MAPRP Prairie Day (3.100545)
Date: July 17 1982Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liz Bacon and others participating in Prairie Day.
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Spring 1993 (3.107054)
Date: 1993Creator: Way, Carol
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1993 Branches newsletter contains articles on the following: the program to train and activate Naturalists Guides to conduct tours of the Arboretum for visitors and school groups both at the Arboretum and in school classrooms; the Arboretum Security Department and how it functions to safeguard the Arboretum and it's visitors. Volunteer opportunities, lists of new and continuing volunteers, classes, events and trainings are included.
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
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: Spring 1984 (3.113776)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a nature photography seminar and a rally against the highway FAP-431 with an associated article explaining the highway would be taking land from the Arboretum. There are also announcements of new employees.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Summer 1984 (3.113777)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as summer concerts with performances by The Medinah Highlanders and Milwaukee's DANCECIRCUS. Taxonomist, Floyd Swink was honored. Lectures included "Exploring Kenya" and "America's Favorite Backyard Birds". Field trips included destinations like the Indiana Dunes and Volo Bog.
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: Autumn 1987 (3.113787)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Yuletide Celebration and "Prairie with the Pros". Field trips included birding at Ryerson Conservation Area and Illinois Beach State Park. Ray Schulenberg, the Arboretum's Curator of Plant Collections, retired.
Extent: 7 sheets
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: Spring 1988 (3.113792)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the lecture "Cry Havoc! Weeds! (Part 1) and the field seminar "Spring Nature Photography in the Southern Appalachians." The judging for the 1987 Illinois Landscape Architecture Award was held at the Arboretum. The DuPage Environmental Awareness Center (DEAC) was opened to raise environmental awareness in the DuPage County region. Dr. David E. Davis, a noted mammalogist retired after a distinguished career, made a gift to the Arboretum for an endowed research chair, the Emily Rodgers Davis Chair, to accomplish research in plant-animal inter-relationships within the Arboretum and other areas of geographic interest to us.
Events, News, & Classes: Summer 1988 (3.113793)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the program "Cry Havoc! Weeds! (Part 2)" and a field trip to Milwaukee's Botanical Gardens. The construction of Crabapple Lake was announced. Margo Brumis and Beth Robinson joined the Arboretum staff. Ray Schulenberg and Robert Betz received United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) awards.
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.
The Morton Arboretum 1994 Board of Trustees (3.3139)
Date: January 1994Type: Photographic image
Description:The Morton Arboretum Board of Trustees, January 1994
Front: Joseph E. Rich, Charles C. Haffner III (Chairman), Laurence A. Carton, (Secretary/Treasurer) Back: James F. Dickerson, Elisabeth G. Bacon, Henry Pearsall, Natalie Culley, Neil McKay
Extent: 1 photograph
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
Liz Bacon, portrait contact prints (3.4828)
Date: 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Liz Bacon, portrait contact prints
Extent: 16 photographs on 4 sheets
Liz Bacon teaching a class to children outdoors (3.4829)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Liz Bacon teaching a class to children outdoors
Extent: 1 photograph
Marion Hall's retirement party - collage of employees (3.94922)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:A collage of photographs of Arboretum employees and board members created for Marion Hall's retirement party. Part 3 of 4.
Employees depicted include:
Top row (left to right):
- Fay Wheatman
- Deb Seymour
- Roger Brunke
- Suzette Morton Davidson
- Liz Bacon
- Charles C. Haffner III
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Larry Carton
- Elizabeth "Sodie" Zimmerman (?)
- Joe Fuqua
- Kris Bachtell
- Unknown
- Ed Hedborn
- Ray Schulenberg
- Unknown
- Irene Foody
- Lucy Mettewie
- Walter Eickhorst
- Dick Wason
- Unknown
- Bruce Germain
- Carol Doty
- Floyd Swink
- Dennis Welch
- George Ware
- Dennis Liby
- Jim Clegg
- Marilyn Halperin