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The Herald
Friday,May 2, 1986
John Davis' Ex-Hastings Reservation Director, Dies
John Davis of Carmel, retired University of California research zoologist
and former director of the Hastings Natural History Reservation in Carmel
Valley, died Thursday at the Hospice of the Monterey Peninsula after a
long illness. He was 69.
Born Dec. 1, 1916, in Woodmere, N.Y., Dr. Davis received a bachelor's
degree in American history from Yale University and a doctorate in zoology
from the University of California at Berkeley. He served in the United
States Army during World War II.
He was the author of more than 50 scientific papers and reviews and co-author
with Alan Baldridge of "The Bird Year," published in 1981.
He was an assistant professor of biology and the curator of the Moore
Laboratory of Zoology at Occidental College prior to his appointment iri
1953 as research zoo logist at Hastings Natural History Reservation.
In 1960 he became director at Hastings, which is a field station of the
University of California, and held that position until his retire-ment
in 1982.
In 1982 he was appointed to the Carmel Forestry Commission, stating at
that time, "Carmel is more intimately connected with its environment
than any other place I know."
He also served as a docent at Point Lobos State Reserve and as chairman
of the reserve's advisory committee.
Organizations in which Dr. Davis participated included the Sierra Club
and its condor task force, the
Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Monterey Peninsula Audubon Socieb, Friends
of the Sea Otter, Monterey Bay Chapter of the California' Native Plant
Society, and Point i Lobos Natural History Association.
Professional activities included service as secretary, vice president
and director of the Cooper Or-, nithological Society, assistant and associate
editor of "The Condor," and member of the panel of advisory
editors, University of California Publications in Zoology.
Academic awards, bonors and grants included John Simon Gug-, genheim
Memorial Fellow, Fellow of the American Ornithologists Union, honorary
member of
the. Cooper Ornithological Society, grant . from Associates in Tropical
Biog-. eography, and grant from the National &ience Foundation to
study in Peru.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and a member of Sigma Xi.
He is survived by his wife, Norma, and daughter, CaroL both of Carmel;
a son, John Steven of Flagstaff, Ariz.; two
stepsons, Samuel Seydel of West Germany and Jonathan Seydel of Del Rey.
Oaks; and a brother, George, of Fort
Washington, Pa.
His first wife, Betty, died in 1981.
No services are scheduled. Cremation has taken place, and theashes have
been scattered at sea under direction of the Paul Mortuary.
The family suggets memorial conkibutions to the Sierra Club or to the
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.