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Hi, Mike,
Thank you for forwarding me the message and the old photo from David.
Hi, David,
It was wonderful that you sent the photo to Mike. Yes, the photo of the toxicology group was taken by my camera when I was staying at NCSU as visiting professor to look after graduate students of Dr. W.C. Dauterman, who was taking sabbatical leave in Australia during 1982-1983. I must have been around 40 years old then.
I recall the group meeting we had once a week with all the graduate students of Dr. Dauterman, for which every one gave a report on the progress of their research for ten minutes. I was expecting each graduate student make progress every week however small it may be. We had a blend of international students- Tasumi Hayaoka was from Japan, Lori Fix was from Canada, Paul Chen and Mark Long-Rong Kao were from Taiwan, Mohamed El-Oshar was from Libya, and you David Wells was from the US. I think the group meeting was very stimulatory and fruitful in developing graduate students' interest and ability in scientific research, which I believe must have helped them a lot in their subsequent career.
Even faculty members, Dr. Hodgson was an immigrant from the UK and Dr. Dauterman was a German immigrating from Yugoslavia to the US. Dr. Guthrie, directer of Toxicology Program, was an American from Kentucky. He was an ex-marine Lieutenant who served for both WW2 and Korean War. I still remember what he said to me when he first met me in his office and found I was from Japan- " I saved your life twice." I can understand one time easily, because he specified that he stopped North Korean invading South Korea during Korean war and then eventualy taking over Japan. I do not know what he meant by the other time. During WW2 he went to Iwo-jima in the Pacific Ocean where there was a tough battle between the US and Japan troops. After the end of the WW2, he stationed in Japan as a member of the Occupation Army which governed Japan for 7 years from 1945 to 1952. My imagination is that Dr. Guthrie helped my life first time by stationing in Japan thereby preventing Soviet Union occupying Japan. Or, since Japan was extremely in short of foods after the end of the WW2 and all the children including myself were so hungry, what he meant might have been that wheat flour and powdered milk the Occupation Army gave us helped my life from starvation.
It is too bad that I can no longer confirm what he meant because he already passed away. So did Dr. Hodgson and Dr. Dauterman.
After working at Chiba University, Japan, for 30 years, I retired in 2008 at the age of 65 (we have an age-forced retirement system) from Chiba University. Then I moved to Tokyo University of Agriculture as Visiting Professor and retired at the age of 70 (age-forced retirement again) after working there for 5 years. Although, being 78 years old now, I no longer have a lab that I can use freely, I am still active for a certain research project in collaboration with other scientists in Japan. We have been studying drift of pesticide sprayed from regular and radio-controlled helicopters over pine forests to control the pinesawyer which transmits the pine wood nematode imported from the US in 1905 along with pine logs that is destroying tremendouse acreage of pine forests every year in Japan. We are also studying human exposure of pesticides for workers who spray pesticides from the ground- dermal exposure, inhalation exposure, as well as the amount of pesticide excreted in the urine. I am also giving an invitational lecture about 10 times a year in various regions of Japan for general public on the role of pesticide and how its safety is assured. I can do that because I served as chaiman of pesticide regulation committee of JMAFF (Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery) for 10 years.
I have a fond memory of NCSU. When I first joind NCSU as a Ph.D student in 1969, the head of Entomology Departement was Dr. Knight. His expertise was in medical entomology. He told me an interesting story when I was introduced to him for the first time. He was working to control mosquitoes for the US troop in the Pacific Ocean area during WW2 and when he met Dr. Manabu Sasa, a Japanese collegue in medical entomology field, at an international meeting after the end of the war, he found that Dr. Sasa was also working to control mosquitoes for Japanese troop in the same Pacific Ocean area.
I am not keeping up with any of the people in the photo except Dr. Tasumi Hayaoka, who retired from a Japanese Pesticide Company and now lives in Fukushima prefecture. Are you keeping up with any of them? If so, please let me know.
I am not keeping up with any of the people in the photo except Dr. Tasumi Hayaoka, who retired from a Japanese Pesticide Company and now lives in Fukushima prefecture. Are you keeping up with any of them? If so, please let me know.
Where are you, anyway? Let me know how you are doing.
Take care and stay safe.
Naoki
Dr. Naoki Motoyama
Professor Emeritus, Chiba University
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Seth and Naoki, here is the photo.
差出人: R Roe
宛先: David Wells
CC: Seth Kullman; motoyama335@aol.com
送信日時: 2020/7/10, 金, 3:40
件名: Re: NCSU Tox Dept Photo
great to hear from you. I have copied the current program head and also Naoki. thanks. hope you are ok. What a great privilege for me to have worked with these people and been associated with this program now for 36 years.
Dr. R. Michael Roe
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7647
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 1:49 PM David Wells wrote:
Cheers!I hope it is of use.Hi Michael,I am a 1985 Ph.D. graduate of the NCSU Tox Program. I was recently going through a box of old things and came across an old departmental photo. I wasn't sure if this would be of historical interest to the current department (or if maybe you even already had it); however, I decided to scan it and I have attached it to this email. It is a bit faded because it was displayed in a frame all these years. I have also included a legend of names. I cannot remember the exact year, although I suspect it to be 1982 or 1983. If there is a record as to when Dr. Dauterman took his sabbatical to Australia, that was the year the photo was taken. Note that his former student, Dr. Motoyama (a professor in Japan at the time), was filling in for him and is present in the photo in his stead.
David S. Wells, Ph.D.1985 Ph.D. Graduate
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