Jim Merriam
1) What is your name? Please feel free to include any known nicknames held during your time at U of S or otherwise.
Jim Merriam. I tried to get people in high school to call me Missile Merriam or just The Missile. No luck though.
2) What year did you join the U of S, and what circumstances brought you there?
1985
3) What were your favorite classes to teach?
382(282) 482
4) If you could model your teaching style after one person, who would it be?
Mr. DeMartino
5) Did you ever win any Ore Gangue awards?
I think I was Prof of the year once. My daughter subsequently broke my mug so, I need a new one.
6) What is your favorite “PG rated” memory of the Ore Gangue (award, field trip, conference, lounge, party, etc)?
I don’t remember things like that.
7) If you could be a rock, what kind would you be and why?
Coal. A girlfriend once told me I was a diamond in the rough the night she dumped me.
8) What is the best excuse for a late assignment you have ever heard from an Ore Gangue student?
I hit my head on a door and the doctor gave me medicine that knocked me out.
9) What type of beer did you drink during your good old days?
Whatever. I didn’t become fussy until I was 50.
10) What was the best Ore Gangue event ever?
I’m still waiting.
11) Which member of the boat race team are you, and do you believe you could take on the students in a race?
If I was on the profs team – anchor because the pressure would definitely be off by then. No.
12) Do you have any advice for the young geoscientists out there?
Don’t do it.
13) If you had to do it all over again, would you?
Yes.
14) Who would you love to see attend the 75th Reunion, and why?
That guy who ran into the door. (see # 8)
