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A New Botany Professor at the WCC
Meanwhile at the WCC, Janaki's position of Professor of Botany was occupied by the much older Alma Gracey Stokey (1877-1968) from Mount Holyoke. Stokey had obtained her doctorate on fern gametophytes from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of John M. Coulter and W. J. G. Land in the first decade of the twentieth century. It was when she was about to conclude her research on the Cyathea that she had heard of WCC's hunt for a competent teacher to reorganise the botany department. Losing no time, she offered herself up for the post and set out for Madras on a two-year leave of absence. Stokey showed great enthusiasm for teaching, was a tireless plant collector, had a wonderful sense of humour and nurtured varied interests, including classical music, and while in Madras never failed to attend concerts. In the late 1930s (1936-37) she would return to Madras to teach for a year; on her way back to America, she would break journey at Jakarta and collect extensively; she had hit sixty by this time. From the Dutch Buitenzorg (also called Bogor, near the volcanic Mount Salak in the south of Jakarta, a region renowned for its biological diversity), she would write in July 1937, a letter that would demonstrate the extent of her passion for botanical field exploration even in her advancing years, and an outlook that would resonate with Janaki herself: 'It was a most enjoyable excursion. I contrasted it with the expedition in Hakgala [Nuwara Eliya], Ceylon, where my attendants were more concerned with keeping me intact than in finding ferns...no one seemed unduly concerned [on Mount Salak] about my skin or bones and did not help me unnecessarily. I would rather be a botanist than a Lady,' wrote Stokey. Besides Stokey, on the botany faculty of the WCC during the time Janaki was away in Michigan, was the future Barbour Scholar, Maria Francisca Theresa Swamikannu (later Thivy), daughter of a noted Madras lawyer. Francisca (1904-89) joined the Department as lecturer in 1931.
Meanwhile at the WCC, Janaki's position of Professor of Botany was occupied by the much older Alma Gracey Stokey (1877-1968) from Mount Holyoke. Stokey had obtained her doctorate on fern gametophytes from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of John M. Coulter and W. J. G. Land in the first decade of the twentieth century. It was when she was about to conclude her research on the Cyathea that she had heard of WCC's hunt for a competent teacher to reorganise the botany department. Losing no time, she offered herself up for the post and set out for Madras on a two-year leave of absence. Stokey showed great enthusiasm for teaching, was a tireless plant collector, had a wonderful sense of humour and nurtured varied interests, including classical music, and while in Madras never failed to attend concerts. In the late 1930s (1936-37) she would return to Madras to teach for a year; on her way back to America, she would break journey at Jakarta and collect extensively; she had hit sixty by this time. From the Dutch Buitenzorg (also called Bogor, near the volcanic Mount Salak in the south of Jakarta, a region renowned for its biological diversity), she would write in July 1937, a letter that would demonstrate the extent of her passion for botanical field exploration even in her advancing years, and an outlook that would resonate with Janaki herself: 'It was a most enjoyable excursion. I contrasted it with the expedition in Hakgala [Nuwara Eliya], Ceylon, where my attendants were more concerned with keeping me intact than in finding ferns...no one seemed unduly concerned [on Mount Salak] about my skin or bones and did not help me unnecessarily. I would rather be a botanist than a Lady,' wrote Stokey. Besides Stokey, on the botany faculty of the WCC during the time Janaki was away in Michigan, was the future Barbour Scholar, Maria Francisca Theresa Swamikannu (later Thivy), daughter of a noted Madras lawyer. Francisca (1904-89) joined the Department as lecturer in 1931.
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