Chester G. ForsheyChick Forshey was born on March 21, 1925 in Lower Salem, Ohio to James and Opal Forshey . He joined the US Navy after graduating high school and saw action aboard the John Q. Roberts. He was honorably discharged in 1946 and enrolled in Ohio State University where he earned both his Bachelor's (Horticulture) and Ph.D ( (Pomology) degrees. He married Lorraine Sweetland in 1956 and they had four children: Douglas (Manakin-Sabot, Virginia), Gregory (deceased), Patricia (deceased) and Debra (Palmyra, Virginia). He also had five grandchildren: Meghann and Stephanie Forshey and Kate, Jilian and Logan Stutz. Dr. Forshey, Professor Emeritus, was on the staff of both Cornell University and the New York State Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. He spent most of his career at the Hudson Valley Laboratory where he was eventually promoted to Superintendent of the facility. He was responsible for setting up an analytical laboratory on fruit investigations and carried on a concentrated program of pomological research. In 1963, Dr. Forshey took his family to South America where he spent a year as a temporary member of the Rockefeller Foundation staff with its Chilean Agricultural program. He was named honorary professor at the Schools of Agronomy at both the University of Chile and the Catholic University. Dr. Forshey was a member of Sigma Xi, American Society for Horticultural Science, American Chemical Society and the Soil Science Society of America. He published over 140 articles and co-authored a book, "Training and Pruning Apple and Pear Trees", which is used as a textbook at many colleges to this day. He also wrote the article on "Apples" in the World Book Encyclopedia. He was a popular speaker at annual meetings of the Horticultural Society where he was noted for his writing style and terse form of commentary, both written and verbal. He retired in 1991 and relocated with his wife to Venice, Florida. He passed away May 9, 2017.