dalupes. Four years later, due to Iris Pratt's failing health, the Pratts moved to Tucson, Arizona. After years of delays the park finally opened to the public in 1972.
Pratt received many professional honors during his lifetime. He was a founding member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1917 and served as president in 1920. He was honored three times by that organization: in 1945 he became the first recipient of the Sidney Powers Memorial Medal for distinguished contributions to the field, he was made an honorary member in 1958, and in 1972 he received a gold medal for Service Through Geology to Human Needs in recognition of his donation of his land in the Guadalupes. Pratt received the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal from the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in 1948, the James Furman Kemp Medal from Columbia University in 1950, and the American Petroleum Institute Gold Medal in 1954. He was also a member of the Society of Economic Geologists, Sigma Xi, and an honorary member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He was elected to the Permian Basin Hall of Fame in 1969, and in 1973 a geophysics professorship was established in his name at the University of Texas at Austin. He married Pearl M. Stuckey on December 30, 1912. They had three children. After his first wife's death he married Iris Calderhead on January 3, 1941; after Iris Pratt's death, shortly after their move to Tucson, Pratt married Suzanne d'Autremont, on November 4, 1966. He died at the age of ninety-six on Christmas Day, 1981, survived by his third wife and his three children from his first marriage.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:W. L. Copithorne, "The Worlds of Wallace Pratt," The Lamp, Fall 1971. Who Was Who in America, Vol. 7.
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