COA President Harry Lee awarded the 2019 Katherine Palmer Award

摘要

Under the category of, "How did we miss that?" comes the somewhat belated announcement that our own Dr. Harry Lee was awarded the 2019 Katherine Palmer Award by the Paleontological Research Institute (PRI) of Ithaca, NY. This award is presented annually to an individual who is not a professional paleontologist for, "...the excellence of their contributions to the field." The award is named in honor of Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (1895-1982), PRI's second director (1951-1978) and a driving force behind the 1932 founding of PRI, its buildup of extensive type and other fossil specimens, and its world class library. A celebration of her 100th birthday was reported by Harry Lee (Lee, 1995: 20). In attendance at this event were Gary Rosenberg, Dick and Liz Petit, Carole Hickman, and Harold & Emily Vokes (who traveled 1,000 miles for this event).