Subject: Hazel Wolf's Benchmark Bird
Date: Mar 23 10:44:38 2000
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Grant Hendrickson wrote:

> Just a few months before Hazel Wolf's death, she spoke eloquently at Seattle
> First Baptist Church on the topic of "The Women Who Have Influenced My
> Life." In the course of that wonderful talk, she mentioned the bird that
> started her lifelong love of birds. When she was nine years old, she saw a
> Brown Creeper that worked its way up a tree and then flew down and started
> over again, always working upwards. With a twinkle in her eye, she mentioned
> that it must have been a female, because females in those days were
> struggling to achieve their goals in a man's world. It's a wonderful memory
> of a very special lady.
>
thanks, Grant...I needed that.. perfect timing. :)

Tom