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David J. Rausch Chemistry Endowment
Student Memories
Please share your own memory here.
Dr. Rausch: I have countless fond memories of my tenure at
Benedictine. Putting together the pictorial history for the endowment
web site afforded me the opportunity to reminisce not only about
the teaching and research, but also the extracurricular activities
and the enjoyment I had interacting with students and faculty
outside of the classroom. If you have any pictures or memories
that you would like to share for possible posting on this website,
please send them to me at Benedictine: drausch@ben.edu.
Just a few of my memories outside of class include: Starting
varsity tennis, finishing 2nd in conference our first year operating
as a club, the spring trips and bringing in Gary Moore to compete
nationally against scholarship schools (NAIA). Deb DeMateo's national
contending volleyball teams. Tom Beck/Gene Cavich & Bill Barz/Dave
Egofsky football teams dominating the competition. Recruiting
Jason Forrestal and watching him and the basketball team grow
into a national powerhouse. I was privileged to watch them even
though they lost very close games to Northern Illinois University
& eventual national NCAA Division III champion University
of Wisconsin-Platteville on their home courts. Participating in
IM football, basketball, softball (champion Railbirds), tennis
& racquetball. Evening teaching strategy meetings with Hazdra,
Herbach, Munninger & Hyslop in the early years. Directing
numerous student research programs at Argonne National Laboratory.
The attempted reaction to synthesize tetrahedrane for the first
time by low temperature photolysis of pyridazine at University
of Wisconsin with George Ganzer-a reaction which would have made
us famous. There are many more fond memories too numerous to mention
here.
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Russell Palmeri SPC 1970 states: I made my donation online.
It was very easy. He reminisced about Milt Woods always being
in the middle of a controversy and says he often thinks of the
boating tragedy that happened to Greg Snoke. After graduation
he started in the Chemistry PhD program at Berkeley. When he found
out PChem was not for him(or most other students who enjoy organic*),
he obtained an MD degree from Georgetown University. After an
OB-GYN (see model in picture) career of over twenty years in private
practice, he retired and now teaches full-time at Asheville-Buncombe
Technical Community College in Asheville, North Carolina.
*DR comment(sorry Weso)
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Jim Beaupre SPC 1962 : GRAD SCHOOL AT IOWA STATE
I was Dave's 1st roommate at Iowa State where we did errands for
the ISU
Profs until they got sick of us and gave us PhDs. Dave's 2nd roommate
was
his wife, Polly--Same place, but they got the upstairs apartment.
But, at 1st, it
was the basement with an octopus furnace dominating the decor.
What I remember (it was the 60's after all), is when we moved
in, I
brought 3 cases of beer and Dave brought a case of Spaghettio's.
I think our tastes have improved since then, but every now and
then it's Chef
Boyardee time!
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