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passed away onWednesday,September 27,1995,aftera 4-month bout with lung cancer thathad spread throughout his body.Hisfaithful partner and wife,MarilynBender Gilbert(formerly Marilyn Fers-ter),was with him throughout his finalillness.These are simple facts that can-not hope to cover the complex study incontrasts that was Tom.His death willundoubtedly provoke a unique re-sponse from all who knew him.Storiesabout Tom are legion—he is partly aman of fiction.  \n# How I Met Tom\n\nI met Tom in 1954.We both had astrong interest in standardizing behav-ior measurement.I was applying Skin-ner's rate of response in analyzing psy-chotic behavior,and Tom was interest-ed in what he called the dimensions ofbehavior.We spent hours at conven-tions and meetings discussing how tomeasure the free operant.I thought awell-designed operandum and rate ofresponse were sensitive enough,andnicely universal.Tom was convincedthat rate was only one of three,or pos-sibly four,dimensions,and to focus onrate alone was a major mistake.(Theseideas became chapter 11 in HumanCompetence.)  \nThen one day in September 1957,Tom drove into the parking lot of mylaboratory at Metropolitan State Hos-  \npital,in Waltham,Massachusetts.Hisstation wagon was bulging with theload:he,wife Betty,and several chil-dren inside;luggage strapped on theback and piled on top.When I asked,“Tom,what are you doing here?”Hespat out angrily,“We are on our wayback to Georgia!”I said,\"But whatbrought you up here?I thought youwere teaching at the University ofGeorgia.”Tom replied,\"Skinner ac-cepted me to spend a sabbatical year ina fellowship with him here at Harvard.At Memorial hall they had no office forme!They didn't even know I was com-ing!And,Skinner is in England!Weare on our way back to Georgia!”Isaid,\"Tom,don't take this personal-ly.”Tom interrupted,stood ramrodstraight,and with measured voice saidslowly and emphatically,\"I take thishighly personally!”  \nI went on to say that Skinner oftenforgot things and,as my doctoral ad-visor,even missed my final doctoralorals.I said I had room for Tom tohave a desk and could free one of ourseven experimental rooms for him touse for research on operanda for histhree free-operant dimensions.Tomcooled down,accepted my offer,andfound an apartment in Cambridge.Wewould both drive over to Cambridgefor the regular monthly pigeon labmeetings organized by Skinner andCharlie Ferster.In addition to workingin my laboratory,Tom spent some timeat a small desk in the Office for Pro-grammed Instruction while he was inCambridge.Here he met Jim Hollandand Sue Markle and got in on the  \nground floor of teaching machines andprogrammed instruction.  \n# A Proud Southerner\n\nTom was a Southerner,proud of theCivil War South,proud to have beenborn a Southerner.He knew details ofthe Civil War that few others knew.Heloved to tell about the crafty,cunning,brilliant,elusive,and handsome Fran-cis Marion who,without supplies andwith only a few men,regularly badg-ered the Union soldiers.He was calledthe Swamp Fox.I told Tom that thename for Rhode Islanders from SouthCounty near the Great Swamp,whereI grew up,was \"Swamp Yankee.\"So,during the year that Tom spent in mylab I might call to Tom \"Hey SwampFox,come over here and look at thiscumulative record if you want to seereal behavioral control.\"And Tomwould say,\"No thanks,Swamp Yan-kee,you come over here and look atthis operandum that will record allthree dimensions of the free operant forthe first time!”  \nTom even sneaked General Robert  \nE.Lee into the text of Human Com-petence.See if you can find it.  \n# A Complex Man\n\nTom was charismatic,flamboyant,brilliant,articulate,high response rate,tall,handsome,red-haired,driven,andhighly creative.In his early years hedrank a little too heavily and woman-ized a bit,as did many of the WorldWar II generation.He was determ","cbCaik8ySYVwYjHh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik8ySYVwYjHh","pdf",1248935,"English","# In Memoriam\n# How I Met Tom\n# A Proud 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