MICHAEL HORNE

I was prompted to add another memory of Mike... and I am glad to do so. I remember taking Physics for life science majors and I was taking it as a requirement for graduation. I had seen this tall long haired guy "shuffling" around campus sometimes lugging a telescope. He looked like what we would describe as a computer geek today. He was always dressed in corduroy pants that looked big enough to fit two of him inside. He always looked like he just changed the oil in his car. He had no style...

Mike as his students called him was a classic genius. I learned that fact while taking his class as a Biology major in 1975. He had an understanding for things that seemed impossible to understand for me. It came easily to him. He was vastly approachable and delighted in hearing a new way to pronounce a word... his southern accent was VERY obvious. I remember a class sitting together trying to figure out what he was saying when he used the word "hoop." He delighted in his defense of his...