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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).
Record ID # 629  ·  Accession date: 2022-01-11  ·  Last updated: 2026-09-06 18:56 PDT
Subjects: Washington Park Arboretum -- volunteers, Washington Park Arboretum -- history
Names: Danford, Patricia, Mead, Vivian, Tukey, Harold B., Jr., Witt, Joseph A., Taft, Sheila B., Bierlein, John, Dorland, Betty, Volke, Gertrud, McDiarmid, Mary, Horn, Ward, Eagle, Peg, Woodley-Johnson, Dee, Frazier, Vera, Clark, Jim (James R. Clark), Mulligan, Brian O., Sr. , Ballard, Nan, Curry, Jeannine (Jeannine Lucienne Curry), Wott, John A., Mulder, Mary Ellen
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Elisabeth C. Miller Library, Archives compact shelving [1]