Ernest Gibbes Patton

…and retired from that institution in 1987.1 Patton’s thesis advisor at UCN-Chapel Hill was J. E. Adams, and the title of his Master’s Thesis was “Influence of flax root byproducts…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. 2. Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Virginia Department…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…

John Robert Raper

…and training he desired, and feeling that he had been trapped by circumstances, did what he could to insure that his children obtain the education he had been denied. Mother’s…

Charles Edward Raynal

…year to show two known locations of the plant to Dr. William Chambers Coker, head of the Botany Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Raynal also sent…

Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

…tents, prepares camp meals, and canoes thru the Okefenokee wilderness and the adjoining Suwanee River.” (4) “For many years she taught a course in the wildflowers of western North Carolina…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

John Marshall Grant

…Jane Brown, was born in 1858 and died in 1934. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, they had six living children – among them Roy, Leslie, Vernon, Lloyd, Grace Gertrude…

Paul Sackman Marx

…our classmate, Phillip Rury, Paul did lots of chromosome squashes on that genus. He became an avid kyaker. To my knowledge Paul did not complete his Ph.D., but instead went…

What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…wellness in 1997. In the 2000s, she traveled abroad, living in seven different countries across four continents where she deepened and broadened her knowledge of plants. Relocating to the Piedmont…