This past week I had the honor of meeting a young dinosaur paleontologist in Katowice, Poland.  HIs name is Kuba, and he and I met and talked about dinosaurs for about an hour.  His questions were as good as those of many graduate students, and so I invited him to be one of the graduate students.  Kuba's favorite dinosaur is T.rex, although after I gave him some bones of Psittacosaurus, he decided that little dinosaurs were just as interesting as the big ones.  Kuba was also very interested in talking about our museum here in Montana because he thought there should be a dinosaur museum in southern Poland.  I told Kuba that I would help him and others to create such a museum.  A number of newspapers agreed they would help as well.

Kuba is seven years old, and in his third round of chemotherapy at the Children's Hospital of Katowice.  HIs wish, as he put it, was to meet a paleontologist, preferrably Jack Horner.  I visited Kuba, and Poland at the invitation of the Fundacja Mam Marenie (I Have A Dream
Foundation) in Krakow, an institution similar to Make-a-Wish here in the US.

Kuba is a very brave young man with dreams of being a paleontology curator.