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Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1983 (3.113774)
Date: 1983Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1983 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as Bluegrass at Thornhill and a Bonsai Exhibit at Thornhill. It also includes behind the scenes gardening information and how volunteers fight tent caterpillars and mentions a problem with deer eating young plants. It also has a list of classes.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1984 (3.113775)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Yuletide celebration and a lecture about "The Arboretum and Chicago's Architectural Heritage". The Arboretum also received a grant from the National Park Service of the United States Department of Interior to study the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1985 (3.113779)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as several mushroom-related activities, bird walks, and an upcoming field seminar to England discussing gardens and landscapes.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1986 (3.113783)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a talk by Dr. Gary Watson, the Arboretum's root specialist, discussing the importance of roots and a look at a Victorian Christmas with Sunny O'Neil. Field trips included birding along Chicago's lakefront, a waterfowl fall migration in the Palos area, and a trip to the Indiana Dunes. Charles Lewis and Dr. Herbert Schroeder, Environmental Psychologist with the US Forest Service, were participating in an exchange research trip to The Netherlands to establish joint projects.
Extent: 5 pages
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: Summer 1986 (3.113785)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the annual fish boil and a concert by Marshall Vente/Project Nine Plus with Anna Dawson. Bob Thomson, host of the popular syndicated PBS program "The Victory Garden", visited with the horticulture staff, and Robert W. Little, noted author, artist, and teacher, was to present a special lecture. Field trips included birding at Ryerson Conservation Area in Deerfield.
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.