Question: What event took place:

Question: What event took place: in Brooklyn, NY

Question: What event took place: in Brooklyn, NY In 1928?

Answer:

Question: What event took place: in Brooklyn, NY In 1928?

Answer: The birth ofCharles Bingham Davey, better known as “Chuck Davey”

“My name is Charles Bingham Davey. Most people call me Chuck. In fact, a lot of people don’t know I have the first name Charles. I was born in Brooklyn, New York because my father was an itinerant engineer and happened to be there at the time installing the subway system in New York. I was born in 1928”

“Actually, a lot of people confuse Davey Tree with me. I don’t have anything to do with them, though I would like to have their money”

What do these two people have in common?

What do these two people have in common?

Susan B. Anthony Charles B. Davey

“Mostly I grew up on a hardscrabble farm in western New York State”

Question: From what school did Chuck receive his undergraduate degree in forestry?

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“I arrived in Madison in September of 1950. At that time there were only three places in the country with a recognized graduate program in forest soils. One was at Yale with Harold Lutz. One was at Duke with Ted Coile, and one was at Wisconsin with Doc (Wilde). At that time, Stan Gessel was an Instructor at the University of Washington and just starting his program. Bill Pritchett was just a young agronomist running corn fertility studies. Poor Bill had no idea where fate would take him. His first forest soils publication appeared in 1959 (Pritchett 1959). This paucity of places to study forest soils led several of us to the University of Wisconsin, which I will say was all to our mutual benefit. Doc's influence on the field at that time was in full flower and he tended to make the most of it. With his gaggle of grad students, Doc would annually make a grand arrival at the SSSA meetings. In those days, forest soils was in a sub-section of Division 5. We were 5A. Division S-7 was not approved until August 1962.”

CB Davey picture: Group at First North American Conference on Mycorrhizae. Pictured, from left - Edward Hacskaylo, Earl Stone, Charles Davey, Jaya Iyer, S. A. Wilde, and Garth Voigt.

Chuck Davey early publications: 1952 M.S.; 1955 Ph.D.

Davey, C. B. 1953a. Sawdust composts: their preparation and effect on plant growth. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. Proc. 17:59-60.

Davey, C. B. 1953b. Decomposition of hard maple sawdust by treatment with anhydrous ammonia and inoculation with Coprinus ephemerus. Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci., Arts, and Letters 42:177-181.

Davey, C. B. 1955. Transformations of sawdust in the course of its decomposition under the influence of Coprinus ephemerus . Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. Proc. 19:376-377.

Davey, C. B. and S. A. Wilde. 1955. Determination of the numbers of soil microorganisms by the use of molecular membrane filters. Ecology 36: 760-761.

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> From: Charles Davey <cdavey@ncsu.edu>> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:07:58 -0500> To: Rob Harrison <robh@u.washington.edu>> Subject: Re: [Forsoils] Three Army Soil Scientist jobs and FS Manuscript> > =============================================================> > Rob -> > Sorry - even Beth doesn't know what I did. My home base was > Edgewood, Maryland,> but I spent very little time there. I still remember the cover story > (the tale you told inquisitive people).> So, even if you get me drunk in Indy, I'll tell you a bunch of > logical-sounding nothing.> > Cheers and see you soon.> > Chuck>

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Question: Which department at NC State University hired Chuck Davey, what was its name, and what year did he start?

Trick Question!!!!!

Answer: Actually three separate departments hired Chuck.

1) Soil Science, 2) Forestry and 3) Plant Pathology

The year was 1962

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The forester is an amateur woodsman with a college education. There are two classes of foresters. One class believes that keeping abreast of those broad dynamic movements of the present day that challenge the best efforts of the nation’s thinkers. The other class fights fire, builds truck trails, plants trees and wears old clothes.

Some foresters have offices, some live in cities and some work in the woods. Lots of the foresters spend practically their entire lives in God’s great out-of-doors. They love to hunt and fish. They would be, too, if they had the time.

It used to be said that a forester’s best friends were his horse and his axe…..

Picture of student graduating

Picture of student graduating

Davey: Up until 1970 if you were a female, you were not eligible to enroll in forestry.

Interviewer: Really, you mean there was a rule?

Davey: Oh an absolute rule, strict rule. And 1970, the year I became department head, we enrolled our first four women students.

Picture of student graduating

Picture of student graduating

ASA/SSSA/CSSA highlights

S-3 chair S-7 chair1970 ASA fellow1970 SSSA fellow1975-1976 SSSA presidentnumerous committees, etc.

DAVEY CB SOIL SCI SOC AM P 1953DAVEY CB SOIL SCI SOC AM P 1953DAVEY CB ECOLOGY 1955DAVEY CB SOIL SCI SA 1955DAVEY CB AGRON J 1959DAVEY CB 2946675 1960DAVEY CB 7TH T INT C SOIL SCI 1960DAVEY CB 7TH T INT C SOIL SCI 1960DAVEY CB PHYTOPATHOLOGY 1960DAVEY CB T INT C SOIL SCI 1960DAVEY CB T INT C SOIL SCI MAD 1960DAVEY CB PHYTOPATHOLOGY 1961DAVEY CB SCIENCE 1961DAVEY CB AM J BOTANY 1962DAVEY CB CAN J MICROBIOL 1962DAVEY CB CAN J MICROBIOL 1962DAVEY CB AM J BOTANY 1963DAVEY CB P SOIL SCI SOC AM 1963DAVEY CB P SOIL SCI SOC AM 1963DAVEY CB SOIL SCI SOC AM P BA 1963DAVEY CB 1964 REG 8 FOR NURS 1964DAVEY CB 8 P REG FOR NURS C M 1964DAVEY CB P REG 8 FOR NURS C U 1964...Davey CB CAN J MICROBIOL 1965DAVEY CB TEMPERATUREDEPENDENT 1965DAVEY CB J BACTERIOL 1966DAVEY CB NATURE 1966...Davey CB SOIL SCI 1966...Davey CB SOIL SCI SOC AM PRO 1966...Davey CB NATURE 1967...Davey CB SOIL SCI SOC AM PRO 1967...Davey CB CAN J MICROBIOL 1968DAVEY CB FOREST FERTILIZATION 1968DAVEY CB FOREST FERTILIZATION 1968DAVEY CB PHYTOPATHOLOGY 1968...Davey CB FOREST SCI 1969DAVEY CB MYCORRHIZAE 1969...Davey CB PHYTOPATHOLOGY 1969...Davey CB PHYTOPATHOLOGY 1969...Davey CB SOIL SCI SOC AM PRO 1969DAVEY CB USDA FOREST MISCELL 1969DAVEY CB USDA FOREST SERV MIS 1969...Davey CB FOREST SCI 1970DAVEY CB MYCORRHIZAE 1970...Davey CB SOIL SCI SOC AM PRO 1970DAVEY CB 1ST P N AM C MYC 1971

What do these two people have in common?

What do these two people have in common?

Carl Sagan Chuck Davey

They were both born in Brooklyn, NY

Yummy. Crabs from the Bay. The thing I learned (since I had no idea how to prepare them) was that the preparation made a huge difference in the flavor. In downtown Baltimore, we used to try as many different vendor's products as possible. They were all good, but some were decidedly better than others.

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