Margaret Bradbury

Margaret G. Bradbury Died at her home in Pacific Grove, CA on Saturday, October 9, 2010. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1927. Becoming a scientific illustrator at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. She also attended Roosevelt University and received her B.A. in 1955. She went to Stanford University in CA for graduate work and received her Ph.D. degree in 1962. Then becoming Asst. Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. In this period, she took leave to go on three separate cruises as a faculty member on Stanford University's oceanographic classroom on board the schooner "Te Vega". She also became a Research Associate on the Ichthyology department of the California Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy. Margaret became a full Professor at SFSU, where she stayed until she retired in 1995. While teaching at SFSU, she served on the Board of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, a small graduate-level California State University branch on Monterey Bay. After retirement, she moved to Carmel on the Monterey Peninsula and served on the Board of the Friends of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Moving to Pacific Grove in 2004 she became a volunteer computer coach at the Sally Griffin Senior Center in Pacific Grove.