In the fall of 1926, the 38-year-old Lord enrolled in the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women located in Groton, Massachusetts.
[2] In the summer of 1927, Lord joined Lowthorpe’s European Travel Course co-sponsored by Harvard’s Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women.
It introduced participants to the great historic monuments of Europe including country houses, villas, and their associated gardens.
At the end of the tour, Lord and Schryver stayed an extra month in Europe, traveling through Germany and Spain.
[3] They traveled west in December 1928, settling in the Lord family home in Salem where they established the first firm of women landscape architects in the Pacific Northwest.
Upon Schryver’s death in 1984, the firm's professional papers were archived at the University of Oregon, home of the only state school of landscape architecture.