No Sharing

By Tom Good ’86

I was fortunate enough to be able to go on several Marlboro field trips, including trips to the desert southwest, the southeastern U.S. (Okefenokee, Everglades, etc.), the Yucatan Peninsula, and interior/central Mexico – a.k.a “the Campsite”). These were formative trips for a budding biologist, and spending time with Bob and John Hayes (and John MacArthur!) was invaluable.

A favorite Bob/trip memory of was on the southeastern U.S. ornithology trip. We would often purchase lunch fixings (tortillas, refried beans, canned chilies, etc.) for our roadside lunches. A joke on the trip was that Bob would fend off others from his lunch supplies during these roadside lunches with a curt “no sharing.” Later in the trip, I snapped a pic (top) of a salad bar at a restaurant dinner stop to share at our traditional post-trip slideshow. Its inclusion was ironic and funny, as Bob was an inveterate sharer of knowledge (right), which in the field as in the classroom, was extensive. I never see a restaurant sign prohibiting sharing without cracking a smile and thinking of Bob. The Mexico trip also produced pics of Bob’s photogenic sides (below).