Rob Gogan
Rob Gogan, Harvard’s recycling and waste manager, retired in October, having long done more than anyone else to instill a culture of waste-reduction, reuse (of furniture, for example), recycling, and composting throughout the University.
Helped by friends and correspondents, he also compiled and published a monthly “Nature Watch,” starting in 2001. With Harvard now barely peopled, it seems fitting to share some of his collected observations of the other kinds of life that teem on campus. Nodding to this winter season, Primus has selected a few entries from his January dispatches.
• 2002: “Tendons snap audibly as a hawk perched in a tree in front of Massachusetts Hall dismembers a squirrel rip by rip.”