Mary Eugenia Wharton

…a couple of brief teaching jobs she acquired a position at Georgetown College [in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky]. There she taught classes for almost 30 years and became head of…

Budd Elmon Smith

…Union County, North Carolina. Ethel Smith became the Head Librarian of the college library, and it was named in her honor on 23 January 1959.5, 6 Ethel K. Smith, spouse…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…on 28 March 1863 in Vermont to Mary Elizabeth Squier (1833 – ?) and Romaine James Eggleston (1836-1925), a farmer. “Willie” had at least three siblings: Clara E. (b. ca….

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…

Clifford R. Parks

…The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Floral pigmentation studies in the genus Gossypium” and his thesis advisor was Dr. Stanley George Stephens. In addition to studying Gossypium at North…

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…1966 Lelong was among 35 “New Fulltime Faculty Members” of the University of South Alabama. His salary as an Assistant Professor of Biology was $7,000-$7,500, with a note that beginning…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…he was an active member for many years: Prof. J. W. Chickering, jun., and Prof. J.C. Gordon of the National deaf-mute college [Gallaudet College], Washington, read papers upon the condition…

Donald Culross Peattie

…Annotated List of the Plants Growing Spontaneously in Polk County, North Carolina, ad Adjacent Parts of South Carolina, in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Part I. Introduction: Soils, Cilmate, Etc., Ferns…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

…University of Minnesota, College of Education with a Bachelors of Science in June, 1928. (8) Frances Silliman had a long association with Bridgewater College in Virginia. She taught Biology at…