{"id":1985,"date":"2011-11-10T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2014-09-25T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:31:21","slug":"thomas-joab-langston-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"THOMAS, JOAB LANGSTON, 1933-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong> Botanist, educator; college president. Born&#8211; Feb. 14, 1933 in Holt, Ala. Parents&#8211; Ralph Cage and Chamintney Elizabeth (Stovall) Thomas. Married&#8211; Marly A. Dukes, Dec. 22, 1954. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Harvard University, A.B. (1955), A.M.(1957), Ph.D. (1959). \u00a0Cytotaxonomist at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1959-1961; taught at University of Alabama and directed its Herbarium, 1961-1976; director of\u00a0UAi Arboretum, 1964-1976, and assistant dean of College of Arts and Sciences, 1964-1965 and in 1969; dean for student development, 1969-1974; vice president for student affairs, 1974-1976;\u00a0 chancellor North Carolina State University, 1976-1981. President of the University of Alabama, 1981-88; president of Pennsylvania State University, 1990-95. Served on the board of three agricultural\u00a0research centers:\u00a0 The International Potato Center, ISNAR; and and the Internation Fund for Agricultural Research.\u00a0Named outstanding professor at University of Alabama, 1964-1965; Member Alabama Academy of Honor, 1983.\u00a0 Received honorary degrees from the University of Alabama, North Carolina State University, Stillman College, and Tri-State University. Thomas Hall on the Penn State Campus is named in his honor. Died March 3, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> American Men and Women of Science, 1982; Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1984; obituary, <em>Tuscaloosa News<\/em>, March 4, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Monographic Study of the Cyrillaceae. Cambridge, Mass.; Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poisonous Plants and Venomous Animals of Alabama and Adjoining States. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Flowers of Alabama and Adjoining States. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Changes and Issues.\u00a0 University of Alabama, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Rising South. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Botanist, educator; college president. Born&#8211; Feb. 14, 1933 in Holt, Ala. Parents&#8211; Ralph Cage and Chamintney Elizabeth (Stovall) Thomas. Married&#8211; Marly A. Dukes, Dec. 22, 1954. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Harvard University, A.B. (1955), A.M.(1957), Ph.D. (1959). \u00a0Cytotaxonomist at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1959-1961; taught at University of Alabama and directed its Herbarium, 1961-1976; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}