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CRYSTALANA
by Dr.
Stacy Leroy Daniels
ABOUT DR. DANIELS
Dr. Stacy Leroy Daniels (1937- ) [BSE 1960 (ChE); MSE 1961 (EnvE); MSE 1963 (ChE); PhD 1967 (ChE); at The University of Michigan], is a professional chemical-environmental engineer, who was employed in a variety of environmental assignments with The Dow Chemical Co. (1955-1993); taught as an Adjunct Professor at The University of Michigan (1970-1995); directed research at Ingenuity IEQ, Inc., a small business (1995-2010); served as a member/chair on several National & State science advisory committees for the U.S. EPA, and MDEQ (EAGLE) (1970s-1980s); and directed many water quality studies of the Crystal Lake Watershed (1967-2017). He is an amateur historian and a member of the Historical Society of Michigan and the Midland Historical Society, and Board Member of the Benzie Area Historical Society.
His diverse interests in environmental sciences and technologies include: adsorption of bacteria to surfaces; water/wastewater treatment; distribution/fate/toxicity of chemicals in the environment; water quality of inland lakes; industrial hazardous waste management; household hazardous materials collection; recycling and sustainability; air ionization technologies for improvement of indoor air environmental quality; and the history of Crystal Lake and Benzie County, MI.
He is the author or coauthor of some 400 papers and presentations, and has written many letters and poems on environmental subjects. His self-published book, “The Comedy of Crystal Lake” (2015, 496pp) www.CrystalLakeComedy.com tells the true story of the attempt to build a canal from Crystal Lake to Lake Michigan in NW Lower MI in August 1873, which resulted in “the largest inundation from an inland lake due to an anthropogenic cause (a dam breaching) in U.S history ! ” - a 147-yr record.
The precipitous lowering of the level of Crystal Lake, and the unexpected creation of some 2,000 A of new beach, was an epochal event that led to the future development of Benzie Co. As chronicler and author, he assumes the role of his alter ego, Archibald Jones, Jr., as “President pro tem of the Benzie Co. River Improvement Co., Est. 1873”. He also launched a parallel website, “Crystalana”, a Journal of Historical Reflections and Current Perspectives of Crystal Lake, Its Watershed, & Benzie County. www.Crystalana.com He promotes the celebration of the 150th anniversary “SESQUI-CENTENNIAL - The Lowering of Crystal Lake (1873-2023)”. www.crystalana.com/sesqui.htm
He is an original “Townie”-“Lakeie” of Frankfort and Crystal Lake, MI (Benzie Co.), where his family has had cottages for five generations. His father was the Superintendent of Schools in Frankfort, MI, and his mother was a former English teacher. In 1944, he moved with his parents to Midland, MI, where he grew up, and attended Midland High School (Class of 1955). After graduating from The University of Michigan in 1967, he and his wife, Carol Yvonne (Parker) Daniels, a high school science teacher, returned to Midland. Their family includes: their daughter, Julie Lyntha Cavanaugh, a former elementary school teacher, and now an estate planning attorney, married to son-in-law, Thomas Paul Cavanaugh, also an estate planning attorney, and three grandsons, Tommy, Drew, and Brock.
They have lived in Midland in the same house they built themselves in 1969 for the past fifty-four years. In May 2020, they were eyewitnesses to the Tittabawassee River (Four Lakes) “disaster”, which unfolded literally in their own back yard ~1,000 ft from, but 21 ft “higher and dryer”, than the floodplain of Sturgeon Creek, a major tributary! This recent event surpassed the prior “inundation” at Crystal Lake to become “the largest inundation from an inland lake system due to dam breachings in U.S history” ! They have also recovered from the aftermath of a severe lightning strike on their home in Sep 2021.
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