Profiles
Changing the game, one hat at a time
“If one week of feeling horrible can give someone else even one enjoyable day out of the hospital, I would do it as often as possible.”
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Alumna tackles women’s health issues
Grace Deitzler’s chosen field became clear when she took teacher Julie Ertmann’s advanced placement biology class her senior year at University City High School in the St. Louis suburbs.
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‘Mr. S&T’ hangs up his slide rule
No matter whether you call it MSM, UMR or Missouri S&T, Jerry Bayless has called it home.
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Fix-it fixation
As Missouri S&T undergraduates a decade ago, Brandt, CE’07, and Nicole, EMgt’07, MS SysE’10, Genz never envisioned careers as small-business owners flourishing amid the 21st century version of the arts and crafts movement.
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Katie Payne — future M.D.
The daughter of a logger and a school teacher, Katie Payne, BSci’14, knew she wanted to make a big impact on the world, but it took an anatomy class at Cuba (Mo.) High School to guide her decision to go into medicine.
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Richard and Barbara Jaquay: Giving thanks for a life of good fortune and global adventure
Richard Jaquay, CE’63, was building a wastewater treatment plant near Tucson, Ariz., when he met his future wife. They made their first overseas trip together, to China, two years after they were married.
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Bob Brackbill: Petroleum pioneer
Bob Brackbill, MinE’42, remembers the day he put his career plans on hold to serve his country. It was a December afternoon in 1941, and he was hanging out with the guys at the Sigma Nu house in Rolla.
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Bob Brinkmann: Builder and big thinker
Bob Brinkmann, CE’71, credits a mindset he calls looking for “the second right answer” with growing the company he founded more than 30 years ago.
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Matt Coco: True and tireless believer
Matt Coco, CE’66, was a student the first time he served on the Phi Kappa Theta building committee after a fire destroyed his fraternity house in 1964. “I wanted the new house to have a red brick exterior and a fireplace,” he says. “I didn’t get either.”
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Roger Dorf: Communications pioneer
As a commuter student, Roger Dorf, ME’65, carpooled to Rolla to earn his degree. On days when he finished classes before the others riding with him, he’d head to the student union to study. But what Dorf remembers most about those afternoons is the magical hour when studying succumbed to slapstick.
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