Background
Shanks, Royal Eastman was born on November 11, 1912 in Ada, Ohio, United States. Son of William Carleton and Essie Fern (Eastman) Shanks.
Shanks, Royal Eastman was born on November 11, 1912 in Ada, Ohio, United States. Son of William Carleton and Essie Fern (Eastman) Shanks.
Bachelor of Arts, Ohio Northern University, 1933. Master of Science, Ohio State University, 1937, Doctor of Philosophy, 1938.
High school principal, teacher North Bloomfield, O., 1933-1936. Graduate assistant botany Ohio State University, 1936-1939, instructor, 1939. Instructor botany University of Tennessee, 1940, assistant professor, 1940-1941, associate professor, 1946-1948, professor, since 1948.
Professor Austin Peay State College, 1941-1946.
Agent barberry eradication United States Department of Agriculture, summers 1936, 38. Assistant Ohio Wildlife Research Station, 1937.
Plant ecologist New York State Museum, 1938-1942. Professor Mountain Lake Biological Station, 1950, 53.
Board of managers Highlands Biological Station, since 1954.
Vegetation studies Northern Alaska. Arctic Institute North.A., summers 1955-1959.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Botanical Society American, Ecological Society American, Southern Appalachian Botanical. Club (president 1951, 58), British Ecological Society, Association Southeastern Biologists (president 1961-1962), American Geophysical Union, Society American Foresters, Tennessee Academy Science (Executive Committee 1951-1952), Sigma Xi (president Tennessee chapter 1951-1952), Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Epsilon Phi.
Married Betty Jane Morris, January 3, 1935. Children: Harriet Morris, Emily Morris.