Abstract
I am very happy to be here today to present the citation to Bruce Lieberman for this year's Schuchert Award—for I view Bruce as one of the very best and brightest young paleontologists currently gracing our profession. I also value him as a terrific former student, now an esteemed colleague—and as a great guy and a very good friend. The first piece of correspondence I ever received from Bruce is dated 8 January 1986; Bruce wrote that he had taken Steve Gould's course at Harvard—and that course, plus Steve's personal encouragement, helped him to decide to turn his childhood fantasy (as he put it) of being a paleontologist into a reality. That letter got him up and running, as I was able to cobble together the necessary funds for Bruce to spend a chunk of the upcoming summer months cutting his newly erupting paleontological teeth on Devonian trilobites at the American Museum. Bruce was a winner from the get-go. What all paleontologists need to have is basic love-of-fossil—and Bruce quickly showed that he had that in spades. But he also had something …
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