Paul Kelly, Mechanic, left in Australia (the smart one)

Catherine Lehey, Ph.D. Stanford, 1931. Newly arrived on the faculty at Miskatonic U, Catherine found herself teaching courses - something she enjoys. However, determined to prove to the world that a woman can be just as good as a man she managed to get appointed to an expedition to Australia, investigating craters formed by meteorite falls.

Betsy Milford earned her Ph.D. at Cambridge in 1921. She has spent the 10 years since mostly on expeditions, all with her now ex-husband Roy Chapman Andrews. In '22, '23, '25, '28, and '30 they traveled under auspices of the American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi desert, where they found many important dinosaur and mammal fossils. While the scientific discoveries were hers, they fueled her husband's career, with the exception of an important paper published in 1927 under her own name. It theorized that there was a strong relationship between dinosaurs and birds, supported by brain casts of pterosaurs.

A brilliant scholar, she is all but unknown in the shadow of her charistmatic ex-husband (it was through him that she met long-time friend Rachel VanBuren). Recently accepted to the Starkweather-Moore expedition along with Rachel and her younger friend Catherine Lehey (whom she met through a professor at Cambridge), she hopes to begin fueling her own career.

Rachel Van Buren (Rhiannon Moore) was born near the turn of the century to the actor/manager and leading lady of an itinerant troupe of actors who went from town to town (or rather, mining camp to mining camp) in the far reaches of the Yukon and Northwest Territory, generally performing the works of Shakespeare interspersed with light melodramas. Rhiannon began acting pretty much as soon as she was born, expanding her roles as she got older until, through a happy combination of beauty and talent, she was playing leads by the time she was 13. In her early twenties, she decided, as so many others before her, that she wanted to be in the movies, and so began making her way south. Once again, looks and ability served her well, and she found herself with a steady career in silent films as part of Columbia's "stable". Naturally, she had to change her name, and in the studio tradition of the time, she was given a first name with the same initial as her original one and the last name of an American president - Rachel Van Buren. She became reasonably well-known for her roles in silent comedies. Her big break, however, came in the late twenties, with the invention of the talkies. She quickly became one of Columbia's stars, generally playing young ingenues in a variety of comedies and dramas. She is joining the Starkweather-Moore Expedition for her own purposes.