(ISTA News Bulletin) No. 136, October 2008 - International Seed ...

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The new ISTA Executive Committee
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Susan R. Maxon
Member-at-Large
Susan Maxon has been a member of the
ECOM since 2004. She has worked for the
United States Department of Agriculture
throughout her professional career. She
joined the USDA Agricultural Research
Service, Seed Research Laboratory,
Beltsville, Maryland (ISTA Member
Laboratory) in 1975, working for Dr.
Lowell Woodstock, who was Chair of
the ISTA Vigour Committee at that time.
She transferred to the Seed Regulatory
and Testing Branch of the Agriculture
Marketing Service (AMS) in 1976 as a
biological laboratory technician in germination
testing, but in 1977 was reclassified
to the position of botanist and about that
time added noxious weed seed examinations
and purity testing to her duties.
From 1984 to the present she has taught
more than 25 Federal Seed Schools, with
topics including purity testing, seed identification
and germination testing, and has
been responsible for identification of unknown
seeds since 1988. Over the years,
she has been a member of several committees
of the Association of Official Seed
Analysts (AOSA) and ISTA. Since 1989,
her responsibilities have included various
aspects of ISTA lab accreditation within
the Branch (USDL01). Other international
activities include the OECD Seed Schemes,
in which she represented the USA from
2001 to 2006.
Since 2003, Susan Maxon has been
Assistant Branch Chief and Laboratory
Supervisor at the AMS, Gastonia, North
Carolina, and also Designated Member
for the USA at ISTA meetings. She has
also been a member of the ISTA Coated
Seed Committee (1983–86) and the ISTA
Germination Committee (1992-99).
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Jorge A. Rosales
King
Member-at-Large
Jorge Rosales King is an agricultural engineer.
During his professional career, he
has been a field inspector, a laboratory analyst,
Chief of field inspectors and Chief of
the seed analysis laboratory; all within the
Oficina Regional de Semillas de Santa Cruz,
Bolivia, where he is has been Executive
New membership certificates
ISTA Secretariat
Bassersdorf, Switzerland
ista.office@ista.ch
ISTA has released a new layout of the
membership certificate, which was introduced
at the Annual Meeting in Bologna.
The modified certificates are aimed at
clearly indicating the category of ISTA
Membership: Laboratory Member,
Personal Member, Associate Member and
Corporate Member, with the unique membership
identification code.
The new certificate has space for four
membership stickers for four membership
years. As hitherto, the stickers prove the
validity of the certificate. There have been
no changes to the layout of the stickers.
The new certificate will be issued to
members in the coming membership year
on payment of the annual membership fee,
or in the case of changes in membership or
Director since 1983. He is currently part of
an MBA programme on Seed Technology
from the Federal University of Pelotas,
Brazil, in association with the Universidad
Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno of Santa
Cruz, Bolivia, and the International Center
for Seeds PROSEMILLAS.
Jorge is Bolivia’s national Designated
Authority for ISTA, UPOV and the
OECD. He gives a specialization course on
seed technology at the Federal University
of Pelotas, Brazil.
He has been awarded top distinctions
by Bolivia’s National Seed Program, the
Latin American Seed Federation (FELAS)
and the Federal University of Pelotas. •
to the name of a Member. Detailed address
information is no longer shown on the new
certificate. The text in the certificate is in
English only.
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Seed Testing International No. 136 October 2008