Mycological Society of America December, 1969 Vo1. XX, No. 2

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111. AWARDS AND REWARDS a. Degrees 1. Dr. Arturo L. Carrion received the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences Honoris Causa at the University of Puerto Rico in May, 1969. 2. Dr. R. Singer was given the diploma of "Socio honorario" and was elected Honorary Member by the Sociedad Mexicana de Micologia. b. Promotions 1. E. D. Rudolph was promoted to Professor and Director of the Institute of Polar Studies at Ohio state university. 2. Also at Ohio State University Dr. J. A. Schmitt has been promoted to Professor and Chairman of the Academic Faculty of Botany. 3. R. L. Taylor has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Microbiology at the Univ. of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. 4. Dr. Michael McGinnis has been promoted to the rank of captain in U.S. Army Medical Service Corp. 5. Dr. E. D. Delamater was promoted to Distinguished University Professor of Science at Florida Atlantic University on July 1, 1968. 6. Yrjo Makinen was promoted to Associate Professor of Botany on April 29, 1969. 7. Solomon Goldstein became full professor at Brooklyn College of CCNY in the fall of 1969. c. Awards 1. Carroll H. Weiss received the 1969 award from the Biological Photographic Association during their meeting at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for his paper entitled "Fungus Photography: Culture Plates with Ultraviolet Fluorescence." 2. Dr. Martha D. Berliner of Simmons College in Boston has received a grant from the Brown- Hazen Fund of the Research Corporation for studies on vital staining of fungi. 3. Dr. J. J. Taylor was named Teacher of the Year by students and was selected by the faculty to receive the Standard Oil Award for excellence in teaching at the University of Montana. 4. W. M. Hess has been awarded a 5-year Career Development Award at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. 5. Dr. Alexander H. Smith, Director of the University of Michigan Herbarium, received the Botanical Society of America's Certificate of Merit at the Society's dinner at the International Botanical Congress in Seattle last August. 6. Dr. H. L. Barnett presently serves as Acting at the newly created Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, West Virginia University, pending appointment as a permanent Director. 7. Dr. S. J. Hughes, Plant Research Institute, Ottawa, was awarded the third Jakob Erikson Gold Medal at the closing plenary session of the Eleventh International Botanical Congress. IV. INVITATIONAL PAPERS AND LECTURES a. Dr. Martha D. Berliner of Simmons College presented a paper entitled "The Biology of Histoplasma capsu1at.m at the 2nd National Conference on Histoplasmosis in Atlanta October 6-8, 1969. b. Dr. C. L. Kramer of Kansas State U~?iversity displayed spore sampling and environmental sensing equipment in the first annual display of epidemiological equipment at the APS meetings in Spokane. c. Dr. K. L. Howard, Kirkland College, gave a seminar at the University of North CarolLna, Chapel Hill, on "Oogenesis in Saprolegnia terrestris" in December. d. Dr. Walter M. Bejuki of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science talked on "Test fungi in Federal material specifications in Saddlebrook, New Jersey, on October 28, 1969. e. Dr. Ram P. Tewari of Rutgers University and collaborators presented papers on "Experimental Mycotic Encephalitis in Mice" in Minnesota in June and August. f. Dr. Edward D. Delameter of Florida Atlantic University discussed "Differentiation, ultrastructure and mechanisms of movement of the uniquely paired spermatozoa of American marsupials" at the Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1969, and at the Biology Club, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, on October 21, 1969. g. Prof. Bryce Kendrick gave a public lecture on "The Population Explosion" at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, on November 5, 1969. h. Palle Krogh, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, reported the results from the first 5 months of investigations under the All-Scandinavian Mycotoxin Research on June 1 in Helsinki.
Prof. C.J. Alexopoulos of the Univ. of Texas at Austin gave the invitational address, "The Myxo- mycetes-Plasmodia1 Slime Molds" at the fall meeting of the South-Central Branch of the American Society of Microbiology at Tulane University in New Orleans. On December 8, he spoke on "The Ultrastructure of the Myxomycetes" at the ultrastructure seminar of Texas A & M Univelsity. Dr. L. R. Batra in Mycology Investigations at Beltsville, Maryland, delivered two lectures at Reed College on "Ectosymbiosis between Insects and Fungi" and one lecture on "Ambrosia Fungi" at Oregon State University last fall. Dr. Jorge E. Wright, Univ. of Buenos Aires, discussed "Some aspects of Organization of Research in Argentina" and "Mycology in Argentina" in Spanish at the Escuela de Biologia, Instituto Politecnico National, Mexico City. Dr. L. R. Kneebone of the Pennsylvania State University presided over the First Mushroom Confer- ence sponsored by The American Mushroom ~nstitutk in Wilmington, Delaware, on September 6, 1969, and delivered the opening address, "The Future of the American Mushroom Industry." Dr. Singer of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago talked on forest mycology at the University of Illinois and the Plant Industry Station at Beltsville during the spring. He also discussed the ecology of mycorrhiza and hallucinogenic mushrooms at the University of Mexico during the summer. Dr. D.B.O. Savile, Plant Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, organized a symposium on Ecology and Evolution of Host-Parasite Relationships and spoke on coevolution of the rust fungi and their hosts at the XI International Botanical Congress. Dr. Edward Hacskaylo of the Forest Physiology Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland, presented a paper entitled "Biological Amendments in Forest Soil Improvement" before the Forest Soils Work- shop of the Society of American Foresters at Xiami in October. Dr. T. K. Chose, Pioneering Laboratory, U.S. Army Natick Laboratories in Massachusetts visited the Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, Illinois, on October 13, 1969, and gave a talk on the saccharification of cellulose by Trichoderma. Drs. L. J. Wickerham and C. P. Kurtzman participated in the Summer Community of Scholars sponsored by the Miner Institute, Chazy, New York, this past August. The week-long meeting was culminated by a symposium entitled "Recent Trends in Yeast Research." Dr. Wickerham spoke on phylogeny in the genus Hansenula and Dr. Kurtzman reported on the sexual stage of Candida lipolytica. r. Dr. J. F. Stauffer, University of Wisconsin, visited the Northern Regional Research Laboratory on June 16, 1969, and presented a talk on spontaneous and induced mutation in multinucleate- spored fungi. s. Dr. Jack Fell of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Miami spent several days examining yeasts at the NRRL and presented a seminar entitled "Basidiomycetous Yeasts from Antarctic Ocean" on October 2, 1969. V. RETIREMENTS AND DEATHS a. Dr. Wm. Bridge Cooke, Mycologist, Advanced Waste Treatment Research Laboratory, took advantage of the liberalized retirement plan of the Federal government enacted effective November 1, 1969, and retired on October 31. Dr. Cooke will continue his study of Ohio Fungi, Fungi and Flora of Mt. Shasta, Fungi of the National Parks, especially Lassen Volcanic National Park, the Poly- poraceae (sensu latissimo), and the cyphelloid fungi, at his home Laboratory (69). He is affiliated with the Dept. of Botany at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, as a Research Associate and will work with the fungi acquired in the herbarium of Oberlin University. b. Dr. V. G. Lilly will retire from active work on June 30, 1970, after 36 years of research and teaching in physiology of fungi at West Virginia University. Since publication of Volume XX, Number 1 of the Newsletter in June, 1969, the following members of the Mycological Society of America have been reported deceased: arbert W. Eades, Associate of the Society since 1961 on September 14, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. George W. Keitt, Professor Emeritus and former Chairman, Plant Pathology Department, University of Wisconsin, on November 18, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mrs. E. P. Justo, a Regular Member of the Society since 1947, on May 2.
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