William P. MacConnell

Dear Shirley and family,
I am so sorry to hear the news about Mac. Somehow I thought he would live forever. He gave me my first job at Umass, and started me on my life of aerial photo interpretation and mapping. Who knows what I would have ended up doing with my life if I had not worked in the Map Room first. There are many great stories about those days (1973-1998), but Mac's stories about his forestry days were even better. In the early years of my employment he used to treat us all...