Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…beloved by her husband and admired by people across North Carolina. She died on August 28 in Chapel Hill. Born on May 24, 1925 in Birmingham, Alabama to Emma and…

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

…meetings with much regularity until the infirmities of advancing age made it necessary for him to give up the trips from his New Jersey home, and finally led him to…

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

…the name of Charles Mitchell purchased the estate… [and later] William Wrigley (of chewing gum fame) purchased the property, which adjoined his own Green Gables estate. It remains in the…

Peter Edward “Ed” Bostick

…investigation of Chandler Mountain, St. Clair Co., Alabama. Castanea 32(3): 133-154. SOURCES: http://www.lib.unc.edu/biology/theses.html accessed on 30 December 2010 http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/oralhistories/Ed%20Bostick.pdf accessed on 30 December 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_State_University accessed on 30 December 2010…

Paul Otto Schallert

…neighborhood, and one of only a few remaining in Winston-Salem… In 1920, Paul O. Schallert bought the property. Schallert was a physician and surgeon, and had an office in the…

Maeburn Bruce Huneycutt

…a complicated man—I found letters from students who had him as a professor many years ago. They continued to write him and obviously had very deep affection for him,” says…

Walking with Walter and William

…publication of his flora. His herbarium was taken to England by Fraser and eventually purchased by the British Museum of Natural History [BM] where it still exists. Since his death,…

Emma Lewis Lipps

…tract of land located in Floyd County, Georgia that had never been cleared for cultivation. Dr. Lipps used the forest as a natural lab for teaching biology and a great…

Carol Sue Bissett Carpenter

…University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records. 2. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Carpenter&GSiman=1&GScty=23084&GRid=90884629& accessed on 15 January 2015. 3. George E. Carpenter Obituary. Obits for Life. http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/661032/Carpenter-George.php accessed on…