The Bryn Mawr connection……How a graduate of an elite Ivy League women’s college went into the rugged world of oil exploration and became the first female party chief of a seismic field crew.

Abstract

As the United States was slowly climbing out of the Great Depression, I was looking for a job. I was a recent graduate from Bryn Mawr College, a hard‐rock geologist, and a female—an unauspicious combination of factors.