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I was a pretty good student in high school.  In my sophomore year I had good grades and realistic dreams of going to college.  I was also rather sickly that year, and missed a considerable amount of school.  I was able to make up my work and exams with all of the teachers, except one. My biology teacher, Mrs. Tetlow (who must have been 70 or 80 years old) was going to fail me because I had been sick and had missed so much class time.  Made no difference that my grades were good, there was a rule that anyone who had missed that much time had to get a failing grade. 

The only reason I passed biology was because Mrs. Tetlow died about midterm, and the replacement teacher, a bright and eccentric young man, decided to grade me based on my performance.

That young man was named Edwin F. Evert. 

I heard on the news that a 72-year-old eccentric botanist was killed by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park.  His name was Edwin F. Evert.

 Is it the same man?  Well, can’t be too many people with that name.  In one news article it did say he taught high school biology in Chicago.  And the age is right.

The most compelling thing is, as I am writing this, I am looking at his signature in my yearbook.

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