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Wednesday, February 4, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Survey welcomes director
By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
Commuting to work isn't unusual, but commuting 1,200 miles a week is.
Lee C. Gerhard, the new director of the Kansas Geological Survey, makes a 600-mile trek between
Lee C. Gerhard
Lawrence and Denver twice a week.
Although the commute can be tiring, Gerhard said, he is happy with his new job.
Gerhard, 49, began serving as the director in January but is commuting to Denver because he has obligations as Getty professor of geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.
Gerhard leaves Lawrence every Wednesday, teaches all day Thursday and Friday in Colorado, and flies back to Kansas on Monday.
He plans to move to Lawrence with his family this summer.
The survey is a state research and service organization that works on solutions to earth-related issues. It has a building on West Campus.
KU was fortunate to have attracted a scientist and administrator of such wide experience and excellent reputation, said Dr. Glebe, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
Frank Wilson, senior scientist at the survey, said Gerhard was the type of person who could move ahead quickly in his new position.
"I look forward to working with him." he said.
Gerhard is not new to Lawrence.
He received master's and doctoral degrees in geology from KU and also taught at KU.
"I met my wife here," he said. Gerhard said the Kansas survey was internationally recognized.
"It has a strong tradition in geology, of people who have been associated with it and made major contributions in the field of geo-
He said KU was on the cutting edge of geology study and research.
Gerhard said the Kansas survey's reputation and leadership would make his position challenging.
gy," he said.
"And I can respond to that," he said.
Geology research has taken Gerhard to places other than Kansas and Colorado.
In the early 70s, he taught in the U.S. Virgin Islands while affiliated with Fairleigh Dickinson University and West Indies Laboratory in St. Croix.
Learning the culture was a broadening social experience for a dairy from dairy in New York state. Gerhard said.
But, life on the island was not all snorkeling and limestone research
Once, a group of island residents came down out of the hills and terrorized the island. Four people on the 18th green of a golf course.
Gerhard estimated that the group killed about 25 people.
"I had never been exposed to that before," he said. "It was a tense time."
Reps want ICC to keep bus routes
The Kansas congressional delegation yesterday urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to give more than just summary consideration to a proposal by Trailways to discontinue nearly all its bus service in Kansas.
The five U.S. House members from Kansas met in Washington to sign a letter to ICC Chairman Heather Gradison urging the federal agency to take action against the motion, said Bob Martin, a spokesman for Rep. Diankam Glickman, D-Kan
The letter opens by pointing out to the ICC that the Kansas Corporation Commission on Jan. 14 denied Trailways' application to abandon all its Kansas City-Topeka-Wichita routes, Martin said.
Trailways, which contends that the routes are not profitable, has appealed to railroad companies.
In seven previous bus route abandonment cases, the KCC has been overruled by the ICC, which, under the federal Bus Regulatory Act, is carrying out the Reagan administration policy of deregulating transportation and utility services.
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