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William G. George (1925-1992)
At. SIUC, William G. George taught and conducted research on birds and avian predators from 1964 until illness required he take leave from his professional responsibilities in early 1986. He was born in Santa Cruz, California, on 2 February 1925. From 1943-46, he served in the U.S.N.A.F. Later, he obtained his higher education at the University of Arizona (B.S. in 1957, M.S. in 1958, and Ph.D. in 1961). In 1961-62, he held a Frank M. Chapman Fellowship with the American Museum of Natural History. He extended his work with the Museum in 1962-64 with the assistance of a NSF grant -- collecting passerine birds in Peru and investigating their systematics. In 1964, he moved to Carbondale and began working as Assistant Professor of Zoology teaching ornithology and other vertebrate zoology courses. In 1972, he was promoted to Associate Professor, then to Professor in 1978. He was a member of several ornithological organizations (e.g., AOU, Coopers, and Wilson) and hosted the Wilson Ornithological Society annual meeting at SIUC in 1968. He was unable to resume his work at SIU and officially retired in 1991; he died soon thereafter following a seven-year struggle with the effects of multiple myeloma. The William George Memorial Award was established in his honor by his wife Marian.
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