Background
Wayburn, Edgar was born on September 17, 1906 in Macon, Georgia, United States. Son of Emanuel and Marian (Voorsanger) Wayburn.
( Edgar Wayburn may be the least-known yet most successfu...)
Edgar Wayburn may be the least-known yet most successful defender of the American landscape. A tenacious and tireless leader of the Sierra Club since the 1940s, he had a central role in the creation of Redwoods National Park and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and in the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Act. For his visionary achievements, he was honored with the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1995 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. Not a conventional autobiography, Your Land and Mine focuses on Wayburn’s key conservation campaigns, some of the most crucial of the 20th century, and the fascinating cast of characters that populated them. His accounts of hard-fought battles are full of telling details and lively portraits of legislators such as Senator Henry Scoop” Jackson and Representative Phil Burton; land officials such as JFK’s Interior Secretary Stewart Udall; and countless other personalities in the ongoing drama of preserving our nation’s natural heritage. Illustrated with rare photographs from Wayburn’s personal collection, Your Land and Mine is required reading for anyone interested in the growth of America’s conservation movement. It is also an engaging portrait of an important and inspiring American life.
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Wayburn, Edgar was born on September 17, 1906 in Macon, Georgia, United States. Son of Emanuel and Marian (Voorsanger) Wayburn.
AB magna cum laude, University Georgia, 1926. Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard University, 1930.
Hospital training, Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1931-1933; associate clinical professor, Stanford (California) U., 1933-1965; associate clinical professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1960-1976; practice medicine specializing in internal medicine, San Francisco, 1933-1985; member of staff, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, 1959-1986; chief endocrine clinic, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, 1959-1972; vice chief staff, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, 1961-1963; honorary staff, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, since 1986.
( Edgar Wayburn may be the least-known yet most successfu...)
Member Secretary of Interior's Advisory Board on National Park System, 1979-1983, member world commission on protected areas International Union for Conservation Nature and Natural Resources. Leader national campaigns Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Trustee Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, 1978-1986.
Board directors Garden Sullivan Hospital, 1965-1980. Chairman People For a Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 1971-2005. Member citizens' advisory commission Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, 1974-2003, leader national campaigns, 1955-1990.
Principal citizen advocate Redwood National Park, 1968, 78. Director The Antarctica Project, 1993-2003. Member advisory board Pacific Forest Trust.
Honorary chairman Tuolomne River Preservation Trust, 1983-1985. Principal advisory Enlargement of Mount Tamalpais State Park. Leader campaign to establish Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 1972.
Major United States Air Force, 1942-1946. Fellow American College of Physicians (laureat). Member American Medical Association, American Society Internal Medicine, California Medical Association (delegate 1958-1983, Recognition award 1986, Leadership and Quality awards 1986), San Francisco Medical Society (president 1965, Resolution of Congratulations 1986), Sierra Club (president 1961-1964, 67-69, John Muir award 1972, honorary president 1993-2010), Sierra Club Foundation (director 1960-1987, president 1971-1978, honorary president 1998-2010), Federation Western Outdoor Clubs (president 1953-1955).
Married Cornelia Elliott, September 12, 1947. Children: Cynthia, William, Diana, Laurie.