{"id":824,"date":"2014-01-19T19:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history2\/?p=824"},"modified":"2014-01-19T19:41:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T19:41:02","slug":"ashby-w-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2014\/01\/ashby-w-c\/","title":{"rendered":"W. Clark Ashby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"ashby\"><\/a><strong>W. Clark Ashby<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Duluth, MN 7\/6\/1922<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Chicago (B.D. 1947, Ph. D. 1950); California (1947-49; no degree)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Effects of certain acid growth-regulating substances and their corresponding aldehydes on the growth of roots.<\/em> (Bot. Gaz. 112: 237-249).<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/larsen-p\">Poul Larsen<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Took courses with and T.A.\u2019d for <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/olmsted-c-e\">Charles E. Olmsted<\/a> while at Chicago. Influenced at California by <a title=\"Hans Jenny\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/jenny-h\/\">Hans Jenny<\/a>, Noel Beadle and Robert Crocker. Left \u201cbecause Adriance Foster wouldn\u2019t let me transfer the Chicago courses in his specialization\u201d.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Chicago 1955-60; Southern Illinois University 1960-92.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Treasurer 1967-69; Business Manager 1969-73<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Archived papers:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.lib.siu.edu\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=2473\">Ashby Family World War I and II Papers at SIU-Carbondale<\/a> | Some correspondence in the Good Papers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/hargrett\/archives\/learned.html\">UGA\/ESA Archives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. Clark Ashby Born: Duluth, MN 7\/6\/1922 Education: Chicago (B.D. 1947, Ph. D. 1950); California (1947-49; no degree) Dissertation title: Effects of certain acid growth-regulating substances and their corresponding aldehydes on the growth of roots. (Bot. Gaz. 112: 237-249). Adviser: Poul Larsen (C) Comments: Took courses with and T.A.\u2019d for Charles E. Olmsted while at Chicago. Influenced at California by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-microbios","tag-microbiographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}