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University: Suffolk University
Years of Employment: beginning 1965
If your professor from college invited you to join the faculty where you went to school, would you accept the offer?
Beatrice Snow did! She earned her undergraduate degree in biology from Suffolk in 1962, and three years later in 1965, her former professor and mentor Dr. West invited her to teach a summer course, which was oly the first step in her career as a professor
How do you think your experience at your school would change if you were a student vs. a professor?
Beatrice Snow actually preferred teaching alongside her favorite professors over being a student so she could focus on the subject she enjoyed most: biology.
"I think why I like teaching is because I learn all the time... I think as a teacher, you are always a student, you're always learning. In my field, genetics, it changes every day."
-Beatrice Snow in an oral history interview, 2008
Siteman, Frank, “Suffolk University professor Beatrice L. Snow (Biology), standing behind desk in classroom, talking with a student,” Moakley Archive & Institute, accessed November 28, 2022, https://moakleyarchive.omeka.net/items/show/5853.
Watching the Biology Department Grow
1958
1958
When Beatrice Snow arrived at Suffolk as a student, the biology department consisted of only one room, and science classes often had no more had 10-12 students.
“Suffolk University instructor Russell Howland conducting a Biology laboratory class,” Moakley Archive & Institute, accessed December 7, 2022, https://moakleyarchive.omeka.net/items/show/5245.
1965
1965
By the time she began as a professor, the department expanded to two classrooms. She got her own desk while her colleagues/former professors shared one.
Siteman, Frank, “Suffolk University Professor Beatrice L. Snow (CAS Biology) with students in classroom,” Moakley Archive & Institute, accessed December 7, 2022, https://moakleyarchive.omeka.net/items/show/5788.
1967
1967
A few years into her teaching, the Donahue building was built, leaving more room for the biology department to take over a full floor.
“View of the Donahue Building (41 Temple Street) construction,” Moakley Archive & Institute, accessed December 7, 2022, https://moakleyarchive.omeka.net/items/show/5060.
Want to learn more? Listen to Beatrice's full oral history interview here
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