E. Lendell Cockrum

My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.

Saddend to hear of Dr. Cockrums passing. Many happy memories of the mammalogy class and the field trips back in '56-57. It was a privilege to have had that experience. My condolences to his family. Bob Moses Sierra Vista, AZ

8 Dec. 2009

I was sorry to hear of Dr. Cockrum's death. From 1956-58 I was a grad student at UA in Mammalogy under E.L. Cockrum. Those were among the best years of my life: wonderful country, good people, and a very good advisor who became a good friend. All my sympathies to the family.

Ken Lange, Baraboo, WI.

I was saddened to learn of Doc's passing upon returning home after 5 weeks in Madagascar on December 4. He was my PhD advisor in the 1970s, open-minded enough to take on a very green female student with zero field experience. He was a patient, hands-off advisor whose policy (in his words)was "to give you as much rope as you need to hang yourself." He was always available to talk, gave us all free access to his extensive reprint collection (no electronic resources in those days!), and...

I was very sorry to just learn of Dr. Cockrum's death. He was an undergraduate advisor for me, and I took his Mammalogy course, as well as Comparative Anatomy the one semester he taught that, in about spring, 1956. I went with some of his other grad students on a great trip to Alamos, Sonora in spring of 1958, and he gave me lots of advice, lots of times, about my work with bats, which eventually became my career research interest. Best wishes and sympathy to his family. Roger Carpenter...

I owe my PhD degree to Dr. E. Lendell Cockrum and thus I can never say thank you enough, Dr. Cockrum. I am so grateful. And I am happy that I did say that to you on few occasions. I was a student in Robert Baker's lab at Texas Tech University. Bob suggested that I finish up the work that Dr. Cockrum started on the systematics of Mammals of Tunisia for my dissertation project. Dr. Cockrum has already retired but was gracious enough to receive me in his home, donate a huge collection of...

I will never forget the wonderful classes I took with Dr. Cockrum back in the sixties. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to thank him before he died.

Dr. Cockrum gave one of the most remarkable lectures I've ever heard on the final day of my zoology class. It was, of course, on bats, and the students in the Main Auditorium at the UofA gave him a standing ovation. That was in 1961, and his lecture made me want to be an even better and more inspiring teacher than I had hoped to be. After 27 years of teaching and 48 years later, I still remember how wonderful a teacher he was.

I will miss your dad very much, the original Bat Man. I know he is all ready in bridge game. My prayers are with you.