Jack's body was donated to the Emory University Medical School.
He is "Jewel T" on the 1910 Pike Co MS and 1930 Washington Parish LA Census.
OBITUARY: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 Dec 2001
Canton, GA, Jack May, 91 UGA professor of forestry.
Jack May was a professor with a sensitivity to environmental and social issues. He was a leader in soil conservation and reforestation efforts, volunteered for Meals on Wheels and worked to make black students and foreign students feel at home during his tenure at the University of Georgia's Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources. "His real accomplishment in forestry was the establishment of tree nurseries for reforestation," said his son, Bo May of Nashville. "He saw the virgin forest wiped away in his youth and worked to bring it back as a commercial agricultural crop. He said that sustainable forestry was paper products and called trees our most important product in the south." Mr. May specialized in the discipline of "silvaculture" – the agriculture of trees, how to grow them and maximize growth and return. He wrote several textbooks on the subject, and was in great demand as a consultant for paper companies, both in the United States and abroad. "Jack was an excellent teacher who knew his subject and made it interesting, and many of his students rose to high rank in the profession," said Klaus Steinbeck of Watkinsville, a former pupil and later a colleague in the forestry school.
Jack Truett May, 91, of Canton, a longtime Athens resident, died Nov. 27 of a heart attack at the Canton Nursing Center. The body was donated to Emory University School of Medicine. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at the Presbyterian Student Center in Athens. Huey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. May taught at the University of Georgia from 1958-1977. He earned a distinguished teaching award from the university in 1975, an outstanding professor award in 1976 and the Society of American Foresters award of excellence in 1977.
During the Great Depression, he worked in the New Deal program known as Civilian Conversation Corps, helping build roads and provide electricity to rural communities in the North Carolina mountains and Ozarks. Later, he worked as a ranger for the U.S. Forest Service in the Florida Panhandle. He taught at Auburn University in Alabama from 1948-58. During World War II, Mr. May served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Pacific. "He came home with a global view," said his son. "He told us to embrace the world."
Mr. May lived up to his words. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas he would host foreign students in his home, many of whom he had recruited for the forestry school. With the Human Relations Council in Athens, "he worked hard to integrate the school system in Clarke County," said his daughter, Deanie Fincher of Canton. He founded a scholarship fund for female forestry students, named Martha Love May Scholarship Fund after his first wife.
Survivors include his wife, Dean Parker May of Canton; three other daughters, Mary Love Helms of Dadeville, Ala., Martha Giardina of New York City, and Marianne Causey of Athens; three other sons, Jim May of Nashville, Tom May of Columbus; and Joe May of Tianjin, China; 19 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Martha Love May Scholarship Fund, University of Georgia Foundation, Athens, GA, 30602.
He is "Jewel T" on the 1910 Pike Co MS and 1930 Washington Parish LA Census.
OBITUARY: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 Dec 2001
Canton, GA, Jack May, 91 UGA professor of forestry.
Jack May was a professor with a sensitivity to environmental and social issues. He was a leader in soil conservation and reforestation efforts, volunteered for Meals on Wheels and worked to make black students and foreign students feel at home during his tenure at the University of Georgia's Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources. "His real accomplishment in forestry was the establishment of tree nurseries for reforestation," said his son, Bo May of Nashville. "He saw the virgin forest wiped away in his youth and worked to bring it back as a commercial agricultural crop. He said that sustainable forestry was paper products and called trees our most important product in the south." Mr. May specialized in the discipline of "silvaculture" – the agriculture of trees, how to grow them and maximize growth and return. He wrote several textbooks on the subject, and was in great demand as a consultant for paper companies, both in the United States and abroad. "Jack was an excellent teacher who knew his subject and made it interesting, and many of his students rose to high rank in the profession," said Klaus Steinbeck of Watkinsville, a former pupil and later a colleague in the forestry school.
Jack Truett May, 91, of Canton, a longtime Athens resident, died Nov. 27 of a heart attack at the Canton Nursing Center. The body was donated to Emory University School of Medicine. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at the Presbyterian Student Center in Athens. Huey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. May taught at the University of Georgia from 1958-1977. He earned a distinguished teaching award from the university in 1975, an outstanding professor award in 1976 and the Society of American Foresters award of excellence in 1977.
During the Great Depression, he worked in the New Deal program known as Civilian Conversation Corps, helping build roads and provide electricity to rural communities in the North Carolina mountains and Ozarks. Later, he worked as a ranger for the U.S. Forest Service in the Florida Panhandle. He taught at Auburn University in Alabama from 1948-58. During World War II, Mr. May served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Pacific. "He came home with a global view," said his son. "He told us to embrace the world."
Mr. May lived up to his words. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas he would host foreign students in his home, many of whom he had recruited for the forestry school. With the Human Relations Council in Athens, "he worked hard to integrate the school system in Clarke County," said his daughter, Deanie Fincher of Canton. He founded a scholarship fund for female forestry students, named Martha Love May Scholarship Fund after his first wife.
Survivors include his wife, Dean Parker May of Canton; three other daughters, Mary Love Helms of Dadeville, Ala., Martha Giardina of New York City, and Marianne Causey of Athens; three other sons, Jim May of Nashville, Tom May of Columbus; and Joe May of Tianjin, China; 19 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Martha Love May Scholarship Fund, University of Georgia Foundation, Athens, GA, 30602.
Jack's body was donated to the Emory University Medical School.
He is "Jewel T" on the 1910 Pike Co MS and 1930 Washington Parish LA Census.
OBITUARY: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 Dec 2001
Canton, GA, Jack May, 91 UGA professor of forestry.
Jack May was a professor with a sensitivity to environmental and social issues. He was a leader in soil conservation and reforestation efforts, volunteered for Meals on Wheels and worked to make black students and foreign students feel at home during his tenure at the University of Georgia's Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources. "His real accomplishment in forestry was the establishment of tree nurseries for reforestation," said his son, Bo May of Nashville. "He saw the virgin forest wiped away in his youth and worked to bring it back as a commercial agricultural crop. He said that sustainable forestry was paper products and called trees our most important product in the south." Mr. May specialized in the discipline of "silvaculture" – the agriculture of trees, how to grow them and maximize growth and return. He wrote several textbooks on the subject, and was in great demand as a consultant for paper companies, both in the United States and abroad. "Jack was an excellent teacher who knew his subject and made it interesting, and many of his students rose to high rank in the profession," said Klaus Steinbeck of Watkinsville, a former pupil and later a colleague in the forestry school.
Jack Truett May, 91, of Canton, a longtime Athens resident, died Nov. 27 of a heart attack at the Canton Nursing Center. The body was donated to Emory University School of Medicine. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at the Presbyterian Student Center in Athens. Huey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. May taught at the University of Georgia from 1958-1977. He earned a distinguished teaching award from the university in 1975, an outstanding professor award in 1976 and the Society of American Foresters award of excellence in 1977.
During the Great Depression, he worked in the New Deal program known as Civilian Conversation Corps, helping build roads and provide electricity to rural communities in the North Carolina mountains and Ozarks. Later, he worked as a ranger for the U.S. Forest Service in the Florida Panhandle. He taught at Auburn University in Alabama from 1948-58. During World War II, Mr. May served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Pacific. "He came home with a global view," said his son. "He told us to embrace the world."
Mr. May lived up to his words. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas he would host foreign students in his home, many of whom he had recruited for the forestry school. With the Human Relations Council in Athens, "he worked hard to integrate the school system in Clarke County," said his daughter, Deanie Fincher of Canton. He founded a scholarship fund for female forestry students, named Martha Love May Scholarship Fund after his first wife.
Survivors include his wife, Dean Parker May of Canton; three other daughters, Mary Love Helms of Dadeville, Ala., Martha Giardina of New York City, and Marianne Causey of Athens; three other sons, Jim May of Nashville, Tom May of Columbus; and Joe May of Tianjin, China; 19 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Martha Love May Scholarship Fund, University of Georgia Foundation, Athens, GA, 30602.
He is "Jewel T" on the 1910 Pike Co MS and 1930 Washington Parish LA Census.
OBITUARY: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1 Dec 2001
Canton, GA, Jack May, 91 UGA professor of forestry.
Jack May was a professor with a sensitivity to environmental and social issues. He was a leader in soil conservation and reforestation efforts, volunteered for Meals on Wheels and worked to make black students and foreign students feel at home during his tenure at the University of Georgia's Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources. "His real accomplishment in forestry was the establishment of tree nurseries for reforestation," said his son, Bo May of Nashville. "He saw the virgin forest wiped away in his youth and worked to bring it back as a commercial agricultural crop. He said that sustainable forestry was paper products and called trees our most important product in the south." Mr. May specialized in the discipline of "silvaculture" – the agriculture of trees, how to grow them and maximize growth and return. He wrote several textbooks on the subject, and was in great demand as a consultant for paper companies, both in the United States and abroad. "Jack was an excellent teacher who knew his subject and made it interesting, and many of his students rose to high rank in the profession," said Klaus Steinbeck of Watkinsville, a former pupil and later a colleague in the forestry school.
Jack Truett May, 91, of Canton, a longtime Athens resident, died Nov. 27 of a heart attack at the Canton Nursing Center. The body was donated to Emory University School of Medicine. A memorial service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at the Presbyterian Student Center in Athens. Huey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. May taught at the University of Georgia from 1958-1977. He earned a distinguished teaching award from the university in 1975, an outstanding professor award in 1976 and the Society of American Foresters award of excellence in 1977.
During the Great Depression, he worked in the New Deal program known as Civilian Conversation Corps, helping build roads and provide electricity to rural communities in the North Carolina mountains and Ozarks. Later, he worked as a ranger for the U.S. Forest Service in the Florida Panhandle. He taught at Auburn University in Alabama from 1948-58. During World War II, Mr. May served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Pacific. "He came home with a global view," said his son. "He told us to embrace the world."
Mr. May lived up to his words. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas he would host foreign students in his home, many of whom he had recruited for the forestry school. With the Human Relations Council in Athens, "he worked hard to integrate the school system in Clarke County," said his daughter, Deanie Fincher of Canton. He founded a scholarship fund for female forestry students, named Martha Love May Scholarship Fund after his first wife.
Survivors include his wife, Dean Parker May of Canton; three other daughters, Mary Love Helms of Dadeville, Ala., Martha Giardina of New York City, and Marianne Causey of Athens; three other sons, Jim May of Nashville, Tom May of Columbus; and Joe May of Tianjin, China; 19 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Martha Love May Scholarship Fund, University of Georgia Foundation, Athens, GA, 30602.
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