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Travis MacClendon

Affiliation

- Florida Native Plant Society Magnolia Chapter. Was Conradina Chapter (President for a couple of years)
- National Audubon Society
- North American Butterfly Association, Hairstreak Chapter
- Tallahssee Scientific Society<br

Biography

                                              CURRICULUM VITAE

  Travis MacClendon just barely graduated from Louisiana Polytechnic University requiring five years and four summer school sessions, to
include LSU, North East Louisiana University, and the University of Florida, for a B.S. in Mathematics after first trying the schools of Chemical
Engineering and then Music. Ten years later and while maintaining an alcoholic haze that was to last an additional ten years, he
graduated from the University of Southern California at Hawaii with an M.S in Scientific and Technical Management. In 1982 he left the United
States Air Force having reached the under achieving rank of Major slightly ahead of a general courts martial for various failures and
probably established a record for a regular commissioned field grade officer by receiving three disciplinary citations administered by a
Lt. General in less than six months. Somewhere during this period he was married to a beautiful bleached blond with two exciting children.
Currently he is married to a beautiful carefully maintained brunette with one unpredictable son.
Mr. MacClendon worked for two major Aerospace corporations as a computer systems analyst primarily as the result of cleverly constructed
resumes. He was moderately successful and retired at the age of 52. Interesting work assignments were with the Patriot Missile System, the F-14D
Fighter Aircraft, Star Wars, and the Joint Strategic Targeting and Reconnaissance System. Interesting work places were the Pacific
Ocean and under a mountain in the United States. Mr. MacClendon published numerous papers and documents with provocative titles such as "Some
Investigations into a Device for Determining the Minimum Visible Signal of a Receiver" and "Spectrum Signature Measurements on the
AN/FPS-26 Long Range Search Radar". He also wrote an environmental column for a monthly newsletter while living on Long Island. And he
co-authored an unpublished book of the military science fiction genre with a plot so convoluted no publisher could understand it.
Mr. MacClendon has been a life long amateur ornithologist and has journeyed frequently to all continents of the world in the frivolous
pursuit of listing birds, of which he has tallied almost 6000. He no longer suffers through piano lessons because his teacher fired him.
However he does maintain a permanent level of expertise equivalent to a three-year piano student. He also expends much energy of a mad dogs and
Englishman type in the field trying to key out vegetation and curates a herbarium for Calhoun County, Florida (see
www.calhouncountyherbarium.org). One close friend used to invite him to golf once a week and another to tennis once a week but they both died.
Recently, against all advice, he began invading the space of wasps and flies for the pictures which are displayed at
www.calhouncountywaspsandflies.org View Diogmites salutans at risk of nightmares.
Mr. MacClendon currently resides in Blountstown, Florida with 25 acres of weedy fields of constant maintenance that he does not use but it frees
him from a lawn fetish. In his spare time he reads science fiction. He fancies himself a number theory hobbyist but vaguely realizes
that is pure fantasy. He has held various offices in the Audubon Society at local and state levels to include chapter President.
He
has been the Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) Conradina Chapter President and at one point rose to his highest level of
incompetence as the State FNPS Vice President of Finance.
Mr. MacClendon is happy and well adjusted.

Contact Info

13755 SW Myers Dairy Rd., Blountstown, Fl 32424
sivartmac@gmail.com
850.674.4408

Data sources

http://www.calhouncountyherbarium.org -- Over 1000 plants collected in Calhoun County only and still growing.

http://www.calhouncountywaspsandflies.org -- Over 100 Hymenopter and Diptera and still growing.