Northeastern Division Meets on Cape Cod

Margery Daughtrey, Cornell University

The 60th annual meeting of the Northeastern Division was held November 1-3, 2000, in North Falmouth, MA. Rob Wick (University of Massachusetts) headed up the local arrangements.

Steve Slack (left) and Ken Hickey (right) pose  with Chris Becker after receiving the Award of Merit, the highest honor of the division.

The meeting included 48 paper presentations as well as a number of special events enjoyed by the 89 registrants. Interesting tours on cranberry production (led by Frank Caruso) and exotic pests (led by Terry Tattar and Chuck Kusek, at Otis Air Force Base) preceded the traditional meeting of extension and industry pathologists, chaired by Steve Johnston and Chris Becker. The team of students from Université Laval was victorious in the game of phytopathological “Jeopardy” hosted by Gail Schumann during the social.

A symposium on apple scab organized by Odile Carisse and a molecular biology keynote address by Ray Hammerschmidt highlighted the first day of the meeting. David McNally of Université Laval won the Graduate Student Paper Competition with his presentation “An improved methodology for characterizing novel phytoalexins from Cucumis sativus L.,” coauthored by C. Labbé and R. R. Bélanger. Kurt Lamour of Michigan State University and Mélanie Mecteau from Université Laval were runners-up for the award.

Chris Becker presented the Award of Merit on behalf of the division to two recipients: Ken Hickey of Penn State University and Steve Slack of Ohio State were acknowledged for their significant accomplishments and dedicated contributions to the region. Peter Oudemans of Rutgers was honored with the new Early Career Award. Bruce Clarke presented a plaque to Division President Richard Bélanger recognizing his exemplary service. Banquet entertainment was provided by George Hudler, who with his daughter Jennifer presented “Great Moments in History and How the Fungi Got Us There.”

An Ornamentals Disease Seminar was held in collaboration with UMass Cooperative Extension on the final day of the meeting. This outreach event was attended by 200 members of the Green Industry.

The new officers of the Northeast Division for 2001 are:

• Bruce Clarke, President
• Margery Daughtrey, Vice President
• Suha J-Hare, Secretary-Treasurer
• Barbara Christ, Division Councilor
• Margaret McGrath, Councilor-Elect 

Abstract Notice

Online submission of APS and SON abstracts for the joint APS/SON/MSA annual meeting in Salt Lake City, August 25-29, 2001, will be available February 16 at www.apsnet. org/meetings/2001/asf. The deadlines are March 1, 2001, for oral paper presentations and March 15, 2001, for poster presentations. MSA members will submit their papers directly to MSA. See the APS website for complete information about online submission. 

Revised Common Names 
for Diseases of Pea and Wheat Online

APS designations of common names for the diseases of pea and wheat have been revised and are listed online at www.scisoc.org/resource/common/commentc.htm. Challenges should be made to the chair of the Committee for the Standardization of Common Names for Plant Diseases: Melodie Putnam, Oregon State University, 1089 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2903. E-mail: putnamm@bcc.orst.edu. 

Also in this issue: (as a .PDF file, see link below)

• Book Review 23
• Notices 23
• Industry News 24
• Public Policy 25
• People 26
• APS Journal Articles 28
• Classifieds 29
• Meetings 31
• Calendar of Events 32