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Witmer Stone Sanctuary Committee

Mick Jeiter - Co-Chairperson
Linda Rowan - Co-Chairperson

October 25, 2011 Update

The first two signs have been installed in the Cape May Point State Park at the end of Sunset Boulevard, just behind the rock shop!

This is a major milestone in the Witmer Stone Sanctuary Initiative but it is not the end of the project. There is still work to be done. Additional donations are needed to get the next set of signs posted. If you have not contributed, please consider a liberal tax-deductible donation. If have already donated, please consider an additional tax-deductible donation. Make check payable to "DVOC" and send them to:

DVOC Treasurer
c/o 1314 Lenore Road
Meadowbrook, PA 19046

Here are closeups of the two signs:
Sign #1
Sign #2

The purpose of this committee is to encourage the state to designate part of the property it already owns in Cape May Point State Park as the Witmer Stone Sanctuary. You may remember the photo shown by Pat and Clay Sutton at 2008 banquet program, with Mr. Stone standing in front of the sign for the Witmer Stone Sanctuary. We are hoping for the restoration of this designation to honor a man who did a great deal for both conservation and who was closely associated with DVOC.

Your donations are needed!
No donation is to small!

Click Here for a flyer describing the fund raising effort.

Send your tax-deductable donations to
DVOC Treasurer
c/o 1314 Lenore Road
Meadowbrook, PA 19046

Resources Related to Witmer Stone

Click Here for an article from the July, August 1942 Audubon Magazine about the Witmer Stone Wildlife Sanctuary
Click Here for an article from the March 1936 Nature Magazine about the Witmer Stone Wildlife Sanctuary
Obituaries
- Click Here for an article from the July 1941 Auk on the passing of Witmer Stone
- Click Here for the obituary of Witmer Stone as published in Cassina Volume XXXI (1938-41)
- Click Here for the obituary of Witmer Stone as published in the Philadelphia Inquirer May 25, 1939
- Click Here for the obituary of Witmer Stone as published in the Philadelphia Ledger May 26, 1939
Click Here for an article in the June 1966 Sports Illustrated that mentions the "Witmer Stone Club"
Click Here for Sandy Sherman's Cassinia article about Stone's Birds of Old Cape May
Click Here for further information about the location of original copies of Stone's Birds of Old Cape May.
Click Here for a letter formally proposing the re-establishment of the Witmer Stone Wildlife Sanctuary at Cape May Point State Park.
Click Here for a list of Witmer Stone Award winners

Witmer Stone, and his wife Lillie, are buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA