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Collectors of the UNC Herbarium
Laurie Stewart Radford
(1910 - 2004)
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Marguerite Stewart Radford was born 29 August 1910 in Roanoke,
Virginia to Samuel Converse Stewart and Irene Falconer Stewart.
She spent most of her childhood in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes
County, North Carolina. She graduated from Appalachian State Teachers
College in Boone, N.C., then earned a master’s degree in
botany from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in
1937. She was the Curator of the University of North Carolina
Herbarium from 1937 until 1942.
She married Albert E. Radford in 1941,
and had three children: David, John, and Linda.
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Portrait by Lance Richardson Photography |
Ms. Radford wrote seven articles for
the 1984-1986 issues of the Friends of the Herbarium newsletter.
Each article focused on a specific era in the development of
the herbarium. In 1998, she updated the articles and compiled
them into a single 50-page history of the NCU Herbarium, The
History of the University of North Carolina Herbarium at Chapel
Hill, NC 1908-1998.
More about Laurie Stewart Radford
Burk, William R. (2005). Laurie
Marguerite Stewart Radford: A Tribute. Reproduced from the
Chinquapin, the Newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical
Society, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 4a-4b.
Publication:
Stewart, Laurie M.. 1937. Studies
in the life history of Nitella hyaline Agardh. Journal of the
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 53: 173-190.
  
Curriculum North Carolina UNC
In Ecology Botanical Garden Biology Department
University of North Carolina
Herbarium
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
phone: (919) 962-6931
fax: (919) 962-6930
email: herbarium@bio.unc.edu
Last Updated: 15 April
2005
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