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NORMAN GARY LANE: PRESIDENT OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY (1987–1988) AND FOUNDER OF "FRIENDS OF THE ECHINODERMS" (1967)

¹ Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, <schopf@ess.ucla.edu>
² Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210
³ Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
⁴ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
⁵ Department of Geology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164

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NORMAN GARY LANE (1930–2006), president of the Paleontological Society (1987–88) and founder of "Friends of the Echinoderms" (1967), contributed to the lives of each of the authors of this essay. He was an excellent paleontologist, a very fine person, and our friend. He influenced each of us, in ways large and small, and through his wisdom, insight, and sheer human decency he helped each of us to become better scientists, better teachers, and better human beings. We are proud to number ourselves among a great many for whom Gary Lane was a role model.

	INTRODUCTION

 
Gary Lane (Fig. 1) was born in French Lick, Indiana, on February 19, 1930. In his early childhood the family moved to Sidell, Illinois, where for many years his father owned and operated the small-town newspaper that served the local farming community. Following graduation from high school, Gary attended Oberlin College in northeastern Ohio—at that time and for many decades earlier regarded as among the most outstanding of all liberal arts colleges—from which he received his Bachelor's degree in Geology in 1952. Even in his student days Gary delighted in carrying out geologic field work. This, coupled with the accessibility of the kindly (if demanding) faculty of the Oberlin Geology Department, kindled Gary's interest in fossils and the history of life, just as it spurred on two of his classmates, E. G. Driscoll and J. A. Fagerstom, each of whom, like Gary, were later to become professors of paleontology.

View larger version (94K):   FIGURE 1—Norman Gary Lane (1930–2006)