Tuesday Morning Notes

May 29th, 2001




Candidates for Assistant/Associate Area Agent, Agriculture/La Paz/Mohave Counties will be on campus tomorrow, May 30, and on Friday, June 1, 2001. Eric Norton will present his webcasting seminar at 11:15 tomorrow and Carl Jorgensen will present his seminar at 11:00 on Friday. To watch the seminars go to http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/webcasts.

* Dean Pivo has announced the ability of Department/Schools to confer permanent graduate faculty status to Extension Specialists and Research Scientists. Be sure to check with your department head or school director if you would like this “permanent” status. All new faculty will have this information included in the letter of offers. Please read the 3D memo that came out recently.

* Congratulations to the following Extension faculty on the following personnel actions: Larry Tibbs, Kevin Fitzsimmons, and George Frisvold were granted continuing status; Steve Husman was promoted to agent; Kim McReynolds was promoted to agent with continuing status; Jim Sprinkle was promoted to associate agent with continuing status; and Larry Howery was promoted to associate specialist with continuing status.

* Congratulations to the organizing committee of the 10th Annual Desert Horticulture Conference: John Begeman, Jack Kelly and Vicki Richards (Pima County), Rob Call, (Cochise County), Libby Davison and Ursula Schuch, (Plant Sciences Dept.), Cheryl Goar (Arizona Nursery Association), Tom Marshall (Arcadia Landscaping), Janet Rademacher (Mountain States Wholesale Nursery), and Frank Stryker (Silverbell Nursery).

* Reminder: The 7th Annual Melon Field Day, Wednesday, June 6,2001 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the U of A Maricopa Agricultural Center, Maricopa, Arizona.

* In the fall of 2001, the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will offer a technical agriculture course in Yuma titled “Yuma Production Systems.” The course provides an overview of agricultural production systems in Yuma, and concentrates on vegetable production systems. Contact Barry Bequette (plantdoc@cals.arizona.edu) or Steve Poe (spoe@cals.arizona.edu) for details.




James A. Christenson, Ph.D.
(jimc@cals.arizona.edu)
Associate Dean and Director
Arizona Cooperative Extension
Forbes, Room 301
Tucson, Arizona 85721
520/621-7209
520/621-1314 FAX