From Botany to Basketry 
Peekskill 
Tree Survey 
A wide variety of courses covering a range 
of interests from science to environmental 
art is open for registration at the Cary 
Arboretum’s Gifford House. Education and 
Visitor Center on the Sharon Turnpike. 
During the month of March, the following 
courses will be offered: Fiber Basketry, 
Botany in Mid-Hudson Valley Restaurants, 
Rock Gardening, and Bird Identification 
and Habits. March is also the month for 
the Arboretum’s well-known “Maple 
Sugaring Weekend.” Come to the back yard 
of the Gifford House March 17 or 18 and 
see a demonstration of maple sugaring 
which includes all the steps from collecting 
sap to sampling “Jack-Wax.” 
April offerings include courses in Off- 
Loom Weaving, Planning and Planting a 
Mr. Frank Stubbs, one of the four Trustees 
of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, 
which established the Arboretum and is its 
principal funding source, passed away at his 
home in Kennett Square, Pa., on January 
18th. He was 84 years old. 
A native of Mississippi and a graduate of Yale 
University, Mr. Stubbs worked, as a young 
man, for bothyhe Rockefeller Foundation 
and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. 
He then devoted 28 years of his business 
career to the American Radiator Company. 
Garden of Roses, Macrame for Beginners, 
Outdoor Sketching and Watercolor, 
Intermediate Ikebana, Voices'of the Night, 
and Techniques of Painting in Acrylics. 
A class in Spring WUdflowers heads the list 
of courses offered during May. Other 
classes are: Tree and Shrub Care for the 
Home Gardener, Intermediate Macrame, 
Living Off the Land: Wild Foods, Herb 
Gardening, 'Dried Winter Bouquet Materials, 
and Painting Outdoor Lanscapefe in 
Acrylics. 
All courses have limited enrollment. To 
ensure your place in a class, please 
register in advance by calling 677-5358. 
Mr. Stubbs, who was an intimate friend of 
Mr. and Mrs. Cary, had been a Cary Trustee 
since the Trust was established in 1968. He 
is survived by his widow, a sister, a sister-in- 
law, a neph'ew, one grandnephew and four 
grandnieces. 
Mr. Sjubbs had a deep and abiding interest 
in conservation of natural resources and was 
a frequent visitor to the Arboretum. The 
staff here will greatly miss his friendly 
concern for the wise management and use 
of the land that now is the Cary Arboretum. 
The Cary Arboretum recently completed 
for the City of Peekskill a comprehensive 
survey of its tree population. 
The 214-page report, financed by federal 
Community Development funds, was more 
than three years in the making. It was 
compiled and written by Research Assistant 
David Whittaker and Dr. Thomas Elias. 
The completed study, described as “A 
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Urban Forestry 
Workshop 
The Cary Arboretum recently hosted a 
highly successful Urban Forestry Workshop 
for 20 official New York State foresters 
from the Department of Environmental 
Conservation. 
The five-day training session was designed 
to familiarize the state foresters with 
problems of trees in an urban environment. 
It included lectures on various aspects of 
Urban Forestry, such as: street cultivars, 
maintenance of urban trees, and landscape 
architecture. Among the guest speakers 
were Paul Manion of Syracuse University’s 
College of Environmental Science and 
Forestry, and Leonard Merin, of the 
Cornell University Architecture program. 
The week-long series of meetings, held in 
January, was under the overall direction 
of Dr. Thomas Elias. 
Death of Frank Stubbs 
People at the Arboretum 
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Janice Claiborne. . . As a Friend of the 
Arboretum, you have probably spoken to 
her on the phone. She not only is the 
membership secretary of the group, but 
she also serves as the Assistant t© Dr. 
Payne, the Director of the Arboretum. 
Due to her father’s government position, 
Janice grew up “all around the world.” 
Her early years were spent in New York, 
California, Ohio, and Washington, D. C. 
After that, she lived in Karachi, Pakistan, 
for a year and she used this as a base from 
which to visit many other Far and Middle 
Eastern cities such as Lahore, New Delhi, 
Agra, Bombay, Singapore, Hong Kong, 
Saigon, Djakarta, Beirut and Damascus. 
As a graduate of Bucknell University, 
Janice was awarded a prestigious exchange 
fellowship to study French literature and 
culture at the University of Caen in 
Normandy, France. Upon her return to the 
U.S. she worked for Booz, Allen, and 
Hamilton, a management consulting firm 
in New York City, and then as an 
administrative secretary for the International 
and Protocol Divisions of the 1964-65 
World’s Fair. Her fond memories of the 
World’s Fair include the excitement and 
chaos of preparing for Opening Day, and 
later, lunchtime walks through the Fair’s 
International Pavilions. 
Janice moved to nearby Union Vale in 
1966. In 1973, after reading about the 
Cary Arboretum in the “Millbrook Round 
Table,” she attended the official 
Greenhouse opening, was enthused about 
the Arboretum’s concepts, and promptly 
applied for a position. She says her work 
is both challenging and gratifying, adding 
that her involvement with the Friends of 
the Arboretum program “makes me feel 
as though its members are friends of 
mine. . . although I’ve never met most of 
them, I know their names.” With Janice 
in charge, the approximately 650 “Friends” 
can be sure that their letters and phone 
calls will be answered promptly and 
efficiently. 
Janice is the mother of three children: 
George, age 14, Jennifer, age 12, and 
Andrew, age 10, who are all enrolled in 
the Millbrook Central School District. On a 
priority scale, Janice notes that domestic , 
chores are “at the bottom of the list.” 
She enjoys playing bridge, bowling, 
volleyball and “who-done-it” novels. In 
addition to her other duties at the 
Arboretum, she is an “in-house” public 
official, having recently received a Notary 
Public license. 
