Marion Elizabeth Stark

She got her A.B. in 1916, and her A.M. in 1917, both from Brown University.^[4] In 1917, she became the professor of mathematics Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. In autumn 1919, she started teaching in Wellesley College as a part-time instructor, while attending courses of Helen Abbot Merrill and Mabel M. Young.^[5][6] In the 1923 summer quarter, and, supported by a fellowship, in autumn 1924 through summer 1925, she studied at the University of Chicago^[4] where she received her Ph.D. in 1926.^[3][7][8]

In 1927, she was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Wellesley,^[9][10] in 1936, she was promoted to an associate professor there.^[11] In 1945, she was promoted to a professorship;^[12] in 1946, she became Chairman of the Department.^[13] In 1960, she retired from Wellesley after 40 years, her last rank being a Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Mathematics.^[3][14]

Stark was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1938.^[15]