Evening star., 1938-02-20
CAREER0F WOMAN
EXPLORER PRAISED
Harriet Chalmers Adams
Achievements Recalled by
Geographers.

In memory of its first president,
the late Harriet Chalmers Adams, The
Society Of Woman Geographers has
just published a special bulletin in
which high tribute is paid the noted
explorer by founders of the society,"
officials Of the National Geographic
Society and others.
The memorial bulletin also carries
m announcement by Helen M. Strong,
treasurer of the society, that the
Executive Council has voted to name
an endowment fund to carry on re-
search projects of the Harriet Chal-
mers Adams Memorial Endowment
Excerpts from some of the pages
Of tribute in the publication follow:
= Blair Niles Of New York, one of the
founders of the society: In Haiti,
Mexico, Central and South America
she blazed the way which others later
followed. In the Orient this was
equally true; from Siberia to Suma-
ira and to the Philippine Islands. In
her study of the Spanish conquista-
dores, she visited every country where
diversity of her interests took her also
to North Africa. Ethiopia, the Near
East, Greece and the Balkans
Society Living Memorial.
"Our society, created through her
efforts. is living. human memorial
to her. We can best honor her by
following the vision for it which she
carried in her heart and for which
she made 80 great sacrifice"
Gertrude Emerson Sen of Almora,
India, also founder: Perhaps now
that Harriet Adams has complete
freedom from the restraints and ILL
nesses Of the body, her eager inquir-
Ing spirit will now and then poise on
shining wings about us all; subject
no longer to any change, beyond any
suffering. New We may be aware of
her as eternally present. And in that
quiet awareness nothing can sep
arate us from our memories of her, or
from her presence"
Marguerite Harrison of Hollywood
Calf, also founder: Physical limi-
tations never shut out Harriet's view
of the far horizon; she was always
planning and looking out. not in."
Charged With Task.
Mary Vaux Walcott, president of the
society: 1T is for those of us who
come after to maintain the standards
Of professional and intellectual in
tegrity upon which Harriet Chalmers
Adams insisted. 1t is our task to
pass on undimmed the bright torch
of achievement which she left burn
ing"
Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the
National Geographic Society: "Har-
riet Chalmers Adams was one of the
rare women of culture and of a back
ground of comfortable living, who en-
joyed hard travel and venturing into
remote places where few American
women had been. She was a most
kindly and sincere person, an inde-
fatigable student, an accurate OBJ
server. and of dauntless courage and
persistence. She always told of the
finer traits and aspirations of the
people she visited"
John Oliver La Gorce, vice presi-
dent of the National Geographic So
ciety: True daughter of q pioneer
California gold prospector and mining
engineer, Harriet Chalmers Adams in
herited the urge to seek and find that
mysterious something which lies be-
yond the seven seas, the snow
capped mountains, and the arid deserts
Of the world"
The bulletin also carries several pic
lures of Mrs. Adams, one showing her
as she presented the first medal
awarded by the society to Amelia
Earhart.