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Winning Captions, Fall 2019

An old black and white photo of students and professors in a lab studying animal skeletons

In this circa 1976 photo from the URI Archives, Professor Harold Bibb (far right) helps senior zoology major Wayne Mollohan ’76. In back, Professor Clarence Goertemiller (in lab coat) helps other students in the lab.

We were thrilled to hear from Wayne’s daughter, Meghan Mollohan Ferguson ’06, who said, “That’s my dad, Dr. Wayne Mollohan, and Professor Harold Bibb. My dad says this was likely the chordate anatomy and morphogenesis five-credit course he took as a sophomore. He went on to Tufts Dental School. Back in 2005, I told my dad about this professor that I had, Harold Bibb. When he heard his name, he instantly remembered that he also had him as a professor.”

We also heard from Bill Walton ’78, who said, “The picture brings back memories of my days as a zoology major.”

Harold Bibb became a member of URI’s faculty in 1972. He was appointed dean of the Graduate School in 1995, and retired in 2010. He was the speaker at URI’s first Black Scholar Awards Program in 1998. Clarence Goertemiller was hired to URI’s faculty in 1965 and retired in 1993. •


Fall winners:

Winning Caption
“A skeleton crew hard at work.”
—Bill Rosenberg ’77

Runner-Up
“Steve and his cat were last in the add/drop line for comparative vertebrate anatomy.”
—Bill Walton ’78

Honorable Mention
“Where are they now? Timmy and Lassie donate
their bodies to science.”
—Don Yost ’83