Society News
Obituaries
By Society contributors
Mar 13, 2005, 17:56

Dr. William Trager, parasitologist, founding ISOP member and past-president, died at his home in Manhattan, January 22, 2005. Among his many accomplishments, he was the first to discover culturing methods for Plasmodium falciparum.

Obituary, from the AP.
Obituary from New York Times News Service (offsite)

Dr. Helen Nina Tappan Loeblich, paleoprotists, 10/12/1917 - 8/18/2004:
Download the In Memoriam Word Doc.

Thomas Jones Byers, age 67, died on September 21, 2003 at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital of Ohio State University after a four year battle with multiple myeloma.

Born on October 12, 1935 in Philadelphia, PA and raised in Wenonah, NJ. Preceded in death by father Ralph W. Byers Jr. and mother Dorothy (nee French) Byers. Survived by beloved wife of 43 years, Sandra Alice (nee Roberts) Byers; children: (son Stephen Byers, wife Stacy and grandchildren Brianna and Alli; daughter Linda Byers Fontana, husband Forrest and grandchildren Sara and Amanda.), brother Rev. Andrew C. Byers (wife Lyda). Tom was an active member of Worthington Presbyterian Church. He received degrees in Biology from Cornell Univ (BA,1958) and the Univ.of Pennsylvania (Ph.D, 1962) and postdoctoral training in molecular biology in at the Carnegie Inst. in Washington, D.C. He began serving on the teaching and research faculty of Ohio State Univ. in 1964, was a founder of the Molecular Genetics Dept, a founder and director of the Graduate Program in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and retired as Associate Dean of Biological Sciences in 1995. He belonged to the Society of Protozoologists, the American Society of Microbiology and founded the International Conferences on Free-living Pathogenic Amoebae. He dearly loved his family and friends, was awed by the magnificence of nature and was thrilled to have shared in it. A memorial service will be held at Worthington Presbyterian Church with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Worthington Presbyterian Church or Dept. of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, 484 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210-1292

June 1, 2003 - With sadness, the Society of Protozoologists announces the death of founding member Seymour Hutner at age 91. His prominence in the world of science and his importance to the world of protistology is covered in his obituary which appeared in the New York Sun, June 4, 2003:

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Donations in memory of Seymour Hutner, 1911-2003, maybe made payable to the Society of Protozoologists, with the notation Hutner Prize Fund, and sent to Hutner Prize Fund, c/o Haskins Laboratories, Pace University, 41 Park Row, New York, NY 10038.