AURORA June, 1985 SPOREALIS

Borlaug Hall Conrad Buhr Photo

Department of Plant Pathology University of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota LElTER FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD

As I write this, I will have been in the position of Head of the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota for a 1 ittle over four months. As the first non-Minnesota alumnus to be appointed to this position, I believe it is important to continue to maintain the traditions that are so much a part of this department while looking for opportunities for us to take advantage of the new technologies that wi11 move us forward aggressively into the future of agriculture. My arrival at Minnesota is accompanied by a nearly complete change in administrators in the Col lege of Agriculture including a new Dean and new Heads in the Departments of Agronomy & Plant Genetics, Entomology, Horticulture, and Soil Science within the past three years. Dr. C. Eugene A1 len is the new Dean of the College of Agricu 1ture and Associate Director of the Minnesota Agricu 1tural Experiment Station. Dean Allen was a faculty member in the Departments of Animal Science and Food Science & Nutrition, prior to becoming Dean. Dr. Orvin Burnside, a weed scientist from the University of Nebraska, is the new (April 1, 1985) Head in Agronomy and Plant Genetics. In Entomology, Dr. Richard Jones is now the Department Head. Dr. Jones was on the Entomology faculty at Minnesota prior to becoming Head. Dr. James Bartz came to Minnesota from private industry and has been Head of Horticultural Science and Landscape Architecture for the past three years. The Head of Soil Science is Dr. William Larson who held an Agricultural Research Service position in the Soil Science Department prior to becoming Head. It truly is a new era at the University of Minnesota and an excellent opportunity to establish new cooperative ventures among the departments. I am extremely optimistic about t h is happening.

I believe the major items of news that should be mentioned should include the institution of a new organizational structure within the department; the completion of the first phase of the new building addition about July 1, to be named Borl aug Hal 1 that wi11 house our administrative offices, classrooms, the plant pathology library and growth chamber facilities; and the initiation of a new integrated pest management undergraduate curricul um in the fa1 1 of 1985 that wi 11 be administered by Plant Path01 ogy.

The new organizational structure has facilitated initiation of some extremely important activities in the department. Five standing comnittees have been appointed. They are: Education, Research, Extension, Public Alumni and Institutional Relations, and Physical Resources. Each of these committees has been charged with a total review of a1 1 facets of our departmental operation and has been requested to make recommendations with respect to new directions that we should be taking in each of these areas. The effect has been that faculty, students, and staff have a1 1 become aware of how our department functions within the context of their committee assignments. Each comnittee is currently developing a long range plan that will be incorporated into a total departmental document that will be used in determining departmental direction and resources needed to accomplish the stated objectives. Deadline for completion of the long range study is June, 1985. The next challenge before us is to effectively use the results of this report in a meaningful way that wi1 1 a1 low us to move into the future in a thoughtful but aggressive manner that will ensure that we maintain a leadership role in plant pathology at the University of Minnesota and continue to provide services to the people of Minnesota and beyond. The opportunity to move into new teaching facilities in Borlaug Hal 1 comes at a time when we are making a renewed commitment to teaching at Minnesota. We want to be certain that we are incorporating the new methodologies in biotechnology into our instructional programs that are now influencing the direction of plant pathology as we1 1 as providing attention to the instructional needs that a1 low our students to respond to immediate problems facing agricultural producers relative to plant disease management. As we phase out the Plant Health Technology undergraduate curriculum and initiate the Integrated Pest Management curriculum in fa1 1 of 1985, we look forward to the chal lenge of providing a quality up-to-date curriculum that will continue to provide qua1 ified graduates at the Bachelor's level that wi 1 1 compete effectively for employment in plant pest management and re1ated occupations.

I am pleased to report to you that our present graduate students are an outstanding and enthusiastic group of young people that wi 11 represent the department well as they move into employment after graduation. As has usually been the case at the University of Minnesota, there are a number of international students among the ranks who are a source of enrichment for us all. In addition to their academic and research endeavors, the graduate students have been leading the way in social activities within the department. As an example, the annual E. C. Stakman Softball Game is still alive and we1 1 and took place on May 17th of this year.

Final ly, let me say that the need is greater than ever for the support of our a1 umni and friends. We hope that the Aurora Sporeal is wi 1 1 continue to serve an important role in providing you- with current information regarding the Department. We ask that you continue to serve as ambassadors for the department wherever you may be and invite you to stop in and see us whenever you have the opportunity.

Kindest personal regards.

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Contributors to this issue : Photography by: Typing by : , Carl J. Eide Gilbert Ahlstrand Marguerite Clemens Thor Kommedahl Conrad Buhr

Sagar Krupa Carl J. Eide I Philip Larsen Bill Livingston Jane 0' Laughlin Linda Treeful Margaret Stahler Roy D. Wilcoxson Richard Zeyen Volume 55, Number 1 AURORA SPOREALIS June, 1985

OLD TIMERS COLUMN sti1 1 fun. Some of the fun apparently are his trips to Europe-Romania and ARVID MONSON, MS 1964, and his Italy in 1984. He expects to go to family are back in Minnesota. Arvid is France and Italy in 1985. (National taking course work in Higher Education Academy of Science Exchange - 3rd trip). Administration at the U of M. His son, Alan, is a freshman at Bethel College. Minnesota Old Timers DEXTER DOUGLAS, Ph.D. 1968, and ROLLIE LINE, LOIS JOHNSON, Ph.D. 1980, says she Ph.D. 1962, report that Midwest diseases has "finished her stint on primary are increasing in the West. Dexter screen and is now doing research instead found late blight on potatoes in Idaho of logistics and trouble shooting." in 1984, for the first time (so far, as (with DuPont at Wi lmington, Delaware). he was aware). The seed potato business She spent the summer (1984) in the field keeps Dex busy. working with diseases of peanuts and sugar beets. ROLLIE LINE, USDA, Pul lman, WA says stem rust of wheat is increasing; STEIN TELNESET, Ph.D. 1963, reca 11 s barberries apparently are the primary an "exchange of opinion with Matt Moore source of inocul um. Rollie's principal about multi-line breeding methods in effort has been on the epidemiology, Mexico." Stein calls himself "a general host resistance and chemical control of practitioner in potato production, stripe rust and leaf rust. Ro1 1ie was certification and variety description." in France at a rust meeting last sumner He reports that in 1984, there was no (so were Minnesota's Alan Roelfs and ring rot in the potato seed crop in Jack Schafer). He and Fran drove Norway. Stein has been fighting the through Ireland, visiting Ted Ryan and disease for many years. Tom Kavanagh.

SHIH-I-LU, Ph.D 1952, Professor, ART SCHIPPER, JR., Ph.D. 1968, Academic Sinica, Beijing, China, recently transferred from the USDA lectured on genetics of fi1 amentous Forest Service Washington office to the fungi at the Chinese University of Hong Forest Service Pacific Northwest Forest Kong. Lu has established a mushroom and Range Experiment Station (PNW). Art production and research center at wi 11 be an Assistant Station Director Bei jing. with administrative responsibilities for the research program in parts of Oregon JERI OOKA, Ph.D. 1975, confesses and Washinqton. that after 10 years, he feels nostalgia for Minnesota and would 1ike to attend E.P. (ERNIE) DuCHARME, Ph.D. 1949, the opening of the new plant pathology was called out of retirement in addition if it is during a warm time of November, 1984, to test experimental the year. Mary's work with the Air drugs as possible controls for citrus Force keeps her in Honolulu. Jeri is canker. The tests are being done in pathologist at the University of Hawaii Argentina because the disease is endemic Experiment Station at Kapaa. there. In 1984, it was discovered in Florida for the first time in more than PAUL FRIDLUND, Ph.D 1954, says he 30 years. Early in his career, Ernie is resisting retirement, but his work on spent several years in Argentina working stone fruit viruses at Prosser, WA is on citrus disease.

The last regular issue of Aurora Sporealis was Vol. 54, No. 1, dated Decenker, 1983 JOHN HILL, MS 1966, spent three with the Bureau of Science Techno1 ogy, weeks during the spring of 1984 in AID, Washington, D.C. Morocco, sponsored by a USAID dryland project. He expects to make a couple DR. PATRICK BORICH, MS 1963, was more trips in the next 2-3 years. John appointed Dean and Director of the was interested in the plant virus Agricultural Extension Service, 1aboratories in Morocco. He recently University of Minnesota, October 1984. shared in a grant of $118,810 from the Iowa High Technology Council to study ARNE SKYTT ANDERSEN, MS 1930 (Plant the use of monoclonal antibodies for Physiology), is one of the leading plant detecting and analysing plant viruses. physiologists in Denmark. He is John is Professor in the Department of professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, Seed and Weed Sciences, Physiology Botany, University of Iowa State Uni versity. Agricu 1ture, Copenhagen. Dr. Andersen's principal research interest is in plant WILLIAM MERRILL, Ph.D. 1963, hormones. recently performed what was claimed to be the first forest pathology folksong For this information, we are at the 1984 Northeastern Forest indebted to Merete Hansen, an exchange Pathology Workshop at the University of student who spent the period July - Maine. The subject of the song was November, 1984 at the University of Dutch elm disease. We have not been Wisconsin at River Fa1 1s. Merete worked able to determine if Bi 1 1 accompanied for Arne as a student. She visited the himself on the guitar, but he probably Department in St. Paul October 30, 1984. did. As for being a first, there is room for doubt. Certain Ancients wi1 1 KANTILAL P. PATEL, Ph.D. 1967, is recall that a feature of past meetings presently associated with the Gujarat of the APS was home talent State Ferti 1izers Co., Ltd., Baroda, entertainment. Minnesotans composed and India. He is especially interested in sang on occasions, but perhaps their seed inoculants. Recently, he wrote "I efforts could not be cal led fol ksongs. very much miss the Thursday Night They certainly haven't been perpetuated Seminar, a unique feature of the by the plant path "folk". department. Say 'he1 lo' to a1 1 the members...". M.J. BOOSALIS, Ph.D. 1951, resigned his position as Head of the Department CHUCK LOGSDON, Ph.D. 1954, now of Plant Pathology, University of retired at Palmer, AK, reports the Nebraska, in 1984. Boo had the job consulting business is slow but he is since 1964, the longest tenure in the still "willing to make a buck if anyone history of the department. He is now is interested in contracting for my devoting his entire effort to research, services". He painted the house last teaching and extension work. The new summer and felt proud of himself. No one Head is Anne K. Vidaver. who has never painted his house really knows the joy of accompl ishment. MARK A. SMITH, Ph.D. 1968, has been appointed AID Project Manager to WARDA (West Africa Rice Development Assn.) TOM MEW, Ph.D. 1972, and ANNABELLE, headquartered in Monrov ia, Liberia. Ph.D. 1970, of the International Rice WARDA is one of 13 international Research Institute, Los Banos, Laguna, agricultural research centers in Phi 1 ippines, report that the Plant different parts of the world which are Pathology Department there is increasing supported by the consultative group on its computer facilities. Tom kept busy International Agricultural Research. traveling in 1984 to Asia, North America Before accepting the position, Mark was and Africa. BILL ANDERSON, Ph.D. 1974, writes, ME STAKMAN CENTENNIAL "I find that I can administer the program for which I am responsible with May 17, 1985 was the 100th reasonable effecti veness...Dutch e 1m anniversary of the birth of E.C. disease and maintaining vegetation in a Stakman. The annual Stakman Memorial hostile, heavily used environment Softball Game was played (students 15, (Washington, D.C.) are continuing staff 6) followed by a feast of beer and problems." Bi 11 then becomes bratwurst. If there were any prayers, philosophical: appreciates the criticism parades or other manifestations of he had from C.M.C., Stakman, and others. public rejoicing in Minnesota that day "Without criticism, we often neglect the they probably were in honor of Syttende necessary reflection on circumstances Mai, a national holiday in Norway. that lead to decision-making situations. This goes for scientific as well as One hundred years. And Stakman administrative decisions." The 1i ved nearly 94 of them, 92 in good newspaper, USA Today, March 22, 1985, heal th. He was 1ucky. After beating the carried a picture of Bill inspecting the tremendous odds against being born at blossoms of the famous cherry trees in all (a scary thought) he spent his Washington, D.C. and predicting fu 11 boyhood near the edge of the frontier, bloom April 1-4. where the Big Woods and the Long Grass Prairie met. The Frontier was officially CURT ROANE, Ph.D. 1953, was made a terminated (1890) while he was young, Fel low of APS last summer. He writes, but the environment that moulded "I can soon join the ranks of the American character (F. J. Turner) was inspired, productive retired; (Virginia still dominant. Here young Stakman found Polytech, etc.) I have a lot of projects rich opportunities to study nature while lined up." 1earning Greek and Latin in school and soaking up the attitudes of industry and DEVI URS, Crookston, became a independence that we 1ike to think are naturalized citizen of the United States American. before a federal judge in Detroit Lakes, MN last summer (1984). Devi is a As a man it was his great good laboratory technician with Dahlgren & fortune to help build a vigorous, Co., Crookston. Her husband, DR. RAMA growing University in the days when the URS, is pathologist with the same department head hired the help and then company. Rama was Jr. Scientist in the let them do their work while he assumed Department during 1975-77. the onerous task of traveling abroad as missionary and advertising agent. CHET WISMER, Ph.D. 1950, who is retired and living in Hawaii, spent most It has been said that "Wise men of October, 1984 in Bangladesh with a should lead. But wise men rarely have team of scientists on a sugarcane the strength; strong men rarely have the project which was sponsored by the World wisdom." Stakman was one of the "rare" Bank. exceptions. He was wise. He was a scholar who loved knowledge for its own ALBERT W. (WILLIE) FELDMAN, PhD sake. But he also had strength. He was 1947, retired October 31, 1983 from his willing and able to defend his wisdom position with the University of Florida, against the assaults of ignorance and IFAS Agricultural Research and Education stupidity. He loved a good fight as much Center, Lake A1 fred. Wi11 ie had been as he loved wisdom. These with the University of Florida for 25 characteristics, with perhaps a touch of years and had an international cussedness, made his life a joy to reputation for his work on various himself and a blessing to his fellow diseases of citrus trees. humans. We still enjoy that blessing. it was a good 100 years. OBITUARIES in 1933. This was during the Great Depression and life was very difficult R.C. ROSE. Aurora has learned that until he was offered a temporary job by R.C. Rose (MS 1915) died in Florida Dr. Craigie at the Dominion Laboratory December 11, 1982 after a 1ong i1 1 ness. of Plant Pathology in 1936. He borrowed He was 92. Ray was Extension Pathologist money to come to Minnesota to take for Minnesota from 1920 unti 1 1956. The graduate work where he spent seven position was created in 1916 and held months that he described as "the first by A.G. Tolaas and then by Frank happiest ever since I left the farm." Fro1 ich. Ray was a pioneer and had to After further work at Minnesota he develop his own methods of making recei ved the MS in 1940 and the PhD in scientific plant pathol ogy useful and 1943. He was empl oyed most of his profitable to Minnesota farmers. He was professional career at the Domini on remarkably successfu 1. A1 though he had Laboratory at Winnipeg, Manitoba, to cover disease problems of a1 1 crops Canada, where he became Agricultural as we1 1 as ornamental s, his principal Scientist in 1944. He retired in 1969. emphasis was on potato diseases and cereal smuts. He owned a farm near GEORGE H. STARR, PhD 1931, died of Forest Lake, Minnesota where he raised cancer November 13, 1982 at Fort Coll ins potatoes for many years. Ray resigned Colorado. George was born at Bismarck, from the extension service in 1956 and I11 inois November 24, 1898. He took a position in San Salvador. When he graduated from South Dakota State retired he and Mrs. Rose bought a home College in 1925 and took an MS at the in West Palm Beach, Florida where Mrs. Uni versity of Nebraska before coming to Rose is still living. Minnesota in 1928. Starr joined the University of Wyoming as pathologist in Ray was born in St. Paul Apri 1 22, 1931 and became Director of the 1890. He attended high school in Agricultural Extension Service there in Brai nerd, Minnesota and graduated from 1952. He retired in 1964 but was the Uni versi ty of Minnesota Col 1ege of recal led twice to serve two-year ha1 f Agricul ture, Forestry and Home Economics time appointments in plant pathol ogy. in 1913 with a major in horticulture. After retirement he and Mrs. Starr moved to Fort Col 1 ins where he was engaged in ESTHER FKOSHEISER. Mrs. Fred the real estate business. His principal Frosheiser died February 12, 1985. She research interests incl uded bacteri a1 had suffered a paralytic stroke several blights of beans and diseases of years ago and had been a resident in the potatoes. Lyngbl omsten Heal th Care Center since then. She was born in Ellsworth, KENNETH G. McINDOE died May 24, Minnesota July 20, 1913. Fred and Esther 1984. Mac was born July 30, 1903 in had no children. She is survived by four Dunedin, New Zealand and earned the BSc sisters . and MSc degrees at the University of New Zealand. He came to Minnesota in 1929 W.J. CHEREWICK, PhD 1943, died and was granted the PhD in Agronomy and October 14, 1983 after a 1ong i 11ness. Plant Genetics in 1930. At the Cherewick was born February 15, 1904 in suggestion of E. C. Stakman he accepted, Saskatchewan, Canada. His parents were in 1931, a research position with the from the Ukraine. Opportunities for Firestone Plantations Company where he elementary education were poor and his continued, except for a brief period schooling was interrupted when he during World War 11, until 1958. He finished the fifth grade. At age 23 he became Director of the Research resumed his education entering the tenth Department which grew from one man grade. In the face of almost (himself) to a staff of 15 during his insurmountabl e difficulties he graduated tenure. Although his principal interest from the Manitoba Agricultural Col 1ege was in rubber, McIndoe started an active policy of plant introduction of several MINNESOTANS AT APS tropical crops and eventually imported cattle, all of which was of great Minnesota Old Timers, faculty and benefit to the native population. He students were endemic at Guelph--the retired to Florida in 1958 but continued Canadian city named after King George as an adviser to the Firestone Company Guelph I11 of England. At least, they for severdl years. made up 7% of those registered and authored 11% of the abstracts pub1 ished BILL JILES ROBERTS. Dr. Roberts in PHYTOPATHOLOGY. (PhD 1962) died March 19, 1984 at Fort Collins, Colorado. Bill was born in Minnesotans, past and present, Olton, Texas February 15, 1927. He served, as of August 1984, on various attended High School in Oklahoma City boards and committees of APS: 2 on and received the BS in Botany and Plant Counci 1, 14 on editorial boards of the Pathology (1951) and the MS (1953) at two journal s, and 43 on 34 Society Okl ahoma A & M. comnittees.

He came to Minnesota in 1953 to Four Old Timers were elected work for his PhD. While here he was Fel lows of APS: Cereal rust pathologist Agent and later Research Plant Bi 11 Bushnel 1, former Minnesota Pathologist with the USDA from 1954 to professor Rick Durbin, Minnesota 1967. During this time he worked on graduate Curt Roane, and former Col lege rusts of cereals, principally oats, and of Agriculture Dean at Minnesota Jim contributed extensively to this field. Tammen. A1 so, Pub1 ication Coordinator He was adjunct Assistant Professor in Thor Kommedahl received the the Department of Plant Path01 ogy, Distinguished Service Award. University of Minnesota. Bill left the USDA early in 1967 to go with CIMMYT in Old and New Timers gathered at Dave Mexico as wheat pathol ogist and breeder. French's dormitory suite to make or He left there to take a similar position renew friendships, count gray hairs, and with Cargill, Inc. in Fort Collins in recount past experiences since 1969. araduation from either Phvtobrikhaus iremu 1oides (the ~otteriniTower, now extinct) or from Phytobrikhaus erectus BENJAMIN ORTEGA C. died in Apri 1, (current 1y developing pseudopodia)--and, 1985 after suffering with lukemia for of course, to quaff some of ~anada's several years. Ben was awarded the best beverages. degree Ingeniero Agronomo in 1944 by The Escuel a Nacion-a1 de Agricutura, Thor Kommedahl Chapingo, Mexico. He earned the MS in - plant pathol ogy at the Uni versity of Minnesota in 1946. LATE NEWS, M. F, Kernkamp, PhD 1941, Ben worked with the Ministry of died at Sun City, Arizona, July 5, 1985, after a long'il lness. Dr. Kernkamp was Water Resources in Mexico for many born near St. Paul, Minnesota, September years, being in charge of the Torreon 16, 1911. He was Head of the Department district. Later he was in charge of the plant protection unit in the Ministry of from 1961 to 1971, and retired June 30, Agriculture. He became Secretary of 1977. Agriculture in 1978. LATE NEWS. Matthew B. Moore, a facu 1ty member since 1929, passed away Ben was born in Coyoacan Apri 1 16, July 10, 1985. Matt was born in St. 1919. He and his wife Giovanina had Paul, Minnesota, April 11, 1905. He three daughters and a son. retired June 30, 1973. HONORS Several OLD TIMERS and PRESENT MINNESOTANS were made Fellows of the APS ,DR. J.E. VANDERPLANK of the Plant at the meeting in Guelph, Ontario, Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, August 12-16, 1984. They are: South Africa, will receive the 1985 Elvin Char 1es Stakman Award. Vanderpl ank WILLIAM R. BUSHNELL for his was chosen for his innovative approaches "significant contributions to our to epidemics, resistance and understanding of the physiology of the pathogenesis in plant disease and the interaction of the rust and powdery stimulus he has provided for research in mildew fungi and their hosts". Bill has these fields. been in the Cereal Rust Laboratory since 1960. He is Research Pathologist, USDA The Stakman Award was estab 1 ished and Professor of Plant Pathology, in 1953 by students, col 1eagues and Uni versi ty of Minnesota. He recei ved friends of Stakman. The award is made to the Ph.D. in Botany at the University of individuals in any country for Wisconsin in 1960. Recently, he outstanding contributions to the field recei ved an A1 exander von Humbol dt of plant pathology in research, Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award extension or international affairs. It to do research at the University of consists of a medal, citation and Konstanz in Germany. honorarium. JAMES R. TAMMEN was Professor of Vanderpl ank wi 1 1 be the twenty- Plant Pathology and Dean of the College second person to receive the award of Agriculture, U of M, from 1976 to which, with a few exceptions, is made 1981. He received the Ph.D. in Plant annual ly. Fourteen of the past Pathology at the University of recipients have been students or California, Berkeley in 1954 and joined visiting scientists at Minnesota. Penn State in 1956 where he became Head of the Department of Plant Pathology in Because of the il lness of Mrs. 1965. Dr. Tammen is noted for his work Vanderp 1ank, Dr. Vanderp 1ank wi 1 1 be in plant disease control by developing unable to come to Minnesota to receive pathogen-free propagating stock. He had the award. a distinguished career in research and academic administration, and, on leaving the University of Minnesota in 1981, became President of Ogl evee Associates, THOR KOMMEDAHL, professor of plant Connel svil le, PA., an international pathology, was awarded the Distinguished producer of pathogen-free stocks of Service Award by the American several horticultural crops. Phytopathological Society at its meeting in Guelph, Ontario, August 12-16, 1984. RICHARD D. DURBIN was Assistant He was cited for his 16 years of service Professor of Plant Pathology at on Counci 1 he1 d through various offices: Minnesota from 1958 to 1962 and is now counci 1 or (NC Di vision), editor-in- leader of the Plant Disease Resistance chief PHYTOPATHOLOGY (4 years), Research Unit, USDA, at the University president, and Pub1 ications Coordinator of Wisconsin. His APS Award cites his (2 terms), and for other contributions work on many phases of plant disease to the Society over a 26-year period. physiology, especially the role played by toxins. He edited a treatise on PROFESSOR NEIL ANDERSON wi 1 1 be Toxins in Plant Disease. Rick received President of the 1ocal chapter of Sigma the Ph.D. from the University of XI for 1985-86. California-Berkeley, in 1957.

WILLIAM H. LIVINGSTON was initiated CURTIS W. ROANE, Ph.D. 1953, is into Sigma Xi, May 16, 1985. Professor of Plant Pathology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State COLE610 DE POSTGRADUADOS 25 YEARS OLD University. His major contributions have been to knowledge of host-parasite During 1984 the Colegio de interactions, fungus and virus etiology Postgraduados at Chapingo-Monteci 1 1os, and breeding for disease resistance. Mexico, observed the 25th anniversary of His work has lead to the production of its establishment in 1959. The Colegio high yielding, heal thy smal 1 grains, recently occupied a new campus about 2 corn and soybeans, including one oat, km from the old location at Chapingo. eight bar1ey and fi ve wheat cul ti vars, as we1 1 as seven corn hybrids, 15 corn The Centro de Fitopathologia has inbreds and four corn germ plasms. its own new building and comprises about 10 faculty members and 25 graduate The Oat News1 etter for 1984 (Vo l ume students. Dr. Ma de la Isla de Bauer, 35) is dedicated to PROFESSOR MATTHEW B. Minnesota MS 1957, is Head of the MOORE. The article cites Matt's major Department since 1983. role in the development of 17 oat cul ti vars re1eased by the Minnesota E.C. Stakman was intensely Agricultural Experiment Station, It a1 so interested in the graduate program at emphasizes his considerable influence on Chapingo and gave its founders a1 1 the the thinking among plant path01 ogists encouragement he could. The plant about resistance to disease and his pathology library is named in his honor ingenuity in devising equipment for in recognition of his interest. research. Matt's abi 1 ity and inf 1 uence as a teacher are recognized as we1 1 as As part of the anniversary programs his interest in nature and his wide in plant pathology a conference was held knowledge of growing things that helped in December 1984 on diseases of corn, to make him a famous teacher. The beans and pepper. Professor James Groth Newsletter, which is sponsored by the of Minnesota presented an invitation National Oat Conference, a1 so carries a paper on bean rust and population picture of Matt pushing one of his belt genetics. planters. The first Doctorate awarded by the Colegio was received by Leopold Two students received funds for travel in 1984 under the Thomas French Fucikovsky in 1975. Dr. Fucikovsky is Travel Award. They were: PETER BEDKER, presently (1984-85) E.C. Stakman who attended a U.S.-Japan Conference on Visiting Professor at Minnesota. the Pine Wood Nematode in Hawaii and CARL MATYAC, who went to Las Vegas to a Western Soil Fungus Conference.

The Department of Plant Path01 ogy at Kansas State University named the COURSE departmental library and reading room the "Earl D. Hansing Conference Room" in Dr. P.S. Teng was organizer of a honor of PROFESSOR EMERITUS EARL D. training course on "Crop Loss Assessment HANSING. Earl is an Old Timer who got to Improve Crop Production and Pest his start as an undergrad in Plant Management" held on the St. Paul Campus Pathology, F 1930. This was the last July 9-20, 1984. About 30 scientists quarter that Stakman gave the lectures from 16 countries participated. The in the course. Earl got an A. He course was sponsored by the University received the BS at Minnesota in 1933, of Minnesota, FAO, USAID and the ISPP MS, Kansas State, 1937 and Ph.D. at Committee on Epidemi 01 ogy, Crop Losses Cornel 1 in 1941. He was on the faculty and Production Constraints. A book is at Kansas State University from 1935 being prepared from lectures given unti 1 his retirement. during the course. NEW PERSONNEL NEW HEAD D.R. PHILIP 0. LAKSEN assumed his duties as seventh Head of the Department on January 1, 1985. Phi l is a nati ve of Iowa and recei ved his B.S. degree in botany at Iowa State Uni versity. He earned the M.S. and Ph.D. in Plant Pathology at the University of Arizona. Before coming to Minnesota he was Professor of Plant Pathology at Ohio State University where he had been on the facul ty since 1968. His principal research interests are in the areas of bacterial diseases and diseases of turf grass.

Dr. Larsen shares with E.M. Freeman, the first Head of Plant Pathology, the distinction of -not having a degree from the Department. A1 1 the other Heads were a1 umni. Freeman got his Ph.D. in botany at the Uni versity of Minnesota in 1905. He was Head for 33 years. Furthermore, Phil shares with J.J. Christensen, Head, 1953- 1961, the distinction of having Danish an~e~tors.Thus the signs point to-a bright future for Phi 1 Larsen and Plant Path01 ogy. Dr. Larsen

Delores Todd Sue Huebner Burnes Gray den

DELORES HUEBNEK became Assistant graduate of A1 exander Ramsey High Administrator in the Department on School, St. Paul. December 10, 1984. Delores held a simi lar position in the Community Pub1 ic TODD A. BURNES was promoted to Health Program on the Minneapolis Campus Junior Scientist January 16, 1985. He before comi ng to P 1ant Patho 1 ogy. started working in the laboratory of Professor Bl anchette as Laboratory SUSAN GKAYDEN is Secretarial Technician June 8, 1982, 1ater as Sr. Assistant in the Plant Pathology office Laboratory Technician. Todd holds the since January 26, 1984. Susan is a BS (1983) in forestry, University of Minnesota. Catherine Huot Lucille Wanschura Kriste Ericsson

KRISTE ERICSSON is Laboratory botany and plant pathology by the Technician in the laboratory of University of New Hampshire in 1981 and Professor Elwin Stewart. She started the MS in plant pathology by the work May 9, 1984. Kriste holds a BA in University of Massachusetts, February, biology from Bethel Col lege, (1979), and 1984. the MS in botany from the University of Minnesota, Du 1uth. LUCILLE A. WANSCHURA is Laboratory Technician in the Cereal Rust CATHERINE HUOT assumed the position Laboratory. She holds the BS (1983) in of Research Fel 1ow January 1, 1984, agriculture from the University of working in Professor Percich's Minnesota. Lucille started work February 1aboratory. She was awarded the BS in 1, 1984.

PROMOTIONS Roxanne Denny, September 1, 1984 Todd Burnes, January 16, 1985 From Senior Secretary -to Principal Secretary: From Scientist -to Assistant Professor: Debra Baden-Drange, February 16, 1984 Carol E. Windels, May 1, 1984 Ann Arendt, February 16, 1984 From Assistant Professor to Associate From Laboratory Technician -to Senior Professor: Laboratory Technician: Robert Blanchette, July 1, 1984 Lucy Wanschura, January 16, 1985 Dave Johnson, February 16, 1985 From Associate Professor -to Professor:

From Laboratory Technician -to Junior Richard J. Zeyen, July 1, 1984 Scientist: Alan Roelfs (Adjunct), July 1, 1984 Frank L. Pfleger, July 1, 1984 Scott Enebak, March 16, 1985 James V. Groth, July 1, 1985 Sagar V. Krupa, July 1, 1985

From Senior Laboratorv Technician to~ - Elwin L. Stewart, July 1, 1985 .I - Junior Scientist: VISITORS November 19. Gi 1 Stal 1 knecht, Ph.D. 1968, stopped at Stakman Hall on his way back to Montana. He had attended a conference on intensive crop management at Toronto. Gi 1 has been March 29. Dr. Robert Shrum, former Superintendent of the Southern Research Assistant Professor in the Department, Center of the Montana Agricultural is again a resident of St. Pau 1, working Experiment Station since July 1981. Before that, he did research on with the real estate di vision of Merri 11 Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. Bob vegetable seed crop production with the a1 1owed that he was glad to be out of Uni versity of Idaho at Parma. Sti 1 1 plant pathology, and enjoyed his present earlier, he worked on potatoes and is work very much. May 11. Bob and Linda author of two review articles on growth dropped in for coffee. February 12, regul ators, nucl eic acid metabol ism and 1985. Bob's picture appeared in the St. tuberi zation. Gi1 wears a broad-brimmed Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch as one hat and reports that the hunting in of Merri 1 1 Lynch Real ty's "$1,000,000 Montana is wonderful. The Southern Class". Congratul ations, Bob. Experiment Station is 1 ocated near Huntley. June 6. Ted Rei 1 ing, Ph.D. 1957, stopped for morning coffee. Ted was here to attend a meeting el sewhere on the January 24. David Punter, Visiting campus. Associate Professor, 1975-76, was here to attend a meeting on wi ld rice. He is May 14. Rol 1 ie Line, Ph.D. 1962, Professor of Plant Pathology at the was in town for a cereal rust meeting. Uni versi ty of Manitoba. Rol 1 ie, Research Plant Path01 ogist with the USDA at Washington State Uni versity, is a high authority on stripe and leaf April 17. Dr. Subhi A. Qasem, rusts of wheat. He and Fran visited Ph.D. 1958, was on the campus to attend re1ati ves in northern Minnesota. an International Research Policy Seminar. Subhi is Dean of the Graduate June 22. Ernie Rinke, agronomist School in the Faculty of Science, who minored in plant pathol ogy, 1eft a University of Jordan, Amman. note of greeting for Matt Moore and Eide, bringing greetings from M. F. May 16. Dr. Martin Tveit , MS 1950. Kernkamp of Sun City, Arizona. Ernie is Martin was enroute to China, Indonesia a1 so retired and a resident of Sun City. and Japan in the interests of the Fifth World Productivity Congress, to be held in Jakarta in April, 1986. The June 27. H. David Thurston, Ph.D. Conference is sponsored by the World 1958, visited the Department briefly. Confederation of Productivity Sciences, Dave is professor of plant pathology at of which Martin is President. In Cornel 1 Uni versi ty. Minneapolis he conferred with Professor Tor Dah 1 , 1ocal member of the Advisory August 10. John Kraft, MS 1962, Council. Professor Shi-I-Lu, PhD 1952 is Prosser, Washington, and Bi 1 1 Hag1 und, the council member for China. Lu and Ph.D. 1960, Mount Vernon, Washi ngton Martin were office mates in plant stopped briefly on their way to the APS pathology circa 1950. meetings in Guelph. May 22. Roger V. Anderson, MS 1957, August 11. Patti Sebesta and had coffee in 401 Stakman Hall. Roger husband, Steve, were in town where Steve was in town to attend a wedding and was attending a meeting. Patti was on visit his parents who 1 i ve in St. Paul. the plant pathol ogy secretari a1 staff He is Senior Research Scientist at the circa 1982-83. They now 1i ve in Fort Col 1ins, Colorado. Biosystematics Research Institute, Mi1 ton Zai t 1an, Cornel 1 Uni versi ty 518. Agriculture, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada. James Cook, USDA, Washington State Uni versi ty 517. May 28. Dr. John Neiderhauser P. Jatal a, International Potato Center, arrived in time for morning coffee and Lima Peru 5/16. turned the meeting into an intensely John E. Cross, Asgrow Seed Co., interesting seminar on the subject. Kal amazoo, Michigan 5/30. "Should APS adopt an official pol icy on B. C. Joyner, ChemLawn Co., Columbus, the moral obl igation to increase food Oh io 614. production to reduce starvation in the world?" John and Mrs. Neiderhauser, who live in Tucson, Arizona were in the Twin Cities to get acquainted with a new Other Visitors, who signed the Book grandson. were:

June 24 and 25. Norman Borl aug, PhD 1942, stopped to visit in Stakman Hall. Rama Urs, Crookston, Minnesota 1/18. Among visitors who spoke at Monica Wal lace, Madison, Wisconsin 3/20. seminars and other groups were: Eugenia Schieber, Antigua, Guatemal a 4/11. George A. Zentmeyer, Uni versi ty of California, Davis 4/11. S. P. Raychaudhuri, New Del hi, India Larry Littlefield, North Dakota State 416. Uni versity 4/20. Gary F. Leatham, Forest Products Vernyl Pederson, Forrest W. Nutter, Jr., Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin North Dakota State Uni versity 517. 4/17. Jim and Cindy Mital, Moscow, Idaho 5/16. A. Tantaoui, Institut Hassan 11, Rabat, Larry W. Moore, Oregon State University, Morocco 4/19. 5/24. Steven A. Slack, Uni versity of Wisconsin He1 en Mi1 1er A1 exander, Uni versity of 4125. Louisvi 1 1e, Kentucky 611. Earl Platt, Harvest States (GTA), St. Di Yuan bo and Xy Xiachua, Beijing Pau 1, Minnesota 4/26. Agricul tural Uni versity 6/25. Paul Reinecke, Bayer Division of Mobay Lois and Wally Sackston, McGi11 Chemical s, West Germany 611. Uni versi ty, Quebec, Canada 8/12. Hitoshi Kunoh, Mei Uni versi ty, Japan James R. Burl eigh, Rabat, Morocco 9/14. 6/29. Ezzaharauri Thami , Rabat, Morocco 9/14. Brian C. Clifford, We1 sh Plant Breeding Shin C. Doo, Forest Research Institute, Station, Aberystwyth 8/13. Yezin, Burma 10126. Alex Shigo, U. S. Forest Service, Nyan Htun, Forest Research Institute, Durnam, New Hampshi re 10117. Yezin, Burma 10126. A1 ex Diner, Michigan Technological Merete Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark University, Houghton 1115. 11/13.

K. Raman, International Potato Center, Stephen Sunderwi rth, Froisey, France Lima, Peru 1/31. 1/16. John Lockwood, Michigan State University Craig Grau, University of Wisconsin 314. 3/18. W. R. Sharp, DNA Plant Techno1 ogy Corp., Mark Andrews, Oklahoma State University, Cinnaminson, New Jersey 3/28. 4130. D. A. Evans, DNA Plant Technology Corp., Egunjobi Oberfunke, University of Cinnami nson, New Jersey 3/28. Ibadan, Nigeria 4/18. VISITING SCIENTISTS

DR. ANGEL0 VISCONTI arrived in St. ~aul'October 1, 1983 and has been working in Dr. Mirocha's laboratory on the metabolism of Fusarium toxins in animals, with emphasis on the identification of T-2 metabol ites by using computerized gas chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods.

Dr. Visconti is a Research Chemist at the Instituto Tossine e Micotossine da Parassiti Vegetali of the Italian National Council for Research (C.N.R.) in Bari, Italy. His visit to the Department was supported by a NATO fellowship and a C.N.R. fellowship.

A farewell tea was held in Dr. Visconti's honor on March 22, 1985 before his return to Italy.

PROFESSOR ISAAK WAHL of the with several local investigators, but University of Tel Aviv, Israel, worked spent a majority of his time on a in the Department from September 25, cooperati ve project with Professor R.D. 1984 to January 24, 1985. It was his Wilcoxson having to do with slow rusting fourth visit here as Visiting Scientist, of Hordeum spontaneum by Puccinia besides several shorter visits. Isaak hordei. He also gathered material for a shared his vast knowledge of the rusts book he is writing.

DR. LEOPOLD FUCIKOVSKY arrived August 23, 1984 to spend a year studying bacterial diseases in the Department. Dr. Fucikovsky was born in Czechoslovakia, is a citizen of Canada, but has lived in Mexico since 1965. He holds the position of Professor of Plant Pathology in the Colegio de Postgraduados, Chapingo, Montecillos, Mexico. He received the MS in plant pathology at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada and the Doctorate at the Colegio de Postgraduados where he was the first candidate when the Doctors program was started there in 1972 and the first to receive the degree, in 1975. Dr. Fucikovsky holds the E.C. Stakman Visiting Professorship at Minnesota. Mrs. Fucikovsky and their four children are with him in St. Paul. DEPARTURES, NEW JOBS DR. CAROL E. WINDELS joined the staff of the Northwest Experiment GREG PRATT, PhD 1982, started work Station, Crookston, Minnesota May 1, November 1, 1984 in his new position as 1984, where she wi 11 work with diseases Pollution Control Specialist, Minnesota of crops in that area. Carol will remain Pol 1 ution Control Agency. His on the faculty of the Department of headquarters are in Rosevil ley MN. Greg Plant Pathology in St. Paul with the resigned from his position in the rank of Assistant Professor. She has the Department as Research Fel 1ow in the air distinction of being the first person to pol 1ution project. hold a position in a department at St. Paul but stationed permanently at one of MARY PALM, PhD 1983, accepted a the sub-stations. Carol has been position as MycologistlPlant Protection equipping her 1aboratory and getting and Quarantine Officer with USDA/APHIS. acquainted with disease problems in the She is located at the USDA Mycology Red River Val 1ey. She admits there wi 11 Laboratory in Be1 tsvi 11 e, MD. Mary was probably be enough to keep her busy. Research Associate in the Department before leaving for the new job. FRED BAKER, PhD 1981, left July 25, 1984 for Logan, Utah where he is now ROD VARGO, PhD 1984, left February Assistant Professor in the Department of 18, 1985 to take a position with Mobay Forest Resources in the College of Chemical Corporation, agricultural Natural Sciences, Utah State University. Chemicals Division, Davis, CA. He wi1 1 His job involves half time research and be Field Research and Development half time extension work. Fred has been Representative for the N.E. third of back in St. Paul a couple of times since California, primarily the Sacramento he left, complaining about the high Valley. Rod will work with nut and non- humidity here. citrus fruits, rice and tomatoes. BILL LIVINGSTON, PhD 1985, has CHARLIE GUY left at the end of accepted a position as Assistant October, 1984 to assume the position of Professor of Forest Path01 ogy at the Assistant Professor of plant physiology University of Maine, Orono. He wil 1 and biochemistry at the University of start work September 1, 1985. Florida, Gainesvi 11e. He started work December 3, 1984. Char1 ie wi 11 be in the DR. JAMES S. BAUMER accepted a Department of Ornamental Horticulture position as plant pathologist with the doing research on heat, cold, and sal ine Land 0' Lakes Company effective July 1, stress in ornamental plants. He received 1984. His headquarters is at Fort Dodge, the PhD in the Department of Iowa. Land 0' Lakes, known to most Horticulture, U of M and has worked in people as a milk and butter company, is Dr. Brambl's 1ab since September, 1983. based in the Twin Cities. Jim said the He is a native of Florida. company has been breeding alfalfa and sel 1ing seed for about 20 years and KATHY ZUZEK, Jr. Scientist with the started a soybean project eight or nine forest pathology project, left June 1, years ago. The company employs several 1984. She entered the graduate school at plant breeders but Jim is the first the University of Wisconsin. plant pathologist on the staff.

PHYLLIS (RAE) MONTGOMERY resigned As the Company's first plant her position as Jr. Scientist on Dr. pathologist, Jim rated the cover story Teng's project March 30, 1984. She is in Land 0' Lakes Mirror, the company's now Assistant Extension Computer magazine for Apri 1, 1985. Colored Specialist in the Department of Agronomy pictures on the cover and in a two page and Plant Genetics. article show Jim busily selecting soybean and alfalfa seedlings for JUDY THIES, MS 1982, assumed the resistance to disease. duties of Plant Pathologist, USDA, ARS on April 1, 1984. She cooperates with Jim was Assistant Professor in the Dr. Dona1 d Barnes, USDA, in testing new Department from July 1, 1979 until he lines of alfalfa for resistance to went with Land 0' Lakes. several diseases. This continues the work done by the late Fred Frosheiser. ROBERT DIETRICH, who passed his MS Judy is a candidate for the PhD. final on June 17, 1985, wi 11 leave in August to become a candidate for the PhD DR. A.J. (AL) LINCK became Provost in plant pathol ogy at the University of and Vice President for Academic Affairs Cal iforni a, Davis. at Colorado State University September 16, 1984. A1 came to Minnesota in 1955 YIN-WON LEE, who passed his PhD as Research Fellow in Plant Physiol ogy, final 10125184 accepted a post-doctoral which was then a section of the position at the University of Maryland. Department of Plant Pathology and Botany. He moved into administration as BARBARA EDSTROM, Assistant Assistant Director of the Agricultural Administrator, resigned from her Experiment Station in 1966 and became position in February 1984. Barbara and Dean of the College of Agriculture in her husband moved to New Jersey where he 1971. In 1973 he became Assistant Vice had accepted a new position with 3M President of the University and was Company. Barbara had worked in the Associate Vice President when he Department since the fa1 1 of 1978. accepted the position in Colorado.

NEW JOBS LARRY J. LITTLEFIELD, PhD 1964, became Head of the Department of Plant DR. RICHARD T. ZINK has accepted a Path01ogy, Oklahoma State University on position with the Minnesota State Apri 1 15, 1985. Larry was Professor of Department of Agriculture as Director of Plant Pathology at North Dakota State seed potato certification. Dr. Zink was University before going to Oklahoma. recently awarded the PhD in plant pathology at Kansas State University. He Steve On Leave wil 1 be stationed at the University of Minnesota Northwest Experiment Station Dr. Steve Johnson, Research at Crookston instead of at St. Paul, as Associate on the Epidemiol ogy Project, previous directors have been. Potato was on 1eave January 15, to Apri 1, 1985. certification in Minnesota was While on leave Steve was Visiting established by the legislature in 1919, Assistant Professor in the Department of the original laws being largely Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State formulated by E.C. Stakman and A.G. University, where he taught a course in Tolaas. Tolaas was the first director. epidemiology (B.T. 453) to a class of He retired in 1958. about 20 students. ROBERT NYVALL, PhD 1969 has been appointed Superintendent of the U of M North Central Experiment Station at Grand Rapids and will assume his duties in June 1985. Bob is a native of Thief River Fa1 Is, MN and got a BS in forest management at the U of M. He has been at Iowa State University most of his professional career, where he was subject matter leader for extension workers in plant pathol ogy. GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITIES account of the seminars in 1984-85 is given at the end of this article. The principal concerns of graduate students, of course, are getting an The seminar committee a1 so has had education and serving as scientific the responsibility for arranging the hewers of wood and drawers of water. In corn roast at Kosemount each fa1 1 and the past they have also had other the annual Christmas party. The corn responsi bi1 iti es such as serving on the roast was he1 d on September 25 in 1984 Thursday night seminar committee and included barbecued pig as we1 1 as (appointed by the Head), attending APS corn and other refreshments. Dave meeting (at their own expense) and Johnson and German Hoyas, assisted by playing winning softbal 1. Social Jim Rowe and Cheri Olson (who raised the gatherings, usually arranged by the corn and roasted the pig) made it a seminar committee, in the fa1 1 and at successful event. (Some difficulty was Christmas, have been traditional for reported in collecting from some of the many years . guests ) . With the passage of time and The annual Christmas party in 1984 decreasing paternal ism by the faculty consisted of a pot luck dinner in the there has been a need for better St. Paul Student Center. A 1ive band was organization. The students are even now hired for dancing after the dinner. Tad in the process of adopting a Smith was the principa'l planner for this constitution which wi 11 he1 p avoid some event which was highly successful. This of the inevitable snafus that have committee a1 so arranges the annual developed during a period of transition Stakman Memorial softball game. In 1985 from a smal 1 and simp1 e department to the score was Students - 15: Staff - 6. the present large and complex organization. The fol lowing is a Special Projects Cmittee summary, in more or 1 ess out 1 ine form, of recent accomplishments and present To re1 ieve the seminar committee of conditions. some of its miscel 1 aneous jobs, a Special Projects Committee was Meet ings organized, 1argel y through the efforts of Bi 1 1 Livingston, in 1981. Original ly The students have a meeting once or its functions, as stated by Carl Matyac twice a quarter. Academic, social and in Aurora 54: 12-15, were: 1. Make a organi zati onal probl ems are discussed. departmental photo board (pictures of Committees are elected. Peter Bedker has everyone on the wal 1 near 304). 2. A chaired these meetings in recent months, student orientation program. 3. To He has a1 so been student representati ve sponsor guest speakers. 4. Contribute to at faculty meetings. Aurora Sporealis. In 1983 this committee was co-chai red by Linda Treeful and Mary Seminar Conmi ttee Sort1 and, in 1984 by Bob Dietrich and Lewis Otjen and in 1985 by Bob Dietrich The Thursday Night Seminar and Margaret Stahl er. Committee finds speakers for the evening seminars, arranges for hosts at the The photoboard has been in place "roast the host" session and attends to for several years and is very useful. other detai 1s. It is a big job. Bi 1 1 Livingston has been responsible for Personnel of the committees, which serve keeping it up to date. from June to June, were, in 1983-84: Kenneth Johnson, In Sung Hoang and Guest Speakers Phi 1 ip Graham; for 1984-85: Frisby (Tad) Smith, Dave Johnson and German Hoyos. An The Special Projects Committee has been especial ly successful in securing outstanding guest speakers. In 1984, May Shane held sessions on how to use the 17 and 18, Dr. Gary Leatham of the IBM-PC as a text processor, data Forest. Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, organizer and graphics generator. v isited the Department and presented tal ks on growing a cultivated mushroom Other acti vities of the Speci a1 (Lentinus edodes) and the enzymes Projects Committee i ncl uded a beer produced by the same fungus. On May 30- sampling party in the seminar room at 4 31, 1985 the guest speaker was John E. PM, November 16, 1984. Munchies, beer Cross (PhD 1966) who discussed legal and cider were provided. The principal implications of seed borne pathogens and feature was home made beer provided by disease resistance label 1 ing of Monte Mi 1 es, Ken Johnson, Steve Johnson, commercial seeds. John is Qua1ity Carl Maytac, Bob Dietrich and Lewis Consu 1tant with Asgrow Seed Company, Otjen. Aurora's reporter sampled Bob Kalamazoo, MI, a job that invol ves Dietrich's brew and found it highly considerable deal ings with the law and satisfactory. It had a wonderful beer 1awyers. The committee has promoted taste and a sufficient kick. We heard no gemutl ichkeit among the faculty, complaints about any of the other students and guest speakers by having entries except Professor Groth's wine. pot 1uck dinners in the seminar room before evening meetings. On Apri 1 12, 1985 a simi 1ar event was held with the addition of bratwurst Fund Raising on buns which sold for $1.50, any profits going to support the speaker Engaging guest speakers takes money fund. Beer and bratwurst were also sold and the Special Projects Committee has at the Stakman Memorial Softball game, been successful in this respect also. To adding a German touch to the affair that gain access to other University Funds must have gladdened the soul of the the committee registered with the Professor on his 100th birthday. Student Organization Devel opment Center. This permitted proposal s for funding Further fund-raising efforts during which were submitted to the Minnesota Spring, 1985 have incl uded the sal e of Student Association and the St. Paul doughnuts, bismarcks, sweet rolls and Board of Colleges. This resulted in bagels at 10 AM Tuesdays, in time to grants of $200 (SPBOC) and $180 (MSA) catch the morning coffee break. Sales for the speakers fund as we1 1 as $200 have been brisk. Bil 1 Livingston is (SPBOC) for a copy stand, handling the service.

To help students 1earn how to use Perhaps the gala event sponsored by the copy stand and prepare better the Special Projects Committee was the presentations for the 1985 APS meeting, observance of the Chinese New Year. This Bi 1 1 Livingston and Dr. Phi 1 Larsen is Marty Stahl er's account: arranged for Dr, Bobby Joyner of ChemLawn Company, Columbus, Ohio, to The Chinese Lunar New Year was visit the Department on June 4, 1985. celebrated at Tam's Rice Bowl on Dr. Joyner conducted and excel 1ent two February 16, 1985 by 75 festive hour session on how to make "visual s" individuals including faculty, staff, for technical presentation. students and friends. The cel ebration included a sumptuous and bountiful menu In March, 1985, after months of of traditional dishes such as winter effort by Carl Matyac and Linda Treeful , me1 on soup, rainbow shrimp and f 1ami ng the Department purchased an IBM-PC chicken. After dinner a cultural computer for student use. To help presentation on Chinese New Years and a introduce novices to personal computing, slide show were presented by Zhangjang Bi 11 Livingston, Joe OIBrien and Bi 11 Liu and Cheng-Go Wang. Co-sponsoring the event with the graduate students in plant path01 ogy were Mr. Wang and Mr. Liu, Mei-Li Yuan, Dong-Ya Gao, Weiping ~ieand Chang-Cheng Hu. A good time was had by a1 1!

Student Constitution

During 1985 a Constitution of the Students of Pl ant Path01 ogy has been drafted and is in the process of adoption. Bill Livingston has been a leader in writing the document.

Briefly, the constitution provides the usual rules for electing officers, cal 1ing meetings, amendments, etc. The Professors Larsen and Fucikovsky by-laws provide for the election of celebrate the Chinese New Year. individuals who would be recommended to serve on one of the five departmental Thursday Evening Seminar committees. (See el sewhere, this Aurora). During 1984 and the first five months of 1985 the Tursday evening The by-1 aws a1 so create three seminar met 49 times. (The Seminar meets standing committees and define thei r every week except during the summer, functions. These committees are: hol idays and inter-quarter breaks). Speakers were scheduled for all meetings 1. The Academic Committee, to be except four, which were devoted to responsi ble for the Thursday night introductions and open discussions. Of seminar, visits of scientists invited by the scheduled speakers, 13 were the students and special workshops. departmental facul ty or staff members, six students, four visiting scientists, 2. The Students Resources Committee 12 University personnel from other which wi I1 maintain and establish departments, six from other institutions guidelines for student equipment, in the USA and three from other kitchen faci 1 ities, photoboard and countries. office space. The subjects covered were diverse: 3. The Social Committee wi 11 The disease clinic, extension, organize or encourage soci a1 hours, consulting, control, acid rain, grain raise money, and conduct intramural qua1 ity, statistics, the 1 ibrary, IPM sports and traditions such as the (integrated pest management), computers, Stakman Memorial Softball game and the viruses, mushrooms, ecol ogy, host- Rosemount Corn Roast. parasite re1ations, mycotoxins, specific diseases, breeding for disease This consititution reflects the resistance, wood decay, geographical ly commitment of the students to enrich re1ated problems and the evol ution of thei r own educational experiences and pathogens. (What about "physi 01 ogi cal support the efforts of the faculty to specialization"? See "evol ution of maintain a strong, growing department. pathogens"). It certainly wil 1 help to systematize efforts which, in the past, have often Attendance averaged 20 per meeting, 1acked coordination. ranging from 9 to 40. Dr. Paul Teng drew the 40 crowd with his sermon on "Integrated Pest Management." RECENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

Tad Smith Margaret S tahler Zhan jiang Liu

Catherine Philips Weiping Xie Scott Enebak

Name, Academic Background SMITH, FRISBY D. (TAD). BS Lawrence Starting Date; Adviser Uni versity, Appl eton, Wisconsin. Biology, 1983. ENEBAK, SCOTT. BS, University of F 1983; Banttari Minnesota, Forestry, 1984. S, 1985; Blanchette STAHLER, MARGARET. BS Uni versity of Wisconsin, Nutrition-Dietics, 1977. LIU, ZHANJIANG, BS, N.W. College of Uni versity of Massachusetts, Pla Pa, Agricu 1ture, Wugong, Sharaxi, China, 1983-84; Arizona State, Pla Pa, 1982-83. PI ant Path01 ogy, 1981; MS, Graduate F 1984; Roe1 fs School of Bei j ing, Agricul tural Uni versi ty, China, 1984. XIE, WEIPING. BS, Southwest Agricultural Su 1983; Bushnell Col 1 ege, Chongquing, China. Plant Protection 1982. PHILIPS, CATHERINE MARY. BS, Uni versity F 1984; Mirocha of Chicago, Biology, 1981. F 1984; Mirocha ORAL EXAMINATIONS PASSED MARRIAGES

March 31, 1984. Hamed K. Abbas and Jean Marie Baker. March 30 Mohamed Achouri PhD prelim May 3 Rod Vargo PhD final July 7, 1984. Indre Bi l dusas and Brent May 8 Carl Matyac PhD prel im Pemberton, at Chicago, I11 inois. May 25 William Macheel M. Agric. They wi 1 1 1 ive in Tyler, Texas. May 30 Indre Bildusas MS final June 22 Kosim Kardin PhD final June 27 Laura Schickli MS final BIRTHS July 9 Paul Zambino MS final August 10 Monte Miles MS final 1984 September 14 Ross McQueen PhD prelim september 26 Clint Kohls PhD brel im January 30. Kathleen Doyle to Su zie October 25 Yin-Won Lee PhD final Lannan and Tim O'Hara. 6 1 b, 15 0 z. November 19 Carl Matyac PhD final Apri 1 21. Jane1 1 e Claire to Bi 1 1 and December 7 David Gardner PhD prelim Gretchen Shane. 8 Ib, 13 oz. December 17 Lewis Otjen MS final April 29. Matthew Eric to Kenneth and December 19 Linda Treeful PhD prelim Susan Johnson. 8 Ib, 11 oz. May 7. Anna1 isa Marie to Bob and Pat 1985 Pawlosky. 8 lb, 11 oz. May 24. Robert Wi l 1 iam to Mr. and Mrs. January 11 Clint Kohls PhD final Bi11 Macheel . 8 1b, 15 oz. January 25 Joe O'Brien PhD final June 27. Erin Lynn to Kurt and Lynn February 11 In-Sung Hoang PhD prelim Ault. 6 lb, 12 oz. February 12 Bill Livingston PhD final August 2. Joan Marguerite to Kathy and April 15 Kenneth Johnson PhD prelim Greg Widin. 7 Ib, 12 oz. June 17 Robert Dietrich MS final August 4. Jul ianne Leigh to Mark and Dianne Stennes. 9 lb. 0 oz. August 24. Janna Robin to Steve and Jennifer Johnson. 6 lb, 7 oz. October 12. Theodore Ernest to Hunt and Gail Wiley. 8 lb, 11 oz. November 5. Elise to Dann and Jean Adair. 6 lb, 13 oz. December 17. Cal e Henry to Debbie Baden and Chuck Drange. 7 lb, 2 oz.

January 8. Henry McGuffey "Harry" to Timothy and Susan Huberty. 8 1 b, 8 oz. February 28. Clara Lee to Yin-Won and Won-Me Lee. 7 lb, 4 oz. March 2. Anna Kristine to Tom and Kathy Kromroy. 9 lb, 0 oz. March 29. Daniel James to Meg and Jim Clemens. 7 lb, 4 oz. June 1. Noah Abbas to Hamed and Jean Abbas. 8 lb, 6 oz. Ken Johnson minds Cale Henry Drange while Mama Debbie socializes at the tea for Dr. Isaak Wahl, Jan. 1985. PUBLICATIONS Authoring technical papers or review articles and books is only part During 1984 the departmental of the job of disseminating scientific editorial cornnittee read 72 manuscripts knowledge. Among other duties is that of submitted by members of the Department editor; an essential, onerous and often for publication in refereed journals or thankless task. Here are some recent as chapters in books. Fifteen of these editors and their products: were on cereal rusts, 12 on tree diseases and 12 on mycotoxins. Most of Editors -of Newsletters the rest were on pathogens of various crops, and practical ly a1 1 of them Sagar V. Krupa, Editor. News 1etter emphasized one or more of such aspects of the UDD~~Midwest Section: Air of plant pathology as genetics, Pollutioniro~Association. resistance, mol ecu 1ar biology, soi 1 borne pathogens, viruses, pathogenesis, Carol E. Windel s, Editor. Fusarium epidemiology or computer model ing. Notes. An International Newsletter. During the first four months of 1985, 28 manuscripts were processed. Thor Kommedah 1. Editor. ISPP International ~ewsfetter -in Pm Dr. Sagar Krupa made a statistical Pathology. study of numbered publications of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Editors --of Books Station for the academic year, 1983-84. He summarized the data as follows: Carol E. Windel s and S.E. Lindow, Eds. Biological Control on the Number of publ ications Ph 1 1oTnF. American PhytopaThoXgi6T S&Fi$%ine, 1985. 175 pp. Per faculty Department Total member Wi11 iam R. Bushnel 1 and Alan P. Roelfs, Eds. The Cereal Rusts. Vol. 1. Ori ins S ecif~Structuiani Plant Pathology 68 3.2 *gyirade.liress. - 1984. ibb Entomology 42 2.8 pp. ( o ume 2, covering Diseases, Horticulture 51 2.5 Epidemiol ogy and Control wi 11 be Agronomy 79 2.0 forthcoming soon). Soil Science 50 1.5 A.H. Leaae and S.V. Kru~a.Eds. Air THERE WERE A FEW BOOKS

Ma de Lourdes de la I. de Bauer. Fitopathologia. Colegio de Post- MERCHANDISING graduados. 1984. 377 pp. The American Phytopathol ogical H. David Thurston. Tropical Plant Society publishes more than 50 books, Diseases. American Phytopathol omsome hard bound, on plant pathology. Society. 1984. 208 pp. Most of these are for sale in the Department. The arrangement is C.M. Christensen and Richard A. convenient for the buyer and saves APS Meronuck. Maintenance of Qua1it in shipping and most of the handling Cereal Grains and Oi1 ~e~sda~expenses. In 1984 $2,238.00 worth of the -~a~lJiiFv erSi of ~innesdta publ ications were sold. Through Apri 1, Press. Fall, 1985. 1985 the total sales were $955.00. Big sellers are the disease compedia. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS interests of plant disease control from February 17 to March 15, 1985. In Rome, In 1984 Professor C.J. Mirocha Italy (2-17-22) he participated in an ad spent about six weeks in New Zealand and hoc session with FA0 personnel on a plan China studying mycotoxin problems and for plant protection in Africa. At the sharing his broad knowledge of the Mt. Maku 1u Research Station, Zambia field. During the month of August he was (2123-314) he participated in a workshop at the Raukura Agricultural Research on the control of epidemics. This Center, Hamil ton, New Zealand in the meeting was attended by personnel from laboratory of Dr. Margaret Di Menna nine African countries. On March 5-10 he where he evaluated the role of Fusarium visited the International Rice Research in pastures on infertility in sheep and Institute, Los Banos, The Phi 1 ippines, collected Fusarium specimens in cold bringing greetings from Old Timers, Tom stressed regions. Mew, PhD 1972, and Annabel 1e Chang Mew, PhD 1970. At Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia In Bei jing, China, September 2-8, (3112-15) he visited with scientists he taught analytical methods for from the Malaysian Agricultural Research mycotoxins in the laboratory of Dr. Development Institute and the Ministry Hsia, Chu-Chieh and lectured on Fusarium of Agriculture. The subject of the toxins. He lectured in Harbin (September visit: Plant Protection. 8-13) and conferred with Dr. Yang, Jian Bo where bone diseases of humans have Dr. Bi 11 Kennedy went to Simion, been associated with Fusari um Greece April 22-27, 1984 to attend a contaminated grains. In Shanghai meeting of the International Working (September 13-14) he lectured at a Group on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, workshop sponsored by the Chinese sponsored by ISPP and the Greek Medical Association. government. Dr. Mirocha a1 so was guest of Dr. Dr. William R. Bushnel 1 of the C.S. Wang, PhD 1937, at Fudan University Cereal Rust Laboratory left in December, where Wang was Head of the Department of 1984 to spend six months at the Biology, 1962-82. Uni versitat Konstanz, Federal Republ ic of Germany, where he will continue his During September 16-19 he was in work on the use of microscopic methods Taiwan where he is cooperating with Dr. for the study of plant disease. Bi 1 1 Tseng, Tsung-Che of the Department of spent three weeks in the spring of 1984 Botany, Academia Sinica in a study of visiting research laboratories in Great metabol ites of Fusarium moni 1iforme. He Britain. He was sponsored by the British 1 ectured in the Academy of Sciences in Society of Plant Pathol ogy. Taipei and visited with Professor Lin, Jen-Kun of the Col lege of Medicine, Jane O'Laugh 1 i n, Research National Taiwan University. While in New Assistant, spent Apri 1 6-17, 1985 at Zeal and, Mirocha developed a computer CIMMYT as one of a student del egation communication system from available inc l udi ng students from Pl ant Pathol ogy, technology and systems which a1 lowed him Pl ant Breeding, Crop Physi 01 ogy, Soi 1 daily contact with his laboratory in Science and Agricu 1tural Economics. The Minnesota. The actual string of trip was sponsored by CIMMYT and the communication went via sate1 1ite to Uni versi ty of Minnesota International Australia, Belgium, Cincinatti and Agricultural Programs with the objecti ve final ly St. Paul. Mass spectral data of encouraging young scientists were transmitted as we1 1 as day-to-day interested in international agriculture. communications. Arrangements were made by Dr. Ron Cantrel 1, the new Director of CIMMYT's Dr. Paul Teng was abroad in the maize program and Dr. Del ane We1 sh, Dean of the International Agricultural the Government of A1 berta, Canada. Sagar Programs. The focus of the trip was the is on leave for an equivalent fraction maize improvement program, partly of his time in the Department. He spends because the wheat harvest was under way approximately one week in eight at in Ciudad Obregon. Jane brought Calgary . greetings from Bobby Renfro, a Minnesota Old Timer, who is back at El Batan after Howard and Karwyn Bissonnette were many years in Thailand. in China May 30-June 16, 1985. Howard's mission was to help residents of Shenxi Dr. Thor Kommedahl spent 10 days in province establ ish a potato processing March 1984 in Brazi 1, col 1ecting sampl es industry. He was assisted by Shih-I Lu, of soil and of the roots of a shrub. PhD 1952, who is a member of a Chinese Baccharis spp. The shrub causes sicknesi National Committee to help develop food in cattle that eat it and the active processing in China. The project was agents are suspected to be sponsored by Shenxi Province. trichothecenes. which are often ~roduced by Fusarium spp. and other fung; but by Dr. Alan Roelfs of the Cereal Rust no known higher plants. Because Laboratory was in Morocco April 8-May 1, Baccharis spp. in the USA are not toxic 1985. Alan worked with Brahim Ezzahiri, to animals, it was theorized that the PhD candidate, on his thesis Fusaria or other fungi growing on the investigations on the resistance to leaf roots produced the toxin which was then rust in wheat and made a survey of wheat taken up by the plant. diseases in Morocco. He a1 so assisted Ezzahiri and Dr. James Burleigh in Thor was accompanied by Harold holding an International Workshop on Kurtz of the Veterinary Col lege, methods for estimating crop 1osses University of Minnesota and by George caused by insects, diseases and weeds. Bean, PhD 1963. The trip was sponsored The course was sponsored by the by the Uni versity of Maryland, where Institute of Agriculture and Veterinary, George is Professor and investigates Hassan I1 and the Institute of fungus toxins. Thor has isolated a Agricultural Research of Morocco. number of Fusaria and other fungi from the matermcol lected and Chet Drs. J.F. Schafer and Alan Roe1 fs Mirocha is testing them to determine attended the Sixth European and what toxins they produce. There is still Mediterranean Cereal Rust Conference at much to do before the hypothesis can be Grignon, France, September 4-7, 1984. considered val id. The conference was also attended by Santiago Fuentes F., MS 1958, R.F. Line, Dr. Elwin Stewart went to Morocco PhD 1962, James Mi1 1er, PhD 1971, S.D. February 15-March 5, 1985 where he Sunderwirth , MS 1979. consulted with Mohamed Achouri on Achouri's PhD thesis research. The INTERNATIONAL SERVICE - MOROCCO thesis deals with the Endogonaceae of South Morocco. Stewart a1 so made field Professor Roy Wilcoxson was put on and laboratory studies of fungi, half-time service to the Department in principally Hyphomycetes, and presented September, 1983. The other ha1 f of his a seminar on mycorrhizae. His visit was time he is Director of the Minnesota'AID sponsored by the Minnesota-USAID Project in Morocco, a job that took him project. to Africa three times in 1984, conferring, planning and coordinating Dr. Sagar Krupa devotes 25% of his the efforts of the Minnesota team on the time to his position as Science project. Presently this group includes Coordinator for the GovernmentlIndustry Jim Burleigh and Ben Lockhart, Plant Acidic Deposition Research Program of Path01ogy, Kent Crookston, Agronomy, Aly Lasheen, Horticu 1ture and Don Johnson, countries and two have organized two Veterinary Medicine. All of these people International Fusari um Workshops. One teach (in the French language) in the person in the Department (not Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire necessarily the same one) has served in Hassan 11, which eventual ly wi 11 become each of the fol 1owing ways: in Morocco a Col lege of Agriculture. The fi ve years; administrator in Morocco; undergraduate program has functioned for board member of USAID consortium and an some time and an MS program started in FA0 panel; ISPP officer and editor of 1984. Graduate students from Morocco ISPP news1 etter; editor of Fusarium study abroad and often do their thesis newsletter; advisor to the government of work in Morocco. To date there have been A1 berta; Adjunct Professor of Uppsala 21 students in the MS program, most of Uni versity, Sweden; recipient of the them studying at Minnesota. Seven are in A1 exander von Humbol dt Award; and U.S. the PhD program, three at Minnesota. representati ve on the International These are Mohammed Bou 1 if, Mohammed Pop1 ar Commission. Several of these Achouri and Brahim Ezzahiri. items are noticed el sewhere in this Aurora. Professor Wilcoxson has prepared the fol 1owing summary of International activities by members of the Department during 1979-84: OLD TIMERS GIVE BOOKS

International Research -and Publication: Students and staff alike were Eleven faculty have done research in 30 pleased and surprised in the spring of countries. Twel ve faculty were authors 1984 by a gift of three books, or editors of eight books and 36 foreign specifically "to the students of the journal articles. Four faculty have Department of Plant Path01 ogy." The served on the editorial boards of five books were: Webster's Third New foreign journals. Dictionary, The Times Atlas of the World and Capitol's Concise Dictionary of Forei n Students at Minnesota: Ten Seven Languages. They were presented by 7---aculty have taught-an averaqe of 90 Old Timer's John Laurence, PhD 1976 and foreign students -per year in-regular Dave Lang, PhD 1978. The presentation classes. Ten faculty have advised 35 MS letter stated "In recall of our days in and doctoral students from 15 countries. the Department, we find memories of discussions and sometimes arguments whose fruition and resolution are held Classes -and Lectures Outside --the USA: Four faculty have presented four courses within these pages. We also think fondly in three countries. Three have organized of one (ECS) who regularly opened and International workshops and conferences closed such proceedings without the aid held in the USA and 16 gave 62 speeches of these sources. With new times, we in 18 countries. hope the students will find these books useful." Sabbatic Leaves and Foreign Society Membership3SZii Gl ty spent sabbatic After about a year in the seminar or auarter leaves in eiaht countries and room, the books have been we1 1 used by foui faculty belong to nine foreign the students and even by the august societies. A1 1 are members of APS and faculty who take coffee at 10 AM and ISPP. occasional ly hear a word they don't know or news of a place they haven't been. In addition his survey showed that three people in the Department are Adjunct Professors in the Agronomy Institute in Morocco, two have served on USAID review teams in underdevel oped CROP QUALITY COUNCIL TERMINATED success in achieving its goals over a period of more than 40 years was the The organization known for the last result of the talent, knowledge and two decades as the Crop Quality Counci 1 personal dedication of Donald G. was dissolved August 31, 1983. Vance Fletcher. He became Secretary of the Goodfel 1 ow, President of the Conference in 1924 and retired in organization since 1968, retired at that January, 1966. He was fol lowed by Eugene time. Since his retirement Goodfel 1ow, Hayden, who served unt i 1 December 1, who lives in Minneapolis, has been 1968. At that time Vance Goodfel low was consultant to CIMMYT, a job that named President. The Board of Directors, involves occasional travel to Mexico. which changed with the years, were men of puissance and importance in the The Crop Quality Council was a grain, mi 1 1ing, seed, railway, machinery successor of the Conference for the and other industries in the Midwest. Prevention of Grain Rust, a service organization formed in 1922 by Besides supporting barberry representatives of industries, eradication, the Conference/Council made interested in agricu 1ture, specifical ly crop and rust surveys, held conferences, in the control of black stem rust. Their issued timely bulletins on rust and crop first objective was the promotion of conditions and sponsored test plots and barberry eradication. E.M. Freeman wrote winter seed increases in Mexico. They "The Conference was and is a 1iving also lobbied in Congress and state tribute to the extraordinary debt which legis 1atures for financial support of the (barberry) eradication campaign owes a1 1 crop research. to the late Frank1 in Crosby of General Mills, Minneapolis. He was the prime This incl uded conv incing Congress mover and organizer of the Conference of of the need for adequate quarters for business men, chiefly of the Twin the Cereal Rust Laboratory which, Cities, for providing financial backing largely through the efforts of Don totaling hundreds of thousands of Fletcher, was ready to occupy in 1972. dollars and the staunchest moral support Fletcher was also given credit for from the business wor 1d." helping to get appropriations for research and teaching buildings in Such men do not form such Minnesota, North and South Dakota as organizations without some conv incing. well as in Colorado and Texas. He also It came from a master salesman. Freeman helped to get increased appropriations continues with an account of one of the for agriculture in both Congress and early meetings: "We were sitting in the state legislatures. back of the ha1 1 when Mr. Crosby opened the meeting and cal led immediately on Don died October 14, 1968 at the Stakman. 'Stak' jumped up and with that age of 70, a credit to the organization semi-belligerent air of eagerness to he represented and a priceless servant enter a fray of discussion and wits, of agriculture and society as a whole. strode sol idly down the center aisle. He received many well-deserved honors. Before he reached the speakers' platform he pulled one of his little speaking In addition to the numerous tricks - he began his speech on the building and other facilities which the march - and continued on the platform Conference/Council helped to secure, the for an hour with a veritable barrage original and principal objective of the that held the intense interest of every organization was realized. By a man in the audience --." combination of barberry eradication, plant breeding and studies of the origin If the beginnings of the Conference and annual distribution of races of for the Prevention of Grain Rust can be Puccinia graminis tritici, plant credited to Crosby and Stakman, its pathologists and plant breeders in the IT'S BORLAUG HALL! USDA and several state experiment stations have been able to ha1 t the The new addition to the Plant devastating epidemics of stem rust on Pathol ogy, Agronomy, and Soi 1 Science spring wheat. In fact there has not been Buildings has official ly been named a major outbreak of wheat stem rust in Borlaug Hall in honor of Norman E. the spring wheat area of the U.S. and Borlaug, an alumnus of the Department of Canada for about 30 years. Plant Pathol ogy (MS-1941, PhD-1942) and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The A1 though the Crop Qua1ity Counci 1 official dedication of Borlaug Hall is continued its surveys, conferences and scheduled for 20 September, 1985; and interest in wheat qual ity and other all alumni and friends of the Department cereal diseases, its support of the stem are invited to attend these ceremonies. rust program became less essential in Borlaug Hal 1 and the associated new recent years. Public support for ongoing space for Plant Pathology represents the research to protect past gains seems most significant en1 argement of plant assured. Accordingly the Counci 1 was pathology facilities since the 1940 disbanded. A related group continues its construction of Stakman Hall. more 1imited interest in wheat qua 1 ity under the title of Spring Wheat Quality The 17 mil lion do1 lar, 5 story, Advisory Council. 100,000 sq. ft. building is the culmination of 8 years of effort by the 3 departments, higher administration, and many friends and support groups in LOST OLD TIMERS Minnesota. Former Dean of the Col 1ege of Agricu 1 ture and Professor of Plant Copies of Aurora sent to the people Pathology, Dr. James Tamen, and former 1 isted be1 ow were returned 1ast year. We Plant Pathology Department Head, Dr.Al assume they have moved and forgotten to Wood, were instrumental in including let us know. If you know where any of Plant Pathology in this building program them are living, wil 1 you please send during the early planning stages of the address to Aurora? 1976-78. The detailed architectural planning for Plant Pathol ogy's portion Ral ph Anderson of the building invol ved many faculty Mohammad Ashraf and students; however, former Department Don Christoferson Head, Dr. David French, and Dr. Richard George Fa1 es Zeyen were the faculty members who T.W. Graham represented the Department through a1 1 S.F. Hassan phases of university approval, Mrs. J.E. Hermansen legislative approval, design, and Kurt Hubert equipping of the building. Rosemary McLeod R.C.F. Macer The total building program, P.R. Mehta including some "exchange space" with Wesley C. Miller other departments, gives the Department Louis T. Palmer of Plant Pathology approximately 25,000 Jose Ing. Rodriguez sq. ft. of new space; which is the Parker Sanders equivalent of 1.3 X old Stakman Hal 1. Charles L. Schneider The new space translates into: D.H. Smith, Jr. Ming-Ysien Sun -10,000 sq. ft. of high qual ity Shoichi Tanaka "wet lab" research space located on Ruth Waterhouse floors 1 and 3 of the current Plant Science Building. Thus, the current Plant Science Building becomes totally occupied by the Department as a Plant which wi 1 1 become graduate student Pathology Research Laboratory Building. office space.

-A new 1,500 sq. ft. growth chamber -A new 1,500 sq. ft. modernized and faci 1ity equipped with 11 new growth ful ly equipped administrative area with chambers, located on 1st floor of a new Department Head's Office and Borlaug Hal 1. Conference Room, located on 4th floor of Borlaug Hall. All administrative areas -A new 2,400 sq. ft. Plant for Agronomy, Soi 1s, and Plant Pathol ogy Pathology Library with modernized are on 4th floor of Borlaug Hall. information retrieval capabi 1ities, 1ocated on 3rd f 1oor of Bor 1aug Hal 1 -A new 45 student Pl ant Pathol ogy (ground floor west entrance). The Plant Lecture - Seminar Room, located on 3rd Pathology Library has an Annex that can f 1oor of Bor 1aug Hal 1. The new room has be used for smal 1 courses and for projection and television equipment autotutor ial approaches to 1earning. built into .its function. This facility This replaces the old 680 sq. ft. essential ly replaces the lecture room library area in old Stakman Hall, and is 103 on the ground floor of Stakman Hall. supported in part by the Department of Plant Pathology Library Endowment Fund. -Access to a jointly used 150 student capacity lecture room on 3rd -A new media preparation laboratory floor of Borlaug Hall. and glasswashing room, located on 2nd floor of Borlaug Hall, immediately -A new teaching greenhouse with adjacent to the 3 new Plant Pathol ogy associated Plant Pathology teaching Instructional Laboratories. The media laboratory in the headhouse area. This preparation laboratory has 3 modern building is being constructed on Gortner autoclaves, cold room storage of media Avenue immediately adjacent to the south used in classroom teaching, an ice end of the existing Plant Pathology machine, hoods and modern glass washing greenhouse-headhouse complex. It equipment. replaces the old glasshouse that was attached to the west end of old Stakrnan -3 ful ly equipped, high qua1 ity Hal 1 and was destroyed because Borl aug Instructional Laboratories designed Hal 1 was constructed on that site. exclusively for Plant Pathology courses, 1 ocated on 2nd f 1oor of Bor 1aua Ha 11. -R.J. Zeyen Two of the laboratories have ccemical hoods and full wet laboratory capabilities, a1 1 of them have projection and closed circuit television capabilities and all are equipped with new teaching microscopes. These Instructional Laboratories replace the old teaching laboratories on ground floor of Stakman Hall.

-A new 800 sq. ft. Plant Pathology Col loquium Room with fu 11 projection and closed circuit television features, located on 4th floor of Borlaug Hall immediately adjacent to the Plant Patholoav Administrative Area. This partial 17 rep1aces the function of the Courtyard between Stakman Hall and the old Seminar room (401) Stakman Hal 1, agronomy building. Plant Science in rear. INTERNAL REORGANIZATION AND CONSTITUTION the majority of faculty serve on only a single committee in any given academic The Uni versity of Minnesota and the year. The 5 standing committees and Department of P 1 ant Path01 ogy have grown their charges are: in both size and complexity in the past 25 years. For example, the Department 1) Education - Responsible for graduate now has 28 graduate facul ty housed in 6 and underqraduate curricul um development buildings on the St. Paul Campus and 1 and evaiuation, class schedul.ing, member at Crookston, 1 in Grand Rapids graduate student admission standards and and 2 in Morocco. The Department also screening, Ph.D. and M.S. written has both undergraduate and graduate qualifying examinations, and scholarship degree programs, and a wide range of awards. This committee includes the special faci 1 ities and service staff. Director of Graduate Studies as an ex The size, spread out nature, and officio member. complexity of the Department gradual ly led to a very common organizational 2) Research - Responsible for pol icy problem, the pro1 iferation of committees concerning intro- and interdiscipl inary and a general feeling that communication research -internal or external to the was too slow and inexact. University, establishing and maintaining information on state and federal By 1983 the Department had 16 granting and contracts, devel opment of standing committees and several ad hoc state of Minnesota legislative specials committees. Many of these had narrowly relating to new technology, and defined subject areas, did not meet on a editorial function for manuscripts regular basis, and had unclear originating in the Department. functions. Were these committees for policy, planning, implementation, or advisory in nature, and to whom did they 3) Extension and Commodities- - report? There was a general feel ing that Responsible for approaches and pol icy concerning the role of extension in the there must be a simpler way to approach departmental obl igati ons and operations. Department, commodity Board relations, state of Minnesota legislative specials directed at specific commodity areas, In 1984 the Department held a general agribusiness relations, coverage faculty retreat specifical ly for of field days, the Plant Disease Clinic, improving organizational structure and and communication and relations with communications. A working group of Drs. State and Federal regulatory agencies. Pfleger, Roelfs, Wilcoxson, Meronuck, and Zeyen (Chairperson) were asked to 4) Physical Resources - Responsible for form an organizational model for the St. Paul Field Plots, Rosemount Farm and Department and were provided the field plots, greenhouses and headhouses, services of Dr. James Connal ly from the building spaces (laboratories and Retoric Department to assist in this offices), departmental resources like effort. The result was a reorganization general field equipment, herbarium, and of Departmental structure. The working other physical resources not group first defined the duties and specifical ly charged to other responsibilities of the Headship and committees. Faculty of the Department, and then reduced the number of departmental 5) Pub1 ic, Institutional -and Alumni committees to 5 multiple purpose Relations - Res~onsiblefor a1 umni committees with definite charges. After re1ations, the Aurora Sporeal is, several modifications and spirited Departmental endowment fund raising, discussions the faculty voted its endowment disbursement policy, press approval (26 to 2) for the new releases for Departmental Programs, organizational model. Under this plan, Plant Pathology Library relations with U of M Central Library, relations with and friends who have realized this vital visiting scientists, and student need throughout the years and their recruitment. support has assisted the Department in its efforts to maintain and build The chairpersons of these 5 excel 1ence in its academic endeavors. committees are facu 1ty-elected and serve Currently the Department had established 2 year terms, the remaining committee trust funds for student scholarships, members are appointed by the Head of the educational enrichments including the department for either 1 or 2 year terms. Plant Pathol ogy Library, achievement Head-appointed members include facu 1ty, awards, and other aspects of its staff, and students. In addition, the academic program that are difficult to chairpersons of the 5 standing fund by other means. The Department committees form a Faculty Counci 1 that greatly appreciates the past, current, works directly with the Head of Plant and future interest and contributions of Pathology and a1 so serve as a tenure and its alumni and friends toward these promotion review panel. The Faculty efforts. The fol lowing is a synopsis of Council also assists the Head in the intents, purposes, and financial establ ishing criteria for faculty salary conditions of the endowment funds so far increases, and acts as an ad hoc established, whose total market value committee for special needs not covered now exceeds $900,000. by standing committee charges. In times of emergency the Facu 1ty Counci 1 is a1 so The Plant Pathology Library empowered to call faculty meetings for Endowment Fund was establ ished in 1980 informational purposes. to assist in the maintenance of this valuable educational resource. This fund The new organizational structure has enabled the Department to not only was formalized by the writing of a keep this resource but to gain a much Departmental Constitution and by-laws, needed new library area in the newly ratified in 1984. The Departmental completed Borlaug Hal 1 portion of Plant Constitution contains a Mission Pathology. At present the fund contains Statement and clarifies a variety items slightly over $40,000 in assets and is necessary for an organized, unified, and one of the funds that has a high responsible approach to departmental priority for fund raising now and in the operations. The total reorganization and future. Constitutional effort represents one of the finest of Minnesota traditions, the SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS abi 1 ity to simp1 ify and sol ve complex problems. The M.F. Kernkamp Endowment Fund was established in 1983 and the income - R.J. Zeyen from this fund will be used for graduate fel lowships for students demonstrating DEPARTMENT ENDOWUENTS outstanding qua1 ities of scholarship, research and other aspects of graduate As resources for higher education studies in the Department of Plant dwindle, endowment efforts are making a Pathol ogy. The current market val ue of critical difference in many this fund is approximately $10,000. universities. In 1978 the Department established a formal endowment pol icy The Fred I. Frosheiser Endowment based on privately contributed Fund is in the process of being philanthropic gifts prudently invested established from a pledge of $22,365 as trust funds. The interest generated from the estate of Fred and Esther from these trust funds is used to carry Frosheiser. Income from this fund is to out the objectives of the gifts in be used for scholarships in Plant perpetuity. The Department takes great Pathol ogy, a1though exact detai 1s have pride in its alumni, faculty members, not yet been relayed to the Department. AWARD FUNDS AND OTHERS Stakman Visiting Scientist fund is approx imatey $625,000. The Elv in Char 1es Stakman Award Fund was established in 1955, and the The Thomas W. French Memorial Fund income from this fund goes to was established in 1981 and provides individuals of any country for support funds for Plant Pathology outstanding contributions in the field graduate students to attend scientific of Plant Pathology in research, meetings that they would be unable to teaching, extension, or international attend without this assistance. The affairs. The 1985 winner of the Stakman current market value of this fund is Award is Dr. J.E. Vanderplank of the approximately $15,000. Plant Protection Research Institute in Pretoria, South Africa, for his many and The Stakman Annual Softball Fund varied contributions to the theoretical established by Dr. Stakman in 1977 aspects of plant disease. The current prov ides funds for refreshments during market value of this fund is an annual student-staff softball game. approximately $55,000, a portion of This endowment provides for a different which was augmented by the estate of type of enrichment, social exchange E.C. Stakman in 1980. between students and staff. The market value of this fund is approximately The Helen Hart Endowment Fund, $1,200. created in 1972 is a general endowment fund whose interest has been used to The Bausman Research Fund was finance the Aurora Sporealis publication established in 1946 and has been used and mailing expenses and other needed sparingly over the years. This fund is aspects of departmental endeavors. The currently being looked at as a potential current market value of this fund is nucleus for or augmentation towards the approximately $20,000. establishment of an endowed chair for the Department. The current market value The E.C. Stakman Visiting Scientist of this fund is approximately $115,000. Fund was established in 1980 from a generous estate contribution made by Dr. - R.J. Zeyen Stakman. The interest from this fund is used to bring visiting scientists to the Department and is a tremendous asset to educational and program development. To date 3 scientists have been brought to Contributors to Pl ant Path01 ogy Minnesota for 2 to 12 months as E.C. Endowment Funds: Stakman Visiting Scientists. Dr. Jeremy J. Burdon, Division of Plant Industry, Geoffery Ai nsworth CSIRO; Dr. John Gay, Imperial College of Axel and Mrs. Anderson Science and Technology; and Dr. Leopold Markus Andres Fucikovsky, Centro de Fitopathol ogia, Mark Andrews and Sharon Sussmilch Coleigo de Postgraduados, Chapingo- Yehoshua Anikster Monteci 1 los, Mexico. Several other H. Asuyama scientists have also been brought to the Henry D. Barker Department for lesser time periods, Fred and Gertrude Battell primarily as colloquium and seminar Eldon Behr contributors. Port ions of the interest Mrs. Kim G. Bovee from this fund have also been used for A. M. Boyce Plant Pathology Library Fund Robert Brambl augmentation since that fund is sti1 1 L. A. Brinkerhoff insufficient for its designated purpose. Campbell Soup Company The current market value of the E.C. Edwin Carley J. J. Castano M. B. Moore C. M. and Katherine Christensen Dona1d Munnecke Ho Sup Chung David Mumford Mrs. R. U. Cotter Anne E. Newbery Mrs. Sarah S. Conklin A. G. Newhall J. H. Craigie Mrs. William T. Nielsen James E. de Vay Robert Noble R. S. Davidson Seung Hwan Ohh Eduardo Casas Diaz Mrs. R. G. Orellana William Donald David Punter A1 icia Drage J. M. Prescott Carl J. Eide Louis Palmer A1 bert El1 i ngboe Ned Raun Marshal 1 Evans Curt and Martha Roane H. H. and Iva Flor Lewis Roberts D. W. and Audrey French Stella D. Rodenhiser Fred and Esther Frosheiser Alan P. Roelfs Leopol d Fuci kovsky Sylvia A. Roman Hi roshi Fujii Athalie C. Rossow David Gardner M. C. Sanford Kazuo Goto Marjorie Schad George Hafstad John F. Schafer Margaret Hani sh Paul J. Scherman Earl D. Hansing Myrtle Schneiderhan Earle Hanson Save1 Si1 verborg J. George Harrar John Skel ly J. E. Hermansen Clyde Shumway Lee Hines Bent Skovmand Unji Hirua George H. Starr C. S. Holton John Stevenson Hugh H. Hotson Donald M. Stewart Tadoki Inabe Deon Stuthman Manuel R. Villa Issa Theodore Sudia Jacob Janzen James Tammen E. M. Johnson Ray J. Tar1 eton Lois Johnson Thomas Hernandes T. M. F. Kernkamp Morris N. Teller T. Kommedahl A. Tjokrosudarmo Thomas Laskari s W. D. Thomas John Laurence W. H. Thornberry Camille Lefebvre H. D. Thurston Duane LeTourneau Esther M. Tolaas R. F. Line Laurence Tyner Char1es Logsdon Gerald T. Vigue James A. Lyle Isaak Wahl Shih-I Lu Monica K. Wallace Mary Merrill I. A. Watson William Merrill Ed We1 1hausen T. W. and Annabelle Mew Kenneth Wernimont John Menge Kathy Widi n L. I. Miller Chester Wismer Ayooha P. Misra Robert Zabel CORRESPONDENCE - First hand news of 01d News 1etter (thanks John). Apparently you Timers, with a few pertinent quotes. have a group of dedicated people to he1 p. I have two pure Cornel 1ians on my Mike Wingfield, PhD 1983, was in committee and, except for two graduate Stel 1enbosch, Cape Province, on October students, the rest of us are 25, 1984 and sent us a post card: "Dear 'foreigners'." Dave Thurston, PhD 1958, Friends in Stakman Hall: I have intended is also on the Cornell committee. to write a decent letter for ages - now on the verge of another 6 weeks away T.C. Loh, PhD 1933, at the Guangdon from home - resort to a card. The Microbiology Research Institute, advantage- is that you get to see a Guangzhan, China, no longer does picture of Stellenbosch. We are settling research but goes to his office to work down slowly - surprisingly slowly and I with graduate students and edit now be1 ieve that it wi 11 take years to manuscripts. T.C. was always an get Minnesota out of our blood. On the enthusiastic athlete and kept "in work side there are many challenges for shape". He would find many friends in us both. Many are positive and of course the Department now because his routine there are the difficult ones. Research calls for "a little running each morning is going quite we1 1 with lots of around 6 o'clock." Loh got his MS in exciting data on insectlpathogen plant pathology at Louisiana State interactions. We think of you often and University in 1930. There is a legend in wish you a Great Thanksgiving. the Department that one reason he chose Minnesota to take the PhD was to have a ---Mike and Brenda Wingfield chance to beat E.C. Stakman at hand bal 1. Stak was once champion of the St. Carl Matyac, PhD 1984, is a post Paul campus. It is not known if he and doc in the Department of Plant Pathology Loh ever met on the court. Stak at the University of North Carolina. del ighted in worthy competition, but he With his Christmas greetings he wrote: a1 so used good judgement. "To my friends, enemies, col 1eagues, graduate students, alumni, research From Coral Berge, Administrative fe1 1ows, civi 1 servants, secretaries, Assistant, University Press: "Thanks for department head and emeriti: Greetings sending the July '82 and Special 75th from Raleigh! The transition from grad Anni versary issue of Aurora Sporeal is. . student to post doc has been successful. . I always enjoyed remembering the . . At first I automatical ly arose at people I met at Plant Path01 ogy. The job 6:30 AM and began to search for a thesis was my first student job at the or manuscript to write or edit. Without University and I've always been grateful 1uck, I experienced withdrawal symptoms for my supervisors' patience and unti 1 my friends began an encouragement. I certainly was a acclimatization program including extra greenhorn." Coral was a student typist hours of rest, food, drink and various (15 hours per week) during 1965-66. social activities. . . Dr. S.J. We1 lensiek writes from the P.S. I miss all of you but the Netherlands that next year he wil 1 excitement of a new job, a new (warm) commemorate the 60th anniversary of his location and reunion with my spouse has post graduate year in the Tottering been wonderful. Please write. See you in Tower. The year with Doc Stak has had a Reno ! " profound inf 1 uence on his sci ent if ic career. He still continues his research on Flower Formation and is still active L.J. Tyler, PhD 1934, and chairman as Editor of Scientia Horticul turae. He of the committee that publishes the sends his best wishes for the Department "Cornel 1 Plant Path News 1etter", shares under its new Head and in its new some thoughts, on the subject: "You quarters. people certainly turn out an excel lent Dr. Karl F. Manke, born and raised aware of an intense man who came out in St. Anthony Park, graduated from the among the wheat plots and argued long College of Agriculture, F & H. E. in and 1oudly with Dr. H.K. Hayes. It was 1935 and later took a PhD in Agronomy not surprising that the new rust- and Plant Breeding. During his career he resistant spring wheat variety was named had many contacts with people in plant 'Thatcher' rather than 'Haystack' as pathology and minored in the Department some wag of that era suggested... as a graduate student. He recently sent "But it was only in my Senior year some of his reminiscences to Aurora: that I came to appreciate what a giant "Iwas particularly interested in this man real ly was. I was permitted to discovering that the old Plant Path enrol 1 in his Seminar which met in what bui 1ding had been torn down. Some 01 d can best be described as the garret timers may miss it; I can't say that I Tottering Towers. Unfortunately, many of do. I had always thought of it as the principles and fine points of the something bui 1t and rebuilt by a faculty art and science of plant path01 ogy to committee. When I was an undergraduate I which I was exposed at this man's invariably became 1ost in it just trying seminars escape me, but one experience to find the 1ibrary or the seminar room. does stand out. As an adult (and now as a senior citizen) it has haunted count1 ess "The names of the supporting actors dreams. Now, at 1 ast, it has been in this mini-drama (Stakman always excoriated from my subconscious and I played the lead, be1 ieve me) are perhaps sleep more soundly. best forgotten, but I recall that one of them had an irritating propensity for "You see I was not obligated to fa1 1i ng as 1eep once Seminar began. 'Wake worship at the Tottering Temple; my him up!' Stakman demanded of the young fidel ity was to another architectural man sitting next to the somnolent wreck on the campus - the old farm house fellow. 'Wake him up yourself; you put which was made of a weird collection of him to sleep,' replied the young fel low. tunnels and cel 1s for the use of the A1 1 the rest of us held our breath. Department of Agronomy and Plant Finally, seeing the humor of it, Stakman Genetics. Real 1y, where el se cou 1d one grinned and said, 'You know, it's just find a stairway occupying what had 1ucky for you that you've got a job formerly been a small closet? I only waiting for you. El sewhere, ' he added. 'minored' in Plant Pathol ogy. I did not aspire to a degree or career among the "In spite of my bad judgement in fungi, viruses, bacteria, nematodes and not having become a plant pathologist, I the like; I suppose that makes me a d begin to appreciate rather ha1 f-aspi rant, uh , Plant Pathol ogist . intimately just how you might begin. I pul 1ed arm1 oads of foxtai 1, sandburs, "This second-cl ass role does not, thistles and purslane out of the small however, detract from the store of grain plots over by Mr. Eagle's nest memories nor the admi ration I have for along side the Intercampus tracks. I those who walked down the phytopath. For sprayed gal lons of rust spores exampl e, my earl iest memory of Dr. suspensions on plant rows in the mus 1in Stakman was that he was some sort of tents near the blacksmith shop, I 'Prof' up at the University Farm and planted thousands of 4-inch pots to 1i ved on Hythe Street where I del ivered segregating progeny of oat hybrids when groceries from my Dad's store. The store D.C. Smith was working out the genetics was located in what is now Milton of resistance to crown rust. We grew and Square. I may even have sold the inoculated the seed1 ings in the Stakmans the Liberty Magazine; in those greenhouses behind the old bui 1ding. days magazine peddl ers, grocerymen and Smith 'read' the disease reactions and I Doctors made house call s. Later I became wrote down pages of notes." Professor A1 an Gemmell, O.B.E., He was one of a group that spent three B.Sc., M.S. (Minn., 1937), Ph.D. weeks in the United States in 1979, but F.R.S.E., F. Inst. Biol., F.L.S., wrote he didn't have a chance to visit to Debbie Baden-Drange to give his new Minnesota. In his position as professor, address, which is: Wang currently has five graduate students. His teaching duties include a Ashbrook seminar and a 1iterature seminar "as in Corriegi 11s the old Tottering Tower." Professor Wang Brodick has three sons, three daughters, six Isle of Arran KA27 'BL grandsons and six granddaughters. Scot 1and Eldon Behr is a naturalized Old He added: "Ihave retired from the Chair Timer, having had his PhD in the College of Biology at Keele University in of Forestry in 1948. While he was at England and come back to my roots in the Minnesota he spent much time in the West of Scotland. I am, however, very Department of Plant Pathology, with busy as I am consultant to two gardening considerable benefit to the plant companies, am now recording my third pathologists and, presumably, to series of radio programs cal 1 ed himself. Gernmel 1 's Garden for the BBC, as we1 1 as TV programs for commercial TV in Eldon worked for the Chapman England. I a1 so am in the middle of Chemical Co., Memphis, Tenn. from 1947 helping to write computer programs about to 1959 as Head of the technical gardening as we1 1 as lectures and department. The principal products were broadcasts. My 1ife is very full , but wood preservatives and Eldon had six US happy with work, gardening and go1 f. patents for processes he developed. He What more could one ask?" admits that at least one was very successful. C.S. Wang, PhD 1937, is Professor in the Department of Biology, Fudan In 1959 he joined the Forest University, in charge of the virus Products Department of Michigan State research group. After leaving Minnesota University, teaching and doing research Wang became Professor at Honan on distribution of oily preservatives in University where he was Chief of the wood and related areas. He retired in Department of Agronomy and Plant 1980 and moved to Anderson, South Pathology, 1939-45 and Dean of the Carol ina. Co 1 1ege of Agricu 1ture, Honan U., 1945- 49. After two years at Suchow Eldon writes: "Since I retired I University, 1949-51, he joined the have done very little professional work Sahnghai Fudan U. where he was Head of for pay. People in the wood industry the Department of Biology from 1962 to seem to think that advice ought to be 1982. free, and the lawyers aren't much better. I've had my chances but the jobs A1 though he had administrative have too much traveling by highway as a responsibilities, Wang published more part of the duties, and I don't care for than 90 research papers. Most of his driving anymore with a1 1 of the trucks research was with virus diseases, but he to dodge. I study financial news 1 or 2 a1 so worked with mycorrhizae, grain days a week and apply what I read to storage and plant protection. He is now managing what funds I have been able to working on a manuscript entitled accumulate over the years. Whi le sti11 "Symbiosis, a general tendency of at Michigan State several on the evolution in the living world." Forestry staff sought my aid in financial management, but there were no Wang received many honors and offers of pay. I did get a lunch or traveled a good deal during his career. two." Tim Huberty, Word Processor, 1979- graduate students) and others on the 1980, wrote in December, 1984 that he outcome of sporting events in football ,- and Susan were "expecting" soon after basketbal 1, horse racing, etc. Since the first of the year. (see Births). "Of retirement I seldom have those course we are very excited about the opportunities now because of my prospect of having two future presidents astuteness and caginess in winning much from one family. (We1 1, maybe one more often than losing. While at president and a plant pathology Minnesota my modus operandi in friendly professor). . . This has been an wagers was 'Don't ever give a sucker a eventful year for me. I was hired back break'. I surely wish that those at the agency which fired me 18 months Minnesota patsies were sti11 available previously. . . However, rather than for those friendly wagers. Touche, doing marketing research, I am now a Buster. Media research Supervisor. I am in charge of advising a department of 200 "Minnesota plant pathology must be people on the pros and cons of investing tough on department heads. I was head at our clients' money in radio and cable Auburn Uni versi ty of botany and plant television. I am also in charge of pathology for 25 years. At my retirement gathering info on "new electronic media" we had the best and one of the most (VCRs, home computers, etc.) and edit a di verse and 1arge departments, staff- newsletter. It is a nice job, pays we1 1 wise (55 plus), at Auburn University." and has an office overlooking Lake Michigan. It is hard to believe that we Beverly Bergman, Sr. Clerk-Typist, have been gone from Minnesota for over 1975-76, is one of the most faithful of four years. We continue to miss it very Old Timers. She writes: "Thank you again much. . ." for sending the Aurora Sporeal is to me. I read it from stem to stern. . . I am From Chen Tong Tsiang, PhD 1947, in so pleased to learn that Carol Windels Shanghai: "Dr. French and Old Timers: is at Crookston now. As you wil 1 Recent issue of Aurora Sporeal is was remember, Crookston is my hometown. . . received with thanks. She had refreshed Greetings to a1 1 who remember me. What my unforgetable memories of Good Old ever happened to Sagar Krupa?" Beverly, Minnesota. Although many inspiring we are happy to report that Professor teachers such as The Big Chief, Chris, Krupa is stil 1 with us. He is leader of Dosdal 1, Hart and Laura have left us, the project on air pollution on which yet their kind, attentive, inspiring, subject he is an international charming attitude toward their students authority. Beverly is now in her eighth wi 11 1ive with me forever. Please extend year at the Hennepin County Medical my best regards to my good old pals in Center. She lives in St. Louis Park. Minnesota, especial ly Drs. Kernkamp, John Rowel 1, Thor, etc."

From Modest Jim Lyle, Head Emeritus, Pl ant Path01 ogy, Auburn U. (PhD 1953): "At some point in time a gross misconception about my enthusiasm for race horses has occurred. I have never played the ponies per se, nor do I contemplate doing so in ne future. However, during my sojourn in Minnesota and since then to some degree in Hawaii and Alabama, I placed friendly wagers with Minnesota staff (faculty as well as NEWS WANTED -NEWS WANTED Have you been promoted? Married? Honored? Has anything happened to you that readers of Aurora would 1 ike to know about? Don't be too modest. Or, if you have news of any other Old Timers or any other news, Please ---send it to Aurora Remember the news writers' rules: Give the facts on ---Who, When, Where and Why. Send your contributions to: Aurora Sporealis 495 Borlaug Hall University of Minnesota 1991 Burford Circle St. Paul, MN 55108

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