It was a fun trip, and hopefully these photos will prove that geology students today certainly don’t need a man to do something right! We went to Island Beach State Park in New Jersey. The Marine Geology class I am in had a field trip this weekend. Here’s a clipping from our student newspaper that my friend Kersti who works in special collections sent me. The Valley Forge trip the student refers to still happens today–every student who takes geo 101 goes there to study in the field. When Florene Bascom started the department, she was certain that students received training not only in classrooms, but also in the field. The alum is currently working for the New Jersey Geological Society–I was lucky enough to hear her speak about her current research a few semesters ago when she presented at Bryn Mawr. The print was made during a printmaking class she took during her senior year. Here’s a silkscreen a Bryn Mawr alum made commemorating our awesome history. In 1895 she founded BMC’s geology department. She was the first woman to be granted a phD from Johns Hopkins University, and, at the time, the only woman in the US to hold a doctorate in geology. Ironically, our department was founded by Florence Bascom…here she is with her Brunton compass, dressed ready for the field.įlorence Bascom, in addition to being a cool lady, was a pioneer for women scientists. Given the history of the geology department, I found this excerpt funny- “if you want anything done, get a man to do it”! No one could be more polite and obliging to everyone than he is. I say if you want anything done, get a MAN to do it. That was the case with the Valley Forge trip too. Everything went just according to schedule. And he never lost his composure for a second. It can’t be easy for the young man (he’s only about thirty-five) to engineer sixteen girls through all sorts of changes of trains, etc. Here’s an excerpt I found especially interesting/funny–the student is talking about her professor who led the trip: If you’ve been reading my blog you should know by know that I love geology field trips, so of course I got excited when I saw it. In it, the student thanks her mother for sending her homemade ambrosia candy and talks about a geology field trip she just got home from. Today I came across some photocopies of letters home from a Bryn Mawr sophomore geology major in 1918.
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