Robert C. Sherman (’46 M.S.), Denton, Professor Emeritus of biology who worked at North Texas from 1946 to 1978, died May 28. Sherman, considered a pioneer in conservation education, began work on a master’s degree in field biology at North Texas in 1940 under J.K.G. Silvey, who became his mentor and colleague. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Sherman joined North Texas as assistant professor of education and was principal of the demonstration school. He left in 1948 to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri and returned to North Texas in 1950 to join the biology and chemistry faculty. For many summers he taught a field laboratory in conservation education and in 1955 published Life and Death of the Soil. He served as chair of the Division of Science, associate dean of the graduate school and director of research and academic grants. He also was a life member of the President’s Council and a longtime supporter of UNT. His first wife was the late Elizabeth Lura Pinkerton Sherman (’46 M.A.)
