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CHANGES OF AFFILIATION OR STATUS
SANDY ANAGNOSTAKIS is on sabbatical in Giessen, West Germany, with Professor J. Krauz. She
has arrived, settled in, and her German is improving--slowly but surely.
RICHARD W. KERRIGAN HAS ARRIVED AT Ian Ross' lab at the University of California--Santa
Barbara.
CARLENE A. RAPER moved from the Department of Biology, We1 lesley College, We1 lesley, MA, to
the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Vermont, Burl ington, VT in
September 1983.
GERARD C. ADAMS was recently hired as an assistant professor at Michigan State University in
the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology.
EDMOND R. BADHAM is now working for Carolina Fungi, planning to grow shiitake mushrooms in
North Carol i na.
JEAN R. BOISE will spend 1984-85 at the New York Botanical Garden as a Postdoctoral Fellow
l earning curatori a1 techniques and herbari um management.
FRED RHOADES is currently hanging onto an office at Western Washington University as a
research associate.
DENNIS J. GRAY has assumed an assistant professorship and will study grape improvement via
in vi tro methods at the University of Florida, Fruit Crops Department, Agricultural
Research Station, P. 0. Box 388, Leesburg, FL 32749-0388.
ROY E. HALLING is now Associate Curator of Fungi at the New York Botanical Garden.
MICHAEL T. O'SHEA, formerly a Research Microbiologist with the ~iotechnolo~~/~ushroom Research
group, has transferred to a position as a Research Chemist with the Vegetable Biochemistry
group of the Campbell Institute for Research and Technology (Box 57X). He
will continue his interest in the physiology and biochemistry of edible fungi, especially
their post-harvest physiology, and will explore other areas, including pectin
metabolism.
MICHAEL A. VINCENT, after 3 years in business, is now employed by the Willard Sherman Turrell
Herbari um, Miami University , as an assistant curator.
RICHARD BAIRD, formerly a University of Tennessee graduate student, is now Visiting Assis-
tant Research Scientist with the Department of Botany, University of Florida.
LAURA J. MIHUTA is now research Associate Plant Pathologist working with Robert Forster at
the University of Idaho Research Extension Center, Kimberly, Idaho.
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LAURA GUZMAN-DAVALOS was recently appointed as Mycologist and Head of the Laboratory and
Herbarium on Mycology in the Instituto de Botanica de la Universidad de Guadalajara,
Jal isco.
TINA GILLIAM-DAVIES REPORTS: WHILE WALKING ALONG A CREEK IN THE BLUE RIDGE, WE
ENCOUNTERED A NATIVE OF THE AREA, WITH A BASkET, WHO SAID HE WAS ''LOOKTNG FOR MIRACLES."
AFTER GEYTING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SORT OF THING HE WAS LOOKING FOR, ASKED WHETHER RE
MEANT !53i?-7LS. "NOPE, " HE SAID, "THEM'S CALLED MIRACLES IN THESE PARTS. "