Mary Dora Rogick

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Mary Dora Rogick
botanical illustrator
InstitutionsCollege of New Rochelle
Doctoral advisorRaymond C. Osburn

Mary Dora Rogick (October 7, 1906 – October 26, 1964) was an American

zoologist. In 1935 she joined the College of New Rochelle in New York, where she spent her career as a professor and researcher.[1] She was a specialist in the taxonomy and ecology of bryozoa, a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals.[2]

Family life

Rogick was born in East Sandy, Pennsylvania, on October 7, 1906, to Nicholas and Sara Rogic, immigrants from Croatia. Of the Rogics' four children, only Mary survived into adulthood.

Education

Rogick went to school in

University of Nebraska. She earned her PhD from Ohio State University in 1934, under Raymond C. Osburn.[3] Her dissertation concerned "freshwater Bryozoa of Lake Erie, doing research at the University of Ohio summer biological station at Put-in Bay, Ohio."[3]

Through her PhD work, she developed her drawing talents to such an extent that other colleagues would later ask her to provide bryozoa

illustrations for them.[4] In addition, she prepared the illustrations for Dr. Osburn's book about bryozoa.[3]

Research and teaching

In 1935, Rogick's first official position was teaching invertebrate biology at the College of New Rochelle where she remained for the rest of her life, eventually being promoted to professor.[5] Despite her heavy teaching load and small salary, she arranged funding "from 1954 to 1961 by the National Science Foundation to study Antarctic Bryozoa."[3]

She donated her collection of books and reprints about bryozoology to the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and they are still kept as the Rogick Collection.[3]

A collection of Rogick's classroom plans, laboratory notes, lists, and a bibliographic card index from her research on Bryozoa is archived at the Smithsonian Institution.[5]

She was diagnosed with cancer and died on October 26, 1964.

Memberships

Selected works

  • Rogick, M. D. (1931). Studies on the comparative histology of the digestive tube of certain teleost fishes II. A minnow (Campostoma anomalum). Journal of Morphology, 52(1), 1-25.
  • Rogick, M. D. (1934). Additions to North American freshwater Bryozoa.
  • Rogick, M. D. (1935). Studies of Freshwater Bryozoa. III, The Development of Lophopodella carteri var. typica.
  • Rogick, M. D. (1945). Studies on Fresh-Water Bryozoa. XVI. Fredericella australiensis var. browni, n. var. The Biological Bulletin, 89(3), 215–228.
  • Rogick, M. D. (1945). Studies on marine Bryozoa. I. Aeverrillia setigera (Hincks) 1887. The Biological Bulletin, 89(3), 201–214.
  • Rogick, M. D. (1956). Studies on Marine Bryozoa. VII, Hippothoa.

References

  1. ^ "Mary Dora Rogick Virtual Memorial Tribute". Archived from the original on 2014-09-16.
  2. ^ "SIA RU007408, Mary Rogick Papers". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e The Biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. 2001-02-01.
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  5. ^ a b Archives, Smithsonian Institution (1934). "Record Unit 7408 Mary Dora Rogick Papers, circa 1934-1964". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
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