At forewell party in Boston, Professor Ray Koon accepts gift from his friends as 

 Director Sieling and Mrs. Koon look on. 



Photo hij Everett M. Smith 



RAY KOON RETIRES 



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IN THIRTY VALUABLE YEARS of pul)lic service, Ray Koon as 

 head of the ^N^altham Field Station has charted a praiseworthy 

 course marked by estimable research accomplishments and expert 

 public relations. Through the years he has seen a small wooden 

 two-story boxlike laboratory and office building with a 200-foot 

 greenhouse give way in 1950 to a new modern plant with many 

 fine laboratories, offices, and a greatly enlarged staff — a tribute 

 to his recognition of the wisdom in combining research and service 

 for the area of suburban Boston concentratetl to agricidture and 

 horticulture. 



Under his leadership he has woven a pattern of good ^vill and 

 understanding among vegetable and fruit growers, nurserymen, 

 arborists, florists, and home gardeners. The success of the original 

 Market Garden Field Station in the early years with the vegetable 

 industry is essentially the basis of the Waltham Field Station today 

 with its many sjjecialized services. 



Ray Koon's jiolicy of freedom of operation lias been a stimulus to 

 his research staff and has placed the Field Station in a rather unicjue 

 position among agricultinal field stations in the United States. 



As Ray Koon relinquishes the helm as head of The Waltham 

 Field Station, the University staff members at Amherst, East Ware- 

 ham, and AValtham extend their (ongratiilations aud best wishes 

 for his continued good health and happiness. 



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