{"id":3479,"date":"2015-07-23T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2015-07-23T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:44:34","slug":"elsie-quarterman-hall-of-fame-tennessee-botanists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/elsie-quarterman-hall-of-fame-tennessee-botanists.html","title":{"rendered":"Elsie Quarterman, Hall of Fame, Tennessee Botanists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n2011 inductee, Tennessee Botanists Hall of Fame,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tnps.org\/legends.html#Quarterman\">\r\nElsie Quarterman<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tnps.org\/legends.html#Quarterman\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/tnps.org\/img-legends\/Elsie-Quarterman.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nElsie Quarterman was born in 1910 in Georgia. She completed her\r\nundergraduate work at Georgia State Woman&#8217;s College in 1932.\r\nPost-graduate studies were done at Duke Univ. where she obtained her\r\nPh.D. in 1949 under Henry J. Osting. She accepted a faculty position\r\nat Vanderbilt Univ. and later became the University&#8217;s first female\r\ndepartment chair, heading the Biology Department in 1964.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nDr. Quarterman is best known for her work on the ecology and plant\r\ncommunities of the cedar glades of the Central Basin. She is widely\r\nrecognized for the re-discovery of the Tennessee Coneflower\r\n(Echinacea tennesseensis) in 1969, a plant once thought to be\r\nextinct and subsequently the first plant endemic to Tennessee to be\r\nprotected by the Endangered Species Act. She has received many\r\nhonors including our very own TNPS Conservation Award. The Elsie\r\nQuarterman Cedar Glade State Natural Area was named in her honor in\r\n1998.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2011 inductee, Tennessee Botanists Hall of Fame, Elsie Quarterman, Elsie Quarterman was born in 1910 in Georgia. She completed her undergraduate work at Georgia State Woman&#8217;s College in 1932. Post-graduate studies were done at Duke Univ. where she obtained her Ph.D. in 1949 under Henry J. Osting. She accepted a faculty position at Vanderbilt Univ. 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