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HARRY TOUPS: My Friend and Colleague

  Above,  Harry Toups  today.  Sure, it's unfair, for that's what he looks like now, and here I am fifty years ago in my research lab at LSU.  The last time I saw him was 14 years ago when my wife Pearl and I went to the 2008 Sugar Bowl game.  The day after we were supposed to rent a car and drive to the LSU campus to meet with Harry and his wife Margaret.  However, it was so foggy that I cancelled that trip.  Instead, they met us in New Orleans, and we talked all day. Harry worked along side me when I earned my PhD in chemical engineering, as I suffered through a  dissertation program  that involved getting industrial funds to pay for the equipment, build a tunable later ( before one could be purchased ), then construct a micro reactor to break DNA/RNA bonds of  E. coli , not long after Watson and Crick found them.  No one in his right mind trying to get a PhD actually tries to invent his own plan to do something never done before.  Harry was smart.  He did some computer model