Louise Henry Papers, 1930-1990 (bulk 1970-1983) (SMC 72)

OFF-SITE STORAGE: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW TWO TO THREE (2-3) WEEKS FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Extent: 1.2 Linear feet (3 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 map case folder)

Papers of Louise Henry (1930-1989), who served as a yeoman and marine technician aboard D/V Glomar Challenger during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. This small collection includes photographs, reports, correspondence, personal narratives, and ephemera regarding the expedition.

Marjorie Louise Henry was born October 2, 1930 in Columbus, Ohio. She received a B.S. in business administration from Ohio State University in 1952 and then worked in sales and as a crewmember on luxury liners, including S.S. Mariposa. From 1965 to 1968 she worked in the student activities department at UC Irvine. In 1968 she moved to San Diego to take a position with Scripps Institution of Oceanography as an office manager for the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Her first sea-going expedition was on DSDP Leg 10 in 1970 aboard D/V Glomar Challenger, where she was the first female yeoman. Henry worked as a yeoman and marine technician on many DSDP legs until the end of the project in 1983. She compiled and typed scientific reports and procedure manuals, encoded data, cataloged the shipboard science library, and stood watches in the core lab. Louise Henry retired in 1986 and died on December 18, 1989.

Papers of Louise Henry (1930-1989), who served as a yeoman and marine technician aboard D/V Glomar Challenger during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. This small collection includes photographs, reports, correspondence, personal narratives, and ephemera regarding the expedition. Henry was the first female yeoman working on Glomar Challenger; her photographs and papers document the presence of other women scientists and technicians on the expedition as well as her own.

Arranged in two series: 1) DOCUMENTS, and 2) PHOTOGRAPHS.

Container List

DOCUMENTS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) DOCUMENTS: Biographical information, correspondence, reports, travel narratives, and ephemera regarding Louise Henry and the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Henry wrote detailed letters, narratives, and reports about her work aboard Glomar Challenger, and collected reports and ephemera regarding the Deep Sea Drilling Project.

Box 1 Folder 1
Biographical information, 1930-1986
Oversize FB-009 Folder 9
Shellback certificate, 1960
Box 1 Folder 2-3
Correspondence, 1968-1974

Correspondence from Louise Henry to her family about her travel and work on the Deep Sea Drilling Project.

Box 1 Folder 4
Letters to the editor by Henry and news clippings, 1953-1971
Box 1 Folder 5-6
Deep Sea Drilling Project - Information and list of legs, 1968-1984
Oversize MC-044-08
Topography of the Oceans with Deep Sea Drilling Projects Sites Through Leg 96
Box 1 Folder 7-8
DSDP ephemera, 1968-1973

Clippings, cards, poetry, press releases, anniversary tiles, reunion button.

Box 1 Folder 9-13
Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 10-49, 1970-1976

Reports, travel notes, and personal narratives by Louise Henry, and reports, memoranda, crew rosters, and ephemera she collected about the expedition.

Box 2 Folder 1-3
Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 51-96, 1976-1983
Box 2 Folder 4
Yeoman handbook and style guide, 1977-1982
Box 2 Folder 5
Master reference lists of scientific terminology
Box 2 Folder 6
DSDP Hole Summaries, Leg 23B - Red Sea, 1972
Box 3 Folder 1
DSDP Hole Summaries, Leg 25, book 1 of 2, 1972

Begins with page 3.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographic prints, slides, and negatives of D/V Glomar Challenger, its crew, and Louise Henry, taken during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Henry annotated many of the prints and slides with the names of crew members and locations. Other women photographed on the expedition include paleontologists Helen Foreman and Catherine Nigrini, paleo technician Trudy Wood, and yeoman Sue Strain. The series includes photographs of Henry at UC Irvine in 1968 and of her memorial service on the SIO pier in 1990.

Box 3 Folder 2
Louise Henry, 1968-1990
Box 3 Folder 3-13
Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 10-91, 1970-1984