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What event took place:
in Brooklyn, NY
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What event took place:
in Brooklyn, NY
In 1928?
Answer:
Question: What event took place:
in Brooklyn, NY
In 1928?
Answer:
The birth of
Charles Bingham Davey, better
known as “Chuck Davey”
“My name is Charles Bingham Davey.
Most people call me Chuck. In fact, a
lot of people don’t know I have the first
name Charles. I was born in Brooklyn,
New York because my father was an
itinerant engineer and happened to be
there at the time installing the subway
system in New York. I was born in
1928”
“Actually, a lot of people confuse
Davey Tree with me. I don’t have
anything to do with them, though I
would like to have their money”
What do these two people have in common?
What do these two people have in common?
Susan B. Anthony
Charles B. Davey
“Mostly I grew up on a hardscrabble farm in
western New York State”
Question:
From what school did Chuck
receive his undergraduate degree
in forestry?
Answer:
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S.A. Wilde
“I arrived in Madison in September of 1950. At that time there
were only three places in the country with a recognized graduate
program in forest soils. One was at Yale with Harold Lutz. One
was at Duke with Ted Coile, and one was at Wisconsin with Doc
(Wilde). At that time, Stan Gessel was an Instructor at the
University of Washington and just starting his program. Bill
Pritchett was just a young agronomist running corn fertility
studies. Poor Bill had no idea where fate would take him. His first
forest soils publication appeared in 1959 (Pritchett 1959). This
paucity of places to study forest soils led several of us to the
University of Wisconsin, which I will say was all to our mutual
benefit. Doc's influence on the field at that time was in full flower
and he tended to make the most of it. With his gaggle of grad
students, Doc would annually make a grand arrival at the SSSA
meetings. In those days, forest soils was in a sub-section of
Division 5. We were 5A. Division S-7 was not approved until
August 1962.”
CB Davey picture: Group at First North American Conference
on Mycorrhizae. Pictured, from left - Edward Hacskaylo, Earl
Stone, Charles Davey, Jaya Iyer, S. A. Wilde, and Garth Voigt.
Chuck Davey early publications: 1952 M.S.; 1955 Ph.D.
Davey, C. B. 1953a. Sawdust composts: their preparation and
effect on plant growth. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. Proc. 17:59-60.
Davey, C. B. 1953b. Decomposition of hard maple sawdust by
treatment with anhydrous ammonia and inoculation with
Coprinus ephemerus. Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci., Arts, and Letters
42:177-181.
Davey, C. B. 1955. Transformations of sawdust in the course
of its decomposition under the influence of Coprinus
ephemerus . Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. Proc. 19:376-377.
Davey, C. B. and S. A. Wilde. 1955. Determination of the
numbers of soil microorganisms by the use of molecular
membrane filters. Ecology 36: 760-761.
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> From: Charles Davey <cdavey@ncsu.edu>
> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:07:58 -0500
> To: Rob Harrison <robh@u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Forsoils] Three Army Soil Scientist jobs and FS Manuscript
>
> =============================================================
>
> Rob >
> Sorry - even Beth doesn't know what I did. My home base was
> Edgewood, Maryland,
> but I spent very little time there. I still remember the cover story
> (the tale you told inquisitive people).
> So, even if you get me drunk in Indy, I'll tell you a bunch of
> logical-sounding nothing.
>
> Cheers and see you soon.
>
> Chuck
>
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Question: Which department at NC
State University hired Chuck Davey,
what was its name, and what year did
he start?
Trick Question!!!!!
Answer: Actually three separate
departments hired Chuck.
1) Soil Science,
2) Forestry and
3) Plant Pathology
The year was 1962
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The forester is an amateur woodsman with a
college education. There are two classes of
foresters. One class believes that keeping
abreast of those broad dynamic movements of
the present day that challenge the best efforts of
the nation’s thinkers. The other class fights fire,
builds truck trails, plants trees and wears old
clothes.
Some foresters have offices, some live in cities
and some work in the woods. Lots of the foresters
spend practically their entire lives in God’s great
out-of-doors. They love to hunt and fish. They
would be, too, if they had the time.
It used to be said that a forester’s best friends
were his horse and his axe…..
Picture of student graduating
Davey: Up until 1970 if you were a female, you
were not eligible to enroll in forestry.
Picture of student graduating
Interviewer:
Really, you mean there was a rule?
Davey: Oh an absolute rule, strict rule. And 1970,
the year I became department head, we enrolled
our first four women students.
Picture of student graduating
Picture of student graduating
ASA/SSSA/CSSA highlights
S-3 chair
S-7 chair
1970 ASA fellow
1970 SSSA fellow
1975-1976 SSSA president
numerous committees, etc.
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SOIL SCI SOC AM P
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PHYTOPATHOLOGY
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SCIENCE
AM J BOTANY
CAN J MICROBIOL
CAN J MICROBIOL
AM J BOTANY
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P SOIL SCI SOC AM
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CAN J MICROBIOL
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PHYTOPATHOLOGY
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USDA FOREST SERV MIS
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What do these two people have in common?
What do these two people have in common?
Carl Sagan
Chuck Davey
They were both born in Brooklyn, NY
Yummy. Crabs from the Bay. The thing I learned (since I had no idea
how to prepare them) was that the preparation made a huge difference
in the flavor. In downtown Baltimore, we used to try as many different
vendor's products as possible. They were all good, but some were
decidedly better than others.
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