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This newspaper item says Alma is returning home to South Hadley from gathering botanical specimens on the West Coast. The item is rather surprising, because her official reason for going out west was to attend a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which would surely have sounded more impressive than "Oh, I picked some flowers while I was there." Of course, the unofficial reason for the trip was to go to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition with her mother.
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[...]Dr. Cornelia M. Clapp, professor of zoology, recently returned from a trip to Yellowstone Park and the Pacific coast and Dr. Alma G. Stokey, associate professor of botany, collected botanical specimens at the Pacific coast which she will use in her work this year. Dr. Ellen D. Ellis, associate professor of history returned today after a two years' absence as head of the department of history at Constantinople college.[...]
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I haven't yet decided if Dr. Clapp should be categorized as Mount Holyoke folks or Woods Hole folks, so I'm putting this in the document lists for both sections. And was Dr. Clapp at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting?
I have no evidence that Alma was acquainted with Dr. Ellen D. Ellis, but I can't resist pointing her out because she's so interesting. Constantinople in 1915! Here are two more sightings of her:
1908-06-15 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE MENTIONING ALMA
1936-06-26 NEWSPAPER ITEM ABOUT ALMA
I have no evidence that Alma was acquainted with Dr. Ellen D. Ellis, but I can't resist pointing her out because she's so interesting. Constantinople in 1915! Here are two more sightings of her:
1908-06-15 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE MENTIONING ALMA
1936-06-26 NEWSPAPER ITEM ABOUT ALMA
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