Jack Lattin Oral History Interview

Jack Lattin arrived at OSU in 1955, joined the Department of Entomology, which was then joint with Department of Forestry, and, as with many academic entomologists, mixed his entomology work between basic science and applied issues in agriculture and forestry, but he gravitated to the College of Science. He became an eager participant in the Andrews Forest program in 1976 and launched a 15-year effort to catalog the invertebrates of the Andrews Forest, drawing on the help of more than one hundred colleagues from around the world who were specialists in different habitats and taxonomic groups. This team included many OSU students and faculty, and the effort attracted many entomologists to the forest, resulting in a wealth of research on the more than 4000 species (“spineless creatures,” as he would call them), who have a home in the Andrews.