COMSTOCK WILLIAM GOULD VINAL 3 



o'clock in the morning and getting home at 10 or 11 p. m. ever\^ 

 day but Sunday. The next summer he worked on a milk farm in 

 Connecticut, milking early in the morning and working on the 

 farm the rest of the day until milking time in the evening; he 

 went home in the fall via New York City with his entire summer's 

 earnings of $19. The following summer he ran an ice cream 

 store at Queen Anne's Comer, walking four miles to the store 

 and back every day; the next summer he presided over a soda 

 fountain at Nantasket Beach beginning work at seven a. m. and 

 continuing until 11 p. m.; he did this eighty-four days without a 

 day off; he was allowed one night a week off but was so tired 

 that he spent his spare time in sleep; he received for this $1.00 

 per day and board . During the two succeeding summers he worked 

 for the Nantasket Steam-boat Co., first as gateman and later as 

 freight clerk. Following his graduation from Harvard he spent 

 seven summers as Biologist for the Massachusetts Fish and Game 

 Commission. Four of these summers he worked on shell-fish, 

 one in making a fishery survey of Buzzards Bay, and two on the 

 Biological Survey of the fresh water ponds off Cape Cod. Since 

 this time Mr. Vinal has found an absorbing occupation for 

 his summers in running his very successful enterprise as Director 

 of Camp Chequasset, a Nautical Camp for girls near Wellfleet 

 on Cape Cod. ^^ 



As a teacher Professor Vinal has been very successful. In 

 1907 he was appointed the head of the department of Geology 

 and Biology at the Marshall College State Normal School at 

 Huntington, W. Va., a position which he held for three years. 

 In 1910 he was made Instructor in Geography at the Salem, 

 Mass., State Normal School and the following year was called 

 to the Rhode Island College of Education at Providence, the 

 position which he still retains, as the head of the Dept. of Nat- 

 ure-study. His well earned reputation as a teacher who is at once 

 thorough and inspirational has spread beyond the bounds of 

 New England and to the writer's knowledge, he has received 

 several tempting offers from Western institutions . However, Rhode 

 Island appreciates him and has been able to retain him ; and his work 

 has counted for much in the educational system of that State. His 

 Arbor Day Manuals are among the most remarkable of any 

 in the United States. He is President of the R.I.Field Natural- 



