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LEONARD AMBY MAYNARD 304 1946 he recognized that such a system would greatly facilitate the work of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in developing food policy for the Far East as well as for other parts of the world. ENCOURAGEMENT OF FACULTY COLLEAGUES Examples of his relationships with colleagues provide explanations for his success as the head of a major department of nutrition. He had a facility for demonstrating his confidence in junior faculty such that it improved their performance, but also in making the necessary liaison for them so that they could more easily start new programs. For example, he assisted Professor Charlotte Young in starting a "diet table" for students at Cornell by negotiating a formal arrangement with the director of the University Health Services, Dr. Norman Moore, so that Dr. Young would have an appointment at the clinic and would have responsibility for students with nutritional and metabolic problems. This diet table subsequently served as a model for similar programs set up in other institutions. As previously indicated, Maynard was able to bring the work of his colleagues to the attention of top officials in government agencies making food policy, as well as to food manufacturers interested in developing new products based on new findings in nutrition. Further, he recognized the genius of those around him and often knew when his colleagues had made fundamental contributions to biology which were not yet understood by others. As an example of the value of this quality, it is important to cite his acclaim of Clive McCay, Maynard's colleague at Cornell for 40 years. In his biographical sketch of McCay, published as a posthumous introduction to McCay's Notes on the History of Nutrition Research (1973), Maynard emphasized McCay's extraordinary contributions to the field of geron
