casualties on the Italians, who suffered 465 dead, 1,530 wounded and 34 missing versus 38 dead, 102 wounded, and 120 missing on the British side.
In order to ensure the safety of my prospecting crews, who
were digging lines of prospect pits across the artillery range, I arranged to take along a Corporal, whose presence would guarantee that there’d be no shooting. Unfortunately, he was not given a two-way radio. So, at about 10:00 am one morn- ing, mortar shells started landing near us. Fortunately, with
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Section’s first “annual” golf-outing in June 2019. Following his first year of involvement on a National Level, Colin was elected to the Advisory Board again during the 2019 National Annual Meeting in Burlington, Vermont. Colin is continuing his contributions to the Ohio Section 2020 and is now recognized as one of our most valued and experienced members. He is an asset to both the Ohio and National Executive Committees and we truly value all of his efforts and contributions over the years and during the years to come.
On a professional front, Colin has con-
tinued to grow and excel as a Professional Geologist. When he first joined the Executive Committee in 2014, he was leading the Environmental Group at Terracon’s Columbus office.
After several years of continually
growing that practice, Colin decided in 2019 to take a leap of faith and join SME USA to further develop the envi- ronmental practice in Columbus, Ohio. In his professional practice, Colin has continued to demonstrate and define the ability, knowledge, conviction, and morality of a Professional Geologist. With that it is my honor to nominate Colin for the Section Leadership Award.
Nomination by Brent Smith, CPG- 11130.
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