Fellows
The NPSO Fellows Award recognizes individual members for their exceptional contributions to the Society. The guidelines for nomination are available online or by request from the Fellows Committee at fe*****@np*******.org .
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Joan Fosback, Mildred Theile, Lois Hopkins, Mary Carlson
This is the story of four Douglas County women, self-proclaimed “Little Old Ladies in Hiking Boots,” whose passion for native plants placed their county at the forefront of the Oregon Flora Project. The four women, Lois Wesley Hopkins, Mildred Thiele, Joan Fosback, and Mary Carlson, founded the herbarium at the Douglas County Museum of History…
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Barbara Robinson
When Barbara Robinson first saw the oak/pine area of the Columbia Gorge, she knew she had found home. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Barbara came west to attend Reed College in Portland, finishing a joint major in psychology and philosophy in 1970. In 1972 she completed a MS in psychobiology from the University of California, Irvine….
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Russ Jolley
Russell I. Jolley was born in Texas on December 6, 1922. He obtained a BS in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M. After graduation, he served in the US Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He studied astronomy at the University of Leiden in Holland where he discovered two variable stars, before realizing…
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Charlene Holzwarth
Charlene McMahon Holzwarth was born in Beattie, Kansas, in 1927. After earning a BS degree from Kansas State University, she moved west to Oregon. Here she continued her education, earning an Oregon Teaching Certificate. She began a career of teaching elementary age children in Portland which lasted 34 years, mostly as a full-time substitute teacher….
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Jerry Igo
Rex Jerrold Igo was born April 25, 1929 in Weleetka, Okla-homa, the youngest of ten children of William Everett Igo and Mary E. Igo. They moved west in the early years of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, arriving in Medford, Oregon, in 1933 where the family farmed and grew peaches. Jerry graduated from Medford…
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Veva Stansell
Long-time plant en-thusiast Veva Stansell knows there is much work to be done when it comes to cataloguing plants in Oregon, but the 73-year-old south-western Oregon resident welcomes the challenge. “There are times I wish I lived closer to a univer-sity, but on the other hand there are advantages to living far away,” said Veva,…