{"id":2052,"date":"2014-06-15T12:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?page_id=2052"},"modified":"2016-10-10T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:19:08","slug":"elsie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/elsie","title":{"rendered":"Elsie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/dr-elsie-quarterman-november-28th-1910-june-9th-2014.html#comment-4234\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/raycityhistory.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/elsie_hs.jpg?w=233&#038;h=300\"><\/a>\r\nIn memory ever green of the life and work of Dr. Elsie Quarterman (1910-2014),\r\nso more people will know what she did and how she did it, as her many students and relatives continue her work.\r\n<p>\r\nThis is the picture of Aunt Elsie in high school that sat on the mantle\r\nin her room at her parents&#8217; house at the farm for many decades.\r\nThe first item below is Elsie speaking for herself\r\nabout her work, her teachers, and her students.\r\n<p>\r\nThe other items are in chronological order, newest first.\r\nMore will be added.\r\n<p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FvMJ2-6i-d0\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/FvMJ2-6i-d0\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nMTSU Center for Cedar Glade Studies, Cedars of Lebanon State Park,\r\n29 January 2009, video of the 11 April 2008\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FvMJ2-6i-d0\">\r\ndedication of Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Wildflower Festival<\/a>,\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FvMJ2-6i-d0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nSeparate\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/dedication-of-cedar-glades-wildflower-festival-to-dr-quarterman.html\">blog post of this video<\/a>.\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/dr-elsie-quarterman-plant-ecologist-at-cheekwood.html\">Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Plant Ecologist, remembered at Cheekwood<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/dr-elsie-quarterman-champion-of-the-cedar-glades-and-natural-areas-brian-bowen.html\">\r\nDr. Elsie Quarterman, Champion of the Cedar Glades and Natural Areas<\/a>, by Brian Bowen, TN Conservationist Magazine, Sep-Oct 2014,\r\n<blockquote>Dr. Quarterman was a longtime member of the Natural Areas Association, the professional organization representing the interests of natural area professionals in the US. She received the NAA George Fell Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 at the 35th Annual Natural Areas Conference in Nashville. In receiving the award, she humbly said that there &ldquo;is no greater honor than to be recognized by my peers.&rdquo; Her most significant legacy will be the thousands of acres of natural areas she helped to protect in Tennessee including the cedar glades and the once endangered Tennessee Coneflower. \r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/elsie-was-more-than-a-biology-professor-and-ecologist-jonathan-ertelt-community.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/m.c.lnkd.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrink_200_200\/p\/1\/000\/033\/142\/28633f8.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n2014-Summer:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/elsie-was-more-than-a-biology-professor-and-ecologist-jonathan-ertelt-community.html\">\r\nElsie was more than a biology professor and ecologist &mdash;Jonathan Ertelt<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>\r\nStudents of all ages are thankful that her appreciation of the plant kingdom and the world around her touched them and made their lives.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\n2014-09-19:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/the-whole-ecosystem-elsie-quarterman-on-wild-side-tv.html\">The whole ecosystem \u2013Elsie Quarterman on Wild Side TV<\/a>, including this from a 2006 interview by MTSU:\r\n<blockquote><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/the-whole-ecosystem-elsie-quarterman-on-wild-side-tv.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/23ece477da087df0a5b2872df07f3c96.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nThe general public needs to know what\u2019s around them. They need to be learning that there\u2019s a world that is not paved. There are lots of things that have life and function in the whole scheme, people as well as plants and animals. Not just dogs you\u2019ve got on a leash, but animals that live out there, are part of the whole ecosystem.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/seb-professor-elsie-quarterman-in-memorium-1910-2014.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:150px\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/t1.0-9\/1779089_10152368844379600_1051705241458011338_n.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n2014-07: Carol and Jerry Baskin wrote for the July 2014 issue of Southeastern Biology,\r\nnewsletter of The Association of Southeastern Biologists,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/seb-professor-elsie-quarterman-in-memorium-1910-2014.html\">\r\nSEB: Professor Elsie Quarterman: In Memorium, 1910-2014<\/a>\r\n<blockquote><p>\r\n\r\nDr. Quarterman will be remembered as a fine southern lady who loved her family and students, studied cedar glades, had a deep appreciation of the value of natural ecosystems and worked tirelessly for the preservation of natural plant communities.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>2014-06-22:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/dr-quartermans-ground-breaking-work-will-continue-dr-j-richard-carter.html\">Dr. Quarterman\u2019s ground-breaking work will continue \u2013Dr. J. Richard Carter<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/1942384?uid=3739256&#038;uid=2&#038;uid=4&#038;sid=21104193626757\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/literatum\/publisher\/jstor\/journals\/covergifs\/ecolmono\/cover.gif\"><\/a>\r\nI also\r\nremember that she very kindly gave me a set of reprints of\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/elsie#Quarterman-Keever-1962\"> \r\nher classic\r\n\r\npaper (with Dr. Keever) on ecological succession in the coastal plain\r\nof the southeastern United States<\/a>. I still require my local flora and\r\ndendrology students to read this paper, and until fairly recently we\r\nhad access to Troupville Woods just west of Valdosta, one of her study\r\nsites.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/memorial-service-for-elsie-quarterman-in-nashville-tn-2014-06-21.html\">\r\nMemorial service for Elsie Quarterman in Nashville, TN 2014-06-21<\/a>\r\n<p>&nbsp;\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2014\/06\/elsie-quarterman\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/files\/Elsie_Quarterman_bw.jpg\"><\/a>Vanderbilt University News 12 June 2014,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2014\/06\/elsie-quarterman\/\">\r\nElsie Quarterman, who rediscovered Tennessee coneflower, dies at 103<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;Elsie possessed an incredible wealth of knowledge about\r\nplants that she was always happy to share with you,&rdquo; said\r\nJonathan Ertelt, Vanderbilt&#8217;s greenhouse manager, who encountered\r\nQuarterman regularly when he served as a greenhouse specialist and\r\nbotanical education coordinator at Nashville&#8217;s Cheekwood Botanical\r\nGarden from 1978 to 1987. Over the years, the two saw each other at\r\nconferences and meetings of various plant societies, and both served\r\non the Tennessee Environmental Council.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>2014-06-11:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/remembering-elsie-quarterman-paul-somers-ph-d.html\">Remembering Elsie Quarterman \u2013Paul Somers, Ph.D.<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nPerhaps the time that I needed Elsie the most was when a proposed\r\nroute for Interstate 840 was slated by the Tennessee Department of\r\nTransportation to go directly through a very significant cedar glade\r\nknown as\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.tn.us\/environment\/natural-areas\/natural-areas\/sunnybell\/\">\r\nSunnybell Glade<\/a>, named as such because of its dense stands\r\nof a yellow-flowered member of the lily family commonly known as\r\n\r\nsunnybells. My initial meeting or two with officials at the\r\nDepartment of Transportation were cordial\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/ourinitiatives\/regions\/northamerica\/unitedstates\/tennessee\/placesweprotect\/sunnybell-cedar-glade.xml\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/cs\/groups\/webcontent\/@web\/@tennessee\/documents\/media\/prd_011188.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n but resulted in no change\r\nto their plans, so I turned to friends in the media and within 24\r\nhours Elsie was being interviewed by Nashville TV networks about the\r\nsignificance of the glade and its resources. Within another 24\r\nhours, we learned that\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/ourinitiatives\/regions\/northamerica\/unitedstates\/tennessee\/placesweprotect\/sunnybell-cedar-glade.xml\">\r\nan alternative route would be considered<\/a>, and\r\nsoon, after some further planning and public hearings, the glade was\r\nspared. It is now\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/southeast\/news\/2004\/r04-015.html\">\r\na state-owned and managed natural area<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\nJosh Brown wrote for\r\nThe Tennessean 10 June 2014 page 8A,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2014\/06\/10\/nashville-botanist-elsie-quarterman-dies\/10283669\/\">\r\nNashville botanist Elsie Quarterman dies at 103<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n&#8220;She was one of the first female ecologists that we had in America,&#8221;\r\nsaid Kim C. Sadler, a professor in Middle Tennessee State\r\nUniversity&#8217;s biology department.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2014\/06\/10\/nashville-botanist-elsie-quarterman-dies\/10283669\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclair.quarterman.org\/pictures\/elsie\/small\/coneflower.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nDr. Quarterman&#8217;s work with the Tennessee coneflower began in 1969\r\nwhen she and a student were said to have noticed the plant while\r\ndriving. At the time, the flower that had been endemic to cedar\r\nglades in Middle Tennessee was thought to be extinct.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nFocus on cedar glades\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nMuch of her career was focused on understanding the ecology of cedar\r\nglades &mdash; areas globally unique to Middle Tennessee that\r\nfeature shallow soil and limestone outcroppings.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe sites are home to groves of gnarled cedar trees and drought- and\r\nheat-resistant plants such as leafy prairie clover and the\r\nconeflowers.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nHer influence can also be seen in the number of botanists who\r\nfollowed in her footsteps.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nJerry Baskin, who spent 43 years as a botany professor at the\r\nUniversity of Kentucky, studied under Dr. Quarterman as a graduate\r\nstudent at Vanderbilt in the 1960s. Her influence is what in part\r\nled him to the research field.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&#8220;I think that was the major turning point,&#8221; Baskin said.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2014\/06\/10\/nashville-botanist-elsie-quarterman-dies\/10283669\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/3d35eb5616a18a1866128df9cc38f67449dd9bba\/c=0-280-2591-2218&#038;r=x383&#038;c=540x380\/local\/-\/media\/Nashville\/2014\/06\/10\/elsiequarterman2.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n<br>\r\nDr. Ben Channell, left, and Dr. Elsie Quarterman view the mystic bubble, a plant propagation unit, at Cheekwood on Sept. 5, 1963.(Photo: File \/ The Tennessean)\r\n<\/p>\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nashvillepublicradio.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/remembering-champion-middle-tennessees-cedar-glades-elsie-quarterman\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/nashvillepublicradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/elsieApr-85-e1402613015311-189x140.jpg\"><\/a>Nina Cardona wrote for WPLN\r\nNashville Public Radio 13 June 2014,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nashvillepublicradio.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/remembering-champion-middle-tennessees-cedar-glades-elsie-quarterman\/\">\r\nRemembering The Champion Of Middle Tennessee&#8217;s Cedar Glades, Elsie Quarterman<\/a>,\r\nand a broadcast story sometime Friday, 13 June 2014 on Nashville Public Radio.\r\nHere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/elsie-quarterman-wpln-audio.html\">the audio<\/a>.\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nMiddle Tennessee lost a trailblazing woman this week. Elsie Quarterman began working at Vanderbilt as a lab assistant during World War II; roughly twenty years later, she was head of the biology studies&mdash;the university\u2019s first female department chair. But her greatest legacy is in the small forest clearings she studied and preserved.\r\n<p>\r\nCedar glades are places where the limestone bedrock is barely covered with a very thin layer of soil. Most plants and trees can&#8217;t grow there. But many of those that do are unusual species found nowhere else on earth. Elsie Quarterman loved them, calling them &ldquo;flower gardens par excellence.&rdquo;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/dr-elsie-quarterman-november-28th-1910-june-9th-2014.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:200px\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalareas.org\/sites\/naturalareas.org\/files\/images\/ppl_ElsieCedarGladeQN_NAJ_TnLs.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nJohn S. Quarterman wrote for Canopy Roads of South Georgia 9 June 2014,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/dr-elsie-quarterman-november-28th-1910-june-9th-2014.html\">\r\nDr. Elsie Quarterman, November 28th 1910 &#8211; June 9th 2014<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nToday Aunt Elsie stepped over the final fence, dying peacefully at\r\nher home in Nashville, Tennessee, attended by her nephew Patrick and\r\nhis wife Ann, as she had wanted.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\nMary Priestley wrote for Sewannee Herbarium 9 June 2014,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sewaneeherbarium.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/09\/dr-elsie-quarterman-1910-2014\/\">\r\nDr. Elsie Quarterman 1910-2014<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sewaneeherbarium.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/09\/dr-elsie-quarterman-1910-2014\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/sewaneeherbarium.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/quarterman-1947.jpg?w=300&#038;h=253\"><\/a>\r\nDr. Elsie Quarterman, professor emerita, Vanderbilt University,\r\npassed away peacefully in her sleep this afternoon; she was 103 \u00bd\r\nyears old (DOB 11-28-10). Her documentation of the flora of the\r\nold-growth forest in Savage Gulf led directly to the preservation of\r\nSavage Gulf State Natural Area. She was the first plant ecologist to\r\nsystematically study limestone cedar glades and influential in the\r\nprotection and conservation of thousands of acres of premier\r\nTennessee land. There is much more to say about Elsie, who was a\r\nremarkable person who touched the lives of so many people.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sewaneeherbarium.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/09\/dr-elsie-quarterman-1910-2014\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/sewaneeherbarium.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/savage-elsiedunny-p011.jpg?w=300&#038;h=244\"><\/a>\r\nDr. Quarterman was my academic &ldquo;grandmother&rdquo; &mdash; her\r\nstudent Dr. Tom Hemmerly was my major professor in graduate school.\r\nA few years ago, I visited her to deliver a certificate from the\r\nTennessee Native Plant Society designating her our\r\n&ldquo;Conservationist of the Year.&rdquo; When I arrived, I found\r\nher out on the patio watering her potted geraniums. I was struck by\r\nthe image of this scientist who had such a deep understanding of\r\nplant ecology enjoying this simple potted plant. I, too, love\r\ngeraniums, and I think of Elsie when I water mine. Thank you, Elsie,\r\nfor this bond &mdash; and for much, much more.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sewaneeherbarium.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/09\/dr-elsie-quarterman-1910-2014\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/sewaneeherbarium.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/marydrq.jpg?w=300&#038;h=221\"><\/a>\r\nPicture at top was taken in a cedar glade in middle Tennessee in\r\n1947. Middle photo was taken in soon-to-be-designated\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backpackcamp.com\/SavageGulf.html\">Savage Gulf State Natural Area<\/a> in 1971; last photo was taken in Elsie&#8217;s home,\r\ncirca 2008.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\nThe Vasculum, The Society of Herbarium Curators Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2013,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.sunsite.utk.edu\/shc\/files\/Vasculum%202013%20January.pdf\">\r\nFeatured Herbarium: BRIT &mdash; The Philecology Herbarium, Botanical Research Institute of Texas<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<i><b>Vanderbilt University Herbarium (VDB) <\/b><\/i>\r\n<p>\r\nThe VDB Herbarium was founded at Vanderbilt University (Nashville,\r\nTennessee) in 1935 by professors of Biology George Gage and Harold\r\nBold. In the 1940s and 50s the curatorship went to Dr. Elsie\r\nQuarterman, then on to Dr. R. Ben Channell. In 1965, Dr. Robert Kral\r\ninherited the herbarium of approximately 20,000 specimens and\r\nconcentrated on developing the collections from Tennessee, Alabama,\r\nFlorida, and Georgia, as well as the following taxonomic groups:\r\nsedges, xyrids, and grasses. In the early 1990s, facing the upcoming\r\nretirement of Kral, the university began exploring alternative homes\r\nfor the collection and considered dividing it up amongst regional\r\nuniversities. Kral sent out &ldquo;dear colleague&rdquo; letters in\r\n1993 asking for the botanical community to write university\r\nadministrators and fight for space and the hiring of a tenure-track\r\nprofessor and curator for the collection. At some point, the\r\npredicament of the VDB collection was characterized for the BRIT\r\nboard, and discussions began between the two institutions about the\r\npossibility of BRIT as a potential recipient of the collection. In\r\nMarch of 1996, Madeleine Goodman (Dean of College of Arts and\r\nSciences) was invited to BRIT to meet with the BRIT board, and in\r\nJune of that year a memorandum of understanding was signed between\r\nBRIT and VDB, permanently transferring the VDB collection to BRIT.\r\nAt BRIT, the specimens retain their identity as part of the VDB\r\ncollection, two positions on the BRIT board are made available to\r\nVanderbilt University representatives, and a space for Kral to\r\ncontinue research and curatorial projects as a Research Associate is\r\nprovided.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brit.org\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brit.org\/sites\/all\/themes\/brit2\/assets\/img\/plant2planet.png\"><\/a>\r\nAt the time of transfer to BRIT in October 1997, the VDB herbarium\r\nconsisted of more than 320,000 specimens with most in cabinets (176\r\nfull height metal and 20 half-cases) and some in boxes. Geographic\r\nconcentration of the collection focused on the southeastern U.S.A.\r\nand Mesoamerica. Taxonomically the collection focused on\r\nthe Cyperaceae, Eriocaulaceae, Liliaceae <i>s.l.<\/i>, Poaceae,\r\nAsteraceae, Lamiaceae, and Melastomataceae. Important collections\r\ninclude: Jesse Shaver fern collections (10,000), C. Bryson, R.\r\nCarter, D. Demaree, A. Gholson, R.K. Godfrey, L. McKinney, R.\r\nNorris, M. Pyne, Paul Somers, and the Frederick Wolf teaching and\r\nresearch collections of fungi. Conveniently, the filing system of\r\nVDB was nearly identical to that of BRIT-SMU, alphabetized by\r\nfamily, genus, then geographically separated by region, then\r\nalphabetized by species. It is a wonder how much of this was due to\r\nthe fact that for a short time, Kral was a M.S. student of Shinners\r\n(prior to leaving to pursue a Ph.D. under R.K. Godfrey at Florida\r\nState University). For several years, the VDB collection was housed\r\nin a separate building from the main BRIT Herbarium, but is now\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brit.org\/herbarium\/about\">\r\nfully incorporated into the collection<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\nRay City History Blog 21 May 2011,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/raycityhistory.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/21\/elsie-quarterman\/\">\r\nElsie Quarterman, Noted Ecologist, Once Resident of Ray City<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/raycityhistory.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/21\/elsie-quarterman\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:300px\" src=\"http:\/\/raycityhistory.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/1931-elsie-quarterman.jpg?w=477\"><\/a>\r\nAfter high school, Elsie Quarterman attended Georgia State Womans\r\nCollege in Valdosta, GA (now known as Valdosta State University.)\r\nThe 1931 Pine Cone, the college annual, gives her home town as Ray\r\nCity, GA. Elsie graduated from G.S.W.C. in 1932 with a Bachelor of\r\nArts degree.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nActually, the postal address of the farm was Ray City, GA,\r\nas it still was for some time when I was growing up there,\r\nbut the farm was always in Lowndes County, not Berrien County.\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/elsie-quarterman-hall-of-fame-tennessee-botanists.html\">\r\nTennessee Botanists Hall of Fame, Elsie Quarterman<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\nElsie Quarterman was born in 1910 in Georgia&#8230;. The Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade State Natural Area was named in her honor in 1998.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\nJohn S. Quarterman and other relatives and friends wrote for Clan Sinclair in 2011,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sinclair.quarterman.org\/who\/elsie_ecologist.html\">\r\nElsie Quarterman (1910-), Centenarian Ecologist<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nDr. Elsie Quarterman, Ph.D., remembers the celebrations at the end\r\nof World War I in Valdosta, Georgia, where she was born 100 years\r\nago in November 1910. Her father David Sinclair Quarterman was from\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.org\/q\/book.html\">\r\nan old Georgia family<\/a>, and her mother Alla Irene Peek traced her\r\nline back to colonial Virginia (with many Scots in both lines).\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sinclair.quarterman.org\/who\/elsie_ecologist.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclair.quarterman.org\/pictures\/elsie\/small\/p6040138.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nElsie&#8217;s father&#8217;s mother was Susan Evalyn &#8220;Susie&#8221; Sinclair. Susie&#8217;s\r\nfather was Benjamin Waters Sinclair, who emigrated from Thurso to\r\nGeorgia in 1837. B.W.&#8217;s descendants are scattered across the U.S.\r\nsoutheast. His parents were Alexander Sinclair, merchant of Thurso,\r\nand Catherine &#8220;Kitty&#8221; Waters, of Brims Castle; they are buried in\r\nOld St. Peters Kirk in Thurso. Alexander of Thurso&#8217;s father was\r\nWilliam of Clarville, son of John of Golval, son of Alexander; many\r\nCanadian Sinclairs descend from this line.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nElsie moved with the family to the family farm in 1921, where she\r\nfirst learned about wild plants from her mother. She played\r\nbasketball at Hahira High School, and taught school in Morven,\r\nGeorgia. In 1937 her sister Jane supplied a car for a trip her\r\nbrother David organized with Elsie, their cousin Helen Quarterman,\r\nand friend Mary Small across the country to see the new Golden Gate\r\nBridge.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nI&#8217;m told she actually played basketball in college, not high school. -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sinclair.quarterman.org\/who\/elsie_ecologist.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclair.quarterman.org\/pictures\/elsie\/small\/p5310231.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n&#8230;dining with family in Roslin Castle on the way to see Rosslyn\r\nChapel.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nAs our driver James Campbell from Edinburgh sought an obscure\r\nlocation on a narrow Highland road, he suggested turning back, when\r\na voice was heard back in the bus: &#8220;No, keep going! It&#8217;s like a\r\nfield trip with graduate students!&#8221; That was Elsie, of course.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\nBonnie Arant Ertelt wrote for Vanderbilt Magazine vol. 82 no. 2 Fall 2000 page 31,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1803\/3401\/82-2-2000Fall.pdf?sequence=1\">\r\nJames Folsom: Hooked on Plants<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nJames Folsom, MA&#8217;79, has made it his life&#8217;s work to pay attention to\r\nplants. As director of the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San\r\nMarino, California, one of the largest and most diverse collections\r\nin the United States, Folsom rides herd on more than 10,000 species\r\nof plants&#8230;.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/artbyvreeke.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/botany-workshop-at-huntington-gardens.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nu_KWjBdfIY\/UeMu0WLwkLI\/AAAAAAAAATw\/kmG5Xhl4Tqg\/s400\/IMG_7598.JPG\"><\/a>\r\n&ldquo;We&#8217;re building a whole educational program around the world&#8217;s\r\nmost interesting plants, using them to teach different lessons. For\r\ninstance, you can take a lotus in full sun, put water in the top of\r\na leaf, and see these huge bubbles coming up. It shows an active\r\nprocess, an exchange of gases, in an exciting way. It allows us to\r\ntalk about biological and physical processes and the challenges\r\nfaced by plants growing in mucky soils&mdash;in this case, the lack\r\nof suf\u00ef\u00ac\u0081cient oxygen in the soil to allow growth of roots and\r\nstems. If you can get children and adults to look at a process, you\r\nhave a better chance of capturing their imagination.&rdquo;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nFolsom&#8217;s hands-on approach stems directly from his days at\r\nVanderbilt, where Ben Channell and Elsie Quarterman, both professors\r\nof biology, emeriti, were mentors. During his nearly four years at\r\nthe University, Folsom spent practically all of his time in the\r\n\u00ef\u00ac\u0081eld, studying native orchid populations in the southeast&#8230;.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;Ben was such a prodigious teacher,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I\r\nreceived an incredible grounding in fi\u0081eld biology cruising the\r\nsoutheast, traveling all the way from Big Bend, Texas, to the\r\ncoastal plain of Delaware, and even camping in Apalachicola National\r\nForest for two full summers studying these plants.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&ldquo;I gained a valuable insight from my field experiences at\r\nVanderbilt. If you go into your studies with very logical and\r\nwell-conceived notions, you have to be willing to throw them out and\r\nlook at the data fresh or sometimes you won&#8217;t be able to make\r\nprogress. It&#8217;s true in science, it&#8217;s true in writing articles, and\r\nI&#8217;ve taken that approach in running the gardens, too. That was a\r\ngood lesson for me, one that&#8217;s proved to be invaluable.&rdquo;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.org\/pictures\/midway\/lib023.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.org\/pictures\/midway\/lib023.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.org\/q\/book.html\">\r\nQuarterman Family\r\nof Liberty County, Georgia \r\nand Relatives<\/a>,\r\nby Jane Quarterman Comer,\r\nDavid Leon Quarterman, \r\nStephen Patrick Quarterman, \r\nJohn Sinclair Quarterman, 1997,\r\nReprint Company, LCCN 97-69321 ISBN 0-87152-510-0,.\r\n<p>\r\nElsie provided this epigraph on the title page:\r\n<blockquote>\r\n&ldquo;If you don&#8217;t know who you are\r\n<br>\r\nor where you come from,\r\n<br>\r\nyou will find yourself at a disadvantage.&rdquo;\r\n<br>\r\n&mdash;Andrew Lytle, in <em>A Wake for the Living<\/em>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<li><a name=\"Quarterman-Keever-1962\" href=\"#Quarterman-Keever-1962\">\r\nElsie Quarterman and Catherine Keever 1962. Southern Mixed Hardwood Forest: Climax in the Southeastern Coastal Plain, U.S.A.<\/a> Ecological Monographs 32:167\u2013185.\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2307\/1942384\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2307\/1942384<\/a>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In memory ever green of the life and work of Dr. Elsie Quarterman (1910-2014), so more people will know what she did and how she did it, as her many students and relatives continue her work. 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