Call Number:

09.002

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

1 linear feet (2 notebooks)

Preferred Citation:

Household and Organic Chemistry course notebooks, 1942, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..

Date:

1942

Creator:

Pennsylvania State University

Form:

Archival materials

Abstract:

Pauline Beery was born in Norborne, Missouri in 1891 and earned a degree in chemistry at the University of Missouri in 1913. During World War I, she taught high school science in Missouri before returning to graduate work and earning her master's degree in chemistry from Columbia University in 1919. Beery began teaching chemistry in the Penn State home economics program in 1919 and eventually earned her doctorate from Penn State in 1932. In 1923, she married botanist and printmaker Warren Bryan Mack. Over the course of her career, Dr. Beery Mack served as director of the Pennsylvania Mass Studies in Human Nutrition project and also was a technical advisor to the Pennsylvania Laundry Owners Association. In 1950, she received the Francis P. Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society for her work on calcium, nutrition, and bone density measurement. Pauline Beery Mack retired from research in 1973 and died the following year in Denton, Texas.

The notebooks contain tentative lecture schedules on a range of topics, including water purification, waste disposal, cleaning and polishing agents stain removal, and aromatic compounds, as well as the procedure for writing out laboratory experiments. Additionally, forty-three laboratory exercises are detailed with topics ranging from stain removal and color-fastness tests, to qualitative analyses of commercial tooth pastes, deodorants, and face creams.