More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.