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PHYSICAL SCIENCE FACULTY Gibbs Molland taught at a variety of high schools and also Mary College priorto 1961 when he began instructing chemistry and physics at BJC. His college background includes several colleges across the country. He earned a B.S. degree at Jamestown College and a M.S. degree at UNO, butalsoattended NDSU aswell as colleges in Michigan, Georgia, California, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado. Frank Koch is a former graduate of BJC, with a n Associate of Arts degree. He also holds the Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Valley City State College and NDSU, respectively. Other schools he attended are Earl ha m College and Northwestern University of Louisiana. Mr. Koch began teaching chemistry here in 1968 and is convinced that "BJC has an excellent repuation in both the academic and vocational fields." Mr. and Mrs. Koch has two children, Nancy and Robert. Physical Science courses are taught by Alvin Schmierer, who has been at BJC since 1966. He has also been a faculty memberof McClusky High School and Hughes Junior High. Mr. Schmierer received a B.S. degree from Minot State College and a M.S.T. degree from U.N.D. At BJC there is a closer student-instructor relationship, according to Mr. Schmierer. He also feels that "transfers to other colleges do as well or better academically than they did here." Mr. Schmierer and his wife, Carol, have one daughter and son. The Chemistry Department has a new Laboratory Assistant, Mrs. Mary Ann Durick. Mrs. Durick received her college education at UNO where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, and at the University of Nebraska, from which she graduated with a Master of Science degree. Mrs. Durick and her husband, Patrick, have a son, William. 1