. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Gaza to Long Beach wnimiiiiiiHiiiimiHuw Ajournex from grove to bog Azmi Y. Shawa's interest in igriculture began in his parents' ; )range groves in the ancient eaport city of Gaza in Palestine, vhere he was born in 1924. His odyssey in the field )rought him to the , then j 0 Libya, then back to the I Lgain, where, today, he is super- isor of the Coastal Washington lesearch and Extension Unit : n Long Beach, Wash. I The Washington facility is me of two research and I xperiment stations in the nation 'hat speciahze exclusive
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Gaza to Long Beach wnimiiiiiiHiiiimiHuw Ajournex from grove to bog Azmi Y. Shawa's interest in igriculture began in his parents' ; )range groves in the ancient eaport city of Gaza in Palestine, vhere he was born in 1924. His odyssey in the field )rought him to the , then j 0 Libya, then back to the I Lgain, where, today, he is super- isor of the Coastal Washington lesearch and Extension Unit : n Long Beach, Wash. I The Washington facility is me of two research and I xperiment stations in the nation 'hat speciahze exclusively in ranberries. The other is in East Vareham, Mass. "I went to agricultural school n Gaza," Shawa said. "Initially, was interested in irrigation but later switched to ; In 1949 he came to Utah State University, where he received his BA in horticulture— "as a young man I knew the was the best country in the world for ; In 1953 he received his master's degree from Colorado State University and then went to Washington State University COVER PHOTO A SMILING Azmi Y. Shawa, supervisor of the Coastal Washington Research and Extension Unit in Long Beach, Wash. to work on his doctorate. After two years he had to set aside his studies because of family responsibiUties. IN 1955 SHAWA went to work for Washington State University's Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, Wash. After two years there, he was invited by the Libyan government to do horticultural research and experimentation in that country. "I worked on fruit trees in general," Shawa recalled. "Apple and pear trees grow in the mountain areas, where there is a cool chmate. If you go down to the coast, you find a Mediterrenean cUmate, like in (continued on page 8). ORRALING berries in a bog in the Long Beach, Wash., Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced
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