Verla
Verla Gazah Pendell Richtmyer, 1981. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 140, [4] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. There is a small amount of damp staining on the cover and at the bottom spine area but the text is clear and intact. Inscribed on fep. Erasure residue on fep. The author was the daughter of a newspaperman and publisher. This memoir focuses on her early years, with her brother and sister, and takes her story to High School graduation. From an obituary available on line: "Nelson Kellogg Richtmyer, 91, a carbohydrate chemist who retired in 1971 after 37 years with the National Institutes of Health, died. His research at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases included work on rare and higher-carbon sugars and enzymes and bacterias that affect sugars. He was a native of Coxsackie, N.Y., and a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where he received a master's degree in chemistry and a doctorate in organic chemistry.
Before moving to the Washington area in 1934, he taught chemistry at Bryn Mawr College. He received the Claude S. Hudson Award of the division of carbohydrate chemistry of the American Chemical Society. He was a vice president of the society and chaired the division. Dr. Richtmyer wrote more that 100 research articles for chemistry journals and was co-editor of the Collected Papers of C.S. Hudson. His wife of 63 years, Verla Pendell Richtmyer, died in 1991. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Autobiography, Fisherman, Louse, Camp Fire Girls, Printers, Family, Siblings, High School, Coming of Age, Journalism, Coxsackie, New York, Newspapers, Memoirs, Reminiscences, Feminism, Gender Studies
[Book #72205]
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