[TN-Bird] Jerry Ingles

I am saddened to write that Jerry Ingles, long-time TOS member and  
friend, died this past weekend at the age of 69.  Ruth Luckado asked  
me to send out this message, as she is having problems sending out  
email.  A memorial service for Jerry is planned for this Friday,  
August 27, at 12:15 p.m. at All Saints Chapel in Sewanee.
The remainder of this message is the text of what Ruth tried  
unsuccessfully to post yesterday.

Laura McCall
Highland Rim TOS

 From Ruth:
Jerry Ingles, long-time member of TOS, and "birder extraordinaire,"  
died last Friday in Worden, IL. Below is a resume of his professional  
career, compiled by Jim Peters, who taught at the University of the  
South with Jerry.

> After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of  
> California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. work at Cornell, Jerry Ingles  
> joined our faculty at the University of the South in 1978. He had  
> also taught at the State University of New York, Oneonta, and served  
> as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Venezuela. During his years  
> as a professor, he served for a time as chair of the economics  
> department. He was esteemed by colleagues and students for his  
> sparkling sense of humor, among other virtues. A member of Phi Beta  
> Kappa, he maintained teaching and scholarly interests in economic  
> development and planning, as well as in the environmental and other  
> implications of agreements among private landowners. His leisure  
> activities included bird watching and camping. He retired from the  
> faculty in 2006.


However, I feel compelled to add a personal note. Jerry and I birded  
together for many years--breeding bird work, special count days, hawk- 
watches, et al., and just plain days on our own, just 'cause we loved  
it.  His knowledge, as well as ID expertise, was precise and thorough  
(well, except for the day on Hawk Watch at Sewanee, when we sighted a  
Rough-legged Hawk--we conferred and agreed and listed it. About three  
years later, Jerry said to me, "Ruth, you remember that Rough-legged  
Hawk we had at Sewanee?  Well, it was NOT." So we took it off our  
list. More research and some trips spent with national experts had  
better informed him--but it just emphasized his honesty and  
thoroughness in birding).

Jerry didn't miss a day of checking the listings on Tn-Bird. He was an  
avid reader of Ol' Coot's listings and took some trips with him for  
special sightings. He signed his own listings with, "It has been my  
very great fortune to find an incredibly wonderful bird." That bird  
was a special friend from his Peace Corps days in S.A., with whom he  
had become reacquainted and who brought much joy to the last years of  
his life.

I would be remiss not to mention Jerry's keen and unique sense of  
humor--a sample of which was a time in Grundy County, when we were  
doing work for the Breeding Bird Atlas. He turned to me at the start  
of an uphill gravel road and said, "Ruth, the meanest man in the  
county lives at the end of this hollow, and he doesn't want us up  
there." Needless to say, we might have left the Atlas short of a  
couple of birds that day, but we may have also missed a few bullets.

His death saddens me, but so many memories of our birding friendship  
will enliven my life the rest of my days.


With thanksgiving,

Ruth Luckado
Tullahoma, TN

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