rurrlanu State U~~tvers~ty 4lumni News iummer 1985 Animal Trackers In the summer, our at naturally stravs out the nearest door 2r window to the world beyond. Whether it's the variety of flowers in bloom, the busy comings and goings ~f birds, or even the odd behavior of our next-door neighbors, all that was hidden through the winter is now visible to us. But there are those among us wh spend the whole year, foul and fair weather alike, focusing their attenti, Eone Leo ('75): 50s were formative years for Leo's z $e public's view of the animal worlc varr five The '( and tl uer)r Biolol instru ,I,, marine I )rk and c life is I m on the myst1 kingdom. CI only on our to the zoo, I ..-,, ., eries of the reatures we annual vac, on televisior t , animal normally se ation, on tri i - or nevc ;y profes mental i t lertise in ng netwc mammal )ceanariu a[ alr - [nese people KI intimately. They are sci~ philosophers and artists common a passion that seven six and her has been on t appearing sheep, their lives. The faculty and alumni profiled i these pages, for all the hours they spend with animals, are not obsessc You won't see cute, fuzzy animal pictures on their walls. You won't hear them speaking in hushed tones or in angry tlrades about the suffering of their animal icons at the hands of cruel, unappreciative humans. They have a remarkably unemotional, but in every case humane, approach to their life work. They know on a very jeep and personal level, as well as a ~rofessionalevel, that the vitality of the animal world is a reflection of ( own health. Seeing no firm bounda between the two-legged5 and the four-legged, winged or flipprred, th advocate a kind of informed nteraction with the animal world. Through observing the behavior of 3ur earthly cohabitants, these peop npen windows not only into our wonderfully complex natural environment but also into our own humanitv. ~ ~ a r ~ e Brooke: For twenty years, PSU trail of the world's rarc ---A- :he and geograpl ? and dis eight lvorrnwesr Museum of Natural nlsiury: PSU alum David Taylc rheading an effor gather University's coli ~ndeorne roof fo )r is spea lections I nine Philip Caddis ('75 F Free-lance ornithologis Research Institute to kf k be-in the woods. H3): it founds .ep him ?st Ecolo; ? wants t gical 0 Northwf where hf eleven The native peoples of the northwest tell legends about a time when the world was inhabited by animal wople, who later turned into people as we know them today. This could be an intriguing way to describe ?volution. 8ut ~tis more likely an Plus: Co-existing wi wid; Cen watercolors; P )th year; fares well in leg~starure;nnnual Fund brea~srec Tuition change; AlumNotes; Faculty Notes; Calc and more. th the n; 'SU head I . - itural wc Is into 4C A .- tral Ore~ Higher E _-^ zloquent ex1 3etween ani affect5 US ev jummer or r ~ressionof t ma15 and h~ eryday whe rot. he con ti nu^ man< that ther it's p4bclm * rnne La- r&n chr- arl @asp 111: Sandra %!nt-h+m
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTc4NTAz