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1.1.03v. Washington Park Arboretum volunteers: audio materials

Date statement: : 1985-2010
Summary:

 2 boxes of audio recordings and transcripts.
Description:
 Box 1:
One audio CD containing 9/7/2010 Arboretum history talk given by John Wott for Volunteer Guide Training.
Eight cassette tapes of 1985 and 1986 interviews conducted by Pat Danford, with Arboretum volunteers: Betty Dorland (7/15/1985), Jeannine Curry (8/5/1985), Mary Ellen Mulder (8/6/1985), Mary McDiarmid (8/16/1985),  Gertrud Volke (undated), Nan Ballard (4/9/1986), Vivian Mead (10/29/1986), Ward Horn (undated).
Transcripts of the above 1985/86 interviews made in 2022 and 2023; 116 pages.

Box 2:
10 cassette tapes and typed transcript drafts from 1982 volunteer guide training:
2 tapes containing John Bierlein lecture.
2 tapes containing James Clark lecture.
2 tapes containing Joe Witt lecture on magnolias.
1 tape containing Harold Tukey lecture on CUH and Joe Witt lecture on angiosperms.
1 tape in gray case containing Vera Frazier lecture "How to Interpret Nature to Children Through School Programs" including discussion with Jan (Pirzio-Biroli?), Sharon (?), Peg Eagle, and Sheila Taft.
1 tape in gray case containing "what does a curator do" remarks and "How to identify and key conifers" lecture, both by Joe Witt (labeled "1978 Arboretum Advisory Committee" but seems to be a 1982 recording over an older tape).
1 tape in clear case containing Brian Mulligan lecture on Hamamelidaceae (side 1) and Dee Woodley-Johnson lecture "Ethnobotany of Northwest Plants" (side 2).
Accession date: 2022-01-11 Last updated: 2023-07-19 14:05:45
Subjects: Washington Park Arboretum--volunteers, Washington Park Arboretum--history

NamesRoleFunction
Ballard, NanInterviewee (ive)Creator
Curry, Jeannine, 1921(?)-2002Interviewee (ive)Creator
Wott, JohnDonor (dnr)Source
Mulder, Mary EllenInterviewee (ive)Creator
Danford, PatriciaInterviewer (ivr)Creator
Mead, VivianInterviewee (ive)Creator
Tukey, Harold B., Jr.Speaker (spk)Creator
Witt, Joseph A.Speaker (spk)Creator
Taft, Sheila B.Speaker (spk)Creator
Bierlein, JohnSpeaker (spk)Creator
Dorland, BettyInterviewee (ive)Creator
Volke, GertrudInterviewee (ive)Creator
McDiarmid, MaryInterviewee (ive)Creator
Horn, WardInterviewee (ive)Creator
Eagle, PegSpeaker (spk)Creator
Woodley-Johnson, DeeSpeaker (spk)Creator
Frazier, VeraSpeaker (spk)Creator
Clark, Jim, (James R. Clark)Speaker (spk)Creator
Mulligan, Brian O., Sr. , 1907-1996Speaker (spk)Creator

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