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Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz
Betty Lotowycz, 1988
Born	May 8, 1916 Manhattan, New York City
Died	April 8, 2016(2016-04-08) (aged 99) Louisville, Colorado
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Vassar
Scientific career
Fields	botanist and aviator
Institutions	Plant Fields Arboretum

( – April 8, 2016) was an American botanist.

Biography

Grace E. “Betty” Lotowycz was an American botanist who .....

She received a degree in botany from Vassar College in 1938 and then joined the Experiment in International Living, a student-exchange program climbing in the Swiss Alps. She returned to New York and began work at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and as an editorial assistant at Life Magazine.

In 1986 she was a founding member of the Long Island Botanical Society and longtime curator at the Planting Fields Arboretum

Private life

At the beginning of WWII, she learned to fly and joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots for which she received a Congressional Gold Medal at a White House ceremony in 2009. In 1946, Lotowycz married Wladimir “Bill” Lotowycz, and lived with him andtheir young family in Damascus, Syria, for a time before returning to New York.

Publications

At the age of 88, she co-authored a book, ‘‘Illustrated Field Guide to Shrubs and Woody Vines of Long Island’’ with Barbara Conolly.