C. E. S. Taylor
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Name
Constance E. S. Taylor
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Dates
1937 -
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Specialities
Spermatophytes
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Roles
Collector, Author, Determiner
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Movement Details
United States of America (Oklahoma)
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Notes
Author Notes: Published with R. John Taylor
Determiner Notes: Published with R. John Taylor
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from http://www.ntxe-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=12&num=28798 (consulted 22 Sep 2021)
Dr. Constance Elaine Southern Taylor earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. She was a member of the mathematics and botany departments at OU, taught in the Oklahoma City Public School System and in SOSU零 biology department from 1970 until her retirement in 1998.
A native of Washington, D.C., she was graduated from Ardmore (Okla.) High School in 1955 and married Raymond John Taylor in 1959. Among numerous awards, she and her husband won the 1993 Oklahoma Academy of Science Award for Meritorious Service to Science in Oklahoma.
She claimed the 1990 Burlington Northern Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the Educator of the Year Award in 1975, presented by the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Organization, another honor shared with her husband.
She and her husband have two botanical species, a fern and an Indian Paintbrush, first collected in Costa Rica, named in their honor. Her research continues on Solidago (goldenrods), where she is considered one of the few authorities in the United States and Canada, and also on Euthamia, where she is the only authority on this genus.
Dr. John Taylor was a native of Ada, Oklahoma. He earned his B.S. in Education at East Central University, his master零 and doctoral degrees at the University of Oklahoma. He taught in Pauls Valley and Oklahoma City Public Schools before coming to Southeastern, where he served as an assistant professor from 1961-63.
He then served as a graduate assistant and instructor at OU for two years, and returned to SOSU as Professor of Biology, Graduate Faculty and Curator of the SOSU Herbarium from 1965-90.
He served as vice-chair and chair of the biological section of the Oklahoma Academy of Science and was involved in some form of biological research after he began teaching at SOSU, producing more than 50 professional papers during that time.
Honors and awards include Conservation Educator of the Year in 1975, presented by the governor on behalf of the Oklahoma and National Wildlife Federations. He served as Team Chief for one of two teams conducting an ecological survey of the interior of Alaska in the summer of 1965 and botanist on a survey of mammals of Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1966. -
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