The Zoology Student

Here are three pictures of Pauline Alden Ramsdell, my mother's mother. She's in the Swarthmore College laboratory examining tissue samples. She studied zoology at the Pennsylvania school and graduated in 1939. Her Senior year book states

"She is fond of water colors and Japanese prints, and wears purple continually. Her cheeks, which are continually that rosy color, add to the impression that Polly looks like a Botticellian edition of Bette Davis." The book also notes that she avoided live animal directions, played bridge, and enjoyed frequent trips to New York City.