C3o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 13,1981
UNIVERSITY PARK - Samuel
H. Smith, Ph.D., professor and
head of Penn State’s Department
of Plant Pathology, bias been
named dean of the College of
Agriculture, effective July 1.
Smith, who succeeds the retiring
Dean James M. Beattie, also will
be director of Penn State’s
Agricultural Experiment Station
and director of the Cooperative
Extension Service.
“I am extremely pleased that
Dr. Smith has agreed to accept this
crucial and challenging position,”
John W. Oswald, president of the
University, told the Board of
Trustees, which approved the
appointment.
“The new dean has proven
himself an important scholar, as
well as a bright and able ad
ministrator. His demonstrated
concern for quality in research,
education and the various service
functions of bis college will allow
him to continue Penn State's long
tradition of advancing the cause of
agriculture in the state and
nation.”
Commenting on his ap
pointment, Smith said: “I see this
as a great opportunity to work with
an extremely fine college and with
an excellent faculty and staff. I
intend for the college to continue
its agricultural leadership in the
nation through its programs in
teaching, research and extension.”
A native of Salinas California,
Smith, 41, earned a bachelor’s
degree in plant pathology from the
University of California at
Berkeley in 1961. He received a
doctorate in plant pathology from
Berkeley in 1964 and studied as a
North Atlantic Organization post
doctoral fellow at Glasshouse
Crops Research Institute in
Sussex, England, in 1964-65.
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Smith
After four years on the Berkeley
faculty. Smith joined Penn State
in 1969 as associate professor of
plant pathology in the Fruit
Research Laboratory at Arendt
sville, Adams Co. He came to
University Park in 1971 and was
promoted to full professor m 1974.
Since 1976, he has been head of
the Department of Plant
Pathology, and since 1978, he also
has served as a U.S. Department of
Agriculture plant pathologist.
Smith’s research has centered
on various aspects of plant
virology, including location of sites
and nucleic acid synthesis in
virus-infected plant cells,
physiology of resistance to plant
viruses and virus-induced
susceptibility to fungus infection.
He has published more than 100
research articles in scholarly and
professional journals and has been
an invited guest lecturer for
numerous institutions and
associations, including Cornell
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University, Uie University ot
California, Ohio State University,
the American Phytopathological
Society and North Carolina State
University.
On the international level, he has
taught at the Institute Venezolano
de Investigaciones Cientificas in
Carcas, Venezuela, and has lec
tured in England, Scotland, the
Netherlands, France, West Ger
many, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland
and Mexico.
Smith also has been involved in
. e sex vice activities bath
UNIVERSITY PARK - Elwood
Mintz, Extension news editor and
assistant professor of Agricultural
Extension at Penn State, will retire
June 30 with 19 years of service.
During the past year, he served
as revision editor of the “Disaster
Handbook for Extension Agents,”
a U.S. Department of Agriculture
project.
From 1962 until 1980, Mintz was
primarily responsible for editing
news packets for use by Frtonsjop
agents and specialists to
disseminate information on
agricultural and related subjects
through the press.
He was responsible for media
relations for the annual joint
meetings of the Pennsylvania
Horticultural Association and
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers
Association.
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Mintz also earned out public
relations efforts for the In
ternational Statisticians- Census
Seminar sponsored by the College
of Agriculture Short Courses Office
with federal and state agencies
cooperating.
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nationally and statewide. These
have included work with' the
American Mushroom Institute, the
Pennsylvania Fruit Tree Im
provement Program, the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Penn
sylvania Flower Growers, the
State Horticultural Association of
Pennsylvania and the American
Type Culture Collection Plant
Virus Committee.
He has worked as a consultant
for various private firms
He „ r listed in newswnting in
service training programs for
county and state Extension staff
members.
A native of North Carolina, he
earned a bachelor of arts degree
from the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, and served
three years in the Southwest
Pacific dming World War U.
Prior to being named to the
Extension staff, the retiring editor
served as a publications editor and
feature writer with the North
Carolina Cooperative Extension
Service, and was publications
editor at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute for two years.
Mintz also taught in North
Carolina’s public school system
and was an instructor for the North
Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles.
In 1973 he attended summer
school for Extension workers at
Colorado State University, com
pleting a course on Problems of
Our Urban-Rural Fringe Areas.
He is a member of the
Agricultural Communicators in
Among South's- professional
memberships are the American
Pbytopathological Society, the
American Association for the
.Advancement of Science, the
American Institute of Biological
Sciences, the Association of Ap
plied Biologists and the British
Federation of Plant Pathologists.
Smith and his Wife Patricia live
at Rl, Boalsburg. A son, Samuel
Jr., is a Penn State senior; a
daughter, Linda, will enter the
University this summer.
Education, Epsilon -Sigma Phi
society, Pennsylvania Agricultural
Safety Council, and Extension
Professors Association.
He is married to the forme/ ,'*
Alene McLamb, of Roseboro,
North Carolina, a staff member in
the College of ; Agriculture
Correspondence Course Office.
Their daughter, Karen, a student
at Old Dominion University, is
married to David M. Hampton, a
naval officer.
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