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It is my great honor and pleasure to serve as citationist for the 2007 presentation of the Paleontological Society's Harrell L. Strimple Award to Norman Douglas Rowe.
My association with Doug Rowe goes back to 1993 when he stopped along the roadside where I was working, collecting fossil fish from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation in northcentral Pennsylvania. Many of you have probably had similar encounters with interested amateurs, but I imagine few have grown into the kind of cooperative and productive relationship that I have had the pleasure of developing with Doug.
Doug has spent most of his life in the vicinity of Renovo, a small Pennsylvania community within the incised valley of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, in the Allegheny Plateau region. Academic opportunities are scarce in this community, but curiosity and a drive to learn new things are clearly in Doug's character.
After graduating from Renovo High School, Doug served in the US Army. Throughout his adult life he has been a draftsman and design engineer, working in both heavy and light manufacturing. He started with railroad cars, and then when that industry left north-central Pennsylvania, he devoted his skills to the design and manufacture of Venetian blinds.
Doug's love of nature and his intense curiosity always kept him involved as a volunteer, with the Western Clinton County Sportsman's Association (as President for 11 years, and as Trout Nursery Manager) and with...