Mia Jean Tegner as a undergraduate student at UCSD who became the "Watermelon Queen" for Revelle College. The watermelon toss on Revelle College is a tradition where students would toss a watermelon from the top of Urey Hall on the Revelle campus of UCSD to see who could make it splash the widest, as part of festivities a watermelon queen would be named. Mia would later work for Scripps Institution of Oceanography for over thirty years as a research marine biologist. June 1966
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Marine biologists--United States Marine biologists--Portraits Scientists--Portraits Women scientists University of California, San Diego Revelle College--History Tegner, Mia Jean, 1947-
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