Background
Beers, Roland Frank was born on June 6, 1899 in Owego, New York, United States. Son of Archibald Stephen and Jessie Bevans (Creveling) Beers.
Beers, Roland Frank was born on June 6, 1899 in Owego, New York, United States. Son of Archibald Stephen and Jessie Bevans (Creveling) Beers.
Graduate School Arts and Sciences
Instructor physics and electrical engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1921-1922. Development engineer Western Electric Company. New York City, 1922-1923.
Manager Associate of Science Beers, Binghamton, New York, 1925.
Development engineer Raytheon Manufacturing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1925-1926. Physicist Submarine Signal Corporation, Boston, 1927-1928.
Party chief Geophysical Research Corporation, Houston, 1928-1931. Party chief Geophysical Service, Incorporated., Dallas, 1931-1934, vice president, 1934-1936.
President, director The Geotechnical Corporation, Dallas, since 1936.
Chairman of the Board and director, 1947-1956. President, director Geotechnical Corporation of Canada, Limited., Montreal, 1944-1956. Partner Beers and Heroy, Dallas, 1946-1956.
President, director Roland F. Beers, Incorporated., since 1955.
Academic dean Ethan Allen Community College, Manchester, Vermont, 1973-1975, then trustee. Consultant Atomic Energy Commission, 1957-1985.
President Geodynamics, Incorporated., Alexandria, Virginia, 1963-1985. Chairman of the Board Beers & Rodemann, Incorporated., Alexandria, 1957-1985.
President Knox Mining Corporation, 1964-1985.
Research associate, department geological Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1943-1946. Geophysical consultant United States Geological Survey, Washington, 1943-1946. Member commission on measurement of geologic time National Research Council, since 1945, commission on seismic effects of detonations, 1945-1946, commission on sedimentation, since 1947.
Head department fuel resources, professor geophysics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1948-1952.
Permanent advising committee geological department Southern Methodist University, 1947. Member of advisory commission on geophysics Office Naval Research.
Member commission on rock mechanics National Academy Sciences. Member Vermont Higher Education Council.
Fellow Geological Society American, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Association Petroleum Geologists, Society Exploration Geophysicists (chairman best paper award committee 1946-1947), American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers American Geophysical Union, Seismological Society American, Photographic Society American, Royal Photographic Society (London), American Society for Testing and Materials, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Tau Omega. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Helen Elizabeth Clark, October 29, 1921. Children: Roland F., Barbara Helen.