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Volume
20, Number 4,
April 1974:
With These Two Hands
Text-only version
ISSUE
HOME PAGE
ABOUT
THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
IN THIS ISSUE
- section 1
- section 2
- section 3
- section 4
- section 5
- section 6
- section 7
- section 8
- section 9
- section 10
- conclusion
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With
These Two Hands
by Robert
J.Boles
continued...
In the
summer of 1968 Jose Gonzales, of the Universidad Industrial
de Santander, Bucaramanga, Columbia, took Richard’s taxidermy
course. He was so impressed with Mr. Schmidt and his skills
and teaching that Richard was invited to come to the University
of Bucaramanga to help establish a museum and train a taxidermist.
On January
21, 1970, Richard and his wife boarded a plane in Kansas
City for their flight to South America. With little command
of Spanish, and working with students who had little or
no knowledge of English, proved to be an interesting, if
not sometimes comical and near disasterous, adventure. The
6-month employment at the University was an enjoyable experience,
and a lasting friendship was formed with his student Hernando
Romeroz.
This
spring Richard Schmidt will retire from the Biology Department
of Kansas State Teachers College. Needless to say he will
be missed. His many mounted specimens over the state, and
especially in the Natural History Museum in Breukelman Hall
on the Kansas State Teachers College campus, will stand
as a memorial to this gentle, kindly man, who rose from
the hard work and limited education in his early years to
become an author, college instructor, and world traveler.
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