Date:         Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:15:31 -0400
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From:         Shireen Gonzaga <whimbrel@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Fwd: [de-birds] MORE ABOUT SANDY SHERMAN
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FYI ... for the Maryland birders who knew her:

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> From: Frank Windfelder <fwindfelder@ATT.NET>
> Date: Wed Jun 11, 2003  1:15:32  PM America/New_York
> To: de-birds@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: [de-birds] MORE ABOUT SANDY SHERMAN
> Reply-To: fwindfelder@ATT.NET
>
> From Chris Walters :
>
> DVOC is saddened to report the death yesterday of Sandra ("Sandy")
> Sherman
> after a short illness.
>
> A resident of Delaware County, PA, Sandy was a well-known past
> President of our
> Club and editor of Cassinia. She is survived by her father Irv and
> brother
> Jeff. She was 54.
>
> Sandy became serious about birds through DVOC and was one of our first
> female
> members, She went on to become an Associate Naturalist at Cape May
> Birding
> Observatory and a co-founder, five years ago, of the Delaware County
> Birding
> Club.
>
> An editor by profession, Sandy spent several years on the Birds of
> North
> American Project (BNA) at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
> Sciences, had
> copy-edited the revision of Peterson's Field Guide to the Birds East
> of the
> Rockies for Houghton Mifflin Company, and was editing the revision of
> Hawks in
> Flight (Dunne, Sibley, and Sutton) at the time of her death.
>
> Sandy will be long remembered for her friendship, energy, good humor,
> and
> devotion to many causes in the birding community.
>
> Services will be held Thursday, June 12, 2003 at 11 o'clock a.m. at
> Beth El-Ner
> Tamid, 715 Paxon Hollow Rd., Broomall, PA.
>
> Donations in Sandy's memory may be made to The Cape May Bird
> Observatory, 600
> Route 47 N., Cape May Court House, NJ 08210.
>
> --
> fwindfelder@yahoo.com
> fwindfelder@att.net
> (215)673-0240 OR (215)673-2034
> 9233 Convent Avenue
> Phila, Pa. 19114
>
>
Shireen Gonzaga
Baltimore, MD

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