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National Turkey Federation Research Award
National Turkey Federation Research Award
LEO S. JENSEN
Winner of the National Turkey Federation Research A ward A recent finding is that the preventative factors of nutritional muscular dystrophy in turkeys differ from those in the chicken. This pointed out that nutritional principles evolved with the chicken cannot always be directly applied to the turkey. Dr. Jensen is a member of the Poultry Science Association, World's Poultry Science Association, American Institute of Nutrition, Animal Nutrition Research Council, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Gamma Alpha.
NEWS AND NOTES (Continued from page 1061) He received a M.S. degree at the Universtiy of Tennessee in 1947 with a major in animal husbandry, and held an Assistantship in beef rattle nutrition. At Washington State University, from which he received a Ph.D. degree, he held an Assistantship in poultry nutrition. He joined the staff of the University of Arkansas in 1949 and has served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. During these 15 years he has taught courses in feeds and feeding,
laboratory methods in nutrition, advanced animal nutrition, and poultry nutrition. He has stimulated many students to go on to important assignments. Twenty-two of his former graduate students have obtained Ph.D. degrees. They and 30 other students, who obtained M.S. degrees at the University under Stephenson, are employed by various institutions and commercial firms in responsible positions in Arkansas and across the country. Although the research for which he has received
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Dr. Leo S. Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, is the recipient of the National 'Turkey Federation Research Award for 1963. He was born in Bellingham, Washington, on February 28, 1925, and received a B.S. degree at Washington State University in 1949, and a Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 1954. In that year he was appointed Assistant Professor at Washington State University, and in 1960 became Associate Professor. During the past five years, Dr. Jensen has been author or co-author of fourteen research papers in which the turkey was the experimental animal, and of eight papers presented at scientific meetings. During the same period he has also written some fifteen popular articles dealing with turkey research. His research work has been in the area of nutrition and has included investigations on the quantitative nutrient requirements of turkeys from eight weeks to market age, and of breeder hens. The calcium and phosphorus requirements of developing turkeys were shown to be considerably lower than those previously recommended. In contrast to young poults, older turkeys were found to utilize organic phosphorus rather efficiently. Studies with breeder hens have involved requirement for calcium, protein, and unidentified factors. The calcium requirement was shown to be somewhat lower than previously recommended, and evidence was obtained that high calcium levels may depress hatchability. He has also shown that the nutritional value of western barley can be improved by adding suitable enzymes to the ration or by water-treating the barley. Dr. Jensen has observed feeding patterns of young turkeys fed pelleted and unpelleted rations and has shown that the productive energy of feed is markedly increased by pelleting. The increase in energy was explained by reduction of the expenditure of energy during the eating process.
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tional Hatchery Code. From 1935 to 1936 he was Senior Poultry Coordinator, Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., concerned in the organization, development and administration of the National Poultry Improvement Plan. In 1936 he was appointed Senior Poultry Husbandman, Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and was in charge of poultry investigations at the Beltsville Research Center, and administration of the National Poultry Improvement Plan. In 1940 he became Director of the Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan. He was President of the Poultry Science Association in 1939 and was made a Fellow of the Association in 1944. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was Chairman of the United States Delegation to the Tenth World's Poultry Congress in Paris, France, in 1951. While in East Lansing, he has served as a Professor of Poultry Husbandry at Michigan State University. In 1956 he received the Superior Service Award of the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 1963 he received the National Distinguished Service Chapter Award from Delta Tau Delta for outstanding contributions to the Iota Chapter at Michigan State University. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Zeta and Sigma Xi. Dr. Ben R. Burmester was born in Petaluma, California, June 13, 1910. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California in 1932, 1933 and 1936, respectively. In 1951 he received a D.V.M. degree at Michigan State University. From 1934 to 1936 he did part time teaching while working towards the Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1936 to 1940 he was Instructor in Animal Physiology, University of Illinois. From 1940 he served as Physiologist, Biologist, Research Biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Animal Husbandry Research Division, Poultry Research Branch, Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan. Since 1950 he has also served as Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University. In 1940 Dr. Burmester received the Research Award of the Poultry Science Association, in 1948
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most recognition is in the field of poultry nutrition, Dr. Stephenson has devoted one-third of his research time to nutrition of swine. He has carried out a number of assignments outside his regular duties. He participated in the Trade Fair at Salonika, Greece, in 1957 under the sponsorship of the Soybean Council of America, and in 1962 he gave a series of lectures on animal nutrition in Spain and England, under the same sponsorship. In 1960 he represented the Feed Grains Council at the Salonika Trade Fair. He has been a guest speaker at nutrition conferences in Florida, Texas, Kansas, North Carolina, and Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Feed Survey Committee of the American Feed Manufacturers Association from 1960 to 1962, of the Board of Directors of the Feed Production School in Kansas City from 1957 to 1962, and of the Planning Committee for the Centennial Nutrition Conference of the Midwest Feed Manufacturers Association in 1962. Currently he is a Member of the College Feed Board of the Cooperative Consumers Association, and of the Poultry Feed College Advisory Committee of the Southern Farmers' Association. Dr. Stephenson is a member of the Poultry Science Association, the American Society of Animal Science, the American Institute of Nutrition, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, and Alpha Zeta. U.S.D.A. NOTES Berley Winton retired on December 30, 1963, as Director of the Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. B. R. Burmester succeeds him as Director. Winton was born March 31, 1894, at Livingston, Texas. He obtained a B.S. degree in 1922 at the University of Kentucky, majoring in animal husbandry, and a M.A. degree in 1926 at the University of Missouri, majoring in agricultural economics. From 1917 to 1919 he served as County Extension Agent in Hancock County, Kentucky. He was Poultry Extension Specialist at the University of Kentucky from 1922 to 1923; at the University of Missouri from 1923 to 1925; 1926 to 1933, and 1934 to 1935; and at the University of Tennessee from 1925 to 1926. From 1933 to 1934 he was Senior Marketing Specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and Representative of the Department in Administration of the Na-
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TEXAS NOTES Dr. J. R. Couch, Professor Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Texas A. and M. University, was one of a number of scientists who received Distinguished Nutritionist Award of the Distillers Feed Research Council at the annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 25. He was born in Alvarado, Texas, June 10, 1919. He attended John Tarleton Agricultural College from 1926 to 1929, and received B.S. and M.S. degrees at Texas A. and M. University in 1931 and 1934, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1948. From 1931 to 1934 he was Assistant Poultry Husbandman, from 1934 to 1936 Associate Poultry Husbandman, and from 1936 ot 1941 Poultry Husbandman, at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. From 1941 to 1946 he was on active duty with the U.S. Army, being discharged with the rank of Lt. Colonel. From 1946 to 1948 he was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin on a General Education Board grant. In 1948 he was appointed to his present position. In 1951 he was the recipient of the American Feed Manufacturers Association Award of the Poultry Science Association.
He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Texas Academy of Science, American Institute of Nutrition, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, American Society of Biology Chemists, American Society of Bacteriologists, Sigma Xi and Gamma Alpha. WASHINGTON NOTES Dr. T. H. Blosser, Professor of Dairy Science, has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Animal Science at Washington State University, effective April 1. The Department was created nearly a year ago at Washington State University. It includes the three former Departments engaged in teaching and research work with all domesticated farm animals and the processing of animal products. The work formerly was carried on in the Departments of Animal Science, Dairy Science and Poultry Science. Dr. Blosser succeeds Dr. M. W. Galgan who has served as Acting Chairman of the Department since it was created. The new Chairman has been a member of the Washington State University faculty since 1948, and was appointed Chairman of the Department of Dairy Science in 1961. He has been active in research throughout his career in the fields of animal diseases and nutrition. He has done specific research projects in milk fever, calf nutrition, and the nutritional value of forage and feed grains. He also has supervised the work of many graduate students and is the author of more than 65 scientific and popular publications. He is an official judge for the Holstein and Guernsey breeds and has judged at dairy shows in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, California, Washington, and British Columbia. Dr. Blosser is a native of Indiana. He received his bachelor's degree from Purdue University, and his master's and doctor's degrees at the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of the American Society of Animal Science, the American Institute of Nutrition, and the American Dairy Science Association, being a Past President of the Western Division.
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the Sigma Xi Junior Research Award, in 1956 the Tom Newman International Award for Poultry Husbandry Research, in 1957 the Superior Service Award of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Borden Award of the Poultry Science Association. He is an Associate Editor of Poultry Science, and Guest Editor of Cancer Research and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Burmester is a Member of the Virology and Rickettsiology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, the World's Poultry Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association for Cancer Research, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Avian Pathologists, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York Academy of Science, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Phi Sigma, Phi Zeta and Phi Kappa Phi.
LEO S. JENSEN
Winner of the National Turkey Federation Research A ward A recent finding is that the preventative factors of nutritional muscular dystrophy in turkeys differ from those in the chicken. This pointed out that nutritional principles evolved with the chicken cannot always be directly applied to the turkey. Dr. Jensen is a member of the Poultry Science Association, World's Poultry Science Association, American Institute of Nutrition, Animal Nutrition Research Council, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Gamma Alpha.
NEWS AND NOTES (Continued from page 1061) He received a M.S. degree at the Universtiy of Tennessee in 1947 with a major in animal husbandry, and held an Assistantship in beef rattle nutrition. At Washington State University, from which he received a Ph.D. degree, he held an Assistantship in poultry nutrition. He joined the staff of the University of Arkansas in 1949 and has served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. During these 15 years he has taught courses in feeds and feeding,
laboratory methods in nutrition, advanced animal nutrition, and poultry nutrition. He has stimulated many students to go on to important assignments. Twenty-two of his former graduate students have obtained Ph.D. degrees. They and 30 other students, who obtained M.S. degrees at the University under Stephenson, are employed by various institutions and commercial firms in responsible positions in Arkansas and across the country. Although the research for which he has received
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Dr. Leo S. Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, is the recipient of the National 'Turkey Federation Research Award for 1963. He was born in Bellingham, Washington, on February 28, 1925, and received a B.S. degree at Washington State University in 1949, and a Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 1954. In that year he was appointed Assistant Professor at Washington State University, and in 1960 became Associate Professor. During the past five years, Dr. Jensen has been author or co-author of fourteen research papers in which the turkey was the experimental animal, and of eight papers presented at scientific meetings. During the same period he has also written some fifteen popular articles dealing with turkey research. His research work has been in the area of nutrition and has included investigations on the quantitative nutrient requirements of turkeys from eight weeks to market age, and of breeder hens. The calcium and phosphorus requirements of developing turkeys were shown to be considerably lower than those previously recommended. In contrast to young poults, older turkeys were found to utilize organic phosphorus rather efficiently. Studies with breeder hens have involved requirement for calcium, protein, and unidentified factors. The calcium requirement was shown to be somewhat lower than previously recommended, and evidence was obtained that high calcium levels may depress hatchability. He has also shown that the nutritional value of western barley can be improved by adding suitable enzymes to the ration or by water-treating the barley. Dr. Jensen has observed feeding patterns of young turkeys fed pelleted and unpelleted rations and has shown that the productive energy of feed is markedly increased by pelleting. The increase in energy was explained by reduction of the expenditure of energy during the eating process.
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tional Hatchery Code. From 1935 to 1936 he was Senior Poultry Coordinator, Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., concerned in the organization, development and administration of the National Poultry Improvement Plan. In 1936 he was appointed Senior Poultry Husbandman, Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and was in charge of poultry investigations at the Beltsville Research Center, and administration of the National Poultry Improvement Plan. In 1940 he became Director of the Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan. He was President of the Poultry Science Association in 1939 and was made a Fellow of the Association in 1944. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was Chairman of the United States Delegation to the Tenth World's Poultry Congress in Paris, France, in 1951. While in East Lansing, he has served as a Professor of Poultry Husbandry at Michigan State University. In 1956 he received the Superior Service Award of the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 1963 he received the National Distinguished Service Chapter Award from Delta Tau Delta for outstanding contributions to the Iota Chapter at Michigan State University. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Zeta and Sigma Xi. Dr. Ben R. Burmester was born in Petaluma, California, June 13, 1910. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California in 1932, 1933 and 1936, respectively. In 1951 he received a D.V.M. degree at Michigan State University. From 1934 to 1936 he did part time teaching while working towards the Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1936 to 1940 he was Instructor in Animal Physiology, University of Illinois. From 1940 he served as Physiologist, Biologist, Research Biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Animal Husbandry Research Division, Poultry Research Branch, Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan. Since 1950 he has also served as Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University. In 1940 Dr. Burmester received the Research Award of the Poultry Science Association, in 1948
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most recognition is in the field of poultry nutrition, Dr. Stephenson has devoted one-third of his research time to nutrition of swine. He has carried out a number of assignments outside his regular duties. He participated in the Trade Fair at Salonika, Greece, in 1957 under the sponsorship of the Soybean Council of America, and in 1962 he gave a series of lectures on animal nutrition in Spain and England, under the same sponsorship. In 1960 he represented the Feed Grains Council at the Salonika Trade Fair. He has been a guest speaker at nutrition conferences in Florida, Texas, Kansas, North Carolina, and Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Feed Survey Committee of the American Feed Manufacturers Association from 1960 to 1962, of the Board of Directors of the Feed Production School in Kansas City from 1957 to 1962, and of the Planning Committee for the Centennial Nutrition Conference of the Midwest Feed Manufacturers Association in 1962. Currently he is a Member of the College Feed Board of the Cooperative Consumers Association, and of the Poultry Feed College Advisory Committee of the Southern Farmers' Association. Dr. Stephenson is a member of the Poultry Science Association, the American Society of Animal Science, the American Institute of Nutrition, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, and Alpha Zeta. U.S.D.A. NOTES Berley Winton retired on December 30, 1963, as Director of the Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. B. R. Burmester succeeds him as Director. Winton was born March 31, 1894, at Livingston, Texas. He obtained a B.S. degree in 1922 at the University of Kentucky, majoring in animal husbandry, and a M.A. degree in 1926 at the University of Missouri, majoring in agricultural economics. From 1917 to 1919 he served as County Extension Agent in Hancock County, Kentucky. He was Poultry Extension Specialist at the University of Kentucky from 1922 to 1923; at the University of Missouri from 1923 to 1925; 1926 to 1933, and 1934 to 1935; and at the University of Tennessee from 1925 to 1926. From 1933 to 1934 he was Senior Marketing Specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and Representative of the Department in Administration of the Na-
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TEXAS NOTES Dr. J. R. Couch, Professor Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Texas A. and M. University, was one of a number of scientists who received Distinguished Nutritionist Award of the Distillers Feed Research Council at the annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 25. He was born in Alvarado, Texas, June 10, 1919. He attended John Tarleton Agricultural College from 1926 to 1929, and received B.S. and M.S. degrees at Texas A. and M. University in 1931 and 1934, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1948. From 1931 to 1934 he was Assistant Poultry Husbandman, from 1934 to 1936 Associate Poultry Husbandman, and from 1936 ot 1941 Poultry Husbandman, at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. From 1941 to 1946 he was on active duty with the U.S. Army, being discharged with the rank of Lt. Colonel. From 1946 to 1948 he was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin on a General Education Board grant. In 1948 he was appointed to his present position. In 1951 he was the recipient of the American Feed Manufacturers Association Award of the Poultry Science Association.
He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Texas Academy of Science, American Institute of Nutrition, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, American Society of Biology Chemists, American Society of Bacteriologists, Sigma Xi and Gamma Alpha. WASHINGTON NOTES Dr. T. H. Blosser, Professor of Dairy Science, has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Animal Science at Washington State University, effective April 1. The Department was created nearly a year ago at Washington State University. It includes the three former Departments engaged in teaching and research work with all domesticated farm animals and the processing of animal products. The work formerly was carried on in the Departments of Animal Science, Dairy Science and Poultry Science. Dr. Blosser succeeds Dr. M. W. Galgan who has served as Acting Chairman of the Department since it was created. The new Chairman has been a member of the Washington State University faculty since 1948, and was appointed Chairman of the Department of Dairy Science in 1961. He has been active in research throughout his career in the fields of animal diseases and nutrition. He has done specific research projects in milk fever, calf nutrition, and the nutritional value of forage and feed grains. He also has supervised the work of many graduate students and is the author of more than 65 scientific and popular publications. He is an official judge for the Holstein and Guernsey breeds and has judged at dairy shows in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, California, Washington, and British Columbia. Dr. Blosser is a native of Indiana. He received his bachelor's degree from Purdue University, and his master's and doctor's degrees at the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of the American Society of Animal Science, the American Institute of Nutrition, and the American Dairy Science Association, being a Past President of the Western Division.
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the Sigma Xi Junior Research Award, in 1956 the Tom Newman International Award for Poultry Husbandry Research, in 1957 the Superior Service Award of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Borden Award of the Poultry Science Association. He is an Associate Editor of Poultry Science, and Guest Editor of Cancer Research and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Burmester is a Member of the Virology and Rickettsiology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, the World's Poultry Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association for Cancer Research, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Avian Pathologists, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York Academy of Science, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Phi Sigma, Phi Zeta and Phi Kappa Phi.