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OBITUARY KiTTiE Fenley Parker (1910-1994) Dr. Kittie Fenley Parkerdied on 9 November 1994 in San Diego, CA, USA. She was a Professor Emeritus ofBotany at George Washington University (GWU) and a Research Associate ofthe Smithsonian Institution, both Washington, DC, USA. She received a BA (1930) and an MA (1932) from the University ofCalifornia at BerkeleyandPhD(1946)fromtheUniversityofArizona. Shebeganteachingbotany courses first in the School ofAgriculture at the University ofArizona and later in the 1950's at George Washington University where she rose to the rank of Full GWU Professor. At she taught popular undergraduate courses in field botany, tax- onomy offlowering plants, horticulture, economic botany, and graduate courses in plantsystematics,includingsystematicsofPoaceaeandAsteraceae. Sheretiredfrom GWU in 1979, received emeritus status, and continued to teach horticulture for GWU several more years. The newgreenhouseat was named forheras a tribute to theplant teaching-collection she accumulated and maintained. Between 1959 and 1989, Kittie also worked in her spare time in the Department ofBotany, Smithsonian Institution. Here she identifiedhundredsofMexicanAster- aceaecollectionsthathadbeensenttotheU.S.NationalHerbariumforidentification and pursued herresearch interest in Hymenoxysand Tetraneuris (both Asteraceae). She published herresearch on the South American species ofbothgenera. While at the Smithsonian, Kittie was very instrumental in placing a number ofher botany students in various open positions in the Department ofBotany. She was also an active member and past president ofthe Botanical Society of Washingtonandalong-timememberandformersecretaryofthePotomacChrysan- themumSociety.Herlatehusband,KennethParker,wasChiefoftheRangeResearch Division ofthe U.S. Forest Service. Kittie is survived by two grand-daughters. She will long be remembered by her many fields and colleagues in the Department of Botany forherkindness and outgoingpersonality. —Dieter C. Wasshausen, Department ofBotany, NHB-166, Smithsonian Insti- tution, Washington, D.C. 20560-0001, USA. MADRofjo, Vol. 42, No. 3, p. 419, 1995
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