Sara Bache-Wiig

Bache-Wiig taught botany at Smith College for 41 years,^[9][10] chaired the department twice, and was acting curator of the school's herbarium in 1948.^[11] Her professional publications included "Contributions to the Life History of a System Fungous Parasite, Cryptomycina Pteridis" (1939),^[12] "Further Notes on Cryptomycina Pteridis" (1952),^[13] and "The Fungistatic Barrier Effect of "S-Coated" Cotton Used as Vial Plugs" (1954),^[14] which all appeared in the journal Mycologia.

Bache-Wiig also wrote poems "A Jester", "Morning", and "Unscientific Investigation", for the Smith College Monthly.^[15][16][17] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Consumers League,^[18] the American Association of University Professors,^[19] the American Society of Plant Taxonomists,^[20] and of the Mycological Society of America.^[21]

Bache-Wiig died in 1971, aged 76 years.