JO CAMPBELL, President ECOTOPICS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Started on hometown newspaper; Daytona Beach (Florida) News-Journal. Later had a bureau covering Washington and the United Nations for an Urdu daily in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty years as writer/editor with the press service of the U.S. Information Agency: Writing assignments in Senegal, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, including Zanzibar; in the U.S. covering events ranging from Capitol Hill and world trade conferences to the 1984 Olympics. Assignments on contract post-retirement included: Las Cruces, NM, and Lubbock, TX, for stories on water resources management for Middle East; Los Alamos National Laboratory for stories on a Latin America Energy program. Member National Press Club; Press Club of San Francisco; Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press; International Women's Writing Guild; National WritersUnion; Conservation Voters; Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society; Natural Resources Defense Council; member, Board, Mendocino County American Civil Liberties Union; member Worcester and Sonoma Counties Branches, NAACP. Honors: USIA for writings in Nigerian Press 1986. Jefferson Fellowship, George Washington University 1981-82. Member, Maryland Governor's Task Force to Examine State Pension Investment in South Africa. (Only woman and only member who had been to Africa.) Served three years as representative of Ocean City, MD, on state Coastal and Watershed Resources Advisory Committee; as Third Vice President Worcester County Branch NAACP. and Member, Worcester County Commission for Women. Listed in appropriate Marquis’ Who’s Who volumes. Moved in October 1998 to Willits, CA. Phone: 707-456-0841 fax: 707-456-0713 e-mail: jocee@ecotopics.com Hyman Rudoff, Ph.D. Dr. Rudoff was born in Montreal, Canada in 1912, but has been a citizen of the United States since early in 1943. He received his baccalaureate and doctoral degrees from McGill University in 1933 and 1937, respectively, specializing in organic chemistry. He also held a post-doctorate scholarship at Oxford University in England in 1937-39. Upon returning to the United States he briefly did photo-dye research at Agfa-Ansco, but soon joined the Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG) research laboratory, where he worked on transparent plastics for military use, and where he obtained his first patents. He joined the Los Alamos Weapons Laboratory in 1944, and remained there for the rest of the war. His work at Los Alamos was on conventional explosives and electronic instruments. He returned to plastics work at Shawinigan Resins, and in 1949 joined General Electric for further development work in plastics and insulation. Here he was awarded several patents. His final industrial work was with the AM Corporation as Manager of Supplies – essentially plastics. During his earlier days in the University, he had begun a long affair with commercial and personal photography, which matured into photo-journalism; this continues to the present time, along with an interest in marine and ecological topics, and in French and German languages. A personal project in the middle nineties was a series of over 500 slides of the building of the last "skipjack" sloop, the "Nathan of Dorchester". He gave these slides to the Chesapeake Maritime Museum in 2001. He wrote articles for the boating press for several years, was for a time Technical Editor of "Chesapeake Bay" magazine, and has served as a consultant in a variety of connections. After some 25 years in Cambridge MD, he moved, along with Josephine Campbell, to Willits, CA, in the foothills of a minor mountain range. Here he transferred his major interests from boating to ecology. He writes for "Ecotopics" the "e-zine" published by Ecotopics International News Service. This little girl came walking down the road to the orphanage which I visited on assignment in 1984 with a Congressional Delegation concerned for the plight of refugees. Her self-possession and courage stood out. (Photo by Jo Campbell)   Member of the Internet Link Exchange Questions or comments? e-mail Jo Campbell for additional information copyright information Last update 8/2/01