 On her application card, she stated that she was a “student of geology” and that she had spent a year in Kansas, Illinois, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky doing reconnaissance work on the oil fields.Furthermore, she also wrote about how she spent five years studying the structural geometry of Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas.In 1923 AAPG's 9th annual meeting was hosted, Reba and her six young protégés, Alva Ellisor, Esther Richards Applin, Hedwig Knicker, Laura Lane, Emma Jne Coffman, and Bess Stiles were among the 74 founding members.