Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1986 (3.113784)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as lectures about Tuberous Begonias and plants for troublesome spots. A future trip to Kenya for a field seminar was announced. Field trips include Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Mississippi Palisades State Park. A field seminar on English gardens and landscapes also took place. The Arboretum announced that library staff would begin cataloging and indexing the rare book collection to make it more accessible.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1986 (3.113786)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a discussion on the "The Romance of Botanical Names" and "Resource Conservation in an Urban Environment". There was a field trip to watch bald eagles in Savanna, IL. Charles A. Lewis, the Arboretum's Collections Group Administrator, was honored with the G.B. Gunslogson Medal for "the creative use of home gardening in benefiting people-plant relationships and the future of American life" from the American Horticultural Society. The woody plant collections were to be computerized. A new maple, 'Marmo', was introduced. Members were also encourage to write Lt. Governor George Ryan to advocate for the development of a lake on the Danada Forrest Preserve as part of the Briarcliff Flood Control Program.
Events, News, & Classes: Summer 1987 (3.113789)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the IAA (Illinois Arborist Association) Seminar and Jamboree and a beekeeping workshop. The Arboretum lost its photographer John Kohout and his wife Kitty in an unfortunate car accident and was collecting funds for a memorial. Peter J. Van Der Linden joined the staff as Curator of the Woods. Charles Lewis, Horticulturalist and Collection Group Administrator, addressed The American Association of Science. The Nature Artists' Guild of The Morton Arboretum was started to encourage natural history art.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1987 (3.113790)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the upcoming Yuletide Celebration, Members' Ski Program, a Winter Ecology Walk, and Winter Bird Walks. There is also a lecture about Learning to Live With Expressways. The Great Lakes Forest Soils Conference, organized by Patrick Kelsey, Arboretum Research Soil Scientist, and Richard Hootman, Research Soil Specialist, took place with topics emphasizing soil development in undisturbed areas and disturbed or urbanized areas of the Arboretum problems associated with the growth of woody plants on "urban" soils; and the management of soils and vegetation in areas disturbed by construction. The Arboretum also received grants from the Institute of Museum Services, The Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust; Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation; Burroughs Corporation; AT&T Foundation; Bell Information Systems; Household Finance Corporation; Staley Continental, Inc.; W.W. Grainger, Inc.; The John D. and Catherin T. MacArthur Foundation; the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education; and Allied-Signal Inc.
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1988 (3.113794)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the lecture "Plant Diseases and Human History" and Valentine projects with pressed flowers. The decision was made to discontinue the Arboretum's maple syrup-making program due to competition from other area events. A portion of the collection was impacted by flooding. Peter Van Der Linden and Gary Irving joined the staff. A grant was received from The Cooperative College Botany Program, and Charles A. Lewis received a special award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the founding of the New York City Housing Authority's Garden Competition," and for continuing service to the Authority's ongoing Garden program.
Morton Arboretum Guides/Naturalists outdoors in the snow (3.4127)
Date: 1991Creator: Das, Dilip
Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Arboretum Guides/Naturalists outdoors in the snow
(Top L to R): Dilip Das, Sue Schuler, Diane MacNeille, Marj Walls, Mary Rice, Barb Rutherford, Carol Way
(Bottom L to R): Mary Ochsenschlager, Ann Haverstock, Liz Bacon, Mary Hason, Phyllis Mertz, unidentified person
Extent: 1 photograph
Morton Arboretum Guides (3.4137)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Morton Arboretum Guides
(Seated L to R): Alice Burkman, Sue Schuler, Laurie Skrzenta, Debra Jezek, Susanne Lankin, Carol Fialkowski, Sally Grunsfeld
(Standing L to R): Carol Way, Sally Baumgardner, Barbara Rutherford, Mary Rice, Gloria Mintern, Marlene Ralston, Lois Myerholtz, Bill Hagerman, Arlene Koerner, Emily Fleischman, Mary Hason, Jenny Jendrzejczyk, Mary Lou Ringenberg, Marjorie Walls, Beth Kommers, Ida Gabler, Diane MacNeille
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group of guest in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4182)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group of guest in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Bill Hess, Sherry Lewis, Mary Hason, unidentified person, Ann Grimes, Tony Byrne, Peter Wang
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group of guests in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4187)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group of guests in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Michael Stieber, Bill Hess, Sherry Lewis, Mary Hason, Helen Pierce, Peter Wang
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group of guests in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4188)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group of guests in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Michael Stieber, Bill Hess, Sherry Lewis, Mary Hason, Helen Pierce, Peter Wang
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis with Mary Hason, Ann Grimes, and Helen Pierce in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4191)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis with Mary Hason, Ann Grimes, and Helen Pierce in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Charles Lewis (seated), Mary Hason, Ann Grimes, Helen Pierce
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4194)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, group in conversation in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Mr. Pierce, Helen Pierce, Mary Hason, Charles Lewis
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Mr. Pierce and Charles Lewis shaking hands in the May T. Watts Reading Garden (3.4195)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Mr. Pierce and Charles Lewis shaking hands in the May T. Watts Reading Garden
(L to R): Mr. Pierce, Helen Pierce, Mary Hason, Charles Lewis
Extent: 1 photograph