Glenn Simpson Pound

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. 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.
  3. "Glenn S. Pound". Wisconsin State Journal. July 25, 2010. p. 32. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  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 2013-11-07 at WebCite


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