One time I went into a New Hampshire town with a group of scientists. It was "open mic" night and one of the GRC conferees actually won the singing competition.
- Leonard Zon
One of the GRCs on Research at High Pressure got a bit too "athletic." By the fourth day, most of the front row was populated by injured baseball and soccer players with bandages, crutches, and taped limbs!
- James S. Schilling
I remember John Partridge reappearing naked after one of Koji Nakanishi's magic tricks at a Natural Products Conference.
- Paul Kropp
My first GRC, in 1982, was during my second year as a graduate student. I boarded the bus with luminaries in my field: Mike Brown, Joe Goldstein, Gil Ashwell, and Dick Anderson. I was star-struck... until the bus stopped at the NH liquor store, where they all piled out to buy copious quantities of alcohol!
- Sandra Schmid
The Composites GRC grew out of the Polymers conference and served to focus the early research in the area of structure-property relations in fiber reinforced composite materials. Many of the initial government-funded research projects in composites grew from suggestions made at the GRC.
- John L. Kardos
Very early on, there were acronyms everywhere for the various Raman methods. My favorite is one I heard from Al Harvey at the 1976 conference. Common Old Ordinary Raman Spectroscopy - COORS.
- Larry Rahn