Marvin E. Kauffman *60

Marvin Kauffman, who taught geology at Franklin & Marshall College for 25 years before joining the American Geological Institute and later the National Science Foundation, died Aug. 15, 2019. He was 85.

Kauffman graduated from Franklin & Marshall in 1955, earned a master’s degree from Northwestern in 1957, and received a Ph.D. in geology from Princeton in 1960.

He taught at Franklin & Marshall for 25 years, became executive director of the American Geological Institute, and was program director of the National Science Foundation. He also taught field geology programs for more than 50 years at the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association in Red Lodge, Mont.

Kauffman co-authored a leading textbook on physical geology with Sheldon Judson of Princeton. He also wrote many papers in the geosciences field.

He is survived by his wife, Sue, as well as by seven children, including Dorinda Kauffman Culp ’77, with his first wife, Dottie Hammon; and Sue’s three children. He is also survived by 24 grandchildren and step-grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.

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