"I had contact with Skinner as a graduate student at Harvard (9/61-5/64). I

took a lecture course he gave on The Technology of Teaching in spring,

1962. He also presided over (I think) three weeks of our proseminar for

first-year graduate students. There we primarily discussed his book

Verbal Behavior (which we read). One of the meetings was at his home. In

addition he sometimes attended our weekly "Pigeon Lab" meetings, organized

primarily by Richard Herrnstein. Finally, he was my examiner for fluency

in speaking French. My accent was so horrific he quickly grimaced and said

"Stop, stop, I'll pass you but stop".

In another sense of ancestry: Dick Herrnstein was my primary advisor and

he in turn had been Skinner's student.

JEAB had a section a few years back on memories of the Pigeon

Lab at Harvard."