Joseph R. Mundie

Professor Emeritus, Biology

Joseph Ryland Mundie received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia in 1925, 1925, and 1927, respectively.  During his graduate student years he taught briefly at the College of William and Mary. He was a member of the biology faculty at Oklahoma Baptist University from 1927-1938. After serving as a sabbatical replacement faculty member at the University of Oklahoma in 1938-39, he served on the biology faculty of King College in Bristol, Tennessee, from 1939-1943. In 1943, he joined the faculty at Ouachita College, where he served as Chair of the Biology Department until his retirement in 1965. Dr. Mundie returned to his native King and Queen County, Virginia, where he lived until his death in 1977. He married the former Ruth Lupton. They had two children, Joseph Ryland Mundie, Jr. and Helen Ruth Bennett.