I received a B.S. in Chemistry from UM Rolla in 1972, then went to
graduate school in medical microbiology at MU for a M.S. (1975) and Ph.D.
(1980). After a 2 year postdoc at LSU, I joined the faculty of the
College of Veterinary Medicine at MU and have been here ever since. I
have two daughters, Jessica (30), a condor biologist (!) for Ventana
Wilderness and hiking tour guide in Big Sur, CA and Sarah (28), a patent and
intellectual property lawyer in St. Louis. I currently get to spend
every day in what feels like my vacation home on 70 acres of river hills
country southwest of Columbia with my German Shepherd and Original Mountain
Cur treeing dogs, the turkey and the deer. We all manage to somehow
coexist… Oh, and I’m a Harley guy – I never really outgrew my
love of motorcycles. Come to think of it, I never really grew up fully
at all and I’m really glad I didn’t! Most of us should be
coming to the conclusion that adulthood is highly overrated and we should
behave more like high schoolers again – our responsibilities are dropping
away and now we can! I’m dating a reading specialist at Girls and
Boys Town in Omaha (yep, 4.5 hour commute!) who trains teachers around the
country in techniques and strategies to teach at-risk youth with rudimentary
reading skills. She’s a fiercely proud Montanan from Somers on
Flathead Lake, near Kalispel. I don’t deserve her, but then I’ve
always been able to mostly avoid 
getting what I deserve - and vice versa!
Email: steffene@missouri.edu
Pix of my 2007 Harley Davidson Dyna Low Rider
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