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Wayne Scott Gardner was born January 11, 1920, and died April 19, 2014. He served three years in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, including a tour of duty on Guadalcanal. He married Leona Oberly in Clifton, Colorado.
Following his military service, Gardner pursued higher education under the GI Bill, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in botany and plant pathology from Utah State Agricultural College in Logan. He was subsequently employed as a civilian researcher by the United States Army in Utah and later conducted environmental and crop research for U.S. Steel Corporation in Utah and Pennsylvania.
At the age of 43, Gardner returned to academic study under a Regents Fellowship at the University of California, Davis, where he earned a Ph.D. in plant pathology in 1967. His doctoral research focused on barley stripe mosaic virus, and he received recognition for outstanding accomplishment in electron microscopy at UC Davis.
Gardner was hired as an associate professor at South Dakota State University in Brookings, where his teaching and research emphasized the use of the electron microscope in plant pathology. He also served on a United States Agency for International Development mission to Botswana. While living in Brookings, he participated actively in Toastmasters and the Pitchblenders Barbershop Chorus. Gardner retired from South Dakota State University in 1985.
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Field of Activity: Plant diseases, Education, Higher
Occupation: College teachers; University and college faculty members
Associated Groups: South Dakota State University