[EBB Sightings] RIP Howard Cogswell

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From: debbie viess 
Date: Friday, June 9, 2006 4:42 pm
Subject: [EBB Sightings] RIP Howard Cogswell

> It is with great sadness that I announce the 
> death of Dr. Howard Cogswell. He was a rigorous
> scientist, and a fine human being. 
> 
> He will be sorely missed.
> 
> Debbie Viess
> Oakland, CA
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About sixty years ago, while I was in junior high school, Howard Cogswell worked at the San Gabriel Audubon Refuge and was a leader in the Whittier Chapter of the Audubon Society.  I believe he was a student at Whittier College?this was the period before he came to Berkeley to study with Frank Pitelka.  My uncle had returned from three and a half years as a naval flight instructor in Florida.  He too was a student at Whittier College?studying to become an entomologist.  Although my uncle never saw combat, he had had some pretty hair-raising experiences--  with student pilots.   Among some of those stories?such as flying between power poles, under the power lines, I recall his stories of driving with Howard on the way to field study sites.   According to my uncle, with Howard at the wheel and wearing his binoculars, every passing bird was a near catastrophe?especially along the narrow, winding roads through the Southern California hills.  My own memories of Howard are a lot t
amer?walking along trails through wild-grape thickets while looking and listening for cardinals, birding the Puente Hills on Audubon field trips, standing on the edge of a river bed watching for spring migrants passing through the Whittier Narrows.  Wonderful memories

			?thanks Howard.