[Plantsci] FW: Remembering Phil Jenkins

[Lambert, Georgina M - (glambert)]

Dear SPLS,

Please join us to celebrate Phil's life -- Sunday February 5 at 1pm, in the Herbarium. Bring memories and snacks to share if you like; we'll have beverages and a warm room, or patio seating if it is nice outside. 
Please see, and share, the attached invitation.

Best regards,
Betsy, Shelley,
and Lucinda McDade


On 1/18/17 1:42 PM, Lambert, Georgina M - (glambert) wrote:
> Dear SPLS,
>
> I share, with sadness, the news that Phil Jenkins passed away last week.
> Phil managed the UA Herbarium for nearly twenty years, working with Lucinda McDade, Steve McLaughlin, and then myself, until his retirement in 2011. He worked to bring the collections up to date, processed huge backlogs that had accumulated in the herbarium's first 100 years, and guided visitors in all aspects of natural history of the region. He completed a MS, authored new species, facilitated the herbarium's move to beautiful Herring Hall, and identified the most ridiculously small plant parts for agencies, zoos, the police, Poison Control, and everyone else. He was a scholar, a botanist, an artist, and a true natural historian.
>
> He passed away peacefully on Jan 11, at the age of 70. An event to remember Phil is planned for early February at the herbarium; please email me if you would like to know about details as they develop.
>
> Best regards,
> Shelley McMahon

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Michelle McMahon
Co-Director, Graduate Studies, and
Director, UA Herbarium
School of Plant Sciences
University of Arizona
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