Sr. Florence Marie Scott '26
Chair, Biology Department & Professor, Biology
Sr. Florence Marie Scott '26Sister Florence Marie Scott graduated from Seton Hill in 1926, earned her master’s of science degree from Columbia University in 1927, and her doctorate in 1935. She began teaching at Seton Hill in 1929 until her death in 1965.
For more than thirty years, Sr. Florence Marie would spend her summers at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In their centennial publication, 100 Years of Exploring Life at Woods Hole, colleagues recall with fondness that Sr. Florence Marie was so popular that she almost dreaded walking through the small Massachusetts town. She was equipped with a “wonderful sense of humor” that gave her an ability to “break down any prejudices that nuns could not do science.”
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