Background
Burns, Paul Yoder was born on July 4, 1920 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Paul Patchin and Mary Emily (Knowles) Burns.
Burns, Paul Yoder was born on July 4, 1920 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Paul Patchin and Mary Emily (Knowles) Burns.
Bachelor of Science, University Tulsa, 1941. Master in Forestry, Yale University, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1949.
Assistant, associate professor, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1948-1955; professor forestry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1955-1986; professor emeritus of forestry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1986-1996. Director school forestry Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1955-1976. Commissioner Louisiana Forestry Commission, Baton Rouge, 1955-1976.
President board directors Louisiana State University Young Men’s Christian Association-Young Women’s Christian Association, Baton Rouge, 1957-1959. Member Louisiana Conference Church Board, Baton Rouge, 1967-1973. President Louisiana Council Human Relations, Baton Rouge, 1987-1989.
Chair board directors The Fluorescence in situ hybridization Good Samaritans, Baton Rouge, 1996. Fellow Society of America Foresters, Louisiana Society of America Foresters (chairman 1990, Disting Service to Forestry 1989), Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Xi Sigma Pi.
Married Kathleen Iola Chase, December 4, 1942. Children: Virginia B. Belland, Margaret B. Feierabend, Nancy B. McNeill.