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Leland Shanor was appreciated as a professor and supervised several graduate students while at the
University of Illinois. Many of his students became world authorities on the taxonomic groups that they studied. A few examples are Richard K. Benjamin who worked on Laboulbeniales, Everett Smith Beneke
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University of Illinois to join Florida State University in Tallahassee as professor of botany and chairman of biological sciences. This departure marks a change in Leland Sharon's career towards more administrative responsibilities. He became dean of the division of advanced
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and botanist. He married mycologist Mary
Williams Ward Shanor on June 20, 1940, in Burgaw, North Carolina. They had two sons. Charles was born in 1946 and Paul in 1949. Outside of their studies in mycology, Leland and Mary Shanor were both heavily involved in real estate. They are both buried in
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Shanor's fungal herbarium specimens are mainly held at the
University of North Carolina (NCU), the University of Illinois (ILL) and in the United States National Fungus Collection (BPI). Other specimens can also be found at Harvard University's Farlow Herbarium (FH), Iowa State University's Ada
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University of Florida. In 1965 he became a professor of botany and was the chairman of the botany department. He occupied diverse administrative positions but was still supervising graduate students. He served also in numerous university committees.
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Herbarium (ISC), the New York Botanical Garden (NY), the Oregon State University Herbarium (OSC), the herbarium at the University of California Berkeley (UC), the University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), and the University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH).
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