This collection showcases an exhibit created by Samantha Noelle Hilton, stemming from her work with the Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds collection. It was displayed in Linfield University's Jereld R. Nicholson Library during April and May of 2015.
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Comparison of Biotic Communities of the Cedar-Hemlock and Oak-Hickory Associations, Draft Version
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
This early, typewritten draft of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds's doctoral dissertation contains her edits and notes. Dirks-Edmunds's project compared the Douglas fir forest community on Saddleback Mountain in Oregon to an oak-hickory forest near her graduate school in Illinois.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she later returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Douglas Fir-Hemlock Community Map, Hectare 17
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
This hand-drawn map created by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds shows the vegetation in Hectare 17 at her Saddleback Mountain research site. The map of the Douglas Fir-Hemlock Community was most likely drawn while Dirks-Edmunds was writing her doctoral thesis, in which she compared the Douglas fir forest on Saddleback to an oak-hickory forest in Illinois.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Douglas Fir-Hemlock Community Map, Hectare 17 and Part of Hectare 16
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
This hand-drawn map created by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds shows Hectare 17 and part of Hectare 16 at her Saddleback Mountain research site. This map was most likely created while researching her doctoral thesis comparing the Douglas fir forest on Saddleback to an oak-hickory forest in Illinois.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Ecology - As I See It
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds summarizes her research experiences on Saddleback Mountain in Oregon. Several handwritten corrections are included. Dirks-Edmunds began studying the area in 1933 with her advisor at Linfield College, Dr. James A. Macnab. In 1940, the research site was logged and her study switched from detailing an existing Douglas fir community to tracking its regrowth.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Hand-Drawn Map of Saddleback Research Site
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
A hand-drawn map created by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds shows her Saddleback Mountain research site. This map was most likely created while she researched her doctoral thesis comparing the Douglas fir forest at Saddleback with an oak-hickory forest in Illinois.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Map of Saddleback and Linfield College
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
This map shows the location of Saddleback Mountain in relation to Linfield College. Saddleback was the treasured site of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds's ecological field studies.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Poster Panel: Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
Samantha Noelle Hilton
This poster panel was part of the Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds exhibit that was on display at Linfield College's Jereld R. Nicholson Library in April and May of 2015. The display was put together by Linfield student and archives technician Samantha Hilton. This poster panel provides a short overview of Dr. Dirks-Edmunds's biography.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department from 1941-1974.
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Poster Panel: The Collection
Samantha Noelle Hilton
This poster panel was part of the Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds exhibit that was on display at Linfield College's Jereld R. Nicholson Library in April and May of 2015. The display was put together by student and archives technician Samantha Hilton. This poster panel provides a short overview of the collection, known as the Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Papers.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department from 1941-1974.
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President Vivian Bull Dedicates Tree in Honor of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
Jack A. Dirks
Linfield College President Vivian Bull (center, facing camera) dedicates a memorial tree in honor of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds on April 30, 2004. The tree is located near Melrose Hall on the McMinnville campus. Dirks-Edmunds, who graduated from Linfield College in 1937 and returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974, died in December of 2003.
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In Memory of Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
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The memorial program for Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds includes the order of events as well as sheet music for two hymns to be sung at the service. Former Linfield president Charles Walker read a poem at the service, held on January 8, 2004 at Hillside Manor in McMinnville, a retirement community where Dirks-Edmunds had been living.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974. Dirks-Edmunds died on December 29, 2003.
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Mother Earth, Our Sorely Troubled Planet: Thoughts for a New Millenium
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds published a series of articles in The Tidings, the weekly newsletter for McMinnville's First Baptist Church. This article was the first in the series and warns against further destruction of America's natural environment. A post-script from then-pastor Kent Harrop is also included.
Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937 and taught in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974. She lived in McMinnville from 1941 until her death in 2003 and was a member of First Baptist Church.
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Our Prairie Mother
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds and Myrtle Dirks
This creative biography about Lydia Gates Dirks was written by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds and her sister, Myrtle; Lydia, born in Nebraska in 1872, was their mother. Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937. She returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974; this biography was written in the later years of her life.
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Olan Mills
This formal portrait of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds was taken in 1996 during Dr. Dirks-Edmunds's retirement, while she was writing Not Just Trees.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Saddleback Research Project Collection Tabulation
Dorwin Lovell
This student inventory of insects found on Saddleback Mountain is part of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds's ecological study of the area. The physical collection of the Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Papers (see collection information below) includes similar tabulations from multiple classes at Linfield, all documenting insect type and number found. Dr. Dirks-Edmunds compiled her students' research into various reports on her study's progress.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Biotic Succession in a Douglas Fir Forest on Saddleback Mountain (Oregon Coast Range)
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
This grant proposal, submitted to the National Science Foundation in 1959 by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, requested funding to continue an ecological study at Saddleback Mountain. Dirks-Edmunds requested $15,570.05 to fund weekly trips with students to the site in order to collect meteorological and synecological data on the forest; she anticipated the project would last two years.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds in a Convertible
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Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds sits in a convertible with two women in the back seat somewhere on Saddleback Mountain during 1957. Dirks-Edmunds had been on the Linfield College faculty for about 15 years at the time this photograph was taken. She graduated from Linfield College in 1937 and returned to teach in the Biology department from 1941-1974.
(left to right): Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, unidentified woman, unidentified woman
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Dirks Family Portrait
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Members of the Dirks family are photographed during a Christmas gathering in Arlington, Washington. Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds is pictured with some of her nine siblings, as well as her in-laws, nieces, and nephews. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937 and returned to teach in the Biology department from 1941-1974.
Top row (left to right): Laurel Sage, Emma Hartley, Katherine Dirks, John Dirks, Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, Mother Dirks
Middle row (left to right): Barbara Hartley, Doris Bissell, Dorothy Woodell, Dorothy Dirks
Bottom row (left to right): Braehm Woodell, Jack Dirks, Doree Ann, Marchial Sue Woodell
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Comparison of Biotic Communities of the Cedar-Hemlock and Oak-Hickory Associations, Final Version
Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds
A revised version of the final draft of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds's doctoral dissertation was published in Ecological Monographs in 1947. In her dissertation, Dirks-Edmunds compared the Douglas fir forest community on Saddleback Mountain in Oregon to an oak-hickory community in Illinois. Dirks-Edmunds, a 1937 graduate of Linfield College, graduated from the University of Illinois in 1941; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Jane Claire Dirks's Doctorate of Philosophy Degree
University of Illinois
This diploma from the University of Illinois awards the Doctor of Philosophy degree to Jane Claire DIrks (later Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds) in June of 1941. Dirks-Edmunds began to study Zoology in Illinois immediately after earning her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Linfield College in 1937. Dr. Dirks-Edmunds received her Ph.D. on her 27th birthday and returned to Linfield to teach in the Biology department from 1941-1974.
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Jane Claire Dirks in Regalia
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Jane Claire Dirks stands in full regalia to receive her Ph.D. in Zoology (Ecology) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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This formal portrait of Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds was taken in 1940, the year before Dr. Dirks-Edmunds received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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A Laboratory Manual of Vertebrate Embryology
F.B. Adamstone and Waldo Shumway
This laboratory manual for vertebrate embryology includes notes and colorful, hand-drawn illustrations of frogs, chicks, and pigs. The illustrations and notes were made by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds when she was a graduate student in Zoology at the University of Illinois from 1937-1941.
Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937; she returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
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Jane Claire Dirks's Bachelor of Arts Degree
Linfield College
This diploma from Linfield College awards the Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, to Jane Claire DIrks (later Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds) in June of 1937. While at Linfield, professor emeritus Dr. James A. Macnab served as her academic advisor and introduced Dirks-Edmunds to her future research site at Saddleback Mountain. After earning a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Illinois in 1941, Dirks-Edmunds returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974.
