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a?< . /y2@ Volume 37, No. 2 ISSN 0541-4938 MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA NEWSLETTER Editor's Note This issue of the MSA Newsletter represents a first attempt to increase the value of this communication to the members of the Society. The expected number of unexpect- ed delays plagued preparation of the first issue. The Newsletter is now typeset rather than using the camera-ready process. The cost of publication is estimated to be about the same as before. The typesetting.- - is done from a diskette from an IBM computer us- ing the word processing program Wordstar. Contributors of articles or notes for publi- cation in the Newsletter mav now send the information on a diskette. Contact the editor for additional information. The changes in the content and format of the Newsletter are intended to make it of more interest and use to the Society. Its success and appeal depend on the contribution of quality material from the members. It is hoped that the new format will encourage such contributions. The opinions expressed in the Newsletter are those of individual members and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Mycological Society of America. MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA NEWSLETTER Volume 37. No . 2. December. 1986 Richard E. Koske. Editor Department of Botany The University of Rhode Island Kingston. Rhode Island 02881 (401) 792-2629 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor's Note ................................................................................................. 1 Letter from the President ................................................................................2 Society Organization ......................................................................................3 Minutes of the Annual Council Meeting ........................................................... 6 Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting ......................................................... 12 New Mambers ............................................................................................. 12 Report of the Secretary ..........................................................................: ...... 13 Report of the Treasurer .................................................................................15 Financial Summary-Fiscal Year 1986 ................................................................ 16 Report: Editor.in.Chief, Mycologia .................................................................. 19 Report: MSA Newsletter ...............................................................................19 Report: Ed . Board. Mycology Memoirs ............................................................ 21 Report: Membership Committee .....................................................................21 Report: Awards Committee ........................................................................... 22 Recipients of MSA Prizes and Awards ............................................................ 24 Guidelines: MSA Prizes and Awards .............................................................. 27 Report: Mycology Guidebook Comm .............................................................. 31 Report: Medical Mycology Comm ................................................................... 32 Report: Historian ..........................................................................................33 Report: MSA Teaching Committee .................................................................. 33 Call for Applications and Nominations ............................................................34 Forthcoming Events ......................................................................................36 Articles and Notes .......................................................................................37 A Letter from Professor McGinty .................................................................38 Professor N.A. McGinty .............................................................................39 1982 Pennsylvania Foray .............................................................................41 VAM Fungi of RI Dunes .............................................................................43 Mycological Services Available .......................................................................43 Fungi Wanted ..............................................................................................44 Labs with Openings For Sabbaticals ................................................................46 Publications Available ...................................................................................46 Publications Needed ................................................................................... 47 New Books ..................................................................................................48 Honors, Awards, Promotions .........................................................................49 Vacancies for Mycologists ........................... ... ...........................................49 Assistantships, Fellowships, Aid ....................................................................50 Post-doctoral Positions ..................................................................................50 Employment Desired ....................................................................................51 Changes in Affiliation ...................................................................................51 Deaths ........................................................................................................52 Credits for Extra Dues Payments ....................................................................52 Changes of Address .....................................................................................53 MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1 December, 1986 Office of the President Forestry Sciences Laboratory 3200 Jefferson Way Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Dear MSA Partners, My first mail as MSA President was a beautiful letter from Dr. Mildred Nobles: "The Mycological Society of American gave me a great honor when it made me a recipient of the 'Distinguished Mycologist' Award for 1986. 1 was surprised and delighted and most grateful. I hope you will convey my appreciation. I enjoyed attending the meet- ings after an absence of many years, meeting old friends and, hopefully, making new ones. I heard many excellent papers and found it fascinating to learn something of the new areas of research in Mycology. I met a number of the young mycologists and was impressed by their enthusiasm and hard work. Mycology obviously has a great future!! Dr. Nobles' feelings of being greatly honored are typical of other awardees at this and past meetings. I suggest, however, a different way of viewing these awards. The awardees, from Distinguished Mycologist to recipients of the Graduate Research Prizes, honor the Science of Mycology and the Mycological Society of America through their excellence. Mycology will thrive, so long as its practitioners continue and expand that tradition of excellence. It delights me that at each annual meeting the Awards Committee must work hard to select the best oral and poster presentations for the Graduate Research Prizes, be- cause the competition is so strong and the deserving candidates so many. I urge all of you to work equally hard in nominating candidates for the Distinguished Mycologist Award, the Alexopoulos Prize (for an outstanding, young mycologist), and the William H. Weston Award for Teaching Excellence. Candidates for these awards are nominated by other MSA members, and the nomination takes considerable efforts. The effort produces muchof worth, whether or not the award is won. The greater the competi- tion, the more our Science and our Society are honored. The same can be said for you Graduate Students: compete for the MSA Graduate Fellowships and Graduate Research Prizes. You are the major reason that Dr. Noblescould write, "Mycology obviously has a great future!" Others who honor MSA through their excellence are outgoing President Roger Goos, Secretary Hal Burdsall, Treasurer Amy Rossrnan, and the many committee workers who make the society tick. May we, their successors, do as well as they. With best regards, James M. Trappe SOCIETY ORGANIZATION'S 1986-1987 I. OFFICERS AND COUNCILORS: Officers President, 1986-1987 James M. Trappe President-Elect, 1986-1987 Martha Christensen Vice President, 1986-1987 Harold H. Burdsall, Jr., Secretary, 1986-1989 Meredith Blackwell Treasurer, 1986-1989 Martha Powell Councilors Eastern U.S., 1985-1988 Sally E. Gochenaur Western U.S., 1986-1989 F. Brent Reeves Canada, 1985-1987 David Malloch Cytology-Genetics, 1985-1987 John W. Taylor Ecology-Pathology, 1986-1988 Dean Glawe Morphology-Taxonomy, 1986-1988 Mary Palm Physiology-Biochemistry, 1985-1987 Alan Joworski Other Council Members Past President, 1984-1985 Henry C. Aldrich Past President, 1985-1986 Roger D. Goos 11. OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES: Representative on the Committee of Section G, Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science (3 years), 1985-1988; Lafayette Frederick. Representative on the Governing Board, American Institute of Biological Sciences (4 years), 1986-1990: Jerome J. Motta Representative for Public Responsibility, American Institute of Biological Sciences (3 years), 1986-1989: R. Michael Miller Representative on the Board of Trustees, American Type Culture Collection (3 years), 1986-1989: Lekh Batra Representative to the Assembly of Life Sciences of the National Research Council (3 years), 1985-1988: