Memories of Miguel

摘要

Ed Huskinson introduced me to mineral collecting in 1977 and suggested that, since I was doing work on my Masters thesis right across the highway from the mineral-rich Santa Eulalia district, I should focus my collecting efforts there. Ed introduced me to Miguel Romero as the ultimate Mexican locality collector at Tucson in 1978 and we began a friendship that lasted for life. I was clearly a competitor for specimens, at least with respect to Santa Eulalia, but that couldn't have mattered less to Miguel and he encouraged my interest from the beginning. And I quickly learned that Miguel had a silver tongue when I found myself agreeing to sell him things (from localities other than Santa Eulalia) that I would otherwise have kept. He always refused my offers of discounts, though, noting that I was a starving student with important work to do. I keep a picture of Miguel on one of my exhibit cases to remind me to keep my focus to the south.