Dear Reader,

Recently I had a moment to look backward at my career as I was making some updates to my CV and revisiting my high school yearbook in anticipation of a momentous reunion coming up this year. I was pleased to see how much my involvement with the discipline of biology and the National Association of Biology Teachers have played important roles at many stages of my professional life.

The yearbook reminded me that when I was a student at Lower Merion High School in suburban Philadelphia, I was president of the Biology Research Club. Who knew? However, a long-ago memory quickly surfaced of a wonderful teacher who once complemented me on wanting to determine the volume of the intestine of a fetal pig when she noticed me filling the tube-like structure with water from a syringe while stretching it the entire length of the classroom. I suspect that...

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