Native to small-town desert Southern California, Henry flew east and entered MIT sight-unseen in September 1966. (Rather than risk the political excitement at UC Berkeley.) With effort he achieved an SB in 1971, Course VII, and letters in track. He had taken numerous Psychology Department courses, including a neuroanatomy course without equal, taught by Ann Graybiel’s graduate studies mentor Dr. Walle H J Nauta. (All as an intellectually satisfying trick to avoid taking real humanities distribution requirement subjects.) And a few years later he happened to “rescue” Prof. Graybiel’s first technical employee from the Charles River after Tech dinghy capsize. So it must have seemed a good enough fit when he applied to join her young Laboratory as a second histology technician in 1974. Deepest personal interests were sailing (especially teaching in small boats and conducting races), low-level ice hockey, silver grain photography, and doing a bit of mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and particularly memorable, the White Mountains. He’s pretty much retired from all that now, concentrating on Laboratory support, keeping up daily physical exercise, and watching too many of this country’s people lose the battle against ignorance and fantasy. Fortunately, between the MIT Sailing Pavilion and the Graybiel Laboratory, he has been privileged to know well a number and variety of deeply interesting, talented and thoughtful people that likely exceeds your imagining
Email: hallhf@mit.edu
Email: hallhf@mit.edu