Dr. Melvin "Mel" Schroeder

Mel was one of my best friends. I first met him as professor in a National Science Foundation academic year program for 1964-1965 in which I was a participant and from which I earned my Masters Degree. He and I have been coffee drinking buddies ever since. He and Coleman Loyd Informed Frank Hubert who was the first Dean of the TAMU College of Education when it was formed in 1969 that he should consider me for the position of professor of science education for the new college when I...