But he’d introduced me to so many things that, before I went to Michigan, my final summer was at the Emory University Field Station in Southwest in Georgia, in Baker County, Georgia. The Emory University Field Station was not populated by Emory University students. It was University of Georgia students under Eugene Odum. It was also the last US Public Health Service Station for endemic malaria in the United States. So it was quite an occasion and so that was my final summer. But before going off to grad school, but I must say that because my mentor Burnham Chamberlain had challenged me with papers that were coming out at the time in ecology and herpetology and mammalogy, and whatever else, but he would just casually say, “You might be interested in this and you might find this a value,” et cetera. So when I went down to the field station and Odum visited a couple of times during the summer to make sure his grad students were on track with their projects, et cetera, there was nothing the graduate student said that I was not already familiar with. So it was quite a valuable experience to have the kind of mentoring that I received from Burnham Chamberlain.
