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William R. (Bill) Cotton Mr. William R. Cotton is a native Floridian and has been involved with the Hastings potato industry in one role or another for over 50 years. Following his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Bill completed both BS and MSA degrees at the University of Florida. Following his studies at the University of Florida, he worked one year for the Hastings Potato Growers Association. Bill then accepted a position as Assistant Manager of the Wetumpka Fruit Company in Hastings, a fresh potato and citrus marketing firm. Mr. Cotton was

named President for Wetumpka’s four- county operation in 1975 and served in that capacity until the late 1980's. When Wetumpka discontinued potato and citrus production in north Florida, Bill assumed the Executive Directorship of the North Florida Grower’s Exchange in 1993.

During his entire career Bill has been a tireless advocate of the Hastings potato industry and supporter of University of Florida potato research and extension activities. The Wetumpka Farm and grading plant was a regular stop for university classes, 4-H groups and many other visitors because of Bill’s willingness to share his time, facilities, and knowledge of potato production and marketing. His farm was commonly the site of university field tests and demonstration plots. Some of the earliest North American data on chemical control of and cultivar resistance to corky ringspot were obtained on the Wetumpka Farm during the early 1970's. More recently, Bill has advanced several north Florida potato industry initiatives through regulatory and legislative agencies at both the state and federal levels. At the federal level, his efforts helped restore the use in Florida of an important nematicide. He appealed proposed changes in Florida’s workman’s compensation classifications, thus saving the industry hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums. He actively worked with the St Johns Water Management District to secure issuance of 20-year consumptive permits rather than the shorter period proposed. He helped obtain, from the St Johns Water Management District, more user-friendly fertilizer Best Management Practices for north Florida potatoes.

Bill has spent countless hours in recent years attending meetings of governmental and regulatory agencies throughout Florida assuring that the voice of the potato industry is heard in an objective and timely manner. He has continued to support the role of university research and extension and has been instrumental in securing annual funding for research programs. Bill has also served as a director of the Florida Farm Bureau, on the Board of Trustees of the St. Johns River Community College, and has served on his church’s Education Commission. Bill is married to Mary Ethyl Proctor and they have two daughters and two grandchildren.

— Pete Weingartner

Hielke (“Henry”) De Jong Henry De Jong grew up and received his first horticultural training in the Netherlands before he immigrated to Canada in 1954. He continued his studies in Kansas and also took time to work with the Mennonite Central Committee in Bolivia and in the canning industry in Southern Ontario. In 1968, with his wife Siegelinde and three young children (Walter, Werner and Margaret) Henry moved to Wisconsin to complete his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin under Roger Rowe at the Potato Introduction

Project, Sturgeon Bay (now NRSP-6). Henry joined Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in 1971 in Morden, Manitoba, to work on buckwheat, and a year later moved to the Potato Research Centre, Fredericton, to commence a career in potato research. He retired on March 30, 2001.

Henry’s research on diploid cultivated and diploid wild potato species led to the development of unique enhanced germplasm that is well adapted to Canada’s long days and short seasons. As a member of the cultivar development team at the Potato Research Center, Henry has contributed significantly to improvements in breeding operations. He managed on-farm trials for 15 years, working well with growers as well as with collaborators at other research centers. These contributions are recognized in his co-development of six cultivars. Henry always shared his material willingly so it is now in use in research and breeding far beyond Fredericton. The establishment of formal collaborative agreements between the Potato Research Center, and potato research institutes in Máochów, Poland and Grosz Lüsewitz, Germany resulted from his desire to share both his knowledge and his resources.

Henry is conversant in five languages making him a valuable, sought after participant for hosting marketing delegations from many countries, training foreign nationals, and making visits to potato-producing countries in Europe, the Caribbean and South America. For 14 years Henry was involved with the International Potato Technology Course sponsored by Potatoes Canada at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

He was chair of the Technology Course committee and took part in the selection of foreign students and improvements to the course curriculum. Henry’s strong commitment to international development continued as he served on the International Development Committee of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. At the invitation of Canadian Executive Services Overseas, he has volunteered his time to take part in development projects in China and Nicaragua

Henry has been an active member in the Potato Association of America throughout his career. He frequently participated in annual meetings. When the Association met in Fredericton in 1992 Henry had responsibility for the potato tours, which, with his characteristic enthusiasm and attention to detail, were a great success. Henry’s most valuable contribution to the Association has been as an editor of the American Journal of Potato Research. Appointed an Associate Editor in 1988, he was promoted to Senior Editor in 1996, a position he held for four years. Henry enjoyed the challenge of this work, which included the opportunity to assist colleagues in the publication of their research and to maintain contacts with the many members of the Association who were called on to assist with manuscript reviews.

— Richard Tarn

Alberto Salas Ing. Alberto Salas, a native of Peru’s rugged highland region, received his undergraduate and advanced training in the 1970s at the Agrarian University La Molina, in Lima. He started his career in the University’s potato program as an assistant to the world famous potato taxonomist, Carlos Ochoa. He joined the International Potato Center (CIP) as assistant to Ochoa in 1975. During more than 20 years of work at CIP, Ing. Salas conducted 61 plant collection expeditions in Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the United States. Each year since the mid-1970s Salas has carried out 1-3 expeditions, except when

terrorist activities made it impossible to travel to the remote locations where wild species can still be found. Over the years, he has journeyed more than 50,000 km over dirt roads, mostly by mule or on foot.

Ing. Salas has shown an unusual devotion to the search for endangered wild potato species. Many times he sacrificed participation in important family events and celebrations to be in the field. Christmas of 1982 found him in an isolated village near Queara, Bolivia, where he collected S. bombycinum Ochoa and S. neovavilovii Ochoa, two species that were then unknown to science. In 1998, he celebrated his birthday in the remote village of Airihuanca, Peru, where found the only living samples of S. longiusculus Ochoa.

On several occasions he risked his life for the sake of his mission. For example, in 1976, while gathering samples in the Andahuaylas region of Peru, his vehicle was stranded in the middle of a fast moving, rain-swelled river. Rather than abandon his samples, Salas waited throughout the night until help appeared. On another occasion his vehicle was commandeered by Shining Path guerillas. Because he spoke Quechua, the local language, and because he agreed to “donate” money, food, and other supplies, he was released unharmed. On one occasion he nearly drowned when his horse stumbled while crossing a river. The risks, Salas believes, were worth the results. His expeditions have yielded invaluable germplasm, now available in CIP genebanks. He also supplied the materials needed for a comprehensive study of the

genetic diversity in the tuber-bearing Solanum in section Petota. The materials he collected comprise ten new wild potato species that were later described by Prof. Ochoa. One of the new species was named in his honor, S. salasianum Ochoa.

In recent years, Ing. Salas has collaborated with NRSP-6 in collecting expeditions to the United States, Peru (two expeditions in 1998 and 1999), and in 2000 to Honduras and Panama. His collaboration was critical to these missions. His work is recognized far beyond the confines CIP, as much of his material is now routinely distributed to potato researchers worldwide. Indeed, the future value of many of the wild, tuber-bearing Solanum species that Ing. Salas discovered, collected, and helped to characterize will inevitably provide new sources of genes for use by future generations of scientists.

— David M. Sponner and Charles R. Brown

Steven A. Slack Steven A Slack is a native of Arkansas. And completed a B.S. (1969) and M.S. (1971) in Plant Pathology from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. In 1974 he finished his Ph.D. degree in Plant Pathology from the University of California, Davis. He spent a year as a Post Doctoral Associate at UC-Davis and then took the job of Director of the Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program. He held this position for fourteen years and made a name for himself as one of the consummate professionals in the field of seed potato certification.

Steve’s career took a prominent turn when he accepted the prestigious and endowed Henry and Mildred Uihlein Professor of Plant Pathology position at Cornell University where he directed the New York Seed Potato Certification Program. He stayed in this position for eleven years serving the last five as Chairman of the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell. During this time, Steve became internationally recognized for his research efforts with bacterial ring rot and potato viruses, but also worked to develop in-vitro methods for tissue-culture propagation and maintenance of potatoes and on therapies to eliminate systemically invasive viruses. He has focused much of his efforts on the identification and utilization of genes for resistance to potato viruses and understanding the durability of these genes under field conditions. Steve currently serves as the Associate Vice President for Agricultural Administration at Ohio State University; a position well suited to his level of experience and expertise.

Dr. Steve Slack is the potato pathologist or virologist that other potato pathologists or virologists go to when they need advice. He has the support of both the academic community and the grower community having served both with distinction. He is known as a team player with an uncanny ability to distill and focus issues to their priority needs. Steve’s ability to negotiate real science and to bring his understanding of plant pathology down to layman’s terms have made him a popular speaker. Finally, Steve is known as being truly supportive in all situations by those individuals fortunate enough to have worked with

him.

Steve has demonstrated vital leadership both in the seed potato industry and among his peers. Significant accomplishments include helping to USDA/APHIS formulate the PVYN Management Plan between the U.S. and Canada and working with the Golden Nematode Technical Work Group. Steve has published over 80 articles in refereed journals and several book chapters and has given numerous presentations to industry and scientific groups. He is a strong supporter of the National Potato Council and has spoken at several NPC Annual Seed Seminars. He has been active in the American Phytopathological Association as an Associate Editor for Phytopathology and Plant Disease, Editor-in-Chief for APS Press and serving as President of the Association in 2000/01.

Steve has also been an outstanding advocate of the Potato Association of America both nationally and in an international capacity. He has served on the Executive Board, on the Editorial Board, in numerous committees and in many capacities in various Sections and was President of the Association in 1988/89.

— Robert Davidson and Richard Zink

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Bob Hanneman Dr. Robert Hanneman was born and raised in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. Following graduation from Lincoln High School he attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison. While at Madison, Bob earned a BS degree in Biochemistry in 1964 and a MS in Genetics and a PhD in Plant Breeding and Genetics in 1966 and 1968, respectively. Dr. Hanneman’s innovative PhD research concentrated on the production of potato hybrids directly from crosses made with diploid and tetraploid potatoes, thereby eliminating the need for doubling the

chromosome number of diploids prior to making crosses with tetraploids. This technology became the basis for the 2n gamete research which followed from Dr. Peloquin’s laboratory, who exploited the methods for breeding and genetics studies. Following completion of his PhD at Wisconsin, Bob volunteered for military duty and spent three years in the Army serving one year with a medical unit in Vietnam. Upon discharge from the army in 1971, he accepted a National Research Council of Canada post-doctoral research fellowship with the National Potato Breeding Program in Fredericton, New Brunswick and worked with Dr. Donald Young until 1972. While at Fredericton, Bob met his wife Betty whom he married in 1972. During 1972 -74, Dr. Hanneman worked with turf seed production for O. M. Scott and Sons in Salem, Oregon, becoming their Director of Seed Production and Research. Dr. Hanneman left Scotts in 1974 and began his present career with the USDA, ARS as Project Leader for the Inter-Regional Potato Introduction Project (IR-1), Sturgeon Bay, WI which is part of the National Germplasm System. Dr. Hanneman served as Project Leader for 15 years, eventually assuming responsibility for germplasm enhancement, the position he presently holds. During his career, Dr. Hanneman has been part of several important discoveries including 2n gametes, Endosperm Balance Number, and recent opening of the 2x

(1EBN) wild species to exploitation through common sexual hybridization techniques. The Hannemans have two grown children, Susanne Tilghman who lives with her husband, Mark, at St. Simons Island, GA, and a son Jonathan who is at home, taking a break from his studies in Fine Arts at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. The Hannemans are active members of Calvary Baptist Church in Watertown, WI where Dr. Hanneman is a deacon. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at Marantha Baptist Bible College in Watertown.

1947 C.F. Clark* William Stuart*

1948 No Elections

1949 Donald Reddick* E.S. Schultz*

1950 E. V. Hardenburg* Andrew Robbie*

1951 William H. Martin* John Tucker*

1952 H.J. Evans* R.J. Stevenson*

1953 J.S. Bacon* F.A. Krantz E.L. Newdick* S.G. Peppin*

1954 Donald Folsom* H.C. Moore* A.G. Toolas* H.O. Werner*

1955 W.C. Edmundson* K.H. Fernow* A.E. Mercker* J.W. Scannelli*

1956 Kris P. Bemis* C.L. Fitch* J.C. Milward* Ted Still*

1957 William Black* Reiner Bonde* Frederick J. Neyer*

1958 John Bushnell* Frank W. Hussey* Ernest J. Wheeler*

1959 George Cockerham* D.J. MacLeod* Norman M. Parks*

1960 Russell H. Larson* Ben Picha* Ora Smith*

1961 Sam Kennedy* Julian C. Miller* Gustav H. Reiman*

1962 John C. Campbell* A.H. Eddins* J.D. Swan*

1963 G.V.C. Houghland* W.F. Porter* N.A. Talmage*

1964 H.M. Darling* C.W. Frutchey* F.L. Westfall*

1965 Claude Botkin* Martin Cardenas* John Niederhauser

1966 Theodore Dykstra* Lawrence Schaal* Lyman Wright* Lewis Young*

1967 Robert Akeley* Carl Eide* Robert Hougas Harry Umphrey* James Weston

1968 Arthur Harkins* William Hooker* William Hoyman* Melvin Rominski*

1969 Miles Brown* Paul Eastman Donald Merriam* Walter Sparks

1970 Frank Clark* Elmer Pifer* Orin Turnquist* George Woodbury*

1971 Arden Burbidge* Robert Kunkel* Wilfred R. Mills Robert Treadway* _______________

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1972 James Kraus J.R. Simplot

1973 R.E. Goodin* R.E. Nylund

1974 Frank Garrett* Elizabeth Murphy*

1975 James Munro* Geddes W. Simpson*

1976 Richard L. Sawyer Mary V. Zachringer

1977 No Nominees

1978 Rodney Hastings* Floyd Lower* Earl F. Spencer*

1979 Paul N. Mosher L.W. Nielsen James W. Watts*

1980 Thomas H. Hankins* G. R. "Gary" Johnston* Warren Trank Raymon E. Webb*

1981 J. Ewen Campbell Charles Cunningham Jay G. Garner* N.S. "Bud" Wright*

1982 Robert H. Johansen* Edward F. Johnston

1983 Nell Mondy Henry Uihlein, II* Felix M. Zeloski*

1984 Ray H. Carter* Thomas Houghton, Jr. Hugh J. Murphy Robert L. Plaisted

1985 Jimmy S. Gregory* John A. Schoenemann Nelson Estrada Ramos Joe L. Harrington

1986 William R. Corrin Myron D. Groskopp Edward D. Jones Stanley J. Peloquin

1987 Willy M. Iritani Donald C. Nelson Carlos Ochoa

1988 Arthur Kelman Robert E. Thornton

1989 Richard W. Chase Monty D. Harrison John G. Hawkes Gene Shaver

1990 Elmer E. Ewing Bertrand Forest Wilbur A. Gould Robert B. O’Keefe

1991 Joseph J. Pavek Eugene C. Wittmeyer Donald A. Young

1992 James E. Bryan Henri Genereux Kenneth W. Knutson Wallace McCain Harrison McCain

1993 Jim Davis Robert W. Goth Paul H. Orr

1994 Florian L. Lauer Robert L. Mercer Robert L. Sanders

1995 David Curwen* Lawrence A. Thibodeau

1996 Don Kichefski Miles Willard

1997 Donald G. Anderson Dale R. Hensel Edwin S. Plissey Masa Tsukamoto

1998 Bryce L. Farnsworth Douglas J. Johansen Ronald D. Offutt

1999 Lind Sanford Bill Brodie

2000 Frank L. Haynes, Jr.* Joseph B. Sieczka Ronald E. Voss Duane A. Preston _______________

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1913 W. A. Martin 1914 W. A. Martin 1915 W. A. Martin 1916 Lou D. Sweet 1917 Lou D. Sweet 1918 Lou D. Sweet 1919 William Stuart 1920 C. W. Waid 1921 E. V. Hardenburg 1922 J. G. Milward 1923 W. A. Martin 1924 A.G. Tolass 1925 H. O. Werner 1926 Daniel Dean 1927 H. C. Moore 1928 F. M. Harrington 1929 F. M. Harrington 1930 John Bushnell 1931 John S. Gardner 1932 J. R. Livermore 1933 J. R. Livermore 1934 John R. Tucker 1935 John R. Tucker 1936 Julian C. Miller 1937 Fred H. Bateman 1938 F. A. Krantz 1939 Ora Smith 1940 C. H. Metzger 1941 F. M. Blodgett 1942 F. J. Stevenson 1943 F. J. Stevenson 1944 F. J. Stevenson 1945 E. B. Tussing 1946 E. B Tussing 1947 Marx Koehnke 1948 E. L. Newdick 1949 O. D. Burke 1950 H. A. Reiley 1951 Reiner Bonde 1952 G. H. Reiman 1953 J. H. Muncie 1954 J. W. Scannell 1955 Arthur Hawkins 1956 Cecil Frutchey

1957 R. W. Hougas 1958 N. M. Parks 1959 W. J. Hooker 1960 P. J. Peastman 1961 O. C. Turnquist 1962 R. V. Akeley 1963 L. C. Young 1964 W. G. Hoyman 1965 Walter C. Sparks 1966 R. L. Sawyer 1967 Henry M. Darling 1968 C. E. Cunningham 1969 Donald Islieb 1970 James Munro 1971 Robert Johansen 1972 Robert L. Plaisted 1973 Paul N. Mosher 1974 Robert Kunkel 1975 Robert H. Treadway 1976 Robert L. Mercer 1977 J. A. Schoenemann 1978 N. S. "Bud" Wright 1979 Richard W. Chase 1980 D. C. Nelson 1981 Robert B. O’Keefe 1982 Robert E. Thornton 1983 Hugh J. Murphy 1984 Edward D. Jones 1985 Willie M. Iritani 1986 Elmer E. Ewing 1987 Donald A. Young 1988 Joseph J. Pavek 1989 Steven A. Slack 1990 Ronald E. Voss 1991 Florian Lauer 1992 Alvin Mosley 1993 Joseph Sieczka 1994 T. Richard Tarn 1995 Dennis L. Corsini 1996 Duane Preston 1997 D. Pete Weingartner 1998 Melvin Henninger 1999 J. Creighton Miller, Jr. 2000 Stephen L. Love

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