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Medic
NATURAL HISTORY HAS ALWAYS HELD MY INTEREST
even as other obligations suffered. During that
year in the Georgetown funeral home I published the massasauga observations with Ge-
orge Oliver, two papers from research with Henry Fitch, and a fourth on Texas alligator
tavern—once taking a date along in the hearse to collect them—and microscopy was
among the few classes at Southwestern that I took seriously, because my favorite pro-
the way he scolded me about bad grades, but I was distracted by partying and after three
years had an overall D+ average. In the summer of 1966 my downward spiral in acade-
mia was cemented by failing physics at the University of Texas, perhaps because I was
enamored of a wealthy Odessa doctor's daughter—a match so improbable that right from
the start our mothers predicted failure—traveling to see her on weekends rather than
study.
