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Grace Fern Cowling Berlin
12020-11-27T18:22:59+00:00Riza Miklowski9698c57ff68a3ce4118b9f6b0ec0c3612e895e5e102plain2020-11-27T18:59:30+00:00Riza Miklowski9698c57ff68a3ce4118b9f6b0ec0c3612e895e5eGrace Fern Cowling Berlin (1897-1982, OC 1923) was an ecologist. She enrolled at Oberlin College in 1919, where she studied animal ecology, botany, and geology, astronomy, and organic evolution. Berlin graduated in 1923 with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in animal ecology. She was the first woman in Ohio to earn a degree in animal ecology. After graduating, she married Herbert Berlin in 1925. During her lifetime, she was a member and officeholder in the National Wildlife Association, the Toledo Naturalists Association, the National Audubon Society, the Naturalists Camera Club, the Ohio Audubon Society, and the Ohio, Maumee Valley, Waterville, and Whitehouse historical societies. She conducted research about early Ohio architecture and wrote articles about the early roads and one-room schoolhouses in Monclova Township. Berlin was inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame in 1980 for her contributions in ecology, ornithology, and Ohio history. . Sources: Student File (Grace Fern Cowling Berlin), Alumni & Development Records, O.C.A.
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