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*****@*******on.org.
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Stu Garrett
Last Updated on March 23, 2024 by Tom Pratum Physicians as botanists were common in the early exploration of the Northwest, including George Engelmann, Archibald Menzies, William Fraser Tolmie, William Tennant Gairdner, and John Strong Newberry. Bend physician Stu Garrett carries on this physician-naturalist tradition, not exploring and reporting new species, but conserving Oregon’s native…
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Frank Callahan
Last Updated on March 23, 2024 by Tom Pratum When Frank Callahan was an impressionable lad of ten his grandfather Walter LaMinter told him: “You are from a long line of pioneers, you need to go out and make discoveries.” Fortunately Frank took his grandfather’s advice and applied it to the plant world with a…
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Joan Fosback, Mildred Theile, Lois Hopkins, Mary Carlson
Last Updated on March 23, 2024 by Tom Pratum 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…
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Barbara Robinson
Last Updated on March 23, 2024 by Tom Pratum 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…
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Russ Jolley
Last Updated on March 23, 2024 by Tom Pratum 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…
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Charlene Holzwarth
Last Updated on March 23, 2024 by Tom Pratum 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…