First
candidate!
Vem
blir stipendiat 2007?
Josef
Stark Scholarship Foundation Award 2007
Utdelat under Apimondia på Irland augusti 2005 till: Richard Jefferson
Från höger Professor Octaaf Van Laere, Belgien ordförande för
symposiet ’inhemska irländska mörka biet’, Dr Katarina Stark, Uppsala, utdelare
av stipendiet, Richard Jefferson, Whitby, England tar emot stipendiet och
Eimear Burton, Irland, ordförande för Irländska
Biodlarnas Riksförbund.
BIBBA wishes to propose Richard Jefferson who is 18 years of age
and is known to us as a quite unassuming young man.
He has been well known to the Yorkshire Beekeepers for some years as his
Grandfather who is an Ex President of the Yorkshire Beekeeper's Association has
been taking Richard to meetings and teaching him beekeeping since he was very
small.
Richard passed his Basic Beekeeping Examination when he was 14.
He has carried out tasks such as making nuclei for re-queening, shook swarm
preparation, taken colonies to heather and extracted honey crops. He has given
demonstrations in bee's wax preparation and in the making of candles.
Richard has now taken his Advanced Education Examinations in Electronics,
Mathematics, Physics and Business Studies and awaits the results in August.
He is at present in full time employment with an Electrical Engineer in his home
town of Whitby, but there will not be a problem if he is successful in obtaining
this award.
He will be going to Apimondia with his Grandfather from the Sunday until the
following Friday.
Regards Tom Robinson.
In
remembrance of Dr. Josef Stark,
president of SICAMM 1996 - 2004 
To commemorate his life's work a Trust Fund is established for the
benefit of worthy young man and woman who have furthered the development
of beekeeping and the conservation of the Dark European Honey Bee (Apis
mellifera mellifera) in a spirit of which Josef would have approved
of. Josef Anthony Stark was born on the 18th of August 1942 in "Regio
di Italia", now Slovenia, as the youngest son of agronomist
Anton Starc and his wife Olga, a teacher of domestic science.
The family had close connections with Austria where as a boy
Josef spent his summers. He attended boarding school in Croatia,
where he completed the high-school examination in engineering,
specialising in agriculture. After military service, as a
parachutist, in 1965 Josef attended the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, gaining a Master's Degree in
Agricultural Sciences in 1975 and a doctorate in 1982. He
remained at the University of Uppsala for 33 years, including 20
years as Director of the Bee Division. Since 1997 he was elected
president of the European Black Bee Association (SICAMM). He
married Christina, another teacher of domestic science and they
have one daughter, Katarina, who is a
PhD pharmacologist at the University of Uppsala.
On
March 1st 2004 the bee keeping world lost one of its
most eminent researchers and conservationists, with the
death
of Dr Josef Stark. Those present at the 1998 joint BIBBA/SICAMM
conference in York, or the 1999 conference at Kirkley
Hall will remember his fascinating accounts of restoring
wildflower meadows through the agency of honeybees and
cattle and his pioneering uses of honeybees as monitors
of environmental pollution.
Founders