Pilbeam

Pilbeam who has been High Commissioner since January

Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Vanuatu - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs 2008

Pilbeam, Sr., 78, a retired overhead crane operator and a longtime director of Dundee Little League who wrote poetry, owned and raced stock cars, and wrote a newspaper column for 12 years, died of pulmonary fibrosis Tuesday in his home here.

Poetic Obituaries: Byron R. Pilbeam, Sr., 78, a retired Rus Bowden 2006

Pilbeam, Sr., 78, a retired overhead crane operator and a longtime director of Dundee Little League who wrote poetry, owned and raced stock cars, and wrote a newspaper column for 12 years, died of pulmonary fibrosis Tuesday in his home here.

Archive 2006-11-01 Rus Bowden 2006

Terrified and appalled, Pilbeam looked around the room for someone to come to his defense.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Shortly after this encounter, Louis began seriously to work on his study of the Rusinga Island fossils, searching for evidence to counter Simons and Pilbeam, and for an ancestor of Kenyapithecus.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Afterwards, although Louis came up to Pilbeam, shook his hand, and said, “No hard feelings,” Pilbeam left the room a shaken man, certain that his career was at an end.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Pilbeam and others believe the fossil may represent Homo habilis, a species dating to two million years, which the Leakeys discovered in 1960 at Olduvai Gorge.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

“There is no reason to believe that the mandible did not come from where Louis said it did,” noted Harvard anthropologist David Pilbeam in 1987, “and no reason that it may not be two or more million years old.”

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Yet because the canine teeth were small—a trait paleoanthropologists seized on as proof of everything from tool use to upright posture—Pilbeam argued that Ramapithecus was well advanced.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Louis continued to glare at Pilbeam, but the younger man gathered his nerve and said, ‘I’m not going to sit down.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995