WALTER MELVIN ROSEN E 
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fare,” Hu had the distinction of being the only member to attend every 
one of its 19 annual conventions. He was frequently a leader of its 
field trips and served as Secretary-Treasurer from May, 1940, until his 
death. 
To the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union went part credit for obtaining 
the change from the old, unsatisfactory game warden system to that 
of the Iowa Fish and Game Commission, and Rosene, as a member of 
the Executive Council of the Union at the time, voted in favor of the 
change. Later, in 1934, he became a member of that same Commission, 
when he was appointed by the Governor to fill the unexpired term of 
J. N. (“Ding"') Darling when the latter resigned to become Chief of 
the Federal Bureau of Biological Survey. Rosene served for 15 months 
and his influence did much for Iowa bird life. 
Walter Rosene also served as Treasurer of the Wilson Ornithological 
Club from 1930 to 1035. He taught for many summers in the Ameri- 
can School of Wildlife Protection at McGregor, Iowa. He was a mem- 
ber of the Boone County Conservation Association, the Iowa Authors' 
Club and the Numismatist Society, One of his last activities was to 
accept an invitation of Mrs. Toni Wendelburg of the Des Moines city 
schools to act as judge of their Junior Exhibit of bird feeding trays 
at the Iowa State Fair in August, 1941. 
Many ornithologists knew Walter Rosene best in the field where he 
was always ready to do his share of a job to be performed and was 
most considerate. His perfect physique made it possible to study bird 
activities under trying conditions with the utmost perseverance. His 
ambition for research was dynamic. He would patiently sit cramped 
in a blind for hours to discover how a bird would act. He was exact 
in observation. Many an hour would pass with photographic failure 
but he was always optimistic about the future. He once said. “Hawks 
and owls seem to be my long suit”; and recently he wrote that “my 
I1RKAKKAST AT (’MASK LAKE. NOKTII DAKOTA 
Walter W, Bennett | left | ansi Waller M, Rosene, phntmgritphod on an nmiiholotfirnl 
trip. June J A . ('amp wim math* here m study ii ruin nr of While Pcdlrnhs. Cor- 
morant:*. ('alifnrmu (inlL ami Avorets tin tin island n [hr lake. Later, the two men 
made a trip to western Srlirtiska to study tlir Prairie Chiekeri. Einseiie made anorlier 
trip northern Minnesota to visit eulonies of ('mnnion Trtii', Aside from these outside 
trips, lliisen r’ v work wsis purely [owan and he deVoied ll i ^ time to tile birds of ht> home 
slate. 
