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The Personalities of the Palm World
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PalmTalk Username: Noblick Larry Noblick was born in Ohio and has a B.S. in Biological Conservation (Wildlife Management), a B.S. in Education, and an M.S. in Botany from Ohio State University. He first became interested in palms while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil (1978-80). He founded an herbarium at the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (HUEFS) in Bahia, Brazil, and later returned and spent four more years developing it and continuing his studies on the palms of the Atlantic Forest Region. He came back to the U.S. in 1986 and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991. He then went on to complete a post-doc at Fairchil…
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Susan, originally from Connecticut, earned a BA in interior design from Pratt Institute. She came to Puerto Rico over 30 years ago as an international staff member with Citibank where she managed the branch bank and major building design and construction department. Later she moved into the bank’s financial area specializing as a trader of tax exempt CDs and marketing of banking products and account officer to local and international corporate clients. Her last position before retirement was as branch manager of the Spanish bank, Banco Central Hispano on the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico. She and her husband, Pedro Rodriguez, have a collection of over 50 palm species at …
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PalmTalk Username: SubTropicRay (formerly Ray Tampa) Ray Hernandez is a native Floridian, born and raised in Tampa, Florida. In 1993, he received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida. Today, he is a Senior Project Engineer for an Aerospace company that develops and builds rocket, missile and satellite components. While his work is drastically different from his hobby, he has taken advantage of business trips to South America, Australia and Asia to see various palm species in their native habitat. Ray first took an avid interest in palms upon seeing Thomas Edison’s Royal Palms in Ft. Myers, Florida. 25 years later, he…
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PalmTalk Username: Mr Rare Jeffry Brusseau was born in Fargo, North Dakota on April 12, 1957. He is the oldest of the five children of Bruce and Clarice Brusseau. The family moved to Newport Beach, California in 1963. Jeffry attended private and public schools and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a business degree. His major areas of study were Real Estate/Finance. During his adolescence Jeffry became involved in botany and held several jobs in the field including, interior plant maintenance, exterior grounds maintenance, custom design and installations of high-end residential landscapes. After college Jeffry pursued a career in Commercia…
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BAKER, Raymond F.
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Raymond F. Baker (1945-2010) by Jacob Knecht Berkeley, California (Reproduced from PALMS Volume 55(1) 2011 - copyright). It is with great sadness that we report the loss of Raymond F. Baker, who died on 29 November 2010 of respiratory failure after a five-year batt le with pulmonary fibrosis. He dedicated 38 years of his life to the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum and is chiefly responsible for creating its world-class palm collection of more than 800 species. Ray was driven to increase the diversity of plants at the Lyon and was passionate about making it accessible to the community. Ray was born in September 1945 in Passaic, New Jersey. He graduated from the …
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(From the Memorial Sub-forum on PalmTalk) Paul Andrew Drummond (April 15, 1924 – September 15, 2007) Born to a physician father and a loving, stay at home mother, Paul was raised in New York City during an age of the city’s “reinvention” from crime, poverty, and the desperation of crowded immigrants to the welcoming diversity of people, religion, cultures, and the arts. As a youngster, adventuresome Paul thrived on the continual thrill the big city atmosphere offered including riding the subways and exploring Central Park….all alone and by eight years of age. After his physician father met a premature accidental death, his independent mother was determined to af…
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MONTGOMERY, Robert H.
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Robert Hiester Montgomery From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born Sep. 21, 1872 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, USA Died May 2, 1953 in Coral Gables, Florida, USA Robert Hiester Montgomery was an influential accountant and educator. He was one of the founders of what is today the world's largest accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers and a two-term president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Montgomery was the author of numerous books on auditing and taxation including Auditing Theory and Practice, a bestseller originally published in 1912 which is still in print. He was successful in three professions despite his lack of f…
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FAIRCHILD, David G.
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David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants[1] and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans,[2]pistachios,[3]mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat,[4] cotton, and rice became especially economically important. Background Fairchild was born in Lansing, Michigan, and was raised in Manhattan, Kansas. He was a member of the Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild of Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated from Kansas State College of Agricultu…
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In Memory of Dr. Jerome P. Keuper 1921-2002 MG Car Club Florida is one of the Oldest MG Clubs in the State of Florida. The club was chartered in 1956 in Jacksonville, FL. Dr.Jerry Keuper, our Club Chairman Emeritus, brought the Charter to the Brevard area a few years later. The club, under Jerry's watchful eye and his "vigorous MG enthusiasm", has had many years of great success. (Press release from Florida Tech, March 26, 2002) Dr. Jerome P. Keuper passed away last night. The following is but the tip of the iceberg of his legacy and achievements. MELBOURNE, FLA.—Dr. Jerome P. Keuper, founder and President Emeritus of Florida Institute of Technology, died af…
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(The following is by Moyna Prince and credit to http://www.bssf-miami.org) Late in 2006, I sat down with Nat DeLeon, one of the founding members of the Bromeliad Society of South Florida. I was curious about the early years, when these exotic plants were first arriving from Latin America and sometimes from Europe. And I also wanted to hear about the beginnings of Bromeliad Society of South Florida and the people who got it started. Like most people in South Florida, Nat came from elsewhere. I asked him what brought him to Miami. He told me that he got out of the Navy following WWII service and wanted to go to college, but all the colleges around Pennsylvania were a…
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United States economic botanist, agricultural explorer, and professional photographer. Walter Henricks Hodge was born in 1912 and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he graduated in biology from Clark University in 1934. He went on to study at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for his master's degree and afterwards, until 1942, was an instructor at the college, except for leave granted to pursue dissertation research on the flora of Dominica for his PhD from Harvard University (1937-1940), which he completed under the tutelage of M.L. Fernald. During the Second World War, he was a botanist for the Cinchona Mission in Peru for the United States State Depart…
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(Reproduced from PALMS Volume 47(2) 2003 - copyright). Ken Foster, 73, died Friday morning December 13th, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i, after a lengthy battle with cancer and heart problems. Ken, who was born in Massachusetts, had been very active within the IPS, as well as with local chapters in Southern California, Florida and Hawai’i for most of his adult life. His IPS involvement included two years as President in the 1970s. Ken and Don Hodel made a number of collecting trips in the late 1970s, primarily to islands in the southwest Pacific. Thanks to their efforts we now have many unusual and mature palms from Fiji, New Caledonia, Papu…
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PalmTalk Username: bgl Bo-Göran has been interested in palms ever since growing up in Sweden. He joined the IPS and the PSSC (Palm Society of Southern California) in 1991 and served as Editor of The Palm Journal in 1993-1994. He has been a Director on the IPS Board since 1994 and served as Vice President 2004-2008. In 1995, Bo-Göran and his wife Karolyn moved from the San Diego area to the Big Island of Hawai’i and acquired property in the Leilani Estates subdivision, south of Hilo. Bo-Göran planted more than 5,000 Palms on their five acres and also started up a palm nursery. After a change in his personal life, he acquired two acres elsewhere in Leilani Estates and is…
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PalmTalk Username: Licuala Paul is a horticultural consultant with over 35 years of experience in the nursery, landscaping, and landscape design industry. Palms have been a passion, having worked with over 1500 species and he has traveled extensively to learn about them in their native habitats. A resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, Paul was the founding president of the Palm Beach Palm and Cycad Society and has been a member of the International Palm Society for over 30 years, serving as its president from 2006 to 2010. His website, www.palmnutpages.comis a young work in progress dedicated to anything and everything about palms.
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PalmTalk Username: Horace Horace Hobbs is an energy industry consultant who focuses on downstream asset transactions and finance. He is a chemical engineer by training and has spent most of his career in strategic planning, and merger, acquisition and divestiture consulting for oil companies. His association with the International Palm Society has been driven primarily by a desire to see the IPS successful in endeavors surrounding conservation, research, and dissemination of practical information for the hobbyist. He has served on the IPS board of directors as Vice President (1996-2000) and as President (2000-04). He is currently the corresponding secretary. He had previ…
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PalmTalk Username: TxPalmDude1 Jim Cain, an IPS member since the early 1970s, played a key role in organizing the Houston Area Chapter in the mid 1970s. Since stepping down as local chapter president in 1989, Jim has remained active within the Society. He served as IPS President from 1992-1996 and as Corresponding Secretary from 1996 to 2000. His goal continues to be to forge a stronger rapport between the IPS and its chapters and affiliates worldwide --- with particular emphasis on making the IPS more responsive to its full international membership. Jim is currently on the website committee for the IPS effort, assisting primarily with the Online Members directory. His pa…
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PalmTalk Username: Leland Lai Leland, a resident of Topanga, California, is former Vice President of the International Palm Society and a past President of the Palm Society of Southern California. Leland also heads up the Biennial Committee for the IPS. Born and raised in Hawaii, his love for tropical flora and fauna has captivated his work and outside interests with more than a passion. Leland has built his career assisting in the development of sustainable aquaculture: producing and distributing biological and artificial larval and maturation diets, designing hatchery modules for seed stocks, and providing bio-technology in the form of aquatic genetics for selective br…
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By William E. O'Connor This is a tale of a man, Dent Smith, who, at his premises in Daytona Beach (four acres on the Halifax River) built up a large collection of different species of palm trees. He also founded a society of palm lovers which today has a membership of over 2,000, including many in Europe, Asia, and Australia. It describes itself as "an organization devoted to the study of palms, their propagation, culture, conservation, and care and development".¹ It holds biennial conventions both in the United States and foreign points, and publishes a quarterly journal with worldwide circulation. This journal accepts articles from nursery owners and hobbiest gardene…
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