Postcards returned by alumni often contain queries about professors or instructors with whom we have lost touch over the years.  Our alumni could help the Biology Department by answering some of the Alumni Mailbag queries.  We, on campus, are focusing on the present and future and have lost track of when particular professors were on campus as Biology, Zoology or Botany faculty.  We are going to try to reconstruct the historical timeline of faculty residence on campus by sending a postcard questionnaire to you, our alumni. 
This could be fun and of interest to our alumni and our current faculty.  Help us turn this accompanying random tree of some of our present and past faculty into a tree rooted in our memorable past!  Please indicate on the accompanying postcard the years when you were on campus and your most memorable courses and professors who you think belong on the tree.  Using this data we will construct a timeline and publish it in the next BioMass.  The timeline may jog the memories of other alumni and lead to more information and Alumni Mailbag queries.  Do not hesitate to use Email to speed up the information gathering process (alumni_forum@bio.umass.edu).