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Forks Forum gives extensive coverage of Forks and nearby High Schools {Clallam + Neah Bay] sports, student profiles, community activities. Jordon Peterson is an outstanding performer in track and cross country who has been invited to many tournaments. REMEMBERING Harvard PALEONTOLOGIST STEPHEN JAY GOULD - Sympathy to all friends of Harvard paleontologist Stephen Gould I was sorry to hear of the cancer death of Harvard's paleontologist and historian of science Stephen Gould at age sixty. My contacts with him were usually when he was hosting visiting lectures at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in their lecture hall at 22 Oxford St. in the Natural History Museums. One time I heard him speak at Harvard Hillel. Recently at Peninsula Junior College here in Port Angeles Washington, Biology Professor Edward Tisch showed his class a 1970s video of Gould and one of his sons, including their conversation with New York Yankees outfielder Joe Dimaggio. Among the distinguished visitors whose lectures Steve hosted I particularly remember Harry Whittington of Cambridge University, Great Britain, leading researcher on animals of the Burgess Shale of Cambrian Epoch in Yoho National Park, Canada, and Dolph Seilacher, recently at Yale, who explained how diverse organisms play distinct roles in building coral reefs. I knew Steve Gould well enough to feel personal grief at his passing, but I want to express my sympathy to those who worked closely with him over a number of years, particularly population geneticist Richard Lewontin, paleobotanist Andrew Knoll, paleosol expert Heinrich Holland, and atmosphere-climate experts including Michael McElroy and Paul Hoffman. I heard about Steven Gould from the late Dr. Charles Bradford, orthopedic surgeon and son of a dean of Harvard Medical School. The first time I saw Steve Gould personally was in a seminar in January 1987 on the earth's atmosphere - past present and future - Andrew Knoll, who studied the earliest life with Elso Barghoorn and is expert both on cyanobacteria and stromatolites and on geological processes that sometimes created and sometimes destroyed free oxygen and carbon dioxide - started the program with the early history of the earth and its atmosphere. Steve Gould led into the contemporary period and the existence of man, including the great catastrophe about sixty-six million years ago, in which a comet hit the earth leaving an iridium layer, and acting as a probable factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs. It seems that sometimes evolution has involved the survival of the lucky more than survival of the fit. Anyway, with the dinosaurs gone, first mammals and then apes and then humans found space to diversify. Then Michael McElroy, who made important discoveries convincing skeptics that chlorine-flourine compounds have caused the huge Antarctic ozone how, was the third speaker looking to the earth's atmosphere of the future. Gould's real specialty was fossil land snails, which often give clues to time scale of strata by changes in their shells. In places like Oahu, Hawaii, snail species manaage to be isolated from gene flow by geography and become very idiosyncratic