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Terry Laverty

I graduated from Mines in 1970 with an Engineer of Mines degree. (If you can't grow it, somebody has to extract it from the earth.) Jean (LeBaron also class of '65) and I have been married for 53 years.

We have lived in several different places in the U.S. including, New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas, Connecticut, and Illinois. We spent 6 1/2 years living in Colombia in the 1980's. I retired from Exxon Coal and Minerals Company after 33+ years, and we returned to Denver in 2006.

My military service was simple versus many of our classmates. I spent 6 years in the New Mexico and Wyoming National Guard units.

When we returned to Denver in 2006, I went to work for an international mining consulting firm, Pincock Allen & Holt, as a Principal Mine Engineer. I did that for 6 years until the end of 2011. It involved work in the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Interesting work, but time intensive. I wasn't smart enough to take Spanish at South so I started studying it when I was 35, and I am still studying it. From 2012-2016 I had my own, one mine, mining consulting work. I worked about 50% of the time. My consulting work included work in Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia.

It was nice to be back in Denver in 2006 after being gone for 35 years. We have two married sons who live in the metro Denver area and five grandchildren. Our daughter lives in Santiago Chile and she has two young sons so we are up to seven grandchildren.. I enjoy spending time with my grandchildren. They remind me a lot of things I had forgotten.

I mentored for three years with Minds Matter Denver. I was on a team of three adults and two students. The students were very good, but had a challenge as they were from low economic families. The team worked with the students from 10th through 12th grades. The goal was to have the students accepted to college with some funding. We had one student who went to CSU and the other to Metro.

In 2016, i started volunteering with Kairos Prison Ministry International at the Colorado Corrections prison at Buena Vista, CO. COVID shut the program down.

I bike some and I play a little golf. I retired from skiing.

Don't forget to save the date of our 75th Birthday Party, 8/27/2022 at the South lunchroom from 11-3 pm. It will be a fun informal event. I am looking forward to seeing everyone.

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