[meteorite-list] Tucson 05 Retrospective

[tracy latimer]

"Gentlemen",
Are you hinting you would like to be considered for the Harvey Award at some 
point?

Sour grapes,
Tracy Latimer


>Greetings List;
>
>    Well, imagine our surprise when we read the thread below. I had a 
>personal conversation with the Dean of the TCU geology department in which 
>he informed me that among other things, Dr. Ehlmann was "barely a geologist 
>and not a very good one at that". He also called him, "an old man just 
>waiting to retire," just a menial curator of a meteorite collection doing 
>no real research". He said more but I don't necessarily agree with 
>everything he Dean said. But it matters not much since in my view this 
>award has very little meaning attached to it because of the group handing 
>it out. Was there some sort of election or nomination procedure involved or 
>posted somewhere? How does this little favoritism scheme and showering of 
>affection work for a group who even his colleague has bad mouthed him this 
>way. Did you include the Dean's viewpoint ? Or did you gather together 
>willy nilly to keep misconduct and racism  a fertile nesting ground in 
>planetary science?
>
>Cordially,
>S. Ray DeRusse and Bill Cutler
>www.bccmeteorites.com