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Friday, September 28, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Raymond C. Moore Hall will be dedicated tomorrow
Moore Hall Expands Geological Services
"Moore Hall? Where's that?" Most students respond when asked about the building that houses the Kansas Geological Survey.
By DON KINNEY
Kansan Staff Reporter
Moore Hall is one of the newest buildings at KU. Few students see it, however, because it is on West Campus, the section of the University directly west of Dauie HU.
The six-story building, which is almost completed and equipped, is separated into six departments, each one covering a research or analysis of Kansas Geology.
The department of geochemistry involves a chemical analysis of oil, deposits and water. This department was involved in the recent Skylab experiments.
The building is named for Raymond C. Moore, emeritus summer distinguishered professor of geology, who was state geologist and director of the Survey for 38 years. It was completed last spring and will be officially dedicated tomorrow.
The geologic research department is concerned with petroleum reserves and possible oil drilling sites, along with computer-aided mineral exploration.
The modern red brick building replaces Lindley Hall as the home of the Kansas Geological Survey. Moore Hall has made new equipment and projects possible since 1937. Malcolm Turner, assistant director of information and education for the Survey.
"Our purpose is to do research and development for state agencies and the public," said William Hambleton, director of the Survey and state geologist.
The water resources department collects data on water quality and ground-water resources.
Micro-fossils, remote sensing and sub-surface waste disposal studies are carried on by the subsurface department of the survey.
Land-use planning, weathering processes and environmental education are some of the issues
The operations research department performs statistical data analysis, graphical geologic interpretation and educational programs.
An enclosed corridor connects Moore Hall with the United States Geological Survey building.
Altogether these sections can give a statistical, analytical and graphic picture of the geology of Kansas through the use of digital monitors, and analytical experiments.
Although no classes will be held at Moore Hall, approximately 30 students will work there with the staff on actual geologic studies during the year, according to Hambleton.
"I think that this is one of the best teaching facilities possible," said Hambleton. "Students get a chance to work on them and have time there, then them honor staff, member, not students."
Along with offices and laboratories, Moore Hall will contain several geological displays and a library of reference books and periodicals.
Moore Hall was built and funded, in part, through the university, with other contributions coming from individual businesses and associations.
Moore Still Going Strong
By JIM KENDELL
No one has ever accused him of being laz.
At 81, Raymond C. Moore, emeritus distinguished Summerfield professor of geology, still works 15 hours a day, seven davs a week.
Whether he's talking about today's oil crisis or the Kansas Geological Survey 50 years ago, Moore's mind and voice are as he said if those 50 years had never passed.
He's hardly as spry as he had to be 50 years ago today when he was floating down the Colorado River, but then, one must make some concessions to age.
He's proud of what he's doing and what he has done with his life. Proud of the way he has promoted the name of the University of Chicago and of the legacy he will leave the university
The building will be dedicated in conjunction with a symposium on "Elements of Music."
Tomorrow, Moore will watch the dedication of Raymour Moore Hall the dedication of Raymour Moore Hall.
"It's a question that boils down to the steadily increasing demand for heating and traffic and everything else," according to Moore.
He says we won't solve the problem "unless and until atomic energy sources and great deposits of oil shale which have not been developed" are developed.
Although he is no longer directly involved in making energy policy, he is "aware and of course much interested in the problems that have been presented." During the middle years of his career he did extensive work for many of the major oil companies.
Until then the United States will be dependent on other countries for its oil.
Thereby the Arab nations have a political weapon of great importance, which has been used for centuries.
Moore advocates more professional advice for politicians making decisions about energy policy. He says that the American Association of Petroleum Companies he helped organize in 1917, "could contribute importantly to policy decisions."
The association, with 15,000 members, is now the largest organization of its kind in the world. Many of its members work for oil companies.
Moore came to KU in 1916 from the University of Chicago, where he had received his Ph.D. summa cum laude that same year.
He was an assistant professor of geology, one of four men in the department. He was named state geologist, the youngest in the profession, director of the Kansas Geological Survey.
Four years later he was a full professor and chairman of the geology department He had also secured a budget for the previously unfunded Geological Survey.
Moore was chairman of the department for more than 20 years, director of the Geological Survey until 1954 and a professor until he retired in 1962.
Today the Geological Survey employs 70 people ("one of the more active, bigger surveys in the county") and the geology department employs 17.
Moore is still deeply involved in revising his work and editing the work of others.
He is currently revising "Invertebrate
Fossils," first published in 1852, and says
that he prefers to use a more literal
definition.
Moore expects the book to be completed in mid-1974 and published late next year or early in 1975. He is doing about 60 per cent of his work on the edition, addition, and another man is doing the rest.
the university, the Geological Society of America and three international organizations has earned KU widespread recruitment in the field of geology.
The treatise contains virtually all that is
out there for fossil reefs, it started
in 1980 in Hawaii and has spread
until 1988 in the Antarctica.
Moore has been the editor of "The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology and Prehistory."
By 1960, 15 volumes had been published and nine more were planned. Today 27 volumes have been published, 9,835 pages, and four or five more are planned.
Over 250 specialists from 18 countries have contributed to the treatise. The scientists are not paid for their work, but the treatise has such a good reputation that solicitation of articles is no longer a problem
"No one place could accomplish this kind of a collective task." Moore says.
Curt Tetchert, professor of geology, has taken over editing of the revised editions and the supplements, though Moore is still in charge of the total operation.
Teichert will retire in a few years and he and Moore are now searching for a geologist
That geologist will fill the Hedberg chair or geology at KU and one of his conditions of residency is that he must be a graduate.
The chair will be funded by Gulf Oil Corp. and is named for a Princeton geologist.
Moore tells a story about a visit to Russia by former Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy in 1958 to show how widely the treatise has spread the name of the university.
Murphy was attending a reception at a local Academy of Science in southwestern Siberia and was introduced to a geologist as the chancellor of the University of Kansas.
The Russian said, "Oh, you must know Dr. Moore." He excused himself for a moment and returned with a volume of the treatise.
Moore is also joint editor with Teichert of the "University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions," a series of monographs which he founded in 1946.
He has no intention of letting up on his work. "I think if I did that I'd die. That keeps me going." He feels no particular interest in the job, and would like to finish the treatment before he dies.
Throughout his career Moore has been active in professional organizations. He has served as president of five national scientific societies and as president of an umbrella organization of 14 societies, the American Geological Institute.
His work has brought him recognition in England, Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy and Norway, as well as the United States.
Fifty years ago today Moore and six companions were floating down the Colorado River in wooden boats, exploring the deep waters. Geological Survey. Moore was the expedition leader.
As Moore's valet, Harry R. McCoy, explains it, Moore has an intense "taste for his work and feels that to have it done right he must do it.
A longtime friend, Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, praises Moore for his "absolutely unbelievable output of work"
An overturned boat, reportedly belonging to the party, was found in the river and some people speculated that rising waters in the river had wiped them out.
A story dated Sept. 27, 1923 reported that in the opinion of a survivor of the first expedition to safely make the Colorado River, Moore and his party were orbiably safe.
Raymond C. Moore, 81, director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey, works 15 hours a day. He is currently editing a 30-volume treatise which he began in 1948.
After all, he sailed the boats were well equipped with life preservers and even if the boats had been destroyed, they could survive. But when the boat was the fear of being scaled by the Indians,"
On Oct. 3 the Kansan reported that Moore was safe. He and his companions had climbed through the crevice in the wall to reach high ground.
Bid Wugh (left), chemist for the Geological Survey, explains how the microphotometer on his right compares in one element comparison in ore samples Karmi Galle (below), also a chemist for the Geological Survey, demonstrates an atomic scale instrument in the instrument lab. George Gould (right), chemist in the organic chemistry lab at Moore Hall, plots a graph for contents of an oil sample in Western Kansas.
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