Aug/Sept 2007
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Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.    Brian Tracy

Congratulations!
At the recent July meeting of the ASHS (American Society for Horticultural Sciences), Dr. Jay Scott was presented with the 2007 Award of Excellence for outstanding contributions to the field of tomato breeding and genetics.  Congratulations, Jay!

We also offer Congratulations to Dr. Natalia Peres for receiving the William Boright Hewitt and Maybelle Ellen Ball Hewitt Award.  This award recognizes a scientist within five years of their Ph.D. degree who has made an outstanding, innovative contribution toward the control of plant disease. 

Catalina Moyer has been with GCREC since first starting at the Dover Center in 2004.  She has been assisting Dr. Natalia Peres in Plant Pathology research not only as an OPS, but has recently ended her graduate assistantship with that department upon completing her Masters Degree with the UF.  She received her BS degree in Agriculture at Zamorano-Teguagalpa in Honduras. Catalina has now accepted the Biological Scientist position working for Dr. Natalia Peres and Dr. Craig Chandler.  She will be assisting in the strawberry breeding and pathology research programs.

1.....Todd Test
2.....Patty McClain
2.....Jeremy Edwards
3.....Joyce Jones
5.....Trish Todd
5.....Laverne Barnhill (ret.)
6.....Craig Stanley
18....Andrew MacRae
21....Cathy Provenzano
23....Hector Ortiz (ret.)
27....Carolyn Rhodes
28....Amy Shober
29....David Schuster
30.....John Perry

2.....Anne Kirkwood
3.....Curtis Nagle
4.....Gary Vallad
5.....Elizabeth Golden
6.....Aaron Shurtleff
8.....Gail Bowman
9.....Jose Diaz
14....Melinda Napier
19....Will Waters (ret.)
22....Andres Hall
27....Jay Scott