Paul Wilson Titman

…were Paul Abram Titman, a depot agent for the Southern Railroad, and Mary Elsie Wilson Titman. He grew up in Lowell, Gaston County, North Carolina.1 In 1940 Titman was an…

Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For University updates and advisories on the Coronavirus, please visit www.unc.edu/coronavirus. Check for our most recent Garden-specific updates at ncbg.unc.edu/coronavirus. Many…

Duane Francis Houck

…Iowa State University in 1973. Duane Francis Houck taught at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee for 21 years. Photograph courtesy of Alumni Relations, Southern Adventist University Houck taught in…

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…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…brown jug with a corn-cob stopper. Now champagne, etc. is the order of the day… We then scraped away the ‘trash,’ leveled the dirt, and sprinkling down the barn, had

Lisa Marie Giencke

…the spread of beech bark disease in a 2 ha plot at the Huntington Wildlife Forest near Newcomb, NY. Her thesis is titled “Spatiotemporal dynamics of an Adirondack forest.” In…

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…

Effie Boon

…Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com…

Peter MacOwan

…Philosophical Society. Transactions. Volume 2, part 3, pp. 111-187. SOURCES: 1. http://www.abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/article/viewFile/1900/1856 accessed on 3 November 2015. 2. http://www.capeorchids.co.za/history.htm accessed on 3 November 2015. [Photo of MacOwen and canine friend]…