Date: 4/23/24 9:48 pm From: JAMES SPEICHER <jugornought...> Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Janet Millenson funeral information
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Janet Millenson
Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
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"Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot (R.I.P.)
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:45 AM JAMES SPEICHER <jugornought...>
wrote:
> Janet was a long time participant in the C&O mid-Winter count. I asked
> her once about the way she always ended her MD Birding posts with
>
> [image: image.png]
> and learned that it was a phrase that her pet parrot came out with but the
> exact details of how the phrase was learned is in her message to me
> somewhere on the Group archives and wasn't quickly found. Maybe someone
> knows.
>
> I was also curious about the "twocrows" in her e-address. Maybe someone
> knows the story behind that. One theory is that it relates to the nursery
> rhyme about Magpies repurposed for America:
> One for sorrow,
> Two for joy,
> Three for a girl,
> Four for a boy,
> Five for silver,
> Six for gold,
> Seven for a secret never to be told
>
> Jim Speicher
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 6:48 PM Phil Davis <pdavis...> wrote:
>
>> MD Birders:
>>
>> Sorry I am late with this ...
>>
>> This is so sad.
>>
>> Among many memories, Janet was a student of the history ornithology.
>> Many years ago I remember attending a presentation by her on the
>> history of ornithology at the Anne Arundel Bird Club. She started out
>> with Pliny the Elder and went from there. I loved it!
>>
>> My wife and I also remember sharing her sadness when her long-time
>> pet African Gray Parrot, Pascal, passed away a number of years ago.
>> She was very close to him.
>>
>> Janet also served as the MOS Publications Committee Chair and the
>> organization is indebted to her for first loading all of the Maryland
>> Birdlife issues, from 1945 to 2000, onto a CD-ROM that was
>> distributed to the members to provide digital access to the journal's
>> archives.
>>
>> We will very much miss Janet.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>
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