In the spring of 1978, shortly after the N.J. Mosquito Extermination Association did, the Northeastern Mosquito Control Association considered the establishment of a scholarship to honor Daniel M. Jobbins who had recently died. This was proposed by Robert Ostergaard. John Kuschke made the formal motion and Clarence Tourville seconded it. It passed. Joe Pannone (NMCA Treasurer) made some suggestions regarding funding, and Robert Armstrong (NMCA Secretary) moved that it be given to a student engaged in mosquito control activities. Everything passed. Eugene Marx (NMCA President) designated the first committee which was composed of Robert Armstrong, Jacques Berlin, Arthur Mason, Charlie Morris, Robert Ostergaard, and myself.
We met in the spring of 1978 and formulated the process and criteria for the award and recommended that henceforth the awards committee be made up of four members designated by the president. We broadened the eligible areas as follows: "...an area relevant to mosquito or biting fly control in the Northeast, for example, wetlands biology-ecology, entomology, or vector parasitology. Studies may range in nature from purely ecological to strict vector control". In the fall of 1978 we awarded the first NMCA Daniel M. Jobbins Scholarship. I was elected chair of the awards committee and served in this role until 1985, after which I continued as a member of the committee until the present. Since then a number of people have served as chair, people holding the position of NMCA vice-president: Malcolm Henry, Bob Kent, Ken Ludlam, Walt Montgomery, Paul Capotosto, and now Sarah MacGregor. Also among them was David Scott, who sadly to us, died recently at too young an age.
Last year Wayne Crans and I gave a talk at the New Jersey meetings regarding Professor Jobbins' contributions to mosquito control and education. I had not realized until then that twenty years had passed since his death and that this was the twentieth year during which we had offered this scholarship. It struck me that this was a good time to look at the scholarship, to consider to whom and for what we have given support. I determined to try to find out what had become of these people, and in this, have been more successful than I expected.
As we shall see, the awards have been given to applicants who were doing a wide variety of research and who have gone on to many constructive careers in the field. Our scholarship is not a large one, yet surely it has been of some help to the scholars, and after you have finished reading this, I think that you will join me in feeling satisfied at outcomes of the first twenty years of the NMCA Daniel M. Jobbins Scholarship. The results do honor to the NMCA and to the memory of Manley Jobbins.
The NMCA Daniel M. Jobbins Scholars
[year, scholar, project, school, adviser, present activities]
1978. Stephen P. Wraight. Bacillus sphaericus development.
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, N.Y.
(Hugo Jamnback, John Howard) Brazil?
1979. Kenneth R. Simmons. Taxonomy and biology of Simulium
venustum/verecundum complex. U. Massachusetts, Amherst. (John
Edman) Biologist, Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
1980. Jonathan F. Day. Effects of infection on vector feeding.
U. Mass., Amherst. (John Edman) Florida Medical Entomology Lab.
1981. Edward D. Walker. La Crosse virus and Aedes triseriatus.
U. Mass., Amherst. (John Edman) Department of Entomology,
Michigan State University
1982. Mustapha Debboun. Ecology and bionomics of eight early season
bog mosquitoes. University of New Hampshire, Durham. (John Burger)
Unknown
1983. No award. Only applicant had completed research. Tabanids.
1984. No applicants.
1985. Russell E. Coleman. Mammal host infections as they affect susceptibility to mosquito feeding. U. Mass., Amherst. (John Edman) Captain, U.S. Army,; in charge of emergency infectious diseases unit on Ebola virus. Next year will go to Medical Entomology lab in Bangkok.
1986. Paula J. S. Martin. feeding habits of Simulium. U.
Mass., Amherst. (John Edman) Interim Director, Human and Natural
Ecology Program, Emory University. Last year was on a Fullbright
Fellowship to study aquatic insects in east Africa.
1987. Robert A. Anderson. Use of rubidium/cesium markers to track
feeding of Culiseta melanura. U. Mass., Amherst. (John
Edman) Did Ph.D. at University of Manitoba. Now in second year
of post-doctoral fellowship at Univ. of Arrius in Denmark, working
on malaria in Tanzania.
1988. Emilio A. Kenny. Assessing the use and possible side-effects
of Arosurf in the control of Coquillettidia perturbans. Northeastern
University, Boston. (Ernest Ruber) Ph. D. candidate at University
of Puerto Rico, working on epidemiology of dog heartworm.
1989. No applicants.
1990. Emilio A. Kenny. Assessing the use and possible side-effects
of Arosurf in the control of Coquillettidia perturbans. Northeastern
University, Boston. (Ernest Ruber) Ph. D. candidate at University
of Puerto Rico, working on epidemiology of dog heartworm.
1991. Alberto Garcia. Host-seeking behavior of Culiseta melanura.
Rutgers University. (Wayne Crans) In Puerto Rico
1992. No money available; no award.
1993. Nicholas Komar. Reservoir hosts of EEE virus. Harvard School of Public Health. (Andrew Spielman).
Vertebrate Ecologist with CDC, Fort Collins, Colorado; working
with Hanta virus.
1994. Rajeev Vaidynathan. Evaluation of six species of mosquitoes as EEE vectors. U. Mass., Amherst. (John Edman).
Ph.D. candidate at The Hebrew University, Israel; working on leishmaniasis.
1995. Peter Bosak. Implications of overwintering success of Coquillettidia perturbans to adult populations and EEE. Rutgers University. (Wayne Crans)
Continuing graduate work.
1996. Ellen P. Orrell. Overwintering mechanism of EEE in a N.J.
Cedar swamp. Rutgers University. (Don Caccamise) Continuing graduate
work.
1997. Abelardo C. Moncayo. U. Mass., Amherst. Analysis of EEE
epidemiology in Massachusetts (John Edman). Continuing graduate
work.