I Remember...

Receiving a 10-year UA service award on my 40th birthday, then later the same day being offered an excellent position at Oregon State University, and realizing that I had an extremely difficult choice to make.Christopher Mathews; Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University; Corvallis, OR

The great parties that were put on by Mike Cusanovich. Mike danced at only one of them.Doug Cork; Professor, Biology Division, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Department, IIT; Chicago, IL

Wondering why, after 16-1/2 years, I still recall the organism manduca sexta and the color of its hemolymph! Thomas McCloskey; Clinical Pharmacist, St. Mary's Hospital; Grand Junction, CO

Unrelenting amusement! (Just a vague sense of pleasantness as it was a bit too many years ago to have many specific memories.) Michael Winsten; Physician; New Mexico

Working with radioactivity (32P) in Dr. John Little's lab with the geiger counter screaming. Dr. Little rushed in exclaiming I would "fry" myself, but the counter was in front of the shield and I was not getting exposed. I was a Junior Honors student.Mitch Denning; Assistant Professor, Cardinal Bernadine Cancer Center, Loyola University Medical Center; lmhurst, IL

The kindness extended by John Law to the incoming graduate students (six of us) in 1981 exemplified the Biochemistry community I experienced for the next 6 years. His personal interest in getting us off to the right start is something I carry through to my own mentoring activities. Roberta L. McKee, Ph.D.; Vice-President, Vaccine & Sterile Quality Operations, Merck Manufacturing Division; West Point, PA

I and my family remember a pot of poinsettia presented to my family by Dr. Wells on late December 1985 - It represents his warm heart and his everblooming dedication to insect biochemistry.Motoyuki Sumida; Associate Professor, Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology; Kyoto, Japan

Working on Dr. Well's lab with his students and staff was like being a part of a big family. Some of my best memories happened with my friends in the laboratory. Omid J. Bendavid; Medical Student, University of Vermont; Burlington, VT

Dr. Wells had a black and white cartoon on his office door - it had 12 identical, flat-faced depictions of himself - with various emotions listed under each individual drawing (happy, excited, angry, sad, etc) - as I gazed at it - I couldn't get over how accurate it was! Bridget Hogan; Ob-Gyn Medical Resident; Indianapolis, IN

We were all poor starving grad students, so when Shelly Schuster (a grad student of Merle Olson) at the time was doing studies with rabbit heart mitochondria, we all took turns as to who would be entitled to a free rabbit dinner. We wondered if animal disposal ever wondered why they picked up only rabbit pelts. K. Ken Yabusaki, Ph.D.; Private Consultant in design and development of clinical diagnostic tests; San Francisco, CA

Bill Grimes was my advisor. After relaying a few stories to me about his youngest son, he said, "He's my favorite toy". He was very easy to talk to. Towana Deborah Cooper; Medical School; Tucson, AZ

John Law's induction into the NAS. John R. Gasdaska; Project Leader for Biolex (a start-up biotech company); Pittsboro, NC.

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