Harry Goehring Papers

Cote

231

Niveau de description

Collection

Titre

Harry Goehring Papers

Date(s)

  • 1951-1971 (Création/Production)

Extent

0.42 linear feet

Nom du producteur

(1907-1997)

Notice biographique

Harry H. Goehring was born to George and Elizabeth (Melius) Goehring in Loyal, Wisconsin, ca. 1907. He graduated from Loyal High School in Clark County, Wisconsin in 1925. He received a bachelor's degree from the Wisconsin State University (1929), master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (1932), and his Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota (1955).

Goehring joined the faculty at St. Cloud State in 1946, teaching ornithology and zoology. He would later teach in Biology and retired in 1971. He is best known studying bats thta lived in a Mississippi River sewer near campus and was nicknamed St. Cloud State's "Batman". In addition, Goehring developed a biology course for prospective elementary teachers. Goehring’s personal research included the discovery of two rare rhino mice in St. Cloud as well as a bat that survived sub-zero temperatures lower than had been previously believed.

Goehring married Thelma Keefer and they had three daughters - Donna, Dixie, and Dawn. Goehring passed away on April 15, 1997 in Concord, New Hampshire, at the age of 89.

Portée et contenu

The collection contains two of Goehring’s field books that date from 1951 to the early 1970s. The first book contains notes regarding his banding efforts over 20 years of brown bats and winter bat banding. The other book documents efforts to band chimney swift birds near campus including the downtown Paramount Theatre. These books include records of banding both species of bats, the bat's sex, and bat's band number. The field books also includes include yearly summaries of bat banding efforts and grand totals. The books also contains correspondence from various institutions in which banded bats or swift bats had been caught, injured, or found deceased.

System of arrangement

Two books organized by subject in chronological order.

Records are located at 29D.3f.

Conditions d’accès

There are no access restrictions.

Accès physique

Technical access

Conditions governing reproduction

Permission to publish, quote, and reproduce must be secured from the copyright holder.

Languages of the material

  • anglais

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    Finding aids

    Historique de la conservation

    Source immédiate d'acquisition

    Gift from Dawn Goehring Lieder

    Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

    Accruals

    A17-011

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    Existence and location of copies

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    Archivist's note

    Processed by Kennedy Gratke in June 2022.

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