University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Laboratory of Parasitology 2004 The outhS western Association of Parasitologists: The irsF t 35 Years: 1967–2002 Donald W. Duszynski University of New Mexico - Main Campus, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/parasitologyfacpubs Part of the Parasitology Commons Duszynski, Donald W., "The outhS western Association of Parasitologists: The irF st 35 Years: 1967–2002" (2004). Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology. 865. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/parasitologyfacpubs/865 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications from the Harold W. 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The Southwestern Association of Parasitologists The First 35 Years: 1967–2002 © SWAP, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Formative Year: 1967 ......................................................................... 1 The First Meeting: March 23, 1968 .......................................................... 2 The Second Meeting: March 21-23, 1969 ................................................. 6 The Third Meeting: March 19-21, 1970 ................................................... 9 The Fourth Meeting: April 22-24, 1971 ................................................. 10 The Fifth Meeting: April 13-15, 1972 ..................................................... 11 The Sixth Meeting: April 12-14, 1973 .................................................... 11 The Seventh Meeting: April 18-20, 1974 ................................................ 11 The Eighth Meeting: April 17-19, 1975.................................................. 12 The Ninth Meeting: April 22-24, 1976 ................................................... 13 The Tenth Meeting: April 21-23, 1977 ................................................... 14 The Eleventh Meeting: April 20-22, 1978 .............................................. 15 The Twelfth Meeting: April 19-21, 1979................................................. 15 The Thirteenth Meeting: April 17-19, 1980 ............................................ 20 The Fourteenth Meeting: April 2-4, 1981 ............................................... 23 The Fifteenth Meeting: April 15-17, 1982 .............................................. 23 The Sixteenth Meeting: April 21-23, 1983 .............................................. 25 The Seventeenth Meeting: April 19-21, 1984 ......................................... 26 The Eighteenth Meeting: April 11-13, 1985 ........................................... 27 The Nineteenth Meeting: April 3-5, 1986 ............................................... 27 The Twentieth Meeting: April 2-4, 1987 ................................................. 28 J.T. Self Dedication by J. Janovy, Jr. ................................................. 28 The Twenty-First Meeting: April 14-16, 1988 ......................................... 30 The Twenty-Second Meeting: April 13-15, 1989 .................................... 31 The Twenty-Third Meeting: April 12-14, 1990........................................ 31 Tribute to M.H. Dresden by J. Janovy Jr. ......................................... 31 The Twenty-Fourth Meeting: April 4-6, 1991 ......................................... 32 The Twenty-Fifth Meeting: April 2-4, 1992 ............................................ 33 The Twenty-Sixth Meeting: April 15-17, 1993 ........................................ 34 The Twenty-Seventh Meeting: April 14-16, 1994 ................................... 34 The Twenty-Eighth Meeting: April 20-22, 1995 ..................................... 35 The Twenty-Ninth Meeting: April 18-20, 1996 ...................................... 35 The Thirtieth Meeting: April 10-12, 1997 .............................................. 37 The Thirty-First Meeting: April 9-11, 1998 ............................................ 38 The Thirty-Second Meeting: April 15-17, 1999 ...................................... 38 The Thirty-Third Meeting: April 13-15, 2000 ......................................... 39 The Thirty-Fourth Meeting: April 26-28, 2001....................................... 40 The Thirty-Fifth Meeting: April 18-20, 2002 .......................................... 40 We’ve Come a Long Way Since 1968 ...................................................... 41 Student Oriented ............................................................................. 42 Non-Exclusion................................................................................. 42 Dedicated to Excellence ................................................................... 48 APPENDIX i BOXES AND TABLES Box 1. The first questionnaire to determine if there was interest in forming a regional group of parasitologists in the southwestern U.S. ................................................................ 2 Box 2. Letter from Teague Self to B.J. Myers pointing out that he hadn’t been notified about the organizational meeting in Tucson, where he was appointed to two committees, one as chair! ..................................................................................................................... 3 Box 3. The official press release by the U.S. District Attorney’s Office announcing the indict- ment of SWAP member and ASP Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. C.R. Page, III. ................ 18 Box 4. New Orleans newspapers break the story on Clayton Page’s indictment, April 4, 1980. .......................................................................................................................... 19-20 Box 5. April 11, 1980, the Tulane University campus newspaper releases the indictment story on Dr. C.R. Page. .................................................................................................... 21 Box 6. Another member of SWAP, Dr. Frank Fisher of Rice University, makes headlines in Rice University’s Sallyport magazine. ....................................................................... 24 Box 7. SWAP’s resolution protesting the registration fees at ICOPA-V, April 16, 1982. ...... 25 Box 8. David A. Becker Memorial Award. .......................................................................... 36 Box 9. Mark Dresden Award. ............................................................................................. 37 Table I. Alphabetical list of charter members of the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists (taken from original application-for-membership forms). .......................................... 6 Table II. Summary of SWAP meetings from 1967 to 2002. ..................................................... 7 Table III. Officers who have served SWAP during the first 35 Years. ...................................... 8-9 Table IV. List of SWAP membership, by state, compiled from 17 lists in SWAP archives and the years in which they were available....................................................................... 16-17 Table V. Number of papers credited to each of 164 universities, private, state and/or federal institutions, at five-year intervals from 1968-2002, for all 35 SWAP meetings.... 43-47 Table VI. History of the number of oral and poster presentations given at SWAP from 1968- 2001, at 5-year intervals, showing the decline in number of presentations and the increase in multi-authored/multi-institutional work. ................................................ 49 ii The Southwestern Association of Parasitologists The First 35 Years: 1967–2002 t is likely that the idea to organize south- June 27, 1967, Dr. Myers mailed a question- western parasitologists into a regional naire regarding interest in forming such a Igroup originated over cocktails one night group to 169 American Society of Parasitolo- in the late 1950s during a regional or national gists (ASP) members living in Arizona, Ar- meeting. What is clear is that two men—Drs. kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma Robert E. Kuntz and Donald V. Moore— and Texas (Box 1). Sixty-three interested were instrumental in turning the idea into parasitologists responded, including one from what has become, in reality, the Southwestern Arizona, two from New Mexico, three from Association of Parasitologists (SWAP). Arkansas, 12 from Oklahoma, 18 from Loui- Dr. J. Teague Self (pers. comm., 1981) siana, and 27 from Texas. Such a favorable stated, “The beginning of SWAP was an idea response prompted the holding of an organi- of Robert Kuntz who felt that something zational meeting on August 22, 1967 at the could be gained if several of us here in the 42nd Annual Meeting of the ASP in Tucson, southwest could get together once a year for a Arizona. This brief organizational meeting day or two and just talk parasitology.” Dr. was chaired by Don Moore, who outlined the Moore (pers. comm., 1980) noted that he purpose of regional organizations and their and others “. made an early attempt to or- functions. The following representatives from ganize the regional parasitologists at a meet- the various southwestern states were selected ing of the Texas Conference on Diseases in to form a Steering Committee, with Betty- Nature