Davidson College Biosociety presents.....
2nd Annual Charles Darwin Birthday Party
February 12, 2003
Mr. Darwin turns 194

The guest of honor himself appears to blow out the birthday candles and read a selection from his writings




Oops, we forgot to take a picture of the cake before it was cut! It said "Happy Birthday Charles Darwin,"and had number candles spelling out "194."

Dr. Case and bio majors enjoy the cuisine from Joel's

Bio students line up to enjoy birthday cake

Dr. Wessner chats with students
Graham W. is the lucky winner of a door prize. He tries it on (right) and vows never to take it off.


Peter D. wins a T shirt

 


Nicole H. wins a Darwin Day bumper sticker

Dan P. breaks the piñata. Not shown at left: Dr. Hales getting peppered with the stinging blows of hundreds of hard candies.


Dr. Paradise shows Nupur H. an article about the Darwin fish.


Dr. Paradise looks for a department T shirt in his size. See the T shirt design for yourself.
Leslie C. holds the Chlamydomonas hat (knit by Dr. Peroni) that she won. Dr. Hales looks on.

Joy H. and Sarah D. stay to help clean up.

Joel himself returns to collect his equipment and package up leftovers.

See you on February 12, 2004 !

 

Credits: The 2003 Darwin Party was organized by student Biosociety officers Will Guthrie '04, Ryan Gentzler '04, Leslie Cook '04, David Shelburne '04, Sarah N. Davis '05, Joy Hester '05, and Bill Johnson '05. The Rusk eating house kindly allowed the use of their temporary facilities in what used to be the Outpost. All photos on this web page are by Bill Johnson '05.

See pictures from last year's party.


© Copyright 2003 Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson NC 28035
last modified March 5, 2004 by K. Hales