Outline

• 1. Overview

1. Creation

   1. 1. Mission / purpose

      2. Founding members

      3. 1980 reorganization

      4. Constitution

• 1. Organization

     1. Chart

     2. Officers

        1. List of officers

           1. President

           2. Vice President

           3. Treasurer

           4. Secretary

     3. Appointed positions

• • • 1. Newsletter

      2. Catesbeiana

      3. Committees

      4. List of all that have served in committees

• 1. 4. Members

• • • 1. Benefits

         1. Voting

         2. Bumpersticker

         3. Discounts to zoos/museums

         4. Exclusive surveys

      2. Costs

• • • • 1. Paypal est 2008

• • • 3. Membership counts

      4. Lifetime memberships

• • • • 1. est 1989

        2. List of lifetime members

• 1. 5. Archives

• • • 1. (1996-present) – originally at Virginia Museum of Natural History,now at Liberty University

• 1. 6. Digital photo and audio archives (200?-present)

  2. Publications

• • 1. Bulletin

       1. all 90 numbers were edited by Frank Tobey) - 1958-1979

       2. #81 – 639 copies mailed to 521 Virginia and 118 out of state addresses

    2. Catesbeiana

• • • 1. Name Richard Hoffman suggested journal name at 1980 reorganization meeting

      2. Purpose/requirements

      3. Cover art Chris Pague est 1983

      4. Color version 2007

      5. Conversion to electronic format

      6. President’s Corner est 1989

      7. List of all articles

• • 3. Newsletter

• • • 1. Conversion to electronic format

• • 4. Tobey Herp atlas

    5. Supported publications

• • • 1. Mitchell & Reay herp atlas

      2. DGIF guides

• • 6. Website

• • • 1. est 1997

• • 7. Calendar

• • • 1. est 2007

• 3. Events

• • 1. Surveys

       1. HerpBlitz

          1. est 2005

       2. BioBlitz

• • • • 1. 2003 (Douthat State Park),

        2. 2004 (VCU Rice Center),

        3. 2006 (Potomac Gorge),

        4. 2007 (Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC),

        5. 2008 (Dan Daniel Memorial Park, Danville)

        6. Resource Ramble, Pulaski Boy Scout Camp (2007-2009)

• • 1. 3. Other secondary surveys

• • • • 1. Cave

        2. Dyke marsh

        3. SFD

• • 1. 4. List of survey locations and dates

       5. G Maps

    2. Fall meetings

• • • 1. Ambystoma symposium (2002)

      2. Keynote speakers

         1. Honorarium

         2. List of Keynote Speakers

            1. Dorcas (2006), Gibbons (2007), Buhlmann (2008), Harris (2009), Weems (2010)

      3. Student presentation awards

• • • • 1. est 2007

        2. Amount of awards

        3. List of winners

• • • 4. List of meeting locations and dates

• • 3. Public education

• • • 1. Reptile Weekend, VLM est 2004-present

      2. Wildlife Festival, WLCV

      3. Va Master Naturalist training

      4. Reptile Day, VNHM 2007 & 2008

      5. Herp ID emails

• 4. Grants

• • 1. est 1998

    2. Purpose

    3. List of Grant awards

    4. List of resulting publications

    5. DGIF matching grant

    6. Other financial support

       1. 1989 - Virginia Endangered Species Symposium ($100)

       2. 1990 - SSAR honorary symposium for Roger Conant ($100)

       3. 1999 - VDGIF snake brochure ($500? VHS donation + $300 state herpetological society

       4. grant [received in 1990?, originally to produce a snake poster] to VHS from SSAR)

       5. 199x, 200x - Virginia legislative breakfasts ($??)

       6. 2006 – Potomac Gorge Bioblitz (did VHS provide funds or just team leaders?)

       7. 2007 - Richard Hoffman honorary symposium ($250)

       8. 2009 – Virginia Natural History Society symposium (“Historical Explorations

       9. into Virginia’s Natural History”) ($100)

       10. 2009-2010 - Timber Rattlesnake exhibit, Luray Zoo ($300)

       11. 2010 – La MICA biological field station, Panama ($200)

• 5. Misc

• • 1. Yahoo Discussion Group

       1. est :Dec 9, 2005

       2. Members :190

       3. Max posts in one month: 121

       4. Support ended: Nov 9, 2011

       5. Posts continued well into 2013

    2. Cafepress

• • • 1. est 2006

• • 3. Facebook page

    4. Google+

    5. Awards

• • • 1. Given to VHS

         1. Virginia Chapter of The Wildlife Society (2008)

      2. Member of the Year

• • • • 1. est 2006

• • • 3. Lifetime achievement awards

• • • • 1. Frank Tobey (1998), Richard Hoffman (1999),

        2. Joe Mitchell (2007), Paul Sattler (2008)

• • • 4. Honorary Life members

• • • • 1. Roble

• • 6. State Reptile / Amphibian attempts

Contributors to this history documentation

Steve Roble

Joe Mitchell

John White

Jason Gibson

Paul Sattler

Emily Steele

VHS Cofounders (with 1958 place of residence and occupation)

http://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/founders/vhsfoundingmembers.htm

Franklin J. Tobey, McLean (1919-2010)

Associate editor of a national magazine

Long-time VHS Secretary and VHS Bulletin

Editor; also prepared first herpetological atlas

Resided in Rockville, MD (1958/59-73), then later Loudoun Co., VA (1973-2010) [also Harpers Ferry, WV during at least 1979]

Obituary in preparation (Joe Mitchell and Richard Hoffman)

Roger H. Rageot, 1931-2006

NorfolkCurator of Natural History, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences

3rd VHS President (1963-64)

Obituary published in Catesbeiana 27(1)

W. Leslie Burger, Williamsburg 1925-1988

Biology professor, College of Wm. & Mary

2nd VHS President (1960-62)

Moved to Indiana in 1959

John Thornton Wood, Burkeville 1919-1990

General Practice Physician (M.D., 1955)

Master’s thesis on 4-toed Salamander (1951)

1st VHS President (1958-60)

Moved to Michigan in 1960 and eventually

to British Columbia; became a psychiatrist.

Obituary published in Catesbeiana 13(2)

Ollie King (O.K.) Goodwin, Newport News

Boy Scout leader (Explorer Post #341)

Ship designer (employed by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company)

Resided in California from 1978-86

Currently (?) resides in Catlett, VA

Not a current VHS member

William L. Witt, Arlington

Student member/cofounder; stationed at

Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts in 1958

(later stationed at a base in North Dakota)

Gathered many Virginia records from major museums and prepared the first herp distribution maps for VHS

Later volunteered at Shenandoah Natl. Park

Currently (?) resides in Arlington, VA

Not a current VHS member