{"id":449,"date":"2010-05-23T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/elsie-quarterman-cedar-glade-festival.html"},"modified":"2010-05-23T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:31:49","slug":"elsie-quarterman-cedar-glade-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/elsie-quarterman-cedar-glade-festival.html","title":{"rendered":"Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Vanderbilt Professor of Plant Ecology Emerita,\nwith students and some grand-students:\n

\n\"Grand-students\"<\/a>\n

\nThis is Elsie’s 100th year:\n\n\n

\n\"100th<\/a>\n

\nAnn Quarterman (right) made the cake. She and Elsie’s nephew Patrick Quarterman\nmake sure Elsie has everything she needs.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nElsie is my aunt, and the last remaining family member of her generation.\nShe was born in 1910 in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia,\nwhere the family lived on Varnedoe Street and her father\nwas superintendent of the water works and a Deacon at\nthe First Presbyterian Church (his father was an Elder).\nShe remembers the local victory parade after World War I.\nShe moved with the family to the family farm in 1921,\nwhere she first learned about wild plants from her mother.\nShe played basketball at Hahira High School,\nand later taught school in Morven,\nbefore working her way up to her academic career.\n

\nDr. Quarterman was the \nfirst woman department chair (General Biology) at Vanderbilt.<\/a>\nHer female students wanted a picture with her:\n

\n\"Elsie<\/a>\n

\nThese pictures were taken at an annual festival in Elsie’s honor\n
\n\"Sign\"<\/a>\nduring the great Nashville flood:\n\"Flood\"<\/a>\n

\nPictures by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman, Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Festival, Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1 May 2010.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nDr. Quarterman’s academic specialty is\n\ncedar glades<\/a>,\nwhich are specialized ecologies living around limestone outcroppings.\nDifferent plants affect each other via chemicals they produce, which\nare in turn mediated by the chemical content and physical granularity\nof the soil.\nDr. Quarterman was one of the first to study cedar glades, and much\nof the academic and preservation work related to them since has been done\nby her students or their students.\nThe \nwikipedia writeup on her<\/a> is pretty good.\n

\nDr. Quarterman has been instrumental in the preservation of numerous\nparks and natural areas around Tennessee, such as\n\nRadnor Lake<\/a> in Nashville.\nThere is a\n\nCedar Glade named after<\/a> in Rutherford County.\n

\n\"Beautyberry\"<\/a>\nDr. Quarterman’s influence extends beyond cedar glades.\nThis paper,\n

\nQuarterman, Elsie, and Catherine Keever. 1962. Southern mixed hardwood forest: climax in the southeastern Coastal Plain. Ecological Monographs 32: 167\u2013185.\n<\/blockquote>\nis still cited as a basic reference for pine forest plants such as\n\nAmerican beautyberry\n(Callicarpa americana)<\/a>.\nThat same paper was one of the seminal works in the academic understanding\nof fire ecology in the southern pine forests.\n

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