1954 in the FSU Biological Science History project

Faculty of the Department of Biological Science in 1954

The Department of Biological Science was not actually formed until 1956, with the merger of the departments of Bacteriology, Botany, Physiology, and Zoology, so their memberships are listed separately here. The four departments, together with the Oceanographic Institute, cooperatively offered a joint major in biology at both the undergraduate and the master's degree levels for those with interdisciplinary interests or planning to teach biology in the secondary schools.

Department of Bacteriology

Loretta C. Ellias, Instructor
Mary Noka Hood, Professor
Anne L. Pates, Associate Professor

Department of Botany

Ruth S. Breen, Professor
Robert K. Godfrey
Herman Kurz, Professor
Betty L. Linthicum, Instructor
Grace C. Madsen, Associate Professor
Samuel L. Meyer, Professor
Chester S. Nielsen, Associate Professor
Kenneth A. Wagner, Assistant Professor
A. W. Ziegler, Associate Professor

Department of Physiology

Lloyd M. Beidler, Associate Professor
Helen A. Denyes, Assistant Professor
Arlyn Curtis Higginbotham, Associate Professor
Francis R. Hunter, Professor
John J. Spitzer, Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology

Mildred Irene Boliek, Associate Professor
Ezda M. Deviney, Professor
Charles B. Metz, Professor and Associate Director of the Oceanographic Institute
Joshua Paul Reynolds, Professor
Robert W. Rogers, Assistant Professor
Robert B. Short, Assistant Professor
Henry M. Stevenson, Associate Professor
Ralph W. Yerger, Assistant Professor

Oceanographic Institute

Harold Judson Humm, professor and director
Nelson Marshall, professor and associate director
R. Winston Menzel
Franklyn C. W. Olson, associate professor
Robert H. Williams, professor

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