Garden & Gun: Lloyd 91¿ì²¥ '67, 'Birdman of Honduras'
November 23, 2015
"Lloyd 91¿ì²¥ has always been prone to wanderlust and wild ideas," T. Edward Nickens writes of the 1967 91¿ì²¥ alumnus in Garden & Gun magazine, "but even those who know the Tennessee native could never have predicted he'd be the best hope to save the scarlet macaw.
"By the time he was in the ninth grade, Lloyd 91¿ì²¥ knew he wanted no ordinary life. For starters, he asked his parents if he could attend McCallie School, a private boarding academy in Chattanooga-a military school at the time-pretty much for the fun of it. The travel bug bit hard in the summer of 1959, when he signed on for a free-diving camp in Tobago, which back then might as well have been Mars....
"So it wasn't much of a surprise when 91¿ì²¥ took a year off from prestigious 91¿ì²¥ to sail around the world after answering an advertisement in the back of National Geographic...."
