Hi Don,
I checked your blog today. Sorry your not going to 49ers this year, as I think I may do so, as I can combine it with some other business in NM. I am definitely planning on going in '10, assuming I'm still kicking.
 
As to what I've been up to since hauling out of Socorro that June of 60- Worked in Arizona at Inspiration Cons. Copper, Banner Mining Co and Western Gold and Uranium till '63, when the draft got me. In '65, when I got out, it was up to the Coeur d'Alenes, (Sunshine Mining Co.), the to Utah- US Smelting, Refining & Mining and Kennecott- Tintic Div. About 3 years at each. I probably would have stayed longer at Kennecott, but my former boss at Sunshine per$uaded me to return to Arizona. Sine the pay was good and it appeared to have enough of an ore reserve to last until retirement, I bundled up the family and we went to lovely (I'm being facetious) Miami, AZ. (I got married while in Utah.) In slightly less than 3 years, I had overseen the sinking of two deep shafts and the shrinking of the orebody to where it wasn't going to last very long. I could have stayed on at another mine, but chose to hit the road again. This time, we spent a year plus at Taos (Kennecott again) and then four plus at Grants, back in NM. When uranium started looking shaky, it was on to oil shale, where I was manager of mining for SOHIO Shale Oil Corp. That lasted 7 years, in Salt Lake City and Cleveland. Next jobs were relatively short ones- Centennial Development in Nevada and Redpath in AZ, then Magma in Humboldt, AZ. After I quit them, went to work as assistant mine inspector for Arizona, where I retired.
We live at the Prescott Country Club near Prescott, AZ. We have 3 kids scattered around the country and 9 grandchildren, with at 10th on the way at years end.
I'm still active in AIME (Legion of Honor next year- means I've been dumb enough to pay dues for 50 years), and the Mining History Assn. I've had a few things published- both serious technical articles and some tongue in cheek stuff. I enjoy photography, the old fashioned film type. I'll probably have to quit when film is no longer available.
Well, look forward to seeing you in '10.
Bill Hawes