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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Colorado Mines Orediggers football coaches, Colorado School of Mines alumni, Colorado School of Mines faculty, Wendell Fertig, Seismic Unix, Ray Courtright, Shane Carwin, Fred Meissner, Joe Curtis, Ralph Glaze, Derrick Jensen, Vance Haynes, Chester Pittser, William A. H. Loveland, Dutch Clark, George Saunders, Jack J. Grynberg, Brooks Field, Joseph Robert Wright, Jr., Jacques Benedict, Arthur Lakes, Edward L. Berthoud, Mike Flater, Samuel S. Adams, Colorado National Guard Armory, Carl Mitcham, Craig Thompson, Frank Shakespeare, Craig Schurig, Steve Hanke, Charles Arthur Banks, William Knox Schroeder, George Lynn, John H. McIntosh, Arden L. Bement, Jr., Myles W. Scoggins, John P. Allen, Chip Beake, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Ying Xu, Jack Du Brul, William M. Ketchum, National Earthquake Information Center, Colorado University Schools, Michelle Roark, Harm de Blij, Matthews Hall, Arthur S. Adams, Darden Field, Steven L. Newman, Richard Passamaneck, Gerald Grandey, Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy, Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum, Fitch Robertson, Joseph D. Sneed, Plato Malozemoff, Eric Bridgeland. Excerpt: Wendell Fertig (16 December 1900 - 24 March 1975) was an American civil engineer, in the American-administered Commonwealth of the Philippines, who organized and commanded an American-Filipino guerrilla force on the Japanese-occupied, southern Philippine island of Mindanao during World War II. Fertig held a U.S. Army reserve commission and was called into military service before the war in the Pacific began. Ordered from Corregidor before its surrender to the Japanese, he was sent to Mindanao to assume command of engineer activities there. Almost as soon as he arrived, the U.S. Army forces on Mindanao surrendered, but Fertig refused to do so. Fertig used his knowledge of the Filipino people to organize them into a guerrill...