PaulShepardChronology

1931 Attends Troost Elementary School.

1935 In February moves with parents to Mountain Grove,
Missouri, where his father is appointed director of State of
Missouri Fruit Experiment Station.

Writes and publishes "The Weekly Chit-chat," that reports the
news of the Fruit Station, and delivers it to families who work
there, with a cart drawn by the family dog, Judy.

Begins collecting bird eggs.

1936 First meets Rudolph Bennitt, a zoologist and professor of
wildlife management at the University of Missouri, who visits the
Fruit Farm relative to his population studies of Bobwhite Quail.

1938 Meets Ernest Thompson Seaton at his camp for boys
while on a vacation with parents visiting relatives in New Mexico.

1943 Waiting for his call to the army, he enrolls for summer term at the
University of Missouri, but impatient with delays, volunteers in July and is sent
to Camp Roberts in Paso Robles, California for basic training as a gunner on
105mm Howitzers. He completes his basic training in December. He is sent
to Santa Rosa Junior College, a clearing station for ASTP, where he meets
Mal Wood, who becomes a life-long friend.

1944 Attends ASTP at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
at Las Cruces, New Mexico in January (with Mal Wood) where he completes
a basic general course. The program is dissolved in March and he is sent to
Camp Barkley, Texas and assigned to Battery A of the 493rd Armored Field
Artillery where he trained as a radioman on M-7's. In October, he is shipped
to Camp Tidworth at Windmill Hill in England and in November goes ashore at
Normandy and takes part in the Little Bulge in the Rhineland and Central
Europe.

1945 With the ending of the war, he is assigned as an information and
education specialist, to the First Armored Division of Occupation in
Heidenheim, Germany where, as a Historical Technician, he edits, engages a
publisher, and supervises the printing of a history of his battalion in
combat.

Editor of The Pictorial History of the 493 Armored Field Artillery Battalion,
1943-1946, (Augburg, Germany: E. Kieser, 1945)

1946 Attends the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland for 60 days during January and
February where he studies French, Swiss geology, Swiss culture, Milton & Cromwell's Time,
and anatomy and physiology (parasitology) taught by Jan von Baer.

Is honorably discharged from the Army of the United States on April 15 at the Separation
Center, Jefferson Barracks, MO.

Spends summer working at the Fruit Station, visiting friends in Texas and attending wedding
of Sandy Toland in Philadelphia, who was with him in Neuchatel.

Attends University of Missouri in wildlife conservation and English literature within the
Cooperative Wildlife Unit run by the university, the state conservation commission, the
Wildlife Management Institute, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service with Rudolph Bennitt as
director and major professor.

1947 Enrolls in summer ornithology courses at Cornell University taught by Arthur Allen.

1948 Is a teaching assistant in ornithology at the University of Missouri and with Dick Youse
goes birding every morning.

Is a summer naturalist at Big Spring State Park.

1949 Graduates from the University of Missouri with an A.B. in English and Wildlife
Conservation, declines to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship as Rudolph Bennitt suggests.

Is a summer seasonal naturalist at Crater Lake National Park.

In the fall becomes field secretary for the Missouri Conservation Federation directed by
Charles Callison, in which he organizes conservation clubs made up of sportsmen.

1950 Marries Melba Wheatcroft

Moves to New Haven, Connecticut.

Enters Yale University Conservation Program directed by Paul Sears and Evelyn
Hutchinson.

1950-54 Is appointed laboratory assistant in Zoology during graduate studies at Yale
University

1951 Is a seasonal park naturalist at Glacier National Park.

Receives an American Museum of Natural History Grant to conduct a population
study of the Bermuda Cahow at the Bermuda Research Station.

1952 Receives an M.S. from Yale University in Conservation. His thesis in on the relation of
art and ecology in New England.

Son, Kenton Howe Shepard, is born

Is a seasonal park naturalist at Glacier National Park.

In the fall, enters a doctoral program at Yale University..

1953 He is granted the Arthur Hoyt Scott Garden Award by the National Council of State
Garden Clubs, with a membership of 250,000, and in 1953 was invited to be their
conservation chairman As such he became a member of the Natural Resources Council of
America and took active part in lobbying in Washington with such people as Dave Brower
(Sierra Club), Charles Callison (National Wildlife Federation), Ira Gabrielson(Wildlife
Management Institute), Olus Murie, Sigrid Olsen, Joe Penfold (Izaak Walton League), Fred
Packard (National Parks Association) and Howard Zanheiser (Wilderness Society). He and
Rachel Carson, with their common interest in the effects of pesticides, also crossed tracks
at testimonies in Washington.

1954 Receives a Ph.D. from Yale University with an interdisciplinary degree in Conservation,
Landscape Architecture, and History of Art with Paul Sears (Conservation) as chair and a
committee made up of William Jordy (Art History), Ralph Henry Gabriel (American History)
and Christopher Tunnard (Landscape Architecture). In the first seminar in conservation, he
is strongly influenced by G. Evelyn Hutchison who suggests that he pursue an
interdisciplinary degree. His dissertation topic is "American Attitudes Towards the
Landscape in New England and the West, 1830-1870."

1954 Moves to Galesburg, Illinois.

1954-1964 Is appointed professor of biology and director of Green Oaks, the college field
station at Knox College.

1955 Daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Shepard, is born.

1956 Is summer seasonal park naturalist at Olympic National Park

1957 Is an instructor in ecology at Audubon Center in Connecticut.

1958 Daughter, Jane Shepard is born

Receives a E. I. Lilley Foundation grant for summer research on environmental
perception by early travellers on the Oregon Trail in Kansas, Nebraska and
Wyoming

1959-1960 Receives NSF Grant to direct summer ecology programs for nationally selected
high school students.

Receives National Institute of Mental Health Public Service Grant to direct research on
social structure of birds (crows).

1960 Attends NSF Radiation Biology Summer Institute at Tulane University.

1961 Receives a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship at Victoria University,
Wellington, New Zealand to conduct research on the perception of the landscape by
English settlers in New Zealand.

Father, Paul Howe Shepard dies.

1962 Is a participant in a NSF Summer Institute on Advanced Biology Instruction
conducted by the University of Southern California in Costa Rica.

1962-1963 Receives grant for directing an in-service summer institute in ecology for
regional secondary school teachers.

1963 During summer travels in Italy and England to study formal gardens.

1964 Appointed Honorary Fellow in Zoology, The University of Wisconsin.

1964-1970 Is appointed lecturer in Biology at Smith College.

1965 Marries June Smith Atwater.

Hikes in Mexico with June and brother, Richard Shepard.

Moves to Williamsburg, MA

1967 Publishes Man in the Landscape, An Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature.
(New York: Knopf, 1967). (New York: Ballantine,1972) (College Station, Texas:
Texas A&M University Press, 1991).

Teaches a summer field course in "Art and Ecology" at College of Arts and
Crafts in California.

1968 Teaches a summer course in "Art and Ecology" in Mexico for College of Arts
and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Visiting professor at Williams College.

1969 Publishes The Subversive Science, Essays Toward an Ecology of Man (with
Daniel McKinley). (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969).

1969-70 Is recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for
research on the cultures of hunting/gathering peoples.

1969 Publishes English Attitudes Towards the New Zealand Landscape Before
1850, Pacific Viewpoint Monographs #4, Wellington, New Zealand, 1969.

Travels around the world with son Kent.

1970 Spends year in San Diego, CA where June has a research grant at UCSD in
human genetics.

1970-1971 Teaches courses at University of California at San Diego and at Pitzer
College.

1971 Publishes Environ/mental: Essays on the Planet as a
Home,(with Daniel McKinley), (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1971.)

1972-1973 Is appointed Visiting Professor of Environmental
Perception, Dartmouth College

1973-1994 Is appointed Avery Professor of Natural
Philosophy and Human Ecology, Pitzer College and the
Claremont Graduate School.

Publishes The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game.
(New York: Scribners, 1973).

1974-78 Spends summers in Massachusetts writing essays
and book.

1978 Publishes Thinking Animals: Animals and the
Development of Human Intelligence (New York: Viking Press,
1978.

Travels to India with June.

Spends fall in Crete.

In December goes on bear hunt.

1979-80 Is appointed Fellow in Humanities of The
Rockefeller Foundation to write "Nature and Madness."

1981 Builds house in Los Osos

1982 Publishes Nature and Madness, (San Francisco: The
Sierra Club, 1982).

1983 Travels to Greece and England, working on The
Sacred Paw.

1984-1988 National Lecturer for Sigma Xi.

Is recipient of a Distinguished Visiting Lectureship from The
Fulbright Program in India.

During Spring Term is appointed Visiting Professor at the University of
Melbourne, Department of Environmental Planning and Landscape
Architecture.

1988 Marries Flo Krall

1988- 1989 Is appointed Fellow for International Exchange of Scholars
in India to research animals in Hindu temple architecture.

1991- builds cabin in Wyoming

1993 Moves to Wyoming

1994 Begins work on several book projects: The Others: Animals and
Human Being, and The Eclectic Primitive: Nature and History, and
several books of essays.

In spring retires from Pitzer College and is appointed Professor Emeritus.

In fall is diagnosed with metatstatic lung cancer.

1996 Publishes: The Others: Animals and Human Being (Washington, D.C.:
ISLAND PRESS, 1996). The Only World We've Got (San Francisco: Sierra Club
Books, 1996).

1996 Dies on July 16, 1996 at home in Salt Lake City.

Posthumous Publications:

Traces of an Omnivore (Washington, D. C.: ISLAND PRESS, 1996),

Coming Home to the Pleistocene, ed. Florence R. Shepard

(Washington, D.C.: ISLAND PRESS/Shearwater Books, 1998).

Nature and Madness, with a Foreword by C.L.Rawlins (Athens, GA: The
University of Georgia Press, 1998) ( Sierra Club Books,1982).

Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence,
with a Foreword by Max Oelschlaeger (Athens, GA: The University of
Georgia Press, 1998) (New York: The Viking Press, 1978)

The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game with a Foreword by George
Sessions (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1998) ( New
York: Scribners, 1973).

Encounters With Nature, ed. Florence R. Shepard, with Introduction by
David Petersen (Washington, D.C.: ISLAND PRESS/Shearwater Books,
1999.

Man in the Landscape reprint (Athens, GA: The University of Georiga
Press, 2002.)

Where We Belong: Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature, edited by

Florence R. Shepard (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003.)