People of ASP

After joining the ASP during his grad studies at the Ohio State University in the early 1970s, Charles Hufford attended his first ASP meeting in 1972, and has since made more than 50 presentations of his research, including his life-long research on herbal dietary supplements. He has enjoyed many ASP meetings, including the 1973 meeting at Jekyll Island, GA, the 1976 meeting in Cable, WI, and the 1983 and 1995 meetings held at the University of Mississippi. The 1997 meeting at the Univ. Iowa was also memorable due to the quality of the academic setting and the overall scientific excellence. As president, he instituted policies which streamlined business meetings, and helped establish the independent position of website manager. His most significant long range contribution was, perhaps, his administrative reforms of the ASP Foundation, where he introduced the idea of a permanent chair, and persuaded John Cassady to accept the position. The Foundation has since greatly benefited from John’s administrative and fund-raising experience, as well as from the longer term stability of the relationships built with its potential funding sources. Throughout his long involvement with the ASP and other societies, he has come to greatly admire the ASP and its members for their dedication and high level of involvement. As a primarily volunteer-based society, he remarks that he is often “surprised at how well the society works without a paid staff,” and that the “society functions quite well and is financially sound due to huge contributions by key members of the society and to a large group of loyal people.” (Christina M. Coleman)