Robert Shuman:  

Life Cornell was very challenging, not from the perspective of mastering the material but learning to manage time and resources in order to learn the material. Stanford Med was a lot more fun because the classes were very small, the faculty personable and involved, and the environment nice. My wife, Marcia, was a Stanford Undergrad and we married at her graduation, the end of my 2nd. year. We studied for 1/2 year in Glasgow, came back to Stanford for my Sr. year, and then started Peds at Colorado. Good faculty, good care, loved Peds Med. On to UW and Peds Path with JBBeckwith who described Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, then Buster Alvord in Neuropatholgy who taught, taught, taught excellence in Neuroanatomy and in Clinical-Neuropathological Correlations and in the value of collaboration amongst all of the neurosciences. AND, he actually liked me. I discovered the poisoning of infants by pHisoHex here (1972), had my 15 minutes of fame, and Marcia bore Sky (now 33, Special Forces, St. Johns grad in Philosophy and to become?). At Pittsburgh for 1.5 years, disliking the environment and stuff, I published an important paper describing the major disease of the cerebral white matter in babies. Valery, our daughter now 28, is born in Pitt. Va...Expand for more