2018: Editorial


Editorial 
 

 The June 2018 issue of Clinical Theriogenology is the last issue I will have the privilege of 
editing.  When Dr. Patrick Hearn called me now over a decade ago and told me that the Society for 
Theriogenology Executive Board was considering establishing a new journal for the purpose of 
publishing clinically relevant papers and the proceedings of the annual meeting and asked if I would 
consider being the editor I had no concept that the adventure would last this long.  A five-year 
commitment seemed reasonable at the time but we are now publishing Volume 10.  This endeavor was a 
perfect transition from being an active faculty member and clinician to a stint as a college administrator 
and finally a professor emeritus and has allowed me to continue contact with the members of the Society 
for Theriogenology and the American College of Theriogenologists and provide extraordinary continuing 
education.   
 I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the executive boards and management of the 
Society and the College for allowing me to participate in this endeavor and to the authors who submitted 
manuscripts for publication.  I would also like to give special recognition to all of the colleagues on 
whose time and patience I have imposed by requesting that they serve as manuscript reviewers.  This 
support is often invisible and insufficiently recognized but is essential to insure the quality of the 
information presented.   
 Dr. Augustine Peter has been appointed as the new editor of Clinical Theriogenology and I ask 
that all of the members support him as he brings new ideas and energy to Clinical Theriogenology and 
takes the journal to the next level of excellence. 
 I could not have asked for a more rewarding career than to have been a veterinarian and a 
theriogenologist.  But now it is time to step away and become a full-time grandfather and toy maker.  So 
in the words of one of my favorite non-theriogenologist authors, Douglas Adams, “So long and thanks for 
all the fish.”  Best regards to all. 
 
Bob Youngquist 

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