BTI in photos - Boyce Thompson Institute

General view of a typical annual picnic held at the Dutchess county farm
Gary Fowler and his antique auto

Bob Kohut and Bob Amundson inspecting experimental wheat

Ruth Alscher in the lab
Andy Grefig using a gas chromatograph

Jonathan Comstock in a growth chamber

David Weinstein models a forest
Karen Hansen and Dave MacLean inspecting hydroponically grown wheat

Mary Topa with cultures of pine seedlings

Ray St.Leger and Don Roberts

Celia Radke with Monarch butterfly

Delbert McCune
Dick Mandl designing a growth chamber

Carl Leopold
Kathy Kramer and floral arrangements

Tom LaRue and Barbara Kneen examine a pea plant

Lokesh Joshi looks for genes
Tariq Butt and Rich Humber look at a gypsy moth collection

Pat Hughes and Martin Bolsinger examining plants
Allan Eaglesham at IITA in Nigeria

Michelle Higgs, Hugh Mason, Charles Arntzen and Dr. Lopez-Gomez
Zohara Yaniv

Ron Beloin and Brian Gollands in a Virtual Forest

Moving field chambers into a vineyard plot by helicopter

Lisa Grace with Lynn Leopold at their plantation in Costa Rica

BTI booth at Barton Hall at a 1983 Cornell Reunion weekend. Left to right: John
Dentes, alumna, Bob Granados, Allen Wood
Plant Stress Conference held in Yonkers in 1974

Institute board meeting. Left to right: Ben Williams, Roy Park, Sr., Roy Young
Three men who played important roles in our move from Yonkers to Cornell.
Left to right: Dean Charles Palm, George L. McNew (Former BTI Managing
Director), and Professor George Kent.

Managing Director Richard H. Wellman with Cornell President Frank H. T.
Rhodes
At Managing Director Richard H. Wellman’s retirement party. Left to right:
Dewayne Torgeson, Doris Wellman, Katherine Torgeson, and Dr. Wellman

Dr. Wellman’s retirement party: Managing Director Richard H. Wellman, Board
Chair, William T. Smith, and Dean Charles H. Palm
Sam Ristich was presented with a bicycle at his retirement party. President Roy
Young in the background

William Boyce Thompson’s Picket Post House at the Southwestern Arboretum
Quarter century club dinner 1992

Pat Hughes prepares for dinner

Volley ball game behind the old BTI building at Yonkers
At an Institute party. Clockwise: Harry Mussell, Rick Triant, Luke Colovito
(obscured), and Jay Jacobson

Farewell party for George Bova. Left to right: George and Mary Bova, Ted and
Jan Buckley
Bill Smith and George Bova

BTI staff gathering at Tom Anderson’s farewell party. Foreground, Katie
Reynolds, Dewayne Torgeson in back of her talking with Jay Jacobson. Other
identifiable staff include John Lawrence, Paul King, Lucille Laccetti, Vlado
Macko, Dick Mandl, and Jim Ellenson
Tom Anderson’s farewell party. Left to right: Tom Anderson, John Troiano,
Earle Butterfield, Rick Triant

Tom Anderson’s receiving gift at his farewell party. Left to right: Earle
Butterfield, Tom Anderson, Dewayne Torgeson
Fred Kemple’s retirement party. Left to right: Cele Kemple, Fred Kemple, Greta
Colavito

Reception for Dick Staples after his appointment as the G.L. McNew Scientist.
Left to right: Ralph Hardy, Dick and Mildred Staples, and George L. McNew
Barbara Warland, Elaine VanEtten, Joanne Carruthers, Nancy Ray, and Rose
Kohlage

Scenes from the 70 th reunion party. Upper, left to right: Facing camera, Irene
and Karl Maramorsch, Katherine (behind flowers) and Dewayne Torgeson.
Lower, Clockwise: Don and May Roberts, Judy Hughes, Betty (Fong) Zuzolo,
Pat Hughes (back to camera)

Scenes from BTI’s 70 th Anniversary Reunion in 1994. Left to right, upper:
Madelene Dean, Sylvia and Len Weinstein, and John Dean. Lower: David
Silberman, Ralph Zuzolo, and friend

Photos from 70 th reunion. Upper, left to right: Len Weinstein, Bea Magdoff,
Clark Porter, Harry Burchfield, Polly Storrs Burchfield, Chuck Vlitos, Dewayne
Torgeson. Lower, Ernie Jaworski (Board Chair), Jackie Hardy

Photos from 70 th reunion. Upper, Clockwise: Clark Porter, Dick Staples,
Elizabeth McNew, Dewayne Torgeson, Betty Porter, Mildred Staples. Lower:
The Butterfields

Photos from 70 th reunion. Upper: Bob Granados and Elizabeth McNew. Lower,
Left to right: Anthony Carpi, Peter Preuss, Jay Jacobson

Elizabeth McNew (wife of George L. McNew, former Managing Director) at the
70 th reunion
Photos from the 70 th reunion. Clark Porter and Bob Granados

Photos from the 70 th reunion. Don Roberts and Ralph Zuzolo
Don Roberts and Betty Fong Zuzolo

Photos from 70 th reunion. Upper, left to right: Clark Porter, Len Weinstein, Bob
Granados. Lower, The Torgeson children

General views from the 70 th Anniversary party. Upper left to right: David
Weinstein (at table), Ralph Hardy (with back to camera) talking with Clark
Porter, Cecil Jack, Don Melhop, David Sirois. Lower: General scene

Arntzen golf tournament 2000. Jude Tulla, center, with the Kleckners
Joyce Frank talking with Len Weinstein at his farewell party

Gary Blissard speaking with David Stern at Len Weinstein’s farewell party

Len Weinstein says farewell

Left to right: The Arntzens, Evelyn Berezin, and the Klessigs
Wishing Dick Mandl well

Renwick family at 1999 BTI annual picnic. Left to right, Allen, Anne, Katie, Fiona
1999 Annual Picnic. Don Slocum participating in the egg toss event

The vanEck family at the 1999 BTI annual picnic
Alan Wood and Larry Russell at the 1999 BTI annual picnic

Views of The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, NY