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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
For the first couple years, I was a biology major, and I got C's and a few D's in chemistry and physics. And then I took my first anthropology class when I was a junior in college, an introductory class. And ended up -- by that time I'd done a lot of archeology -- and the archeology teaching assistant in the class, a graduate student, was telling me things that I knew were not true. So I was able to engage in a debate with a teaching assistant, based on my field experience. And the teaching assistant, I remember saying, "Don't bring that argument in here. You're here to learn from me." At which point I said, "Thank you very much, I don't have that much to learn from you," and I left. I went directly to the professor, who it turns out today, he's a good friend of mine. He's our country's leading radio-carbon dating archeologist, and we've had a great relationship ever since. And he just said, "Come to the lectures. Don't worry about the discussion sections." And that was my introduction to anthropology. And what I did was to add it as a second major.
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Tim D. White
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
Tim White: I think that the graduate school experience, the not getting into graduate school really caused me to stop and say, "Well, wait a minute. If I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do, which is to go and do field work in East Africa, and contribute to this ongoing quest for knowledge of our past, then maybe I'll look at different options." I think the story of all of that though, is that you often don't realize what other options there are. There are multiple pathways to the same objective, and if you carry that passion with you, you'll be able to find those pathways.
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Lenny Wilkens
Basketball Hall of Fame
I'll never forget my first day in logic my first year, and we had this professor named Father Heath -- Dominican Fathers taught at Providence College at that time I was there -- and he was about six-three, six-four, big commanding guy. And we had to fill out these attendance cards and turn them in the first day. And so he went through them and finally he said, "Mr. Wilkens, Mr. Whalen." There was a kid named Dick Whalen who was also a freshman on the basketball team. "Would you please stand up, gentlemen?" And we both stood up and he said, "I want you to know that I don't like athletes, and in particular I don't like basketball players, so don't ever cut my class without a good reason." So right then and there he made us understand that we were there for an education, no matter what we thought, and I was always prepared. I mean, I had my logic book with me on trips and stuff, and I guess I impressed him because I never asked out of an exam. I was always there, and I had a B average all the way through college so, you know, I think, hopefully, I changed his attitude towards athletes.
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