A32-Unmt«r Farming, Saturday ,'Dac«mb«f 6,1986
HARRISBURG - The En
tomologist Society of America will
honor a Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture entomologist for
“an impressive record of con
tributions to American hor
ticulture” at its annual meeting
Dec. 7 to 11 in Reno, Nev.
Dr. A.G. “AT Wheeler Jr.,
associated with PDA since 1971,
will receive the society’s
Distinguished Achievement Award
for Regulatory Entomology at the
opening session on Dec. 8.
The organizations, representing
some 9,000 entomologists from
private industry, land-grant
universities and governmental
agencies, presents two other
distinguished service awards each
year, one for teaching and the
other for extension work.
Wheeler became a nominee for
the national honor after the
society’s Eastern Branch selected
him as its top regulatory en
tomologist earlier this year. It
marked the third time that he had
won the Eastern Branch award
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30 YEARS AGO
Chnstiansted, St. Croix, Virgin
Islands. .. “Quarryville? We have
relatives at Refton! ’ ’
Such is the greeting encountered
on the West Indian island of St.
Croix, one of three of the Virgin
Islands visited in a ten day tour by
plane, auto and boat, winding up in
Puerto Rico.
Throughout there was surprise:
like to Lancaster County affinity in
the most eastern point of U.S.
property; like the terrific progress
Puerto Rico is making under its
Operation Bootstrap, of
“Fomento,” as they call it,
fomentation, fuel, building; like
the visit of the liner Stockholm
with its new bow, on its first
Caribbean cruise since its collision
with the Andre Doria.
Selection of Future
Homemakers of America chapters
in nme Pennsylvania high schools
to prepare special window exhibits
for display during the 1957 Penn
sylvania Farm Show Jan. 14-18,
was announced Monday.
Three more counties have been
added to the State’s honor roll of
certified brucellosis-free areas,
State Agriculture Secretary
William L. Henning announced
today.
Each has achieved highest
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and was its nominee for national
recognition; he was similarly
honored in 1981 and 1982. The
regional group includes en
tomologists from the New England
and Middle Atlantic states as well
as Virginia and West Virginia.
In addition to receiving the
award, he will present two papers
at the conference, the first on the
importance of routine field surveys
in detecting foreign insects and the
second on a plant bug associated
with honeylocust trees.
The 42-year-old Wheeler has
discovered and reported 10
European insects previously
unknown in North America.
The national ESA Newsletter, in
reporting the awards, said
“Wheeler has compiled an im
pressive record of contributions to
American horticulture.” The
publication cited his achievements
in the past 10 years and concluded,
“Few people have surpassed him
in terms of productivity in
regulatory entomology in such as
short time. He attacks problems
THIS WEEK
recognition in the Com
monwealth’s 34-year battle against
the most bothersome of all cattle
diseases certification from the
state and federal departments of
agriculture.
Washington . . . Europe will
need increased imports of food this
season as a result of a harvest
redpced by freezes early in 1956,
and bad weather at harvest time.
The 1955-56 growing season started
well, and in most countries
acreage sown by January 1, 1956,
equaled or exceeded the area sown
a year earlier. The entire Con
tinent experienced exceptionally
cold weather in February and
early March, however. Most
regions had enough snow cover to
protect field crops, but in France,
the Low Countries and Switzerland
large acreages of the fall-sown
crops were killed. In Sweden, the
winter rapeseed crop was almost
wiped out.
Over ten percent of the United
States population suffers at least
one cold per “season” a total of
over 130 million cold sufferers
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PDA Entomologist To Receive National Award
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with optimism and boundless
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He is a frequent speaker, not
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but for trade groups as well. His
versatility carries over to
publications. In less than 15 years
he has authored more than 150
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In addition to his work at the
state and national levels, he serves
as an adjunct professor with the
Pennsylvania State University.