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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2013
A real-life Miss Rumphius, Kate Sessions was responsible for populating San Diego's Balboa Park with lush, green trees, just in time for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915. In fact, "by the early 1900s, one in four trees growing in San Diego came from her nursery." Sessions grew up in northern California, loved studying science in school, and became the first woman to graduate from Berkeley with a degree in science. Upon graduation, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Biographies
Kate Sessions, the first woman to graduate from Berkeley with a science degree, was responsible for populating San Diego's Balboa Park ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More