Hannah Marie Wormington-Volk, PhD 1914-1994 Inducted 1985 Adopted by Marjorie Kilberg Shea Raised in Denver, Hannna Marie Wormington-Volk majored in zoology at the University of Denver and inadvertently signed up for an archaeology class that would determine her life path. Following graduation, she was a staff archaeologist and eventual curator at the Denver Museum of Natural History. She was 26 when she published her best seller "Ancient Man in North America," an explanation of Stone Age man. She went on to publish six more books about prehistoric inhabitants of the Southwest. During her career she attended archaeological congresses, conferences, and symposiums in 29 foreign countries and received numerous awards. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in anthropology at Harvard and the first archaeologist in the world and first woman to receive a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
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