ABSTRACT
In the summer of 1946, Molly G. Schuchat visited Mexico, Guatemala, and the Yucatn with her parents. She came home fired up to return to the Maya with an archaeological group. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from Vassar College in 1948, as she celebrated her twentieth birthday. She was still interested in the Maya and decided that she wanted to learn more about pre-Columbian archaeology. She began graduate school in 1962 and received the PhD in 1971. Fieldwork in Hungary was, of course, an exciting anthropological experience, but it also offered a period of several months with no family responsibilities. Since becoming a fully qualified anthropologist, she have concentrated on applied anthropology, doing evaluation and program planning with a group of psychologists and social workers, counseling and educational consulting, and occasional college teaching. Anthropology has offered her a way to meet and try to understand, and sometimes to assist, a wide variety of people.
