I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

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

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

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

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

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.