Minutes of the Opening Session,
Preliminary Business Meeting and Final Business
Meeting
HOUSTON MEETING-ENTOMOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF AMERICA
November 26-30, 1978
OPENING SESSION
November 26, 1978
President E. H. Glass called the Opening Session of the
Houston Meeting to order in the Ballroom of the Hyatt
Regenc}' Hotel at 8:35 a.m. He called on ESA Member
.J. G. Thomas. who offered the Invocation. President
Glass tht'n called on J. F. White. Local Arrangements
Chairman to introduce Entomologist Bob Bartnett, Director of the Harris County Mosquito Control Group.
Dr. Bartnett on behalf of the cit}' officially welcomed the
Elltomological Society of America to Houston. He spoke
as follows:
"It gives me a good deal of pleasure to be able to come
before this group as the highest ranking government entomologist in Harris County. It is a little unusual to have
an entomologist as the greeter. I thought of all the Texas
Brags we could do, but I saw in the program that there
is already quite a good deal about Houston-all
the statistics-so I decided no need to go through all that, you
muld read it there. We have a number of young entomologists working for the Harris County Mosquito Control GI'OUp. and I offer their services if you would like to
tour our facilities. We have a little unusual program in
that we have surveillance for St. Louis encephalitis. You
rna}' be illll'I'csLed
in how I happened
the President-elect who will succeed Dr. Kring, the winner being H. T. Reynolds, who was also asked to stand.
Applause greeted botb introductions .
Then at the President's request, D. L. Goleman of
Ohio State University escorted an associate, D. M. DeLong to the podium, where President Glass presented
Dr. DeLong witb a plaque with the following remarks:
"When I first saw 01'. DeLong after I was elected to
President-elect, he told me that my meeting in Houston
would be the 60th consecutive national meeting of our
Society that he would be attending. Dr. DeLong is a long
time professor at Ohio State University and one of the
distinguished professors who made Ohio State such an
outstanding schoo] in terms of entomology. Dr. DeLong,
in recognition of your many significant contributions to
entomology, your support of this Society, and your perfect attendance of 60 years. I have the honor and pleasure of extending to you this token of our gratitude and
esteem. Thank you for all you have done, and congratulations. We will see you next year." (Applause).
President Glass then made a further introduction:
La get into all this.
Back in the 40's when in college I happened to take a
murse of entomology under Jack Roberts at the Universit}· of Florida. I got interested in whether this was a viahie occupation and made the decision to go and talk to
Dr. John Creighton. Head of the Department. As I remember back. I wasn't interested in job benefits. salary,
and such-but muld one really find a job in something
so much fun to do? I was told there were a great many
companies that would hire entomologists and it was a
fairly new occupation and would be an outstanding occupation in the future. So I switched from engineering
to entomology because it seemed like it was best to go
into an occupation that was fun. Entomology has been
good to me ....
I have seen the association grow in
professionalism and stature and have seen the advent of
ARPE-I was one that came in under the grandfather
dause. I think this profession is going to be advanced
and recognized and viewed by the general public more
and more because of }'ou. }'ou who are going to do the
real work of the future. I am delighted that as a countyappoillted officei' I have been asked to greet you on behalf of the :\la}'OI"and County .Judge of Harris County.
I welcome }'ou to Texas. If we can be of any heIp. please
call on us. Please come hack. enjoy Houston, and I hope
it doesn't rain on }'ou too much today."
Presidellt Glass then introduced J. B. Kring. Presidentelecl, who will become President on Thursday morning.
He also announn,d the result of the summer election for
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My great uncle, a particularly perceptive and compassionate family physician, wrote in one of his books-"A
faithful friend is the medicine of life." I have had many
medicines in my life but there has been one very long
term, and I am particularly thankful for-Dr. Frank L.
Campbell.
Many of you younger people do not know Frank-he
was not as active in entomological circles during the latter
part of his career as earlier. You may remember, however, that he has the distinction of being the first entomologist to devise a method of administering a known
dose of toxicant to an individual insect. His work in
Washington beginning in the early '40's as editor of the
Scientific Monthly, for the National Academy of Sciences
and other assignments, has extended the prestige of entomology beyond our own discipline and society. But always Frank has been an entomologist and, in retirement,
has made detailed studies of cockroach antennae-both
in Europe and at V.P.1. And always he has supported
our Society and its activities. Frank, your attendance does
not match Dwight Delongs-whose does-but you have
served ESA well in many ways.
Frank-for your contributions to entomology, for your
support of our Society and for being the medicine in the
lives of so many and especially mine, I ask you and your
wife, Ina, to stand and accept our gratitude as expressed
in our applause.
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ESA BULLETIN
Program Chairman L. L. Keeley and Local Arrangements Chairman J. F. White made several announcements, after which the President called on J. S. Packer,
Acting Executive Director, who made a number of announcements and then called President-elect Kring to
the podium.
Dr. Kring commented on the great debt of gratitude
owed Acting Director Packer for the job he has done in
keeping the affairs of our headquarters and the Society
going and in good order. Dr. Kring then introduced
President Glass for his presidential address, commenting: "I have the distinct pleasure of introducing for the
second time to you our President Ed H. Glass .. Ed has
brought us safely into our second 25 years. He is presently Head of the Department of Entomology at the New
York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva; he
is also serving as technical consultant to the Office of
Technology Assessment of the Congress of the United
States in Washington, D.C. I have known Ed for quite a
number of years but in the last year I have become intimately acquainted with him. He is a man who wears well.
He is a gentleman. The longer you work with him the
more you respect him. I would like to introduce him to
you as he brings his presidential address."
Vol. 25, no. 1 1979
Hertig, Marshall
(Emeritus Member)
Hunt, Ronald W., Sr.
Hunter, Douglas K.
janes, Melvin J.
Kellogg. Claude R.
(Emeritus Member)
La Hue, Delmon W.
Leiby, Rowland W.
(Emeritus Member)
McCauley, William E.
(Emeritus Member)
Meyer, Martin T.
Moeller, Floyd E.
Pearce, George W.
(Emeritus Member)
Provost, Maurice W.
Reed, John P.
(Former Member)
Roberts, Raymond
(Emeritus Member)
Ross, H. H.
(Honorary Member)
Searls, Edward M.
(Emeritus Member)
Sims, George L., jr.
Smith, Charles E.
(Emeritus Member)
Smith, Gordon L.
(Emeritus Member)
Taft, Harrie M., Jr.
West. Russell
Whitcomb, W. D.
(Emeritus Member)
B. General Comments.
President Glass' address, "Entomology's
Mission."
appears elsewhere in this issue. Following the address.
the Founders' Memorial Lecture, on the subject "Plants,
Chemicals and Insects: Some Aspects of Coevolution"
was delivered by R. L. Metcalf, honoring Theodore Dru
Alison Cockerell. The Lecture also is printed elsewhere
in this issue. Following a brief recess, R. L. Metcalf,
Chairman of the Special Committee on Long Range
Planning, gave an oral report on the committee's progress, accompanied by slides. Members of this Special
Committee, including J. G. Thomas, D. L. McLean, W.
D. Duckworth, E. H. Glass, R. I. Sailer, R. F. Smith, H.
E. Gray, and J. B. Kring, then took seats on the platform
to answer questions from the members present.
Subscriptions to our journals continue to
slide except for ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY,
which registered a slight gain. At one point in time it got
around that it was a favor to the Society for members not
to subscribe; this is not the case. We now urge you to
subscribe. We need your support.
Preliminary Business Meeting
In general the Society is making progress but we arc
not out of the woods; we are living on next year's income.
At I I: ] 5 a.m. President Glass declared the Preliminary
Business Meeting in session. He introduced W. M. Rogoff as his Parliamentarian for the meetings, and then
called on Acting Executive Director J. S. Packer for a report on affairs of the Society.
A. Dr. Packer read the list of deceased members for
the year 1978, and requested the audience to stand for
a moment of silent tribute. The list follows:
DECEASED MEMBERS
Barber, E. R.
(Emeritus Member)
Brett. Charles H.
(Emeritus Member)
BronskilJ, joan F.
Carter, Walter
(Honorary Member)
Chapman, Andrew J.
(Emeritus Member)
Coffin, Owen T.
(Emeritus Member)
Crawford, Harvey J.
(Emeritus Member)
De Coursey, john D.
(Former Member)
Dietrich, Henry
(Emeritus Member)
Farrar, Milton D.
(Emeritus Member)
Freeman, Stanley K.
Fulton, Robert A.
(Emeritus Member)
Gouldman, Henry Y.
(Emeritus Member)
Dr. Packer:
In January we will receive our in-house typesetting
equipment and start doing our simpler publications. We
are looking forward to being able to drop page charges,
but not to the increase of problems and headaches at
headquarters. The NEWSLETTER, with Paula Aldrich
as Editor. is doing very well. It seems to reflect a great
need in the Society. Send in announcements and news
items that you wish published.
Again may I express my thanks to a great ESA staff
who are taking on loads of responsibility during this interim. The headquarters have run smoothly; we feel that
all staff matters arc being handled reasonably well.
Dr. Glass: Thank you very much. I want to express my
personal appreciation to you and your staff for a difficult
task well done under difficult circumstances. If there are
no further matters to be taken care of, we appreciate
your attendance this morning and I declare the meeting
adjourned. at I I :55 a.m.
FINAL BUSINESS MEETING
November 30, 1978
President Glass called the meeting to order in the East
Ballroom of the Sheraton Houston Hotel at 8:45 a.m.
W. M. Rogoff was present as Parliamentarian.
The President called for announcements.
An announcement was made of the status of the recently organized Southwest Entomological Society. This Society
began with 20 members. now has 354 members and subscriptions, plus 60-70 institutional subscriptions. Financially the organization is doing very well. Dues arc $5 a
year which includes subscription to the SnuthWfst En/omnlngist, a quarterly publication.