The late Dr. David and Mrs. Wanda Kenney

William Delbert “Pete” Carter and his younger brother James Paul Carter grew up in Eldorado, Illinois, in the home of their parents James w. and Marjorie Carter. They had much opportunity to enjoy the out-of-doors in the fields and woods of Saline, White, and neighboring counties, and in the bottomland backwaters and streams of the Saline, Little Wabash, and Wabash Rivers. Their father always kept bird dogs while they were growing up, and their grandfather, William Carter, who lived next door, told tales of fishing camps and hunting trips of years before. It was not surprising that they chose to study wildlife and fisheries management at Southern Illinois University. Pete graduated in 1950 and Jim in 1958.

Pete Carter spent a productive career in wildlife management, most of it with the u. s. Fish and Wildlife Service as a manager of national wildlife refuges. He carried out demanding assignments on the Upper Mississippi NWR in Minnesota, at the Fort Niobrara NWR in Nebraska, the Crab Orchard NWR in
Illinois, the Horicon NWR in Wisconsin, the Hart Mountain NWR in Oregon, and the Sheldon NWR in Nevada. After an Area Office assignment in Boise, Idaho, he retired in 1981 and now lives with his wife Allynn in Payette, Idaho, where he has much opportunity to pursue his personal interests in fish and wildlife. He practices a high conservation ethic in all his outdoor activities.

Jim Carter spent most of his professional life in fisheries management work for the state of Kentucky, where he became the assistant director of its Division of Fisheries. His interest in an outdoor life and recreation continued. One of his principal contributions was to a comprehensive study of the fishes of Kentucky. He designed a number of important research projects that were carried out at various universities. For several years before his untimely death in 1974 he lived in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where his wife, now Mrs. Joseph R. McClellan, continues to live.

David Kenney married Wanda Carter, the older sister of Pete and Jim, in 1946, and thereafter was privileged to share in many of their good times out-of-doors. Like them, he had grown up with hunting and fishing, in his case in Jackson and Perry and nearby counties, in Illinois. He continued those interests and had the good fortune to be allowed to serve as director of the Illinois Department of Conservation from 1977 to 1984. He lives in Carbondale and still has a bird dog in his kennel and fishing rods ready in the shed.