Background
Fracker, Stanley Black was born on April 8, 1889 in Ashton, Iowa, United States. Son of George H. and Nettie (Black) Fracker.
Fracker, Stanley Black was born on April 8, 1889 in Ashton, Iowa, United States. Son of George H. and Nettie (Black) Fracker.
Bachelor of Arts, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, 1910. Student Lakeside Laboratory of University of Iowa, summer 1909, University of Michigan, 1910-1911, Cornell Univercity, summer 1911. Master of Science, louisiana State College Agriculture and Mech.
Arts, 1912; Doctor of Philisophy, University of Illinois, 1914. Doctor of Science, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa, 1941.
Assistant state nursery inspector Iowa, 1912-1913. Assistant, acting, and state entomologist Wisconsin, 1915-1934. Charge plant disease control.
Bureau Entomological and Plant Quarantine, 1934-1942. Research coordinator, Agriculture Research Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, 1942-1951, assistant to the administrator, 1951-1958. Assistant to director Office Science Personnel, National Academy Science, since 1959.
Agricultural research consultant Research and Development Board Department of Defense, 1948-1954. Member government patents board, 1950-1957. Member National Forest advisory board, 1950-1954.
United States representative International Phytopathol. Conference, Hague, Netherlands, 1950. Member United States delegation F.A.O. conference, Washington, 1949, Rome, 1953, 57, F.A.O. council, Rome, 1950, 52.
Chairman plant protection committee Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations), Rome, 1955. Washington representative Agricultural Research Administration on research in Alaska, 1948-1953. United States representative at quarantine conference, Suva, Fiji, 1951.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Entomological Society American. Member American Association Economics Entomological (chairman of the section plant quarantine and inspection, 1935), Entomological Society Washington (president 1936), International Entomological Congress, Organisation of Professional Employes of Department of Agriculture (president 1935-1937), American Phytopathol. Society, Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, Potomac River Power Squadron, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.
Clubs: Cosmos, Fossils (Washington).
Married Grace E. Parker, September 10, 1914. Children: Mistress Doris F. Hoard, Alice Lorraine (Mistress Philip A. Randall, Junior.