Hunter College - Wistarion Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Bird Club HE work of the club has been mainly outdoor work. However, the indoor meetings, which are held once a month in the West Library, have been well attended. Until recently, the club has had no regular organization, but it seemed best to have a list of regular members and several officers. A pin was also suggested, and as nothing seemed so appropriate for a bird club than a bird, it was at once decided to have a small silver bird as the club pin. The chief attractions of the indoor meetings are informal talks about birds, their families, habits, nests, etc, These were given by Professor Gillet, whom we claim especially for our club and who has, by his charming talks, added a new interest to our bird-study, and whose presence has always given an added pleasure to the meetings. We are only sorry that his work this year has kept him away so much. Miss Grace Beach, who is really the mainstay of the club, also Miss Conklin and Miss Long have given the girls very great pleasure. 'Miss More, an ardent lover and student of birds, very kindly gave an afternoon to the club and delighted the girls by her very interesting and helpful talk. The outdoor work consists in visiting the park with held-glasses. The girls go in small groups every afternoon and some one who knows the birds accom- panies the groups to introduce them to their feathered friends. This is the real study of birds. To get close to Nature's heart and learn of her, and how sur- prised we are to find what a wonderful wealth of beauty and song is round about us, even in our common everyday life. This nearness to nature, this close and intimate acquaintance with the birds will surely exalt and ennoble our thoughts, will kindle in our hearts the desire for all that is good and pure and beautiful. The chief aim and purpose of the club has been to arouse adeep and lasting interest in the birds, to study them, not as specimens, not scientifically, but with a tender love for them--a love which seeks to make others also love and cherish them, so that we shall hear no more of the wanton destruction of these lovely creatures. And if we have induced even a few girls to leave off wearing feathers, if we have aroused in even a few hearts a true love for birds we shall ,feel that the work of the club has not been wholly in vain. And although we may no longer be students here, yet let uslkeep up the study of birds and each year, as the spring comes round, let us go to some place where we can welcome back these sweet harbingers of the springtime, and if we do thus we shall ind that our work willube less hard and our hearts filled with a new happiness and peace, and as we listen to the twilight notes of the robin or the sweet sad wail of ghSdPGWG1? Ol' the happy., bubbling song of the song sparrow or wren, we too shall .qu Ourk eartslorierhrcirvliing with an tender joy and their beauty and their songs Quit iriaeeecgsilgvaaik thrceuwlprid viill be to us then, not a desolate pilgrimage, make Sweetest melod ani ive y summer fields, where the birds around us . y, w en the winter does come, as come it must for all of us, the birds still singing about our atl ' 'll l d golden sunset behind the everlasting hillsls W1 ea us gently on toward the 66

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Members ofthe Bird Club Laura Dreyfoos Louise Hardenhrook Mildred Hardenbrook Louise I-Iousman Birdie Kallman May Morris Clara Schroeder Isadore Walling Elsa Wehle Bessie Eagar Lilla Hafer . Florence Dossart Adelia Lee Marjory Saunders Rebecca Ginzburg Mary E. McWalters Frances Bodenheim Jessie Gerstle Mary Beekman Nellie Marion Geffen Florence Lindewith Irene Dalton Florence Bandler Muriel Bacon Florence Davey Ida Bayern Emma McKeoWn Isabella Chellhorg Anna Dossart Hulda johnson D. Alexander Emma Schmid Annie Duerstein Carrie Stollberg Sadie Goldsmith Jennie Hayes Grace Beach Emily Long D. Jean Conklin