Wherein are recorded the recollections, the ruminations and the raspirations of those who

have drunk from the foaming fount of the Dep- artment of Plant Pathology of the University of Minnesota and who now spout forth in divers

ways

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Val. 40, NO, 1 AURORA SPOREALI S a ~ , 1967

OLD TIMERS

Irvine A . Watson ( f inn. Ph.D. 1941) , Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture a t Sydney University, Australia, received the Elvin Charles Stakman Award i n 1966. It was announced i n May and presented t o Watson i n August a t the meeting of the New South Wales branch of t he Aust- r a l i an I n s t i t u t e of Agricul tura l Science by Minnesota-Old-Timer Robert J. Noble, former Under Secretary of Agriculture f o r New South Wales.

On Science Day in Cairo, December 1965, Dr. Hosni Mohamed received one of the _ _ I

two nat ional awards i n agr icu l tu re given f o r the year 1964 by t he Pres i - dent of t h e U.A.R. He received a Science Day medal, a Republic medal, a diploma from the Science Council, and 500 pounds i n money.

A famous day i n Minnesota f o r r u s t observers i% July 8, known as Melander Day. On t h i s day, a t dawn, three ca rs go west across the S t a t e on three d i f f - erent routes. The t r i p i n 1966 was the 40th. D r . Leonard Melander did not go: - he stayed home t o tend h i s roses.

On January 26, 1966, a recognition dinner was given a t the Midland H i l l s Country Club f o r D r . Donald G, Fletcher, - who was r e t i r i n g as p r e s i d e n t o f t h e Crop Quali ty council. Various f r i ends came a long way t o honor him, among them Old Timers Frank Greaney, of the Line Elevators Farm Service i n Winnipeg, and H. A. Rodenhiser, of the U. S. Department i n Washington.

Then on June 7, 1966, a t t h e 17th meet- ing of t h e Minnesota Alumni Association i n Minneapolis, Don Fletcher received - the University of Minnesota Ollts tanding Achievement Award "for h i s service t o Agriculture and r e l a t ed indus t r i es . H i s broad knowledge of agr icul ture , business and science has enabled him t o coordinate

the spec ia l knowledge and i n t e r e s t s of farmers, businessmen and sc ien t i s t s . . .n

D r . E. ( ~ e n e ) B. Hayden (Minn. Ph. D. 1956) succeeds Fletcher i n the d i rec t ion - - .

of t h e Crop Quality Council.

Robert F. Dreqoher Ph. D. 1956) moved from Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he had been with Sharpley Labor- a to r i e s , kc., t o t h e Br i s to l , Pennsyl- vania, plant of Rohm & Haas on August 1, 1966. He works with Old Timer Fred Davies i n an enzyme lab. With Robert Sk i les and Robert Hildreth, the count of Old Timers with Rohm & Haas is now four!

BORN on May 25, 1966, a t S tor r s , Conn- ec t i cu t , was Andrew John, son of OTs Mary Jane and David Schroeder.

Early i n t h e year, 1966, D r . C . S . Venkata Ram (Minn. 1952-53) moved t o a new Stat ion: UPASI Tea Research Sta t ion, P . 0. Cinchona, Coimbatore D i s t r i c t , S . India.

D r . Lawrence I. f i l l e r of the Virginia polytechnic I n s t i t u t e received the Golden Peanut Research Award of t he NATIONAL PEANUT COUNCIL f o r h i s re- search on Cerc ospora arachidicola and C. persona%a, causal organisms of the - l e a f spot d isease of peanuts. Present- ed April 18, 1966, i n Chicago, the awzrd included a bronze plaque and $1,000.

In l a t e 1965, Lars Semb was appointed -- t o a new posi t ion i n the Department of Plant Pathology a t Vollebekh, Norway.

New address f o r D r . Arthur F. Ver ra l l i s Stephen F. Austin S t a t e College, Nacogdoches, Texas, where he accepted a professorship i n fo r e s t ry a f t e r

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retirement from the U. S. Forest Service i n August 1965. Be s t a t ed in .January t h a t "It is a pleasure t o be back i n the academic world--particularly a t a young, vigorous, and promising school such as t h i s is .I1

D r . J u l i a Guzman N. was on her way -- around the world. We haven't heard from her s ince October 1966,

Ricardo Cardenosa B., a l so of Colombia, reported i n December 1965 t h a t he was working with the Kennecott Copper Corp. of New York, "through a cooperative project with our Ministry of Agriculture.

The Ancient and Honorable Order of Grandparents, reported occasionally i n t h i s column, can add t o the l i s t of members D r . and Mrs. Andrew Downie, whose address i n ~ugu-6 was Waseca, Minnesota. When l a s t heard from, ~ m n i e was enroute t o India f o r work with AID.

Other Old Timers who attended the sugar beet meetings i n February, 1966, held i n

C S Schneider Minneapolis, were D r s . . . of Utah and David Nunford of Michigan. - Since t h a t time, we understand, the re has been an exchange, with the r e s u l t t h a t it is now Schneider of Michigan and Mumford of Utah.

After a post-doctoral year a t North Carolina S ta te Universitv. Ronald E. Weltv accepted a new ~ ~ ~ i ' ~ o s i t i o n ' - i h e r e i n July 1966 t o study post-harvest molds of tobacco. A; e a r l i e r event was the b i r t h of daughter Beth on Dec. 17 .

D r . Merle N . Fol l s tad, who had been a t the U. S. Hort icul tura l Fie ld Sta t ion

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t he post-doctoral appointment t h a t Welty held a t North Carolina, according t o sources usual ly considered r e l i ab l e .

On July 1, 1966, Dr . R. R. Nelson re- ported t o Pennsylvania S ta te University, leaving the USDA a f t e r 12 years a t North Carolina, t o become Professor of Plant Pathology. H i s du t ies include teaching and research.

J. Ponchet received the degree of Dr . Nat. Sciences from the Universi ty of Pa r i s in 1965. In July of 1966 he wrote t h a t he had l e f t Versai l les f o r Antibes on t he French Riviera, where he is head of t he botanical and phytopathological

" s t a t i on , specia l iz ing i n ornamental and flower research. Jacques inv i ted Old Timers t o v i s i t the 100-year-old s t a t i o n garden, with i t s 6,000 species and t h e beach, only 300 :.yards away.

D r . Juan Orjuela N., so informed sources r e ~ o r t e d . was made Dean of the Facultad d e A ~ g r o n b d a i n t he National University of Colombia a t Bogots. Later i n 1966, however, he preferred t o re turn t o s c i e n t i f i c work a t Tibai ta t&.

In March, 1966, D r . W. F. Hanna was reported back i n Winnipeg, reviewing r u s t techniques before leaving f o r Kenya, where he was t o undertake a research program f o r improved wheat v a r i e t i e s a t the Njoro Plant Breeding Sta t ion.

st Cornell, Arden Scherf took leave '

For A yeaT m 1966, f o r administra- t i v e work i n t he Extension Director I s

o f f i c e and was temporarily replaced by our Herb Johnson as Extension Plant Pathologist. In July it was announced t h a t Scherf would remain i n administra- t ion.

at Fresno, California, s ince 1964, took

Carolind Fellowship

In the summer of 1966, O T Ralph Lindgren (Lindy) made a g i f t t o the University of Ptinnesota es tab l i sh the Carolind Fellowship i n memory and i n honor of h i s mother and fa ther . The fund provides annually fo r four undergraduate fellowships i n Forestry and two i n Forest Pathology, with st ipends up t o $6500 each. The Depal-t~~ient of Plant Pathology and OT Frank Kaufert, Direct,or, School of Forestry, expressed t h e i r thanks and appreciat ion t o Lindy fo r t h i s generous contribution t o scholarship i n Plant Pa t,llo'l ogy and Forestry.

Page 3 S t e in Telneset, of Vollebekk, Norway, has two children s ince leaving Minnesota. In t he spring of 1965 he attelnded a seed t e s t i ng conference i n Munich, which was followed by a family vacation i n southern Europe,

In the f a l l of 1965, D r . M. E, Michaelson was appointed Acting Dean of t he School -

of ~ r a d u a t e Studies a t St . Cloud S t a t e College, S t , Cloud, Minn.

Dr . George A. Bean t rans fe r red from Washington, U. C., i n December 1965 t o the University of Maryland, where he is wdrking on t u r f and forage crop diseases.

On 29 Jan., 1966 when the temperature b a t St . Paul (-28 F) broke records f o r the 20th century, D r . I, A, Watson wrote from a beach r e so r t near Sydney, Australia. Harvest over, new rust- r e s i s t a n t wheats Mendos and Gamut p r - formed well. Also he s t a t e d t h a t "our 7 well-recognized supplementals have made possible the separation of 24 components within race 21et1 This sounds l i k e another record!

University of t h e Andes, Bogotk, con- f e r r ed a L i t t . D, h.c. on Rockefeller- FoundatLon President J. G. Harrar ea r ly i n 1966. I n Apri l he was one of 42 dist inguished me ricans t o be e lected t o the National Acadeqy of Sciences. In May came an addi t ional honor:an honorary doctorate from Emory University i n Atlanta, Georgia.

To D r . C , R. Olien, a t Michigan S ta te University, came the Sigma X i Junior Research Award f o r 1965-66. A t the research meeting on Jan. 27, Olien spoke on "Biological Cryodynami~s.~ -- This news by courtesy of Stephen Liu, now a t Eastern Michigan University - and a t 1086 Ruth Ave., Hickory H i l l , Ypsilanti , Michigan 413197. T; Old - Timers, he says, tlwelcone t o our house f o r t e a or a meal."

D r . J. C. Santiago accepted an in- v i ta t lo l i - ln l a t e - t o reorganize the wheat breeding program i n Angola, whe1.e stem r u s t i s a 1imit.ing factor i n pro- duction. For t h i s purpose he p la r~s t o

commute occasionally between home base i n Portugal and Angola.

Ph.D. and OT Raul Garaa Chapa divides h i s time between t he School of Agricul- t u r e of the I n s t i t u t e Tecnologico a t Monterrey, Mexico, and the School of Biological Sciences of t he Universi ty of Nuevo Leon.

John Kraft, wi th an M.S. from Minnesota i n 1962 and a Ph.D. from California i n 1966, was reported i n August a s working with the USDA i n Prosser, Washington.

Dr . Hugh H. Hotson, who is the second- eeneration Hotson t o have worked with V -

Puccinia graminis, s t i l l l i v e s and ouerates i n Sea t t l e , Washington. The operations a r e numerous but mainly chemical--organizing, trouble shooting, and some research i n h i s own lab.

Mushroom-expert E. B. Lambert r e t i r e d a t the end of 1965 a f t e r more than 41 years with the U. S. Department, the first of which were a t S t . Paul. Since 1928 h i s headquarters have been Wash- ington, D. C. o r Be l t sv i l l e , with microbiology and mushrooms h i s f i e l d of i n t e r e s t and accomplishment, a l - though he made forays a f ie ld . This year, we understand, Lambert is much i n demand as a consultant .

On September 1, 1966, recent Ph.D. Loren E. Carlson l e f t h i s posi t ion with Bailey Nurseries, St . Paul, t o become president and manager of Western Farms Inc., a t Chokio, Minnesota, producers of c a t t l e and corn.

D r . L. E. Tyner, officer-in-charge of t he Canadian Plant Pathology Laboratory a t Edmonton, r e t i r e d i n January and promptly l e f t on a Caribbean cruise . Ear l i e r he had wri t ten an a r t i c l e flHonor f o r a Prophet i n h i s Own Country," i n t he University of Alberta 's period- i c a l THE NEM TRAIL, i n which he paid t r i b u t e t o Drs. G. B. Sanford, W. C. - Broadfoot, and A. W, Henry a s pioneers ;n or ig ina l thinking on t h e concept of b iological control of soil-borne plant pa khogens .

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Also r e t i r e d is D r . Lawrence A. Scha&l, or a t l e a s t we th ink so. He has an add- r e s s , t ha t is new t o us: 1727 Crestview Drive, Durango, Colorado 81301.

Head o f t h e Minnesota School of Forestry, Frank Kaufert, gave a paper on f o r e s t r y educat ion and research a t t h e S i x t h World F o r e s t r y Congress i n Madrid, Spain, i n June, 1966.

On t h e theory t h a t l a t e is b e t t e r than never, we present Volume I1 o f "Sugar-cane d i seases of t h e world,n wi th 354 pages, e d i t e d by C. G. Hughes, E. V. Abbott, and (OT) C. A. Wismer and published by Amer- i can E l sev ie r Publ ish ing COA, Inc.

Author of biology textbooks and manuals published by Lippincot t and by Harper & Row is B.Bernarr Vance, now Head of t h e Biology Department a t Urbana College i n Ohio.

Now l i v i n g a t Union Springs, New York, is Dr . F. H . Steinmetz, who was one of t h e e a r l y inhab i t an t s o f t h e To t t e r ing Tower.

D r . John W. Gibler t r a n s f e r r e d h i s ac t - i v i t i e s f o r The Rockefel ler Foundation i n September 1965 from Colombia t o Ecuador, where he is re s iden t a g r i c u l t u r a l r ep resen ta t ive under an agreement between the Ecuadorian government and t h e Found- a t i o n . In Colombia he was nade Ass i s t an t Direc tor of t h e a g r i c u l t u r a l program i n 1963.

Af te r spending t h e f irst h a l f of 1966 a t Davis, Cal i forn ia , i n a t r a i n i n g program wi th OT D r . James DeVay, D r . Robert W. Goth re turned t o B e l t s v i l l e v i a S t . Paul . - One Minnesota ge t - together a t Davis in- cluded Joe Penner, Vivian Schwab, and S h i r l e y ( c o t t e r ) Tucker.

D r . Robert Campbell had l e f t Davis f o r a sabba t i c yea r a t Cambridge, England, t o work wi th D r . R.&qkham, d i r e c t o r of t h e Agr icu l tu ra l Research Courlcil Virus Re- dearch Unit.

Rico. When But l e r s a i d goodbye he avowed h i s aim t o be a s tudy of t h e c o a s t a l f l o r a and fauna, e s p e c i a l l y l i f e on t h e beaches.

A t Riverside, Cal i forn ia , San t i a o Fuentes F. (Minn. M.S. 195~&,tly completed course work f o r t h e Ph.D. Since l eav ing S t . Paul he a l s o has acquired a wife and two chi ldren .

D r . Robert Norgren, who l e f t Minnesota i n January 1965 f o r t h e Cranberry Research S t a t i o n a t Warnham, Mass., t r a n s f e r r e d t o the Univers i ty of Massachusetts a t Amherst on October 15, 1966. I n t h e win te r qua r t e r , 1967, he completed the requirements f o r t h e Ph.D.

Sayed M. E l Kandelgy (Minn. Ph.D. 1965) s e n t r e g r e t s from the National Center f o r ~ e s e a r c h i n Cairo t h a t t h e TWINS had l o s t t h e World S e r i e s i n 1965. He misses t h e people a t Minnesota but does not m i s s having t o answer t h e graduate- f l o o r telephone, near which, unf ortun- a t e l y , h i s desk was placed.

Greetings came l a t e i n 1965 from Edward R. French (M.S. Minn. 1963), who went t o North Carol ina f o r h i s Fh.D. and is now i n Lima, Peru, a s P l a n t Pathology Adviser wi th t h e N . C . Univers i ty Mission.

On September 1, 1966, D r . - A. H. El l ingboe went t o t h e Department of Genetics a t t h e Univers i ty of Washington, S e a t t l e , on sabba t i c leave from Michigan S t a t e Universi ty.

On August 14, 1966, Mrs. John (ca ro l ) Cross d ied suddenly of v i r u s pneumonia, i n San Jose, Cal i forn ia . Recently John (Minn. Ph.D. 1965) has remarried.

Maria L. d e l e I s l a , (M.S. 1957) re- ceived t h e Ph.D. t h i s spr ing from t h e Univers i ty of Goettingen i n Germany. We a l s o hear from f a i r l y r e l i a b l e sour.ces t h a t she was married May 13, 1967. We hope she w i l l send h e r new name and address. She planned t o v i s i t her n a t i v e Mexico a f t e r t h e wedding.

D r . E. E. Bu t l e r a l s o had l e f t Davis for a sabba t i c with OT J u l i o Bird i n Puert,o

OLD TIMERS (continued) CHANGES IN STAFF

D r . Martin T. Tveit has a new posit ion i n 1967 as Adm. Di rek t t r of JONAS @LAEBID. In Oslo; Norway.

D r . J. Vallega had a severe hear t a t tack i n the f a l l of 1966. Recently D r . Mudra, a s c i e n t i s t with FA0 i n I ran who v i s i t e d the department, reported t h a t Jose is re- covering successful ly but 'slowly and hopes t o re turn t o work soon. Best of health, Jos6.

A t t h e annual meetings of the American Phytopathological Society i n Denver, 1966, D r . H. H. F lor ; was given t he f i r s t Ruth Allen Award f o r 'outstanding contr i - butions t o plant pathology. ~ a r o l d was a l so announced as r e c i ~ i e n t of the Elvin Charles Stakman Award on Cap and Gown Day, May 24, 1967, a t the. University of Minnesota.

I tDr . E. J. Anderson. has joined Dole Phil ippines, Inc. He and Marian l e f t f o r Mindanao jus t before Christmas," according t o Karl F. Manke, Director of Agricultural Research fo r the Dole Con- pany i n Honolulu.

The USDA announced the ret irement of D r . H. A , ( R O ~ Y ) Rodenhiser, May 18, 1967, a f t e r f o r t y years service i n research and administration with ARS.

ERRATA

To s e t the record s t r a igh t , readers w i l l be pleased t o know t h a t the r e ~ o r t e d deaih of Fateh M. Turk was an krror. M r . Turk informs us t ha t he is s t i l l working - as a Pest ic ide Control Officer with the Canadian Department of Agriculture i n Ottawa. This w a s an embarrassing e r r o r t o make, and we hope t h a t M r . Turk has not l o s t a l l f a i t h i n AURORA thereby.

Hart Ret i res - On September 1, 1966, D r . Helen Hart becam Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology. The Moldy Gang wanted t o have a retirement par ty i n her honor, but she would not allow it, s o you a l l received inv i ta t ions t o wr i te l e t t e r s t o her. About two hundred l e t t e r s were received along with q u i t e a b i t of money. The l e t t e r s were bound i n a beautiful volume and presented t o her on December 4, 1966. In addi t ion O T I S sen t g i f t s t ha t provided her wi th a round t r i p t i c k e t t o California, a purse i n which t o ca r ry t he t i c k e t s and severa l hundred do l la r s i n cash t o help her enjoy her t r i p . Gett ing her t o a gathering of t h e clan a t t h e Kommedahl home on December 4 took t h e combined plot t ing and scheming of Kommedahl, Stewart, Hamilton, and others. Helen was taken completely by su rp r i s e when she discovered t h e party was f o r her. We know she was t h r i l l e d , pleased and honored with the g i f t s and l e t t e r s . She made t he t r i p t o Cal i fornia i n January and February and i s now a t home i n S t . Paul, relaxing and enjoying a l i f e of le isure .

On January 31, 1967, D r . Lucas Calpouzos (B.s., Cornell, M.S. and Ph .D., Harvard', USDA Sugar Beet Pathologist and Assist- ant Professor, resigned h i s posi t ion with the USDA t o become A s s o ~ i a t e Professor of Plant Pathology t o succeed Miss Hart. Since receiving h i s Ph.D. i n 1955, he worked f o r the USDA i n Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, w a s a Vis i t ing S c i e n t i s t (NSF) i n University of Br i s to l , Long Ashton, England (1962-63), and joined the Moldy Gang on the sugar beet project, March 1963.

B i l l J. Roberts, long-time oa t pathol- og i s t , USDA, and Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology, l e f t us on January 14, 1967, t o join the Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico City where he is working with OT Borlaug and others i n the Inter- nat ional Wheat and Corn Improvement - "

Center.

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T. H. King is s t i l l on leave and working i n Bangkok with FAO. This winter and spr ing we were fur tunate i n ge t t ing Professor Dwight Powell, University of I l l i n o i s , t o subs t i t u t e f o r Tom. Dwight was appointed Lecturer i n Plant Pathology, February 15, 1967, and w i l l s t a y u n t i l June 30. He is teaching Pr inc ip les of Plant Disease Control. We expect Tom back on July 1.

On July 1, 1966, D r . A. J. Linck, Pro- fessor of Plant Physiology, was promoted t o t h e posit ion of Assistant Director, Minnes ota Agricultural Experiment S t a t ion. This posit ion was held by our Head pr ior t o h i s return t o plant pathology i n 1961. Congratulations and f e l i c i t a t i o n s , A l .

D r . D. W. French has so many t i t l e s we can hardly p r i n t them i n t he budget book. He i s Professor of Plant Pathology and Associate Director, the Biology Session, Lake Itasca, and t h i s winter he was given a jo int appointment a s Professor, School of Forestry.

LOCAL HONORS

In April 1966, C. M. Christensen re- ceived the Award of Merit from the Minn- eso ta Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of Agriculture, f o r d i s t i nc t i ve contributions t o agr icul ture .

Thor Komrnedakl along with OT John Ohman received an award of excellence from the Weed Socie ty of America as co-authors of t h e eutstanding paper of t h e year: "Plant Extracts , Residues, and S o i l Minerals i n Relation t o Competition of Quackgrass with Oats and Alfalfa," published i n Weeds 12: 222-231. 1964.

On February 1, 1966, the U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian In s t i t u t i on , went on record o f f i c i a l l y t h a t iden t i f 5 ca.t.i.ons of Berberis and Mahonia species by D. J. F i tche t t , "may be considered as expert". M r . F i t che t t i s Supervisor i n Charge of the area compri.sing Minnesota and W i s - consin for control projects of t ke Plant

Pest Control Division, ARS, U. S, Depart- ment of Agriculture. He occupies the former o f f i c e i n the Tottering Tower of D r . L. W. Melander and t h e l a t e Thain Stewart. Now i n charge of the barberry herbarium a t S t . Paul, Don F i t che t t is the au thor i ty on barberry i den t i f i c a t i on i n place of the l a t e Dr . Ralph U. Cot ter ,

M. F. Kernkamp was named Honorary Premier Seed Grcr~er by t h e Minnesota Crop Improvement Association a t t h e i r annual meeting i n January 1967.

Phase I1 Plan t Science Building -2-

The first s take for Phase I1 of the Plant Science Building was planted a t 11: 20 AM on October 28, 1966. This building i s located between Agronomy and Plant Pathology and w i l l be joined t o t he ex i s t i ng buildings by bridges. It w i l l be a three s t o r y building: S a i l s Science, Agronomy and Plant Genetics, and Plant Pathology w i l l each have one f loor . An ex t r a spec ia l fea tu re i s t he inclusion of an e lect ron microscope laboratory. Our administ r a t ion has promised t o make funds avai lable f o r the instrument, and Ernie Bant tar i w i l l cha i r a committee t o operate the micro- scope. Incidentally, the building w i l l be completely air-conditioned, even i n Minnesota!

Plant Physiology - In 1958, an event occurred i n the In- s t i t u t e of Agriculture t h a t has had repercussions on the plant physiology program i n t h i s department. That event was t he h i r i ng of the f irst plant physiologist i n t he Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics. This was followed by establishing addi t ional plant phys.iology posit ions i n Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Hort icul tura l Science, and the School of Forestry. Consequently ce r t a in kinds of research i n plant physiology a re being done i n other departments tha t formerly were reserved f o r t h i s department.

Plant Physiology (continued) of H o r t i c u l t u r a l Science) , who was i n Aust r ia preparing p a r t s o f a book.

Af te r many conferences and meetings wi th . t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i ~ ~ n t h e f u l l impact o f t h e From January 12 to 30, 1967, D r . B i l l changes i n p lan t 2hysiology was resolved W. Kennedy, Associate Professor , v i s i t e d kwember 1, 1965. On t!lat d a t e Dr . Ted Por tugal , Spain, Hungary, and I r e l and . Sudia, Dr . Lee Olson, t h e i r graduate He presented a pcper a t t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l s tudents , and D r . L inckts vacant p o s i t i o n Symposium on p h ~ , o p a t h o g e n i c Bacter ia i n (see Linck, Asst. D i r . , page 6 ) were Lisbon and gave l e c t u r e s i n Budapest t r ans fe r red t o t h e Department of Agronongr and Dublin. and P l a n t Genetics. D r . Stadelmann and h i s s tuden t s were t r a n s f e r r e d t o Hort- Roy Wilcoxs on, Professor, was i n v i t e d t o i c u l t u r a l Science. an I n t e r n a t i o n a l Symposium on t h e Use of

Radioisotopes i n Vienna, but t h e SYmpoS- Our p l a n t pathology program has been re- im was no t he ld f o r l a c k of papers. t a ined i n t o t o , a ~ l d nox we h w e one major B e t t e r luck next time, ROY. respons ib i l i ty- -p lant pathol.ogy . Because of t h e change, t h e Board o f Regents on Edi tor and a s s i s t a n t e d i t o r of Aurora February 10, 1067, changed t h e name of sporea l i s , aura Hamilton, vacat ioned t h e department from P l a n t Pathology and l a s t f a l l i n Northwestern South America, Physiology t o t h e Department o f P l a n t where she v i s l t e d OTs Thurston, Orjuela, Pathology. ~d French, t h e Gibler family, and

Rosendo Post igo. She a l s o stopped i n Kingston t o s e e OT Ken Walker. She

World Travelers - says t h e r e were many b e n e f i t s , and a l l h e r s !

On August 22-27, 1966, D r . Mirocha a t tended t h e Second I n t e r n a t i o n a l Congress of Food Science and Technology i n Warsaw, Seminars Poland. A paper concerning an e s t rogen ic f a c t o r produced by Fusarium was presented, ~ 0 t h Tuesday afternoon and Thursday represent ing t h e team e f f o r t o f C . M. n i g h t Seminars go on, ad inf in i tum. Christensen, C. J . Mirocha, and Glenn H. Thursday n i g h t Seminars a r e a l i v e wi th Nelson (Veterinary Medicine). Chet a l s o many and d i v e r s e sub jec t s , while t h e t r a v e l l e d round t h e world i n May and Tuesday Seminar is more subdued and stopped f o r two weeks i n Japan, where he s e r i o u s . This year ou t s ide speakers chai red t h e U. S. Delegation t o the have been i n v i t e d t o present d i scuss ions U. S.-Japan Seminar e n t i t l e d "The Dynamic on t h e i r own s p e c i a l t i e s . D r . Van d e r Role of Molecular Const i tuents i n P lan t - ?lank, D r . Karl Maramorosch, D r . Tom P a r a s i t e In terac t ion" . Schal la , D r . A. S. Sussman, D r . C . E.

Bracker were guests . The members of D r . B i l l Bushnell, USDA p lan t phys io logis t , t h e Seminar were av id l i s t e n e r s , but Cooperative Rust Laboratory and Ass i s t an t t h e speakers a s usua l were on t h e r e - Professor , a t tended t h e U.S.- Japan ce iv ing end of many quest ions, and Seminar a l s o , a s d i d OT's DeVay, Daly, many d iscuss ions r e s u l t e d . The l a s t and Durbin . t h r e e g u e s t s p a r t i c i p a t e d i n a s e r i e s

of Seminars i n t h e Winter and Spr ing I n September 1966, D r . T. W. Sudia (now Quarters on u l t r a s t r u c t u r e of h ighe r of t h e Department of Agronomy and P lan t *lants , fungi , and b a c t e r i a . Genetics) was i n v i t e d t o p ~ r t i c i p a t e i n t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l Atomic Energy Agency Symposium on t h e use of radio iso topes College of B io log ica l Sciences -- - ---- i n p l an t n u t r i t i o n and phys jo logica l s t u d i e s i n Vienna, Aust r ia . He t 1.avol1pd 7'11 1965 a College of B io log ica l Sciences in Europe with A s s r ) c . i n t c 1'1 c.fassor was c rea ted i n the Univers i ty of Minn- Ediiard St,adelmann (now of t h e Department esota . The new co l l ege i s comprised of

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College - of Biological Sciences (continued)

Departments of Botany, Zoology, Genetics, Biochemistry, and Ecology and Behavioral Biology. Many OTs have asked how and i f the new col lege has any d i r e c t e f f e c t s on our operation. We have excel lent working r e l a t i ons with CBS and we a r e improving some of t h e working re la t ions . For example, D r . Lucas Calpouzos i s going t o teach a course, Biology of Fungi, f o r CBS students.

STAKMAN HERE AND THERE........ .. In t he course of continued t rave l , ECS has come t o ground s eve ra l times s ince November of 1965. New York seemed t o be a f avo r i t e landing spot, where t h e RF book was building and ECS could play wi th words on paper. The wear and t e a r on d ic t ionar ies was s a i d t o be t e r r i f i c .

In February and e a r l y March 1966 t he earth-encircl ing o r b i t included t h e In te rna t iona l Rice Research I n s t i t u t e i n Manila, a rendezvous i n Bangkok with Old Timer Tommy King, and a landing i n New Delhi.

In l a t e Apri l i n Washington, a t a food symposium l e d by RFfs pres ident Harrar f o r the National Academy of Sciences, ECS spouted on pests, pathogens, and weeds. From there he pranced t o North Carolina S t a t e University forrlspeech- i fy ing" and other word-manipulations under the aegis of Old Timer R. R. Nelson. Lee Person w a s on hand a s well.

Late May of 1966 found our agronaut i n ~ i b a i t a t g , Colombia, where the Minister of Agriculture pinned on the Stakman chest the Crux de Boyacg, high govern- ment honor, i n recognit ion ox se rv ices by ECS t o ag r i cu l t u r a l development i n t h a t country. Enroute home he stopped i n Mexico.

In the f a l l of 1966 there were v i s i t s , i n company wi th OT Jchn Gibler, t c Morocco, Tunisia, I t a l y , Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, I s r ae l , Lebanon, Egypt, Kenya and maybe othc1- places.

Training i n t e rva l s i n S t . Paul between take-of fs involved baseba l l games on TV and re-f ight ing of C i v i l War ba t t l e s . Other i n t e rva l s were spent i n New York.

A s AURORA goes t o press, the Harvard Universi ty Press announces the June issuance of CAMPAIGNS AGAINST HUNGER by Stakman, Bradfield, and Mhngelsdorf, wi th 320 pages, i l l u s t r a t e d .

M. F. Kernkamp, was appointed a s s i s t a n t Business Manager and Treasurer of t h e American Phytopathological Socie ty a t the meetings i n Denver i n 1966. This year he w i l l succeed t o a three-year term a s Business Manager and Treasurer. One of Kerny's du t ies w i l l be t o make a smooth t r a n s i t i o n of business manage- ment from voluntary t o paid management by Associations Services- in S t . Paul.

Early i n December, 1966, our Head was inv i ted t o the Department of P l an t Pathology, The Pennsylvania S t a t e University. Kerny gave a Seminar on "Graduate Ins t ruc t ion i n Plant Pathology", v i s i t e d s t a f f , and gave advice and counsel when asked. He repor t s t h a t O T f s A1 Wood, B i l l Merr i l l and Dick Nelson a r e having considerable impact on plant pathology a t Penn S t a t e .

Old Timers who have v i s i t e d Phytobickhaus e rec tus s ince AURORA l a s t went t o press include the following:

P a t Borich. Coordinator, N. E. Dis t r i c - -. - - Agr. Ext., 'Minn.; stePh,hen Liu, Eastern Mich. S t a t e U.; Bob Hildreth, Rohm &

r rv L i t t l e f i e l d . Haas, Br i s to l , Pa.; La] N. D. S t a t e univers i ty ; Dave Mumford, USDA, Logan, Utah; -- A. R. Downie, some- where i n India; I. Wahl, Faculty of Agr. Rehovot, I s rae l ; Norm - Krog, Niagrara Chemical, Middleport, N . Y,; Ralph Lindgren, 1310 E. a r y l a n d St . S t . Paul; - Merle Fol ls tad , N. C. S t a t e University; Don Huissin h, N. C. S t a t e University; =&en) & Dick Shimabukuro, Mborhead S t a t e College,

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xnead, Minn.& USDA, Fargo, N . D. J Dave Thurston, Rockefeller Foundation, Bogotk, Colombia; -- Ernie" I?B Chapme, Lake Alfred, F l a g Arden Sherf, Cornell University; -- Tom Kucharek, Oklahoma S t a t e University; A r l & Chuck Logsdon, Palmer, Alaska; 2,- Bob Goth, Be l t sv i l l e , Md.; Earl Hanson, -- University of Wisconsin; - Dick Lutey, Buckman Laboratories, Memphis, Tenn.; ttSaxv Sackston, MacDonald College, - Montreal; Rol l ie Line -3 Fort Detrick, Md.; Ma1 Shurt leff , University of I l l i n o i s ; - Mar Jane & Dave Schroeder, University o f .Y--- Connecticut; - Ron Covey, Wenatchee, Wash. ; Paul - Fridlund, Prosser, Wash.; - John Gibler, Quito, Ecuador Wall Rogers, E l i L i l l y Co., I n d i a n a i o d T . Abdel-Hak, Cairo, Egypt; Dick - Nelson, ~ e z Sta t e University; - Ken Bromfield, For t Detrick, Md*,

Because of time Xapse and e d i t o r i a l l a s s i t ude s ince our l a s t i s sue i n November of 1965, some of t he news i s old, some may be inaccurate o r incomplete, and undoubtedly some is simply not here, We ask your in- dulgence.