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John N. Wolfe Born: Logan, OH 12/2/10; died 12/16/74 Education: Ohio State (B.A. 1933, M. Sc. 1934, Ph.D. 1937) Dissertation title: The lichens of Ohio (Ohio Biol. Survey 36:1-50) Advisor: Edgar N. Transeau (signed dissertation) Comments: Was also strongly influenced by Lewis H. Tiffany while at Ohio State. Teaching history: Ohio State 1937-55, 1957-58 ESA Links: Resolution of Respect

Robert H. Whittaker Born: Wichita, KS 12/27/20, died 10/20/80 Education: Washburn Univ. (B.A. 1942); Univ. of Illinois (Ph.D. 1948) Dissertation title: A vegetation analysis of the Great Smoky Mountains (Ecol. Mon. 26:1-80) Advisor: S. Charles Kendeigh (C) Comments: Started at Illinois under Victor E. Shelford with Arthur G. Vestal as a co-adviser to represent botany. Switched to Kendeigh when Shelford…

Edgar T. Wherry Born:  Philadelphia, PA 9/10/1885; died 5/19/1982 Education: Pennsylvania (B.S. 1906; Ph.D. 1909) Dissertation title: Contributions to the mineralogy of the Newark group in Pennsylvania (Trans. Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 7, February, 1910) Advisor: ? Comments: Started his career as a mineralogist and chemist but became interested in soil acidity and plant-soil relations and eventually…

Arthur G. Vestal Born: LaGrange, IL 9/10/1888; died 6/5/1964 Education: Illinois (B.A. 1911); Colorado (M.A. 1913); Chicago (Ph.D. 1915) Dissertation title: Phytogeography of the eastern mountain front in Colorado (Bot. Gaz. 68:153-193) Advisor: Henry C. Cowles (confirmed by R. Brewer) Other influences: Also influenced by Francis Ramaley, his Master’s adviser, and Henry A. Gleason, with whom he worked as an…

James W. Toumey Born:  Lawrence, MI 4/17/1864; died 1932 Education:  Michigan Agric. College (B.S. 1889; M.S. 1896); Yale (M.A. 1906). Advisor: (no Ph.D.) Teaching history:  Arizona 1892-98; Yale 1901-? Ph.D. students: Clarence F. Korstian

Lewis H. Tiffany Born: Lawrenceville, IL 7/29/1894; died 3/16/1965 Education: Eastern Illinois State Teachers College (1912-15); Chicago (B.S. 1919); Ohio State (M.S. 1921, Ph.D. 1923) Dissertation title: A physiological study of growth and reproduction among certain green algae (Ohio J. Sci. 24:65-98) Advisor: Edgar N. Transeau (signed dissertation) Teaching history: Ohio State 1920-37; Northwestern 1937-1962 (emeritus) Ph.D. students: Others influenced:…

Forest W. Stearns Born: Milwaukee, WI 9/10/18. died 9/8/1999 Education: Harvard (B.A. 1939); Wisconsin (Ph.M. 1940; Ph.D. 1947) Dissertation title: The composition of the sugar maple-hemlock-yellow birch association in northern Wisconsin (Ecology 32:245-265) Advisor: John T. Curtis (C) Teaching history: Purdue 1947-57; Univ. of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 1968-87 ESA offices and honors:  Vice  President 1971-72; Treasurer 1972-75; President 1975-76; Distinguished Service…

Forrest Shreve Born: Easton, MD 7/8/1878; died 7/19/50 Education: Johns Hopkins (B.A. 1901; Ph.D. 1905) Dissertation title: The development and anatomy of Sarracenia purpurea L. (Bot. Gaz. 42:107-126) Teaching history: Johns Hopkins 1905-06; Goucher Coll. 1906-08 Advisor: Duncan S. Johnson (D) Comments: Sometimes thought to be a student of Burton E. Livingston (cf. H. A. Gleason letter to C. H….