Prominent Mormon Ecologist Arthur Hasler, 93

Arthur Davis Hasler, prominent ecologist and limnologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences and pioneer LDS Church member in Madison, Wisconsin died Friday, March 23rd in Madison. Hasler is best known professionally for his discovery of "olfactory imprinting," the mechanism salmon use to migrate back to the stream in which they were born. Hasler served an LDS mission to Germany, gaining there a life-long love of the German language, and also was an accomplished musician, playing the horn in the Madison Symphony for 25 years.

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Mission to Japan Leads Heid to Baseball Scouting Career

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON -- Ted Heid, who served an LDS mission to Japan as a young man, is now director of Pacific Rim scouting for the Seattle Mariners baseball franchise. Heid has learned that baseball is a bridge between US culture and Japan, "Out of the ruins of the bomb, one of the first things they built was a baseball park. . . During the allied occupation, baseball was a big part of that country coming back together. Our armed forces rebuilt fields right away. Our servicemen liked it because they could play, and it was a chance for Japanese and Americans to play against each other."

Rising Sun: Once a U.S. enemy, Japan now shares one of America's deepest passions Seattle WA Post-Intelligencer 30Mar01 P2

Ad Campaign Used Mormonism to Seem Real

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- An ad created by local Renault ad executives attracted the attention of thousands of Colombian women, who thought that the fake personal ad was real. Six thousand women sent email messages in to a man who claimed to be an American searching for a Colombian wife. To make the fake website created for the man seem more real, the website claimed that his brother, Alex, was Mormon and serving as a missionary in Ecuador.

Renault Ad Breaks Hearts in Colombia Fox News (AP) 30Mar01 P6

Researcher Arthur Hasler, 93, dies

MADISON, WISCONSIN -- Arthur Hasler, 93, a renowned expert and researcher of freshwater lakes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison died Friday, March 23rd after a long illness. Hasler directed the University of Wisconsin-Madison Limnology Laboratory from 1963 to 1968 and was a member of the University's faculty for 41 years. An LDS Church member, Hasler was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also played horn with the Madison Symphony Orchestra for 25 years.

Renowned freshwater lake researcher dies Minneapolis MN Star-Tribune (AP) 26Mar01 P2

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