Resolution of Respect Stanley Ivan Dodson 1944–2009

摘要

Stanley was born on 26 July 1944 in Lincoln, Illinois to Ivan Frank Dodson and Dorothy Wanda Dodson. When he was 10 years old his family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado where his father had an opportunity to prospect for uranium. It was there that Stanley learned his love of the West, deserts, mountains, and ponds. After graduating from Grand Junction High School in 1962, Stanley attended Yale University and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966, conducting research with John Brooks for his undergraduate Honors Thesis. While at Yale he met Virginia Elizabeth Joseph, and they married on 16 January 1967. Stanley and Ginny enrolled in doctoral programs with Tommy Edmondson at the University of Washington, where Stanley received his Doctorate in Zoology in 1970. He spent his entire professional career on the faculty in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1970 until his retirement in 2008. Stanley's life was cut short on 23 August 2009 when he died of injuries sustained in an accident while bicycling at the Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction. He is survived by his wife, Ginny, his daughter, Sarah Emily Dodson Wilson, his son-in-law, Ian David Sobaczewski Wilson, his grandchildren, Kate Lorraine Wilson and Henry August Wilson, his mother, and his sisters Dian April Dunn (Frank) and Sarah Annette Martin. He was predeceased by his father.