1991/09/28: Ruth Ward to Dr. Donnelly (3.100892)
Date: September 26 1991Creator: Ward, Ruth
Type: Document
Description:An invitation to planting of donated trees in Elmhurst, IL.
Extent: 1 sheet
Celebrating The Morton Arboretum Centennial (3.104329)
Date: December 14 2021Creator: Donnelly, Gerard T.
Type: Document
Description:Copy of a post from the blog series, When Trees Talk, marking the beginning of The Morton Arboretum's yearlong centennial celebration.
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2022 October 26 (3.104913)
Date: October 26 2022Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on October 26, 2022 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Ray Schulenberg, which lasted from 1977 to 1987. Topics include Hedborn's early days as plant recorder, the shift of collections focus to wild-collected plants, seed collecting trips through the western United States and Northern Illinois, tracing the history of plants, the computerization of plant records, and the start of Bloom and Color Reports.
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Spring 1991 (3.107048)
Date: 1991Creator: Way, Carol
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1991 Branches Newsletter contains an interview with Gerald T. Donnelly who was the new Director of the Morton Arboretum at the time. There is also a short profile of Dianne Butkovich, a volunteer who mapped several areas of the Arboretum. Information about volunteer opportunities, classes, programs as well as information about volunteers and new volunteers are also included.
Extent: ;6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Spring 1994 (3.107058)
Date: 1994Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1994 Branches Newsletter contains articles on the following: The Midwest Plant Exploration Collaboration of which the Morton Arboretum is a member, and their expedition to Siberia to collect horticultural specimens; the development of the children's book collection in the Sterling Morton Library. Volunteer opportunities, trainings and classes and lists of new and continuing volunteers are included.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of The Morton Arboretum Volunteers, Spring 1995 (3.107060)
Date: 1995Creator: Way, Carol, Kovach, Linda
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1995 Branches Newsletter features articles on the following: birding hot spots at the Arboretum featuring Ware Field, Pinetum and other areas; a biographical sketch and interview with Christopher Dunn, the new Director of the Research Department; and a brief farewell from Linda Kovach as Diane Caton assumes the role of Volunteer Coordinator. Volunteer opportunities, trainings, classes and events are also featured along with lists of new and continuing volunteers.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: A Newsletter for the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum (3.107077)
Date: 2002Creator: Kenaston, Sally, Crosby, Cindy, Donnelly, Gerard T.
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Fall 2002 Branches Newsletter features articles on the following: volunteer, Stuart Vogel, who assisted with a tree temperature tracking project; Eagle Scout, Andrew Johnston, who completed a restoration project of the woodland near Parking Lot 13; the upcoming Fall Color Festival; the awarding of an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to the Arboretum; and a feature on the Arboretum Board of Trustees. Volunteer opportunities, a list of new volunteers and upcoming Arboretum activities and classes are also included.
Extent: 4 pages
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2023 March 08 (3.107277)
Date: March 8 2023Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on March 8, 2023 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Kunso Kim, which lasted from 1998 to 2014, and Matt Lobdell, which lasted from 2014 to 2022. Topics include the development of the Arboretum's collections, online collections catalogs, the Arboretum's grid system, the Collections Master Plan, the building of the Curatorial and Operations Center, working in Plant Clinic, and tribute trees.
Happy (3.31611)
Date: June 11 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Description:A video created by Arboretum staff to thank the Board of Trustees for the first $7.9 million raised in the Growing Brilliantly capital campaign.
Education Program Guide team, BP sponsorship (3.34456)
Date: 2007Type: Photographic image
Description:The Morton Arboretum Education Program Guide team with Vice Chairman of BP, Steve Elbert, in the Founder's Room following a $1 million grant from the BP Foundation to endow the Arboretum's youth science programs.
Front row, Left to Right
April Sedall, Sandy Perkins, Craig Johnson, Barb Vrchota, Keith Anderson, Pat Elliot, Debbie Russell, Camille Grabski, Jill Lexier, Jennifer VanDerMolen
Back row, Left to Right
Gerry Donnelly (The Morton Arboretum President & CEO), DeeAnn Crabill, Mary Toohey, Edye Wolf, Heather Schultz (Jurinek), Lynn Herman, Steve Elbert (Arboretum Trustee & Vice Chairman of BP), Becky Kirsh, Kathleen Simko, Jean Savage, Lyn Myers, John Silady, Debbie Pasquesi, Jan Little, Clem Hamilton (Vice President of Arboretum Programs)
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Gerard Donnelly, headshot (3.37627)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Gerard Donnelly, headshot
Extent: 1 photograph
1991/11/07: Robert D. Marquard to George Ware (3.38227)
Date: November 7 1991Creator: Marquard, Robert D.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Robert D. Marquard of The Holden Arboretum to George Ware thanking him for his pleasant experience visiting The Morton Arboretum and interacting with the plant exploration consortium, Tom Elias, and the research staff.
Extent: 1 sheet
1991/04/08: Memo from Gerard T. Donnelly to George Ware, Duane Henry, and Craig Johnson (3.38497)
Date: April 8 1991Creator: Donnelly, Gerard T.
Type: Document
Description:Arboretum memo from Gerard T. Donnelly to George Ware, Duane Henry, and Craig Johnson deliniating a procedure to determine responsibilities in regards to controlled burns.
Extent: 1 sheet
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room (3.3866)
Date: November 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room, discussion at table, Peter Raven speaking to group
L to R: Peter Raven (Director, Missouri Botanical Garden), Roy Taylor (Director, Chicago Botanic Garden), Harold Pellett (Landscape Horticulturist, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum), Gerry Donnelly (President & CEO, The Morton Arboretum), Eliot Paine (Director, Holden Arboretum)
Extent: 1 photograph
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room (3.3867)
Date: November 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room, discussion at table, Peter Raven speaking to group
L to R: Peter Raven (Director, Missouri Botanical Garden), Roy Taylor (Director, Chicago Botanic Garden), Harold Pellett (Landscape Horticulturist, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum), Gerry Donnelly (President & CEO, The Morton Arboretum), Eliot Paine (Director, Holden Arboretum)
Extent: 1 photograph
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room (3.3868)
Date: November 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) group meeting at The Morton Arboretum Herbarium Conference Room, discussion at table, Harold Pellett speaking to group
L to R: Peter Raven (Director, Missouri Botanical Garden), Roy Taylor (Director, Chicago Botanic Garden), Harold Pellett (Landscape Horticulturist, University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum), Gerry Donnelly (President & CEO, The Morton Arboretum), Eliot Paine (Director, Holden Arboretum)
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Day, Whitney Lewis with Gerry Donnelly (3.3874)
Date: April 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, Whitney Lewis, stepdaughter, (left) with Gerry Donnelly (right)
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Day, Joe Larkin and Dr. Gerry Donnelly with Carolyn Finzer dressed as Morton Oak (3.3948)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, Joe Larkin (left) and Dr. Gerry Donnelly (right) with Carolyn Finzer (center) dressed as Morton Oak
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Day, Joe Larkin and Dr. Gerry Donnelly with Carolyn Finzer dressed as Morton Oak (3.3949)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, Joe Larkin (left) and Dr. Gerry Donnelly (right) with Carolyn Finzer (center) dressed as Morton Oak
Extent: 1 photograph
Gerry Donnelly addressing group at Swink-Wilhelm book signing at Thornhill (3.3963)
Date: September 9 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gerry Donnelly addressing group at Swink-Wilhelm book signing at Thornhill
Extent: 1 photograph
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4060)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots
(L to R): Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), Gary Watson, Gerry Donnelly
Extent: 1 photograph
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4061)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots
(L to R): Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), Gary Watson, Gerry Donnelly
Extent: 1 photograph
The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots (3.4062)
Date: 1990sType: Photographic image
Description:The Care of Trees giving The Morton Arboretum a check for Dr. Gary Watson's research on roots, group standing outside near Hedge Collection
(L to R): Gerry Donnelly, Gary Watson, Larry Hall (Vice President, The Care of Trees), John Hendricksen (President, The Care of Trees), Christopher Dunn
Extent: 1 photograph
Presentation of $8,000 check to The Morton Arboretum from Chevron Corporation (3.4063)
Date: April 1992Type: Photographic image
Description:Presentation of $8,000 check to The Morton Arboretum from Chevron Corporation, for subsidizing a paper on restoration of ecosystems for Cambridge University Press by Arboretum researchers, Christopher Whelan and Marlin Bowles
(L to R): Dr. Gerry Donnelly, Patrick Y. O'Brien (Coordinator for Chevron, Ecological Services and Conservation Health Environment and Loss Prevention)
Extent: 1 photograph
Donors Holiday Tea at the Sterling Morton Library: Gerry and Pam Donnelly speaking to Peach and Dick Simonds (3.4110)
Date: 1992Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Donors Holiday Tea at the Sterling Morton Library: Gerry and Pam Donnelly speaking to Peach and Dick Simonds
Extent: 1 photograph
Donors Holiday Tea at the Sterling Morton Library: Dr. Gerry Donnelly speaking to donors seated at table (3.4111)
Date: 1992Type: Photographic image
Description:Donors Holiday Tea at the Sterling Morton Library: Dr. Gerry Donnelly speaking to donors seated at table
Extent: 1 photograph
Donors Holiday Tea at the Sterling Morton Library: Dr. Gerry Donnelly addressing donors (3.4112)
Date: 1992Type: Photographic image
Description:Donors Holiday Tea at the Sterling Morton Library: Dr. Gerry Donnelly addressing donors
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Gerry Donnelly and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar during visit to The Morton Arboretum (3.4120)
Date: March 1993Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Gerry Donnelly and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar during visit to The Morton Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Gerry Donnelly and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar during visit to The Morton Arboretum (3.4121)
Date: March 1993Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Gerry Donnelly and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar during visit to The Morton Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph
Dr. Gerry Donnelly and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar during visit to The Morton Arboretum (3.4122)
Date: March 1993Type: Photographic image
Description:Dr. Gerry Donnelly and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar during visit to The Morton Arboretum
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Gerry Donnelly and Michael Stieber standing, Charles Lewis seated (3.4175)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Gerry Donnelly and Michael Stieber standing, Charles Lewis seated
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis signing, Gerry Donnelly and Christopher Dunn standing (3.4177)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis signing, Gerry Donnelly and Christopher Dunn standing
Extent: 1 photograph
Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis seated, Gerry Donnelly and Christopher Dunn standing (3.4178)
Date: May – June 1996Type: Photographic image
Description:Green Nature, Human Nature book signing in Sterling Morton Library, Charles Lewis seated, Gerry Donnelly and Christopher Dunn standing
Extent: 1 photograph