RE: Ray Harryhausen passes away

["ralphchapman" <ralphchapman@earthlink.net>]

A great loss. I shared a number of meals with his wife and him and they were
great people and he was just a true inspiration as an animator and a human
being. He will be missed.

R

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-VRTPALEO@usc.edu [mailto:owner-VRTPALEO@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:53 AM
To: DINOSAUR@usc.edu; VRTPALEO@usc.edu
Subject: Ray Harryhausen passes away

Greetings,

Just heard that the great stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen has passed
away:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103886

I know that for a sizeable fraction of our community  of a certain age,
Harryhausen's animated fossil animals (and other creatures) were the closest
thing we saw in childhood to ancient creatures coming to life.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu   Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216                        
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology Dept. of Geology, University of
Maryland http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661               

Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843

Mailing Address:        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                        Department of Geology
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                        University of Maryland
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