T. Bonner Stewart (1953-1979)

For over 25 years, T. Bonner Stewart served as head of the Swine Parasite Laboratory at the Coastal Plains Experiment Station.  Though employed by the USDA, he had adjunct faculty status at UGA and worked closely with parasitologists at UGA. The Coastal Plains Experiment Station, originally created in 1918 as an autonomous entity affiliated with UGA, by the 1950s it was fully integrated into the University System of Georgia and in the early 2000s graduated their first undergraduate students from the University of Georgia – Tifton Campus.