APPENDIX D
COLLEGE ACQUIRES MOUNTED SPECIMENS FROM YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK MUSEUM

From the Daily Astorian, March 20, 1967, p. 7

Clatsop college has acquired a large collection of mounted specimens from Yosemite National Park at no cost. Specimens are a part of six natural habitat displays which the park inventoried at $50,000. The birds and mammals will be incorporated into the college’s instructional museum of natural history used by the science department.
Dr. Stewart McCollom, college president, heard of possibility of obtaining the materials while in San Francisco attending a convention of the American Association of Junior colleges. Dr. and Mrs. McCollom and Phil Bainer, dean of instruction and zoology instructor, traveled to the park at that time to see the exhibits.
Dr. McCollom corresponded with park officials and last week received word that the park will donate all material to the college providing displays be used for educational purposes. Stipulation was that the college make all arrangements for transfer to Astoria.
Bainer will leave for California by plane Tuesday to box and ship the specimens. The six displays, each 7 by 9 by 5 feet, portray the characteristic scenery, plants and animals of various park habitats arranged in lifelike settings.
The collection of some 80 birds and mammals are typical of those found in Yosemite park, and will include, among others, a porcupine, marten, weasel, civet cat, pack rats, various types of chipmunks and squirrels. More unusual birds are a pileated woodpecker, California quail and grouse and the common hummingbirds and sparrow hawks. Shipment will be by railway express.
Bainer will attempt to bring back paintings from backdrops of the displays. However, the cases are so old and bulky that expense of shipment would be greater than value. Specimens will be removed and cases discarded.
The college is seeking display cases for the exhibits. Museum is presently housed in five showcases obtained from local stores on the third floor hallway of Towler hall. Plans call for eventually moving the museum into an available room, probably when college construction is complete.
Yosemite National Park is constructing a new visitors center and plans to incorporate a new museum and new displays into the building, reason for closing out the old museum which Clatsop has obtained.
(Note: grammatical and capitalization errors of original retained.)