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DR. M A R T I N C A R D E N A S H O N O R E D For the past thirty years, Dr. Martin Cardenas has been professor of botany at the Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia. During this period, he has directed the advanced studies of more than 300 advanced students in the field of botany, many of whom have moved on to professional careers in the plant sciences in Latin America. For many years and with great devotion, Dr. Cardenas has studied the cultivated and wild species of potatoes in his native Bolivia and in surrounding countries. He is recognized as the authority on these potato species. His many publications on these species, and on their actual and potential value as germplasm materials for potato improvement, have testified to his broad and intimate knowledge of these plants. The few breaks in the continuity of his teaching career have come through recognition of

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his experience with the Central Andean potatoes, and he has spent study leaves at Cambridge, England and at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Dr. Cardenas is the first Latin American scientist to be honored by election to Life Membership in the Potato Association of America. It is not only a well-deserved honor at the culmination of his brilliant career as a scientist and a teacher, but is perhaps symbolic of the gradual and important strengthening of ties amongst those interested in the culture of potatoes throughout the Americas. - - J o h n S. Niederhauser

DR. J O H N S. N I E D E R H A U S E R

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John S. Niederhauser was born in 1916 in the San Frmlcisco bay area of California. H e initiated his higher education in the school of hard