"I was turned on to BA at Denison University (1966-1970) through a

PSYC 104 course that included a rat lab, the Holland and Skinner text,

and the first volume of Ulrich, Stachnik, and Mabry. The course was, I

think, team-taught course by younger faculty. Interestingly, I doubt I

would have taken it except that my girlfriend took it before me, and I

was intrigued by the "science" part of psychology she informally

described. At Denison, I was most influenced by two senior faculty --

Parker Lichtenstein and Irv Wolf. They were, I am pretty sure, J. R.

Kantor students out of Indiana Univesity. I don't know if Skinner was at

Indiana at the time, but I think so. Bijou may have been there at the

time, too. They knew Bijou, which is why I went to the University of

Illinois for graduate school with him (1970-1975). Bijou, though, had

been a Kenneth Spence student at the University of Iowa in the late

1930s, I think; Spence himself was Clark Hull's most famous student. The

connection between Bijou and Skinner came later through a 1960-1961 or

so sabbatical Bijou took with Skinner and others in Boston. I do not

know of any formal Keller connection in this, but of course it was all

one big family for a while. Bijou set up an environment at the

University of Washington in the late 1950s-early 1960s in which Baer,

Wolf, and Risley flourished, along with Lovaas, Sherman, and many

others. When I completed by doctorate at Illinois, I took my position at

Kansas where Baer, Wolf, and Risley had institutionally founded applied

behavior analysis (i.e., JABA). Another important professional influence

during graduate school was William H. Redd, who was I think a Jay

Birnbrauer student out of North Carolina in about 1973. Birnbrauer may

have been one of Bijou's students at Washington. I can fill in the dates

and details later, if they become important."