Thestory Of Founding Of Wagner College In Rochester
THE STORY OF THE FOUNDINGOF WAGNER COLLEGE INROCHESTERby Richard O. ReisemIn 1883, Gennan Lutherans in Rochester foundeda proseminary, which, in 1886, through generousfinancial aid provided by John George Wagner,Jr., became Wagner Lutheran Memorial College.The institution was situated on Oregon Street offCentral Avenue just north of downtownRochester. Wagner's gift, given in memory of hisdeceased 19-year-old son, Johann Georg Wagnerlll, purchased the first permanent facility for theyoung college. The leader of this move toestablish a Lutheran school of higher learning inRochester was the Rev. Alexander Richter, pastorof Zion Lutheran Church, who also became thefirst president of the college. Zion Church, thefirst Gennan Lutheran church in Rochester, waslocated at 60 Grove Street. The structure wasrecently renovated into 12 apartments forEastman School music students and is known asJohn George and his wife,Catherine Susanna, hadfive children.Unfortunately, two died intheir first year of life;another died as a teenager.And a fourth, JohnGeorge's namesake, J.massive recent influx of Germanimmigrants, Lutheran churchesconducted services in the Gennanlanguage. Earlier that year, the Rev.Alexander Richter wrote a papertitled, "From What Sources Shall WeDraw Our Gennan Preachers?"Richter sought help from a colleague,George Wagner III (JohannGeorg on his tombstone)was stricken with typhoidfever and died at the age of19 1/2 years on October15, ]873. Only a daughtersurvived. She marriedCharles Voshall, whobecame a partner in hisfather-in-Iaw's contractingthe Rev. George H. Gomph, pastor ofbusiness.It turned out that on thetenth anniversary (October15,1883) of J. George Ill'sJohn George Wagner, Jr. was aRochester industrialist whofinanced the first permanentjacility jor the newly jormedLutheran proseminary in 1886.Photo courtesy Wagner College.Wagner College was named inmemory ojJohann Georg WagnerIII, who died at age 19 years.Photo courtesy Wagner College.Halo Lofts.John George Wagner, Jr., was the head of J. G.Wagner & Co., one of Rochester's largestconstruction contracting firms. Wagner joined theLutheran Proseminary's board of trustees inFebruary 1884, just five months after the schoolopened. A year later, he became board vicepresident.St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran hurch inPittsford, a suburb of Rochester. Together, theyenlisted the aid of other Lutheran ministers andlaymen in establishing a preparatory school,called a proseminary, to educate young menentering Lutheran ministry.Christian Seel, an elder of Zion Lutheran Church.John George Wagner, Jr., was born August 10,1824 in Bischmisheim, a small town in southwestGermany. When he was 14 years old, his familyemigrated to the United States and settled inRochester, New York, where there was a largeGerman immigrant population. John George'sfather worked as a mason, and his sons joined theconstruction trades, with John George becominga carpenter. By ]873, he was a very successfulbuilding contractor and highly regarded in thecommunity. He was selected a member of theMonroe County Board of Supervisors, a directorof the Rochester German Insurance Company,and a director of Genesee Brewing Company. Hebecame president of the board of trustees at FirstGerman Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church onGrove Street.owned a big brick house at the corner of Jay andMagne streets, and volunteered to rent sevenrooms on the second floor to house the first classof six students. The curriculum comprisedreligion, German, Latin, English, world history,geography, natural history, arithmetic,penmanship, drawing, and singing. Advancedclasses included Hebrew, natural philosophy, andchemistry.This oil portrait oj John George Wagner III mayhave been painted after his death in 1873. Photocourtesy Wagner Collegeuntimely death, it just so happened that thegoverning board of the Rev. Alexander Richter'snew school held an organizing meeting. At thetime, one of the major concerns of Lutheranministers was a paucity of Lutheran ministerswith preaching skills in German. With theEnrollment quickly grew, and in 1884, theschool's board decided to rent new larger quartersin a three-story, II-room house at 33 SouthAvenue. In 1885, a third move was made to asubstantial three-story building at 4 Oregon Street.Students paid tuition of 32 a year and 2 a weekfor room and board, plus 10 a year for heat.
the 12,000 gift "should be considered amemorial to his late son George, who was (hadhe lived) to enter the Lutheran ministry." Withthat gift, the name of the Lutheran Proseminaryof Rochester, N.Y. was changed to WagnerMemorial Lutheran College, now simplified toWagner College.Zion Lutheran Church, 60 Grove Street, was thefirst German Lutheran church in Rochester.Originally, it had a high centra/spire.John George Wagner, Jr., was 61 years old whenhe made his gift that ensured a future for theproseminary school. That same year, he alsoretired from the contracting firm that he foundedand turned over its operation to his son-in-law,Charles Voshall. In retirement, John Georgecontinued as vice-president of the board ofWagner Memorial Lutheran College. He died atage 67 of lung disease on August 13, 1891. He isThe tall granite family monument stands in SectionS, Lot 35 in Mount Hope Cemetery.John George Wagner Jr., was born in Germany in/824-aruJ en'ligrated to America with his familywhen he \lias /4 years old.The first permanent building for Wagner College at 4 Oregon Streetwas purchased for the school in /886 by John George Wagner, Jr.Photo courtesy Wagner College.John George Wagner was now a member of theboard's finance committee, and as the lease for 4Oregon Street was soon to expire, he discussedrenewing it with the building owner and learnedthat the property was available for sale for I 2,000. In the summer of 1886, rather thanburden the young institution with anunmanageable debt if they purchased the buildingburied alongside his wife, Catherine, who died ayear later at age 74 years. Directly to the left ofJohn George's gravesite lies his beloved son, J.George Wagner III, who gave Wagner College itsname. The Wagner family plot is in Section S,Lot 35, which faces Mount Hope Avenue.and realizing the importance of a permanentlocation that was owned by the institution, JohnGeorge and Catherine Wagner agreed to pay theentire cost of the new building. Wagner said thatexcellent structure for the growing WagnerCollege. The property was 120 feet square with athree-story building and four-story dormer towerJohn George Wagner and his wife, CatherineSusanna Wagner are buried beneath this graniteheadstone in Mount Hope.EPITAPHPublished quarterly by the friends of MOUIII HopeCemetery, Rochester, New York 14620, a nonprofitmember organi:atiol1foullded in 1980. 2008 The Friends of Mount Hope CemeteryRichard O. Reisem. EditorJan Wyland. Associate EditorFrank A. Gillespie. PholOgrapherThe building at 4 Oregon Street proved to be anDan Malczewski. An DirectorLucille Malczewski. Editorial AssistantBasic annual membership is 20. Call (585) 461-3494 for a free pocketguide10Mount Hope Cemetcl) and a membership application.See our colorful and informati\'e Web site:wW,&(omb0(2
expansive lot, which at various times housedfaculty members.But by the early 1900s, Rochester had become asignificant city and Oregon Street was in themiddle of industrial and commercialdevelopment. By 19 J 7, the bustle and noisebecame nonconducive to educational purposes,and the school faced the need to make anothermove. Rochesterians preferred a new location inanother part of the city or in the suburbs, butanother group favored a move to New York City,where Lutherans had established a large center.New York City won when a 38-acre SamuelCunard (founder of Cunard Lines SteamshipCompany) estate on Staten Island becameavailable for 63,000. The setting on Grymes Hillwas rural; it overlooked New York harbor, andthere was rapid transportation to the greatmetropolis.Johann Georg Wagner II/Jor whom WagnerCollege is named, is buried beneath this marbleheadstone erected in 1873.Today, Wagner College has an enrollment ofapproximately 2,000 students. It is coeducational, occupies a campus of 72 acres, andis considered an excellent liberal arts college inconfer upon the late J. George Wagner III aposthumous doctorate in divinities, honoriscausa, honoring both his own clerical aspirations,which were frustrated by death, and his father'sgift, which helped hundreds of other young menfulfill their dreams of becoming ministers."As part of the college celebrations this year,representatives from Wagner College traveled toMount Hope Cemetery and laid a memorialwreath on the grave of Johann Georg Wagner III,who was memorialized in the naming of WagnerCollege. That event occurred at 3 p.m. onSaturday, November 8, 2008.MINNIE SNYDER BUFF'SCERAMIC GRAVESTONEby Lynn SelhatWhen Philadelphia clay artist, Lynda Skaddan,installed a handmade colorful sculpturedgravestone in memory of her great aunt, MinnieSnyder Buff, in Mount Hope Cemetery in 1995,she could not know that five years later theceramic stone would catch the attention of aUniversity of Rochester sophomore, Kelly Watts,who became so intrigued by the marker that shedevoted months of research to unlock itsmysteries. The two women would not know ofeach others' existence until 2007, when, bychance, Skaddan's son-in-law was doing somegenealogy research and happened upon acharming paper that Watts had written about theheadstone. By this time Watts had alreadygraduated and was living in Massachusetts.Minnie Snyder Buff's gravestone first caught theattention of Kelly Watts, a studio arts major,during her walks through the cemetery on herway home from class. "This stone is hard to findat first because it is camouflaged among the greenand brown trees and grass. But in the middle of avast field of plain-colored gray headstones, oneThe Wagner jamily plot, whichjaces Mount Hope Avenue inSection S. contains more than a dozenjamily members.standing on it. The building was 90 feet long and36 feet wide and perfect for the school, since ithad previously been the home of the RochesterCollegiate Institute, a business and pre-collegeinstitution. Three houses were built on thethe top tier of northeastern U.S. small schools.This year, 2008, marks the 125th anniversary ofthe founding of Wagner College in 1883. Thecollege announced: "At Wagner College's 125thAnniversary Founders Day convocation, we willafter another, this particular colored stone quicklycatches the viewer's eye," she wrote in her essay.When the opportunity to do a research project ina religion class presented itself, Kelly Wattsdecided the subject would be that potteryheadstone. In her paper, titled Flowers Bloom andDie, Watts wrote, "I could not have imagined themystery behind this stone, and all the unansweredquestions it left." Old newspaper files, historicalsociety records, and Mount Hope Cemetery dayand log books brought Watts few answers other
than that Minnie Snyder was born on April 25,1871, and died in 1942. She was the wife ofWilliam Buff, who died four years later, in 1946,and was also buried in the same plot in anunmarked grave.When Skaddan and Watts eventually met via email in 2007, Watts was surprised to learn thatthem through the University of Rochester,graduating in the classes of 1927 (two), 1929, and1933. It was unusual in those days for women tobecome college graduates.had commuted by trolley to the Prince Streetcampus of the University of Rochester. Minnie'solder brother, Uncle Frank, was still living withthem when Minnie Snyder Buff died in 1942.While Kelly Watts' efforts to learn more aboutMinnie Snyder Buff were frustrated by a lack ofhistorical documentation, so too was her attemptIn her religion-class essay, Kelly Wattsconcluded, "Despite all the changes and cycles,there is one constant part of life that neverfalters: love."to uncover anyinformation about thegravestone itself,leaving Watts toconjecture who mighthave made it and why.her sophomorepaper had beendiscovered onthe Internet.Skaddan wasable to fill insome missingpieces.The poem on the frontof the stone reads:Minnie SnyderYears FlyFlowersBloom and DieOld Days, Old waysPass ByLove Stays.and WilliamBuff weremarried in 1902at Minnie'sfamily home inRochester. Shewas 31 yearsold at the time.Her parents haddied the yearLynda Skaddan foundthe poem on the frontof a sundial in a gardenbefore. Alsoliving in thehome was amaiden aunt,Mary, and anunmarriedolder brother,Frank, as wellas a youngersister, Lu, whoin Salem,Massach usetts.(Ironically, Kelly Wattsgrew up just a fewmiles from Salem.)Watts guessed at thesymbolism of the fourflowers on the front ofthe stone, but did notknow that eachThe colorful ceramic headstone on the grave ofMinnie Snyder Buff was created byPhiladelphia clay artist, Lynda Skaddan.Photo by Frank A. Gillespie.also nevermarried. WhenWilliam Buffmarried Minnie Snyder, he moved in and livedwith her family for the rest of their lives. Theynever had any children of their own.The reason Skaddan was so moved to honorMinnie Snyder Buff with a memorial sculpturewas because of Minnie's great act of kindness inraising her four nieces. The girls' mother died in1918, and their father abandoned them in Buffalowhen the girls were still young. Their AuntMinnie and Uncle Will took Minnie's four niecesinto their already crowded home full of relatives,all of whom welcomed them with open arms.The eldest niece, nee Fran Telford, was themother of Lynda Skaddan. All of the Telfordsisters graduated from East High School inRochester, and their Aunt Minnie put each ofrepresented one of thefour girls their AuntMinnie so lovinglyraised and that the hands are their aunt's handsholding them.The rosebud is Fran; a daffodil, Jane; a daisy,Edythe. The bent-over lily symbolizes the deathof one of Aunt Minnie's precious nieces, PhyllisTelford, who died suddenly at age 27 in 1936.Aunt Minnie chose a beautiful pink marble urnand buried Phyllis with her maternal greatgrandparents in the Binder plot (Range 3, Lot192), of Mount Hope.Skaddan and her sister remember being treatedlike grandchildren when visiting Aunt Minnie andUncle Will in the house that they had moved theirexpanded family to in Brighton at 858 LandingRoad, from where each of the four Telford sistersOf all the garden ornaments Lynda Skaddan hasmade that are life-size figures (i.e., birdbaths,vases, etc), gravestones are her favorite, becauseeach one tells a story. Ironically, her latest projectis to procure a military gravestone for her greatgrandfather, Minnie's father, John B. Snyder, whosurvived fighting in the Civil War with the 140thNew York Volunteers. He is buried in the Snyderplot in an unmarked grave. Minnie Snyder Buff'sceramic headstone is located in Range 3, Lot 163.HYMAN AND JEANETTEKOMESAR'S GRAVESTONEby Sarah HarveyEvery gravestone in a cemetery has a story. Everyperson buried beneath the ground at one timelived, breathed, cried, and laughed. Sometimesgravestones are very bland and ordinary. Othersare very elaborate and say a lot about theperson(s) they memorialize. One good exampleof a gravestone representing the lives of a coupleis that of Hyman and Jeanette Komesar. Theirmonument is located in Range 7 in one of theB'rith Kodesh sections of Mount Hope Cemetery.The gravestone is elegantly designed as a benchfor people literally to sit on. This shape may seemodd to some, but it represents how Hyman andJeanette worked to create an environment of love.Hyman was born on July 20, 1895 in Russia. Hecarne to America with his family when he was IIyears old. Family members arrived in stages, buteventually the entire family moved to Rochester.In the 1920s, Rochester was filled with factoriesfor men's suits. Hyman's father, Samuel Komisar,probably came to Rochester in order to find a jobas a tailor. The whole family lived at 27 PryorStreet. Hyman followed in his father's footstepsas a tailor until, at age 22, he entered the U.S.Army on November 23,1917. He was assignedas a private to the 153rd Depot Brigade. As partof Company F, 38th Infantry, he served overseasfrom March 29, 1918 to February 11, 1919.During the Second Battle of the Marne, he waswounded and captured on July 15,1918 and
placed in a Gennan prison camp. The woundresulted in the loss of his right arm. As hedescribed it in an interview with the Democratand Chronicle, his arm was amputated "on akitchen table by French nuns and a Germandoctor". He was released on Annistice Day,December 8, 1918. Finally, he was discharged onMay 23,1919.When Hyman Komisar returned to Rochester, heresided at 27 Pryor Street until he marriedJeanette Brown in 1922. Jeanette Brown wasborn on August 8, 1900 in Lithuania. LikeHyman, she too came to America around 1905with her mother, Rose, and her brother, Max.Their name was Brownvitsky, which waschanged to Brown at Ellis Island. Jeanette'sfather, Joseph, was a freelance carpenter, whoAvenue. They then had their second son, NeilKent, in July 1941. Both of their sons attendedBenjamin Franklin High School. Earl graduatedin 1944 and Neil in 1959. The Komesarsbecame members of Temple B'rith Kodesh onSeptember 30,1947 and were very active there.Hyman also joined the Jewish War Veterans andother local Veteran's groups. Hyman retiredthough Jeanette never worked outside the house,she was naturally artistic. She painted severalpaintings, which are now in Earl's house. Shealso volunteered at a school in Rochesterteaching children how to make art out ofeveryday objects. When Earl became a Freudianin college, his mother was one of the onlypeople who understood Freud's theories andfrom his job in 1961, and after he retired, he stillworked around the house and even took uppainting. In 1963, the couple moved to Brightonto be closer to their son, Earl, and daughter-inlaw, Miriam. Jeanette died of respiratory failureon December 6, 1983, and Hyman died of heartfailure on November 9, 1985.accepted the fact that there are more to peoplethan meets the eye.After Earl graduated from high school, heattended the University of Chicago. He becametraveled all over Europe working on buildingprojects. Eventually, he traveled to South Africawhere he made enough money to send hisfamily to America. He immigrated later andjoined the family in Rochester, where there wasplenty of work for him. The four of them werenaturalized in 1917 and lived at 67 FairbanksStreet. While in America, Joseph and Rose hadat least four more children, Emanuel, Isadore,Ira, and Ethel. When Jeanette was 20, shean architect and designer, and attributes hisartistic abilities to his mother. When Earl marriedMiriam, they moved to Brighton. Earl earned abroker's license and after Hyman retired, Hymanhelped Earl's clients. The couple retired in 1985to Atlanta, Georgia. Neil also attended theUniversity of Chicago. Presently, he is livingwith his wife, Shelly Safer, in Waunakee,Wisconsin. Neil is a law professor at theUniversity of Wisconsin in Madison and hasworked for Eastman Kodak Company and livedwith her parents on Fairbanks Street.written several books on law, economics, andpublic policy.Hyman and Jeanette never knew each otherbefore the war; they met after Hyman came backfrom Europe with only one arm. Manyhandicapped men who came back from the warfound it difficult to marry. Their handicapssometimes repelled women, yet this was not anissue, with Jeanette, and they fell in love. TheirNeil describes his father as a "sweet man, gentle,quiet, hardworking". Likewise, Earl talks abouthis father as being loving and soft-spoken. Henever talked about the war. Not only did Hymannever act handicapped, but after Hyman retired,the city of Rochester divided his job into five newfulltime jobs. This shows that he did not use hislove would set the tone for the rest of their livestogether. After they were married, the coupledmoved to 32 Bismark Terrace. They alsodropped the "i" in Komisar and changed theirname to Komesar. Hyman had a job as asalesman for the K & M Cap Company. In 1925,the couple moved to 118 Avenue E.handicap as an excuse, but persevered andbecame successful. Earl tells the story of whenhis wife Miriam met Hyman and Jeanette for thefirst time, she was shocked that Hyman had onlyone arm. No one in the family seemed concernedabout Hyman's handicap or ever mentioned it.When describing his mother, Neil emphasizesthat she was creative, bright, and intellectuallycurious. In the forward of his book entitled,Imperfect Alternatives, Neil thanks his parents byIn April of 1927, they had their first son, Earl.According to the 1930 Rochester census, theyspoke Yiddish and English at home. They livedon Avenue E until Hyman secured a job as aguard in 1928 and in that same year, they movedto 15 Wilkins Avenue. Finally in 1930, Hymanbecame a clerk at the Bureau of Traffic Control,which is where he worked until he retired.Hyman learned how to use his left handeffectively and became a sign maintenanceforeman for the Bureau of Traffic Control. In1944, they moved to 1964 North Clintonwriting: "My mother, Jeanette, taught me a lovefor intellectual curiosity and creativity. My father,Hyman, taught me the importance of honesty anddetermination. His life was a lesson in quietcourage."Earl also agrees with his brother, and adds thatJeanette was ahead of her time. Jeanette hadseveral very progressive female friends, some ofwhom even operated their own businesses. EvenThe Komesar gravestone is made out of pinkgranite and consists of four parts. There is theback of the seat, which has engraved in largeletters KOMESAR. Below that is engraved:Together they built aTimeless sanctuary forLove Freedom CreativityThe back of the stone says KOMESAR, similarto the front of the stone. On the sides of the seatare two rectangular pieces of stone with smallercubes on top of them. You could sit on thegravestone, but you would step on thepachysandra in front. Overall, the gravestone iselegant, modern, and unique.The monument was designed by Earl Komesarand his wife Mimi. The pieces on the sides withtheir individual names inscribed represent maleand female figures. The taller side symbolizes amale and a carved-out piece in the granitesignifies Hyman's missing arm. Earl laments thathe should not have written "Hyman" on thisfigure, but rather "Hy", the nickname thateveryone called him. The other figure is shorterand wider and represents a woman. The bridgethat connects them together is the seat. Theinscription, created by Earl and Mimi, isde criptive of what Earl and Mimi felt Hymanand Jeanette did in their home. The whole pieceis also representative of Earl's artistic connectionto his mother.Even though they are buried in a Jewish sectionof the cemetery, there is no Hebrew on theirmonument. But the fact that they chose to beburied in this particular section connects them totheir Judaism. Symbolically, the Komesars areliving on through their religion. The Komesarsare part of a community that has lived beforethem and will live after them. Participation in areligion means that one is offered the opportunityto be reborn into a timeless realm of ultimate,death-transcending truths. Their Jewish identitywill never die, but will continue to live in peoplewho believe in the same Jewish truths as they did.
The Hyman and Jeanette Komesar Monumentin Range 7 is composed ofa set of red graniterectangular blocks that present anarchitectural appearance.acts as a short release from theThus, their connection to the Jewishhistory, religion, and communitymeans that they continue to live, ifonly in symbolic ways.burdens of life. The viewer of thegravestone is able to sit for a momentand contemplate life and death. Thecemetery is certainly a good place toThese Jewish values have been mostdirectly passed on to their childrenand grandchildren. The Komesars'do this. and this gravestone helps withthis process.sons grew up in a Jewish home wherenot only religion, but heritage wasimportant; they spoke both Yiddishand English. Not only did theirchildren receive their Jewish values,but Earl understands that his artisticability comes from his mother. Heresearched his mother's ancestors andfound other artistic people in herfamily. Similarly, he believes that hisgranddaughter has inherited that sameartistic talent. Hyman's handicapnever got in the way of his life, and again, hishard work motivated both of his children. Earland Mimi think that the inscription of theirgravestone is representative of Hyman andJeanette's love. This love was an example to bothof their children. These traits and values are themost obvious way that the Komesars liveimmortally. Their values and talents have beenproven to have been passed on in theirdescendants and will continue to do so forgenerations.Even though Hyman and JeanetteKomesar led normal lives, to thepeople who knew and loved them,they were extraordinary. Hymansurvived not only Germanimprisonment, but also the loss of anarm. His perseverance was anexample to his children andcommunity. The fact that they hadsuch an unbroken love for each otherThe central element of the Komesar gravestonepresents an epitaph that aptly describes thefamily values.is something that is praised and represented forall to see on their gravestone. Earl and Mimi feltthat it was important to show this connection.Another way to understand the gravestone isThe lives of Hyman and Jeanette Komesar are athrough the "life is a burden" metaphor. Theregood example for all to follow.are many difficulties in life and "if one furtherconceives of life as one constant, relentlessdifficulty, then it is possible to think of the wholeof life as a burden". This connects with the "lifeas a journey" metaphor, because all of theseburdens prohibit individuals from taking their lifepath easily. In this particular case, the gravestone(Editor's Note: The author, Sarah Harvey, is astudent at the University of Rochester andprepared this essay as part of the requirementsfor the course, Religion 167, Speaking Stones,which is taught by Pro]. Emil Homerin, who isalso a trustee of the Friends of Mount HopeCemetery.)
Leland Brun and the grownup screech owl he nursed to adulthood.SCREECH OWLSAT MOUNT HOPEby Leland BrunI was called upon to rehabilitate a baby screechowl that was found on the ground in Mount HopeCemetery. As one of few people licensed by theState and Federal Government to care fordistressed wildlife in the area, I get calls like thisfrequently. Wildlife rehabilitators are volunteerswho must pass certain standards of knowledgeand experience to obtain the necessary licenses.Having a background in wildlife managementand experience working in related fields for NewYork State, the Peace Corps EnvironmentalProgram, and Seneca Park Zoo, I findrehabilitation an interesting and rewardingendeavor filled with opportunities to get to knowwildlife as few others are able.I was presented with the baby screech owl, whichwas still in its baby down. Tknew fromexperience that at least a couple months of carewould be necessary before this little guy could bereleased. A diet of mice and meal worms ensuredthat the owl grew healthy and strong. Thisyoungster had a gray coloration pattern. Otherscreech owls may show a less common colorwondered about the possibility of improving thehabitat for screech owls in the cemetery. Tconfessthat I had never visited Mount Hope Cemetery,but I had heard that it has some wonderfulwildlife. Awhile after the owl's release, I metMarilyn Nolte at the cemetery to view the habitatand see what possibilities might exist to improveit for owls. I was pleasantly surprised to see thepattern, which is reddish brown. After almost twomonths of care, the owl showed all thecharacteristics of being ready for release. Heattacked hjs food, and his flying in the practiceflight cage was strong. His feathers were welldeveloped and showed good waterproofing. Theaccompanying picture was taken just before hisrelease.magnificent, mature trees in the north end of thecemetery. Such old trees are likely to havewoodpecker holes and natural cavities that canprovide some natural nesting possibilities forscreech owls, but nest boxes could add somegood additional locations. Screech owls preferopen woodland with nearby meadows forhunting. The large trees form a canopy thatprovides open space underneath as good nestinghabitat, while the flat area of the cemetery withMarilyn Nolte, president of the Friends of MountHope Cemetery, who brought the owl to me, wasvery interested in the owl's progress andfewer trees provides good hunting space.
,'THE FRIENDS OF MT. HOPE CEMETERY1133 MOUNT HOPE AVEROCHESTER NY 14620We will install six nest boxes this fall. Thenest boxes might well be used by owls,squirrels, or even some species ofwoodpecker. I mentioned to Marilyn thatthis woodland would very likely have apopulation of flying squirrels, which arerarely seen but are one of the mostinteresting small mammals of our forests. Ihave had some squirrel boxes donated byan RIT class, which I will install as abonus. Owls nest early, so they can claim abox before other species are ready toutilize it. It should be noted that the likelytenants of the boxes are in predator-preyrelationships. This is as nature intendedand in general, although individuals arelost in the process, the dance of life anddeath goes on with both predator and preyboth thriving on a population level.Perhaps this balance of life and death isnowhere more appropriate than here inMount Hope Cemetery.Close-up of the screech owl rescued as ababy from Mount Hope Cemetery.Non-Profit Org.U.S. PostagePAIDRochester. NYPermit No. 150
Wagner College was named in memory ojJohann Georg Wagner III, who died at age 19 years. Photo courtesy Wagner College. Enrollment quickly grew, and in 1884, the school'sboard decided to rent new larger quarters in a three-story,II-roomhouse at 33 South Avenue. In 1885, a third move was made to a substantial three-storybuilding at 4 Oregon Street.
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