Doris Malkin Curtis; Head of Geological Society
Doris Malkin Curtis, 77, president of the Geological Society of America. Ms. Curtis worked as a geologist for Shell Oil from 1942 to 1979 and became a professor of geology at Rice University in Houston. On May 26 in Houston of pneumonia.
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