Dear Forest Pathologists,

I am so saddened by Sande’s passing. He will be missed greatly because of his great influence on so many people including myself.

As many of you suggested, I am setting up the "Sande McNabb Student Travel Award" with the American Phytopathological Society (APS) Foundation. This award helps underwrite the cost of APS Annual Meeting attendance for students. This seems like a very fitting tribute for Sande, who was long known as an unwavering advocate of students from diverse backgrounds.
 
To establish the “Sande McNabb Student Travel Award”, we need to first collect $2,500 before the APS Foundation can create the “Sande McNabb Award”. Please visit the following website for more details. http://www.apsnet.org/members/foundation/giving/Pages/starttravelfund.aspx
Ned Klopfenstein will help to collect the initial $2,500 from potential contributors.

After the award is established, the future donors can directly contribute to the APS Foundation. The receipt of $2,500 creates a fund account with the APS Foundation; however, we need to collect a total of $10,000 in the account to fully establish the travel award that will help fund student travel each year (currently $500 award). Thus, it may take some time to fully establish the “Sande McNabb Student Travel Award”, which will help students who want to attend the APS meeting and present their research. We know that Sande was a strong supporter of the APS Student Travel Awards because he previously provided several very generous donations to this cause; these donations were supposed to remain anonymous (oops).

So, here is what I suggest we do.

1.  Please fill in the attached form. And, make checks payable to the APS Foundation.
2.  Send check with form to Ned Klopfenstein.
Ned B. Klopfenstein
1045 Tolo Trail
Moscow, ID 83843
USA
3.  Ned will keep the checks until we reach a total of $2,500, then he will send all the checks to the APS Foundation. We hope that we can collect $2,500 for the fund within a short amount of time. After that, the "Sande McNabb Student Travel Award" fund will be established, and future donors can contribute directly to the award fund at the APS foundation.
(*An acknowledgement of the receipt of these funds will be made to the donor by the APS Foundation. All such donations are tax deductible since the APS Foundation is a 501c3 organization.)

Please let me or Ned (nklopfenstein@fs.fed.us, 1-208-883-2310) know if you have any questions or concerns regarding the establishment of this fund.

Thanks for your time and consideration. Please help circulate this information to anyone who may be interesting in this cause.
 
Best regards, Mee-Sook
 
Mee-Sook Kim
Associate Professor
Department of Forestry, Environment, and System
Kookmin University
Seoul, Korea 136-702
mkim@kookmin.ac.kr



Mee-Sook Kim
Plant Pathologist
USDA Forest Service - RMRS
1221 S. Main St.
Moscow, ID 83843
phone) 208-883-2362
fax) 208-883-2318
e-mail) mkim@fs.fed.us