Kermit W. Kreitlow, senior coordinator of these proceedings, died Sep- 

 tember 21, 1971. He had served the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 

 1941, when he joined the Forage and Range Research Branch at the U.S. 

 Regional Pasture Research Laboratory, University Park, Pa., as a plant 

 pathologist. In 1950, he transferred to Beltsville, Md., where he supervised 

 the work of the Branch's plant pathologists at experiment stations throughout 

 the country, and advised agronomists, plant breeders, and geneticists on plant 

 diseases. In 1964, he was named Assistant Chief of the Branch. By this time 

 he had authored over 100 publications, and was recognized as one of the 

 world's authorities on forage crop diseases. 



In 1969, Dr. Kreitlow was named chairman of an ad hoc committee of 

 U.S. scientists, which met with a group of Australian scientists to organize 

 the U.S. -Australia Rangelands Panel, with R. A. Perry of Australia and 

 Dr. Kreitlow as cochairmen. Dr. Kreitlow was a leader in organizing the 

 Panel's first workshop and was chosen to coordinate the proceedings but was 

 stricken by his final illness before he could carry out the task. 



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