Dr. Forbes' memorial

I attended Dr. Forbes' memorial yesterday at Hoffman Hall at PSU. About 400 people were there and they showed a digital slide show and talked about all the wonderful and crazy things he had done, like catching rattlesnakes barehanded, pulling badgers out of their dens by their tails, dissecting whales that had been dead for several days (weeks?) on top of Science Building 2 and having the folks at Ione Plaza complain about it, and the dissection that can only be summed up in three words: maggots & snow shovel. The strange part was that one felt bad for cursing in front of him, yet he was an intense competitor; I never expected the two traits in one person.

I think it's best said that while Dr. Forbes had only two children by blood, he essentially had hundreds of biological stepchildren. Dr. Forbes, you will be missed.