{"id":102,"date":"2026-04-30T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:32:14","slug":"alma-stokey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/alma-stokey\/","title":{"rendered":"Alma Stokey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/node\/1389386\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria003-703x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria003-703x1024.jpeg 703w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria003-206x300.jpeg 206w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria003-768x1119.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria003-1054x1536.jpeg 1054w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1062\/2026\/04\/herbaria003.jpeg 1387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alma Stokey began teaching at Mount Holyoke in 1908 and later became the chair of the botany department before her retirement in 1942. Stokey was adamant about hands-on learning, taking her students on weekly field trips to collect specimens. Her research specialty was ferns, and when she took a brief teaching job at the Women\u2019s Christian College in Madras, a sister college of Mount Holyoke, her research expanded to tropical ferns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alma Stokey began teaching at Mount Holyoke in 1908 and later became the chair of the botany department before her retirement in 1942. Stokey was adamant about hands-on learning, taking her students on weekly field trips to collect specimens. Her research specialty was ferns, and when she took a brief teaching job at the Women\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/herbarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}