As Ray Kuhn's first Ph.D. student, it is an honor, and indeed a pleasure, for me to introduce Ray as the 2007 Clark P. Read Mentor Award recipient. Ray received his B.S. degree from Carson Newman College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1968, and has been at Wake Forest since the fall of that year. But, more germane to today's presentation, Ray has mentored 22 master's students, 14 doctoral students, 6 postdoctoral trainees, and an untold number of undergraduate students in his lab.
Many words can be used to describe Ray … scholar, scientist, educator, entrepreneur, family man, redneck. He indeed is a mentor of many abilities. He is a hard-driving enthusiastic experimentalist. I recall many late afternoons watching the scintillation counter reveal results. (Beer was often involved.) He is a committed educator. Ray could be found going over his note cards at 6...