Carr (1937) and Lucy W. Pickett (1957). With Emma Perry Carr, she received the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society in Spring 1957. She retired from teaching at Mount Holyoke in 1954. Mary Lura Sherrill died on October 27, 1968, in High Point, North Carolina. References Further reading 1888 births 1968 deaths American women chemists Randolph College alumni Recipients of the Garvan–Olin Medal 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American chemists Mount Holyoke College faculty American women academics