Glenn Simpson Pound (March 7, 1914 – July 6, 2010)[1] was an American educator and acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977.

Born in Hector, Arkansas, Pound worked as a sharecropper in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where he worked his way up to running a 600-acre (240 ha) farm producing vegetables and cotton.[2] He graduated from University of Arkansas in 1940, and then moved to Wisconsin that year, where he received his doctorate degree from University of Wisconsin in 1943.[2][3] In 1946, Pound was named professor of plant pathology and was dean of the UW College of Agriculture from 1964 until 1979.[2][3] In 1977, Pound was acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Pound retired in 1979[3] and moved to La Jolla, California. He served as an adjunct professor of plant pathology at University of California, Riverside. He died in La Jolla, California in 2010.[3][4][5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Social Security Death Index
  2. 1 2 3 Hunter, John Patrick (August 14, 1964). "Glenn Pound Is Picked to Be Dean of UW Ag School". The Capital Times. p. 1. Retrieved April 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Glenn S. Pound". Wisconsin State Journal. July 25, 2010. p. 32. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  4. ↑ "In Memoriam-Glenn S. Pound" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  5. ↑ Presidents and Chancellors of University of Wisconsin–Madison Archived 2013-10-11 at the Wayback Machine


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