1984/07/19: R.C. Mangnall to Joe Larkin (3.100844)
Date: July 19 1984Creator: R. C. Mangnall
Type: Document
Description:A request for American Elm information that was offered in a June 1984 "Business Environment"
1984/07/08: Jack Siekkinen to Joe Larkin (3.100855)
Date: July 8 1984Creator: Siekkinen, Jack C.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jack C Siekkinen of JCS Investment Systems to Joe Larkin requesting information on elms based on a Business Environment article
Extent: 1 sheet
Urban Vegetation Laboratory Report, V2. 2 No. 1, 1989 (3.106912)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1989Creator: Irving, Gary, Hart, Nancy , Joseph Larken, Larkin, Joe
Type: Document
Description:Newsletter of the Morton Arboretum Urban Vegetation Laboratory. Items covered in this issue:
Arboretum Berm Construction
Certification for Soil Scientist Patrick Kelsey
Member's Cooperative Research Program
Poplars for Use on Urban Landscapes
Oak Mycorrhizae
Tree Crown and Root System Asymmetry
Winter Salt Dispersion in the Arboretum
Extent: 4 pages in newsletter format
1983/12/08: George Ware to Joe Larkin (3.106951)
Date: December 8 1983Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Members' Cooperative Research Plants for 1984 with edits.
Extent: 1 sheet
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Winter 1993 (3.107056)
Date: 1993Creator: Way, Carol
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Winter 1993 Branches Newsletter contains articles on: the staff photographers at the Arboretum, John Kohout and Jim Nachel, and the Photo Lab collection; Hidden Lake Forest Preserve highlighting the section leased to the Arboretum; and an introduction to Linda Kovach, the new Volunteer Coordinator. Volunteer opportunities, classes, events and lists of new and existing volunteers are included.
Extent: 6 pages
The Ecology of Water – Three Views of Man’s Role (3.10830)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1980Creator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Article
The Developing Landscape: The Morton Arboretum Comes of Age, Anthony Tyznik, 1953-1993 (3.11090)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1995Creator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Article
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1984 (3.113778)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as making maple syrup, the Yuletide Celebration, and the member's chamber music series. Local 12-year-old 4H member Wendy Reed wrote in to show your DuPage County Fair blue ribbon winning project showing conservation and the possible effects of proposed highway FAP 431. A picture shows the construction of the brick walkway that leads visitors to the gardens south of the Visitor Center.
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: Summer 1985 (3.113781)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a bluegrass concert at Thornhill Conference Center by the group Buck's Stove & Range Company. Bugs took center stage with the discussion Creepy Crawlies and Other Curious Things and the children's activity Hidden Worlds. Field trips visited the prairies of Carrol County, Crabtree Nature Center in Barrington, the Volo Bog, Glacier Park in McHenry County, and McKee Marsh in Warrenville.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1985 (3.113782)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1985 Events, News & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a weekend getaway at the arboretum, a seminar on evergreens, and a lecture on plant diseases and human history. Field trips were scheduled for bald eagle watching in Savanna, IL, a Starved Rock State Park trip, and Chicago's Crystal Palaces of Garfield Park and Lincoln Park. Charles C. Haffner, Chairman of the Arboretum's Board of Trustees, received the Sol Feinstone Award, and Charles Lewis, Horticulturalist and Administrator of the Arboretum's Collections Programs, received the "Alice Burlingame Award for Humanitarian Service." The Fragrance Garden opened west of the Thornhill Building and approximately 6,000 people attended the 1984 Fall Festival.
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: Spring 1987 (3.113788)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the field seminar "Spring in Door County" and the lecture "Getting at the Root of Spring Planting". Linda Sanford joined the Education staff as Curator of Youth Education, and Dr. Gary Watson joined the Research Group as Plant Pathologist. Dr. Frank Pascoe and Mrs. Linda Meyers were hired as Administrator and Secretary, respectively. The Arboretum received grants from the Institute of Museum Services Conservation Project and the Rice Foundation.
Extent: 5 pages
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: Autumn 1988 (3.113791)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Chamber Concert Series and an examination of the work of Francois-Andre Michaux. Clarence Godshalk, Director Emeritus of The Morton Arboretum, passed away on April 20, 1988. Daniel Peterkin, Jr., Trustee of The Morton Arboretum and retired Chairman and President of Morton-Norwich Products Inc. died on May 11, 1988. The Library marked its 25th anniversary. Grants were received from the Nalco Foundation, Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Foundation, A. Montgomery Ward Foundation, and The Institute of Museum Services (IMS).
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: 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.
Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook: guests listening to speaker (3.3615)
Date: January 14 1987Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook
Guests listening to speaker including Carol Way, Lynne and Joe Larkin, Marilyn Halperin, Gloria Mintern, Don Heldt, Nancy Flexman, Cara Heldt, Barb Mangano, Larry Carton, and Bill Hess
Extent: 1 photograph
Undated: Jeff Mengler to George Ware et al. (3.37832)
Creator: Mengler, Jeff
Type: Document
Description:Arboretum memo from Jeff Mengler to George Ware, Marlin Bowles, Kris Bachtell, Joe Larkin, Marion Hall, and Floyd Swink about the delivery of a report concerning findings from a seed bank study that was part of the Des Plaines River Wetland Demonstration project.
Extent: 1 sheet
Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook: Lynne and Joe Larkin (3.3817)
Date: January 14 1987Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Clarence E. Godshalk's 90th birthday celebration scrapbook
(L to R) Lynne and Joe Larkin
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor Day, elm planting ceremony in Chicago (3.3939)
Date: 1980sCreator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, elm planting ceremony in Chicago, children shoveling dirt around planted tree
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
Fish boil: large pot on flame with setup (3.4105)
Date: 1980sCreator: Larkin, Joe
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fish boil: large pot on flame with setup
Extent: 1 photograph
Annual Appeal: Joe Larkin reviewing information on board with donor (3.4115)
Date: 1992Type: Photographic image
Description:Annual Appeal: Joe Larkin reviewing information on board with donor
Extent: 1 photograph
Rick Hootman and Joe Larkin reviewing maps and plans in the new Map Room (3.4230)
Date: 1989Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Rick Hootman (left) and Joe Larkin (right) reviewing maps and plans in the new Map Room, located in the Administration Building basement
Extent: 1 photograph
Rick Hootman and Joe Larkin reviewing maps and plans in the new Map Room (3.4231)
Date: 1989Creator: Irving, Gary
Type: Photographic image
Description:Rick Hootman (left) and Joe Larkin (right) reviewing maps and plans in the new Map Room, located in the Administration Building basement
Extent: 1 photograph
Support group photo in Research Building basement - Joe Larkin (Seated, blue shirt) (Standing L to R): Jim Nachel, Marsha Davis, Tony Byrne, Nancy Stieber, Elaine Fairbanks (3.4733)
Date: 1993Type: Photographic image
Description:Support group photo in Research Building basement - Joe Larkin (Seated, blue shirt) (Standing L to R): Jim Nachel, Marsha Davis, Tony Byrne, Nancy Stieber, Elaine Fairbanks
Victory Gardens TV - presenting Bob Thomson, tv host, with prints and membership - (L to R): Joe Larkin, Tony Tyznik, Bob Thomson, Ross Clark (3.4767)
Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Victory Gardens TV - presenting Bob Thomson, tv host, with prints and membership - (L to R): Joe Larkin, Tony Tyznik, Bob Thomson, Ross Clark
Victory Gardens TV - tv host, Bob Thomson (left), with Joe Larkin (3.4768)
Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Victory Gardens TV - tv host, Bob Thomson (left), with Joe Larkin