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n the 1970s an expedition was sent to Mars to seek out new life forms. At the same time, the submersible research v~ssel, Alvin, went to the Galapagos Trench and found new life. What they found was a whole

new world based on an entirely different chemistry than that of the surface world.

That's excitement. It's in exciting places like the Galapagos Trench that one will find the Marine Lab's current McCurdy Scholar, Dr. Cindy Van Dover.

Van Dover's path toward Pivers Island has been far from conventional. In 1972, she began her undergraduate work at Rutgers, where it took her only six semesters to get a degree in zoology. But with the frequent interruptions experi­enced by many undergrads, it was 1977 before she received her diploma.

The Duke Marine Lab got its first glimpse of the then-technician Van Dover in 1977 when she came to work with Dr. Bill Kirby-Smith. She worked on a variety of projects, the most noteworthy of which resulted in a Field Guide to Marine Inverte­brates, still used in Kirby-Smith's class.

"Cindy has always liked to do some­thing different," noted Kirby-Smith. While in Beaufort, she lived on Town Marsh in a tent and canoed to work with her dog, Matthew.

Wanderlust again took hold of Van Dover in 1979 so she packed up Mathew and backpacked from the coast of Maine to the shores ofT amp a, FL. Her journey was occasionally interrupted with a technician's job at places like the

Smithsonian lab in Fort Pierce, Harbor Branch, and Ithaca, NY, where she had her first experience with hydrothermal vents.

Inquisitive by nature, she read about a meeting on the Alvin work in Science and decided to attend. The Alvin crew was discussing their next cruise; with three words, "Can I go?" Van Dover's life ascended to new levels. She went on

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Graduate school was a logical next step. After being turned down by Woods Hole/ MIT, she attended UCLA and in 1985 received her master's in theoretical ecology. Somehow she also managed to find time to place third in her sex and age group in a triathlon.

Now the ever-persistent Van Dover was ready for Woods Hole, not yet as a graduate student, but as a technician. She had worked on vent samples for over a year when her advisor told her she needed to go back to school. So, on her third attempt, she was accepted at Woods Hole/MIT, and she received her PhD on her birthday in 1989.

One day later she joined the Alvin group as a pilot in training, or PIT. By 1990 she became a pilot in command and

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was spending eight to 10 months at sea, discovering places and life as new as that at the farther reaches of the solar system: life on deep sea hydrothermal vents.

"Being an Alvin pilot was one of the richest times of my life, though not always the easiest," reminisced Van Dover. "It's the only way to see the sea floor. Nobody gets a better view than the pilot."

The training was brutal, requiring high attention to detail including all the technical aspects of the sub. "It was like going back to kindergarten. My brain cells ached at the end of the day," she said. "But the people were wonderful. Everyone in the oceanographic community passed by the All. I got to see how everyone operates. To see what did and didn't work so I could plan my own cruises with the benefit of others' experiences."

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ater ing A New Look for the Bookhout Laboratory

What do solid state electronics and animal care guidelines have in common?

In the context of the modern marine science laboratory, plenty. These two issues have combined to change the face of the Bookhout Research Laboratory.

"In a sealed building like L-7, seawater and solid state electronics are totally incompatible," said Dr. Joe Ramus, School of the Environment Marine Laboratory director. "We needed to provide a seawater

" commons. With that thought in mind, the "Water

Wing" was born. The Water Wing, its name coined by

Helen Nearing, is a 1,050-square-foot concrete building attached to the south side ofL-7. This addition has allowed for the complete removal of running seawater from the main research building. With the previous seawater rooms combined into one, there is the additional benefit of reclaiming much needed space for modern teaching and research labs. Classes are already under way in two of the three former seawater rooms.

Current federal animal care guide­lines-extending to all vertebrates includ­ing fish-have also dictated the construction of this new facility. The standard operating procedures of the past

will no longer hold water. To adhere to NIEHS concerns and increased societal awareness of animal care, the marine lab had to make some changes.

Because Duke University is dedicated to ensuring that all branches of the university fall within the federal guidelines for animal care, the animal care committee visited the marine lab's facilities and made their recommendations.

The results were a totally new look in animal research for the Bookhout Res

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Laboratory. Concrete floors, fiberglass tanks, plastic supports, and epoxy walls make the environment simpler to maintain to meet the sterile standards of the animal care guidelines. They also make for a friendlier working environment for both animal and researcher.

"The timing was right," said Ramus. "It was an opportunity to deal with the new federal regulations and our seawater needs in a timely manner." };;>

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Van Dover said her most memorable trip occurred on Nine North on the East Pacific Rise. "There was an eruption right before we got there, fresh lava flows, bacteria blooming like a blizzard. I had to drive through this using only my sonar. Watching the scientists sort it all out was amazing. There was the eruption, then pervasive venting. By the next trip, the vents had been colonized with animals. It was very exciting."

In December of 1991 she retired as an Alvin pilot. The experience had been memorable. The months at sea had shown Van Dover that she wanted to do more.

A postdoc in the Chemistry Depart­ment at Woods Hole was her next stop.

She claims that the only thing she hasn't been is a geologist-yet.

The Duke Marine Lab once again has a place on Van Dover's life track. She will be at the lab through the spring term of 1995, teaching a course in the ecology of hydrothermal vents. This new course adds an element of excitement to the Marine Lab's seminar offerings.

"The intent of the McCurdy Scholar is to bring excitement and enrichment from the outside," said lab director Dr. Joe Ramus. "Cindy represents the cutting edge in ocean sciences in an area in which we have no expertise at this time."

Van Dover will be leaving in April1995 to join the Institute of Marine Science at the

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University of Alaska as a research associate professor and director of the West Coast National Undersea Research Center. She'll be heading to Fairbanks with her cocker spaniel, Winston, and she won't be hitchhik­ing this time, although one might expect her to. Her bright red Pontiac Fiero will be displaced by a four-wheel drive more suitable to the Alaskan terrain.

"I'm really looking forward to Alaska. The summers are beautiful," Van Dover muses. ''I'm wondering how I'll do in the long winter nights, though."

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A note at the switchboard reads, "If anyone calls about swarming bees, contact Rick Bodisbaugh or David Brown." These two graduate students keep honey bees, and Bodisbaugh has an observation hive in his house next to the dining room table. "They really are the ideal pet. Once the hive is set up they pretty much take care of themselves."

The bees in the observation hive don't even need to be fed. They have access to the outside through the dining room window and can go out to collect whatever they need. Except for the buzzing that emanates from the observation hive, it is a lot like having an aquarium in the house. The bees don't even seem to notice that they are being watched as they go about the business of raising their young and building honey combs. So far, escapes from the observation hive have been limited, and those confused bees have been escorted outside without anyone getting stung.

Graduate student leah Bunce spent most of July at the Bermuda Biological Station taking a course in coral reef ecology. The course emphasized field assessments of reef conditions, excellent experience for Bunce's research in Antigua, which is the development of a reef management plan for the island.

linda Franklin (PhD '92) and Owen Schwartz (PhD '89) visited the Marine Lab for six weeks this summer, in between scientific meetings and family visits. They have been working at the Australian National University for the past two years, so have plenty of entertaining stories about diving on the Great Barrier Reef and the trials and tribulations of Outback travel, along with pictures of peculiar birds and plants. At the end of this year, they will

return to the United States so that Owen can take a postdoctoral appointment at the University of California-Davis.

The School of the Environment Marine Laboratory's COCOS speaker for this summer was Dr. Brian Hazlett, professor of zoology at the University of Michigan. Hazlett has been working on the behavior and ecology of crustaceans, primarily hermit crabs and crayfish, for over 30 years. His research this summer at the Marine Lab focused on the reproductive behavior of the hermit crab, Clibanarius vittatus, using combinations of chemical cues to study the way animals put together multiple sources of information. He also did collaborative work with Drs. Rittschof and Rubenstein.

In his lectures, Hazlett used hermit crabs as a model system to explore a series of topics: the philosophical foundations of science, the elements of the scientific method, multiple channels of communica­tion, behavioral ecology, and the roles of past experience in behavior.

Maureen Krause left August 1 to take a position as an assistant professor at Southampton College, Long Island University. Krause had been at the Mftrine Lab for two years as an Integrated Tohcol­ogy Program Post9.octoral Fellow working on molecular mechanisms of carcino­genesis in fish and clams (or aquatic species). She will be teaching biochemistry and molecular biology and continuing her research in molecular marine biology. "I'll miss the Friday beers!"

Dan Rittschof and Tony Clare will rendezvous in Yokohama in late Novem­ber. They will participate in a barnacle biology workshop spon;5ored by the ERA TO group, a consortium of Japanese university and industry scientists interested in transitioning technology from the academic to industry sectors. After the workshop Clare will head back to Ply­mouth, England. Rittschof, as a guest of NOVA Biosciences Limited, will visit the University of the Philippines. While there

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he will set up collaborations and give a talk on antifouling technology. He will then take a two-hour boat ride to an uninhab­ited tropical island established as a marine preserve where he will spend the day snorkeling among the corals.

Christopher Scholz left the School of the Environment Marine Laboratory in August to begin a tenure-track position as assistant professor in the Division of Marine Geology and Geophysics at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmo­spheric Science, University of Miami. His technician, Pete Cattaneo, has also relocated to Miami.

Keith Sturgeon, technician, and Doug Ricketts, graduate student, have both relocated to Minnesota where Tom Johnson has taken a position at Univer­sity of Minnesota, Duluth.

Woody Sutherland will be relocating to San Diego in November to become manager of the Shipboard Technical Support group for Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has worked at the Marine Laboratory for the past 10 years as technical coordinator for the R/V Cape Hatteras.

Man rescued at sea! The R/V Cape Hatteras was running transects just north of Duck, NC, on Friday, September 30, when one of the ship's crew spotted a signal flashing in six-foot seas. The signals came from a man in a six-foot dinghy who had been drifting south southeast for about 24 hours. His 28-foot Chris Craft had been severely damaged and had sunk almost immediately when, coming out of the Chesapeake Bay, it struck a submerged object.

A Coast Guard cutter was dispatched to pick up the man, and the Cape Hatteras took his dinghy back to Norfolk, where it was returned to him on October 2. The crew gave him a Cape Hatteras T -shirt to remember them by, and Norfolk TV stations filmed and aired the heroic reunion that night.

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Only the faithful attend the third summer semester at the Duke Marine Laboratory­not those merely filling a science require­ment, or a diverse elective, but individuals sincerely involved in their subject. To them, and to their instructors, marine mammals are an emotional issue.

But what separates these students from the wide-eyed throngs of Sea World visitors delighting in the aerial feats of captive dolphins is an intense scientific understanding of marine mammal behavior-an understanding gained through long hours, hard work, and the passion for their subject shared by some of the top minds in this field.

Beginning in the summer of 1994, the School of the Environment Marine Laboratory made a major commitment to the study of marine mammals by extending what was a one-week seminar to a five­week intensive course. Engaging an all-star cast, this course has been transformed into one of the best in the country.

The first week of instruction is spent with Dan Rubenstein, chairman of the Princeton University zoology department. Students study the social structures of the local barrier island horse populations. By studying horses, animals that are readily observable and have complex social structures, students and researchers can make inferences about the social organiza­tion of dolphins.

Course director John Reynolds joins in the first week, providing an overview of marine mammals. A faculty member at Eckerd College in Florida, Reynolds chairs the US Marine Mammals Commission and has written a book on manatees and dugongs, a related species.

During the second week, Reynolds is joined by Randy Wells of the Mote Marine

Laboratory in Florida. They discuss bottlenose dolphin behavior and introduce the students to dolphin field research.

The third week is be spent with ILaela Sayigh, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, covering marine mammal communication.

Week four focuses on marine mammal anatomy and physiology taught by Ann Pabst and Bill McLellen from James Madison University in Virginia. Vicki Thayer and Keith Rittmaster from the National Marine Fisheries Service Laboratory in Beaufort add the topic of marine mammal manage­ment.

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Wrapping up the five-week course, John Reynolds returns for summary and final student presentations.

Commenting on the change in the length of the course, marine lab director Joe Ramus notes that societal concerns for

marine mammals are mainly emotionally directed. As he says, "It's our task to address these issues in a learned environ­ment, to teach the biology and manage­ment of marine mammals in a substantive, unemotional context. This is not a

superficial experience. It's one of academic rigor narrowing the gap between basic and applied research."

Reynolds expands on that theme. "Students who wish to become marine mammalogists sometimes think that what is involved is going out in boats and watching animals. Our course obliterates that notion in a hurry.

"To be sure, the students did engage in meaningful field work, but they also came

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to realize that marine mammalogists must have a solid foundation in the fundamental concepts of biology, chemistry and ecology, as well as other scientific disciplines. I think that students who took our course learned what it takes to become a professional in the field."

An additional benefit of the expanded course

schedule is the increased interaction of the faculty who teach the course. A direct result of that interaction was exposure to new concepts, data and synthesis of ideas.

"The Beaufort area has enormous potential as a location to do and teach marine mammal biology and policy. There are still numerous unanswered basic and applied questions that could be addressed," Reynolds said. "The faculty who delivered the course were very excited about the possibilities in Beaufort for collaborative or individual research on bottlenose dolphins and other marine mammals."

Academic rigor aside, there is an inevitable closeness that the students feel, not only toward their ch?sen field of study, but toward one another: a 100 percent "Beaufort Experience."

Reynolds again puts it in perspective: "The students were delightful. And even though the work load was a heavy one, everyone had a great time." );;;>-

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Jon (PhD '89) and Amy Evans (BS '83) have moved from Houston where Jon has been a member of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Rice University for two years and Amy has been practicing pediatrics in Texas Children's Hospital. Their new home is at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. Jon will be assistant professor in the Biology Department and Amy will develop an independent practice in pediatrics. Jon and Amy are the proud parents of two boys, Nicholas (2-1/2) and Will (9 months). The family was at Beaufort from July 5 to July 15 while Jon taught Barrier Island Ecology with John Wells and Pete Peterson, both from the University of North Carolina.

Robert Herbert (technician to Drs. Sutherland and Ortege, 1988-90) and Buffy Turner (Spring '89, Fall '90) met on the Oyster Project in the fall of 1990 and were married at Cape Lookout in July of 1993. They are living in California, where Buff)r is a first year PhD student in the ecology program at UC-Santa Barbara.

The BEAUFORT Experience Newsletter of the Duke University School of the Environment, Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC 28516~9721

Dean Norman L. Christensen

Director Joseph S. Ramus

Editors Scott Taylor, Mary L. Matthews

Contributors Helen Nearing

Photography Scott Taylor

Her office mate, Ho Jung, was also at the marine lab in the fall of 1990.

Mark Geesey (Duke '90) and Maria Bondura (Spring '89) met in Dick Forward's Marine Animal Physiology class in 1989 and were married in Maryland in September of 1993. They are living in Maryland, where Maria is working as a nurse.

Joe Howle (Summer '82) lives in Birmingham, AL, with his wife Fayne and their 3-year-old son, Payton. Joe is the manager of environmental services for Vulcan Materials Company in Birming­ham. He is responsible for environmental compliance and wildlife habitat enhance­ment programs for the company. He writes, "I cannot tell you enough how much my experiences at the lab during the summer of 1982 have influenced my professional career and personal philoso­phies with regard to environmental stewardship."

Karen Longo (Summer '90,'92) has been touring with Cast A of Up With People since July of 1993. This group of young people travel the world helping' to build understanding among nations and perform community projects wherever they go. Mter participating in the 1993 World Youth Day ceremonies in Denver, she traveled with the cast throughout the United States and Europe. They also perform a Broadway-type show with messages about the environment, family values, and education.

Sharon Smith (PhD '75) was appointed professor at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. She is a member of many national and international science committees, and she heads the US Joint Global Ocean Flux System Planning Committee for the Indian Ocean (1990-1995). Currently, she is leading a major multi-institutional, three-vessel, $50-

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million effort in the Arabian Sea sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. In addition, she is actively involved in an interdisciplinary National Science Founda­tion study of the effects of patches of Arctic water surrounded by ice in the CO

2 cycle off the coast of northeast Greenland. In south Florida, Smith is involved in the Southeast Florida and Caribbean Recruit­ment (SEFCAR) project.

Alison Taylor (Duke '83) went to the University of Denver College of Law where she graduated with aJD in 1987. Mter serving as managing editor of the Law Review, she began her practice with Davis, Graham and Shubbs in Denver. In 1990 she transferred to the Davis Graham's Washington, DC, office where she is still practicing environmental law. She writes that she has seen her share of hazardous waste dumps, but is impressed with the public interests and the efforts to save the Chesapeake Bay. She writes, "I have remained ever proud of my Duke Biology experience, especially the invertebrate class at Beaufort." On September 26, 1992, she married Jeffrey Berkes.

Kenneth Vogel (Summer '80, Duke '80) and Randi Sussman Vogle are pleased to announce the birth of their third child and second son, Zachary Louis Vogel, on May 23. Kenneth is an attorney in Rockville, MD. );;>-

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r. arold J. u Duke University Marine Laboratory '41- '49 by C G. Bookhout and Gerry M Beveridge

In 1941 Dr. A. S. Pearse, director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory, hired Dr. Harold J. Humm as resident investiga­tor with the expectation that he would receive partial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, and that he would serve as liaison officer between Duke University and visiting classes at the Marine Labora­tory in the fall and spring semesters. A residence was built on the island for Humm and his family in 1942.

Harold Humm received his MS in 1942 and his PhD from Duke in 1945. While at Beaufort, he held the titles of resident investigator from 1942 to 1945, assistant director from 1945 to 1948, and director from the spring of 1948 to the fall of 1949. His chief interests were the distribution, taxonomy, and utilization of marine algae, and marine bacteriology.

In his early years as resident investiga­tor he determined that marine algae were best for making agar. This was at a time when the supply of agar was no longer available from Japan. Agar was needed as a substratum upon which bacteria could be grown in hospitals and elsewhere. He was also instrumental in enticing a commercial firm to locate in Beaufort to manufacture and sell agar.

The war years brought an abrupt halt to the growth and development of the Marine Laboratory. No courses were offered in the summer of 1943, and only an abbreviated schedule in the first terms of 1944 and 1945.

In February 1945, Humm, with Pearse's approval, reacted to a challenging situation. The Beaufort High School building burned. The Marine Laboratory facilities were made available for some of the high school classes. Humm assigned two rooms in Laboratory 1 to Mrs. Grace Fodries' science classes. He served as her substitute in the classroom and often took the students on field trips along the shoreline. French classes were held in the boathouse, where there was only a pot­bellied stove to generate heat. The dining hall was temporarily divided into a

classroom for Miss Lena Duncan's Latin and history classes, and another for Mrs. Ruby Simmons to teach home economics.

During school days, Humm awoke early and made fire in the stoves, and the students gladly carried in coal from the outdoor pile. Humm and his family lived in a house just across the narrow street from the dining hall. The Humms often invited the high school faculty members to cookouts on the southern end of Pivers Island, where Humm would dig a pit in the sand and make a fire of driftwood to cook hotdogs and oysters. He often made a salad of sea lettuce which was enjoyed by some guests, but looked on suspiciously by others.

At the fortieth reunion of the class of 1945, members and teachers reminisced appreciatively about the hospitality extended to them by the Marine Labora­tory and the Humms.

In November 1946, in compliance with the instruction of Duke University President Flowers, a Governing Board was elected by the staffs of the Botany and Zoology departments: Drs. Bloomquist, Oosting and Wolfe from Botany, and Drs. Bookhout, Gray and Pearse from Zoology. Bloomquist was chosen as chairman. i

With the retirement of Pearse from academic affairs at Beaufort and Durham, the board recommended in February of 1948 that Humm be offered the director­ship of the laboratory with the faculty rank of assistant professor.

In May 1948, the Executive Commit­tee of the Marine Laboratory (formerly the Governing Board) approved the budget submitted by Humm recommending a raise for him, and suggesting that he be allowed $150 to make trips to and from Durham. The committee also suggested that Bookhout determine ifHumm could be allowed funds to obtain contracts, to visit an official of a granting agency in Washington or elsewhere. The administra­tion agreed to the suggestion.

Also in May 1948, the General Education Board of the Rockefeller

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Foundation was asked to grant Duke University $5,000 toward the erection of a research laboratory at the marine lab if Duke would provide a similar amount. An agreement was reached; construction started in the fall of 1948 and was com­pleted in the spring of 1949.

The bulletin of 1949listed Humm as director and Dr. Karl Wilbur as a member of the Executive Committee replacing Pearse, who had retired. With the addition -of a research laboratory, it was possible to offer two courses each term of summer school in addition to Special Problems and Research.

In mid-summer 1949, Dean Walker of Florida State University, a close friend of Humm's, visited the Marine Laboratory and offered Humm the directorship of the Marine Laboratory of Florida State at a salary which he couldn't refuse and which Duke University could not match. Consequently, Humm informed the Duke administration that he would resign and move to Florida.

The Executive Committee of the Marine Laboratory was deeply appreciative of the service Harold Humm had rendered and regretted his loss. >-

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He comes to mind at this writing, Charles Byrd Wade, Jr., whose life was celebrated by his family and friends at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston­Salem this past July.

Charlie was by any measure an extraordinary man. He was at one time local and cosmopolitan, a Morehead City native and summer resident, who was educated at Duke University (T '38), and who earned his way to the directorship of R. J. Reynolds Industries. Career accom­plishments aside, he was best known for his grace, passion and humanity which were revealed in his North Carolina philanthropies. But this is not intended as a eulogy, which would have made Charlie uncomfortable anyway.

Charlie was a plank holder on the Marine Laboratory Advisory Board, that group of 20 or so folks so important to the achievement of our goals. He gracefully requested emeritus status in 1993, knowing full well that he would function just as vigorously as he did as an active member.

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The Advisory Board was officially spun up in the spring of 1986, although there were several iterations before that time, like a subset of the President's Associates and the "Friends of the Marine Laboratory," of which Charlie was a member. Some Advisory Board members share Duke University as a common experience, like Charlie, and some do not. Several had been members of Duke's Board of Trustees like Charlie, or are the spouse of a Trustee. Some are in business like Charlie was; others are lawyers, scientists, academics and medical doctors. Some are local like Charlie, or at least have a second residence in Carteret County, and some are not, like Charlie. Some are patrons of the arts like Charlie, church­goers like Charlie, lovers of the coast like Charlie. Some are old friends, some are new friends, and they are all friends of Charlie.

Like Charlie Wade, the members of the Advisory Board are a crucial element in the continuing success of this campus. Their role is to advise on policy matters, some brought to them for advice and some not, and to provide the resources to facilitate

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policy matters. In the first role, they are consulted formally at their biannual meetings. But it is their informal consulta­tion which is the greatest benefit of all. I have consulted with each and every one on sensitive issues of politics, both university and public, on investment, on manage­ment, on propriety and on fund raising. In all cases I have received sage advice, like the many times I consulted with Charlie.

In their role as fund raisers, they have given of themselves without peer. And with selfless generosity they have supported the Annual Fund, endowments, construction of the new research/training vessel, and now the capital campaign for the Ocean Sciences Teaching Center. The Wade Family Fund is but one example of such generosity, which makes possible the Beaufort Experience for many deserving young people.

We will miss Charlie, his kind spirit and joy of life. But we have the consolation of being able to turn to like people for counsel and support, the members of the Advisory Board. They are a tradition that Charlie Wade exemplified. );;;;--

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