West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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THE SERPENTINE Snapshots of Dr. Ehinger

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CLASS NINETEEN FIFTEEN at the great laboratory. His students are enthusiastic in praise of his power as a field teacher of bird study. With a devotion unusual to students of nature. Dr. Ehinger shares most con- stantly his splendid knowledge of birds with any one who cares to know about tlieni. For years a gToup of bird students have met at his home at fretpient inter- vals through the winter, and in the spring ha e gone out day after day in the search of birds under his fostering supervision. No such effecti e work in behalf of bird study has e er been done in West Chester before, and there is every promise tliat this activity will continue. Meanwhile other towns hearing of the success of this work, have called Dr. Ehinger to give them the sug gestion which shall start them in similar work. The patient i)ersistence with which the Doctor wrings its message from the printed page is one of his most striking characteristics. His shelves are loaded with books of many kinds. Page after page is marked with his careful pencil. A book he has once read he can quickly review. This adds double value to a collection already great in itself. While in Chicago he married Miss Ella M. Long, of Quincy, III., an enthusiastic lo er of nature and successful worker in art. The tastes of this pair have run abso- lutely parallel with a rare unanimity in a married couple. They have been partners in their life work as well as in life itself.

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CLASS NINETEEN FIFTEEN ftlJ.fhinflpr. J iiogfatiljifal $Mt } by lf.ffl.lftldtotn. |LLA M. long, Mrs. C. E. Ehinger, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but while she was quite a child her parents removed from St. Louis to Quincy, Illincjis, and in this latter place she grew to womanhood. Thoug-h they lived in the West her parents were of good old New England stock, for her father was a native of New Hampshire, and her mother ' s birthplace was in Connec- ticut. Like many other ambitious young people of their time, the lure of the West called them, and leaving their own kindred and their father ' s house, they jour- neyed to that land of promise and of possibility, and there in due time the subject of this sketch opened her eyes upon this world. Her girlhood in Ouincy was a very happy one, and she looks liack with much pleasure to the many bright and joyous days she jjassed there, and still cherishes a deep love for the Mississippi River, upon whose banks and on whose waters she spent many a delightful hour in bygone days. On the wall of her living room there hangs a beautiful water-color i)ainting, her own handiwurk, representing a scene on her ever-loved Mississippi. Mrs. Ehinger was educated in the public schools of Ouincy, and though she was not graduated from the High School, yet in her Junior year she did much Sen- ior work. Considerations of health forljade her graduation, for while she was never really ill, she was at no time very robust. After leaving school she studied music and painting, and became especially proficient in work in water colors and in pastel. She worked at her art very assiduously for some years, as the numerous sketches in her home show, Init for a long time the multiplicit - of her activi- ties, home, school, and social, has precluded any inludgence in this favorite avoca- tion. In her early life at home she assisted her father, who was a jihotographer, in crayon portrait work, and with the money thus earned bought her first piano, an achievement which she regards with much pride. Reading is one of Mrs. Ehinger ' s favorite occupations, and from time to time she writes both in ])rose and in verse. Some years ago she pre])ared a little mono- graph iin instruction in cra ' on work, which was published in pamphlet form, and a copy of which is now in the School Lil)rary. l ' or the past four or five years she has written exery month a story for the i ' irst-day School of the High Street 13