25 YEARS AGO IN THE NEAIPG NEWSLETTER Holidays 1985 •
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Rochester Drilling Co., Inc., offered complete test boring programs for buildings, sewage-water treatment plants and connecting systems, landfills, groundwater, oil and fuel spills and had a complete materials testing laboratory. NEAIPG President Ted Clark indicated the recent ExComm meeting in New England (Concord), which was combined with an upper Northeast Section AIPG meeting, was successful if lightly attended. Ted was busy in the Fall since the next week he (and Russ Slayback) were off to the National AIPG meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ted indicated that the meeting program was outstanding, and the St. Paul Hotel was worth the trip in of itself. At the National meeting, Ted was awarded an AIPG Presidential Certificate of Merit by President Ernie Lehmann for superior performance as 1985 President of the Northeast Section. Ted mentioned that the “Future Trends in Professional Geology” discussion at the meeting eventually became the theme for the upcoming NEAIPG Spring 1986 meeting. The discussion at the National meeting was an “eye-opener”, where some geologic professions were doing fine, other fields were faced with significant cutbacks and for those geologists, most of whom had years of experience and were highly qualified, (25 Years Ago continued on page 75)
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