Ed Southwick, who started Bee-L as a rapid communication tool mostly
among researchers, attended the first American Bee Research Conference
(1986), which itself was started by John Harbo and Joe Moffet (USDA,
ARS) also as a way for bee researchers to report on their findings
early, prior to formal publication. Things were slower those days.
Most presentations used slides in carrousels and projectors. When Ed
Southwick was giving his talk (abstract at the linked pdf below), the
remote malfunctioned. Remotes for slide projectors had a thin cable
connecting the speaker to the back of the projector to advance,
reverse, or focus the projector. John Harbo, as organizer of the
conference, moved close to the projector to advance the slides from
buttons on the projector. When Ed Southwick saw the corrective action
he remarked something close to this: "Oh, I see, this is going to work
like this. I push the button on the remote, which sends an electric
signal that gives John a small electric shock. And when he gets that
he will know that it is time to advance to the next slide".
Ed had some background in engineering. He was involved in various
research projects measuring oxygen consumption of bees, different
treatments, different group sizes, different temperatures. It helped
to have some of that background as the devices required measurements of
air flow, concentrations of oxygen, and obviously a lot of gadgetry for
the time.
Bee-L persists, evolved and survived some changes, but still here. The
American Bee Research Conference (ABRC) has continued its yearly
meetings consistently. For a decade or more at the beginning, it was
its own entity, but then came under the umbrella of the American
Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA). Four of the students
who gave presentations at the first ABRC later served in rotations as
officers of the AAPA. When the rotation involved be vicepresident, the
person received the assignment of organizing that year's ABRC.
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/60500500/PDFFiles/101-200/171--Proceedings%201986%20ABRC.pdf
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