Posted by Craig Faanes
on 10/12/2005, 5:55 am
164.159.194.247
Since Nancy Schultz started this thread of "do you remember teacher X" (good idea also) I thought I'd throw one out also. During the freshman year for the Class of 1969 (that was 1965-1966) we had a Biology teacher named William Transburg. He was a new graduate of the incomparable University of Wisconsin - River Falls. I remember him and his wife taking me out on a few weekends in late winter (March) collecting aquatic insect larvae from Cranberry Creek below the swimming pool. I got so jazzed learning that there was all this strange life under the water (not to be confused with "the ocean is a desert with its life underground and the perfect disguise above" by The Eagles). Later in spring he turned us on to wild flowers. I used to pay attention to flowering plants but before Mr Transburg challenged us to learn more, I had no idea there were so many species of flowers in the forests. Although I had realized for some time that if I ever made it out of high school (and there were no guarantees that would happen back then!) I wanted to be a biologist, it was Mr. Transburg who focused me on UW River Falls where, eventually, I got a BS and a Masters in Biology. He left for some unremembered reason after our freshman year which was a huge bummer because that meant having to take Advanced Biology our second year from nearly-always-asleep Mr Meyers. I've thought about Mr Transburg several times in recent years as the wonderful specter of retirement looms, and wanted to contact him in some way to thank him for solidifying my interest in what grows on mother earth, and also for focusing me on a great college down the road to the southwest from Cameron.
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