UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 16 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Since he was 11 years old, Bruce McPheron knew he was going to become an entomologist one day. It wasn't simply a dream but a lifelong plan put in motion while he was a 4-H youth in Ohio exploring the county fairgrounds and its exhibits.
Through his years of higher education and graduate work at Ohio State and Illinois, respectively, and time as a county Extension agent, he never lost sight of his goal. Then in 1988, he was hired as an assistant professor of entomology at Penn State. Now, decades later and retired, McPheron and his wife, Marilyn, herself a former University staff member as well as a Penn State graduate...