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  Papers of Ding Darling - Special Collections - University of Iowa Libraries - The University of Iowa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Jay Norwood Darling was born on October 21, 1876, in Norwood, Michigan.
Darling planned conservation education events for the Chautauqua in 1940, but the series was cancelled because Darling's stomach ulcers prevented him from finishing the plan on time; a second series planned for 1941 was cancelled after the country enterered World War II.
Darling was an active, energetic, boisterous, outspoken, and articulate man with a wonderful sense of humor enriched by a common sense view of the world.
www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/Tomsc200/MsC170/MsC170_DarlingDing.html   (3076 words)

  
 Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame
Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling (1876-1962) was a Norwood, Mich., native whose nearly 50 years of political satire on the front pages of the Des Moines Register won him two Pulitzer Prizes and a position as the nation's premier political cartoonist.
In 1924, Darling was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize, the second ever given for cartooning, for a four-panel cartoon depicting the hard work and devotion of Herbert Hoover.
In the preservation of land and wildlife, Darling was an out-in-front activist.
hof.jrn.msu.edu /bios/darling.html   (171 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com | Famous Iowans
Darling was born in Norwood, Mich., the son of Clara Woolson Darling and Marc Warner Darling, a Congregational minister whose vocation took him to many towns, including Sioux City, where the family moved in 1884 and where Darling finished high school.
Darling started work each day by reading half a dozen newspapers "to digest the spirit of the world." He had a sharp wit and was politically astute.
Darling is perhaps best known for his cartoon of Jan. 7, 1919, "The Long, Long Trail," drawn at the time of Teddy Roosevelt's death.
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 Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling
Jay Darling was born in Norwood, Michigan, and spent most of his boyhood on the edge of the American frontier in Sioux City, Iowa.
Darling and Leopold, however, believed the work could be accomplished within the Survey as long as the proper funding was forthcoming.
Darling was also able to obtain agreement from every arms and ammunition supplier in the country to contribute ten percent of their gross receipts to federal conservation programs.
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 Encyclopedia: Darling
Darling (1965) is a British film which tells the story of an amoral model who sleeps her way to success.
The Darling in unusually good condition, near Bourke The Darling River is the longest river in Australia, flowing 2,739km from northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales.
Grace Darling (November 14, 1815–October 20, 1842) is one of Englands best-loved heroines, on the strength of an isolated incident which occurred in 1838.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Darling   (498 words)

  
 Wildlife Foundation of Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
By incorporating his concerns into his political cartoons, Darling was able to alert his huge audience to important conservation issues.
For many years Darling, who was born in Michigan in 1876, had a second home on Captiva.
Darling gathered some allies, intervened and arranged for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lease the threatened land and create the Sanibel Island National Wildlife Refuge.
wildlifefoundationofflorida.com /ding_darling.htm   (381 words)

  
 Ding Darling - Social Commentary that Changed the World
Darling started his career as a political cartoonist for Iowa’s Sioux City Journal, later moving to the Des Moines Register in 1906, Ding Darling's work was syndicated across the nation in 130 newspapers.
Some asserted that Darling’s biting, satirical cartoons had prompted Roosevelt to embrace the prickly cartoonist and make him a part of the new administration, rather than suffer his editorial slings and arrows further; in 1934, Darling was offered the directorship of the Bureau of Biological Survey.
Ding Darling's legacy lives on in National Wildlife Refuge that is dedicated in his name (on Sanibel Island, Florida), and the flying ducks of that symbolize all National Wildlife Refuges which he designed.
www.e-pioneer.com /People/Champions/D_Darling.html   (465 words)

  
 Accomplishments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Jay Norwood Darling, known as “Ding” was born in Norwood, Michigan in 1876.
Darling’s editorial cartoons were published in almost 150 newspapers nationwide and earned him 2 Pulitzer Prizes.
Darling was very concerned with pollution and extinction of wildlife and therefore worked these themes into his cartoons.
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 Hall of Fame, Sioux City Central High, Castle on the Hill Web site, National Register of Historic Places, Alumni ...
Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist as well as a dedicated and active conservationist.
Darling is responsible for the development of numerous local, state, and national parks, wildlife, and nature reserves across the country.
Darling recieved a number of honors, including the Audubon Medal, which recognizes individual achievement in the field of conservation and environmental protection.
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 Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling
Born in Norwood, Michigan in 1876, Jay Norwood Darling was to become one of the most well known men of his era.
Darling became alarmed at the loss of wildlife habitat and the possible extinction of many species.
Darling also designed the Blue Goose logo, the national symbol of the refuge system.
www.fws.gov /dingdarling/About/DingDarling.htm   (378 words)

  
 Kenai National Wildlife Refuge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Darling was born in Norwood, Michigan and his editorial cartoons appeared in approximately 150 major daily newspapers throughout the United States.
In 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Ding Darling as the head of the U.S. Biological Survey, the predecessor of the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Darling soon came to be known as the leading conservationist and ecologist of his generation.
Darling also created the Federal Duck Stamp Program and designed the nation’s first “Duck Stamp.” Duck Stamps are the federal license required for hunting migratory waterfowl, and today more than 1.5 million stamps are sold each year.
www.r7.fws.gov /nwr/kenai/overview/notebook/2004/nov/12nov2004.htm   (809 words)

  
 Beloit College Archives -- Archives Collections -- Beloit Alumni -- Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling
"Jay Darling, God bless you, the baby is yours now," said the conference's chairman as he brought the meeting to its close.
Fiery and charasmatic, a tireless crusader and an irascible perfectionist, Ding Darling was the father of the National Wildlife Federation (the new name was adopted in 1938) and one of the century's most influential conservationists.
This remarkable man was born in 1876 in Norwood, Michigan, and raised in Sioux City, Iowa.
www.beloit.edu /~libhome/Archives/acoll/alum/darling.html   (776 words)

  
 darling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling was a cartoonist and ecologist whose perceptive mind, elegant pen and skilled brush endeared him to newspaper readers and conservationists throughout a life time of devotion to preserving the environment.
Darling and his wife Penny donated this river front land to the City of Des Moines in 1939 so that its beauty and tranquility would be available to the public forever.
The "Ding" Darling Greenway, stretching for miles along the Des Moines River, is further evidence of Darling's hope that future generations could enjoy the beauty of nature he had known.
showcase.netins.net /web/gazebo/darling.html   (400 words)

  
 Ding Darling Foundation
Skilled in public speaking, articulate in writing, Darling devoted his special talents to conservation education and to developing programs and institutions which would benefit wildlife.
While by definition the story of one individual, it is at the same time a fascinating history of the early conservation movement in the United States.
This website also has under construction a collection of quotes from Darling's articles, a number of voice clips taken from Darling's dictation and speeches, and a bibliography of books by or about Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling.
www.dingdarling.org /about.html   (225 words)

  
 All about Ding - Ding Darling Days 2005 on Sanibel Island, Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Jay Norwood Darling was born in Norwood, Michigan, in 1876.
Darling was responsible for securing some $17 million to restore wildlife habitat.
Darling initiated the Federal Duck Stamp Program, which uses the proceeds from the sale of duck hunting stamps to purchase wetlands for waterfowl habitat.
www.dingdarlingdays.com /DingDarlingDays_Ding.htm   (453 words)

  
 Ding Darling Foundation
Following Darling's death in 1962, admirers formed the J. "Ding" Darling Foundation to continue Darling's advocacy for wise use of natural resources and protection of wildlife.
Darling's pragmatic conservation ethic and forceful leadership continue to guide the thoughts and actions of the conservation movement today, decades after his death.
One of "Ding" Darling's 1938 cartoons titled "How Rich Will We Be When We Have Converted All Our Forests, All Our Soil, All Our Water Resources and Our Minerals Into Cash?" best illustrates both his conservation ethic and his remarkable ability to convey complex thoughts with a few stokes of pen and ink.
www.ding-darling.org   (169 words)

  
 Ding Darling Refuge at Sanibel Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Encompassing more than 5000 acres, this extraordinary refuge on the north side of Sanibel Island provides nesting sites for over 200 species of birds, many of them threatened of endangered, and an ecological system that is sanctuary for hundreds of species of wildlife.
Named for Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling of New York, the refuge was established in 1945 and dedicated to Darling in 1978.
Darling, who spent numerous winters on Captiva, was a staunch environmentalist who once headed the U.S. Biological Survey, forerunner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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 Important American Etching "The Long Trail" by Pulitzer Prize Winner and Duck Stamp Artist Jay N. Darling "Ding" - 1214f
Jay N. Darling was born on October 21, 1876.
Darling worked as a reporter with the Sioux City Tribune for a year, and then went to the Sioux City Journal, where he began cartooning.
Darling died of a heart ailment February 12, 1962 in Iowa Methodist Hospital at the age of 85.
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 Birds abound in Florida wildlife refuge - PittsburghLIVE.com
The refuge is named for Jay Norwood Darling (1877-1962), a cartoonist for the Des Moines Register who dropped three letters of his name and signed his work "Ding." A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was interested in politics and conservation, and his work reached an audience of millions.
Darling also used his cartoons to bring greater national attention to wildlife conservation.
In 1967, this refuge was renamed as a tribute to Darling, a pioneer of the conservation movement.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/living/s_77344.html   (504 words)

  
 J.N. "Ding" Darling in the islands of Sanibel and Captiva, Florida - Let Sunny Day Guide help plan your next ...
Darling also founded cooperative research and education training programs at land grant universities.
In 1945, it was efforts led by Darling that created a lease of land that would be known as the Sanibel Refuge.
Darling continued to influence the expansion of the Refuge to the Bailey and Perry Tract and inspired others to become involved in the preservation of the Islands.
www.sunnydayguide.com /sanibel_captiva/features/dingdarl.html   (787 words)

  
 Earth Explorer: Ding Darling (1876­1962)@ HighBeam Research
When Jay Norwood Darling drew a cartoon of his college professors as a line of ballerinas, the professors were not amused.
Darling did finish college eventually and began drawing cartoons for a newspaper in Sioux City, Iowa.
Like most political cartoons, Darling's drawings poked fun at personalities in the government.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28013615&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (190 words)

  
 Ding Darling Stamp - Environmentalists on Stamps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
The island nation of Palau, a former U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, issued a set of stamps honoring Environmental Heroes of the 20th Century in 1999.
Among those included were J.N. "Ding" Darling, the designer of the first U.S. duck stamp and a founder of the National Wildlife Federation.
In 1936, "Ding" Darling was a founder of the National Wildlife Federation, a large U.S.- based environmental group.
www.planetaryexploration.net /patriot/stamps/ding_darling_stamps.html   (285 words)

  
 Libraries exhibits diaries, other effects of notable Iowans
Several other persons and biographical efforts profiled include: B.H. Shearer, editor and publisher of the Columbus Gazette (Iowa) from 1909 to 1970, and a 1933 travel diary by Iowa author Ruth Suckow, who then was at work on "The Folks," her most ambitious novel, says David Schoonover, curator of rare books at the Libraries.
Darling was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist at the Des Moines Register during the first half of the 20th century.
In 1931 Darling went to Russia, then to the Soviet Union to "see what it was all about." What he saw there he put into a book, "Ding Goes to Russia," New York: Whittlesey House, 1932.
www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2001/february/0227diariesexhibit.html   (605 words)

  
 Beloit College Archives -- Archive Collections -- Alumni -- Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling Finding Aid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Darling by various correspondents including President Maurer, Louis Holden (Beloit College V.P.), Mark Sullivan (see above for connection to Beloit College), Bradley Tyrrell (also a V.P. of Beloit College and a fraternity brother of Darling's), and James Gage (alumni secretary).
Darling as a mature man, and of the Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
Signed volume of cartoons by Darling charting the course of the 1928 Presidential election.
www.beloit.edu /~libhome/Archives/acoll/alum/darling-fa.html   (239 words)

  
 Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation: Ding Darling fund
Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, who earned fame as an editorial cartoonist and conservationist, is being commemorated with the new, Iowa-based Ding Darling Conservation Education Fund.
After Darling's death in 1962, the J.N. "Ding" Darling Foundation was created to continue some of his favorite projects.
Now that the Darling Foundation is dissolving, the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation (INHF) is creating a new Ding Darling Conservation Education Fund to keep the Darling name and spirit alive in Iowa through a variety of education activities including college scholarships, internships and more.
www.inhf.org /dingdarling04.htm   (339 words)

  
 Sanibel Island Hotels - J.N. 'Ding' Darling
Darling's cartoons were never buried deep in the newspaper.
The Darling family had been invited to White House a few months after the 1929 inauguration, and the cartoon shows the "return to earth" of the Darling family from their visit.
Displaying a brilliant understanding of his unique place in history, Jay Norwood Darling, the penultimate cartoonist, even drew his own obituary, secretly penning a cartoon to be published at his death.
www.sanibel-island-hotels.com /ding.htm   (1886 words)

  
 State Historical Society of Iowa Prairie Voices Iowa Heritage Curriculum
By 1919 Darling returned a final time to Des Moines where he continued his illustrious career as a cartoonist, twice receiving the Pulitzer Prize for cartoons.
Although Jay "Ding" Darling is most notably known for his political and conservation cartoons, he also drew the design for the first Federal Duck Stamp.
Leopold and Darling were selected for this activity because information on both is readily available to teachers and they each used a distinctive communication style.
www.iowahistory.org /education/heritage_curriculum/lesson_plans/art_soul_land.htm   (1130 words)

  
 Ding Darling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Darling was an early convert to conservation and environmental thinking.
Discussing his interest in wildlife and the wilderness, the native of Norwood, Michigan said: "I watched the prairie chicken disappear, watched the flight of migratory waterfowl dwindle from huge cloud-like formations to sporadic flights of remnants.
Ding Darling also founded the National Wildlife Federation and was instrumental in the developing conservation legislation.
www.justpickone.org /davidtg/Success/success.420.html   (338 words)

  
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Jay Darling is noted for his political cartooning, primarily for the Des Moines Register, his superb wildlife and sporting drawings, and as the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes.
Conservation was his co-career, and he was an early, tireless advocate of conservation and the effects of environment on humans and wildlife.
Darling succeeded in lobbying successfully for six-million dollars in federal funds toward what later became the Federal Duck Stamp Program, and his design of two mallard ducks ser (showing 500 of 10628 characters).
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