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Honors, J. L. Lush, J. H. Hilton and G. W. Salisbury

Jay L. Lush, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture at Iowa State University, was honored at a special symposium and banquet sponsored jointly by the American Dairy Science Association, the American Society of Animal Science, and the Poultry Science Association. The symposium and banquet were held July 20, 1972, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University between the annual meetings of the former two societies.

Lush has received international recognition for his research and teaching. He poineered in developing the modern field of animal breeding by combining the sciences of genetics and statistics with husbandry knowledge to make a useful science for improving domestic animals. He developed these concepts for animal improvement in a quantitative manner and applied them in his research. An integral part of Dr. Lush's work was his teaching. This, together with his research, resulted in a center for training in animal breeding that gained world-wide reknown.