Biographical sketch of Bonnie Dalzell, MA

Bonnie Dalzell

Born 3-13-1944

My father was a fighter pilot in the US Navy so we moved many places during my childhood. By the time I graduated from high school I had attended 13 different schools.

I have a sister, Samantha McBride and a husband, Dr James Saklad. They are also on the internet.

I was an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley from 1962 through 1966, it was a thought provoking decade.

Graduate schools, Masters programs:
UC Davis, CA
UC Berkeley, Paleontology: MA
Graduate schools PhD programs:
UC Berkeley, Zoology
Columbia University - special course work
Smithsonian
Fellowship, mammalogy
University of Pennsylvania, Anatomy
I have been a teaching assistant, lecturer and instructor in a variety of anatomy, embryology and biology courses at:
University of California, Berkeley
Montgomery College, Maryland Community College.
Howard University (School of Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania (School of Veterinary Medicine).
Some rather odd jobs I have held:

MIT, research assistant, LOGO group, Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Museum exhibit work including Smithsonian Institution Natural History and Air and Space Museum. I designed 27 extraterrestrial creatures for the Air & Space Museum for an exhibit called "Pick a Planet".

I am also a published free lance photographer, writer and illustrator (natural history and science fiction) and have had work in Life, Smithsonian Magazine, Science, The American Kennel Gazette, Amiga World and Desk Top Video World, Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as well as in a number of small circulation magazines and science fiction fanzines.


Major Hobbies:

Raising Borzoi (Russian Wolfhounds) and participating in competitive field events with these dogs.
Currently I hold the record for the most field titled lure coursing dogs produced by any one breeder.

My Borzoi kennel name is Silkenswift.

Computers.
I have a currently unused Commador Amiga 4000 Computer with a Newtek Video Toaster Flyer.
A triple boot 2.3 GHz Athlon: [Ubuntu Linux, Freedos and Amithlon boot] which I built myself.
A triple boot cheap Gateway Pentium 3 [Ubuntu Linux and Amithlon and Freedos boot]
A Mac Power PC tower.
I also have a harddrive with Windoze XP installed on it. It sits on my bookshelf.
A number of inactive commputers I would give to anyone who would have a use for them as parts.
Science Fiction
I used to attend science fiction conventions and regularly exhibit at the art shows. Competing with the Borzois in lure coursing has interfered with that.

I still read science fiction, mainly hard science such as James Hogan and humerous works such as Terry Prachett. I still subscribe to a number of magazines. I have a couple of short stories in outline form.

Fractals
I enjoy fractals and have incorporated them into many pieces of artwork. The background for the page has a fractal source.


                  "If Only"

                  The potential for computer aided information retreival - the promise of the Library of Congress on every one's desktop - is still in its infancy yet my stint at MIT showed me the possibilities of this in the early 1970's. It ruined me as a traditional scholar and this, along with my tendency to be 'interested in too many things at once', hampered my academic career. I wish I had come into academia after this electronic information retrieval promise was realized, not when it is only a promise for the future.

                  Current Fantasies

              • I get a job working for an anatomy, paleontology or zoology department implementing computer interactive course work.

              • I get a full time job in the exhibition department of a natural history museum implementing computer interactive exhibitions.

                Pretty tame fantasies, I suppose

                If you have such a job to offer contact me at:

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