15 January
2000
Happy birthday,
Gil,
mycologist for the new century!
On the occasion of his birthday Robert L.
Gilbertson
sends postcards from
the
Big Island to all his friends. Gil has mail on the next page (see
the link at the bottom of this page).
Dateline Hilo -- What promises to be a
memorable
event will be held on the evening of Saturday, January 15, 2000 in a
lush
tropical setting at the home of Donald and Helen Hemmes, Hilo,
Hawaii.
In addition to the guest of honor, Robert L. Gilbertson of Tucson,
Arizona,
other invited guests include Jack Rogers, Pullman, Washington;
Frederick
Spiegel, Fayetteville, Arkansas; and Karen Nakasone, Madison,
Wisconsin.
During the evening the festivities will be interrupted to let
Gilbertson
receive greetings from the mainland via the Internet. An account
of the event will appear in a follow-up article.
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Jamie Platt baked a cake for Gil (see below).
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Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. --Toast given by Andrew
Jackson for the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 1830.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old. --Oliver Wendell Holmes on the
Seventieth
Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1889).
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true
sucess
is to labour. --Robert Louis Stevenson, 1880.
Gilbertson
genealogy
provides evidence of good mycological stock
Gilbertson serves
as MSA poster boy
Service
to MSA leads to higher office
Join
MSA and ride with the National Fungus Patrol
Join
MSA and denude Hawaii with a hand ax
The
hand of Gilbertson
Gilbertson as officer
(search in page several times)
Gilbertson wins
distinguished honors
(search in page)
Gilbertson,
plant
doctor
Gilbertson does
research around the world
Hawaii
(scroll
on down the page)
U.S.
Gulf Coast
and Mexico,
Alaska, the Sonoran Desert, and many more
Write on,
Gilbertson
(and
we can be the first to write an online review)
North
American Polypores
European
Polypores
Fungi
that decay ponderosa pine
Favorite Gilbertson
collecting
localities
"Gil Was There Story Contest" prize winner is Emory
Simmons. Gil, Emory, Don McLain, Anton Slish, and Louella
Wersub
were at the MSA/AIBS meeting at Purdue some years ago. There were no
bars
in West Lafayette, so the group of young mycologists was at the bar of
the big hotel across the Wabash River in Lafayette, Indiana.
Emory
was to catch what now would be called a commuter flight from West
Lafayette
to Indianapolis, or somewhere. At that time only small propeller
planes did this job. After drinking too long the mycologists
realized
that Emory was about to miss his flight. In a rush, they all
piled
into a car, tore across the bridge, and out to the airfield. A
plane
was just taxiing away from the terminal shed. Don dashed out of
the
car, and actually ran in front of the plane and waved it down! As
it happened, it was not Emory 's plane. His was the next one --
and
the bunch of imbibers laughed the whole thing off. Oh, to be
young
and irresponsible again, says Emory. Emory sends his best wishes
to Gil.
This is the cake story.
Jamie is the mycological daughter of Joey Spatafora; she is doing a
postdoc
with her mycological uncle, John Taylor. (Her mycological
grandmother
is proud of her, even more so because she has won MSA awards).
Jamie
was married this past year in the Philippines to Francisco Camacho (Jim
Trappe's offspring), and Francisco's aunts made this beautiful fungus
wedding
cake for them.
Birthday
messages
for Gil
Meredith Blackwell
15 January 2000