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…

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…

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…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Virginia’s political culture with the large number of university graduates in the state assembly, elites schooled in eugenics had a distinct advantage in affecting social policy. Thus, Virginia and its…

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…

Albert Commons

…an older half brother, Franklin Commons, who, while a student at the Academy in Unionville, in 1839, had purchased a copy of Darlington’s “Flora Cestrica,” and also had a tin…

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…

Harry E. Ahles

…ca. 1950, “On dividing road of Indiana and Illinois, Kankakee, background in Indiana” Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.,…

Charles Fuller Baker

…of tuberculosis had neither money nor friends to care for him. Baker took the money he had put aside for the trip and sent the lad to the mountains. For…

Richard Joel Reader

…Ecology doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   SOURCES: 1. Graduate Calendar 2002-2003. Botany. University of Guelph. https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/2002-2003/programs/bota.html accessed on 8 May 2023.        …