Frances Hamerstrom

Background

Hamerstrom, Frances was born on December 17, 1907 in Needham, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Laurence Bertram and Helen Leverett (Chase) Flint.

Education

Student, Smith College, 1928. Bachelor of Science, Iowa State College, 1935. Master of Science, University Wisconsin, 1941.

Doctor of Science (honorary), Carroll College, 1961.

Career

Medical technician Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas, 1943-1946. Wildlife biologist Wisconsin Department Natural Resources, Plainfield, Wisconsin, 1950-1972. Member faculty, research associate University Wisconsin, Stevens Point, 1972-1982, adjunct professor, 1982-1998.

Director Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute, Alpine, Texas, 1977-1979, Raptor Research Foundation, St. Paul, 1974-1976.

Works

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• book

  • Birding with a Purpose: Of Raptors, Gabboons, and Other Creatures

    (THIS BOOK CONSISTS OF THE BEHIND THE SCENE RECOLLECTIONS ...)

  • Strictly for the chickens

    (Book by Hamerstrom, Frances)

  • Is She Coming Too? Memoirs of a Lady Hunter

    (Hardcover)

  • Strictly for the chickens by Hamerstrom, Frances (1983) Paperback
  • Birding with a Purpose: Of Raptors, Gabboons, and Other Creatures 1st edition by Frances Hamerstrom (1984) Hardcover
  • Birding with a Purpose: Of Raptors, Gabboons, and Other Creatures by Hamerstrom, Frances (1991) Paperback
  • IS SHE COMING TOO? MEMOIRS OF A LADY HUNTER [R2]

• Other Work

  • Author: Strictly for the Chickens, 1980 (August-Derleth award 1980), Birding With a Purpose, 1984 (August-Derleth award 1984), Is She Coming Too, 1989 (August-Derleth award 1989). Contributor over 100 articles to professional journals.

Membership

Director Citizen's Natural Resrouces Association, Wisconsin. Chairman relief committee for European ornithologists Wilson Ornithological Society, 1945-1948. Fellow Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, American Ornithologists Union.

Member Outdoor Communicators Association (honorary life member), Wildlife Society (awards 1940, 57, honorary member 1995), Deutscher Falkenorden, American Museum Natural History (chairman 1964), Great Lakes Falconry Association (honorary member), Wisconsin Peregrine Society (director 1990-1991), Wisconsin Society Ornithology (director 1965-1989, Golden Passenger Pigeon award 1973).

Interests

• Falconry, hunting, wild food cookery, landscaping.

Connections

Married Frederick Nathan Hamerstrom, June 10, 1931. Children: Alan, Elva Hamerstrom Paulson.

Father:

Laurence Bertram Flint

Mother:

Helen Leverett (Chase) Flint

Spouse:

Frederick Nathan Hamerstrom

child:

Alan Hamerstrom

child:

Elva Hamerstrom Paulson Hamerstrom