Lois Langland

Scripps Professor Emerita Lois Langland (12/23/18-11/4/09), considered an honorary member of the Class of 1969.  During our time on campus, several classmates attended Lois's lectures in the Humanities core, and took psychology classes with her.  An active poet, she also nurtured students' creativity and writing. [See samples of Lois's poems linked as sub-pages below.]

Beginning at our 20th Reunion, Lois encouraged and supported the effort that resulted in the origination of Camps Scripps in 1994, as a member of the Creative Caucus along with Susan Ball '69, Regula Feldmann Campbell '69, Alice Betts Carpenter '57, Pamela Lauesen '66, Susan Dinkle Lindley '67, Kitty Maryatt '66, Leslie Lasher Monsour '69, Marga Rose Hancock '69, Meredith Sabini '66, and Kristin Wiberg '91.  Members of this group, later known as Camp Mothers, also led the campaign to establish and endow the residency that became the Lois Langland Alumnae in Residence program at Scripps.  Regula Campbell '69 became the first LLAiR.

Memories of Lois, from classmates and others:

*Leslie Lasher Monsour: "So alive, so alive.  Here's a thing I vividly remember about Lois.  She said it, taught it, and lived it:  'No one is better than you, and you are better than no one.'  Long live Lois Langland.  Every morning she sang Mozart."

*Ellie David: "I've missed her at Camp these past years but that means I've always thought of her, too.  She's left quite a legacy to so many of us."

*Marga Rose Hancock: "The Real Class of '69"

*Amy Sterling Glasband Casil '83 records meeting Lois on Amy's first day on Campus, in 1979.

From the Decorah (Winneshiek County, Iowa) Newspapers, 11/10/2009:

Dr. Lois E. Langland, Ph.D

Dr. Lois E. Langland, Ph.D., died peacefully Nov. 4, 2009, at a residential care facility in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where she had been living for several years. She would have been 91 years old in December.

Lois was born Dec. 23, 1918, to Charley and Clara Langland at Spring Grove, Minn. She attended a rural school in Winneshiek County and Spring Grove High School. She attended N.W. Missouri College at Maryville, then taught English at Corning High School for three years. She continued her educational pursuits at Western College in Ohio, Smith College in Massachusetts, Cottey College in Missouri and the University of Iowa where she subsequently did some teaching. Then in 1953 she moved to California where she attended UCLA to pursue a doctorate in psychology. She taught at UCLA for a few years and then moved to Claremont, Calif., where she taught psychology at Scripps College for Women until her retirement. She also did some clinical psychology work at national and international psychological conventions. Scripps College has dedicated an annual week-long psychological forum in her name. She never married.

She is survived by her brother, Walter, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and seven brothers and sisters: Corrine (George) Hexom, Maurice (Evelyn) Langland, Richard (Lila) Langland, Joseph (Judith) Langland, Charles (Lois) Langland, Norma (Dr. Alfred) Bothell and Harold, who was killed in action in the Phillipine Islands during WWII.