When I took CRS 560, Foundations of Creative Learning, we had to "Adopt a Scholar". My classmates and I were assigned creativity scholars from history to research. I was excited to receive Ravenna Helson as my scholar from hearing her brief history. I picked up her book Women on the River of Life: A Fifty-Year Study of Adult Development from Butler Library and I was able to get a glimpse of who she really was. Not only did Helson begin longitudinal research of women, she was also researching herself and recognizing the changes she would experience throughout the span of her life. Her story is very admirable and inspirational to me.