From Plant Press, Vol. 1, No. 5, September 1998.
Ken Karol, biological technician with Liz Zimmer, has left to begin graduate studies with Chuck Delwiche at the University of Maryland.
With this issue, it comes time for the department to bid adieu to Jane Villa-Lobos, co-editor of this publication since the inception of the new series, and editor of the internationally recognized Biological Conservation Newsletter, which also emanates from the department.
Villa-Lobos arrived in the department in 1980, and soon became instrumental in botanical conservation, particularly endangered and threatened plant species of Mexico, Central and South America. Her work as director of the department’s Latin American Plants Program over the years resulted in jointly authoring and editing numerous basic, and soon classic, reference books such as Plants in Danger: What Do We Know? (1985); Centres of Plant Diversity: The Americas, Volume 3 (1997); and providing many significant contributions to major vehicles, such as the new IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants (1998) and the Endangered Species UPDATE.
Villa-Lobos will soon be migrating to Palm Coast, Florida with her husband, and will continue her strong interest and involvement in plant conservation as the manager of the Americas for Plant Talk magazine.
She has also kindly offered to continue editing the The Plant Press. Her extraordinary skills in the organization, electronic preparation, and dissemination of information are surpassed only by her radiant personality, and will be missed by us all. Her often-demonstrated willingness to voluntarily do more than her share of work will also be missed.
[by Robert DeFilipps]
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