Louise grew up in Oradell, New Jersey, appreciably if not yet passionately aware of the resident and migratory birds that flew through her young life.

Adult life began in 1951 as a faculty wife of a mathematics teacher and master at The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. Embracing her faculty wife duties, as well as those of homemaker and mother, Louise loved the campus lifestyle. By the mid-sixties, with her own children’s education well underway, the emerging woman’s movement drew Louise back into education and preparations to contribute to the teaching profession herself.

Upon moving with her husband to his new position at The Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1969, Louise began a rewarding, 20-year career teaching 4th grade at nearby Greenland Central School. Even as Louise and her husband were busy teaching in New England and raising their two children, a simmering interest in bird watching evolved into a lifetime of passionate quests for birds on seven continents!

Author of the children's book, Old Man, Goodbye, and avid, world-traveler birder, Louise now invites veteran or novice birder watchers to share her love and memories of birds through her new book, On the Wing, Journal Notes of a Birder.