Vin Morgan has many interests.  Having a career in law, administration, and management, Vin was also a G-2 intelligence analyst and reconnaissance platoon officer, company executive officer, and battalion adjutant in the Panama Canal Zone in the late 1960s. He has taught sailing and holds a juris doctor from SUNY at Buffalo where he was also editor in chief of the Buffalo Law Review and is a member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars and the DC Bar.  He has published books and given talks on different ventures in paleontology - the Fayum expedition, paleontology of the American southwest, Walter Granger and his place in paleontological history, and Granger's expeditions to Asia.  He is also an avid sailor, photographer, and fossil hunter having joined different parties in the field, mostly out west.

The lecture, hosted by the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club, is sponsored by the Clarissa and Lincoln Dryden Endowment for Paleontology, and is free and open to the public.  Membership to the Fossil Club is open to the members of the Calvert Marine Museum Society; annual dues are $10.00.  For additional information, please contact Stephen Godfrey, CMM’s Curator of Paleontology, at 410-326-2042 x28.