THIS NEW AND MODERN HOME now being completed will be
open for inspection by the public Saturday and Sunday. Owners are
the Fred Copseys. The three-bedroom home has been planned for
spaciousness with recreation room below, with a built-in barbecue,
a large living room with fireplace and lots of windows commanding
an excellent view of the island dotted ocean. Birch cabinets, ceramic
baths, baseboard heating, two-car garage are other features. Builder
is A. V. Sautner.
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Alaskan Born Geologist, Now In Navy
Says Valleys On Kodiak Glacier Made
By MIRIAM J. ANGELL
(Ed. Note: It will be necessary
for the reader to follow continua
tions of this story from page 3 to
10 and back to page 7 for the com
plete reading of the article.)
Sometime ago we watched En
sign Michael Blackwell as leading
man in a play called Petticoat
Fever, and again as a lead in Bern
ardine, both comedies, both well
done and properly funny. He was
articulate, he made the silliness
seem completely logical because
his characterizations were effort
less, and he rarely muffed a line.
In somewhat less obvious man
ner we learned that acting is for
Mike an infrequent hobby, that he
is native Alaskan bom and bred,
is a geologist, likes to climb Baro
meter at night, alone, and is much
more a doer than a talker. Having
long wondered what else was in
side his head, we invited him to
visit so we could find out. We now
face the task of compiling 14 pages
of typed notes in order to sort out
the most interesting parts of a
totally absorbing conversation.
Mike Blackwell was born in Ju
neau, to which place his parents
had gone back in the ’20’s in con
nection with his father’s work as
a Civil Engineer. Mike grew up
there and finished high school,
working part time and summers
for the Bureau of Mines in their
lab and in the field. In this he had
opportunity for travel, and was
able to look at samples of all major
ores in Alaska. The acquired know
ledge whetted has interest in geo
logy, and upon graduation he hied
himself to the Colorado School of
Mines where he took degrees in
both Geology and Civil Engineer
ing in 1959. To help finance these
years he had vacation and week
end jobs with the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads, and with a consult
ing firm doing ice investigations
in Greenland. During his sopho
more year he was a sort of guard
in a reform school where it was ar
ranged that student helpers might
live-in, but have time to study and
attend classes at their nearby col
lege.
“I haven’t thought about that in
years,” Mike said. I suppose it is
a surprising thing to think of doing,
but it was interesting and it was
only for a year. The next summer
I made enough money in Green
land to tide me over, except for
part time work. That was in 1957,
I was working for a consultant to
Barodynamics, Inc. who were do
ing snow, ice and perma frost re
search for the Army. We were
based about 50 miles east of Thule
on the ice cap, probably about 80
people all together. This was dur
ing IGY and though we were not
directly concerned with IGY (in
our group there were about 20
people doing the ice research—the
other 60 were scientists and Army
men) we got to look into the sort
of thing the others were doing—
projects on the aurora, meteor
ology, gravity—regular geophysi
cal work. What we did for four
months was drill and blast ice; we
were investigating the behavior of
ice under explosives, all types of
explosives, all manner of patterns,
depths. The ice at that point was
between 1 and 2 thousand feet
thick so we had a good reflecting
surface for the blasts. It helps a lot
to reflect the shock waves against
something; there was certainly no
shortage of ice for that.
“In one of my summer jobs I
worked on the preliminary geology
for the NORAD site, also on the
geology for the water supply for
the city of Florence, Oregon. Well,
of course, after college I went into
the iNavy, had OCS and the Navy’s
Civil Engineering school, and then
came up here. I’ve been here a year
and expect to be transferred soon.” ,
In answer to a question, Mike
said his work for the Navy in Ko
diak is mostly maintenance and re
pair engineering, but that he has
had some opportunity to practice
his geology professionallly on Adak
where he sited quarries for the
Sea bees’ crushed rock production,
and for NAVCOMSTA’s riprap re
quirements. Riprap are large rocks
used for protecting beaches. What
has he done on this island in the
way of geology?” Nothing for the
Navy—just in my own free time.
As you probably know, very little
has been done here in the way of
geology. I use aerial photos which
are well suited to the practice of
geology on Kodiak because it’s a
little hard to get around. Phofogeo
logy, they call it—mapping the
fabric of the rock, the faults, folds,
joints. On foot these are hard to
see because there’s heavy over
(Continued on Page 10)
Hope to See You
and your family at the St. Mary’s
Altar Society Dinner
Where? Elk’s Club
When? This Sunday
April 9, 3-6 p. m.
Why? A Tasteful
Dinner, Carefully
Planned.
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An Invitation
Open House
2 p.m.—6 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday
The Fred Copseys’ Home
(End of J Street)
One of Kodiak’s newest and modern homes
A. V. Sautner
Builder