California Association of Criminalists. Founders' Lecture. The past, present, and future of criminalistics.

Abstract

When I speak to a class, I know what I am going to talk about subject matter of class. But I was not given a defined subject for this presentation. I didn't know what to speak about. Since Tony Longhetti gave last Founder's Lecture, I asked him what he thought it should cover. He was no help. He said it was up to you, but, he added, the theme of meeting is The Past, Present, and Future of Having worked for Tony for my first four years in this field, I should have expected that response. He wouldn't answer questions then, either. He made me research my own answers. For example, he would mark red circles on my reports, for every slight grammatical error or misspelled word. If I made a mistake in logic or he questioned how I did something, he would write dreaded words See me!. He wouldn't tell me what was wrong until I had researched problem myself. Then I had to submit corrected version