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Paul R. Saunders
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IN MEMORIAM PAUL R . SAUNDER5 Paul R. Saunders, founding Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society on Toxinology and former Assistant Editor of Toxicon died on October 31, 1974, at the age of 58. Dr. Saunders attended the University of California and received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. For more than two decades he was associated with the University of Southern California, where he was Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine, subsequently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences in the University's College of Arts and Sciences, as well as Director of the Marine Sciences Program of the Allan Hancock Foundation, and during his latter years, Professor of Physiology in the School of Medicine and Associate Dean for Basic Medical Sciences . During his tenure as Associate Dean he was particularly active in establishing multidisciplinary laboratories in the University's program. Due to his efforts, the University of Southern California was one of the first institutions in the United States to employ such teaching methods. Dr. Saunders was also very much involved with the reorganization of the Medical School program to allow for a greater use of students' talents, through special interdisciplinary courses and seminars . To the members of the Society, Dr. Saunders was best known as one of the original groups of toxinologists who assisted Professor Russell in the founding of the Society and who, during its formative years, helped to guide many of the Society's activities . With his close friend and colleague, Professor Russell, he helped organize the First Symposium on Animal Toxins in 1966 and coauthored the text Animal Toxins . Dr. Saunders' film on Venomous Marine Animals is considered one of the finest works on the natural history of marine animals produced by an academic institution. Best known for his work on stonefish, lionfish and Comes venoms, Dr. Saunders contributed more than 20 works to the field of toxinology. During his latter years he was putting together a definitive study on the hallucinating properties of plants used by the American Indians. Few academicians have enjoyed as high regard by their own university as had Paul Saunders . Although he was extremely active in the administration of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, he never lost his interest in toxins, and whenever possible crossed the street between the School of Medicine and the Medical Center to the Laboratory of Neurological Research to gear up a late afternoon or evening experiment on one of his pet toxins . The day before his death he had discussed a revision of his film on marine animals with Professor Russell and was preparing his lecture notes for the graduate course work on the Physiopharmacology of Toxins . Professor Saunders will be very much missed, not only by his family, his many friends and colleagues, but by our Society. He leaves his wife Esther, and three daughters, Vicky and Linda, who are in college and Cathy, who is attending high school . Paul has run his last road for rattlesnakes and made his last dive for the California sculpin but he will remain cherished by all of us. PROFPSSOR
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IN MEMORIAM PAUL R . SAUNDER5 Paul R. Saunders, founding Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society on Toxinology and former Assistant Editor of Toxicon died on October 31, 1974, at the age of 58. Dr. Saunders attended the University of California and received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. For more than two decades he was associated with the University of Southern California, where he was Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine, subsequently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences in the University's College of Arts and Sciences, as well as Director of the Marine Sciences Program of the Allan Hancock Foundation, and during his latter years, Professor of Physiology in the School of Medicine and Associate Dean for Basic Medical Sciences . During his tenure as Associate Dean he was particularly active in establishing multidisciplinary laboratories in the University's program. Due to his efforts, the University of Southern California was one of the first institutions in the United States to employ such teaching methods. Dr. Saunders was also very much involved with the reorganization of the Medical School program to allow for a greater use of students' talents, through special interdisciplinary courses and seminars . To the members of the Society, Dr. Saunders was best known as one of the original groups of toxinologists who assisted Professor Russell in the founding of the Society and who, during its formative years, helped to guide many of the Society's activities . With his close friend and colleague, Professor Russell, he helped organize the First Symposium on Animal Toxins in 1966 and coauthored the text Animal Toxins . Dr. Saunders' film on Venomous Marine Animals is considered one of the finest works on the natural history of marine animals produced by an academic institution. Best known for his work on stonefish, lionfish and Comes venoms, Dr. Saunders contributed more than 20 works to the field of toxinology. During his latter years he was putting together a definitive study on the hallucinating properties of plants used by the American Indians. Few academicians have enjoyed as high regard by their own university as had Paul Saunders . Although he was extremely active in the administration of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, he never lost his interest in toxins, and whenever possible crossed the street between the School of Medicine and the Medical Center to the Laboratory of Neurological Research to gear up a late afternoon or evening experiment on one of his pet toxins . The day before his death he had discussed a revision of his film on marine animals with Professor Russell and was preparing his lecture notes for the graduate course work on the Physiopharmacology of Toxins . Professor Saunders will be very much missed, not only by his family, his many friends and colleagues, but by our Society. He leaves his wife Esther, and three daughters, Vicky and Linda, who are in college and Cathy, who is attending high school . Paul has run his last road for rattlesnakes and made his last dive for the California sculpin but he will remain cherished by all of us. PROFPSSOR
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