- Biographical Note:
- Hayne Palmour III was born in Gainesville, Georgia, in 1927 and lived there until moving to Jerome, Idaho, as a teenager. He studied chemical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology for two years before joining the Navy and training in orography at a school near Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Dr. Palmour then served at a Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA, a Navy Weather Central facility in San Francisco, CA, and on weather ship patrols in the Pacific Ocean. He returned to Georgia Tech in 1946 and completed a B.S. in ceramic engineering in 1948. Dr. Palmour worked with the Bureau of Mines in Norris, TN, with the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC, and with the American Lava Corporation in Chattanooga, TN, before coming to North Carolina State University in 1957 to earn a Ph.D. in ceramic engineering. After completing his Ph.D. in 1961 he worked with the NC State University Engineering Research Department and taught in the academic department of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Palmour retired in 1994. He has remained active with NC State University as former president of the Association of Retired Faculty, and served on the Friends of the Library board and the Arts NC State advisory board.
