ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the longer arc of Trotter's life, as opposed to the one quick but eventful year she spent in Hawaii. It follows her childhood, education, fellowship at Oxford, early career at Washington University, and how she spearheaded the 1956 Anatomical Gift Law in Missouri to better procure cadavers for her (and other) medical school anatomy classes. She expanded and secured the long-term curation of the renowned Terry Collection of skeletons at the Smithsonian, where it continues to be a top source for skeletal education and research materials in the world. She taught more than 4,000 anatomy students, and in 1946 she became, by demanding it of the department chair, the first female full professor at the Washington University Medical School.
