Plant Science Bulletin Volume 68 (1)Spring 2022

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PSB 68(1) 2022 annual meeting where he was a panelist on a symposium recounting CUEBS successes, and failures. This led to his appointment as a member of the section committee for Education and Teaching that authored the report for the BSA’s Botany for the Next Millennium (1995). It was his good words and encouragement that led me to accept a position at Emporia State.

IN MEMORIAM

Throughout his retirement Jack maintained his interest in botanical education through leadership of both the New Mexico and Colorado Native Plant Societies and publishing statewide field guides: Trees and Shrubs of Colorado; Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico; Common Southwestern Native Plants: an Identification Guide; and Gymnosperms of New Mexico: a Field Guide. Jack was always a gentleman whose kind words and wisdom helped shape our world and whose friendship will be sorely missed. —Joseph D. McInerney, Marshall D. Sundberg, and Gordon E. Uno Joseph D. McInerney was on the staff of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study for 22 years and was its director from 1985 to 1999. He was president of the National Association of Biology Teachers in 1991. He retired as executive vice president of the American Society of Human Genetics in 2017. Marshall D. Sundberg, Roe R. Cross Professor of Botany, Emporia State University. Distinguished Fellow, BSA. Gordon E. Uno, David Ross Boyd Professor of Botany, University of Oklahoma. Past President, BSA and NABT.

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ALAN GRAHAM (1934–2021) Alan Graham, Emeritus Professor of Botany and Geology at Kent State University and Curator of Paleobotany at the Missouri Botanical Garden, an incredibly productive scholar, highly awarded teacher and researcher, effective mentor, wide-ranging author, and a gentleman in the finest sense of the word, passed away at the age of 87 on July 8, 2021. He is survived by Shirley Graham, his wife and colleague of 61 years; his son Andrew and daughter-in-law Julia; daughter Alison; son Bruce; and granddaughter Kenzie Graham. In 1520, grammarian Robert Whittington of Oxford College described Sir Thomas More as “a man for all seasons.” That phrase can have multiple meanings in the case of someone like


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