GUS K. EIFLER JR.
(1908-2003)
Gus K. Eifler Jr. was born in Taylor, Texas on February 14, 1908, and died April
18, 2003, in Austin, Texas, at age 95. As a child, Gus and his family moved to
Austin, where he attended Austin public schools and graduated from Austin High
School in 1925. He received his BA in 1929 and his MA in 1930 from UT-Austin.
Gus was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Sigma Gamma Epsilon as well as
Pi Kappa Alpha a social fraternity. In 1941 Gus received his Ph.D. in Geology
from Yale University, where he served as a Teaching Fellow. His dissertation on
the geology of the Barilla Mountains of Texas was later published.
Gus served as a Captain in the US Army Air Force during WW II. He was a bombing
instructor and was considered an expert on the Norden Bomb Sight.
Gus served the UT-Austin community for a considerable part of his career. He was
a faculty member of the Department of Geological Sciences between 1928 and 1951,
except for the time he spent in the Air Force. A decline in enrollment in
geology during the early war years led to such a reduction in the geology
faculty that there was discussion, according to Keith Young, about the
possibility of asking for Gus to be released from the Air Force to resume
teaching at UT.
In 1951 Gus left the department to begin a private geological consulting
business. From 1964 to 1973 Gus worked for the BEG, where he contributed
extensively to the Geologic Atlas of Texas. He joined the BEG again to work on
the Atlas project during most of 1975.
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