Dr. James P. May earned degrees from Birmingham Southern College; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Florida State University.

After one year of teaching at Arizona State University, Jim started teaching geology at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, and retired from there after twenty-five years. His scholarly accomplishments are still respected and in use in the field of geology.He had many titles in his life: PFC (in the Marines), Ph.D. (in geology), and Colonel and Professor Emeritus (at the Citadel).

He is survived by his wife, his daughter, his son, two daughter-in-law, grandson, three grandchildren, and all the rest of the well-loved May family, including his sister and his brother. Honoring Jim with a donation to Conserving Carolina would be a lovely gesture.