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organizations to advocate for making the practice illegal across the United States. For Hartstone-Rose, the Trevor Day School environment was not just a place of learning; it was an enabler of his scientific passion for anatomy and morphology, which started long before high school…perhaps even on his 17th day of life? Hartstone-Rose shares, "My students roll their eyes and call this the 17-day-old story, because that's how old I was when my father first took me to the American Museum of Natural History. I like to think that it's because he wanted me to become a scientist, but it's really because I was a horrible baby and I would cry unless I was being carried. And he got tired of carrying me around our little Manhattan apartment, so he figured a museum is a good place to walk around in circles. He took me (and, eventually, my brother) there basically every weekend during my childhood and we'd stare at the exhibits and I would learn all about bones and skeletons. "Then, when I was six, we passed by a store called Maxilla & Mandible on Columbus, between 81st and 82nd, which sold skulls, skeletons, taxidermy, shells, and fossils. And it was like I was struck by lightning— this was like the museum, except I could own this stuff. On that first day, I bought a little set of rattlesnake vertebrae. And I stole a cork from one of my mom's display bottles, and I had a little container from a vending machine, and I made a mount for it. I still have it to this day. "I started saving my allowance and going to that shop every weekend after the museum. And when I was 10, the manager handed me a broom and he told my father that he would put me in a taxi when I was done. And I was a really good salesperson because the manager figured out that this cute kid, who knew everything about everything, was endearing to all of the ladies of the Upper West Side. "And when I became more of an awkward teenager, I started working in the basement and learning how to prepare skulls and skeletons and mount insects. That's where I met curators who worked at the museum." So the "puppy dog eyes" not only worked to endear domesticated dogs to humans, but also a young Rose-Hartstone to the Maxilla & Mandible shoppers! And based on the relationships he built in the shop, he went on to work in the collections at the American Museum of Natural History while in high school. Trevor teachers and administrators helped him structure his school schedule around this extraordinary hands-on learning opportunity. A defining anecdote that further showcases Trevor's unique pedagogical spirit occurred during Hartstone-Rose's junior year. He had the opportunity to take a three-week research trip to Madagascar, which Jean Kosky with Class of 2023 alumnus Nathan Sinaiko, when he was in second grade. Hartstone-Rose's first purchase from Maxilla & Mandible— snake vertebraes. Adam Hartstone-Rose, Professor of Biological Sciences. "THE MAIN MESSAGE THAT I LIKE TO GIVE STUDENTS OF ALL AGES IS TO PURSUE WHAT YOU'RE MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT AND TRY TO MAKE THAT YOUR PROFESSION. IF YOUR PROFESSION IS WHAT YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT, THEN IT'S NOT A JOB ANYMORE, IT'S YOUR LIFE." —ADAM HARTSTONE-ROSE TREVOR DAY SCHOOL / 53 INSIDE TREVOR TREVOR TRANSLATES FEATURE AR TICLES ALUMNI

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