– FROM THE ARCHIVES –Griff, as he was known in high school, was a friend of mine. In fact, late in the first half of our lives, he stood up for me physically and philosophically, for being a science geek. Truth is, John’s endorsement was the first time I was ever deemed cool for wanting to be a scientist. It is also years ago on this day, that Griff died an engineer and a hero in the collapse of one of the World Trade Center towers. We lost touch almost twenty years before, but his kindness and generosity formed not…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By David J. Kroll
David J. Kroll, PhD is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, of pharmacotherapy and medical journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a President’s Teaching Scholar of the University of Colorado. He enjoys each of these titles because none of the aforementioned institutions actually pays him a dime. He notes that fully half of his finest trainees have been Canadian women. Despite his love for Canada, David currently swelters in Durham, NC, with his wife, Heather S Shaw, MD, and their daughter, Phoebe Talbot Kroll.
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT JOHN MICHAEL GRIFFIN, JR.
– FROM THE ARCHIVES – Griff, as he was known in high school, was a friend of mine. In fact, late in the first half of our lives, he stood up for me physically and philosophically, for being a science geek. Truth is, John’s endorsement was the first time I was ever deemed cool for wanting to be a scientist. It is also 10 years ago, that Griff died an engineer and a hero in the collapse of one of the World Trade Center towers. We lost touch almost twenty years before, but his kindness and generosity formed not only…
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT JOHN MICHAEL GRIFFIN, JR.
Griff, as he was known in high school, was a friend of mine. In fact, late in the first half of our lives, he stood up for me physically and philosophically, for being a science geek. Truth is, John’s endorsement was the first time I was ever deemed cool for wanting to be a scientist. It is also five years ago today, that Griff died an engineer and a hero in the collapse of one of the World Trade Center towers. We lost touch almost twenty years before, but his kindness and generosity formed not only a cornerstone of the…