R.
Malcolm Brown, Jr's.
PERSONAL HOMEPAGE
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September, 2002
Hello, I'm Malcolm Brown. I have been a member of the Department of
Botany for many years. In September, 1999, our Department of Botany was
dissolved and a new School of Biological Sciences created. I moved to a
section called Molecular
Genetics and Microbiology. I am in the same building and teach the
same courses. My email has not changed, nor will the URL.
In 1982, I returned to my Alma Mater after having
spent 13 years on the faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. As a graduate student here at UT, I was trained as a botanist with
a specialization in phycology, the study of algae. Prof.
Harold C. Bold was my major professor. I learned electron microscopy
in 1959 with Dr. Hilton Mollenhauer and have been active in the field for
the past 36 years. Right now, I am excited about the prospects of developing
atomic and molecular imaging with the TEM so that proteins, DNA, and biopolymers
can be visualized with minimal damage.
My early electron microscopy studies led me into the
investigation of CELLULOSE, Nature's most
abundant macromolecule. For the past 25 years, I have been investigating
the structure and biosynthesis of this important biopolymer. I have shared
many exciting moments with former
graduate students and colleagues in discoveries relating to cellulose.
Like most of my colleagues, I am being brought "kicking
and screaming" into the computer age with the Internet! This is a great
way to communicate, so here is my own attempt to create an interesting
homepage. As you might have noticed, I have made some sweeping changes.
Take a look at the links below. My latest hobby centers around
composition on my Roland
KR-1070 Digital Electronic Grand Piano. I make wave files then compress
them into fabulous mp3 files, so download some of these for your listening
pleasure. I will endeavor to keep Malcolm's mp3 page updated and full of
new and interesting music. I have a new Roland portable keyboard, a full 88
weighted keys (The new Roland KF-90).
It has the full functionality of the KR-1070, so it is excellent to take with me
for composing ( I did this in Aspen in the Summer of 2002). A new addition is my
early life and music. I hope you will like this page.
Those of you who know me know that I am a shutterbug
and take lots of photos! I think you will enjoy the photo sessions, particularly
the new ones from Sweden
I am very proud of the images telling the story of
our trip to Israel in January 1999. It was a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the "Eye
of God" have special meaning to me and will have an impact on you.
My garden. Oh yes, you will like to see what we
can grow out here in the West under Juniper trees. Please take a Garden
Tour. It is not easy gardening but worthwhile. Just remember,
when most of the Nation is under snow and freezing, we are having our second
springtime!
Please visit my dedication sites to friends and
relatives. Some have passed away recently and others are still hard at
work and active. These sites were created out of my resolute and absolute
respect for these individuals. It is an honor to have known each and every
one of them. I only hope these webpages will do these people justice.
I am very proud especially of the webpage I made
for my former high school chemistry teacher, Elaine
Ledbetter. Look through this paradise, as Elaine has allowed me to
reprint much of her poetry and photography. Something here you will never
find anywhere else. It is worth several hours of browsing just to visit
this site.
Another website I really like is the dedication
to my former professor Harold
C. Bold, a famous international phycologist, UT-Austin Professor, musician,
and great human being. I would appreciate feedback on this page as it needs
more work to be complete. I hope you like it even though it needs
some more work. You former students visit the pages often. Look at the
new MOVIE addition. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear and see Harold in
his setting, with his stories, speech, mannerisms, etc. It brought back a flood
of memories for me.
Hey, I still like my hometown, Pampa,
Texas! How many of you really know where this is located? My
wife, Ann, has a T-shirt that says, "Pampa, Texas- 20 miles from water
and 2 feet from hell!" That does not really do Pampa Texas justice.
Go visit this page and see for yourself.
I have decided to leave this page up because of the very good response from many former students.
It is the Pampa
High School Class of 1957 Reunion. Teeny Boppers and the 50's are very
well represented here. Take a look!
Also, you might be interested in a biographical sketch
which was installed in Pampa High School at the new Hall
of Fame Induction Ceremony on May 20, 1997. Also take a look at my
recent photos at the October, 2000 Hall of Fame Ceremony and Homecoming
in Pampa. Lots of really "cool" or "tight" photos!
Well, as these years fly by, we may be aging and
our telomerases working to shorten our chromosomes, but we still feel
young!
If you would like to see what we looked like 41 years ago on the first
night I met Ann, click HERE!
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This
is my memorial to September 11, 2001. Please download the music and reflect upon
this time of our lives. Created September 10, 2003
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A memorial dedication to my teacher and my true friend,
Elaine Ledbetter who is critically ill as of May 6, 2002
A dedication of original music (mp3s) and reading of Elaine's poetry from Enfold the Splendor
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At last! Excerpts from the video of Harold
C. Bold's 1987 reunion in Austin! See and
here the REAL HAROLD C. BOLD, courtesy of the modern marvels of the Internet!
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A fantastic photo collection
of images from SWEDEN
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A memorial dedication
to Valerie Maslow, a beautiful person who passed away recently
after a valiant fight against cancer (4-11-02)
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Visit
Lena Linderholm's
fantastic gallery in Waxholm, Sweden.
This is one of my favorite places to visit when
I go to Sweden. She is one of Sweden's best known artists. Her husband,
Gosta, is a famous jazz musician!
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Tour
my garden! (still under construction! good until photo # 30!) |
Proud
Owner of the New Roland KR-1070 Digital Intelligent Grand
Piano |
Julie Brown
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A Special
Dedication to Elaine Ledbetter of Pampa, Texas- Chemistry Teacher, NSTA
President, Poet, Photographer, Wonderful Human Being!
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Now
open!- A Very Informative Personal Dedication
Page to HAROLD C. BOLD! (music, frames from the 1986 video and the Caldwell
reunion plus early photos of Harold and other phycologists- a must-see)
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My
dedication to Kelly
Anderson, dear friend, who passed
away, February 16, 2001 |
Website Tour of Pampa, Texas
Geography quiz time!-Where is Pampa? Well, this
is one of the finest small towns in the U.S.A.
Why not find out for yourself? |
Biographical Sketch for Induction intothe Pampa High School Hall of Fame
Yours
truly in front of his favorite school, May, 1997. |
A
Webpage Dedicated To My Friend, Willie Kocurek
(Willie Kocurek is a "fixture" in Austin-master
gardener, lawyer, businessman, dedicated giver
of his time and energies, great father and husband, hero to students and
parents. Learn more about this wonderful person.)
Note,
I have a composition dedicated
"To
Willie". |
Talk-"Connecting Science"
This talk gives quite a lot of my philosophy
and also tells about some early research and how I
became interested in science. |
Exciting Places to Vacation!
(new places coming soon) |
My
dedication to my best friend, Bill Atkinson, who passed away |
My
Friend, Andreas Sievers, of Bonn, Germany! Click on Icon for some very
interesting information! |
Pampa
High School's Class
of 1957 Fortieth Reunion in September 1997!
Only forty three"short" years ago, a group of
some 250 Pampa High School Students were matriculating through a very unique
school. Now, these former students rejoined and relived "old times". |
Reunion PHOTOS and Followup
Here is living proof
that
we have the eternal "fountain of youth". If you have difficulty with the
small download, take a look at the large jpeg. Why, we have not aged one
single bit! |
June, 2000-Click on the above icon to
learn more about a most interesting "Magna Carta"-
The Trieste Declaration of Human Duties. I firmly believe
in this document and would like to share it with you. I hope you will enjoy. |
Here is a great link to Kjell Sandved's
Butterfly Alphabet Page. This is really
wonderful material. For 50,000,000 years butterflies
have inhabited the earth, for 2,000 years we have had a Roman alphabet,
but for only 24 years has Nature's REAL aphabet been discovered by Kjell
Sandved! A must! Click on photo icon above to see Kjell's homepage! |
This
is Malcolm's UPDATED MP3
Webpage-download some fantastic new sound created by Malcolm- LOTS of new
files!
Try them! |
A trip to Malcolm's barbershop. The Sportsman's Barbershop. Take a look! |
A
photo montage of foods
served in Japan (all made from
my 2000-2001 trip). Not only do
they taste good, but they
look
good! |
My dedication to Kyoko Itoh who passed away, September 7, 1999 |
M
& M's! No, not candy
but Malcolm
and MUSIC-a
look at Malcolm's early life
and how music influenced
his life.
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Come
visit Greece! This link takes you to the 7th International
Phycological Congress activities
during our trip to Greece, August, 2001. Download
mp3 files of original Greek music.
Visit
classical Greece. |
Hall of Fame Reception, Induction,
Harvester Statue Dedication (class of 1956), Homecoming Football Game,
Gething Ranch,and exciting photos, including a visit with Elaine and Bill
Ledbetter! |
A
look at mother earth from
39,000 ft aboard American Airlines
Flight 60 non-stop from Tokyo to
DFW (Boeing 777 -new optical port |
My
dedication to the tragic destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in
NYC on Sept. 11, 2001. Download the music mp3 composition, "September 11,
2001" |
ASPEN,
Colorado and the
ACES Center! Take a trail tour of
the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. This
is a crown jewel, hidden in the center of Aspen. Be sure to visit this
place the next time you drop by Aspen. |
Trip to the Holy land! January 4-14, 1999. Visit this site for some truly
interesting photos!
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Visit the Frisco Shop in Austin as
it celebrates its 50th birthday! A
great restaurant from the old
Nighthawk chain Click on the icon above
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9/11
Revisited one
year later
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My
friend, Jeff Zeikus who passed away in
April, 2003. Some correspondence of interest.
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Updated October 21, 2004
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Malcolm Brown, Jr.