Alumni Resources

Richard Saccany completed his baccalaureate degree in mining engineering at Michigan Tech in 1971. In 1973, he earned his master’s with a concentration in managerial economics from Cornell University before entering the mining industry. He started in uranium mining as a production analyst. He became superintendent of a uranium mine before moving to Denver in 1982 to work for American Mine Services, Inc as a project . . .

Larry Watson, '51 and '58, is a retired businessman who has realized success, stewardship, and a meaningful life. All three are behind his financial support of Michigan Tech. "I like seeing Michigan Tech grow," he says. "It's satisfying to see it do well. Tech's reputation is as good, or better, than it's ever been. You like to think you had a small part in that." Not a small part by any means. Besides over thirty . . .

Jim Graham, a resident of Centennial, Colorado, is a 1970 graduate of Michigan Tech’s Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Jim began his career as process engineer for Texas Gulf in Moab, Utah. In 1973, he moved to the coal fields of West Virginia for Zapata Corporation and through a series of promotions moved to Lexington, Kentucky as Vice President Engineering. His next move in 1992 was to General . . .