Re: Belated lamentations: Sam Girouard

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:35:24  
 Andy Farke wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mickey Rowe" <rowe@psych.ucsb.edu>
>To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
>Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:19 AM
>Subject: Belated lamentations: Sam Girouard
>
>> Those of you who have been on the list for more than a couple of years
>> probably are familiar with the name Sam Girouard.  He wrote to the
>> dinosaur list occasionally starting some time in 1996.  Until today I
>> had no idea how young he was:
>
>I corresponded a few times with Sam back in 1998. . .we traded observations
>on what it's like to be a young person with a serious interest in
>paleontology and field work. I think we were both excited to know that there
>were "others" out there, who had advanced beyond a simple interest in things
>with sharp teeth. It is truly sad to find out how his life ended.

Me, too.  When I became interested in the field I e-mailed him and we began to 
exchange messages.  He was probably, oh, four or five years older than me, and, 
like Andy said, it was nice to talk to other younger people interested in the 
field.  I heard of his death awhile back, so Mickey's post wasn't as big of 
shock to me as it probably was to others (but, certainly hearing about his 
death was a huge shock to me at the time).  

It was a sad loss for the field...but an even sadder human tragedy.

Steve

P.S.: The website Mickey posted mentioned a few papers that he published.  Does 
anyone have any citations?  I know he did a lot of work regarding the fossil 
vertebrates of Washington (state). He had even completed a book of Tertiary and 
Pleistocene mammal fossils found in Washington, but, instead of publishing it 
as one piece, he was planning to chop it up into short papers and articles to 
be published separately.  Could some of this be the papers mentioned on the 
webpage?  Of course, he mentioned about his book/papers to me in some of our 
last correspondences...

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