The meeting times for 1997 have changed back to the first Tuesday of
each month. Our next meeting will be February 4th, 7:30 at the Natural History
Museum. Pat Brannen will be presenting a program on dyeing with
mushrooms.
The Museum is not available for our March meeting, so we will have to
plan something else for next month.
This year's Foray is scheduled for August 21-24 in Chama. This is the weekend following the NAMA Foray at Copper Mountain, Colorado. We will have more details as we get closer to the Foray.
It is with deep regret that we report the passing of Bill Isaacs on
January 21 after a long battle with prostate cancer. Many of us knew Bill
either from the evening mycology courses he taught for many years, and the
accompanying field trips, or from his direct association with the
NMMS. However, less well known are many of his other activities and
accomplishments.
Bill was born in Oregon and graduated Cum Laude from the University of
Washington. He then went on to the University of Michigan to do Advanced
Graduate Studies in Botany under Dr. Alexander Smith. He moved to New
Mexico in 1967 where he held a number of different positions. These
positions involved many diverse aspects of natural history for he was,
basically, a naturalist as witness the courses he taught at the College of
Santa Fe, Santa Fe Community College and University of New Mexico:
ornithology, botany, ecology, and landscaping, as well as mycology. He was
the Liaison to the New Mexico Heritage Program of the Nature Conservancy
and the Program Coordinator, New Mexico State Heritage Program, in the New
Mexico Natural Resources Department. Following this he became the Acting
Bureau Chief, Systematic Resources Analysis Program and then Director of
the Resource Management Division both in the New Mexico Natural Resources
Department. Other than these positions, he was a landscape consultant as
well as being involved with various nurseries.
His role as a recognized naturalist is evidenced by many awards and honors:
Finally, Bill was the author of a number of publications dealing with both mycological and other natural history topics.
While this list of accomplishments tells us something about the man, it does not reflect accurately the influences he has had on so many. The most obvious of these are those that arose through the relationships he developed during the courses he taught. He introduced many to the delights of nature, not the least of which was mycology, and he was always more than willing to help these individuals to increase their appreciation and knowledge of nature at any time. He will be remembered by many with fondness and appreciation.
At the January meeting, the participating membership approved my request to place a NMMS homepage on the World Wide Web. I am fortunate to be able to offer this service at no cost to the club. I will send the address to NAMA, which has been soliciting and publishing for some time the homepage addresses for other mycology organizations. Included in our homepage will be a brief description of NMMS and links to the newsletters and other information related to mycology. I am concerned about putting an address list on the Web, and yet I would like this to be available to NMMS members. My solution is to put a full membership list and an email list in a separate directory which is password protected. Any members who would like the password to access the member information can request it via email or regular mail. My email address is dwallis@tvi.cc.nm.us. The address for the Webpage is http://sorex.tvi.cc.nm.us/nmms. Those who attendend the January meeting might notice this address differs slightly from the one I gave at the meeting; either one will work.
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