Portia Allen Smith
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- Title
- Portia Allen Smith
- Date(s)
- 4/18/2001
- Interviewee(s)
- Portia Allen Smith
- Interviewer(s)
- Ellen Swain
- Interviewer Position
- Archivist for Student Life and Culture
- Summary
- Portia Allyn Smith (1916-2015) attended the University from the fall of 1934 through 1937. She studied Geology and lived in a co-op house. Portia worked for the National Youth Administration as a clerk to pay for her living expenses. She remembered a bias against women in the sciences.
- Subject(s)
- great depression
- national youth administration
- women in science