When we got back to Munroe’s, another one of my little brothers was there:
Roy Goodwin. Roy was talking about taking some actives on an walk and Jim
Burnett was one of them. Mystery solved after all these years. Roy is now a
pharmacist is Woodville and his lovely wife is a teacher in Sharpstown
(Houston). They own a condo in Houston and a house in Woodville and travel
back and forth. Roy and I had several of the same chemistry courses at Lamar,
not at the same time but the same teachers. We exchanged stories, but several
that Roy told were worth repeating. When he was in pharmacy school, they had
no choice but to take a plant course, in which they had to learn the scientific
names of plants. He said it was pretty boring, but he had the good prof that
taught the course and his friend had the Ogre. His friend was about to fail for
the Ogre and was driving along and saw a plant on the side of the road. He
stopped and picked it and carried it to the mean prof, hoping that he would
have mercy on him. As soon as the prof saw the plant he calls out the scientific
name with excitement in his voice. But, he failed him anyway. Years later when
Roy was a pharmacist, he recognized the name of the pharmacist who called
him to ask a question. It was his friend who had failed the plant course. Roy
yelled out to him the scientific name of the plant he picked on the side of the
road. After some silence on the other end, a voice comes back and says, “Who
is this!!” A few years after Roy graduated from pharmacy school the mean prof
passed away. Roy received correspondence asking for money to build a
statue as a memento to this prof. Roy responded that he would buy the
pigeons. Another story Roy related was funny but not one that he himself
found much pleasure in. Roy said there was a rule in pharmacy school. If you
had 3 test scheduled within a certain time period, you could get one of them
rescheduled. Well, Roy had 3 scheduled and he arranged to have one
rescheduled. When he showed up to take the test, no one was there. Roy had
a “B” going into the final, and he thought he could have made an A on the final.
He went to the prof that was supposed to give the test and he told Roy, “Oh,
you missed the test!” “What do you mean, I missed the test, I came to the room
and the time when I was supposed to!” The prof said, “Well, that was changed
to a different time and I posted it on the bulletin board.” Of course Roy had not
been to the bulletin board, but if he had, he probably would not have seen it.
Roy said that in the upper right-hand corner of the bulletin board was a
postcard sized note saying that the re-test time had been changed. Roy went to
the head of the department, who said there was nothing he could do, but he
would see that the F did not hurt him. He had to take it again. Wow!! Roy said
he made an A.