Stanley Jennings Carpenter, Colonel, U.S. Army, retired, deceased, a noted medical Entomologist (See: Medical entomology), was born December 9, 1904 in West Liberty, Morgan County, Kentucky, and died after an extended illness on August 28, 1984 at Santa Rosa, California at age 79. Following is based on the text of a memorial lecture (lightly edited & elaborated for this venue) presented by a colleague on March 24, 1997: