Background
Foil, Robert Rodney was born on August 12, 1934 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, United States. Son of Earl Odell and Rose A. (Green) Foil.
Foil, Robert Rodney was born on August 12, 1934 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, United States. Son of Earl Odell and Rose A. (Green) Foil.
Bachelor of Science in Forestry, Louisiana State University, 1956. M.F., Louisiana State University, 1960. D.Forestry, Duke University, 1965.
Forester Union Camp Corporation, Georgia, 1956. Instructor, then assistant professor Louisiana State University, 1959-1967. Associate specialist, specialist Cooperative Extension Service, 1967-1969.
Professor, head department forestry Mississippi State University, Starkville, 1969-1972, associate dean School Forest Resources, associate director Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station, 1972-1973, dean, 1974-1978, director, 1978-1986, vice president Agricultural Forestry and Veterinary Medicine division, 1986—1999. Retired, 1999
Director Institute Food and Agricultural Science United States Department of Agriculture, 2000—2001. Consultant in field.
President Junior Chamber of C., Homer, Louisiana, 1967. Served with Army of the United States, 1956-1958. Fellow Society of America Foresters (chairman Gulfstate section 1969, 76, chairman Mississippi chapter 1972, member council 1978).
Member Southern Association Agricultural Scientists (president since 1989), Mississippi Forestry Association, Louisiana Forestry Association (director 1969), Southern Association Experiment Stations Directors (chairman 1981), Sigma Xi, Xi Sigma Pi, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Patti Sue Thomas, January 20, 1959 (divorced 1984). Children: Jerry Thomas, Allison. Married Rosalind Whatley Johnson, April 1984.