Bill was a very good academic leader, but he also was a pure scientist. We spent many summers at night observing cricket mating behavior. One thing he/we discovered was that a small red eyed fly kept being attracted to the speakers when we played cricket songs. We did that work at the University of Texas’s Brackenridge Field Station in Austin.
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How a tiny fly’s ears could help you hear better
54 years of marriage means we did many things and many of them were pretty exciting for a little girl from the westside barrio of San Antonio. I met him as my physiology teacher my senior year. Nothing happened between us that year as he was kinda goofy young man trying to teach science at Memorial High school. He asked if he could call me on the night of my high school graduation. We were engaged by Christmas and married by the summer and moved to Austin for graduate school. I had Dan Otte as a professor and I introduced Bill to Dan.