Marjory Rodgers Wright was born in Manila, Philippines to American missionary parents. Before enrolling at Mount Holyoke, she attended Manila Central High School, Wooster High School in Ohio, and Wooster College. Her mother, Anna Rodgers Wright, was a Mount Holyoke alumna from the class of 1900 and her cousin, Margaret Robinson, graduated in the class of 1937. Wright majored in astronomy, minored in physics, and graduated with honors in 1932. She was an assistant in the astronomy laboratory at Mount Holyoke. She was a member of the Athletic Association, Cosmopolitan Club, International Relations Club, Community Conference, and Y.W.C.A.
Wright received her master’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1933 and served as a research assistant to Dr. Nicholas Theodore Bobrovnikoff, an assistant professor of astrophysics at Ohio Wesleyan University, during the summer of 1933. That same year, she worked at Mount Holyoke as an assistant in astronomy and stayed until 1935. She then was the head of the science department of St. Agnes School in Albany, New York, 1935-1938.
After Albany, she taught science in several schools in Boston, Massachusetts until 1947, at which time she became a homemaker. She published a book on the history of the First Parish United Church in Westwood, entitled “The Meeting House on a Rock.” The local paper described it as a book containing “early town history.” Marjory is listed in Who’s Who of American Women and the Dictionary of International Biography for her academic work and public service.