Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

456 MILLENNIUM C arolyn Lee Freese’s passion has allowed her to lead a successful career in which she has been an art teacher for Simmons Junior High School and Yorkville District High School, a substitute teacher for Mooseheart Child City & School, and a contractor for the education department at the Field Museum of Natural History, a position she has held since 2002. Over the course of her career, she enjoyed working with children in summer camps and teaching them scientific illustrations, which combined her passions of nature and art. She is still grateful to receive letters and emails from former students thanking her for the life lessons they learned while taking her classes, since she always encouraged students to find and pursue their passions. Much of her artwork has been displayed in exhibitions across Chicago and New York. Ms. Freese was an art contributor to the Life Over Time exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History and remains active in her field through her memberships with the Illinois Artisans Program, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and the Illinois Art Education Association. A s a professional engineer and educator with over six decades of experience, Douglas Fuerstenau has taught and conducted research mainly at the University of California, Berkeley, served as an advisory board member of numerous professional organizations, and edited scholarly publications on the topic of mineral processing. Dr. Fuerstenau has penned more than 400 publications related to mineral and materials processing, extractive metallurgy, and interfacial science and engineering. At various points in his distinguished career, he gained international teaching and research experience as a guest professor at universities in Germany and London. The recipient of bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and doctoral degrees in mineral and metallurgical engineering, he supervised the theses of 125 graduate students between 1955 and 2003. Dr. Fuerstenau has been named an honorary professor at several institutions in China, elected to several engineering academies and received more than 20 awards for excellence as a researcher, scientist and engineer. His alma mater, the South Dakota School of Mines andTechnology, created the Douglas W. Fuerstenau Professorship in his honor in 1998 and presented him with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2002. Carolyn Freese Art Educator Albuquerque, NM Douglas Fuerstenau, ScD Engineering Educator Santa Rosa, CA