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Susie Doenges
2009 BEG Alumna of the Year

Susie Doenges, charged with creating a timeline for the Bureau Centennial, as well as serving as editor of the Centennial coffee-table book, Earth’s Art, retired in May 2006, after more than 30 years’ service to the Bureau as editor. Susie graduated with Honors in English from The University of Texas at Austin in 1973 and received her M.A. in English in 1982. Arriving at the Bureau in 1975 as a Senior Secretary, Susie quickly moved through the ranks and was made editor in 1977 and Editor in Chief the following year. Between 1992 and 1995, Susie even served as Assistant Director, eventually returning to her first love, editing, in 1996. Susie is a member of the Association of Earth Science Editors, as well as Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor

societies. She served as editor of Blueline, Newsletter of the Association of Earth Science Editors from 1985 through 1986. Susie was responsible for, among many things, co-authoring (with Keene Ferguson) the recent book about the Jackson School’s namesake and major donor, Jack Jackson, The Jack Jackson Story: Reflections of a Geologist. She was also co-editor of six proceedings volumes on symposia related to continental margins, as well as managing editor of GCAGS Transactions volume 44. Susie was Editor in Chief during most of her career at the Bureau. It was on her watch, in fact, that the bulk of our well-respected Reports of Investigations were produced.
 
 
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