Barbara J. White Papers, 1935-1971.

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Barbara J. White Papers, 1935-1971.

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White, Barbara Jeanne Johnson, 1918-; Student and college teacher. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1939 (M.A. 1941). Papers consist of correspondence, notes and other course records for zoology classes, a scrapbook, lecture notes and other teaching records, a scientific article that she co-authored, biographical information, and photographs, primarily documenting her academic and social life as a Mount Holyoke College teacher and instructor. Her letters contain references to her teachers (particularly Ann Haven Morgan and Christianna Smith), expenses, campus jobs, college traditions, President Mary Emma Woolley, and her courtship activities with her future husband, James P. White. Photographs include documentation of a zoology class trip to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Mount Holyoke College. Zoology Dept.

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White, James P.

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Smith, Christianna, 1893-1983

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Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947

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Mary Emma Woolley, college professor and President of Mount Holyoke College from 1901-1937, was born on July 13, 1863 in South Norwalk, Connecticut to Joseph Judah Woolley, a Congregational minister, and Mary August Ferris Woolley, a schoolteacher. She attended Mrs. Fannie Augur's school in Meriden, Connecticut until her family moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1871, when she enrolled in Providence High School. In 1882 she began attending Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, graduating i...

Mount Holyoke College.

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The first official publication of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was a catalogue issued in 1837 containing information about trustees, teachers, terms of admission, the course of study, the schedule for the year, Family Accommodations, and the Moral and Religious Influence at the school. Subsequent catalogues (with periodic updates) trace the growth of the institution and provide detailed information about the academic program and residential life for students at the College. These publications h...

White, Barbara J. (Barbara Jean)

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Barbara Jeanne Johnson White, student and teacher, was born on August 24, 1918 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her parents were Paul Hendricks Johnson, a consulting engineer, and Fern Frances Chambers Johnson. She graduated in 1935 from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, then attended Mount Holyoke College from 1935-1939. After graduating in 1939 with a B.A. in zoology, she worked as a graduate student and assistant at Mount Holyoke, earning an M.A. in zoology in 1941. She served as a zoology ins...

Morgan, Ann Haven, 1882-1966

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Scientist and educator. B.A. Cornell University, 1906; Ph. D. Cornell, 1912. Instructor then professor Mount Holyoke College Zoology Dept., 1906-1947. Research focused on aquatic biology and on hibernation. Wrote and illustrated three books. One of three women in the 5th edition of "American Men of Science". Fellow of AAAS; member of American Society of Zoologists, Sigma Xi, and other organizations. From the description of Morgan papers, 1910-1966. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldC...

Marine biological laboratory Woods Hole, Mass.

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