This is Throwback Thursday #343. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks!

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BTW, yesterday November 11th was ESCONI’s 77th birthday!

How about a nice little dinosaur poem from Donnafred Hoff. This little ditty appeared in the November 1956 edition of the newsletter. Donnafred was the wife of Wilbur Hoff. They were founding members of ESCONI.

The photo below is from 1958.

Stegosaurus
Left before us.

The mastodon
Is really gone.

The ichthyosaur
Is not any more.

A permanent blight
Took the trilobite..

The hairy mammoth.
Is a dead behemoth.

Is Homo Sap
On his last lap?

Donnafred Hoff