AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PARASITOLOGISTS

I want to thank all our members and guests who are attending this meeting, especially the students, and even more, those students and colleagues who are presenting papers, posters, and symposium contributions. I also thank those of you who served as session heads. And I certainly want to thank BioAnalytical Instruments, BioRad Laboratories, Fisher Scientific L.L.C., Glaxo-Wellcome Puerto Rico, Inc., Merck and Company Inc., Pfizer Inc., the Puerto Rico EPSCoR Program, the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, Puerto Rico Convention Bureau, Rones de Puerto Rico (PRIDCO), Smith Kline Beecham, the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, UPR Medical Sciences Campus, who contributed to the success of our joint meeting with the Society of Protozoologists. I also wish to thank the following outgoing officers and committee members for their service to the Society: Amy Crews-Oyen, Dick Seed, Dennis Minchella, Kelli Sapp, Walter Boeger, Wilma Stark, Dele Ogunremi, Fernando Anaya Velazquez, Richard Komuniecki, Mike Ruff, Austin Macinnis, Steve Upton, Clint Carter, Ralph Lichtenfels, Scott Gardner, Jack Bristol, Sherwin Desser, Byron Blagburn, C. A. Speer, Alan Kocan, John Sauer, Helen Profous-Juchelka, K. Darwin Murrell, Ann Donoghue, Rich Clopton, Byron Blagburn, Bill Granath, Rich Clopton, Gayle Insler, Chuck Blend, John Harley, Peter Olson, Victor Apanius, Robin Overstreet, Jefferey Lotz, Stephen Bullard, George Conder, Steve Upton, Cindy Cordery, Tim Yoshino, Lora Ballweber, Ann Donoghue, David Marcogliese, Thomas Platt, and Dolores Hill. We have prepared certificates for each of you; please collect them from George Cain or Tim Walker.