Insect Rearing Workshop Principles and Procedures for Rearing Quality Insects Sept. 29-Oct. 4, 2002 Dept. of Entomology and Plant Pathology Mississippi State University, USDA-ARS www.msstate.edu/ Entomology/ Rearingwksp.html Contact Frank M. Davis: fdavis@entomology.msstate.edu STRENGTH in numbers starts with one... It starts with you. Help someone else's career - ask them to join ESA. www.entsoc.org throughout the profession of entomology. Over the years he served the ESA in virtually every top elected leadership position, includ- ing being a member of the Governing Board for six years, President of the North-Central Branch, and President of the entire Society. He also served as President of major subsid- iary components of the Entomological Soci- ety of America, including the American Registry of Professional Entomologists and the Entomological Foundation. He played a major role in the creation of the latter. In recognition of his many contributions, ESA members recognized him with two of the Society's highest honors: Fellow and Honor- ary Member. His professional colleagues and associates knew Bobby as a good and gracious gentleman. As such, he was a great ambassador for the profession of entomol- ogy, and he will be remembered fondly as a friend, educator, and mentor. Bobby will be missed by his many friends, colleagues, and family members. He is sur- vived by his wife, Ann; a son, Kevin, and daughter-in-law, Linda; and three grandchil- dren, Rachel, Samuel, and Sheridan. Con- tributions may be made in Bobby's honor to the University of Kentucky's Bobby Pass Scholarship Fund (contact: Kathy Ibendahl; kibendah@uky.edu) or to the Entomologi- cal Foundation's Bobby C. Pass Fund (con- tact: April Gowe; april@entsoc.org) Kenneth V. Yeargan and Fred W. Knapp Department of Entomology University of Kentucky Lexington, KY Richard H. Foote DR. RICHARD H. FOOTE, a world re- nowned specialist on the taxonomy of fruit flies, an early advocate of the use of comput- ers for information storage and retrieval in entomology, and a widely respected former leader of the Systematic Entomology Labo- ratory, ARS, USDA, died on February 9, 2002. Known fondly as "Dick" to most of his many friends and colleagues, he passed away suddenly, at the age of 83, of compli- cations following a broken hip. Richard Herbert Foote was born on May 2. 1918 in Bozeman, Montana, and was i.used in Helena. He was the elder of two children of Herbert and June Foote. He k arned a great deal about biology and in- lets from his father, a sanitary engineer and Director of the Water and Sewage Division of the Montana State Board of Health, who led the effort to rid Montana of typhoid fever. Dick was a graduate of Montana State University, Bozeman (B.S. in Entomology, 1941). He served in the U.S. Army in World Richard H. Foote (1918-2002) War II (1943-1945), mostly in Europe as a clerk in the Office of the Chief Surgeon, after which he briefly worked for Western Catalog Company, and then as a self-em- ployed pest control operator in Montana. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as a curator of the collection of medically important in- sects of the Public Health Service, CDC, in Atlanta, Georgia, after which he earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health (Sc.D. in Parasitology, 1952). His dissertation con- cerned the immature stages of Culex mos- quitoes. In March 1952, Dick was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, in the unit that later became the Systematic En- tomology Laboratory, to help produce a manual of medically important mosquitoes. In 1954 he was assigned responsibility for flies affecting plants, after which he con- ducted extensive taxonomic research on fruit flies (Tephritidae). At the USDA, Dick served in numerous administrative posi- tions, including Assistant to the Chief, In- sect Identification and Parasite Introduction Research Branch, Entomology Research Di- vision (1960-1965), Assistant Branch Chief, IIPI (1965-1972), and Laboratory Chief, Systematic Entomology Laboratory (1972-1976). He returned to full-time re- search on fruit flies in 1976, and although he retired from the USDA in May 1983, he continued this work until publication of the Handbook of the Fruit Flies of America North of Mexico in 1993. Dick was fond of editing and served as Editor for the journal of Economic Ento- mology, the Thomas Say Foundation publi- 124 AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST ? Summer 2002 cations, the Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, the Pro- ceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, and the Journal of the Wash- ington Academy of Sciences, and as an As- sistant Editor for the Annals of the Entomological Society of America. After his retirement he worked part time as a copyeditor for ESA publications until 3 months before his death. Dick was an active member of various professional societies, especially the Ento- mological Society of America, the Entomo- logical Society of Washington, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Washington Academy of Sciences, and the Council of Biology Editors. He served as president of the Washington Academy of Sciences and the Entomological Society of Washington. Dick's research on mosquitoes included his dissertation on the larval and pupal stages of Culex subgenera Melanoconion and Mochlostyrax, and a series of pictorial keys to various other mosquitoes, culminating in a manual for the identification of the medi- cally important species (Foote and Cook 1959). His publications also included work on several other families of flies, but he is best known for his research on the tax- onomy of fruit flies (Tephritidae), which included the description of 12 genera and 49 species. More importantly, however, Dick tackled several large projects that pro- duced new data and synthesized previously published information, leaving a clear knowledge base that his colleagues can eas- ily use and that his successors can build on. These included his extensive revisions of the North American fruit fly fauna, culminat- ing in publication of The Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of America North of Mexico, of which he was lead author, in 1993; a key to the Neotropical fruit fly gen- era (1980); and catalogs of the fruit flies of the Nearctic, Neotropical, Palearctic, and Australasian Regions. Beyond his fruit fly taxonomy, Dick will be remembered as a visionary in the field of information retrieval. In his Presiden- tial address to the Entomological Society of Washington in 1969, he spoke of a "catalog for all seasons," a comprehen- sive automated index to all systematic knowledge about insects. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dick was a leader in bringing computer technology to address the problems of information retrieval in biology, chairing or serving on all key groups, such as those of the National Acad- emy of Science, American Institute of Bi- ology, and ESA. For Entomology and ESA, he delivered the first Thesaurus for any discipline (1977). In USDA he led automation projects to create the Cata- log of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico and a fruit fly information sys- tem, prototypes for larger efforts to cata- log all insects. Unfortunately, neither the appropriate amount of resources nor computer technology were then available to bring these projects to fruition, but the concepts and designs Dick developed inspired and greatly aided our later ef- forts to produce databases for fruit flies and other flies. For more than a decade, Dick was a true leader of the Systematic Entomology Labo- ratory because of his vision of what system- atics should provide the larger scientific community. Under his direction and encour- agement, projects to compile and verify the names of moths and butterflies, true bugs, flies, and beetles were begun. These were team efforts of extensive scope and vision. Indicative of his standing in the entomological community, in 1981 Dick received the Out- standing Entomologist Award in Syste- matics from the American Registry of Professional Entomologists. 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As an administrator at SEL, one of the larg- est laboratories in ARS, he tried to handle all aspects of "red tape," leaving his sci- entists free to concentrate on research, even at a detriment to his own research work. Survivors include his wife, Martha B. Foote of Locust Grove, Virginia; four chil- dren, Judi Merriman of Camarillo, Cali- fornia, Elin Stewart of Locust Grove, Suzanne Stewart of Fredericksburg, Vir- ginia, and Christopher Foote of Redlands, California; a sister, Katherine Osborne of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; three grandchil- dren; a great-grandchild; three nieces; and a nephew. A comprehensive summary of Dr. Foote's scientific writings and accomplish- ments will be published in the Proceed- ings of the Entomological Society of Washington later this year. Allen L. Norrbom and F. Christian Thompson Systematic Entomology Laboratory- ARS, USDA Washington, DC James Forbes PROFESSOR JAMES FORBES died on 7 February 2002 at the age of 91. He had re- ceived his Ph.D. from Fordham University in New York City, and joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences where he taught and did research in entomology at Fordham College and in the Graduate School for 43 years-from 1936 until he retired in 1979. During World War II, he was in the Army doing work on tropical diseases in the Pacific Theatre. As a result of this experience, he developed a graduate course in parasitol- ogy in addition to entomology. He published many research papers on ants, and mentored numerous Ph.D. graduate students. Dr. Forbes was a President of the New York En- tomological Society as well as the editor of their journal for many years. In addition, he was a Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He was one of the founding members of the Fordham Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi in the 1950s, and was a long-time member of the Entomological Society of America. 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