History of the Division of Animal Clinical Chemistry: 1974-1983 (The Clinical Chemist‪)‬

PROLOG Someone once said that there is dignity in nostalgia. In the prose that follows, I have attempted to gather up and pin down in a net of words the landscape of my time in the AACC. Of course, this story reflects my own interests and prejudices. It has all of the limitations imposed on imagination by culture and experience, but after all, I hope that it conveys to the reader the arc of the early days in the Division of Animal Clinical Chemistry (DACC). It finally is a spiritual map of this writer's own journey in the AACC and the Committee, and as a kind of autobiography, it contains the entire climate and topography of my activities with the Committee, with all of the vaunting ambitions, oversized ego, technical curiosity, organizational energy, little-boy insecurities, the harder edge of success, and the desire for immortality that have sustained me in so many of my pursuits in life.