Joseph Marie Armer
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{{Short description|American Roman Catholic nun and botanist (1907–2000)}}
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| religion = Catholic
| name = Joseph Marie Armer
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| honorific prefix = Sister
| post-nominals = C. C. V. I.
| birth_name = Annie Augusta Armer
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|5|24}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|11|6|1907|05|24}}
| death_place = San Antonio, Texas
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| occupation = {{hlist|Botanist}}
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Joseph Marie Armer (1907–2000) was an American Roman Catholic sister and botanist. In 1956 she established the Alamo Regional Academy of Science and Engineering, also known as the Alamo Regional Science Fair.{{Cite web |title=About Us – ARASE |url=https://arase.org/home/index.php/about-us/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |language=en-US}} She was the Piper Professor of Texas for Teaching Excellence in 1964.{{Cite web |title=Sr. Joseph Marie Armer {{!}} Sisters' Narratives |url=https://www.uiw.edu/mission/sisters-narratives/narratives_story02.html |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=www.uiw.edu}} A natural science chair at the University of the Incarnate Word is named for her.{{Cite book |last=Watkins |first=Patricia A. |url=https://archive.org/details/loufrombrooklynt0000watk/mode/2up?q=%22joseph+marie+armer%22 |title=Lou: From Brooklyn to Broadway, the University of the Incarnate Word's 25 years with Dr. Louis J. Agnese, Jr. |date= |publisher=Maverick Publishing |others= |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-893271-60-9 |location=San Antonio, Texas |pages=55}}
Youth and entry into religious life
She was born Annie Augusta Armer in 1907 to Augusta Eulalia Barnitz Armer and Leon Armer."United States Census, 1920," FamilySearch, entry for Leon Armer and Augusta Armer, 1920. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a PhD in biology in 1929. UT Austin was one of the few universities in the United States to admit women at that time, and it did so from its inception in 1883.{{Cite web |last=Howard |first=Kylee |title=‘She will never be forgotten:’ a look into three buildings, three stories of UT Women |url=https://thedailytexan.com/2024/03/29/she-will-never-be-forgotten-a-look-into-three-buildings-three-stories-of-ut-women/#:~:text=The%20University%20allowed%20female%20students,prior%20to%20the%2019th%20Amendment. |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=The Daily Texan}} Although raised Baptist, she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1929 after she began working at the University of the Incarnate Word, and she joined the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. In 1943 she won a full tuition grant to the Catholic University of America for further studies.{{Cite news |date=16 May 1943 |title=Catholic University Announces Awards of 21 Grants for Study. 13 Women Are Included Among Recipients of Scholastic Honors. |work=The Sunday Star |location=Washington, DC}} Her vision deteriorated throughout her adult life until she was considered legally blind, but she continued her teaching and research.
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Category:20th-century American Roman Catholic nuns