. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Raymond B. Wilcox The industry lost a leading sci- entific worker, entirely unexpect- edly, on Saturday, November 22, in the death, through a heart attack, of Raymond B. Wilcox. He was pathologist, USDA, and Professor of Horticulture, Rutgers Univer- sity, stationed at Pemberton, N. J. Apparently in excellent health. Dr. Wilcox when stricken was attend- ing a football game with his fam- ily at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Taken to Easton Hospital by ambulance, he was pronounced, dead upon arrival. He was 61. Professor W
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Raymond B. Wilcox The industry lost a leading sci- entific worker, entirely unexpect- edly, on Saturday, November 22, in the death, through a heart attack, of Raymond B. Wilcox. He was pathologist, USDA, and Professor of Horticulture, Rutgers Univer- sity, stationed at Pemberton, N. J. Apparently in excellent health. Dr. Wilcox when stricken was attend- ing a football game with his fam- ily at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Taken to Easton Hospital by ambulance, he was pronounced, dead upon arrival. He was 61. Professor Wilcox was widely known for his research on virus and fungous diseases of cranber- ries, blueberries and raspberries. A field investigator for the USDA, he had been associated with the New Jersey Cranberry and Blue- berry Research Laboratory for the past 20 years. He discovered, de- scribed and named "Blueberry Stunt ; Lately he had been working intensively upon the cranberry cross-breeding program, and only a short time prior to his death has assisted in arranging an important gathering to select most promising cranberry hybrids at Whitesbog and other Jersey prop- erties. In fact, he was included in a group photo at Whitesbog in last month's issue of CRANBER- RIES. A detailed account of "Ray" Wilcox appeared in the is- sue of this magazine for February, 1947. He had made his home at Pem- berton for several years, but for the past few years had lived on Woodland Road, Burlington. Sur- viving are his wife. Hazel (Hoag) Wilcox, a brother, Dr. Arthur N. Wilcox, of the University of Min- nesota, a daughter, Mrs. Russell W. Strickland, North Creek, N. Y., and a son, Richard, junior at La- fayette College. He was a member of the Con- gregational church. He was a member of the American Phyto- pathological Society. Born at Ki- owa, Kansas, February 1, 1889, he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1912, and received the degree of Master of Science
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