Background
Olive, Lindsay Shepherd was born on April 30, 1917 in Florence, South Carolina, United States. Son of Lindsay Shepherd and Sarah Carolyn (Williamson) Olive.
Olive, Lindsay Shepherd was born on April 30, 1917 in Florence, South Carolina, United States. Son of Lindsay Shepherd and Sarah Carolyn (Williamson) Olive.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity North Carolina, 1938; Master of Arts, 1940 Doctor of Philosophy, 1940, 1942.
Instructor botany, U. North Carolina, 1942-1944; mycologist, plant disease diagnostician, Department Agriculture, 1944-1945; assistant professor botany, U. Georgia, 1945-1946; associate professor botany, Louisiana State University, 1946-1949; associate professor botany, Columbia University, 1949-1957; professor, Columbia University, 1957-1967; professor department botany, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1968-1969; distinguished university professor, U. North Carolina, 1970-1982; distinguished university professor emeritus, U. North Carolina, 1982-1988.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Nature Conservancy (honorary life member. Former project committee chairman), American Botanical Society, Mycological Society of America (president 1966, Distinguished Mycologist award 1981), Society Protozoologists, Torrey Botanical Club (president 1962), British Mycological Society (honorary), National Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Anna Jean Grant, August 28, 1942.