Background
Dorris, Peggy Rae was born on February 27, 1933 in Holly Bluff, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Hugh Baskerville and Alta Eugenia (Stampley) D. Bachelor of Science with distinction, Mission.Coll., 1956.
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Peggy Rae Dorris
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Bachelor of Science with distinction, Mississippi College, 1956. Master of Science, University Mississippi, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Mississippi, 1967.
Career
Teacher biology public school, Benton, Mississippi, 1956—1957, Wilmot, Arkansas, 1957—1960, Pontotoc, Mississippi, 1960—1961. Graduate assistant University Mississippi, Oxford, 1961—1966. Professor Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 1966—1972, chairman department biology, 1972—1990.
Consultant brown recluse spider and poisonous snakes public schools & communities, hospitals United States Corps. Engineers, DeGray Lake. Member American Association of University Women, 1967—1980, Arkansas Education Association, 1967—1978, American Association of University Professors, 1968—1978, Delta Kappa Gamma, 1967—1980.
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Membership
Member Arkadelphia Water and Sewer Commission, since 1978, Soil and Water Conservation Commission, Arkadelphia, since 1983. Board directors Clark County Fair Association, since 1983, livestock chairman, since 1985. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arkansas Simmental Society (board directors since 1978), Arkansas Academy of Sciences (member constitutional committee 1984-1985, president 1995-1996), Herpetology Society, Audubon Society, Paris Arachnology Society, American Arachnology Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Beta Beta.
