Rooting for the local girl
Friends, family and locals sent well wishes to Louise Sawyer of 424 Elgin, before she headed off to teach Botany at Wellesley College in Massachusetts in late September, 1922. Known as “an ambitious student” in high school, as a student at Beloit College, she went on to teach at Elgin High School, before being asked to illustrate the “General Botany” textbook at Beloit. She went on to teach Botany at Grinnell College, Knox College, and earned her master’s degree at the University of Chicago.
Jill Wagner
