The mineral collection of
Dr. Marvin D. Rausch
will be on exhibition and sale at
the Denver Gem and Mineral show
September 12th, 13th, & 14th, 2008
Our dear friend, Marv, passed away May 2, 2008.

Marv earned his BS and PhD from the University of Kansas and received his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1955.

He served in the US Air Force as a Projects Officer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio from 1955 until 1957. This was an active period of Air Force interest in organosilicon and organometallic chemistry.

He traveled to Munich in 1957 as the second post-doctoral associate of Prof. E. O. Fischer a Nobel Prize recipient. Upon his return from Germany Marv joined the Central Research Department of Monsanto.

In September of 1963 he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and became Full Professor in 1968. He remained active in the field of organometallic chemistry throughout his career. He was one of the first Chairmen of the Organometallic Subdivision of the American Chemical Society's Division of Inorganic Chemistry. He was also the Permanent International Secretary of the International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry.

His "hobby" was mineralogy and he had one of the finest private mineral collections in New England . In recent years his passion was UMASS athletics and particularly the UMASS basketball team.