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Metadata
Title |
Regional bird journal compiled by Bridgewater College students, faculty and alumni, 1918, 1947 - 1950, 2023 |
Catalog Number |
MC 19996 |
Object Name |
Notebook |
Donor |
Bridgewater College Special Collections Manuscripts Collection |
Scope & Content |
Regional bird journal compiled by Bridgewater College students, faculty,staff, and alumni, 1918, 1947 - 1950, 2023 Handwritten by several compilers in a composition book with the last reported laid in. The first part of the book is an "Index of Birds identified in the spring of 1918. Course under Dr. Scott." The list was compiled by Charles S. Driver, BC Class of 1916. Field notes are included. Driver was likely taking this class in graduate work, probably at Indiana University. The second section of the book is a list, "Birds observed in the vicinity of Bridgewater, Va. 1947 -48- 49. " Contributors are listed. They are mostly Bridgewater College students and alumni but include biology professor and track coach Harry G. M. "Doc" Jopson as well as coach and professor Daniel Geiser. The secretary for this section of the notebook was Max M. Carpenter, BC Class of 1950. A final section written in the journal is a list of birds seen on a "Virginia Society of Ornithology field trip, May 6, 1950". 65 people visited Silver Lake, Mossy Creek, and Hone Quarry Hollow in Rockingham County, Va. Laid in the journal after the final written section is a one page report of birds seen by Special Collections Librarian Stephanie Gardner and Special Collections Intern Mackenzie Smith, Class of 2024, who went birding on the Bridgewater College campus on 15 Nov 2023. Charles S. Driver Memorial Collection. |
Collection |
Alexander Mack Memorial Library Special Collections |
People |
Carpenter, Max Driver, Charles S. Gardner, Stephanie S. Geiser, Daniel Huffman, A. S. Jopson, Harold G. M. Miller, Jack G. Rhodes, Paul Shaver, Dewitt Smith, Mackenzie R. Suter, Daniel |