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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, John A., 1939-2021Donor (dnr)Source
Mulder, Mary EllenInterviewee (ive)Creator
Danford, PatriciaInterviewer (ivr)Creator
Mead, VivianInterviewee (ive)Creator
Tukey, Harold B., Jr., 1934-2020Speaker (spk)Creator
Witt, Joseph A., -1984Speaker (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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