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NEW DOCENT GRADUATES

By Mary Wilson

This year the Friends of Edgewood docent training program graduated 6 new docents. They are a group with many different ties to the Preserve and much to contribute to our efforts as docents.

I hope you will meet or have met our new docents on walks this spring and summer and will help them to bridge the gap between training and doing. In alphabetic order we welcome:

  • Peigi Duvall, who brings her knowledge of native plants from her work with the local and state-wide horticultural wing of the California Native Plant Society,

  • Alf Fengler, already an accomplished “weed warrior” who now can weed AND lead walks,

  • Kate Finnigan, who has developed an interest in the Docent Outreach program for school-age children,

  • Linda Smith, who has already added to her docent training knowledge by attending the Bay checkerspot butterfly docent enrichment (as did Alf),

  • Trish Taylor, who grew up in a house in the Day Camp Area before the land became San Mateo County property and who is helping with the next docent enrichment about the history of the park, and

  • Trina Warren, who is experienced with school-age children and is enlarging her skill set to include adults who want to know about wildflowers.

I am grateful to each and every one of them for making my job as training coordinator so much fun.

In addition, I want to thank John Trewin, our new Acting Head Ranger at Edgewood for attending this year’s training sessions. It was really nice to have him along with us on our hikes. We learned from him and, I hope, we helped him learn what it is about Edgewood that we value so much.

Our presenters really are responsible for turning out our well-prepared new docents. They did a wonderful job of conveying information and enthusiasm to their very appreciative audience.

Our thanks go to Ken Himes, Toni Corelli, Paul Heiple, Bob Buell, John Allen, Julia Bott, Carolyn Strange, and Carol Hankermeyer.

Thanks are also due to Peter Ingram for letting us use his facility for our meetings and for his inspirational welcome and graduation comments.

I enjoyed coordinating this year’s training and am very proud of our new graduates.


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