SABS

Officers & Council Members

Historical Office Holders - President

Numbers in parenthesis after a name represents the total number of consecutive terms an individual served.

1936 Frank A. Gilbert (4)
1940 H. L. Blomquist (3)
1943 B. W. Wells (4)
1947 Aaron J. Sharp (2)
1949 Arthur Stupka
1950 Earl L. Core
1951 Royal E. Shanks
1952 William B. Fox
1953 Wilbur H. Duncan
1954 Carroll E. Wood, Jr.
1955 Arthur Stupka
1956 Edgar T. Wherry
1957 Wilbur H. Duncan
1958 Royal E. Shanks
1959 R. K. Godfrey
1960 Donovan S. Correll
1961 Ruskin S. Freer
1962 Mason E. Hale
1963 H. R. Totten
1964 Paul M. Patterson
1965 James W. Hardin
1966 Dorthy Crandall
1967 Albert E. Radford
1968 Arthur W. Cooper
1969 Frank H. Barclay
1970 Samuel B. Jones, Jr.
1971 George S. Ramseur
1972 Jesse F. Clovis
1973 Madeline P. Burbanck
1974 Edward C. Clebsch
1975 C. Leland Rodgers
1976 Wilbur H. Duncan
1977 J. Dan Pittillo
1978 Hal DeSelm
1979 Robert H. Mohlenbrock
1980 James F. Matthews (2)
1982 John E. Fairey, III
1983 Jimmy R. Massey
1984 Jerry M. Baskin
1985 William H. Martin, III
1986 Gene S. Van Horn
1987 Robert R. Haynes
1988 Eugene Wofford
1989 Donna M. E. Ware
1990 Janice Coffey Swab
1991 Michael Baranski
1992 John M. Herr, Jr.
1993 Gary Dillard
1994 Larry Mellichamp
1996 Donald Windler
1998 Nancy C. Coile
2000 Joe Winstead
2002 Zack Murrell
2004 Michael Held
2006 Howard Neufeld
2008 Conley K. McMullen
2010 Lytton Musselman
2012 Wendy Zomlefer
2014 Katherine Mathews
2016 Charles Horn
2018 Brian Keener
2020 Rebecca Cook
2022 Jay Bolin

Historical Office Holders - Treasurer

1936-1957 Nelle Ammons
1958-1967 Roy B. Clarkson
1968-1971 Herald D. Bennett 1972-1977 John M. Barry
1978-1981 Carl Keener
2002-2016 Charles N. Horn
2016-2020 Kunsiri Grubbs

From 1936 until 1981 the Treasurer position was of an indefinite term; starting in 2002 the position was recreated with a 4-year term.

I’m professor of botany and curator of the herbarium at the University of Southern Mississippi. My research interests are the flora of the southeastern United States and the systematics of tropical Salicaceae (formerly Flacourtiaceae).

SABS is one of the first professional organizations I joined, and I have enjoyed the camaraderie, meetings, journal, newsletter, and shared passion for eastern plants for more than 20 years.

Historical Office Holders - Recording Secretary

1998-2001 David Hill (term completed by Ruth Douglas)
2002- 2013 Ruth Douglas
2013-2015 Susan Farmer
2015-2020 Jay Bolin

Established in 1982 as a 4-year term. In 2002 the position was split into Treasurer and Recording Secretary.

I’m an associate professor of botany at the University of North Georgia, at the Gainesville campus. I study the evolution and biogeography of Southeastern native plants along with my undergraduate research students.

We are especially interested in the taxonomic puzzles surrounding Calycanthus, and many coastal plain species of the Fabaceae (the legume family). We also work with the biochemistry of native plants, as well as population genetics.

I am honored to be a part of SABS. I am deeply committed to the study and preservation of Southeastern biodiversity.