ANNOUNCEMENTS: The 2013 Delzie Demaree Travel Award Recipients

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Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
2013 Delzie Demaree Travel Award Recipients
The 25th Annual Delzie Demaree Travel Award was presented at the 50th Annual Systematics Symposium
(11-12 Oct 2013) the Missouri Botanical Garden, Louis. Six students were presented the Travel Award:
at St.
Dakota Ahrendsen, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Shelly Aust, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Benjamin
Gahagen, Ohio University; Alison Scott, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Harlan Svoboda, Ohio University;
Eduardo Tomaz,
Ohio
University.
Demaree Award
The 2013 Travel Awards were underwritten by 1) Contributors to the Delzie Travel En-
dowment, Members of the Delzie Demaree Travel Award Committee, 3) Mary Isabelle Eggers, Williams-
2)
burg, Virginia, and 4) John Clayton Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society.
Anyone interested in making a contribution to Delzie Demaree Endowment Fund, which supports the
award, may make contributions by VISA or MasterCard or by a check, payable to Botanical Research
travel
TX
Institute of Texas, to Barney Lipscomb, 1700 University Drive, Fort Worth, 76107-3400, U.S.A. 1-817-332-
Thank
Email: [email protected]. you.
7432;
Demaree Award
The 2014 Applications for the Delzie Travel
how
Applications for the 2014 Delzie Demaree Travel Award should include a letter from the applicant telling
work and recommendation by major
symposium graduate of sent the
attendance will benefit his/her letter
Donna M.E. Ware, Box Herbarium, Biology De-
professor. Please send letters of application to: Dr. P.O. 8795,
The William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185-8795, U.S.A. 1-757-221-2799;
partment, College of
may Worth,
[email protected]. Applications be sent Barney Lipscomb, 1700 University Drive, Fort
Email: to:
The
Texas 76107-3400, U.S.A. 1-817-332-7432; Email: [email protected]. period for receiving applications will
symposium number hand
end three weeks prior to the date of the if a sufficient of applications are in at that
time. Anyone wishing to apply after that date should inquire whether applications are still being accepted be-
fore applying. The Systematics Symposium dates for 2014 are 10-11 October 2014 (dates tentative and subject
to change).
The Demaree Award was established in 1988 honoring Delzie Demaree who attended 35
Delzie Travel
Demaree was
out of a possible 36 symposia before he died in 1987. Delzie a frontier botanist, explorer, discov-
He
and His teaching career as a botanist began in Arkansas at Hendrix College in 1922. also
erer, teacher.
A&M,
taught botany the University of Arkansas, Navajo Indian School, Yale School of Forestry, Arkansas
at
One he
and Arkansas State University atJonesboro where he retired as professor emeritus in 1953. of the things
enjoyed most as a botanist was assisting students with their field botany research.