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June 12, 1941, providing for the regular appointment of ‘one 
or more Vice-Chairmen” of the various standing committees of 
the Board. 
Miss Michalena LeFrere Carroll, instructor, was again, for the 
fifth summer, a member of the teaching staff of the Blue Ridge 
Southern Culture Institutes, Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 
July 22-August 31. She gave an intensive course in art history, 
and also an art appreciation credit course at Blue Ridge College. 
Miss Elizabeth Clarke was appointed curatorial assistant in 
the department of plants, beginning April 1, 1941. She is a 
eraduate of Hood College, Frederick, Md., and of the School of 
Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa. For three years she was 
garden consultant with the W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia. 
Miss Virginia A. Clay was appointed stenographer in the 
office of the director, beginning March 1, 1941. 
Dr. C. Stuart Gager, director, was made a member of the 
Board of Trustees and president, pro tempore, of the Fairchild 
Connecticut Garden at the organization meeting, held April 22, 
in Manhattan, in the office of Mr. Thomas J. Watson, president 
of the International Business Machines Corporation. The other 
Tappen Fairchild, who have 
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trustees are Mr. and Mrs. B. 
maintained this garden of some 127 acres since the death, in 
1939, of Mr. Benjamin Thomas Fairchild; Mr. Watson; Chan- 
cellor Harry Woodburn Chase, of New York University; Dr. 
Robert Cushman Murphy, curator of oceanic birds, American 
Museum of Natural History and Honorary President of the 
National Audubon Society; Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill, professor 
of botany and supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard 
University; Dr. Frederick H. Pough, assistant curator of mineral- 
ogy, American Museum; and Mr. Percy H. Jennings, president 
of the Vita-Glass Corporation, who was made treasurer of the 
board. This garden, located on Quaker Ridge, North Greenwich, 
Connecticut, is incorporated as a non-profit, educational corpora- 
tion. It is planned to make it a center of educational work for 
nature study and related subjects. 
At the commencement exercises of Swarthmore College, June 2, 
it was announced that the Arthur Hoyt Scott Garden and 
Horticultural Award of a gold medal and $1,000 in cash had been 
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