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January 2012 • Volume 46 • Number 1
The APS Foundation—Celebrating 25 Years of Growth and Opportunity Ray D. Martyn, APS Foundation Chair, rmartyn@purdue.edu The year 2012 marks a banner year for the APS Foundation, as we celebrate its 25th anniversary. Many milestones have been reached in the last 25 years, and there are many more to come, but first, a bit about how the foundation came to be. My thanks to Jim Cook for his recount of the foundation’s history in the 100-Year History of APS prepared for the centennial meeting, some of which is included here. APS Council approved the appointment of the Endowment Fund Special Committee in 1985 with Roy Young as chair. The committee’s charge was to “build an Endowment Fund, oversee the investment of this fund, and to recommend appropriate uses of the income from the fund for the benefit of our members and profession.” Twenty-five years later the Ray D. Martyn mission hasn’t changed, but its endowment has grown and its goals have been greatly expanded. In 1986, council and the membership approved the recommendation that an APS Foundation be established as an independent entity that would receive and manage funds for endowment purposes. This was followed by a membership vote on a constitutional amendment authorizing the APS Foundation as an official 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The members of the special Endowment Committee, David French, Ralph Green, Frank Howard, James Tammen, Bill Tweedy, George Zentmeyer, and Roy Young, became the founding Board of Directors of the new APS Foundation, and Tammen was named the first foundation chair. Early Success Within the first year, 165 members donated $23,362 and council contributed another $8,500 to bring the total to almost $32,000 by the end of 1987. Twenty-five years later, many individuals have donated and the foundation’s endowment now stands at approximately $1.5 million. The first awards program initiated by the board was the Genesis. This program supported students to encourage creative thought and early development of innovations and to enhance the society’s international activities, as well as programs and special interests of the donors. The first APS Foundation Genesis Awards were presented to Forrest Nutter and Gail Schumann in 1987 to enhance the teaching of plant pathology to undergraduates and to three university libraries to enhance their holdings in plant pathology, one each in Uganda, China, and Bolivia. Only a couple of years after its beginning, the APS Foundation embarked on perhaps its boldest campaign. In 1989, the foundation recommended to council that they jointly launch an Endowment and Building Fund Campaign, with the goal of raising $500,000 for the foundation’s endowment and another $400,000 for a major addition to the APS Headquarters building. Several significant corporate gifts were received, as well as the foundation’s largest-ever single gift of $100,000 from John and Ann Niederhauser that funded the John and Ann Niederhauser Endowment (JANE). Many other contributions were received over the following years, establishing the I. E. Melhus Fund, the Frank L. Howard Undergraduate Fellowship Fund, the Lucy Hastings de Gutierrez Fund, the French-Monar Latin American Fund, the Mathre Education Endowment, the Pioneer
News Zebra Chip Management Webcasts Launched in Focus on Potato Resource
Due to the recent zebra chip confirmations in the Pacific Northwest, the Plant Management Network’s (PMN’s) Focus on Potato resource is offering two webcasts on this economically important disease. The first webcast, entitled “Biology and Management of the Potato Psyllid and Zebra Chip Disease” by Joseph Munyaneza, research entomologist at the USDA-ARS Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory in Wapato, WA, will help viewers understand how the potato psyllid spreads zebra chip disease; the foliar and tuber symptoms of zebra chip; what the potato psyllid looks like at the adult, nymph, and egg stages of development; potato psyllid monitoring, sampling, and control; and the biology of the potato psyllid. This presentation can be viewed at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/ edcenter/seminars/potato/PotatoPsyllid. The second webcast, entitled “Zebra Chip Disease of Potatoes,” by Gary Secor, North Dakota State University, will help viewers identify and understand the basic aspects of zebra chip. The presentation contains numerous color photos of disease symptoms; explains the field aspects, including host range, pathogen, and vector; and management practices that will help users manage this disease. This webcast can be viewed at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/edcenter/ seminars/potato/ZebraChip. Other presentations are available on the Focus on Potato website at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/fop. n
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In this Issue Editor’s Corner ............................................ 2 APS Foundation .......................................... 8 Public Policy Update ................................... 9 APS Annual Report ................................... 10
Division News ........................................... 13 Outreach ................................................... 14 OIP News & Views ................................... 15 People ....................................................... 16
Classifieds .................................................. 18 APS Journal Articles .................................. 19 Calendar of Events .................................... 20