Officers & Council Members

The Southern Appalachian Botanical Society has grown and changed since its founding in 1936 at West Virginia University and it continues to evolve and adapt as it serves professional botanists, students of botany, and plant enthusiasts across the eastern United States. Our goal is simply to promote botany in the United States through publication of our journal Castanea, our newsletter Chinquapin, and to provide financial support to students of botany in appreciation of their accomplishments and to support botanical inquiry. Dr. Michael J. Baranski (Catawba College) penned the history of SABS from it’s earliest days to 1986, in Fifty Years of Southern Appalachian Botany – A Profile of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, Castanea 51(4): 247-262 1986. Dr. Charles N. Horn (Newberry College), followed with a 75th SABS Anniversary article entitled, The Southern Appalachian Botanical Society: Seventy-Five Years and Growing, Castanea 77(4): 283-302. Several interviews with SABS office holders including James W. Hardin and Roy B. Clarkson are available to view that give context to the development of the society and its activities during our early years. We will be celebrating the centennial of SABS in 2036, not so far off, and we look forward to the supporting academic botanical research and students of botany (of all ages) for many years to come.