Lincoln R. Page Professional Development Fund
This fund, named in honor of Lincoln R. Page, will reimburse award winners up to $300 for expenses related to their continuing education in the earth sciences. The award is open to any and all individuals who seek to continue their earth-science education in a manner consistent with the purposes of the Geological Society of New Hampshire. NH K-12 public school teachers are especially encouraged to apply. Appropriate expenses would include travel to regional or national earth-science related conferences, workshops, field trips or course tuition.
Interested applicants should complete a fund application form and mail it to the address below. The fund application form is available in Word and Adobe formats. The application must be accompanied by a letter of endorsement from the applicant's school principal or department head, faculty advisor, or employer as appropriate. Applications will be considered as they are received, and should be sent to:
Geological Society of New Hampshire
Lincoln R. Page Professional Development Fund
P.O. Box 401
Concord, NH 03302
Interested applicants should complete a fund application form and mail it to the address below. The fund application form is available in Word and Adobe formats. The application must be accompanied by a letter of endorsement from the applicant's school principal or department head, faculty advisor, or employer as appropriate. Applications will be considered as they are received, and should be sent to:
Geological Society of New Hampshire
Lincoln R. Page Professional Development Fund
P.O. Box 401
Concord, NH 03302
Lincoln R. Page 1910-1996
An Appreciation
by John Lyons
Lincoln Page, certainly the most colorful and one of the most eminent members of the New Hampshire Geological Society, died at Wolfeboro, N. H. of medical complications on Jan. 14. The society lost a booster, its "anonymous" donor, and a wealth of geological expertise.
He had done it all. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1931 with a major in chemistry and a minor in geology, he mapped glacial geology in New Hampshire for two summers under the tutelage of J. W. Goldthwait. At the same time M. P. Billings was mapping the Littleton-Moosilauke quadrangles, he was busy mapping the bedrock geology of the adjacent Rumney quadrangle as part of his 1937 Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Minnesota. This was followed by 2 years as a geologist in the oil industry. In 1939 he began a 34-year career with the U.S.G.S., first mapping chromite and tin deposits in 7 states, and from 1942 to 1950 pegmatites in many states but principally in South Dakota, evaluating resources of mica, beryl, and lithium and participating in the discovery that pegmatites had a zoned structure. From 1950 to 1960 he was U.S.G.S. Assistant Chief Geologist in charge of a major successful exploration program for uranium and thorium, and from 1960 until retirement in 1973, was the U.S.G.S. Geologist in charge of cooperative geological mapping programs in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He had traveled widely in 7 European and 10 African countries, as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Japan. He had made tentative arrangements to attend the International Geological Congress in China this year.
If this were all, it would have been impressive, but there was much more. He was a professor at Dartmouth in 1959-60, an adjunct professor at U.N.H. from 1984 onward, and also a professor at Stanford (1971) and Colorado (1989). A consuming interest in nuclear energy was begun through his involvement with uranium exploration, his cooperative work with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, his service as a technical adviser to the United Nations Atoms for Peaceful Uses, the U. S. National Resource Evaluation Program and the government of Egypt. Long before it was discovered, Lincoln predicted that, somewhere, evidence of a uranium nuclear reaction within the earth would be found; this was confirmed a few decades ago in Gabon in West Africa. Right to the end, he thought imaginatively and proposed hypotheses to explain many of geology's unsolved riddles.
When Bob Davis died, Lincoln took over as State Geologist for New Hampshire from 1983-1985, fostering an important program in mapping glacial deposits, to which he contributed generously from his own salary. During this time he also demonstrated once again his remarkable talent, honed from years of experience, for cajoling legislators into collaborating with his objectives. When New Hampshire was targeted in 1986 as a potential host state for a national high-level nuclear waste repository, he was on the N. H. Committee which prepared a successful rebuttal of that proposal.
Many people meeting Lincoln for the first time might have had the impression that he was gruff and business-like, but this was not the real Lincoln, as everyone soon recognized. He was kind and generous to a fault, a considerate, caring individual. Because he was dedicated to the education and training of geologists, while he ran the Survey's uranium exploration program, he provided professional training and summer employment to scores of students, many of them from Dartmouth. For many years after he left the Survey he contributed generous financial support to both U.N.H. and Dartmouth to assist thesis studies at both schools. The contacts he made with students were maintained over the years. For example, most recently he was corresponding about sub-littoral geology with a student he had taught at Dartmouth in 1960. He also had faced life's adversities with courage, having lost his wife to ill health, and also having, over a period of many years, brought back to health one of his sons who had been grievously injured in an automobile accident.
Lincoln Ridler Page was a remarkable man who lived life to the fullest, enriching the lives of those fortunate enough to have known him, and contributing substantially to the advancement of his science. Of him we can truly say, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
He had done it all. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1931 with a major in chemistry and a minor in geology, he mapped glacial geology in New Hampshire for two summers under the tutelage of J. W. Goldthwait. At the same time M. P. Billings was mapping the Littleton-Moosilauke quadrangles, he was busy mapping the bedrock geology of the adjacent Rumney quadrangle as part of his 1937 Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Minnesota. This was followed by 2 years as a geologist in the oil industry. In 1939 he began a 34-year career with the U.S.G.S., first mapping chromite and tin deposits in 7 states, and from 1942 to 1950 pegmatites in many states but principally in South Dakota, evaluating resources of mica, beryl, and lithium and participating in the discovery that pegmatites had a zoned structure. From 1950 to 1960 he was U.S.G.S. Assistant Chief Geologist in charge of a major successful exploration program for uranium and thorium, and from 1960 until retirement in 1973, was the U.S.G.S. Geologist in charge of cooperative geological mapping programs in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He had traveled widely in 7 European and 10 African countries, as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Japan. He had made tentative arrangements to attend the International Geological Congress in China this year.
If this were all, it would have been impressive, but there was much more. He was a professor at Dartmouth in 1959-60, an adjunct professor at U.N.H. from 1984 onward, and also a professor at Stanford (1971) and Colorado (1989). A consuming interest in nuclear energy was begun through his involvement with uranium exploration, his cooperative work with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, his service as a technical adviser to the United Nations Atoms for Peaceful Uses, the U. S. National Resource Evaluation Program and the government of Egypt. Long before it was discovered, Lincoln predicted that, somewhere, evidence of a uranium nuclear reaction within the earth would be found; this was confirmed a few decades ago in Gabon in West Africa. Right to the end, he thought imaginatively and proposed hypotheses to explain many of geology's unsolved riddles.
When Bob Davis died, Lincoln took over as State Geologist for New Hampshire from 1983-1985, fostering an important program in mapping glacial deposits, to which he contributed generously from his own salary. During this time he also demonstrated once again his remarkable talent, honed from years of experience, for cajoling legislators into collaborating with his objectives. When New Hampshire was targeted in 1986 as a potential host state for a national high-level nuclear waste repository, he was on the N. H. Committee which prepared a successful rebuttal of that proposal.
Many people meeting Lincoln for the first time might have had the impression that he was gruff and business-like, but this was not the real Lincoln, as everyone soon recognized. He was kind and generous to a fault, a considerate, caring individual. Because he was dedicated to the education and training of geologists, while he ran the Survey's uranium exploration program, he provided professional training and summer employment to scores of students, many of them from Dartmouth. For many years after he left the Survey he contributed generous financial support to both U.N.H. and Dartmouth to assist thesis studies at both schools. The contacts he made with students were maintained over the years. For example, most recently he was corresponding about sub-littoral geology with a student he had taught at Dartmouth in 1960. He also had faced life's adversities with courage, having lost his wife to ill health, and also having, over a period of many years, brought back to health one of his sons who had been grievously injured in an automobile accident.
Lincoln Ridler Page was a remarkable man who lived life to the fullest, enriching the lives of those fortunate enough to have known him, and contributing substantially to the advancement of his science. Of him we can truly say, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."