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next 8 years, she worked as a biologist in the Animal Parasitology Institute (API) of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture doing research on poultry and bovine parasites. Shortly after her arrival
at API, I received a call from her supervisor, Dr. Vetterling, saying that he had hired a new person
for his electron microscopy lab, and I should come over to meet her. That began our long scientific
and social association. In 1976, Nancy moved to the Naval Medical Research Institute as a research
microbiologist. There, she studied parasite immunology in relation to the development of malaria
vaccines and later worked on cytokine regulation in wound repair. In 1994, she somehow slipped
out of parasitology, without seeking advice of the Helminthological Society of Washington, and
worked in the Wound Repair Program at NMRI until her retirement in 1997.
Nancy's resume lists numerous publications. They illustrate her research contributions in the
ultrastructure of intracellular parasites, techniques for isolation of large numbers of malaria parasites,
which is a prerequisite to vaccine development, development of an oral vaccine against Campylobacter
infection, development of a method to study local inflammatory action, and the study of the
effects of cytokines in preventing translocation of bacteria in hemorrhagic shock.
A predominant factor in the Committee's decision was Nancy's excellent service to the Society,
of which, undoubtably, most of you are aware. She has a record that is hard to beat. To the best
of my knowledge, and with a little help from her curriculum vitae, Nancy has served in every
office and has been on every committee of the Society, with the exception of Editor and the Editorial
Committee. After holding the position of vice president in 1980, she moved up to president the
next year. She must have done something right because she was re-elected president in 1991, a feat
that, with one exception, has been unmatched in recent Society history. In 1999, she was elected
to the position of corresponding secretary-treasurer, which she currently holds.
In spite of the considerable time that she has donated to the Society, Nancy has offered her
expertise in various roles in other societies such as the American Society of Parasitologists and the
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Outside of the scientific area, she has been
active in many church-related events with her husband Jim. There is one other activity that might
be noted. As mentioned before, Nancy spent a number of years working with poultry coccidia. You
all know what people in that field do—they search through chicken droppings and count the coccidial
oocysts that they find. Well, Nancy must have developed a high degree of excellence in
counting because she has steadily moved upward through the ranks in the H&R Block organization
and is now a senior tax preparer.
Nancy, I am very pleased to present to you, on the behalf of the Anniversary Awards Committee,
the Helminthological Society of Washington's Anniversary Award for 2000.
Comp. Parasitol.
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MINUTES
Harley G. Sheffield, Ph.D.
November 15, 2000
Six Hundred Seventy-First through the Six Hundred Seventy-Fifth
Meeting of the Helminthological Society of Washington
671st Meeting: George Washington University, meeting. Dr. Eckerlin introduced the speakers.
Washington, DC, 12 October 2000. President Robert Gwadz gave an overview of the National
Dennis Richardson conducted the business Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded malaria remeeting.
Ralph Eckerlin welcomed members search in Mali. This NIH program funds elecand
their guests and introduced the President, lives for students with interests in either basic
who briefly summarized the Executive Council sciences or clinical aspects of malaria. Albert
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