In a message dated 5/12/00 10:31:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> Dr. Roger Morse, Professor and Extension Specialist in Apiculture at Cornell
>  University in Ithaca, New York, and the world, passed away

   Dr. Morse was one of my mentors, as I've heard him give many talks, and
have read most of his many books and articles on beekeeping. He was always
patient, encouraging, and helpful. He has also read some of my writings and
offered suggestions. Many of the leading bee people today were at one time
his students. Dr. Morse grew up in a beekeeping family, as his father was a
well-known beekeeper who frequently wrote articles for beekeeping
periodicals. Dr. Morse and his grad students were always deeply involved in
cutting-edge research on bee topics.

    He was a leader in fruit pollination experimentation and education, and
much of the material that I've compiled on pollination, I owe to him.

    Dr. Morse was one of the few bee officials I've ever met, that had the
courage to call pesticide label violations, and his influence helped greatly
to reduce those violations.

    I remember discussing some peculiar bee-havior with him once, and we
turned over several ideas, none of which were very satisfying. Then he got a
kind of crooked grin and said, "I know what's the problem. They haven't read
my book!"

    I regarded him as a friend as well as mentor, and I will miss him.