Lochie Jo Allen

Lochie Jo Allen (January 24, 1918, Arkville, New York – February 10, 2014, Front Royal, Virginia) was an American musician, teacher, and writer. She began her career as a musician and was a teacher of music, language, and literature at the secondary and college levels. In the later part of her career, Allen worked for the American Fisheries Society (AFS), where she helped establish their membership magazine Fisheries and the J. Frances Allen scholarship (named for her older sister) for young women pursuing doctoral degrees in fisheries science. Allen is regarded as a pioneer for scientific publications and inclusion of women in fisheries who made significant contributions to the field of fisheries and to the AFS.

Education Lochie Jo Allen was born on January 24, 1918, in Arkville, New York, to J.W. Allen and Mattie Jo Linkous Allen. J.W. Allen died while Lochie and her sister were still in junior high. After her retirement, Allen created, published, and distributed a newsletter for retired AFS members called Homo Piscis Rusticus. It is believed that Lochie Jo advocated to create the scholarship. Lochie Jo contributed financially to the scholarship every year and worked to ensure that it remained a priority of AFS. When she died in 2014, she bequeathed a large portion of her estate to the scholarship.

Honors and awards Allen was elected to the national honor societies Kappa Delta Pi and Pi Gamma Mu, and was the president of Sodalitas Latina. In 2013, she was honored by the AFS executive director for her work as the first editor of Fisheries, "...along with recognizing the “confidence, devotion, diligence, intelligence, and creativity given in helping the American Fisheries Society obtain this most important milestone.”