Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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THE LLAMARADA 21 Elizabeth Rebecca Laird, Ph.I)., Professor B.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr; L niversity of Berlin; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae, of the American Physical Society, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. South Hadley, Massachusetts Mabel Augusta Chase, M.A., Associate Professor B.A., Oberlin; M.A., Cornell University; University of Chicago; Member of Association of Collegiate Alumnae. South Had!ey,Massachusetts Violet Louise Holcomb, M.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Colorado College; M.A., Radcliffe; Phi Beta Kappa. 43 Ashley Avenue, W est Springfield, Massachusetts Margaret Calderwood Shields, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. Saint (ohnsbury, Vermont Department of .cUtrononm A course in astronomy was included in the required work of the seminary from the beginning in 1837, hut soon after the granting of the college charter all courses were made elective. The first telescope, six inches in aperture, was purchased in 1853 with money collected by Mr. Dickinson, of Durham, Connecticut. The small observatory which sheltered it stood upon the campus, a little to the north of the monument. In 1881 this telescope was sent to the Huguenot Seminary of South Africa, and the John Payson W illiston Observatory, the gift of Mr. A. L. Williston, was completed. Its principal instruments are an eight-inch Clark telescope, mounted equatorially, and a three-inch meridian circle. In 1902 a lecture room was added to this building, and facilities for elementary observational work were greatly increased. Miss Bardwell, the first director of the observatory, began her work here in 1866. After her death, in 1899, she was succeeded by Miss Young. Since 1902 there has also been an assistant in the department. Upon the first Wednesday evening of each month the observatory is open to visitors, and residents of neighboring towns, as well as students of the college and their friends, are given an opportunity to see objects of interest with the telescope.

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20 THE LLAMARADA Mary Elizabeth Holmes, B.A., Associate Professor B.A., Wellesley; I niversity of Chicago; Member of New England Association of Chemistry Teachers; Association of Collegiate Alumna?. Mystic, Connecticut Anna Lockhart Flanigen, Ph.D., Associate Professor Fh.D., University of Pennsylvania; London University College; University of Berlin. 222 South Forty-third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania M. Helen Keith, M.A., Instructor B.S., Mount Holyoke; Diploma from Teachers’ College, Columbia University; M.A., Columbia University; Chicago University. Braintree, Massachusetts E. Charlotte Rogers, B.A., Instructor B.A., Mount Holyoke; Chicago University. 80 Asylum Street, Norwich, Connecticut Emma Perry Carr, B.S., Instructor Ohio State University; Mount Holyoke College; B.S., University of Chicago. Coshocton, Ohio Winona Alice Hughes, Fh.B., Instructor Ph.B., University of Wooster; University of Chicago; Bryn Mawr; Member of Central Association of Science and Mathematics. 271 Church Street, Marion, Ohio Sarah Annette Quimby, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. 253 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts Jessie Colby Locke, B.A., Laboratory Assistant B.A., Mount Holyoke. Waterbury, Connecticut On leave of absence Department of pbpoics A course in natural philosophy, or physics, was required from 1837 to 1897 in the Junior or Senior year. The work was amplified tor many years by special lectures given by a visiting professor. The supply of apparatus, small at first, was increased from time to time, and in 1887 laboratory work became required and elective work was offered. Before 1891 one person gave part time to the subject; since then the staff has been increased to four. In 1893-94 the department was established in its present quarters in Shattuck Hall. Alter the subject was opened to Sophomores the work expanded, and in 1899 eleven courses were offered. This year, for the first time, physics has been elective tor Freshmen.

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22 THE LLAMARADA Anne Sewell Young, Ph.l)., Professor B.L., M.S., Carlcton College; Ph.D., Columbia University; Goodsell Observatory, Northfield, Minnesota; University of Chicago; Yerkes Observatory; Columbia University; Professor of Mathematics at Whitman College, Walla W alla, Washington; Research Assistant at Yerkes Observatory; Principal of High School, Saint Charles, Illinois; Member of Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America; Fellow in Association for the Advancement of Science. Winona Fake, Indiana Anna Laura Oathout, B.S., Assistant I B.S., Carleton College; Time service, Goodsell Observatory, Northfield, Minnesota. mi Winona Street, Northfield, Minnesota Department of otanp Botany was included bv Miss Lyon in the curriculum of the first year, 1837-1838. and from that time until 1851 was a required subject during two or three years ot the course until it became entirely elective in 1897-98. Miss Mary M. Smith was the teacher of botany the first year. Many names are included in the list of those teaching the subject between 1837 and 1851, when Miss Lydia W. Shattuck became the head of the department and directed its interests until her death in 1889. Since that time the department has been in charge of Miss Hooker. Miss Lyon’s herbarium, still preserved intact, was the nucleus of the present collections. To this in 1861 Miss Shattuck added her own herbarium and continued during her life to secure in every way possible the plants now constituting the present collections. The botanical gardens were begun in 1878 by Miss Shattuck, the first plants being pur in with her own trowel. She was assisted by Mr. Levi Allen, still in college employ, in making the first flower beds. ’The first gardener, appointed in 1882, was Mr. Charles Bates. A small plant house destroyed by the fire of 1896 was the gift of Miss Emma E. Dickinson, graduate of 1867. The present range of houses was the result of the generosity of several individuals, the largest and completing gift being from Mr. and Mrs. James Taleott, of New York City, for whom the arboretum is named. Laboratory work with the compound microscope began in 1883, and Miss Martha Goldthwait,who worked with mosses, was the first pupil in what was then called “advanced work.”