March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots

…of North Carolina School of the Arts: https://www.uncsa.edu/about/how-the-pickles-got-their-name.aspx College of DuPage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_DuPage Portland Thorns FC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Thorns_FC University of Oregon mandrake: https://fishduck.com/2020/09/the-duck-that-couldnt-fly-oregons-mandrake/ University of Oregon ducks: https://fishduck.com/2020/09/the-duck-that-couldnt-fly-oregons-mandrake/ Naval Stores: https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/naval-stores-and-longleaf, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022652475/…

Effie Boon

…school and set goals that lead to college or technical careers, and ensures that graduates will have the resources to begin college. This scholarship was established on the 25 anniversary…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…studies. He completed his Masters thesis, “The pedicellate species of Trillium found in the southern Appalachians, ” in the Botany Department in 1938 with his thesis, but is listed in…

Wendell P. Smith

…storm on the coast, we found two Red Phalaropes and a flock of Golden Plovers that had been driven this far inland by the storm.” Born at Wells River, Vermont,…

Clifford R. Parks

…plant are described quite completely down to the perules and chromosome number.”10 Parks joined the faculty of the Botany Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in…

Abram Paschal Garber

…then was not of the best, and often times when the boys went out on some expedition he would refrain from joining named them on that account. One of his…

Anne Elizabeth Bowden McCrary

…zooplankton in Wrightsville Sound.” (* Toxorhynchites is the largest known species of mosquito. The adult insect does not consume blood, but instead subsists on plant sap, fruit juices, and nectar….

Philip Jerome Crutchfield

…had six children.2,4 Crutchfield taught at Methodist College from 1964 to 1974 and at Fayetteville State University. In 1965 Crutchfield, then an Assistant Professor of Biology at Methodist College, “[served]…

Rebecca Ward Reynolds

…Guilford College Board of Trustees, Dr. Reynolds spoke on “A Challenge to the Educated.” This is the second time that Dr. Reynolds has been asked to give the Founder’s Day…

Dennis Harold Latham

…Inc., 2012. 11. University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station. 1946. Fifty-Ninth Annual Report 1946. Annual Report. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_agannual/80 Special thanks to Ashley James, Administrative Specialist at University of Tennessee Highland Rim…