OREGON STATE
FORESTER
Volume V
Corvallis, Oregon, January, 1952
To The Oregon State Foresters
GRF.F.TlNGS TO THF. FERNHOPl'ERS from lhe Campus. Another year
has moved along with its record of credils
and debits. The 111ajor loss to the School
a nd to Forestry region-wide was the passing of D ean Peavy in .June. He served
OSC [or m ore thau 40 years and can be
credited with the initiation and llle development of our present program: curricula, facilities, and lands. In my close
relationship with him since lhe fall of
1942, he was ahva)'s a most fair-minded
adviser, a si ucere supporter of the institution, and a rea l citizen. Hi s memory
will linger through the halls and the
woods.
Another shock was the sudden d eath of
\>Vm. J. Baker, ' 28. 011 August lOth. Bill
was Chief of . Research at th e Labora tory
and a most val uable member of the
staff.
In .Jnne 8G more graduates were added
to the total, 11ow 1,2 17.
The enrollment declined and is n ow 257, including
12 graduate stude111s. A check of the o th er instillltions shows si m ilar ,·ednctions,
though OSC: is the 4th largest school. The
college has 5,000 students and the outlook
is for a bout th e same in 1952. Employment is good for foresters and the de-
mands for m en arc incrcasi11g. The '' Var'
has pulled or pushed a few o[ the fellows
will! the outlook for greater activity in
this respect. Ph il Knorr, Assistant l'ro[essor, was ca lled back into the Air Forces
as a Captain in June and assig11ed to
Ca mp Barksdale, I .ouisiana. Dr. Proctor,
ivfanager·DirccLor uf i..itc Gn:gon Furc.::sl
Products Laboratory, is now a Lt. Colonel
in the AiT Force al ' 'Vright l'ield, Ohio.
The program o[ the school has progressed, chiefl y dne to the enLhusiasm and
hard w01·k of lhc staff. Each man has
contributed and is ever ready to take on
an additional chore. The projects on the
F orest are developing. A portion of the
timber on the Adair Tract was sold in
June to he harvested in 2 years with an
estimated return of more than $200,000.
This money will be used to further our
fores try program.
The support of the many a lumni who
have helped with the several projects of
the alumni associ a I ion is certainl y apprecialed. It's good to know that the school
bas the backing of men in the field.
Thanks a lot. '""e will see you on Februar y 23.
PAUL M. DU NN
Number I
"Pat" Feted at
Club Cabin
In 1920 H . R . Patterson became an instructor in the Department of Forest Eng ineering. In June 195 1 " Pal" ret ired after
ser ving man y years as head of that department. This constituted 31 years of eventful
ser vice to his school and his profession. In
t hat time a gr eat timber intiu su-y ilas ),'T0\1'11
in t he Pactific Northwest and many of " Pat's
Boys" have taken a prominent pa rt in that
development.
It was with this in mind that th e senior
engineers class oE 195 I (" Pat's" last class)
Jed b y Tom Eckstrom and George Knowles,
undertook the organization o[ a Steak-fry in
'"Pat's" honor. All the old alu ms, friends,
faculty and forest engineering seniors were
invited lo attend . I t was through the contribution s of these individuals that a radiophonograph conso le with roses especially for
Mrs. PaLterson were obtained to be presented
the night of the Steak-fry (May 19, 195 1).
Tbe Steak-fry was held in the n ew forestry
ca bin with 11early 80 old grads, faculty m embers and senior engineers attending. :Many
grads who could not altend sent their respects. After a delicious feed of barbecued
steak with " fixin s" specially prepared by
master chef AI Oliver a nd his boys, introduction by class roll calls were asked for. Dean
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The Alumni, Student and Faculty Gro u p Who i\fet to Honor "Pat"
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Oregon State Forester
January, 1952
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Oregon State Forester
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OREGON STATE
Cummings' Comments
Visit of Japanese
Oregon Forest Products
Dr. Barnes Outlines
Aeria I Photo
FORESTER
On Forestry in Nippon
Foresters
La bora tory --- 1951
Graduate Program
Short Course
OHicial Publication of the
Oregon Forestry Alumni Association
Officers
Art Lundeen ·--····- ··- ··-·······---····-· .... President
Ed Schroed er ·-···-···-·············- ·Vice-President
R~ y Yoder -·-·-··--····-····-··Secretary-Treas urer
Boyd Ras1nussen .................................... Director
C la rence Ri chen ..................... _______ Director
i\lerlc Lowden - ·-- ·- ·· ..···-·-·-·-·---·Director
H arry Nettleton ..... --···-··--·-·· .... Director
Lo uis Bl ackerby ·-··-·-·-·-----·- -······ Director
Vern McDaniel ··-----·-·---·-··--········· Director
Pa ul M. Dunn ...______......._ ...............Ad visor
A Message hom Your
AluiTllli President
The Oregon State Col lege Forestry A lumni
,\ sso ciatio n during the past year has made
good forward s trides. This has been largely
as a res ult of t he a ctivities of the committees
a ppo inted by las t year's p resident Merle
Lowden. These committees as you know are
ad visory a nd the school has benefitted by
their counsel.
The Association is sp onsorin g the Geo. '~' ­
Peavy Memorial fund, a Forestry Student
Loa n fund . ' Vhile this project has b een before the public blll " short tim e the res ults
thus far h ave been gratifying. t\ s one a lumnus
sa id "The old boy p ersonall y helped m e over
some rough fin ancial spots. ' •Vh y shouldn 't
we continue his good work".
The in fluen ce o f the association througho ut
the profession is becoming more appa rent
each year. However, with a larger active
membership \\'e can m ake more effective
progress. lt is u rgent t herefore that each of
us work toward t his end.
A rt Lundeen
Like to Have a Better Job?
.\re you interested in making a change in
e mploym ent to the best possible advantage{
.-\sa ser vice to the :\lumni , th e Association ,
through Dr. " '· F. McCulloch. may be able
to help )'OU in o btaining a be tter p osition.
Th er e is an increasing demand for ex·
p crien ced men in the fores t industries. " ' hilc
the requests received are IISilal l )' 1·ery s pecific
;uHI m ay reljll ire special ized experience. we
ma y have somet hing that fits your particular
capabi lities. If you contemplnte a change,
ad dress yo ur letter to Dr. W. F. McCulloch
at th e School of Forestry.
0 S C Fer n hoppcr Honored
( ; Jenn B. Parsons '39 received the U.S.D ..·\ .
Superior Service Hmwr :\1\·ard on i\Iay 15,
195 1. T he citation reads, in part " - through
iuitiative aud planning, Parsons brought
about a fin e cooperat ion among forest users
in his district, a nd has promoted conserva ·
1 io n 0 11 both public and private lands. "
(;]enn , wl1o h as been Dis tri ~t Ra ngcr of
lhe ll eppucr l>i st.ri~t of the li matilla Nation ·
al Forest si nce 1!!41i, should feel a deep sense
of satisfact ion in being thus com n1endcd for
a jo ll wel l done.
The School of Forestry at OSC is well
represen ted in Japan, is t he word received
from Laurence J . Cummings '28. l .aurence
is Deputy C hief of the Forestry Division ,
Nation al · Resources Section, SCAI'.
In the
sam e organization is Tho mas T. Sasaki ('4 1
Engin.) . Walt Dutton ' 13, Chief, Division of
Range Management, U.S. Forest Service, was
also detailed to the division for a specia l
study in 195 1.
Laurence's observations on forest problems
in Japan should be of interest, for he is
certainly in a position to know. The highlights arc as follows:
" The outstand ing characteristics of J a pan's
forests arc particularly interesting to presentda y foresters because t hey illustrate graphica lly th e corre lation between forest cover and
the econ01nic stabili ty of a nation. Japa n is
virtually a field laboratory for observation
of th ese relationships. The peculia ri ties of
the terrain, climate, and the century-old
cu stoms of the people make the practice o(
good forestry indispensable to the nation.
Characteristicall y the Japanese are a woodu sing people. I t is difficult to visu a lize a
Japanese way of life without an adequate
supply of wood. Aside from the use of wood
i tself, J a pan's forests provide the all·im porta nt s ervi~e o[ holding her thin soi ls in
place on the precipitous rugged mountains
in the headwa ters of the many short, steep
rivers. 'l'h e problems of erosion, siltation of
reservoirs and stream channels, mitigation of
fl ood dam ages to agricultma l la nd, homes,
and other property and loss of life vitall y
affect her economic rccovcq•. "Vhcre fores ts
have been removed fro m the s teep mountains,
erosion is on the increase. In man y localities,
river beds have been ra ised t hro ugh siltation
and su hqu ent levee construction to heights
of 10'-20' above the adjoining paddy lands.
H ydroelectric power dams a re kuown to have
lost 90 percent o f their storage capacit y
with in 10 to 15 years a fter their construction .
" ' ise management. of forest lands therefore
immediately becomes a national t·esponsibility.
This is a knott y problem made m ore difficult by t he fact that about 70 percent of
the forest Janel iu Japan is in p riva te or
collllllunal ownership. R egulation of forest
management on pri vate lands presents the
same problems here that it does in t he United
States. The major difference is in the urgen cy
of the need. The damage and destruction
caused b y dcstructi,•e forest practices is a real
threat to the nationa l economy and drastic
action must be taken immedi ately if Japan
is to a void arri viug at a condition sim i la r to
that found in the forest areas of Ch ina or
Korea.
A few stat JSI Jcs migh t emphasize this
si tuation. The fores t lands of J apan are extensive, occupying 68 percen t o f the to tal
land a rea of 91 ,000,000 acres. Except for F in land, Ja pan has the highest ratio of forest
la nd of an y cou n try in the world o utside the
tropics. Th e forest land o f Japan amount ~
10 an area approxi matel y equal in size to
th e state of Oregqn. Despite their Yast fores t
areas, howevet·, the Japanese do not toda y
have timber reso ur ~es sufficient to meet their
current nenls withou t seriously impairingJ'JJ!JJre p rod ucti vi t y. ' J o 1neet crilical ti111ber
d emands for th e war cfl'ort and rehabi litatiou
following the s urreuder. forests were ovc rcut
as m uch as four times the amount of growth .
The im portance of forestry in Japan is
ln December the School was host to four
Japanese forestry Professors fo r the !i-day
period embracing the class of classes and
t he s tart of final exams.
T hese visitors from Nippon spent three
months in the U.S., undet· the sponsorship
o[ the Supreme Command (SCAP) in Tokyo ,
study ing forestry education in the U .S.
The Japanese foresters-all full professors
were ( I) Dr. Sadao O gihara, Professor of
Erosion Control , Tokyo University, (2) Dr.
Nobuhi ko i\ligi ta, in charge o f Wood Chemis try, Tok yo University, (3) Dr. Ayaakira
Okazaki, Professor o f Forest Managemen t,
K yoto University, and (4) Mr. Tsutomu
Shioya, Professor of I' orest I'olicy, Kyus hu
Uni versity.
During their five days i n Corvallis the
visiting professors, all of whom ex hibited
a fairl y good understanding of the Englis}l
lang uage and of U.S. fores try, visited classes
and were s hown our teachin g met hods, fa·
cilit.ies, and eltuipmcnt. They were also
taken on trips to McDonald Fores t, the State
N m sery, the Oregon l'orest l'roducts Lab.,
and the Weyerhaeuser plant at Springfield.
The School's special ties, including the Person nel program and the Products and En gineering curricu la , were emphasized, as were
th e School's relationships to industry and to
the various forestry agencies.
Forester Promoted
Charles L. l'oster, class o f 1939, who has
hccn employed eight years with t he LongBe ll Lumber Co., Vaughn Division , was recentl y pro moted to the position of Division
Forester.
not the inherent need of 62,000,000 acres of
trees but the fact that trees arc the only
crop that can be successfully produced. Most
o f the land s uitable for culti va tion has long
since been reclaimed so that the addition
of any s ubstan t ial quantity would be added
only at excessively hig h cos t. :\l t hongh there
is a large percentage of the rota! area in
forests, t he a rea-populatio n relationshi p is
low.
.-\ significant characteris tic of forest land
ownersh i p in Japan is that private fores t
tracts, like the size o f lllOsl farm lands, general ly arc on a veq• small scale. Based on the
present population level of approximatel y
83.000,000 p eople, it amoun ts to only % acre
per person. There arc o1·cr 5,000,000 private
forest landown ers in Japnn who own on the
a verage 5.fi acres. Seventy-t wo percent of
these own less than 2\12 acres, while less t han
two percent have holdings exceeding 50 acres.
:\nothcr pe~uliarit y o f Japan 's Forest ownership is that practically all forest own ers also
own some agricultural lan d . This o wner-area
relationship is most significant when considered in the lig h t of the problem fa cing
J a panese forest admin ist rators; t ha t is, how
s uch low prod n ~tive and s mall-scale fores ts
can be m ade to con tribute effectively to the
economic recm·ery and public welfare of the
people.
C:ouscquen t ly, our major program a t pre"·nt is to es tabl ish a .~o und n a tional l'o res1
polic)' a nd to implement legislation whi('h
wi ll result iu stabili zi ng fores t produuion at
a sustaining level and start the \'Cr y critical
fores t cond ition o n the road to recol'er y."
T he yea r I 95 1 was not ver y kind to the
J .abo ratory with respect to loss o [ key pel··
sonnel. D r. 1'. II . P roctor, i\lanaging D irector, was called back to the Armed Services
(.-\ir Cor ps) in Apri l; D r. Hugh W ilcox,
head of the wood fiber department, accepted
a job a t the Sta te Universi ty of New York ,
Col lege of Forestry effective May I. He is
working· on an industry-sponsored project
dealing wi t h the possibilities of chemical
debarking of trees. "Vilcox's right hand assistan t, .Jam es Holden , decided to funher his
educa tion al a nd social pursuits b y laking a
year of study at the Universi ty of Paris. Mort
i\l acclonald , h ead of the laminated and ply·
wood products department was also called
back to active duty in the Navy and leCt t he
L aboratory Jnne 18. The sudden d eath o f
Rill Raker , Ch ief of Research, August !0
furth er handicapped the Laboratory since
Rill had taken over th e duties of Dr. Proctor.
Severa l new emplo yees have been hired in an
atte111pt to fill the boots of the previo usly
ment ioned m en wh o ldt the Laboratory during 1951.
T he State lloard of Forestry is well on
its way toward getting a ddinitivc patent
and licensing o f patents policy. Three parties
have m ade application to the Board for licenses to manu facture wax h·om Douglas- fir
bark . One o f t hese parties is in the plant d esig n stage.
Severa l new research projects were instigated during 1951. The more important of
these being: ( I) modification of Douglasfi r cork for board products; (2) comprehensive study of Oregon haTdwoods d esigned
to obta in a current lis t of hardwood lumber
manufacturers, w holesalers, and u sers, to
d etermine th e problems involved in manufac tu ring and marketing hardwood lumber,
to st ud y g luing ch aracteristics, and to contin ue work on seasoning; (3) strength and
rel ated propcnies o( Tanoak; ('l) im·estiga·
t ion of possib ili t ies of using tan oak for face
1·eneer stol·k and plywood; (!i) \\'atcr rep ellent
1rca tm ent of wood fib er ; (G) s trength loss of
1·en eers hy OYer-drying; (7) s tress anal ysis of
q ua rter -sca le horizontal roof diaphragms; (~)
chem ical a n alysis of the na tive ju niper and
the extra~t i.ves of alder; (9) evalua tion of
hardboard testing p roced u res for severa l prod ucts; (10) determina tion of the waste com ponent iu t he Roseburg a rea that is suitab_le
only for power gen era tion ; (1)) several nlls·
ccllaneous service testing jobs.
The ex perimental work on the small gas
t u r b ine operating on sawdust has been com pleted. Plans are now underway to o btain
a I 00-h orse power tu rbine to he set up a t a
nearby sa wmi l l to ge t inl'orlllation on effi ciency and costs of operation.
The Taylor-Colquitt Compan y o f Sparta n ~­
b~Jrg. Sou th Carol i11a and the Oregon Forest
Produ cts Laboratory com p leted a n agreement
in wh ich a ne11· 3 -foot diameter and I 0-foot
)o!lg 1·apor seasoning treating retort a nd a uxiliary equipment will be bought by t he comp any and ins talled at the Laboratory to con·
t inue 1he !'omprehensive study of vapor sca'on ing· o f' Do ug las fi r and Pomlerosa pine. At
th e colllpletiuu ol' l he r<:scarch JHO!,'Tam th e
eq uipn1ell l will bc given to the Laboratory.
~ rr. C:vril Lan sc ll, research fellow from th e
. \us! ra lia n Forest Prod nets Laboratory has
ll:cn i1n·cst igating t h e effects of difrercnt
At this time there are 13 graduate students
e nrolled in t he School of Fores.try; one is
majoring in Forest Engineering, nine in
Fores t iV Ianagament, and three in Forest
P rod ucts. Most po pular a t present is the
Ma nageme nt major, supported b y t he Engineering m inor, with th e o bjective of s ubseq uen t employment in the variou s phases of
indus trial forestry.
Four foreign countries are represented
among the group, there being one each from
Austria, Au stralia, Canada, England
and
Fiulaud. Four of these, in coming to the
United States, h ave been a ided by l' ullbright
Travel Gra nts. Of the rema in der, fon1· arc
fro m Oregon a nd one each is [rom Alaska,
Michigan, New York and Wiscon sin.
The us ual group of fellows hips and assistantships will be op en aga in l'or the n ext
academic year, begiuning in the latter part
of September. The number for th is next year
has been increased by one, b y an additiona l
contribution from the Orville R. Miller
fa mil y. The following will he available: four
o1· five McDonald Fellowships providing a
sti pend of l'rom $!i00 to $600; the Weyer haeuser Fellowship in forest ma n agement of
$ 1,000; the D ow Fe llowship in wood preservation of $ 1,000; two Miller fellowships in
forest products of $1,000 each. No depa rtmen tal services are required under a ny of
these awards, heuce the s tudent may register
fo r a full program of graduate work. In addition to t he fellowships described above,
the Oregon Fores t Products Laboratory sometimes awards assistantships to students qualified to assist in speci fic projects. Assistants
a rc required to render services to the laboratory and may register for o nl y twel ve credits
of COJirSeS.
.-\dditional information about the awards
or g raduate studies in general wi ll b e furnished upon request. Application form s may
he secured b y writing 10 the Dea n, a nd
sho uld be submi tted before April lst. lVe
shall be pleased to consider applications from
graduates o f O regon Sta te College, and of
o1her recognized instiuuions th roughout the
world.
fera hoppers Convene
At Biloxi, Mississippi
..\ group of 14 OSC foresters and the wi1·es
of several of them met for a 1·cry enjoyable
dinner and a n e1·ening of reminiscense as
a corollary to the n ational S..-\.F. meeting in
Bi loxi, l'vlississi ppi.
Present were Dean a nd Mrs. Pa ul M. Dunn,
i\lr. and ~ Irs. 'Val t Dutton ' 13, Mr. and
i\lrs. Otto Lind h '27, Mr. a nd Mrs. Marvin
.\nglc.: '3(;, Mr. and i\ lrs. Don O ' Brien '37,
" ' · Benedict '20, :\I :\rnst ' 3 1, Larry H a m ·
ilto n '3 1, i\Ierle L owden '32, 'Vm. Par ke '3!!,
Herb Yocum ''18, Carl Ehelebc '43. John
W ylie '49, a nd F.. 0. Liukc, s1aff member
'J().'lJ.
hydro-rarhnn composllwns in the va por seasoning p rocess fo r differen t temperatures and
press nrcs.
The present staff mcm bcrs are hoping that
the :\ rmed Serv ices wil l not cal l more fellows
ha.:k to active dut y in the next twelve Jnont hs
a nd also that competent 1nen ·will be hired
to fill the gaps le ft by members leaving last
\'car.
The fourt h an n ual aerial photo s hort
cou rse spon sored hy the schoo l of fores try
will b e held in Corvallis t he week of March
17-22. Seventy-five foresters and forest en·
gineers and others h ave prompted the school
to repeat the course aga in this year.
The short com se is designed to provide
intensi ve techn ita l training in the use of
aerial photos in forest management and en·
gineering wo rk . The program is so arranged
that the participants wi ll s pend a large portion of the tim e in actually using the pho tos
a nd equipment. The subjects to be covered
during t he course include forest engin eering
problems, forest type mapping, aer ia l planimetric mapping, con trol meth ods for aeria l
s urveys, pmjection of photo detail to base
rnaps. Linlbt.T voitune cslinua Ljuu fu-,in ac• ia;
photos, photo interpretation and contract
>pecil'icat ions for aerial photography.
The sch ool is very fortunate in having
as cooperati ng agencies several private and
public o rganizations all of which are di rectl y concerned with th e usc of aerial pho·
tos in so lving fores try pro bl ems. These
agencies have furnished the short course with
an outs tanding group of instructors exper ienced in all phases of photog ra mmctry.
The cooperating agencies and instructors are
as follow s:
L. H . Delano, De hmo .\erial Surveys, Portland
H . G. Chickering, Cons ulting l'h otogramm etric E ngineer, Eugene
R . E. Constans, Bureau of Land .l\lanagc·
ment , l'onland
C. W. Gowan, Surveys and Maps, U. S. Forest Service, Por tland
S. 11. Cross, Kendall B. " ' ood, l' ores try
Eng in eers, l'ortland
R . C. Wilson, Pacific N.W. Forest and
Range Exper. Sta., Portland
.J. R. Dilworth , School of l'orcstry, Oregon
Stale College.
There are no fees charged for this course.
The coopcrat ing agencies are donating the
services of 1h e instructors a nd the use of
the buildings. The onl y charge made will be
for equipment and materials furnished the
st udent that will lJe retai u etl b y ],im upon
completion of the course.
The sh ort course is open to a ll foresters,
fores t engin eers. and others who are u si ng
or will u se aerial photos in their work. The
number panicipating in this cou rse is limited to 24 to p ermit ea ~h student to receive
the individual atten tion required.
Application for enroll ment should be made
by letter to the School of Fores try, Oregon
State College . .-\pplirations wi ll be accepted
in the order received.
Arnst New P.R. Head
Alben .·\ rnst- h as bee n p laced i n charge
of the n ewly opened public information offi ce
of t he Weyerhaeuser Timber Company <t l
1106 U. S. N ational llank Building in P ort·
land. His offi ce will serve Wcyerhaeuset·
branch operations at various Oregon locations and at I .ongview , ' ·Vashington.
:\I is ser ving as chairman of th e George
\\' . Pea v)' :\l emor ial fund dri1·e. H e and
his commi ttee are deserving of a I'Otc of
thanks for an excellent j ob.
January, 1952
Ot·egon State Forcstef
Oregon Forest Products
Dr. Barnes Outlines
Laboratory---1951
Graduate Program
The year 1% I was not very kind to t he
La borator y wi th resp ect to loss of key per·
sonnel. Dr. P . 11. Proctor, i\lanaging Di·
rector, was called hack to the A rmcd Services
(Air Corps) in April; Dr. H ugh Wilcox,
h ead of the wood fiber d ep artment, accepted
a job at t he State Universit )' of New York,
College o( Forestry effecti ve May I. He is
working on an indus try-sponsored project
dea ling with the possibilities of chemical
debar king of trees. ' 'Vi lcox"s right hand as·
sista n t, James Holden, decided to further his
ed ucational and social pursuits by taking a
year of stud y at the University of Paris. i\'l ort
i\lacdon ald, head of Lhe laminated and \)l y·
wood products department was also ca led
back to active cln ty in the Navy and left the
l .abora tor y June 18. The s udden death of
Bi ll Baker, Chief of Research, August 10
furth er handicapped the Laboratory since
flill had ta ken over the dulies of D r. Proctor.
Several new employees h ave been hi red in an
attem pt to fill t h e boots of the previously
1n en tioncd 1nen who left the Laborator y dur·
ing· 195 1.
The State Board of l; orcstry is well on
its wa)' toward gelling a defin i t ive pate nt
~on d licensi ng of patents policy. T h ree parties
have made application to the Board for Ji.
censes to manufacture wax fro m Douglas-fir
bar k. One of these parties is in the p lan t de·
sign stage.
Several new resea rch projects were insti·
gated during 1951. The more important of
1hese being:
( I) modi fkatio n of Douglas·
fir cork for board products; (2) compre·
hcnsive study o f Oregon hardwoods designed
10 obtain a current list of hardwood lu mber
1nanufacturers,
wholesa lers,
and
users,
Lo
determine the problems involved in manu ·
facturiug aud marketing h ard wood lumber,
to s tud y gluing characteristics, and to con·
1 inuc work on season ing; (3) strength a n d
re la ted properties uf T~noak; (4) in vest iga·
tion of possibilities o f using tanoak for face
,·eneer stock a nd plywood ; (5) water rep ellent
treatment of wood fiber; (6) strength loss of
veneers by ove1··d r ying; (7) s tress analysis of
quarter-scale horizontal roof diaphragms; (8)
ch emical anal ysis of the native j un iper and
the extracti ves of alder; (9) evaluation of
hardboard testing proced u res for several pro·
ducts: (10) determination of the waste com ·
ponent in the Roseb urg a rea that is su ita ble
on ly for power generation ; ( l )) several m iscellan eous service tes ting jobs.
The experimental work o n the small gas
turbin e operati ng on sawdust has been co1~1·
pl eted. P la n s are now underwa y 1.0 o btam
a I 00-horse power tu r bine to be set up at a
nearby sawmill to get information on cffi·
cie ncy and costs of operation.
The Ta ylor -Colquitt Company of Spartans·
burg. South Caro l in~ and the Oregon Forest
J>roducts Laboratory com pleted an agreement
in which a n ew :!·foot diameter and I ().foot
long· vapor seasoning treating retort and ~ u x ·
iliary equi pment will be boug ht by the com·
pany and installed a t th e Laborator y to con·
1i n ue the comprehen sive s tud y of vapor sea~oning of Do ugl as fir and Pond erosa pin e. At
the coonpleti o n of the research program the
equipment wi ll h e given to the Laboratory.
.\Jr. Cvril l.a nsell, resean :h fellow from the
.-\.ustral i~ n Fore~t Products L~boratory has
IJ::en investigating the effects of differelll
At this time there arc 13 g raduate students
en rolled in the School of f "ores.try; on e is
majoring in Forest Engin eering, n in e i n
Forest Managamen l, and three in Forest
P roducts. Most popular at present is t he
ManagemenL m ajor, s upported hy t he Engin ·
eering minor, with the objecti ve of subse·
qucnt employment in the various phases of
industrial forestry.
Fonr foreign cou n tries are represented
among the gronp, t here being one each from
Austria, Australia, Canada, England and
Finland. Four of these, in coming to the
United States, have been aided by Fullbright
Travel Gran ts. Of the remainder, fou r are
from Oregon and one each is from Alaska,
Michigan, New York and \<Visconsin.
The mual group of fellowships and assist·
antships wi ll be open again for the next
academ ic year, beginning in the latter part
of Sep tember. The number for this next year
has been in creased b y one, by a n addi tiona I
contribution from the Orville R. Miller
famil y. Tbe follow ing will be available: four
or five McDon a ld Fellowships providing a
stipend of from 1)?;00 to .~600; t he '"' eyer ·
haeuser Fellows hip in fores t ma nageme n t o£
.~ 1 ,000; t he D ow Fellowship in wood prescr ·
vation of $ 1,000; two Miller Fellowships in
fo rest p rod ucts o[ .$ 1,000 each. No depart·
mental ser vices are required under any of
these award s, h ence t he st uden t m ay register
for a full p rogram of graduate work. In addition to the fellowships described above,
t he Oregon Forest Proclncts Laboratory sometimes awa rds assis tantsh ips lo studen ts quali·
fied to assist in specific projects. Assistan ts
arc req uired to render services to the labor·
atory and may regis ter for onl y twelve credits
of courses.
Additional information about the awards
or graduate sltldies in general will be furnished upon requ est. Applicat ion forms may
be secured by writing to the Dean , a nd
should be su bmitted before April !st. \Ve
shall be pleased to consider applications from
gradu ates of Oregon State College, and o f
other recognized ins I itu tions throughout th e
world.
Ferahoppers Con vene
At Biloxi, Missi~sippi
.·\ grou p o f 14 OSC foresters and the wi,·es
of several of them met for a ,·ery enjoyable
dinner and an nening of reminiscense as
a corollary to t he national S. .-\.F. meeting in
fliloxi. Mississippi.
·
P resent were D ean and i\lrs. Paul !\f. Dunn,
~ II·. and ~Irs. Walt Dutton ' 13, Mr. and
!\Irs. Otto Lindh '2i. i\lr. and Mrs. Marvin
.\ ngle '36 . Mr. and !\Irs. Don O"Brien '3i.
\ V. Benedict '20, .-\.1 Arnst '3 1, Larry Hamilt on '3 I, Merle I .ow den '32, '-~'m . Parke '3~,
Herb Yocum ' 38. Carl Ehelebe '43, J ohn
W yl ie '·19, a nd E. 0. Linke, staff member
' I 0· . I I.
h ydro-carbon composllwns in the vapor sea soning process for differen t temperatures a11d
press u res.
The present staiT me111bers are hoping that
the ,\rmcd Services will not call more fellows
back to active duty in the nex t t welve months
and a lso that competen t men wi ll be h ired
to fill t he g-aps left b y m embers leaving last
ycc.r.
Aeria I Photo
Short Course
The fourth ann ua l aerial photo short
course sponsored by the school of fores try
will b e held in Corvallis the week of ll'larch
17-22. Seven ty-five foresters and forest engin eers and oth ers have prompted the school
to repeat 1 he course again this year.
T he short cou rse is designed lo provide
intensive techuical train ing in the use of
aerial photos in forest management a nd engineering work. The program is so arranged
that the partici pants will sp end a large por·
tion of the t ime in actually using t he p hotos
and equipment. The s ubjects to be covered
during the cou rse include forest engineering
problem s, forest type mappi ng, aerial plani·
metric mapping, control methods fo r aerial
surveys, project ion of photo d eta il to base
1naps, d rnber vol 111ne tstimaliuu ft'uin at:r iai
photos, photo interpretation a nd contract
~ pecilication s for aerial photography.
The school is very fortunate in h aving
as coop era ting agencies several private and
p ublic organizations all of which are di ·
rectly concerned wi th the use of aerial pho·
tos in solving forestry problems. These
agencies have fur nish ed t he short course wi th
a n outstanding group of instructors exper·
ienced in a ll phases of photogram m etry.
The cooperating agencies a nd instru ctors a re
as fo llows:
L. H . De lano , Delano .\ eria l Su rveys, Port·
land
H . G. Chickering-, Cons ulti ng P hotogram·
metric Engineer, Eugene
R. E. Con sta ns, Bureau of Land l\l a nagc·
m en t, Port land
C.. W. Gowan , Surveys and Maps, U. S. Forest Service, Portland
S. fl. Gross, Kendall B. Wood, Forestry
Engi neers, Portland
R . C. Wilson , Pacific N.W . :Forest and
Range Expel". Sta., Portland
.J. R . Dilworth , School of Forestry, Oregon
Stale College.
There are no fees charged for th is course.
The cooperating agencies arc donating the
services of t he inst ructo rs and t he nse of
1he buildings. The on ly c harge made will be
for equipmen t a nd materials furni shed the
'tuden t tha t wi ll be retaiucd h)' !Jim upo•J
complet.ion of the course.
The short course is open to all foresters,
fores t engineers, and others who are using
or will usc aerial p hotos in their work . The
n umber participating in th is course is limited to 24 to permit each .<tudent to receive
the individual auention required.
:\ppl icat ion for en roll m en t s hould be made
b y letter to the School of Fo restry, Oregon
State College. .·\pplications wi ll be accepted
in the order received.
Arnst New P.R. Head
.-\lbert .-\.rnst -has been p laced in charge
of the newl y open ed public information office
of t he \\1eycrhaeuser Timber Com pan y al
1106 U. S. National fl ank Building in Port·
land . H is office wi ll serve Weyerhaeuser
branch operations at various Oregon loca ·
tions and at Longview, Washington.
.'\I is serving as chairman of t he George
\1'. Peavy Memorial Fund drive. H e an d
his com mitlee are deserving of a ,·otc of
thank s for an excellent job.
Page .S
Ofegon State Forcstef
Page 3
'50
WITH THE CLASSES (Continued from page four)
Ma11[red I. Douglas, 3 16 Fairview Ave.,
Kenmore 17, New York, is now with U.S.
Plywood Corporation.
Do11ald K. H obso11 when last heard from
was employed b y Columbia Lumber Co.,
Whittier, A Iaska.
'49
ji111 While is wi th the U.S. 11orest Servke
at Lowell , Oregon. At last report he w~s
scaling government logs on the vVillamelle
H iway.
Hcnn Sommer, after a s ummer with \~1 cv·
erhaeuser Ti mber Co., galloped off to Yale
for graduate st ud y. H erm likes Yale. and
Ya le likes Herm, for h e was elected p1·es1dent
of the Yale Forestry Clu b. H e has managed
to get arou nd Yankeeland a bit, especially to
atlend several o£ t he more important forestry
gatherings in New England.
D on B ushnell is forest engineer 'vith t he
Northern Redwood Lumber Compan y at
Korbel, Calif.
\•Vi th t he U.S. J'orest Service at \<Vestwood ,
Ca lif., is AI "Wildcat" Mulli11s, the p roud
papa o£ a hoy born Dec. II .
AI O'B rien is grading lumber for the Col·
li ns Pine Co. at Chesler, Calif.
Trouble from the fi rebugs fr~~~i .}~lm Wyli e,
holding down a district fo rest .for the Star.e
of Missouri. His home is at 602 N. 47th St.,
\<Varrenton.
Gene O'Keefe has a n ew member of the
swaddling clothes set, Michael E ugene, born
June 16, 19?;1. Gene is timber sales assistant
with the U .S. Forest Service at W'aldport, Ore.
Lt. ]am es C. Merrilt-0960649, Co. E., 19th
In f. Regt., APO 24, c fo Postmaster, San Francisco, wrote a long and interesting letter from
Korea . H e fi nds the country an offense to
the nostri ls in more ways than that provided
h y the ever-present " nig ht soil ". He is very
fa vora bly impressed with the abilities o f the
soldiers of other nations on the U.N. side
o f t he fracas, and wi th the respect they have
for each other.
George D. Gremmel is assistant 10 the sales
manager, \<Villamette Valley Lumber Co.,
Dall as, Oregon.
.fames M . H old en is attend ing school at
l'"oundation Su isse, Cite U niversitaire, Paris
14, !' ra n ee.
Palrick /'. 1\-fcKeoum wh en last heard from
had moved to the retail yard, Santia m Lum ·
her Company, Lebanon, O re.
Dean 1Heador is now in charge of the retai l
yard for Willamclte N ational Lumber Co.,
Foster, O re.
Jl ob H exses is Dry Kiln Superintendent,
l.o ng·Rell plywood plant, M yrtle Creek, Ore.
Sti ll at ;'\-fedford Corporation is L )'le D.
lf"it~ille, as assistant dry kiln foreman. Lyle
writ es thai h e is tak ing ex tension courses
[rom t he Klok Ins titute of Grand Rapids,
~ li ch.
Don ll11mel retu rned to OSC this J"all to
undertake gradu ate study.
C. D. Jl lalwey is no w farming in Mi ssouri;
loas a 1.000 a cre show .
""~"~"'sf
II '. Jiroll'll has been with J . H .
Bates Co. , Enterprise, Ore., since .Jul y '5 I .
Alder St., .·\pt.:!, Coos Bay, Ore.
W ith Weyerhaeuser Timber Compan y ~t
Alleghany, Oregon, are Hank Reppeto, 111
construction work, joh11 Ohman (no repor t
as to his activities), and Dean Higi11bolham,
who is handling fire protection on t he ser·
tings and preparing slash burning pla n s.
Stan Spurgeon was recently t~·ansferred to
the I nyo National Forest. He 1s loca ted at
Mammoth Lakes, Calif., in T imber Sa les. At
the same s tation is Lloyd H ayes.
Two fern hoppers of the same gradua ting
class, J\1ervilr Wo lf and A1artin Lowther, are
with th e Malhem N ational Forest, John Day,
Ore.
Another team is that of Louis Powell and
john Bell. Both got their i\1:aster 's at Duke
in '!i l , and both are now engaged in a detailed s urvey of cou nty-state holdings in C lapsop
County, Ore. Address - State Board of
Forestry, Astoria .
While writing this, we were pleasantly
s urprised by a visi t from Alvi11 "Ag" Andersml, newly r eturned from Navy duty overseas.
Ag was married to the former Miss Marceline
J'vl oore on Dec. 29, 1951. H e will work for the
Rogue River National Forest, but gets his
mail at Box 1047, Klamath Falls, Ore.
G le 11 Fisher is coping with the forest inventory of '~' asco County, with h eadquar ters
in the county courthouse, T he Dalles, Ore.
Roy Boyd wa s last reported in the Army
at '-~'avo, Texas, but n o J urther details as to
h is address are available,,·
Among oth ers to get "the call" ~;-~ Robert
E. Peterson (address u nknown), and Sam
Wheeler, with H.Q. Co., 1st Sch. :Bn., Fort
fl elvoir, Virginia.
Chuck Walters, together with wife and two
sm a ll daug h ters, visited the school in January. Chuck is assistant state forest ranger
a t Lakeport, C alif. He ·reports havi n~ seen
Gil Ward, with the U.S. Forest Serv1ce at
Ston yford, Ca lif.
D onald Be11son is employed by Cascade~
Plywood Co., at Lebanon as assistant log
accountan t.
T'emon While , with Salem Steel and Supply
Co., Salem, Ore., is now selling equipment
used in various forest products industries.
Doll{!.lns Smith w rites from Ketchikan,
Alaska·, where h e is employed by Ketchikan
Spr uce Mills. He is getting along (inc and
li kes S.E. Alaska .
Wesley Sla t~field is back in Dinuba, Calif.
wit h Ivory Pine Co., after having given his
assistance to a gyppo logging outfit in the
state of Washington fo r a spell.
Jim Gil/ila11 has been transferred to the
Kansas City, Mo. office of Timber Structures,
Inc. Ad clress-!J03 Grand Ave., Kansas City
6 E., i\l o.
Vel"ll fl eezcl is with Timber St r uctures,
Inc., in Portland, Ore.
T homas Ja cobson has mo,·ed to Minnea polis, 1\linn., where h e is now wi th C:anton
!.umber Sales Co., Rox 274?; Bloommgton
St ation.
Cordell H of>lalld, formerl y in the wallboard
production plant with Sim pson Logging Co.,
She lton, Wasl1., has tra nsferred to t he sales
di vision.
Ed11•anl KirkfJIItricil recently changed jobs,
and is nnw i n the Hardboard Division, Coos
!Jay Lumber Compa n y. Home address is 214
"PAT" FETED AT CLUB CABIN
(Continued from page on e)
Dunn then recou nted "Pat's" services, fol lowed b y Bob Conklin who re minisced about
" Pat's" many experiences. Bob Con klin t hen
presented the console. "Pat" responded a nd
then retaliated with a few well directed
stories of his own abou t the different grads
present. Conlon Staglund led a number of
songs which were followed by a gabfest led
b y anyone who fe lt in the mood.
A me morab le evening was concluded with
the sing ing o f Auld Lang Sy n~ a nd a grand
fe llow was thus honored for h1s long career.
'51
T wain Brewer has put in several s hort· lerm
hitches before settling d own with H a mmo nd
Lumber Co. in t heir retail yard at 16307 S.
Bellflower J3lvd., Bellflower, Calif.
john O'Co11nor at last report was district
assistant wi th the U.S. Forest Service at Ash ·
land, O re.
Bill Buller is now wi t h Shasta Plywood
Corporation, P .O. Box 1688, R edding, Calif.
M. D. JHcKimmy (M.S.F.) is now at the
New York State College of Forestry, Syrawse,
working toward his Ph.D. in Wood Tech·
nology. It should be a n a tural for an M.D. lo
be called " Doc".
Dave Ba11la '51 was married to Miss Beverly
Dickson a t the Chi Omega sorority house on
December 27. They a re at home in Ketchikan,
Alaska. Dave is an ensign in the Coast Guard.
Bob Stcrm.itz is field represen tative for the
vVestern l'inc Association , covering Texas,
Okla homa a nd eastern New Mexico. His
mailing address is 519 Yeon Building, Port·
land.
Gaylord Nixon and RoJt Frashour haven' t
strayed far as yet, for both are e m ployed ~y
the Oregon Fores t Products L aboratory ill
Corvallis.
Donnell Williams is a 2nd Lt. Marin e
Corps, Paris Island, N.C. Sorry that we have
no better address for Don.
Walt Pnrk~ is working toward his M.S.F.
at OSC:, while his wife has charge o f the
Me moria l Union dining service. She wi ll be
responsible for seeing to it that the tables
groan at the Fernhop per Banquet.
The Oregon Lumber Compan y ha.rdboa l_-d
plant at Dee, Oregon claims john .Syme, m
th e production departmen t.
Ho ward Workinger is at Roseburg, Ore.,
wor king in D ouglas County's forest appraisa l
department.
Masonite Corporation at Ukiah, Ca li f., employs several of the grads, among t hem ]olin
1Hinsi11ger (ex '!;0), paper tester, and H arry
Chase, in production p lanni ng.
Among the FP grads claimed by the Armed
Forces are Fra11k Pope110e, home address 640
HiiJside Terrace, Pasaden a, Calif., and T'l f)' ·
man Williams, whose home is at 625-25th
St., Santa Monica, Calif.
/lob Norton is in the wholesale lumber
business with the ' Vood Products Co., Public
Ser vice Building, Portland, a nd is in the boy
business wi t h a husky lad born last year.
Dua y11e Soderstrom is em p loyed by Timber
Struct11 res, lnc., P ortland.
Oregon State Forester
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Missing Forestry
Class of 1932
Apperson , Ralph
J3erger, Phillip
Doyle, John
Nelson, Everald
1ogero, Alexis
\Valker, Estevan
Wing, Harold
Graduates
\·Ve have lost track of the following alums,
and would greatly appreciate being informed
of the ir correct addresses, in t he event t hat
any of you know of their whereabouts.
Please address you r letter or card to OSC
Forestry 1\lumni Association .
Class of 1915
Burwell , Gerald
Moore, :M erle
Stewart, Hugh
C lass of 1934
Easton, !Vlo ntague
Lindwall, Victor
Tinsley, William
U pham, A. C.
Class of 1917
C lass of I !J36
i\1 e~ ley, Rober t H .
Class of 19 18
Rittenho use, J a mes
Wirch, Arth ur \ •V.
Johnson , Willard
Cl;~ ss
Class of 1920
Chapman, Earl
Smilie, Robert
Storm, Earl
Class of 1923
Cannavina , Ton y
Jones, DeWitt
Kelly, Wilbur
i\ lnlkcy, Jvan
C lass o f 192'!
Knauf, William
Tousey, Regin ald
Class of HJ25
J3acher, Fred
Edm unds, 1\lilton
Robinson, Temple
of 1937
Johnson, H a milton K.
Class o [ 1938
Callaghan , .Joseph
Carlich, John
Congdon, Edward
Hanson, Forrest
Howat! , George
McGreer , William
l'hillips, f'rank
\\'oolf, h ed
Class of 19;19
Flicdner, Willia m
Ha lverson , John
Loomis, C harles
Pla nkinton , John C.
Pratt, Fred .J a mes
Class of 1940
Class of 1921i
Zo bel, Lewis
Class of 1927
1~141
Abbot t, Forrest
Adams, Jesse C.
Rurselli, Bruno
Cap ka, Theodore J.
H o lland, 'W oodrow
Madden, Myrno A.
Class o f 1942
C lass of 1933
Deutsch, H enry C.
J3 1ac.kden, Ralph S.
Crawfo rd, James
Yates, Lloyd D.
Class of
Beresford, Har r y
Collins, J oseph
Combs, C harles
Harris, :O.Jal
Warren , Charles E.
C rava t, H arland
Crensh aw, O swald
Class of I !J43
.Beard, H enry C harles
Class of 1944
J ohnston, Robert Riggs
Class of 1946
Hunt, Jack
Kuehnle, James
Wilson, Jack
Class o [ J!J47
J o hnson, George
Class o f 1948
:\ bbott, W. H.
J'l'£anni1ig, Robert A.
Rynearson, James
Ta il, Robert
C lass of I!J4!J
Hollen , Jack
:"' cller, Walter
Percival, Glenn Richard
Ritter, Harry
Stephens, Bob
Williams, Robert 13.
Class of 1950
Boyd, Roy
P etersou, Robert Earl
\\'illiams, Robert J oseph
Class of 195 I
\·\ 'orkinger, Howard
Craven , 1\ lilton
Fehren , Richard
Class of 192!-1
H a lse y, Willi am
H enderson , J ohn
Would yo u like to see the nex t OSC FORESTER bigger and be uer?
You ca n hel p by dipping out the slip below, filling in the blanks, and dropping
it in the mail addressed OSC FORESTRY ALlli\ INl ASSOC IAT IO N, School
of Forestry, OSC, Corvallis, Ore.
Na me_ _ ___ __________
__ Year o[ G raduatio n _____
Class of 192!J
l'ep oon, George
Stinger, Charles
Employed by_ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _
Pe rsonal Data ___________ ___ _ _____ _____,______ _
Class of 1!J~O
deHegy, Orelin
Lane, Kenneth
Sch lege I, Frazer
( :lass of I !Jil l
C UIH tll iH s,
Business Address
Et-trl
Rust. \\'alter
Smith , Merton