John Rosenfeld:  

I was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1920 and attended Ainsworth Elementary School there from 1926 to 1933. I subsequently attended Gabel Country Day School, Class of 1938, followed by Dartmouth College, Class of 1942. After WW II, with two years support service in southern Italy as a U.S. Army Air Forces Communications Officer in a B-24 squadron and a P-38 squadron. I attended Graduate School at Harvard University from 1946 to 1949 where I was a Teaching Fellow in Petrography. I received my Ph.D. in geology from Harvard in1954 for a study of an area in southeast Vermont. I taught geology at Missouri School of Mines (1949-1955), Wesleyan University [(Conn.), 1955-1957], and UCLA from 1957 to 1991, retiring from UCLA as Professor of Geology, Emeritus. I maintain an office at UCLA in the present Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, heir to the Department of Geology. My major research was conducted in the field and laboratory on the theoretical aspects of rock metamorphism. Field study was on the geology of the Northern Appalachian Paleozoic intercontinental collision zone, mainly in southern Vermont and eastern Connecticut, and, under a Guggenheim Fellowship, on a similar Cenozoic zone in the Central Alps of Switzerland. I served as Chairman of the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Academic Freedom in the 1980s and as President of the California Conference of the American Association of ...Expand for more