David F(rancis) Hardwick (B.A., 1946, Saskatchewan; M.Sc., 1948, McGill; Ph.D., 1955, California) was born in Edmunston, N.B., on 22 March 1924. David joined the staff of the Systematic Entomology Unit on 4 June 1945. In the spring of 1973, he was appointed director of the Entomology Research Institute (which later that year was amalgamated with the Mycology and Vascular Plant sections of the Plant Research Institute to become the Biosystematics Research Institute). Approximately 40 papers were published by him, most of which dealt with the earworm and cutworm moths. His most extensive work was a world revision of the corn earworm complex (for which he won the Karl Jordan Award in 1984). After over 34 years of service, David Hardwick retired as director of the Biosystematics Research Institute on 29 December 1978.

George Holland (left) and Frank McAlpine (right)

V.E. Henderson (B.S., Toronto) joined the Nematode Investigations Unit of the Science Service(which became incorporated into the Entomology Research Institute in 1959) in 1946. He worked on the association between nematodes and microorganisms in relation to plant diseases. Henderson was transferred to the Plant Protection Division in 1964.

John W(alter) Arnold (B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D., Western Ontario) was born on 10 January 1921. He joined the Department of Agriculture (Stored Product Insect Unit) on 29 May 1947. John transferred to the Entomology Research Institute (Experimental Biology Section) in 1959 to work on hematology, hemocytology, and morphology of insects. He served as head of the Experimental Taxonomy Section from 1974 to 1975. John Arnold retired on 31 March 1982.

George P(earson) Holland (1911-1985) (B.A., 1933, M.A., 1937, British Columbia; D.Sc., 1963, Carleton) was born on 27 August 1911, in Vancouver, B.C. From 1936 to 1948, George Holland worked at the Livestock Insect Laboratory at Kamloops, B.C., where he established the basis for his continuing study of the Siphonaptera. In 1948, he replaced the retired James McDunnough as chief of the Systematic Entomology Unit in Ottawa. At this time, the unit had a complement of six scientists and the Canadian National Collection of Insects contained approximately 1 million specimens. A leading authority on the Siphonaptera, George published numerous papers on this group including the widely acclaimed monograph The Siphonaptera of Canada (1949). In 1955 he took over responsibility for a biological control laboratory in Belleville and the unit was retitled the Insect Systematics and Biological Control Unit. With the amalgamation in 1959 of the Experimental Farms Service and the Science Service, the establishment in Ottawa with George Holland as director was retitled the Entomology Research Institute. At this time, the Systematic Entomology Unit was joined by the Nematology Unit, the Veterinary and Medical Entomology Unit, the Apiculture Unit, and part of the former Field Crop and Garden Insects Unit. As director, George was responsible for the Canadian National Collection and for an extensive program of research in systematics, ecology, physiology, genetics, and apiculture. In 1969, health reasons forced George to step down as director but he continued at our institute as a specialist in the Siphonaptera. Under George Holland's leadership, taxonomy had undergone a period of great expansions. In 1969, the institute had a professional staff of 45, 30 of whom were taxonomists, and the Canadian National Collection of Insects had grown to an estimated 7 million specimens. George participated in many organizations. He was president of the Entomological Society of Canada in 1957-1958, chairman of the centennial of entomology in Canada, and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Entomological Research, Defence Research Board, from 1963 to 1967. In 1963, Carleton University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa and in 1967 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. George Holland retired from the Biosystematics Research Institute on 26 August 1976 but continued to work on fleas as a research associate. In July 1985, an extensive memoir on the fleas of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland was published. He died in November 1985 following an unfortunate accident while walking in the woods that he loved.

C(harles) Douglas F(airbanks) Miller (B.S.A., 1948, Toronto; M.Sc., 1951, British Columbia; Ph.D., 1967, McGill) was born on 20 March 1925, in Alabama, N.Y. He joined the Systematic Entomology Unit on 29 May 1948 and worked on the taxonomy of ants, wasps, and parasitic Hymenoptera. Doug has since published 12 papers, including Taxonomy and Distribution of Nearctic Vespula (1961) and The Nearctic Species of Pnigalio and Sympiesis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) (1970). On 14 July 1978, he transferred to the Pacific Forest Research Center.

William R(ichardson) M(iles) Mason (B.Sc., 1942, Alberta; Ph.D., 1952, Cornell) was born in Lucknow, India on 29 November 1921. He joined the Systematic Entomology Unit on 16 November 1948. An expert in the Braconidae, Bill has 40 or so scientific publications to his credit, which include revisions of Nearctic Cteniscini (1955, 1956, 1959), Chrysopothorus (1964), Muesebeckiini (1969), Brachistini (1974), Coeloides and Braconini (1978), and the world genera of Microgastrinae (1981). He is currently working on a Phylogenetic Revision of Hymenopter and is contributing to the Manual of Hymenoptera of Canada. Bill led 17 collecting expeditions to the Arctic, Canada, Alaska, the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Nepal. About 9% of the Hymenoptera in the Canadian National Collection has been collected by him. Bill Mason served as section head for most of the 1960s and was editor of The Canadian Entomologist for 3 years (1961-1963).

J(ohn) Richard Vockeroth (B.A., 1948, M.A., 1949, University of Saskatchewan; D. Phil., 1954, Oxford) was born on 2 May 1928, in Broderick, Sask. Dick joined the Systematic Entomology Unit on 1 June 1949. His discovery that the claws of female mosquitoes show specific differences led indirectly to extensive change in the mosquito control program at Fort Churchill. Dick made the first official collecting trip outside Canada (England, Scandinavia) in 1951. He has collected and pinned about 113 000 Diptera since 1948 (about 1/15 of the Canadian National Collection of Diptera). Important publications include A Revision of the Genera of the Syrphini (1969) and A Review of the World Genera of Mydaeinae, With a Revision of the Species of New Guinea and Oceania (1972).

Bryan P(atrick) Beirne (B.Sc., 1938, Ph.D., 1940, M.Sc., 1941, M.A., 1942, Trinity College in Dublin) was born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1918. In 1949, Bryan came to Canada and joined the Systematic Entomology Unit. Here he specialized in Homoptera and was in charge of the Hemiptera-Homoptera Section. His studies ultimately resulted in the publication of the well-illustrated monographs The Leafhoppers of Canada and Alaska (1956) and The Cicadas and Treehoppers of Canada (1959). Bryan left the unit in 1955 to become director of the Entomology Research Institute in Belleville. In 1967, he was appointed director of the Pestology Center at Simon Fraser University. Among his many accomplishments, Bryan has authored over 140 papers and several books. In 1976, he was awarded the Entomological Society of Canada Gold Medal for his outstanding contributions in entomological research, teaching, and extension, not only in Canada but throughout the world.

Eugene G(ordon) Munroe(B-Sc., 1940, M.Sc., 1941, McGill; Ph.D., 1948, Cornell) was born on 8 September 1919, in Detroit, Mich. Eugene joined the Systematic Entomology Unit on 1 February 1950. He specialized in the systematics of the moth family Pyralidae but he also worked on the Geometridae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, and Rhopalocera, and also on the orders Megaloptera and Trichoptera. A long series of taxonomic papers were published by him (about 150 research papers and 60 related works), including monographs of the North American Odontiinae, the North American species of Udea, the European corn borer and allies (with A. Mutuura), Epicorsia and related genera, the subfamily Midilinae, and the genera Vitessa, Cosmethella, and Vitessidia (with Michael Schaffer). He wrote five fascicles in The Moths of America North of Mexico monographing the subfamilies Scopariinae, Nymphulinae, Odontiinae, and part of the Pyraustinae, describing many new genera and species and giving an overall classification of the subfamilies and higher divisions of the Pyraloidea. Other important contributions included a conspectus of the Canadian Lepidoptera in Danks' Canada and its Insect Fauna, the Pyraloidea and Pterophoridae in the Wedge Foundation's Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico, and a long section on Lepidoptera in the McGraw-Hill Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. Eugene has collected throughout North America, as well in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and tropical America. Thanks to Eugene Munroe, the Canadian National Collection of organized North American Pyralidae has grown from 40 drawers to some 300 drawers and that of the organized exotic Pyralidae from 1.5 Schmidt boxes to about 1000 drawers. Eugene was chief of the Insect Taxonomy Section from 1959 to 1965. He was editor of The Canadian Entomologist from 1958 to 1961 and was president of the Entomological Society of Canada in 1964. He is a member of several entomological and biological societies. Eugene Munroe retired from the Biosystematics Research Institute on 7 September 1979. Many honors were bestowed upon him, including the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal and the Entomological Society of Canada's Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in Canadian entomology (1982).

John E(llis) H(amer) Martin was born on 19 December 1920, in Ancaster, Ont. Jack joined the Systematic Entomology Unit on 6 March 1950. He became curator of the Canadian National Collection of insects in 1953 and, later, manager of the Identification Service. Jack was much involved in the Northern Insect Survey as well as many other institute surveys. Twelve papers were published by Jack including his handbook on Collecting, Preparing, and Preserving Insects (1977). After 35 years of service Jack retired on 19 April 1985.

Leonard A(lexander) Kelton(B.S.A. 1950, Saskatchewan; M.Sc., 1954, Ph.D., 1957, Iowa State University) was born on 22 February 1923, in the Ukraine. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "An investigation of the male genitalia as taxonomic characters in the Miridae."  Len joined the Systematic Entomology Unit on 29 April 1950, to work on the Heteroptera. Seventy-one papers were published by him, including Male Genitalia as Taxonomic Characters in the Miridae (Hemiptera). (1959), Review of Lygocoris Species Found in Canada and Alaska (1971), and The Lygus Bugs (Genus Lygus Hahn) of North America (1975); the two handbooks The Anthocoridae of Canada and Alaska-Heteroptera: Anthocoridae (1978) and The Plant Bugs of the Prairie Provinces of Canada-Heteroptera: Miridae (1980); and the monograph The Plant Bugs on Fruit Crops in Canada (1982). Len Kelton retired on 13 December 1984.

J(ames) Francis McAlpine (B.S.A., 1950, Ontario Agricultural College; M.Sc., 1954, Ph.D., 1962, Illinois) was born in Maynooth, Ont., on 25 September 1922. Frank joined the Systematic Entomology Unit on 1 June 1950 and began work on the classification, evolution, and biogeography of the higher Diptera, especially the Acalyptratae. Although his main emphasis was on North American fauna, he treated a number of families (e.g., Lonchaeidae, Pallopteridae, and Piophilidae) on a world basis. Frank published about 85 scientific papers (including 18 chapters of the Manual of Nearctic Diptera) and is internationally recognized as an authority on the morphology and biosystematics of the Diptera. His scientific investigations have also included studies on fossil Diptera, insect dispersal, and mating behavior. Frank has participated in about 20 collection expeditions (10 of which he led) in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, and New Caledonia. He served as head of the Diptera Section from 1966 to 1975 and was a member of many entomology related organizations. After 35 years of service, Frank McAlpine retired in July 1985; he is, however, continuing his research activities as a research associate.

Roland H(ugh) Mulvey (B.Sc., 1951, Macdonald College; M.Sc., 1954, Oregon State) was born on 16 October 1917, at Timmins, Ont. Rollie joined the Nematode Investigations Unit of the Science Service on 4 May 1951. In 1962, he became chief of a section of up to eight nematologists, a position he held until retirement. His many research accomplishments concentrate mainly on the systematics of the root-knot and cyst-forming nematodes, and on the predaceous groups of Mononchoidea, having published 44 papers on these groups alone. Rollie was the first to find and characterize chromosomes in root-knot and cyst nematodes and to establish their value in the taxonomy of the species. He is perhaps best known for his comprehensive, systematic treatments on the genus Heterodera. His innovative studies on cone-top morphology of cysts and on white females and their extended application to taxonomy and identification of the many species have had major impact. This work permitted an orderly classification of species groupings and established important diagnostic characters for their identification. After retiring on 28 December 1979, Rollie Mulvey completed as coauthor a major publication on the cyst-forming genera and species of the Heteroderidae of the western world.

James G(ordon) T(homas) Chillcott (1929-1967) (B.Sc., 1951, Ontario Agricultural College; Ph.D., 1958, Kansas) was born in Penetanguishine, Ont., on 19 June 1929. Jim joined the Diptera Section of the Systematic Entomology Unit on 10 May 1951. For his Ph.D., he undertook a revision of the muscoid subfamily Fanniinae. Jim was officially responsible for the Muscidae but he also developed a special interest for the Empididae. Field work was always an essential part of his program and he organized and participated in several institute surveys, his first love being the Arctic. Unfortunately he died while on a field trip in Nepal. During his short life-span, he published an exceptional number of solid taxonomic treatments.

Herbert J(oseph) Teskey (B.Sc., 1951, Alberta; M.S.A., 1955, Toronto; Ph.D., 1967, Cornell) was born 9 June 1928, in Grand Prairie, Alta. Herb began his government career at Guelph in veterinary entomology where he published papers on the warble fly and the face fly and a paper on a survey of livestock insects in southwestern Ontario. It was here that he began his studies on immature stages of Tabanidae (Diptera). The Entomology Research Institute hired Herb on 1 October 1964. He has since completed a monograph on the immature stages of 81 species of Tabanidae as well as several papers on immature Tabanidae. He has prepared a most comprehensive treatment of morphology and terminology of Diptera and a family key to Diptera larvae for the Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Several new species of Tabanidae in all life stages have been described by Herb, including a very difficult revision of the North American genus Atylotus.

Robert Lambert (1912-1957) (B.S., B. Surv., F.E., Laval; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell) was born in Nova Scotia in 1912. Bob transferred to the Systematic Entomology Unit to specialize on sawflies and bees around 1951. Formerly he was in charge of the Quebec Forest Insect Survey for 13 years. He had almost completed a comprehensive revision of the Sparganothidinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) of the world when he died suddenly of a heart attack on 21 October 1957.

Charles D(enton) Dondale (B.Sc., 1952, Macdonald College at McGill ; M.Sc., 1955, Ohio State; Ph.D., 1959, McGill) was born in Princedale, N.S. on 28 November 1927. Charlie was first employed at the Belleville Research Institute (Agriculture Canada). In June 1972, he came to the Biosystematics Research Institute as an expert on spiders. Since then he has made major taxonomic revisions of 20 genera of crab spiders and wolf spiders, involving more than 200 species. He has also produced identification manuals for seven families of Canadian spiders totaling more than 250 species. Two of his handbooks are The Crab Spiders of Canada and Alaska Araneae: Philodromidae and Thomisidae (1978) and The Sac Spiders of Canada and Alaska Araneae: Clubionidae and Anyphaenidae (1982). The Canadian National Collection of spiders has grown by an average of 5000 specimens a year since his arrival here in 1972. Charlie belongs to many organizations and was president of the American Arachnological Society from 1978 to 1979.