Mrs. Dorothy Gould, widow of Dr. Charles J. Gould, established the Charles J. Gould Student Travel Award. This award honors her husband by helping support plant pathology graduate student travel to professional meetings. Dr. Charles Gould was born February 28, 1912 in Eaton, Ohio. He attended high school in Huntington High and graduated in 1930. In his High School Yearbook (1930) he was described as “one who never wastes a valuable minute of time!” After high school he attended Marshall University and received his A.B cum laude in 1934. He attended Iowa State College (now Iowa State University) and earned his M.S. degree in 1937 and his Ph.D. degree in 1942. After graduating Dr. Gould moved west in August 1941 and joined the staff of the Washington State College at the Western Washington Experimental Station in Puyallup. He began his career as an assistant professor and worked to the full professor rank in 1951. After 37 years of service to the ornamental bulb and the turf industries of the Pacific Northwest and of Western Canada he retired on June 23, 1977. Dr. Gould was a fellow member of the American Phytopathological Society.
Dr. Gould wrote more than 400 articles for various bulletins and journals, edited a “Handbook of Bulb Growing and Forcing” in 1957 and, after retirement, published “The History of the Bulb Industry in Washington State” in 1993.
Dr. Gould was always a Boy Scout at heart. He loved hunting and fishing, collecting petrified wood and any opportunity to be outdoors; especially camping with family and friends. He became an Eagle Scout in West Virginia in 1930 and continued his interest in Scouting throughout his life. For his contributions to scouting the Mount Rainier Council (now Pacific Harbors) presented him with the Silver Beaver Award in 1963 and in 1981, the first distinguished Eagle Scout Award ever presented by the Council.
Dr. Gould married Dorothy Ebersole on August 27, 1940 at the time of his death on December 31, 1997 they were married for 57 years and had two sons, James F. Gould and Carl D. Gould.
2007 Award Recipients
