Background
Goodnight, Marie Louise was born on August 27, 1916 in Blue Island, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Rudolph W. and Louise Sophia (Blatt) Ostendorf.
Goodnight, Marie Louise was born on August 27, 1916 in Blue Island, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Rudolph W. and Louise Sophia (Blatt) Ostendorf.
Bachelor of Science, Kansas State University, 1938; Master of Science, University of Illinois, 1939.
Assistant in zoology, University of Illinois, Champaign, 1938-1939; instructor biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1946-1949, 58-65; retired, 1965.
Board of directors Michigan Children's Aid Society, Kalamazoo, 1968-1970. Committee member Kalamazoo Young Women’s Christian Association, 1989-1993. Volunteer Planned Parenthood, Kalamazoo, 1989-1992.
Member American Arachnological Society, American Micros. Society, Association for Tropical Biology, American Institute Biological Sciences, American Association of University Women (president Kalamazoo 1979-1983, grantee 1968), Sigma Xi (travel grantee 1956), Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Clarence J. Goodnight, August 25, 1940 (deceased). Children: Ann M. Goodnight Bochnowski, Charles J.