Barbara Pope Photographs of Marys Peak (Oregon), 1967

Barbara Pope (1937-2016) received her bachelor of science degree from San Francisco State University and master’s degree from Stanford University, where she specialized in the physiology of algae.

From 1965 to 2000, Pope taught biology and interdisciplinary studies at Chabot College in Hayward, California. While on sabbatical, she studied Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species at Cambridge University and returned to teach on the subject in Chabot College’s innovative Interdisciplinary Studies Department in the Letters and Science program.

In June, 1967, Barbara Pope was part of a group that toured Marys Peak with Dr. William Chilcote, who was a professor of botany and plant pathology at Oregon State University from 1950 to 1982.