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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, rainswelled 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 UCDavis 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.
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Ted Still*
1957
William Black*
Reiner Bonde*
Frederick J. Neyer*
1958
John Bushnell*
Frank W. Hussey*
Ernest J. Wheeler*
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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*
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W.F. Porter*
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C.W. Frutchey*
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Martin Cardenas*
John Niederhauser
1966
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Lawrence Schaal*
Lyman Wright*
Lewis Young*
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Carl Eide*
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1968
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William Hooker*
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Paul Eastman
Donald Merriam*
Walter Sparks
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Elmer Pifer*
Orin Turnquist*
George Woodbury*
1971
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Robert Kunkel*
Wilfred R. Mills
Robert Treadway*
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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
1983
Nell Mondy
Henry Uihlein, II*
Felix M. Zeloski*
1984
Ray H. Carter*
Thomas Houghton, Jr.
Hugh J. Murphy
Robert L. Plaisted
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Jimmy S. Gregory*
John A. Schoenemann
Nelson Estrada Ramos
Joe L. Harrington
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William R. Corrin
Myron D. Groskopp
Edward D. Jones
Stanley J. Peloquin
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Floyd Lower*
Earl F. Spencer*
1987
Willy M. Iritani
Donald C. Nelson
Carlos Ochoa
1979
Paul N. Mosher
L.W. Nielsen
James W. Watts*
1988
Arthur Kelman
Robert E. Thornton
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
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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Daniel Dean
H. C. Moore
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John Bushnell
John S. Gardner
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John R. Tucker
Julian C. Miller
Fred H. Bateman
F. A. Krantz
Ora Smith
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R. L. Sawyer
Henry M. Darling
C. E. Cunningham
Donald Islieb
James Munro
Robert Johansen
Robert L. Plaisted
Paul N. Mosher
Robert Kunkel
Robert H. Treadway
Robert L. Mercer
J. A. Schoenemann
N. S. "Bud" Wright
Richard W. Chase
D. C. Nelson
Robert B. O’Keefe
Robert E. Thornton
Hugh J. Murphy
Edward D. Jones
Willie M. Iritani
Elmer E. Ewing
Donald A. Young
Joseph J. Pavek
Steven A. Slack
Ronald E. Voss
Florian Lauer
Alvin Mosley
Joseph Sieczka
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University of Florida/IFAS, Hastings Research and Education Center Staff:
Dr. Chad Hutchinson
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