Henry Currie Palmer *63

On July 30, 2022, Currie died of undetected pneumonia in London, Ontario, Canada.

He was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Oct. 25, 1935. Currie studied geology at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. After graduating he entered Princeton’s Department of Geosciences and earned a Ph.D. in 1963. Subsequently Currie took a postdoctoral position at the University of Western Ontario in the Department of Geophysics (now Earth Sciences). He joined the faculty there and remained until his retirement at the age of 65.

While at Princeton Currie found a lifelong friend in Bill MacDonald *65, a professor at SUNY Binghampton. These fellow paleo-volcanologists’ research collaborations included drilling holes in rocks in Nevada and camping in the high desert. Currie’s fieldwork experience around the world included sleeping in the Atacama Desert, where the stars felt close enough to touch, and lying awake in a tent in the Arctic because the sled dogs outside howled all night.

Having learned to fly, Currie bought a Cessna: GGVL and joined the London Flying Club. He volunteered to drive for the Canadian Cancer Society for almost 15 years.

Currie is survived by his wife, Marguerite Kane; and stepchildren Rowan and Ildi.

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