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PROFESSOR C. W. G. EIFRIG 
By Dr. ALFRED LEWY 
PROFESSOR CHARLES WILLIAM GUSTAVE EIFRIG, president of the Illinois 
Audubon Society, 1930-41, died November Ist, 1949, at Orlando, Florida, 
at the age of 78. He served as president of the Society with distinction, 
and following his retirement continued as an honorary director. A para- 
graph concerning his death was published in the Bulletin, Number 73 
(March, 1950). 
Dr. Eifrig was born in Doebeln, Germany, September 23, 1871. He 
lived to celebrate his golden wedding anniversary in 1945, aan to have 
seven children and thirteen grandchildren. At the age of seven, he emigrated 
with his parents to Freedom, Pennsylvania, where he completed his 
elementary school training. He was graduated from Concordia College, 
Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1892, and from Concordia Theological Seminary 
in St. Louis, Missouri, with high honors in 1895. During the following 
fourteen years he was pastor of three congregations. 
From his early boyhood, Dr. Eifrig was interested in natural history, 
and he became an enthusiastic ornithologist, publishing a number of articles 
on birds. He also wrote two elementary text-books which were published by 
Rand, McNally & Co. One of these (1928) was on mammals, the other (1930) 
on fishes, amphibia and reptilia. 
Dr. Eifrig was called to the faculty of Concordia Teachers College at 
Addison, Illinois in 1909, transferring later with that institution to River 
Forest, Illinois, where he retired in 1942 after serving for 33 years as 
professor of science. The degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, was 
conferred on him by Valparaiso University in 1945. He did much to over- 
come the suspicion of science among the Lutherans, and his department at 
school became very popular. He influenced a great many young people in 
the love of nature, especially ornithology, and urged the conservation of 
our natural resources. As his pupils go out into the world, preaching the 
love of nature as well as their theological doctrines, we hope to see Dr. 
EKifrig’s influence spread in ever-widening circles. Our lives are a little 
finer, and our world a. little emptier, as a result of his passing. 
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HDWARD R. FORD 
We report with deep regret the death of an honorary direc- 
tor of the Illinois Audubon Society, Mr. Edward R. Ford, on 
January 138, 1951. The June number of the Bulletin will con- 
tain an obituary article which was not ready to go to press in 
time for this number. 
