Enjoyed reading this history of a great Drosophila geneticist. Among my prized possessions are original reprints (not an oxymoron) of LV Morgan's compound X and ring X papers, a gift from Scott Hawley, who got Parker's collection, who got Cooper's collection, who got Bridges collection...

Honored to have had Scott and a mentor and colleague for more than 30 years. He will be missed greatly. Last week I asked how he’d feel about us following up on Hawley 1980, his PhD research. He said in typical Scott form, he’d feel incredibly honored and gracious. Glad I was able to tell him that.

It didn’t ask whether you meant an African or a European swallow?

Thanks to everyone that made this best gift ever happen! The organizers: Dr. Noelle Romero, Dr. Nicole Crown, Dr. Talia Hatkevich, Dr. Kale Hartmann, and the lab manager this entire time, Susan McMahan. And everyone that came, some from distant states.
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Of course, there had to be t-shirts...and they are fantastic! They made a reunion logo on the front and this spectacular image on the back clever title. (In the lab, we refer to flies resulting from nondisjunction as "exceptional progeny".)
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Bob Goldstein, UNC Biology's talented faculty printmaker, asked me why he wasn't asked to make a poster. I suggested it to the organizers and they asked...Bob declined. Because they had ideas - he only does it if he has complete artistic freedom. Here's what came out of that. Nice!
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