In Memoriam
David S. Conant (1949 – 2018)
The New England Botanical Club is sad to learn of the sudden passing of David S. Conant, who was NEBC President from 1998 to 2000, Vice-President 1996-1998, and a member for 47 years (since 1971). He was an instrumental organizer of a symposium for the centennial of Rhodora held in April 1999 and briefly its Editor-in-Chief in 1996. Dr. Conant retired from Lyndon State College, Vermont, in 2009, as described in this article. A long obituary describes David’s life and his joking nature, as illustrated in this picture from the Rhodora symposium. David Conant’s remembrances of his professor, Albion Reed Hodgdon, at the University of New Hampshire, also describes how his lifelong interest in ferns began in Puerto Rico.
Elizabeth Jean Farnsworth
(8 December 1962 – 27 October 2017)
Three Editors-In-Chief of Rhodora. Janet Sullivan, Elizabeth Farnsworth, and Nishi Rajakaruna
The New England Botanical Club mourns the sudden loss of Elizabeth Farnsworth, a former Editor-In-Chief of Rhodora and the organizer of NEBC’s 120th Anniversary Research Conference in 2015.
In Memoriam published in Rhodora.
A celebration of Elizabeth’s life was held Saturday, December 9, 2017. “Celebration of Life” video is here. Memorial Program
Google Drive with Memorial Music, photographs, and Elizabeth’s art and singing.
To learn more about Elizabeth and her amazing life:
Obituary in Boston Globe 5 Nov 2017.
News Obituary in Boston Globe 9 January 2018.
New England Wild Flower Society tribute with four pictures
Hitchcock Center for the Environment – “Remembering Elizabeth Farnsworth” and links to all 29 Earth Matters columns written by Elizabeth 2009-2017
Daily Hampshire Gazette – Earth Matters – “In memoriam, Elizabeth Farnsworth, writer, illustrator, scientist, naturalist.”
Tribute published in Biological Invasions February 2018.
