Rocks and Rollover — IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution

Jim Rosenbaum '70

I can't imagine going through life without the understanding of geology that I acquired at Lawrence.

Even though events led me into the book business, in which I have worked for the last forty years, my thoughts return to geology. I think especially of plate tectonics, glaciation, and beach erosion. It's a world view, not unlike Professor Marcia Bjornerud's observations in her new book Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World .

From my years at Lawrence, I have special memories of field trips with Professor Palmquist to the ancient Archean terranes in Michigan's Upper Peninsula around Ishpeming and Marquette.

Also, representative of the faculty's continuing interest in its graduates, Professor Tank invited me to contribute an article on shoreline erosion for inclusion in a textbook he edited, one of the first on Environmental Geology, published in several editions in the 1970s and 1980s. I appreciate his confidence in my work.

How fortuitous that Ron Tank turned 90 the same year I was eligible to give a gift through my IRA. It is my privilege to contribute to the Tank, Palmquist, and Ross Fund at Lawrence's Geology Department.