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-.- - 1 Wherein are recorded the recollections. the ruminations and the raspirations of those who ?+-rI have drunk from the foaming fount of the Dep- SL < artment of Plant Pathology of the University of '1 7 Minnesota and who now spout forth in divers /' ', ways got tk f#unt foam an%ntbrf run bfy grt tJlo apout squirt an3 nrbr~IOBF pahror OLD TliGRS Fast-moving ex-sec Rosemary McLZOD, civilian employee of the twiny on tem- A Storkgram postcripted the errival of porary duty in England,breezed through 7 lb., 15 ox. John Richard PIUSLEY, at the Twin Cities, telephoned, then flew I University Perk PId., on Septa 2b. Can- beck to the Healm of 10 Downing Street. dy and cigars served the same purpose Also on-the-move were ibrmer Eide-Leach- for 2300-gram Ksthleen HBIZRICK, after potato-boy John VAUGHN, who left Na- she hed noised her way into the world-- tiond Football Chaqpion PIichigan State the Roman world that is. Before the for why-o-why \?yarning; and Frank V. stork restcd, malted-milk-and-barberry STEVENSON, of the G*ni-Stevenson hut expert L.W.l\IEUNDJR had graduated into Duo, from Florida to Milford, Illinois, the Ancient Order cf Grandfathers (Feb. with the Crow Hybrid Seed Co. kddi- 20)--truly befitting a Nursery Inspec- tional examples of Old 'i'imers spinning tor. with the world are llentopathologistlf J. G. LEACH, recently returned from Pranoted.. .n charge of Botany bt Kara- Colombia, S. 1,. , and Forager J. Lewis chi University, in April, was Dr. S.Z. ALLISON--a returnee from Iraq. HASXNk.IN. This lean, le arned Pakis- tanian considers it a stimukting op- Come to Gay Paree, suggests J.PONC;HET, portunity "where e~chworker shan have of Versailles, who writes that he is the fullest opportunity to contribute "always ready to receive all the Old his mite at the altar of botany with Timers in Paris. I have now a small truth, humility, and self-confidence." car like we have in Paris and I am be- coming a driver," It was "Red clover that lestsfl in the Country Gentlemen (Narch) , in which, Some work and much fun in Kji for cane aiiong others, the work of Kentuckian sugar pathologist Chet WISER and wife Lawrence HdNSON was featured. Susia. Says Chet, If.. .seminar (in Ha- waii) still going so say Andy ANDERSON Tachnical Cooperation bpecialist .. .that and Harry IYIURA(ISHI. If Star-short-stop is the impressive ~ssignment of St. Harry, after 5 years at Hawaii U. is Paul-born Olaf S. UJIODT. In this new apparently eligible next year for a capacity, Dr. Aamodt represents the sabbztical, according to A. Grapevine. Bureau of k'l2nt Industry in contacts with agencies reiponsible for U. So new tapestry hangs on the cinder technical assistance progrms 51 foreign blocks of the Seminar Room. Its in- areas wherethe Bureau has research re- scription reads, "Para el seminario de sponsibility. f itopathologfa de Minnesota, Ascuela Superior de Agric~iLtura ' Antonio Narro! To Professor W.L. WATERHOUSE was given Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. This was a testimonial cheque by miners, bakers, presented by Gabriel Murillo and Lorenzo and scientists upon his retirement after lvlarthez . 33 yems of research at Sydney, on ce- real diseases and plant breeding. New-Doqor Jim if knuckle-headn LYLE gave the 'It emperature range--Xuburn, Alabama, Congratulations to another Piinnesota October 1, 6S0F. to 87O~.' Og October Yh. D, even if not in plant pathology: 19 and 20 at St, Paul jt was 81 F.--with this time ~~Ialcolm,son of O.T. Freeman this difference--that we admit it is 'deiss. too warm! 1410 saw Rockefeller F. J. G. HbRRAR "Prank A. ddPrado , phytopatholoo g en on TY? 2hat was the Itfamous conversa- Letitia H. Robles, geven U kennis van tion" of F .,.O. HUIZRICK' s wife Thelma hun voornemenm het Huwelijk te treden with King Farouk (not an 0. T.)? op Uonderdag 8 October, Para~aribo, (~urinarn). Gelcg~nheidtot gelukwenscn duction of mutations in microorganisms ven 18.5-23.00 uur ten huiae van ~ilevr. by the use of nitrogen mustards evolved tie Weduwe J. Robles-Fernandes, Dr. into a discussion of mutants of Gibber- Nassylaan 17 boven, Paramaribo." ella zeae. The discussion of wetwood in Populus sp. somehow becarne involved The U. S. D. A. sent Chuck LOGSDON as in wood , structure. Dick Nelson1s re- potato pathologist to Alcska this sum- view of Sternphyliwm leaf spot of alfalfa mer; Logsdon sent his furniture; the led to the nature of resistance (with stork sent 52by Onaalic to Minnea2olis; special emphasis on ~.g.t. ) the furniture arrived; and Northwest Lirlines swooped i4amma Lrly, Chucky, The foaming fount is still spewing and Onnu to their new home in Palmcr. forth assorted urediospores, sporidia, Their own plant path. picnic was held conidia, and occasional spor~ngia;and at the proper time in October. from this potent elixer truth,theories, principles, ideas, and hypotheses are FOUR still evolving on Tuesdays at four. Kasper 3auhin! You mem you hcrve never COPIINGS LND GOINGS heard of Kasper Bauhin? you had :{istory of Plant Pathology? Write that Due to the frequency of lfComings and down for next time, somebody. Well, Goingst1 during the Bst nine months, it whet are the criteria& a true sp~cies? was thought best to consolidate,and of Lnd so began another Tuesday Seminar. course &st consideration should go to tha new Old Ti!?l~rs who have completed During the two h.)urs from 4:OOto 6:OS, at least one stage of the lofig hard 6:10, or 6:15 p.m.--or so--a wide vari- battle. If by chance a name has been ety of subjects can be introduced. omitted, rest assured th2.t it was only The significance of Itsweat roons1I and an oversight, for no one has been for- Itshingle toeu in the deterioration of gotten. We are happyb have had every- storcd nursery stocks were explainedb one of you here and look forward to us by Dick Burgess (an ex-Aaine Icbsta-- your coming back again soon. man). The use of impinging machines in studying m-in the air W~Sklucidated Goings of new Old Timers by Mary ~~nnSwaebly. George Failes took a position with :',GSCO In additionb bringing to us the mean- at Grand Forks, North Dakota, in June. ing of cohzrence in scientific writing, On June 30 iieorge marriad abcal girl, seminar also brings to embryonic phyto- fiargaret Syftestad. Since then he hns pathokgists the science ofckher lands. transferred to the Northwestern IJlilling Ornar rjx@ained how cere4Lsmuts are con- Lo., lVlinneapolis. trolled in Egypt by planting methods. Singh described Synchflrium sp. as a Shosuke Goto, Fh. D., left to take a pathogen of seszne in Indicz,and rao-lo position at Dugway Proving Grounds in Yu t,he breedink work for resistance to Utah. blast of rice in the Orient. Duane LeTourneau, one of the all time While the odor of Heinc's t3lend, London home-run stars of the Plant Path. soft Dock, and five-cent cigars (free ones) ball teain is now Assistant Professor competed with an o~cnsional puff of a of Plant 6 iochemistry at the Univerdby nore z.?cceptable odor from faculty row, of Idaho. 2. grcmir& cofii?etc~d-Ath the principles of U.zeae and Gibberella zeae. ..s all Herb Johnson, Ph.D., is doing research Old Timers know, the original subject for the Green Giant Canning Co. at Le of a paper is fraqu~ntly lost before Sueur, Ninnesota. too long in Tuksday Seminars. The pro- --3- iqinoru Lragakihas returned to his work Peru; Theodore Reiling of St. Paul via at the 1-iawaii Experiment Station. Iowa State; and J. Carvalho Santiago from i'ortugal. Joe i. Keplinger, M. S., returned to his home state, Maryland, to follow a Old T hers came career of teaching. James A.Lyle af Auburn, Alabama, Stewart Aary Ann Swaebly recently joined the Andrews af New lY:exico, Lawrence I .ivliller staff nf Marqustte University in of Tidewater ilxperinent Station, Vir- Wisoonein. ginia, and Edward Andrews of Michigan State all returned to Minnesota just George Papavizas, M.S., returned to his long enough to pick up their Ph.D. de- positiolraa Pathologist in Greece. grees. Philip J. Salisbury, of British Columbia, came for his ffprdim"in April. Charles Logsdon took a job with the U. Bob Klug,currently tcaching biology at S.D.L. in Palmer, Llaska working pri- St. Thomas College, has returned to marily on potato diseases. continue his graduate work in agricul- tural botany. C. S. Venkataram, M. S., returned to India. Dr. J.W. Gibler and Dr. N. E. Borlaug, of the Rockefdkr Foundation at Mexico Frances Haglund accepted a high-school City. teaching position at Northbrook, Ill. Dr. H,C. Young, Jr. of Oklahoma A & iq, Newcomers Stillwater, Oklahoma. Vincenzo Grasso, a visiting professor Dr. J. Z. 1VIitchell from Canp Lletrick, from E'lorence,Italy, came to study for Frederick, iqaryland. six months. Dr. 1'4. G. Boosalis from the University Paul Gustafson, a newcomer, did his un- of Nebraska. dergraduate work at the University of Minnesota in chemistry. Dr. W, C. Broadfoot of Lsthbridge, Al- berta. Bill Roberts of the "Lone Star St~te" with IUI. S. from Oklahoma ;A & My started Dr. G. B. Sanford and Dr. A. W. Henry his apprenticeship on oat rust in Feb. and son John, from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. ,'atonio Rodriguez arrived from Mexico and WUiam Silverrnan from City College, ~\I.C.Shurtleff of Rhode Island returned N.