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Death Notices
Riley, Daniel, BA 1931
Mr. Riley, a resident of El Cajon, CA,
passed away in August 2001, at the age
of 91.
Kemp, Chandler, BhB 1934
Died June 6, 2000, at the age of 92,
after a fall. He was always very proud of
his geological background and worked 40
years for the Wisconsin State Highway
Department as a Civil Engineer.
Bradley, Charles C., PhB 1935, PhM
1947, PhD 1950
Passed away on May 16th, 2002, in
Baraboo at the age of 91. He was given
our department’s Distinguished Alumni
Award in 2000.
He was the first dean of Montana
State University’s College of Letters and
Sciences and led its predecessors, the
Division of Science and the Division of Letters and Science.
Bradley is also recognized as the founder of MSU’s group of
world-respected snow mechanics scientists.
Born in Chicago in 1911, Bradley’s journey into the
science of mountains and snow began when he enlisted in the
U.S. Army during World War II. He trained in the prestigious
Tenth Mountain Division in Camp Hale, Colo. Bradley served
his duty in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Many years later, Bradley
would write about the personalities and duties of the Tenth
Mountain Division in his book, Aleutian Echoes, illustrated with
his own drawings and paintings. The book is still sold in Alaska
and other stores and web sites interested in mountaineering
history.
Following the war, Bradley completed a PhD at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and moved to Bozeman in
1950 to teach at Montana State College as the first
professional geologist on campus. Bradley also started what
has become MSU’s Media and Theatre Arts Department.
Bradley’s first wife, Maynard Riggs, died in 1969, and he
later married childhood friend Nina Leopold. Following his
retirement in the mid-’70s, the couple moved to Wisconsin to
continue the work of her father, Aldo Leopold. They lived at the
Leopold Reserve, the site of the famous book Sand County
Almanac and they continued to promote scientific exploration,
conservation and pr