Year: 1977
Type: article
Abstract: American archaeology of one of its most influential scholars.Her untimely death was an especially great loss to the archaeology of New York State, for no other scholar had such a profound effect on this area in recent years.Marian E. White was born in Hartland Corners, Niagara County, New York, August 28,1921, into the family of Ralph E. and Millie White.Her mother was a grade school teacher and her father was a farmer who also ran a greenhouse.Marian went to grade school in Hartland School District No. 6 and graduated from Gasport High School in 1938.She spent her teen years in western New York.She was active in numerous activities: she was a good baseball and basketball player, played the clarinet in the high school band, and very much enjoyed outdoor activities such as camping, canoeing, and fishing.She was a very popular and cheerful girl, which earned her the nickname "Happy."Later in life, these interests remained with Marian; she enjoyed outdoor activities, sports, and was a jazz fan.In 1938 Marian entered Cornell University, receiving her A.B. with a major in classics and minor in anthropology in 1942.After her ••-^i.-, •" ' .graduation she worked over a year as a statistical clerk in the Department of Agricultural Economics, New York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca.Since the United States was involved in World War II, Marian joined the Army Air Force and through December 1945 she was an IBM Tabulator Machine Operator, WAC-AAF, Statistical Control Division Headquarters AAF.After her Army Air Force service
Source: American Antiquity
Author: Sarunas Milisauskas
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2587627689