for me. I would meet with him every quarter, and I also was mentored by Herb Solomon, who allowed me to take an independent-study course on statistics and the law with him after I had him as a professor in one of the core courses. Along the way, I had a number of interactions with Sally Morton (Winner of HPSS Long-Term Award 2018), who was then a Ph.D. student---when I had plans to go overseas to the London School of Economics, she offered insights from her experience of having studied there. Although I didn't get to know him until he later became a professor of mine (and teammate on the Harvard Statistics Department intramural basketball team), I also would say hi to Hal Stern, who like Sally waswas working on calibrating false matches in computer matching related to census undercount estimation. It also happened that in the fall of 1986, when we started, the Red Sox were in the World Series, playing the N.Y. Mets in the series famous for their Game 6 collapse when the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs. Andrew and I went down to Kenmore Square to watch Game 3, the first in the series played in Boston, in one of the Fenway Park bars; the Mets hit a leadoff home run on their way to 4 runs in the top of the first inning and a wipeout victory, and more memorable than the game was the short course in human diversity we received from the people crammed into the same