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Ron Firman (Fig. 7.1) attended City of Norwich School, where he included geology in his curriculum, becoming interested in the subject through the efforts of his 'first-class' geography teacher (Firman, pers. comm., 1999). Though hindered by the disability of mild spasticity and associated speech impediment, he attended Durham University, where, as a goalkeeper, he captained his college hockey team and regularly contributed to Union debates. Despite this, and his previous experience of fell walking in the Lake District, Professor Lawrence Wager cast doubt on Firman's ability to meet the demands of geological fieldwork, by omitting to invite him, when an honours student, to join an undergraduate field excursion to the Lakes. In the ensuing 'animated' discussion, Firman's response was 'try me'! The trial was surely successful, for Firman participated in all subsequent departmental excursions both official and unofficial, in a
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