Mark
Your Calendar...5/1...Candidate for Tomato Breeding position, Yuanfu Ji. Meet with faculty 9:30 am Conference Rm.; Seminar at 11:00 am in Auditorium
5/3...Candidate for Tomato Breeding position, Allan Brown. Meet faculty 9:30 am; Seminar at 11:00 am in Auditorium
5/4...Florida Pest Management Workshop/Meeting; all day in Auditorium; lunch provided by FL Pest Mgmt.
5/8...FASP Meeting - Polycom 8:45 am - 12:15 pm
5/9...IFAS Pro Training Session; "Color of Money" (polycom) 1:30 - 4:30 PM
5/14...2007 UF-IFAS Embrapa Postharvest Horticulture Technical Tour; Auditorium from 8:00am -12:00 noon
5/15...Dupont Techn. information exchange meeting; Aud.
5/17...Meet with Director of IFAS Sponsored Programs; Main Conf. Rm. 2-3 pm
5/22...Mosaic Dinner/Community Meet.; Auditorium 4-8 pm
5/23...Pest Management Update Meeting; Auditorium; 9:30am-1:30pm
5/24...FNGLA Meeting; Auditorium
If
you've done any travel or purchasing lately, then you may have already met our new office assistant, Patricia (Trish)
Todd . Trish
came on board last month to assist in the many duties of the front
office. She will be working with travel, P-cards, and also act as
payroll backup. Trish's wide range of work experience will equip
her for the variety of duties here at GCREC. She's already been
initiated with organizing and updating
the burgeoning archive files of the front office. Originally from Ohio,
she now resides in Gibsonton.
This
is the busy season for David Schuster's Entomology group as you can see
from the number of recent OPS new hires. Two more OPS research
assistants have joined the ranks this past month. Jeff Rose
is a graduate of Florida State University with a Bachelor's
degree in Biological Science. He originally finished high school
in New York and served in the Army as First Lieutenant. He now
lives in Sun City. Becky Willis is a
long-time Florida resident, finishing high school in Largo and now
residing "just around the corner" in Lithia. We welcome Jeff and
Becky to the Entomology experience!
have
come back after a short return to their homelands. Tomas
Hasing is back from Ecuador and working once more in Natalia
Perez's Plant Pathology lab. Tomas received his Bachelor's degree in
agriculture from Escuela Agricuola PanAmerica. 
Jozer
Mangandi is also back from his home in San Salvador, once again
assisting in Craig Chandler's Strawberry Research. Jozer received his
Bachelor's in Agronomic Engineering from the PanAmerican School of
Agriculture.