December  16, 1925 – March 18, 2018

• William Woodin III
• His grandfather (also named William Woodin) was President Franklin Roosevelt’s first treasury secretary
• Bill’s Step-Father was a founder of the American Quarter Horse Association
• bachelor in zoology at the University of Arizona
• master in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
• 1950 kingsnake species named after him: lampropeltis pyromelana woodini
• volunteer for the Desert Museum before it opened
• 1954 to 1971 – Executive Director Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
• called “the most promising young naturalist in the United States” by Roy Chapman Andrews, a former American Museum of Natural History director
• 1955 – co-founder International Ammunition Association
• active in European Cartridge Research Association
• compiled “one of the great collections of ammunition in the world,”
• 1973 Woodin Laboratory built
   3,000-square-foot underground vault
• 1975 – Consulted on the Kennedy assassination research
• 160,000 cartridges tracing the evolution of small arms ammunition
• 1998 co-authored three volumes A History of Modern U.S. Small Arms Ammunition
• Technical Advisor to and Distinguished Life Member of AFTE
  (Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners)
• Consultant to the U. S. Army Armament Research and Development Command (Armament Concepts Office)