Background
Baker, John Stevenson was born on June 18, 1931 in Minneapolis. Son of Everette Barrette and Ione May (Kadletz) Baker.
Baker, John Stevenson was born on June 18, 1931 in Minneapolis. Son of Everette Barrette and Ione May (Kadletz) Baker.
Bachelor cum laude, Pomona College, Claremont Colls., 1953; Doctor of Medicine, University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco, 1957.
Writer, since 1958; book cataloger, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1958-1959; editor, writer neurological research articles, Louis E. Phillips Psychobiol. Research Fund, Minneapolis, 1960-1961.
Donor numerous species of native plants and seeds to Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, United States National Arboretum and Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, papers of LeRoi Jones and Hart Crane to Yale University, Brahms recordings to Bennington College, cartoons and comics about psychoanalysis and clinical psychology to Ohio State University, several others. President Mission Lakes Association, Merrifield, Minnesota, 1989-1990. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federal, Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Baltimore, Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Plant Conservation, National Audubon Society, Nature Conservancy, National Museum American Indian, National Trust for History Preservation, Metropolitan Opera Guild, Sierra Club, Phi Chi, Nu Sigma Nu.