The Bean Bag no. 35
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Date published
May 1992
Abstract
The Bean Bag is changing - Your Bean Bag (BB), first issued by R.S. Cowan and C.R.Gunn, has been distributed twice yearly—May and November—since May 1975. The genesis of the BB occurred at the First International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology (Boulder, Colorado). At an ad hoc meeting of legume taxonomists, Tom Elias (then Director of the Carey Arboretum, New York Botanical Garden) volunteered to produce a legume newsletter, and distributed a questionnaire to potential readers worldwide. When his administrative duties forced him to give up the newsletter (before its first issue), Cowan and Gunn assumed the editorial duties. They printed and distributed the first issue using the results of the questionnaires sent out by Elias. It was Mary Kalin Arroyo who gave us our name—The Bean Bag, and Alice Tangerini developed our first mast head.
November 1981 saw the second change of editorship: Cowan resigned, and James Lackey took his place. Lydia Poole handled the mail and prepared copy, and Lynda Chandler designed the Directory cover. Lackey, Poole, and Chandler made career advancements which took them out of our laboratory, and the third editorship change was made: Lackey resigned and was replaced by J.H. Kirkbride, Jr., with the November 1986 issue. Kirkbride brought the BB into the computer age. A database of readers was created, and the directory and mailing labels are generated from the database without further editing. Copy for the BB is now produced on a laser-jet printer making the inclusion of accents possible.
Another change is now at hand. I am retiring to devote full time to producing the third and final volume, covering the Faboideae, in my trilogy on the fruits and seeds of the Fabaceae. With the November 1992 issue, the BB Editors will be Kirkbride and John H. Wiersema (ARS Nomenclaturalist) with the assistance of Carole A. Ritchie.
Creator (organisation)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Contributor (person)
Gunn, Charles R.
Kirkbride, Joseph H.
Journal title
The Bean Bag
Issue
35
Publisher
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Place of publication
Beltsville, MD
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In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted
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