Regional bird journal compiled by Bridgewater College students, faculty and alumni, 1918, 1947 – 1950, 2023

Regional bird journal compiled by Bridgewater College students, faculty and alumni, 1918, 1947 - 1950. Handwritten by several compilers in a composition book. The first part of the book is an Index of Birds identified in the spring of 1918. Course under Dr. Scott. The list was compiled by Charles S. Driver, BC Class of 1916. Field notes are included. Driver was likely taking this class in graduate work, probably at Indiana University. The second section of the book is a list, Birds observed in the vicinity of Bridgewater, Va. 1947 -48- 49. Contributors are listed. They are mostly Bridgewater College students and alumni but include biology professor and track coach Harry G. M. Doc Jopson as well as coach and professor Daniel Geiser. The secretary for this section of the notebook was Max M. Carpenter, BC Class of 1950. A final section in the journal is a list of birds seen on a Virginia Society of Ornithology field trip, May 6, 1950 . 65 people visited Silver Lake, Mossy Creek, and Hone Quarry Hollow in Rockingham County, Va. Laid in after the written sections of the journal is a one page report of birds seen by Special Collections Librarian Stephanie S. Gardner and Special Collections Intern Mackenzie R. Smith, Class of 2024, who birded on the Bridgewater College campus on the morning of 15 November 2023. Charles S. Driver Memorial Collection