| LC control no. | n 50046416 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Keen, A. Myra (Angeline Myra), 1905-1986 |
| Variant(s) | Keen, Angeline Myra, 1905-1986 Keen, A. M. (Angeline Myra), 1905-1986 Keen, Myra, 1905-1986 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1905-05-23 |
| Death date | 1986-01-04 |
| Place of birth | Colorado Springs (Colo.) |
| Place of death | Santa Rosa (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Paleontology Geology Psychology |
| Affiliation | Stanford University University of California, Berkeley Stanford University Colorado College |
| Profession or occupation | Geologists Paleontologists Psychologists Museum curators College teachers University and college faculty members |
| Found in | Her An abridged check list and bibliography of west North American ... c1937. LCCN 63-12039: Her Marine molluscan genera of western North America, 1963 (hdg.: Keen, Angeline Myra, 1905- ; usage: A. Myra Keen) LC data base, 5-15-85 (hdg.: Keen, Angeline Myra, 1905- ; usage: A. Myra Keen) OCLC, July 29, 2009 (hdgs.: Keen, A. Myra (Angeline Myra), 1905- ; Keen, A. Myra (Angeline Myra), 1905-1986; Keen, Angeline Myra; usage: A. Myra Keen, A.M. Keen) Memorial to Angeline Myra Keen, 1905-1986, viewed Aug. 19, 2022 (Professor emeritus A. Myra Keen of the School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, died January 4,1986, in Santa Rosa, California, at the age of 80. The daughter of Ernest Byron and Mary Thurston Keen, Myra was born May 23,1905, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colorado College in 1930, won a fellowship to Stanford University (where she earned an M.A. in 1931), and then completed a doctorate in 1934 at the University of California at Berkeley. Her post-graduate degrees were both in psychology. Myra became a research associate and volunteer curator of molluscan shells at Stanford University in 1934. Having graduated during the depression when there were no jobs in psychology, Myra returned to Stanford in 1934 to work with Mrs. Oldroyd. She had had two years of biology in college but only one course in geology, so she began to audit the courses in paleontology and stratigraphy taught by Hubert Schenck and Siemon Muller After 18 years as curator and lecturer, Myra was offered an assistant professorship in 1954, followed by an associate professorship in 1960, and a full professorship in 1965. Before retirement in 1970, she had the distinction of being the first woman to receive a full professorship in the School of Earth Sciences.) <https://www.geosociety.org/documents/gsa/memorials/v18/Keen-AM.pdf> |
| Associated language | eng |
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