Delzie Demaree

…earned a B.S. in Botany from Indiana University in 1920, then M.S. in botany from Chicago University in 1921. He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1932, and the…

Emma Lewis Lipps

…curating vascular specimens collected by Dr. Lipps include Arkansas Tech University (APCR), Auburn University Museum of Natural History (AUA), Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT, SMU, VDB), Carnegie Museum of…

Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale

…Pacific Grove. In 1952 she married [Walter] Lane Barksdale. They spent the following year in Paris, both working on research projects. In 1955, Alma became a Research Associate at The…

Stephen Gaddy Boyce

…and the family lived in Ansonville Township.3 Stephen graduated in 1949 with a B.S. in Forestry from North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina. He continued at NC State…

Seraph A. Bliss

…Bliss entered Mount Holyoke College in 1888 and earned a A. B. and B. S. in 1895. She was a lab assistant in the Physics Department at Mount Holyoke College…

Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price

…served in the Union Army… Just how Miss Sadie became interested in natural history we do not know. It seems probable, however, that she first became interested in painting, and…

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…

Duane Francis Houck

…Conservation Foundation’s website: http://www.tcf-barc.org/index.html and http://www.tcf-barc.org/barcgeninfo.htm Hurricane Iris October 8-9, 2001 in Belize: Our first priority was recovering the herbarium. For those of you who have not seen it, Duane…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…investigate UNC’s discriminatory practices in wages, hiring and admission. This investigation resulted in positive changes for female students, faculty and employees. In 1980 she was inducted into the Order of…

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

…Garden, named Phlox lighthipei in honor of Rev. Lighthipe. This wildflower is found in pinelands of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. There is a single record of Phlox lighthipei from