Clyde C. Singletary of Diamondhead, professor emeritus and former head of the Department of Horticulture at Mississippi State, died May 6, 1996. He was 74.
A Grant, La., native, he received bachelor's and master's degrees in horticulture at Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. in plant physiology and genetics at Purdue University in 1950.
He was a graduate teaching assistant at Purdue 1948-50, a professor at Kansas State University 1950-52 and at the University of Kentucky 1954-58, and an extension horticulturist at Texas A&M University 1958-61.
Singletary joined the Mississippi State faculty in 1961 as professor of horticulture and became head of the Department of Horticulture in 1963, where he served until his retirement in 1986.
He received the coveted Gold Cup Award of the Garden Clubs of Mississippi in 1973, and consulted in the development of the Master Gardeners of Mississippi program.
Singletary was a U.S. Army veteran, serving in the Pacific Theater.
He belonged to the American Society for Horticultural Science, American Society for Horticultural Science-Southern Region, Mississippi Academy of Science, Gamma Sigma Delta, Sigma Xi, and the American Horticulture Society.
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