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Date sent: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:49:27 -0800 (PST)
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From: "Geoff Read" g.read@niwa.cri.nz
Subject: Charlotte Preston Mangum 1938-1998
Dear Colleagues,
I was saddened to learn belatedly today that Charlotte Mangum had died last year. There is a very nice obituary by Nora Terwilliger in the February 1999 issue of the Journal of Crustacean Biology 19(1):206-208.
It begins "Dr Charlotte Preston Mangum, a wonderfully creative person, a superb biologist and comparative physiologist, and a friend to many, died on 19 February 1998, after a valiant battle against cancer."
I know some of you were friends and co-workers with Professor Mangum and may like to share your memories of her.
For myself I had contact with Charlotte only a few times, and only by letter from the other side of the world. She was friendly and helpful each time (years apart), and she could remember the necessary detail even though the topics (onuphids and maldanids) were ones from the very early part of her career, and far from her current interests. I should mention to those beginning careers as biologists that, regrettably, not all distinguished professors and scientists would be as obliging to respond to enquiries from random strangers.On the web her College of William & Mary page is still up, and has not been updated. There is a brief in memoriam at the web site of 'Physiological Zoology' of which she was editor, and also in the Alumni newsletter.
http://www.wm.edu/biology/Mangum.html
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PZ/mangum.html
http://www.wm.edu/biology/BioBugle/
Geoff
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Geoff Read g.read@niwa.cri.nz