Tom Carruth

He is currently the E.L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

When he was sixteen, Carruth and his family moved to Irving, Texas, where he discovered a passion for plant biology.

He transferred to Texas A&M University in his junior year where me met J.C. Raulston, a professor in horticulture, who would become Carruth's mentor.

With Raulston's support, Carruth applied for a scholarship and earned a master's degree in plant breeding two years later in 1976.

[4] After his retirement, Carruth accepted the position as the E.L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.