Ladies and gentlemen, fellow society members, it is my privilege and a great honor to introduce this year's C.P. Read Mentor Award winner Dr. Gerhard Schad. Dr. Schad has had a tremendous influence not on only me and his other mentees, but on the entire field of parasitology.
Gerry was born in 1928 to Mr. and Mrs. Karl Friedrich Schad. The only child of a relatively prosperous meat packer, Gerry grew up as a true “street urchin” on the mean streets of Brooklyn. He whiled away the lazy days of his youth playing stickball, peering through the fence at Ebbets field, and stealing chestnuts and fruit from the street vendors, or whatever they did in those days. But life wasn't all a bed of strudel for young Gerhard. Growing up during the war with a name like Gerhard “Adolf” Schad caused a few problems for the “noivous Joymen” kid, who...