JoAnn M. Tenorio
{{Short description|American entomologist (1943–2019)}}
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| birth_name = JoAnn Marie Rummel
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|2|5}}
| birth_place = Chardon, Ohio
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|3|3|1943|2|5}}
| death_place = Honolulu
| nationality = American
| occupation = Entomologist, author, publishing manager
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| relatives = Rudolph Rummel
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JoAnn Marie Tenorio (February 5, 1943 – March 3, 2019) was an American entomologist who also worked in publishing in Hawaii. She was co-author of two popular manuals, What Bit Me? (1993) and What's Bugging Me? (1995).
Early life
JoAnn Marie Rummel was born in Chardon, Ohio,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41971563/joann_marie_tenorio/|title=JoAnn Marie Tenorio|date=2019-04-07|work=Honolulu Star-Advertiser|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=B6|via=Newspapers.com}} the daughter of Randolph Rummel and Nellie Gower Rummel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.valley-of-the-temples.com/obituaries/Jo-Ann-Tenorio/|title=Jo Ann Marie Tenorio - View Obituary & Service Information|website=Jo Ann Marie Tenorio Obituary|language=en|access-date=2020-01-09}} When she was a teenager, she moved to Hawaii to live with her older brother, political scientist Rudolph Rummel. She attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, studying entomology,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41971321/hawaiian_experts/|title=Hawaiian Experts|date=1969-04-17|work=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=102|via=Newspapers.com}} and completed doctoral studies there in 1971,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41972918/degrees_awarded_by_the_university_of/|title=Degrees Awarded by the University of Hawaii|date=1971-05-26|work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=12}} with a dissertation titled A revision of the Celyphidae (Diptera) of the Oriental region (published 1972).{{Cite journal|last=Tenorio|first=Joann M.|date=1972|title=A revision of the Celyphidae (Diptera) of the Oriental Region*|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1972.tb00847.x|journal=Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London|language=en|volume=123|issue=4|pages=359–453|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2311.1972.tb00847.x|issn=1365-2311}}
Career
Tenorio worked at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41970206/showing_off_nature/|title=Showing Off Nature|last=Altonn|first=Helen|date=1977-08-21|work=The Honolulu Advertiser|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=40|via=Newspapers.com}} where she was an acarologist in the Department of Entomology,Tenorio, JoAnn M. [http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/17(1)-7.pdf "Catalog of entomological types in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Subclass Acari"] Pacific Insects 17 (October 1976): 7-46. and Journals Manager at Bishop Museum Press. She later worked at University of Hawaii Press as a journals and book production manager. She was co-author (with Gordon M. Nishida) of What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin (1993){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-TnX5GLiT4C&q=Joann+Tenorio|title=What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'i's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin|last1=Nishida|first1=Gordon M.|last2=Tenorio|first2=JoAnn M.|date=1993|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-1492-2|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41971663/celebrate_a_publication/|title=Celebrate a publication|date=1993-05-08|work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=10|via=Newspapers.com}} and What’s Bugging Me?: Identifying and Controlling Household Pests in Hawaii (1995).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ehBWyagf2gC&q=JoAnn+Tenorio|title=What's Bugging Me?: Identifying and Controlling Household Pests in Hawai'i|last1=Tenorio|first1=JoAnn M.|last2=Nishida|first2=Gordon M.|date=1995|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-1742-8|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41971082/pests/|title=Pests|last=Viotti|first=Vicki|date=1995-10-22|work=The Honolulu Advertiser|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=48|via=Newspapers.com}} "Tenorio came up with the idea for What Bit Me? after answering hundreds of phone queries from local residents who wanted to know if they had been bitten or stung by something dangerous," according to one review.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41970353/if_youve_ever_hollered_ouch_you/|title=If you've ever hollered 'Ouch!' you should check out this book|last=Ronck|first=Ronn|date=1993-05-23|work=The Honolulu Advertiser|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=64|via=Newspapers.com}}
Her research involved Hawaiian mites and Celyphus (a genus of beetle flies), and Idiocelyphus (another genus of beetle flies). Scholarly publications included Ecotoparasites of Hawaiian rodents (1980). She was co-author of a volume of Insects of Hawaii (1969). She won the Excellence in Production award from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association in 1999 for her work on Atlas of Hawaii, Third Edition. {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41970824/hawaii_atlas_wins_award_as_book_of_the/|title=Hawaii atlas wins award as book of the year|last=Hoover|first=Will|date=1999-10-16|work=The Honolulu Advertiser|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=21|via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
Joann Rummel married Joaquin A. Tenorio, a fellow entomology student, in 1962.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41972805/marriage/|title=Marriage|date=1962-01-17|work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|access-date=2020-01-09|pages=39}} She died in 2019, aged 76 years, in Honolulu.
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Category:American women entomologists