Clark T. Rogerson, 1918-2001

[Thiers, Barbara]

I am sad to report that retired mycologist, Senior Curator, Dr. Clark T.
Rogerson, died on Friday, September 7, in Ogden, Utah. Clark was born in
1918 and would have been 83 in October. Clark arrived at The New York
Botanical Garden in 1958, from the University of Kansas, where he was an
assistant professor. He did his graduate work at Cornell University. Clark
spent his entire career specializing in the Hypocreales, an order of fungi
primarily parasitic on other fungi. He also was very interested in floristic
work, especially in his native Utah. He spent most summers collecting all
kinds of fungi in Utah and he had hoped to write up the results of his Utah
work before he died, but never did. Clark was very active with a number of
amateur mycological societies, and the Connecticut Mycological Society
(COMA) named their annual foray after him. He was active until 1997 when
complications from diabetes forced him to move back to Utah, where his
sister was his primary care-giver. Condolences may be sent to her at:

Mrs. Norma Darby
2848 North Highway 162
Eden, UT 84310

Dr. Barbara M. Thiers
Director of the Herbarium
New York Botanical Garden <http://www.nybg.org/>
200th St. & Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458-5126
Email: bthiers at nybg.org
Voice: 718-817-8622
Fax: 718-562-6780