OREG-ON STATE
FORESTER
VOLUi\IE X IV
Corvallis, Oregon , January, 1961
Number I
School Reaccreditation Success
SAF Committee Terms
School "Exam pie"
Oreg-on State's School of Forestry
has passed the periodic r e-evaluation
of t h e Society o f America n Fores ters'
accred itatio n committee with distinction. The School was examined in
April 1960 as pa r t of a total accreditation review of Oreg-on Sta te College.
Overall College performance was reviewed by the Nonhwest Association
of Secondar y and H igher Schools, and
professiona l societies co-operated by
conducting intensi ve examina tions of
the profess ion al schools. The SAF
study required our School to compile
statistics on such factors as e n roll lilcnts, instructional and research
space, financial suppor t, scholarsh ips,
staff accomp lishments and em ploymen t of alumni. These r eports were
reviewed by the SAF committee and
t hen a field tea m in Apri I conducted
a•1 on-the-spo t check.
Forestry students erect sign marking ctedication of the north ridge road during
McDonald Forest work day, 1960. Named in honor of "Net" Nettleton, the first
full-time forest manager, the road runs from Lewisburg Saddle to the powder
house. The road running south from Lewisburg Sad(lle past infamous milepost
7 was dedicated in honor of Pat Patterson, professor emeritus.
McDONALD-DUNN FOREST PROGRAM
R eactivation of a McDo n ald Forest work
day and negotiating of a n unique timberland rehabilitation co n tract have sp eeded up
forest JUanagement work on the Sch ool forests. P rincipal activity during 1960 was stand
improvement work u n der the 1·ehabilitation
contract. This contract was fina lly approved
after prolonged n egotiation s with the college
busi ness office, State Board o f Higher Educa tion , comptroller's o ffi ce, Stale Board attorney, and the Department of Finance and
Ad ministration in Salem. In January, 1960,
the con tract was awarded to R owley and
l'arker Tree Fann Service fur stand improvement and rehabilitation work including thinning, salvage logging, brush control, spot
plan ting, road b ettermen t and snag falling.
Over 2Y2 million boa rd feet of salvage and
thinning logs have b een sold to local rniUs
under this contract. Sa lvage logs were cu t
rro m trees left on a1·eas logged b efore the
college acquired ownership. Areas where r eproduction has been establish ed receive first
priority. Thinning logs were cut from 60100-year-old stands in light salvage thinnings.
The income from these logs h as paid for all
costs on the forests with a sma ll amount left
over to help support the School's research
program discussed elsewhere in this issue.
Thinnings in a 25-year old stand were
made on an experimental basis. Severa l
methods of thinning were u sed, but in all
cases t he cost exceeded the income from sale
of car stakes and small po les taken fro m the
area . From th is exp erie nce it was estima ted
that on site ill t h e stand must be 35 yean
old before income would equal cost under
present local market conditio ns. Several permanen t plots were established and will b e
measured period ically to d etermine benefits
derived f rom the thinnings.
During the yea r 9,000 sn ags were felled,
most ly on the Dunn Forest. T his is in add i(Contin~ed
on page 16)
Dr. Ern est ' •Vho lctl, dean of Idaho's forestry school, and Henry Clepper, executive
secretary of the Society, made the ins pection.
The visiting committee was on the OSC
campus two days interviewing staff, students,
heads of cross-campus supporting departments, and administrative oHicers of the college. Their finds were reported back to the
committee on advancemen t of forestry educarion, which endorsed the school and so
n"CO II1111 C ll d to the Council of t he Society o[
, \ merican Fo resters.
Whi le no school ever meets in full the exacting standards of perfection d rawn by t he
Society, OSC foresters w ill be glad to read
the following excerpt from the comm ittee 's
recomme11dation to the Council.
"There is absolutely n o question in the
minds o[ any of u s 1·elativc to the strength
o[ the School of Forestr)'• Oregon State
College, or the fact that it deserves contin·
n ed a ccereditation. As indicated in earlier
correspondence and as th e Visiting Com·
mittec so ably pointed o u t, the Oregon
State College School of Forestry is one of
the truly strong forestr y schools of the U.S.
It richly deserves continu ed accreditation
a nd can well serve as an example to
other schools of what can b e accomplished
wi th continued effort and foresight."
According to the report of the committee,
th e School's strength lay in its facul ty, the
espri L-de-corps of th e st udent body, t he n ear ( Continued on page 15)
Page Two
OREGON STATE
FORESTER
Alumni Business
High School
Contact Program
The OSC Forest r y Alumn i Associa tion's
contact program with outstanding high
~chool youngsters moved in to its fourth y~ar
of op eration this September. A fter a tn al
run in the fa ll of 1958, I he program h as
been gradually expa nded until over 90 high
schools within Oregon are contacted yearly.
The program conti n ues to stress visits wi th
the families of specia lly selected youngsters.
The selection is made by h igh school guidance cou nselors using a gu ide sh eet provided
by the Associatio n .
In I9!i8-59, t he first Full year of o peratio n ,
contact was made with twenty-four high
school juniors. A study was m ade of these
)'Otmgsters to determine the su ccess of th e
progr am. I t is summarized below:
42 High sch ools contacted.
17 High schools participated in the
prog-,.am.
48 Student n ames supplied .
39 Contacts assign ed to local alumni.
24 Contacts completed and report tumed
into Association.
8 Stude n ts e nrolled at OSC.
3 in Forcsu·y
2 in Agricultm·e ( fish and game)
2 in Humanities a nd Socia l Science
1 i n E n gineering
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Annual newsletter of the OSC Forestry
Alum ni Associatiou mailed to the last know
address of a ll OSC Fernhoppers.
D ecember 2, 1960
Fern hoppers:
T h e concent ration of for est activities in
conn ection with the F ifth ·world Forestry
Congress and t he multitude of foreign visitors seemed to h ave t he effect of putti ng aside
most of the direct activities of t he A lumn i
Associa tion throughou t the past season. The
Association did main tain its high sch ool stu dent contact program , a more detailed report
of which appears e lsewhere.
The Association has also co-opera ted with
the D ean in setting up the program for the
Industria l Forestry Seminar g iven o n ca mpus
tl1is J anu a ry a nd to the further study of the
possibilities of such ite ms as a ran ger-! ype
train iug sch ool for foresters and qua lifications of p ersonnel in Civil Service positions.
The Aufderheide i\lemorial l'und has now
reached slightly more than S3500.
The Task Force groups h ave been available and h ave been con su l ted by the D ean
regard ing a n umber o f m inor problems in
con n ection w ith th e school. No major studies
of reports were foun d ad visable fro m those
individual groups.
All in all, it has beeu a fairly q u iet year.
\Ve hope that lhe m embers wi ll have problems ready for discussion at t he annual m eetin g on F ernhopper's Day.
Lu Alex ande r,
President
Ra ther disappo intingly, one of the . three
enrolled in fo restry has dropped from School.
This follows th e resul ts predicted by a co llege stud y wh ich shows th at once o~lt. of
every four stu dents, a n 1n correct pred1ctJOII
is made as to college success.
The p rogram h as h ad some beneficia l si~l e
effects. Severa I of the contacts resu I ted 111
summer forestry j obs fo r the h igh school
students. In two instances, th e word-ofmouth advertising has resulted in youngsters
fm m the same hig h school writing t he School
of Forestry for more i n formation " like Joh n
J ones received dur ing a visit by a forester."
H igh sch ool administrators h ave b een un pressed with t he program a n d there h as bee11
a noticeable change in some g u idance coun selor's opinion of forestry careers.
One change has been ins I iLutcd in t h e
mechan ics of the program . f o rmerl y the lo cal a l umni member contacted those st udetns
whose names were supplied h y the high
;chools. ht m any instances t h ere were not
enough Association membct:s in the comnn.Jnity to con tact each boy Witho ut· dem and~ n g
too much from a few a l umm . ' ow, each h1gh
school youngster whose name is supplied l'eceives a letter from the Association along
with a p acket of information on forestry.
The letter provides a chance for Lhe boy an d
h is parents to indicate th eir desire Lo have
a loca l fo rester visit them .
The p rogra111 h as con tacted 41 youngsters
a lready this year an d will continue. A study
of the I 959-GO contact will be mad e next
Scpte111ber i11 conjunct ion with the School
of Forestr y. Meanwhile Association members
ca n congrallllatc themselves in i 1~s t itut i ng
an d carrying out a program now b em g em u la ted by other OSC schools and be ing studied
for adoption at other A tlle r ican colleges.
January, 19ul
OREGON STATE FORESTER
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
FORESTRY ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
1961-61
Term Expires
March
1961
A lvin Sorseth
U.S . Forest Service
Detroit, Oregon
Fred Sandoz (V-Pres.)
Rt. I , Box 56A
Springfield, Oregon
T.ucien Alexander (P res.)
Mason , Bruce & Girard
American Bank Building
Portland, Oregon
William 1' . Penney
T im ber Service Co.
Sweet Home, Oregon
Ashley A. Poust
U.S. forest Service
Bend, Oregon
Allen C. Smith
3 16 Lindero Avenue
Medford, Oregon
Charles L . Foster
In ternational P aper Co.
Vaughan Division
llox 308
Veneta, Oregon
George H . Schroeder
Cmwn Zellerbach Corp .
Public Service Build ing
l'o rtland, Oregon
C. \V. D a ne (Scc.-Treas.) (Edi tor)
Sch ool of Forestry
Corval lis, Oregon
W. F. McCulloch (Advisory)
School o f Forestry
Corva llis, Oregon
1961
196 1
1962
1962
1962
1963
Hl!i:l
1963
OSC FORESTRY ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
Fin ancial Statement
January I , 1960
Balance, J anuary I, 19UO
Income :
1959 du es
2.00
882.00
1960 dues
I960 F B
.Expen se:
1960 Newsle tter
1960 F B
1960 A n nual Cruise
Stationery
lla lan ce, J a nuary I, 1961
Marvin Rowley, Rowley and Parker
Tree Farm Service, stops McDonald
Forest rehabilitation work long
enough to be caught by the photog·
t·apher. 1\'Iarv, an OSC'er , was su ccess·
ful negotiator for the School's timberland rehabilita tion contract to put
McDon ald and Dunn forest lands into full production.
I 393.75
335.25
J37!i.73
491.64
29.35
. 278.94
2'2.77 .75
2234 .97
S321.72
Copies of the book let, "Switzerland and its
F ores ts," th e compilation of the lectu res g iven b y Dr. F ritz Fischer as the School of Forest r y last sprin g are available to alumni. D r.
F ischer, t he fou rth visiting professor brou ght
to OSC under auspices of the Louis W. and
J\'!aud Hill Family Foundation, presented
lectures covering the general features, history, forest area, economic imparla nce of
forests, forest management a n d logging
m ethods of Sw itzerland. You can obtain your
complimen tary cop y b y send ing yo ur n ame
a nd mai ling address to the Secretary-Treasurer at the School o f Forestry.
J anuary, 1961
OREGON STATE FOR ESTER
P age Three
FORESTRY STAFF
NEWS
School Doings
MAC'S CORNER
En ro ll ment Statistics
Here in th e school we a rc concerned about
o ur ability to do the job which must be
done, in the face of present and future com plexity and specialization in fores t ry. Last
year 1 sen t a letter to the Alumni Association lloard o f Directors on this subject, from
which the followiug material is q uoted . "Th e
complex i ties o f forest ry now d efy a ny m a n
to be fully competen t n ot on ly in forestry
as a whole, hu t in a n y of its significant su b divisions. This poses a very rea l problem to
the p rofession. \\rhat is a forester today?
Wh ere once he was all t h ings to all fo restry
operations, n ow h e is just one member of
a com pli cated org~ nizatio n which includes
chemist, safe ty ex perts, physicists, TBM operators, compt rollers, lawyers, admin istrative
specialists, personnel officers, pilots, public
re lations counselors, engineers, biologists,
game manage rs, recreatio n supervisors, a nd
so on almost infin itely.
"There is no question a bo ut the necessi ty
for specialized people to staff an effective
forestry organ iza lion. T hey arc rcq uircd in
a ll areas of techno logical societ y; fores tl)' is
no exception . .Bu t there is d a nger in subdividing forestry into so m any narrow nonfores try segments that its over-all goals are
obscured or lost.
"On man y fronts, th e original p recin cts of
the forester h a ve been enroach cd upon, erod ed away, or c;tptured. Pieces of forestry have
been taken over by o u tside technicians in
so;ue ..:ategod es where foresters have been
sh ort-sighted or asleep . Witho ut good reason
foresters have thus allowed a portion of their
responsibil ity to pass in to the hands of
others.
''Granted, foresters cannot compete with
accoun tants in fiscal matters nor with business graduates in sa lesm a nship, nor wi th
press agents in p u b l ic rela tions. It is very
true tha t foresters are n o t competitive with
th ese special ists in their specialized fields,
hu t to make them so, would req uire years
and years of coll ege.
"Where do we go from h e re? How is forestry education to meet Lhe cha llenge of
t his iucreasingly complex an d evolving profession ? Just what is reasonable to expect of
a forester today? ll is n aive lo dema nd t h at
every forester be full y qualified as an expert in all the fields which a[fect forestry .
Th is is n ot expected of other professions.
Eng ineers operate in high ly restricted fields;
the gen eral p ractitioner in m edicine is being re placed by clinics of specia lists. The real
problem for foresters is not tha L fores t ry now
is compl icated; t11e problem is how to m eet
the complication with an adequate professiona l education in a reasonable time."
\Ve a re working on the problem, particularly encouraging the students toward selFeducation . D evelopment of initiative and
ingenuity in college sh ould be a real h elp
after graduation. There is begin n ing to be
cons iderable pressure for a five year underg raduate program, add in g on all sorts of
s pecialties. W e don' t agree; historical and
t raditional material in the curricul um can
be pruned down fur ther to m ake room for
essen tial n ew m ateria l. A second approach as
noted above, is to make t he student m ore
respon sible for h is own educa tion . i •Vith staff
acting as consu lla nts and supervisors of the
F'a ll term e n ro llment gained two students
from the preceeding year- a gain comparable to t he enrollment gain throughout OSC.
' ot included in Lhc statistics arc 37 studen ts
enrolled in pre-fo restry.
New
StuF.EFE FM FP FiVI Tot.den ts
Freshman
18
59
5
2 84 8 1
(i
I
81
42
Sophomore
18
5u
1
84
18
Junior
20
55
8
Senior
12
52
12
3
79
1
H
Graduate
23
31
5
3
Dr. Ferrell secured a substan tial g ran t
from t he Na tional Science Foundation which
not only provides for research assis taucc bu t
a lso for some esscu tial equi pment. ·with t his
grant and other supplem entary funds we
have remodeled t he basem ent fan room for
the housing of two controllcd-enviroumcnt
growth ch ambers. The adjacent small classroom h as also been remodeled in to a laboratory for tree physiology research. Work
he re is tied iut·o t he genetics project of Dr.
Trgens-Mollcr who has collected Douglas-fir
seed from the tree's e n tire raugc [or investigation s o f racial variations. Dr. Ferrell is
investigating the ph ysiologica l differen ces
among some of 1he more widely separated
groups.
D r. Rudinsky was given a Slltall gran t fo r
studies of bark beetle p opula tions and the
GEORGE BARNES reports his son J im
was ma rried last Christmas and is now comb ining marriage a n d gr aduate study a t
J\I TT's chem ica l engineering department.
Ceorge attended a forest biology research
conference a t North Carolina State College
for a month in July and August. He claims
he learned more about wha t is unknown in
basic forest scien ce than is known . George al so attended th e SAF meeting at ' •Vashington ,
D . C., in November a nd visi ted 1·esearch
fo undations there.
JOH N DELL, after commuting for one
year, finally sold his Salem ho m e and moved
10 Corva llis late in the summer. The bui lding o f a n ew home occupies a ll the spare
time of wife, Myrn a; Cheri, 7; Marilyn , 5;
and Jam es, 2. They plan to move shortly
before fernhoppcr Banquet Lime bu t t he
rush of events has practically can celled m ost
exlra -cunicular activi ties.
CHUCK DA NE now knows h e 's outnumb ered . His wife, Louise, and daughter, Linda,
added an oth er member of their sex to th e
famil y last Octo ber. The crew now lives j n
th eir h eavily mortgaged h ome on 27th
Street where C huck harvests weeds from t he
lawn and g rass from the garden . Chuck com pleted the first phase of a Laxation study
with t he help of grad uate student Ke nt
Adair a nd is now tack ling a three yea r study
on th e opt imu m use of forest la nd using
lin ear progra111ming·.
BILL D AVIES, supervisor of the school
forests since Net's rctit·ement, stayed in Corva ll is a ll summ er looking after the l'vfcDonald and Dunn areas except for a week's
jaunt to the Seattle area a nd a visit to Lhc
Wor ld Forest ry Con gress. Bill also attended
the Pacific Logging Congress i n Van couver,
B .C.
DICK DiLWORTH 'S popular book, " Log
Scalin g and Timber Cru ising," h as just come
o ff the press sporting a newly-rev1scd look .
H e's been kep t busy this year as president
of t h e local OSF.A ch apter and as vice-cha irma n of th e nomina ting commi t tee looking
fo r Preside n t Strand 's successor. Dick reports
the gradua te d epa rtment of the School is
increasing.
BILL F.ER R ELL claims to be working
wi th D ouglas-fir in the basement g rowth
chambers t hese days bu t is under con stant
harassm en t from the sludc nts a nd facult y
wh o suspect that he is growing grapes in the
big boxes. Things arc b rewi n g but Bill insists they arc of a differen t t ype. He's trying
to grow D ougl as- fir seedlings to prep are
t he m for other experim en ts with d rought
resistance. Several graduate and undergraduat e stu den ts are working on the project
a nd they a ll h ope to have something in teres ting to report u cxt year. B ill is chairman
of the Col umbia R iver Section 's ' 'Vatershcd
J\lanagement Committee and is h opeful that
the)' wil l be able to publish a pamphlet on
the subject before long.
HELG E JRGENS-MOLLER has been battlin g deer, drought, r abbits, mice a nd Christmas tree cutters to keep h is folll- plan tations
alive. H e cla ims this is more d ifficu lt than
ki ll ing the plants i n a refrigerator to test
t heir frost h ardiness. Keeping ord er in the
CiOO plus seedling collection of Douglas-fir
thro ugh out the 'Vestern U .S. and Cana<la
prevented fur l h er seed collectio ns. H clge r eports so111 e of his three year old seedlings
bore cones but late frost ruined them and
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l'ota l
34
73 245
Twent y-five per cen t a re m a rried . Only
1!0 p er cen t of t he students a re veterans. One
lo n e WW II veteran is enrolled.
Forest Research
Th e F orest R esea rch Division 's program
expands from year-to-year. A constant lookout for addi tional sou rces of funds is main tai ned, and some of the n umerous applications for aid finally rece ive approval.
State and' Federal Support
The last sta te legislatu re provided a small
addition to th e budget of th e Agricultmal
Experiment Station for forest research. Three
years of effort to obta in fed eral 1·cgional Tesearch fu n ds in two projects. These regional
f unds are a' a il abel t hrough tl1c Agriculwral
Experiment Station for co-operative effort
of several stations o n problems of regionwide scop e. The two problems approved arc:
(a) improveme n t of tree seedl ing survival,
in which five stations in t he ' "'estern R egion arc undertaking co-ordinated workc
that contributes to the whole gen eral problem . Dr. Ferrell is the leader of OSC's con tributing project which is concerned with
var iations of d routh resistance o f selected
races of Dong las-fir and the expla na lion of
this characteristic. (b) identi fica tion an d b iologies of cou c and seed insects; th is project
will be fund ed when b u dgets permit.
Dr. Sutherla nd is also conducting a regional project in agricultural econom ics concerned with the marketi ng practices of sawmill
npera tio ns. Professor Mel. Conklin of Agricultu ral Economics has just started an in quiry into th e methods entplo yed in t he
marketing of C hristmas t rees .
Federal Contract Grants for Research
P age four
Forestry Staff--cont.
h is ch a nces of acting as " marriage counselor "
for t hat year.
A LEX J AENI CKE, now in his fi ft h year
on the staff of the School, reports the work
with t h e OSC Fernhoppers h as been a won der ful experience. At this writing, Ale~ is
completi ng his report on recommendaJrons
for the management of the fo~·ests. of t he
Wa rm Springs Indian Reser_vatron r_n O regon. Son Dick will grad uate m_ cle~ln cal en gin eering in .J n nc. Alex a n d l11s_ wrfe, Betty,
will contin ue to live 111 Corval h s after A lex
fin ish es h is teach ing . Tbeir address is 29<11
Mu lkey Street a nd Alex says h e' ll b e glad
to have friends d rop by.
DWIGHT J EFFER S and wi~e u ndertook
t wo weeks of mowing and watenng rh e lawn ,
feeding the dog, a n d generally " ho use-siLl ing'' in T acoma la st summer. Afte r t h~t th ey
spen t ten days on H ood Ca na l watch rng th e
t ides come and go fo r a good loaf; th ree d ays
at th e World Forestry Congress meetm g
scores of people and geLLi ng a thr ill watching t he ·wod d"; fou r clays o n t h e coast;
rlwee days in Eugene ar~ d r~ported back. to
Corvallis in September 111 t rme to stan Jnst ntcting gen eral forest ry classes.
BOll KEN ISTON spen t a portion of t h e
su mmer at Union, Oregon , h elping th e .Exp eri men t Station over th ere 01~ a pm;derosa
p in e seed-sou rce study. T h e fnst reciprocal
p la n tin gs were made in November. Bob 's resea rch study con t inues on m anagement decisio n s o f small fores t ownersln ps covenng·
Coos, Colum b ia , Douglas a nd Linn Cou n ties.
.JIM KRYGIER is b usily stud):i ng eng in eering, m a l be ma tics a nd eco nonuc~ a t Colo rad o State U niversi ty as par t of h rs d octo r ate p rogram in w;~ ters h ed man agemen t. H e
left Corvallis in the midd le of summe r and
was able to visi t watersh ed research station s
and p roblem areas enrou te to Fort Collin s.
He fo und housing tough to get but fi n ally
located himself at 1106!.-2 Emigh Street, Fort
Coll ins, Colorado.
MAG McCULLOCH spent a very quiet
su m m er in Corvallis. H e was busy this fa ll
on t h e comm ittee explor ing the feasibi lity
of mergin g t h e Oregon Forest Research Cer~ ­
tcr wi th O regon State. O n t h e domest1c
scen e, l\ lac repor ts they've b een crowded
out of t he livi ng room by h i-fi equip m en t
and have had to merge i n part of the garage
to ho ld i t. Mac indicates th is spring w i ll b e
particu larly h ectic si nce a ll accrecl it a ted fmestry sch ools are to be re_view~d b y new stand ards. These were appl tecl frrst to O SC 111
J!JGO. As a m en1 hcr of the SAF Comm ittee for
t h e Ad van cem ent of Forestry Edu ca tio n , he'll
b e u p to his ears in um p teen sets of fo rms
fo r twen t y-eigh t m ore sdwols. T he Comm ittee looks forwa rd to the d ay when a ll t he
sratistica l stu ff can be pu t o n TBi\f car ds.
" MAC" McKI Mi\l V sp en t the sum mer preparing a report of forest util ization possi bi lities o n t he \ Vann Springs I ndian R eservation
as pa rt of a co-operative OSC-Indian u·ibal
council study. He's now in L l~e p rocess of
making a detailed repor t ava rlable to th e
tribal council. In late j uly, a secon d daughter (t hird chi ld), Sh a ron i\Iarie, arrived.
H. T. " ' ET" N ETTLETON · spent the
surumcr roam ing t he country looki ng for
a place to a light. Finally fo n n~ i t r ight in
Corva llis where the School IS fortu nate
enoug h to h ave hi111 reach ing tree identification a nd getting young foresters off to t h e
right start. Net says h e thi n ks h e's learning
a d arn sigh t more a bout local gr een ery t ha n
t he k ids-a t least h e's ha d to do some tall
limping to keep one j_u m p ah e~d o f 'emso he says. Net h as wntten a hrstory o f th e
OREGON STATE FOR ESTER
OSC I' orestry Club w hich is ava ila ble to interested a lu m ni.
i\U CITAEL 1 EWTON, an O SC gradu ate
of 1958 a nd a master's degree hold er o f
I!JGO, has joined the staff in a h alf and
hal( arra ngement. H alf the time he'll sp end
..on tinu ing his research on h erbicid es and
rheir forestry applications an d the other half
wil l he spent teach ing forest mensu ration ,
protection a nd watershed ma n agemen t i n
t he absen ce of J im Krygier. M ike is a n easterner who brings a 1 ew E ngl and knowledge
o f dai ry husbandry to Corvallis along wi t h
h is wife a nd family o f th ree .
.J O H N O 'LEA R Y is still attendi ng classes
keepi ng his Germa n u p to snu ff for his
in tend ed retu rn to Europe in three years. H e
p lans to a ttend t h e U n iversit y o( Munich
lo r a doctorate in forest engineering an d a
reacquaint an ce with a ll t he gasthanscs he
visi red befo re. J oh n contin ued h is forest en gineering work with t he BLM last sum me r
and n ow h as three graduate students doing
thesis work on some of their p roblem areas
in Sou t hem Oregon.
PAT PATTERSON, altho ugh officially
retired and teaching no longer, stops by the
School frequently en ough to unload his desk
and keep t h e FE departme n t on the stra igh t
an d na rrow . l'at is in good heal t h a n d looks
fit as a fiddle. Fo r mer students wi ll be sadd en ed 10 hear of M rs. Patterson's death this
yea r.
CASEY RANDALL h as the b ackyard of
t h e Forest ry b u ild ing j ust piled with pottings
of trees fo r t he small a rboretum ad j acent to
t he new b ui ld ing si te. H e r ep or ts th e w aterin g lines arc all la id in th e n ew a rea just
west o f the Mall so seedling set-ou ts w Ul
be m ade soon. Casey still keeps the studen ts
guessin g in tree iden tificatio n and w i ll be
un his toes in preparation for a new four
cred it dendrology class next year com bining
1ree id cn t, I'- 1!)3, a nd dendrology, F-253.
DAN ROBI NSON b as been a ppoin ted
chair man of t he special study comm illcc appoin ted by t h e State Board o f Forestry to
st ud y forest protection systems in Oregon .
During t he past summer, D an and his family
i nvestigated t h e b ack countr)' fishery a n d
forestry ha b itats in eastern Oregon a nd
so uthem B.C . Tt was sh eer coinciden ce that
n umerous forest fires in these areas broke
ou t o n 1he heels of 1he R obinsons fora ys.
CH UCK SUTHERLAND a nd fa m ily traveler! to Gulfport, Mississippi, to visi t C huck's
p aren ts last summer d ropp ing t he youngest
o ff with l\large's mother in I daho. R ather
th an ba tt le with 3 youngsters in the car,
t h ey took t h e tra in a nd match ed t h e tr ain
crew against th e kids. In July, Ch u ck inhe rited t h e fanu fo rest p roducts m arke ting repor t
from Casey Randal l. T h is p lus work in a
market survey of ' •Vestern O regon sa wmills
and a fo rest taxa tion stud y keep h im busy.
T ONY VAN VLIET returned to Corvall is
from a year wi th Boh emia L umber Conrpan y
in I ime to fin ish some carpe n try work o n his
new home an d put in a lawn . T o ny's busy
wi th h is fu ll schedule for fo rest p rod ucts
cou rses ami is squeezi ng in a course in math ematical models an d some work i n engin·
e::r ing concepts.
BIL L WEST sp en t t h e sum m er visiting
fores try schools, forest pwducts lab, :md
ind ustria l cen ters throughout the n ation. H. ,~
was active on the national forest prod uct
week promotion a nd is busy p reparing for
p u b lication of an ind ex o f Forest products
articles. ll ill i ndicates cop ies o f this will b e
avai lable from the Sehoul n ext spring.
BILL WH EE LE R repon s the IHimbe r of
p rospecti ve st uden ts contacting the Schoo l
h as sh own a considerable increase d u ring the
(Continued on ;_.mge 16)
January, 1961
ORIEGO N ST ATE FOREST E R
P age Five
J an u ary, 1961
With the Classes . . . . . . . .
Mac's Corner--cont.
process, students shou ld become better men
t h an if they merely sat still w hile p rofs
poured in an "educa tion". i\lnch more can
be done a long this l ine to develop a sense
of in i tiative and confidence in st uden ts; an d
we prop ose to do it . . . . .
The SAF accreditation survey was com pl ime n tary on som e asp ects of the School's p ro gram , an d indicated some we a knes~es too.
O ne o f th e must obvious, a n d m ost d i([icn lt
to COITC(:l, is sp ace. Ecuonn1y in sta te govern m en ! h as so reduced th e construction b ud get
for t h e State System of lT igher Education
t h at a new fo restry build ing appears less
hopeful than i t d id a year ago. H owever, we
arc sti ll proceedi ng wit h p la ns for a new
Sl r uclll re . . . . . .
Real st rength wi ll he added to t h e school
h)• two developmen ts in resear ch . One is t h e
construction of the U.S. Forest Serv ice b iology laboratory, adjacent to onr new bui ld ing site al rhc southwest corner of the l\Iall
an d J effe rson Street. T he first of t hree u n its
wi ll be started later in the spring. Even tu ally
a considerable staff o f fo rest scientists wil l
he brough t to Corva ll is to man th e m il lion
dolla r laboratory. H he first h ave already
arrived.
The second developmen t g rew ou t o f an
eval ua tion o f t he p rogram at t he O regon
Fores t Research Center. A Com miu ee of t he
Cen ter's t wo advisory gro u ps asked D r. Frank
Ka u fe rt o f Min n esor a to an a lyze its work.
One o[ Ka ufert's con clusions was th a t the
p rogram would be strengthen ed by closer
ties w i th fure~try an d science research i n
progress a t Oregon State. At a la ter meeting
of t he evaluation committee \·Vi lliam Swilldells proposed that t he indust ry exp lore with
t he College the fea si bilit y of consolidaling
th e forest research efforts of t h e two agencies.
A ser ies of meetings in October an d November t horough ly in ves tigated t he pros and
cons. On November 28th th e Cen ter's Forest
P roducts and Forest Lands Advisory Com mi t tees, a n d t he Forest P roLecrion a nd Conservation Comm i ttee, voted unanimously to
consolidate the Cen ter with OSC. This w ill
require legislation since t he Cen ter n ow is
u n der jurisdiction of the Forest P rotection
and Con servation Com miuee. Jt is th e gen era l fee l ing that a combined resea rch program ca n he more effective t han separate
p rogram s. The sehoul is pleased at t he prospect of closer association with rhe Cen ter,
a nd, p roviding t ha t legislation permits, w ill
do everything possi b le to make t he consoli d ation reward ing. Ind ustry h as exp ressed a
cunsid cra b lc vole of confidence.
Service 1o foreSt!')' th rough shor t com·ses
continues to he an important p a rt of ou r
b usi ness. Aeri a l p h oto and variable p lot
cruising, so p opula r in previous years, will
b e g iven aga in in the n ext few months. Exact dates wil l be a nnounced in t h e journa ls.
Of sp ecial in terest was t he Sixteenth Yale
Jndustri<ll Forestry Semin ar, held here J a n uary Hi-27, in co -op era tion with the Sch ool.
\ Ve were happy to welcome the Vale p rogram here for the fi rst tim e. T he intent is
to rotate the Sem inar in Lhe fu t u re among
Cali(o m ia , Washi ngton, and OSC . . . . .
Despite such ph ys ical changes as the M U
expansion , su ch adm inislra rive ch anges as resea rch considerat ion, on e t h ing remains u ncha nged: We'll he j ust a~ hap p y as always,
Lu have you here on 1:-'ernhoppe r Day, Febr u ary 25, I!J<i l . T h e welcome mat is o u t, see
you th en.
- Mac
....
I 910
T. j . STARKE R writes, " De~n 1\Iac, R ay
13ruckart, long Lime forest ser vrce emp l oy~~:
and m yself were award ed " Award s of i\ lent
at the October meeting of the W illamcltc
chapter, SAF. T am sure all of appreciate
these awards very much . O n th e forestry
side, we h ave fo rmed a n in form al debati ng
society starting on th e q uestion of " to b u rn
o r n ot to b urn in july a nd August." O ther
forestry su bj ects have cre p t in. i\Jem bers a re
George Sch roeder, Rex ·wa kefie ~d_. Dav_e Bu rwe ll and th e P ro f. On the p olitrcal s1de we
have been o n the losi ng m a rgin on Kenn ed y,
[l uo ridizat io n a nd billboards. Still attend ing
meeti ngs o n th e p roper wayto tax o ur T TMll ER. Someday, m ayb e."
1913
WALT L. D UTTON repor ts that he has
just comple ted an ot her tour wit h fore ig-n
foreste rs-this time with e ight J apan ese fur
about t wel ve tho usan d m iles in F.astern
and Western U.S. H e regrets th at h e was
away fro m ' ·Vashi ngton dm·ing t he SA F
meeting in lovember an d cou ld not see
Dean i\Jac a nd t he other old grads at t he
Oregon State IImch eon a t that tim e.
19 14
L YNN F. CRO NMILLE R was honored
at a retirem en t party on his 70th birth day
Novem ber 9, 1960, wh en over I 50 of Ius
fri en ds a nd fellow employees h elped h im
celebr ate a su ccessful fores try career as an
O regon State Board. of Forestry employee:
Lynn h as worked w1 th th a t agenC)' for 3G
years and has held job s incl uding th e State
Forester a nd Assista n t Sta te Forester . Dunng
the past 5 years he directed . th e pu b lic _rel,rt ion s work. l m mcdlatel )' after g 1ad uatron
Lynn wen t to work on the Fremont ation al
Forest as a d istrict ran ger. Lack of federal
fi na nces ended that position and he soon
took over as man agin g ed itor of the Lakeview Examiner. Ind ustrial forestry work soon
beckoned and he ser ved a stin t with Weyerh aeuser in Idah o and as logging superintenden t for the Eastern Oregon L umber
Comp any. Soon th e State of Oregon h ired
hi m as a Depu ty State Forester w here he
was active in establishing t he E ll iott Sta te
Forest t h rough an exch a nge of scattered
School lands to obta in solid ownership patterns. In 1930 th e Board of Forestr y named
Cron em il lcr State Forester. In 1933 he took
p art in th e o rgan ization of the CCC. At o ne_
t ime here in Oregon , the State lloa rd o[
l'orestry was d irecting t he work o l' fo urteen
cam ps wi t h 200 men each. C rone was Stale
FOt·est·er d u ring the d isastrous Ti lla~ook
Fire an d was a m em ber of t he comnuttee
which was active in establishing t he sn ag
falling an d forest permit legisla tion soon a fterward. In 1935 Lynn transferred to o t ~er
work i n t he D epar tm ent along techmcal
a nd public relations lines. '"'h en th e dep art·
m cn t was reorgan ized in 1940, he was appoin ted assista n t state forester i n ch arge of
the m anagemen t d ivision. He and !Jis wife,
Christine will con tinue thei r residen ce i n Salem , except for b r ief per iods of u·aveling.
Cron e, between jobs as a forest con su l tan t,
pla ns to co m p lete his book on Lbe history
of forest r y in Oregon .
'19I 7
DAVID M . W ILSON, Linnton, O regon
WILLIA M J AMES "J IM MY" O'NEIL is
sl i II teaching fores try and rep orts he now
h as two grandsons a nd t wo granddaugh ters.
D uring a two clay v isit in Hea r t of the V~l ­
lcy in July h e m e t with J oe Chamberlin ,
(Con tinued i n 3rd column)
OBITUARIES
ELLIS S. CO MAN,
class of 192 1, p assed away i n 1959,
h u t t he Associa tio n did n o t lea rn of
this u n til recently. Although E ll is was
a logging eng i neerin ~ major,. his _ca·
recr was spent as a c1trus £nul rarser
in Sou th ern California . 1\ t the tim e
of h is dea th , he was assistan t secretary and m anager o f th e Citrus ComIIIOdity G rou p .
O W E N R. CHRISTIAN SEN,
cl ass of 1948, was killed i n a sp eed boat accident in D arvel Bay, North
llorneo, in D ecember, 19.:;9. At th e
time, Owen was logging superintend ent for Kennedy .Bay T imber Company Lim i ted. H e gr aduated in log·
ging engineering a n d h ad worked_ f~r
H assler L umber Com p an y and h ·u1t
Growers Su pp ly Company in California before accepti ng the fore ig n em·
ploym en t.
H ENRY W I LLIAM F REED, class of
1941 , d ied D ecember 20, I !J60, in a
T.ongview, '..Vashin gton , hospita l of a
heart a uack h e su ffered se veral d ays
be fore . Bill, a loggin g en gineering
gra d ua te, was m a nage1.: of t he _Lon vie w Fibre Com pa n y's t rm ber d iV ISIOn .
H e had been with tha t concern since
1945 wh en he ca me there as logging
en g ineer. Previously h e h ad worked
for Ostrander R ailwa y and T im ber
Company a t Molla la , Oregon. H is sm··
vivors incl ude h is wife, Evelyn ; a nd
two ch ildren , " ' illiam and Gretch en .
ROY C. GIBSO N,
class of 1926, d ied in Portland, O regon , J une l !i, 1960, after ~ long i_llness
with can cer. R oy, a loggm g en gmccr·
ing gradu ate, held posi tions wi th Bluedel-Donovan L umber Compan y, Sn ellstrom Lumber Comp a ny, Long-Bell
Lumber Compan y, a nd lVI &: l\I Woodworking Co., througlu:lllt Oregon an~
Washing ton before stnkmg o u t o n l11s
own as a con sultant in 1954 . His consul ting finn prospered a nd before long
he was en gaged i n logging and road
construction, a s a m aj or aspect of h is
business.
R EN W . SCHUBER'I',
class of 1916, died ] u ne 9, 1960, o f
a heart attack suffered d ur ing his
work in the Sa lmo n R iver coun try of
Idaho. A forest eng ineering graduate,
he served overseas in \ Vorld \ Var J.
Upon his return to the U.S., he was
employed as an en gineer b y the Oregun State Highway Cu= ission , th e
Union P acific R ailroad, and t he Idaho
State H igh way Depar tment. He spe n t
2!.-2 years i n N or th Afri~a with ~ l or ­
r ison -Kn udsen as a prOJect eng111cer
and retu rned to t he States in 1953.
lien was em ployed by the I d ah o Sta te
F ish a nd Game Com m ission a t the
time of h is death. H e is survived by
h is wife a nd t wo m a rried d augh ters.
class of ' 15. J immie asks, "wh ere a rc i\lark
\\'righ t. Olaf Jon eson . Tom m y Van Orsrlel.
.. Coop .. Span lrl ing and ··n url<-·· Hutklirr! ..
191!1
STAN Sll llLI E t·ep or ls [rom San l' rancisco
1hat he 's still opera ting the Smilie Co. at
53G l\fission St. It's ~ retail camping_ gear
outfit. l-I e sends greetmgs to all h1s fnen ds.
192I
CA RL A. R ICKSON, m anager of the Culu lll bia R iver Log Scaling and G rad ing .Bureau, h as h is resid e nce a t 908 SW Sta rk, P Ort·
land 5, O regon .
.EL LSWORT H S. YOUNG, a fter 47 years
in th e North west woods, is trading his caulks
for stockm en 's b oots. A native O regonia n ,
Rrig grew to manhood in th e sawdust atmosphere of Portland, Ash land, a n d Castle
Rock. Allho ugh h e star ted school at OSC:
in 19 1•1, ' 'Vorld ' 'Var I inte rru p ted h is college ca reer and he didn't grad,u at~ until I~2 1
as a me m ber of t he sch ool s fi rst loggrng
engi neering class. H is overseas a ssig!"l l~l~ tll
includ ed work in the fa med forestry d iVISIOn
command ed by Colon el " ' · B. Greeley. After
gradu ation he was logginl\' engineer with
the Longbell, l\leh am a Loggmg, Oregon r:ogging a nd T im be r Co., J ohn Kernan Logg1ng,
Green i\lountain Logging Co., and Clark
an d Wi lson Lu mber Co . ln 1927 he was
named logging super in tendent fo r i\l cCor mick Lnmber Co. a nd d irected these activi ries until 193-!. Durin g Lhe n ext few years,
Brig operated as at~ independ c n ~ con tract
logger and a road bui!de1: a nd , d u n ng World
\~' ar II, was a partner 111 a P o rtlan d sawmil l. In 194<1 he joined Crown Zeller bach
whe re h e was rapidly mo ved to t h~ positiO~I
of lugging superin ten de nt for _th e Slitcoos d l·
vision . At the time o f hrs retn·cm en t he was
in c harge of the Britwoo~l B~uck operat io!1s
an d d irected t he compa ny s Lm coln and T II Ialllook t ree farms a s well as th e SiltcoosTahkeni tch tree fa rm. H e xep o rts from
Route 2, Box 7A, Ban ks, O re., that h e a n d
h is wife h ave b u ilt a new honse o n a 70acrc fa rm where he will hang h is h at whi le
he does some con sul ting work m ixed with
a li tt le fann ing and . fish i ng. Brig repor~~
h unting was good . thrs last yea r a 1~d h e s
p lann ing on auenchng t h e banc1uct 111 Feb ruary where he hopes to see Ius classmates
a n d friends.
1923
R OBER T P . CONKLIN is sti ll help ing
run t h ings at Cascades P lywood Corporation ,
Portland , O regon, wh ere h e is vice p reside n t.
MARK W . D UN H AM, 2705 S.E. River
R d., Portlan d, O regon , h as r ecen tly retired .
F.R l EST W RIGHT rep orts h e's passed
his t hird yea r wit h t h e O regon Fo rest R e·
search Center and enjoy ing t h e work as
n ruch as ever. H e rep o rts t h at th ey' ve made
som e real p rogress on m ycorrhiza_l . stud ies,
but still h ave a lon g way to go. V rs1to rs are
welco111e a t an y tillle.
1924
W ILLET E. GRIFF EE was n amed Secretary-Man ager of th e ' •Ve_stern ~ine Association , Portland, O regon, m Apn l. .
CLAUDE KERR , 2108 W. Foot hr ll , R oseb u rg, O regon .
C LARENCE C. STRONG, l\fesa, Arizon a.
1925
E. ' "· BA LDERREE wr ites, " O wner a nd
m anager of retail lu mber yard at Springfield,
Oregon ; h ave been h ere for twen ty years.
fi n a lly reach ed the age w hen I take more
vacation s a nd, al though I love m y work, th e
wi fe an d I l ike to travel and am so doing."
MILLAR D P. H ALE, Box 157, Morgan
H il l, California.
VER N E. M cDAN IE L reports fJ.·om t~e
Oregon Forest Nursery n orth of Corvallis
Page Six
th a t h e's ~t t he same place but KCttinK a
little olde r.
GEORG E SPAUR is now forestry <Jtlviser
to th e government of Tu rkey and is station ed in A nkara. His mailing address is A 1'0 .
l CA,% P.lVI., New Yor k, N.Y.
1926
ERNEST E. FISCHER, '1315 S.E. 35th .
Por t land 2, Oregon.
HERCHEL C. OBYE retired in July from
his posi tion of forest supervisor of the Sisk iyou Nat ional Forest. He makes his home at
3020 L ower River Road, Grants Pass, O regon.
1927
R . 13ETRA M FEHREN, 311 1 Barpide
Drive, Corona D el Mar, California .
J AY ll . HANN reports from Ogden, Utah ,
that he's doing fire planning work and ass isting w ith regional fire disp atching for
the R egional Office of the U .S. Fores t Sei·vice.
WALTER H . LUND, ass istant reg·ional
fores t er in charge of the timber manageme nt
division in P ortla nd, O regon, was recen tly
cited for establishi ng a exemplary record of
leadership in nat iona l forest timbe r resource
administration and has received a super ior
service award f rom the U.S. Deparllnent of
Agriculture. L und, a n ative of ·warren, Oregon , has worked con tinuously for the Forest
Service s ince grad ua tion. He's been a district
ranger on the Snoqualamie N a t ional Forest
and has d one tim ber management work on
the Olympic National Forest. ln 1936 h e
was p romoted to logging e ngineer in the
regional office, and in 1939 b ecame supervisor of the vVcna tchee Nationa l Forest. In
1942 he returned to Pmtland where h e has
been continuou sly invo lved in tim ber management work.
ALVIN C. OLSEN WJ·ites, "A nother year
go ne by. Nothing star tling new he re. I a m
in the bes t of health a nd enjo)' my second
cat·eer, the land tit le business, ver y much I
[eel qu ite out of touch with l ogging a nd
lumbering, so I am always glad to h ear
th r u the newsletter and o therwise a bout
those in these and allied professions. I do,
on occasion, com e in con ta ct wi th the m en
at the headquarters of the Tahoe National
Forest, a stone's throw from my h ome in
Nevada City."
ALVIN L. PARKER, fa rm fo rester for the
State Forestry Departmen t at Oregon City,
Oregon, with offices with the C lackamas
Com1ty E x te ns ion Agcn t, Post Office 13uild ing, Oregon C i ty, writes, "have been fa rm
forest er at this l ocation sin ce .July I , 1945.
A rea serviced is Clackamas and Multnomah
counties, where nea rly 3,500 fa r m and oth er
sm all woodland owners, plus m an y woodland operators, are located. \•Vhile m a n y of
th ese have been served during this period,
none have had identical forest management
problems. Since no two woodlands are e xactly similar, a nd n o two owners react th e
same, nor a re physi cally or fi nancially equa l ,
the work of a fa rm forester is a con lin uous
challenge."
I928
S. C . JONES, an OSC professor of entomology, has been e lected to a three-year term on
th e executive committee of the Pacific Coast
b ranch of the E ntomological Socie ty of
America.
PHILLIP L. P AI NE, 4390 S.W. !96t h Ave.,
Aloha, Oregon.
HECTOR A. RICHMO N D , R.R. 2. N anaim o, B .C., Canada.
HAROLD WEAVER was p romoted to for est management planning for the Bureau of
Ind ian Affairs in October. H e is still statio n ed in Por tland, Oregon.
OR!EGON STATE FORESTER
1929
T. W ...T O RY" C HILDS wri tes, "Still doing bus in ess a t t he o ld s ta nd : PN\ •V forest·
and Range F.xperiment Station, Portland.
Oregon. One son is in th e A rmy but anxiou s
to get back to his civil eng ineering job. The
or her son is a freshman a t \ rl'il lamct te. The
grandson isn 't interested in anything except
bclllg fed and changed. "
LESLIE D . LLOYD, last O ctober, was adviso r Lo the Yugoslav Govern ment where h e's
h elp ing them on logging, road const r uction ,
and machinery selection . H is m aili ng ad~h·css is Flying L. Ranch, Glen wood, \•Vashmgton .
LEST ER J . l'vfcl' H E R SON was tra nsferred
to the vah1a1 ion section, d ivision of timber
management of the regional o ffice of the
U.S. Forest Ser vice in Portland, Oregon, in
Ju ly . H e and his family h ave purch ased a
home at 222 1 S.E. Elliot Street.
PHILIP C . J OHNSO N wri tes, "S till leade r of the l'vl issoula Forest Insect Laboratory,
I n ter-moun tai n Forest and Range Exp e riment Station, U .S. Forest Sen•ice, Missoula,
Montana . P resident this year of the Missoula
Federal Business Associa t ion. Son, David A.,
22, is a junior in journalism at th e U niversity of Washington. Son, R onald G., 19, is
completing his second and last year i n the
lJ.S. 1avy preparatory to begi nning college
next year."
G LENN VOORHIES resigned his posi t ion
as genera l manage r, E m pire Tim ber Treat ing Company, R ivert on , \r\lyoming.
193'1
A LBERT AR NST wri tes, "No change in
professional a ffiliation. Am still editor of
THE T IMBERMAN, located in I'ortland ,
Oregon. Ou r big event of the year was the
Fifth \ •Vorld Forestry Congress, held i n Seattle, i •Vash. Two kids in high school; one
in college." His a ddress is 731 SW Oak St.,
P orlland, Oregon.
H AROLD BOWERMAN w rites, "Administering th e 23 sk i a reas on Forest Ser vice
lands of region six. Two additional hills are
reaching the boi lin g p o int. Both Mt. Baker
a nd Steven s Pass now have a 105 . mm recoilless ri(le and ammunition in place fo r avala nch e control. Mountain- rescue liaison work,
special usc permits for winter sports a reas,
and vector con trol round out a f ull-time ass ignmen l.
WILLI AM F. CUMMINS was transferred
this Janua r y to Portland, Oregon, whe1·e
he'll assume fire trespass and law enforce m en t responsib il ities in the division of fire
control fo r the reg io nal office o f th e U .S .
Forest Service. His wife, Helen , and thei r
four children will be nuking the move a lso.
Bill has worked fo r the Bureau of Plant
Indus try as well as the l 'or est Se r vice and
has been in other regions of the U .S . in
t hese assignmen ts. He moved to Prin eville
in HJ59, where he filled his current assign ment as district Tanger.
H E N RY I'. DR E\r\IFS writes, "Married
Ma rj or ie L. Ste rns, OSC '31. Two sons: H e nr y Jr. and Ralph M. Am sti ll in the material
cou trol section of Bonu eville Power Adminis t ra tion . Henry .Jr. graduated from t he U .S.
JVfilitary Acad em y at \•Vest I>oin t t his June
and is now assigned t o 4th Infantry Di vision,
Fort Lewis, W ashi ngton. Ralph i s in his
second year at \•Ve st P oint. In the spare time,
I am rernodcling the famil y summer h ome
on Lake Oswego .
ROLAN D H. FERGUSON is no w forest
economist at the Northeast Forest Experim ent Stat ion's Division of Fores t Economics
Research at Upper Darby, Pennsylva nia. Roland joined the Forest Service in 1934 and
has ser ved in the South e rn pine and Douglas-fir regions until I945, at which time h e
J a nuary, 1961
J a nua r y, 1961
was t ransfe r red to forest s urvey work. H e
was rcccnrly senior a u t hor of the booklet,
"The Timber R esources of Maine··. H e resides at 7 13!i C larendon R oad. Drexel Hill,
Pen nsy lva nia .
I. A WR E NCE F . H AJ\riiLTON w rites from
4u0-l Robin Aven ue N .E., A lb uq uerque, New
Mexico, "'Same job, address, a nd employer.
Only thing· different is t hat the wife and I
Loured parts of eleven sta tes in O ct. The
ha rdwood s were beautiful. Enroute s top ped
al the Ma r lin Arboret um at Nebraska City.
iVIr. Martin was fo under of Arbor D ay . It is
a beautiful a nd in teresting place. Have won dered wh ere R aymond \ r\fiest of o ur class
may be?"
ALA 1 A. McCREADY is staff assistan t
for range and Tecreation work on Stanislaus
Na tiona l Forest. One son is a fish biologist
with th e Stat e Fish and Came comlllission
and another son and da ughter at the U niversi t y of California. Alan repoTts he sees
classmate Roy Blomstrom occasionally.
VONDIS E. MILLER, fo rest s upervisor
of the Um pqua National F orest at Roseb urg,
Oregon , reports tha t many l'ernhoppers pass
t h rough town w here the " Blazed Trail" and
U.S. Highway 99 meet. H e indicates part
of them come in or call.
A LLEN C. SMITH , 31!i Lindero Ave.,
Med ford , O regon , writes, " I will have been
with Medford Corporat ion since t he summer
of 1958, as logging a nd timber manager, b ut
a big part of my duties this summer has
been to help build a plywood plan t. My only
worry is a comple te lack of grandchildren
b u t .~n y wife says I'm still too young for
t h at.
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H F.NR Y N . CORY, forest engineer, Haskin
Wood P rod ucts, Swisshome, Oregon.
H ARRY 1\ . FOWELLS writes, "Family
grown and away from home. The yo ungest,
Ji m , is expected home from the servi ce in
Marclt. No grandchildren . Just finished trip
around the world and will be going East before Christmas for 2 mo nths. Saw m any interesti ng things and m et some nice p eople."
ORRIE W. HANSO N is with t he U.S.
Forest Ser vice in Atlan ta, Georgia. H is rcsiclencc is 474 L akeshore Dr.
I.EE 0 . H U N T w rites, "Jus t completed
28th year with U n cle Sam! Includes summer
work with BPI BRC, USFS-Region 3, SCSCalifo rnia, and llLM Oregon. Major interest
still forest reg·e neration especially new and
improved tech niques. Couple more yea rs a nd
I ' ll devote ful l time to it privately. Daug hter
graduated from OSC l ast June; second
daughter freshman at i •Villamette; son is a
7th grader."
SI MERI E. J AR VI b ecame fores t s upervisor of the A ngeles Nationa l Forest in Pasadena, California in J anuary, 1960.
J AMES W. K I MMEY wri tes, "Saw and
vis ited w i t h many old F ernh oppers at t h e
World Forestry Congress in Seattle. Hazel
and I are s till with U .S . Forest Ser vice in Og-den, Utah. Our youn gest son, John, h as finish ed his Navy duty and is a ttending college
in Mexico C ity."
CLARENCE V. LOVI N, 2104 S.W . Spring,
Portland , Oregon.
MERLE S. LOWDEN, director of fire
control fo r the Forest Ser vice in \•Vash ing ton,
D.C., w rites, "I mad e trips aro und the count r y th is year including one to Alaska . Oregon Stat e fores te rs are ever ywhere a nd doing well. My fores ters · turned o ut to be two
daughters w ho are in th e Universit y of North
Carol ina and American University."
\!ELDON A. PARKER is now doing man ag-eme n t analysis work in the Chief's office
of the U.S. Forest Servi ce in Washington,
D.C. H e has bee n with the Forest Service
,.r
con t inuously since gradua tion and has worked in Californ ia in various assignments on
t he Modoc, Plumas, Shast a, and Lassen N a tional Forests and has been training a nd
safety officer fo r t he region .
M. L. TEDRO\•V was transferred to the d ivision o[ lands of the Regiona l Forester's office in Portland , Oregon , where he heads
u p the section of land adjust me nt a nd classification .
1933
GAIL C. BAKER wri tes, " 1 am a t present
assigned to the regional office of t he U .S .F.S.
in Portland, Oregon. For the past 2\12 years
l have been assistan t ch ief of the divis ion
of fire con trol fo r the region . l'vfy w i fe and
I and t lu-ee chi ldren , J ohn , ] im , and Heverly,
live at 1300 S.E. Chestnut St., Beaverton ."
EMM ETT R . CAL VE RT is staff specialis t
o n a s upervisor's s ta ff at the Six Riven National Forest in Eureka, Ca lifornia.
HF.NRY H . HOJ'v[OLAC is forester with
the Bureau of Land Managemen t a t Coos
Ray, Oregon.
MERLE S. l\I OORE, 216 1 S. Madison, Eu gen e, Oregon .
WILLlAI\I N. P ARKE wr ites from Was h ington. D.C., ''Still 'recrea t ing' wit h OPERATION OUTD OORS, a nd continue to run
in to F ernhopp crs whom 1 h aven't seen s ince
graduation from OSC . Needless to say, all
a re mak ing fine records. JVIy famil y still Tesid es in Virginia. "
NORMAN 1~ . SP ANGENBER G wri tes,
"No cha nge since the last n ewsletter. Still assistant chief, division o f personnel management, U.S. Forest Service, 630 Sansomc St.,
San Fra ncisco. Mrs. S. (Betty \•\falters '1!3)
and I Jive a t 29 Angela Ave ., San Au sel ino,
California . W e're in the Marin County
phone book. One son , Earl, is now in t he
Schoo l of l0 ores try at OSC."
H . J. STEWAR T is now Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. 1\rmy a nd i n Ma rch was
residing a t 406 Murray Avenue, Ft. Totten ,
:>9, New York.
C .H . WILLISON has been in t he Portland area for ahou t 2 years aft er he wor ked
10
years
in
the
Olympic
Penins u la.
T heir residence is at Vancouver, \•Vashin gto n .
T wo of th ei r fo ur ch ildren are a t Lewis and
Clark College in P ortland. Al present he is
staff ad vis ing on C row n Zellerb ach 's Oregon
and vVashing ton timberlands which he says
k~cps him busy.
1934
STAN LEY BISHOPR l CK w ri tes from
Portland, Oregon, "A 11 I ever seen1 to do is
work and then more o f it. The market is so
had it is even difficul t to sell those that
don ' t even intend to p ay. H we coul d just
sleal t he timber, get the crew to work for
I ~ss. beat U nc le out of the taxes, a n d sell
for hi gher prices to cash customers. we wou lei
come ou t all right. Of cou rse n ow with t he
D emocrat s in, t he money isn ' t going to be
wor th a n yt h ing an yway."
LARRY E. CHAPMAN writ es, "After doing our level best to a void paying- al l onr
money in ins u rance premiums we arc t rapped into working for a n insurance com pany
to pay fo r our t imber. They a re e verywhere:
guess we'll have to join 'e 111."
' GEORGE W. CHURCHILL, who 's doing
recreation pla nning and s uper vision for the
regional office of t he U .S. Forest Ser vice,
Portland , Oregon, ' vrites, "\•\fife, llee, is
teaching a nd counseling at L ake _Oswego
High School; o ldes t so11, T om! MS m_ electrica l e ngineering from OSC, 1s now m research work wi th th e U nited Research, Hanturd, Connecticut a nd married; Frank is a
j unior in elect r ical en ~ in eer it_1g at OSC; ~nd
youngest son, J ohn, 1s a JUnior 111 lugh
OREGON STATE FORESTER
school. All are well and h appy. T h e latch
s tring is always out."
J OE LA MMI wr i tes, "The highlight o( the
year for m y family (two boys and wife) a nd
m yself was a short visit to O regon in late
July. It was th e western tcrminns of a ver y
en joya ble journey t ha t started in Swit zerland in March, took ns to Portugal , then
1orth
to
Caroli na where t hree pleasant
months were sp en t with the School of Fores try, a nd finall y a transcontinental a u to trip
to Utah and O regon. "\'Ve t·eturned to Geneva
b y way of Scotla nd and England and wound
up the season with an excursion through
13avaria , A ustria a nd Liechtens tein. In the
lalc fall l was fortunate in ge tting a week of
official business in eastern Austria and Vie rma , inspecting fores t indus tries that were
b uilt since the war. i' dany of th em received
American aid and benefi ted from the most
modern eq uipmen t a nd technological developments."
FRED LEi\IF.RY writes, " Logging an d road
contractor wi I h operation s in Oakridge and
Gold 13each , O regon. Two boys in fores t r y
school a t OSC. D a ughter in Por t land has
three children. Ten-year-old daugh ter at
home in E ugene ."
KERMIT i •V. LINSTEDT writes, " Watersh ed management st ill occu pies full time.
De mands are even greater wi th famli y growing u p . H ome contin ues to be 3464 N .E .
U.S. Grant Place, Portland, O regon."
JOHN R . PHTL13RICK was promoted to
forest s upervisor of the Siskiyou Nation al
F oresl", Gra n ts Pass, Oregon, in July.
I935
C LARENCE W . RICHEN, Northwest t imb e r operations manager for Crown 7.ellerbach Corp .• P ortland, Oregon , was elected
presid ent of t he i n d ustria l F ores try Association a t its 2oth annual meeting in Portland.
H e was a lso appointed to t he D ep artment
of Agricu lt m e "s forestry research advisory
co1nmitl ce w h ere he w ill b e one of t he fores t industry representa tives on the I ! -member commit t ee.
MARIO N N. NANCE writes, " Stil l in !he
appraisa l busin ess. Th e older hoy graduated
[rom \ •Vest Po int last J une, and the yo unger
one now attending VVSU, where I cont acted
H ome r Off on Dad's Day for the first I im e
in quite a few years. "
LF.S CU MMINGS in April , I 960, was a p p oin ted to act in a s u pervisory capacity t o
direct t he organiza t ion of the Klama th Indian Agency pro tectio n unit for the Oregon
State Board of Forestry. J.es is the Board 's
chief inspector for all sou thwest Oregon
sou th of Linn Co unty.
CEORGE H . SCH ROF.DF.R wh o is with
the Crown Zelle rbach ti m ber d epa r tm e nt
writes, " Enjoying term on O regou State
Board of Forestry wor ki ng wit h Dan Robinson . Vince Bo usque t. Frank Sargent and
l~ d Sch roeder on stud y o f forest protection
in Oregon . Committee to make recomm e n dat ions to the Board for changes, if any. Son ,
Neil, is onl of college teaching m a th. Daughter, Nan cy, is teaching mus ic and working
for h er mas ters in voice. Son, George, in
grade school for the fi na l year. Wife, C lara ,
is secretary o[ Sherwood Chamber of ComJn cr ce."
H .-\l.E T. SLAYTO 1 , Box CiCi7, Rainier,
Oregon.
1936
VERN O N A. FRIDLEY writes, "Th e year
has been a busy and prosperous one for us.
I am still wi th !'.G. and E., and the future
looks good. Saw several of t he 'Cl ass of 36'
last A ng·nsl. w h ile t raveling in Oregon. Our
big in te rest is in Vernon J r. w h o graduates
t his MarciL v\lho k nows, he m ay be working
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wi th some of you fellows in years to com e."
ELMON W. HOWARD re tired January
I 960, from the U.S. Forest Service. His h ome
is 2!J20 S.W . J23rd, B ea verton, Oregon.
ED WARD H . MARSHALL w1·ites, " Promoted LO ass istant direct or, co-operative fire
con trol program , U.S .F.S., Washington , D .C.,
a nd moved from Portland, O regon , to \•Vash ington in Au g ust, 1960. Our n ew address i s
'1434 S. 34th St., Arlington 6, Virginia. Our
three daughters and three gran children still
in the Portla nd -Corvallis area. Son, Ed, plans
to follow in Dad's footste ps and become a
Fo rester, Fernhopper variety. Ed has worked in nat ional forests both in Oregon and
Washington and was in th e regional for esters office until his recent promotion."
ROBERT H . MEALEY is district ranger
a l the lllue River District of the Willamette
National .Forest at M cKe nzie Bridge, Oregon .
Hi s son , William R ., recen tly enrol led a t the
School of Fores try at Corvallis.
1937
R AYMON D BENNETT resides at I 107 E.
8t h Street, Bend, Oregon, and works on th e
Deschu tes National Forest.
VA L GARDNER reports he's still manager
at the R osboro Lbr. Co. H is daughter was
married last year and his son is going to the
Un iversit y of O regon wh ere he is a junior in
liberal arts. Last year Val took a vacation
trip to H awaii.
SAMUEL J. MAMMONO sold his beach
motel and natatorium at R ockaway and has
gone into real estate development in the
Northeast section of Portland, Oregon.
AN DY MORRO\•V writes, "L ive on Morrow 13ros., I nc., Ranch near Madras with
wife and two son s. R ecently retun1ed n·om
a six-week obse r vation trip to India, Pakistan and J3m·ma with addi t ional s tops at
H o ng Kon g and Tokyo as vVcstern Wheat
Associates, Inc., represen tative on a threem a n tea m sponsored by the Foreign Agric ul t ure Service and vVheat Associa tes. Com plet ed a ter m a s pres ident of Oregon v\lheat
Growers Leagu e i n December.
ASH LEY. A. POUST is forest sup erv isor
at the D eschutes Na tion a l I•"orest. His headq uarters is at B end , Oregon .
ANGUS L. WARE is loggi ng superinten d e nt with Frer es Lumber Compa ny at L yons,
Oregon. His residen ce is 107 E . Hmnett St.,
Sta yto n.
W ILLIA M A. WELDER. who's fores ter
and manager of t he Burney Forest for the
Fruit Growers Supply Com pan y in Bm·ney,
Shasta County, California, writes his three
daugh ters are taking to educat ion in a big
way. L ynne, 19, is taking nurs ing a t the O regon Medical School in Portland; Jane, 16,
is a j unior in h igh school and Ka th y, 10, is
in element ary school. Paul Rooney, class of
!iG, is a n a ssis tant on the forest wi th Bill.
FRANK C. WHEELER , assistant fores ter
with Edward H ines Lumber Co.'s pine division a t I-lines, Oregon , writ es, "win ter is sett ing in, but j ust t he way we like it . Market
cond itions " rough ", b u t we have h ope for
"61'. Hope lo m ake the l' ernhopper Banquet
this year."
1938
RODE RIC K K. BLACK E R is fores t supei·visor of the Shoshone Na tional Forest a t
Cody, \•Vyom ing.
K. K . 13LAC KER is a colonel in the armed
forces and may be reached through Gen eral Delivery, Ft. Monroe, V irgin ia.
J O H N S. BRANDIS was elevated to senior
vice president in ch arge of timberland and
p rodu ction for Gcorght-Pacific Corporat!on ,
Portland, Oregon, las t August. Jack res1des
at 545 N. 34 St. in Corvallis.
R ALPH W . DEMPSEY extends a n invitation from Pasay C i ty in the P hilippines for
January, 1961
ORIEGON STATE FORESTER
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Oregon Staters passing through Manila to
contact him in advance so he can arrange
a gu ided tour. Ra lph is an exporter of Phil ippine logs and lumber and his address is
1902 Sandejas.
C. H . HARRINGTON was promoted to
log buyer and seller for the Tillamook Division of the Crown Zellerbach Corporat ion
at Tillam ook, Oregon, last J uly. George
writes that he's in the heart of the " la nd
of t rees, cheese and ocean breeze." He's raising chinchillas as a hobby; fishing and hunti ng every moment of his spare time.
C. DOUGLAS HOLE is assistant state conservationist working with watersheds for the
slate of Idaho a t its h eadquarters in Roisc.
EVAN E. JONES works in the supervisor's office of the ' •Villamette National Forest
in Engcne, Oregon.
DAVID KERR, Remsen, Iowa, dropped a
line to the School of Forest ry from Moscow,
Russia. Dave was touring Russian farms with
a group of farmers from I owa_
FRANK H . KI NCAID , Lakeside, Oregon.
ROBERT M. KING is assistant superint endent of Crown Zellerbach's Clatsop Tree
Farm at Seaside, Oregon.
BERNARD McCLENDON writes thai he's
still in the automobile business a nd now a
cou nty supervisor along w i th o ther duties.
H e logged off t he south forty and will move
into th e north forty come spring.
ERNEST P . TAYLOR, vice president a nd
general manager of the First Pacific Lumber
Corp ., Newport, Oregon ., writes, "Elected
director o[ the Oregon Logging Conference
last year. Married 20 years: two boys to show
for i t. Oldest st arting to play high-school
football. Don"t get to see the old Fernhoppcr gan g much as I'd like lo. Stop in Newport on your way through. The la t ch-string
is always out at 772 N.E. Chambers Drive."
GLENN A. T H OMPSON writes he is assistant regional forester with the U.S.F.S_, Region 8 in A tlanta , Georgia. On November I
he changed from chief, division of f ire con trol to division of water, wildl ife , range and
multiple usc co-ordinator. H e says the southeast is a foreste r's dreamland for pract icing
his profession .
H ERIIERT A. YOCOi\1 , officer in ch arge,
Birmingham Researd1 Cen ter, Sout hern Forest Experim ent Station, U.S. Forest Ser vice,
writes , "Our research is on the problems encountered in the pine-hardwood mountain
region in North Alabama. There are four
pi ne s pecies growing together here-l oblolly, shortleaf, longleaf, an d Virginia . Ha ve
been at this location 14 years. Vacationed
with th e wife and fonr children in Oregon
in August, 1960."
1939
GlLRERT M. RO"VE, who is partner in
a consu ltin g forestry finn of Mason Bruce &
Girard, Portland, wril"es to say that one
daughter is a senior now a t San .Jose State
College, another daughter is a freshman at
\•Villamette Un iversity a nd their only son is
developing into an embryo forester.
J . \oV. DEYOUNG is in ch arge of the pole
lin e construction fo r Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph and lives at 67G8 S . W. Bancroft,
Portland 25, Oregon.
CH ARLES L. FOSTER and his wife, Mary
Jo Cai rns, class of '40, are living at Veneta,
(>regon . Chu ck is logg ing superintendent for
International P aper Company on their
Vaughn operations. Their daughter, Molley L., entered OSC in 1959.
MYRL A. HAYGOOD writes, "I a m st ill
ma intaining a home for my semi-inval id
mother at G70 West Main Sn·eel in Philomath, Oregon., and working in the Philom ath Post Office_"
FRANCIS L. HICOK is with the Air
Force Ballist ic Missi le Division at Los A ngeles, California.
0 . KEITH H UTCH INSO N is in charge of
forest s urvey work for the Alaska Forest Reseraclo Center in Juneau , Ala ska.
OR VAL JESS, district ranger, Cascadia
ra nger district, \•Villamctt e National F orest,
writ es from Sweet H ome, Oregon, " Our oldest daughter, I'amela, is a senior in high
schoo l; our boy, James, is a freshman; and
our you ngest daughter, Janelle, is in th e
lith grade. I'm a member of the Sweet Home
Union High School board . We all keep
busy."
JOE 1\•f. LEBO is logging manager w i th
the ]<eat h cr Falls Division of Georgia-Pacific
Cor poration at Feather Falls, California.
ST ANTON E. LYON, who is resident water scaler in the Hood River area for t he
Columbia River Log Scaling and Grading
Bureau, writes, " Planted the 'B ack Forty' to
2-1 Abies collcolor this year. Hope to have
a few Christmas trees by the Lime I have
to buy 'store' teeth ! Oldest son , Douglas,
now in U.S. Air Force. Time passes onl "
C UILLMERO P ONCE was in Corvallis
last November where he visited wi th Pat Patterson . His son will enroll in OSC next year.
Guill mc ro spent 'o\forld ' 'Var IJ as a prison er of war, but is now operating in a large
stand of Philippine mahogany.
HERBERT C. SAMPERT resigned as genera l manager of the Dwyer Lumber Compan y
in Portland and accepted a job as a special
lecturer and associate specialist at the University of California School of Fores t ry. H e
is teaching fmest engineering and related
su bj ects. Herb has occupied managerial positions in Ca lifornia and Oregon forestr y con cerns for the past 20 years. H is assigmnen ts
included five years with the Collins in te rests
at Quincy, Californ ia , and 13 years as p roduction manager of Elk Lumber Com pany
o[ Medford.
BYRON H . STODDARD, 1236 Grove St.,
G lenview, Illinois.
.ELMER L. SURDAM, manager, Forest Industries Radio Comm unica t ions, is officed
in Eugene, Oregon. He writ es that they have
built a ranch- t ype home a t Pleasan t H i ll.
Their la nd includes fifteen acres of pastnre
for horses .
[or the U.S. Bureau of Roads and l ives in
Portla n d, Oregon.
W. ELLIS CROSS is district ranger on the
\~'e n atchee National Forest at Leavenworth,
Washi ngton.
HO'WARD W. KIRKPATRICK writes,
"The Kirkpa trick family of four boys, ages
10, 13, 16, and 18, keep plenty busy with
school and activities. June (March) class of
l 938, teaches fifth grade. I still t1·y l.o please
all t h ree plants at Martin Bros. Container
and Timber Products Corp. in Oakland , Oregon as log co-ordinator_ It takes some doing
these days."
AUSTIN McREYNOLDS writes_ "Fourteen
years as a 'Tree l'armer' for Guistina in
Eugene . J\oly daughter, Gwenn, is registered
in B&:T at Oregon State. I am learning the
problems of college life all over again ."
FRANKLIN R . LONGWOOD is research
forester on the l'enobscot Experimental Forest at .Brewer, Maine_ After graduation he
served four years in national forest administration, two years in farm woodland man angemen l, and fourteen years in research
specializing in fmest management, utilization, and products_ He's been working in t he
spruce-fir t·egion o[ Maine since J9!iG and
recently was co-author of the booklet "Timber Resources of Nlaine" .
A NOV W. PRlliNOW, a Lt. Colonel,
writes, ""Vorking for the D epartment of
Army Deputy Chief of Staff [or l'crsonnel
· in the Pentagon. Should be here 3 or 4 years
unless the Democrats disban d t h e Arm y. H ad
lunch with Lhe Chief Fernhopper , 'Mac',
d u ring the Society of American Forester's
meeting. My o ldest daugh ter is attending a
Lutheran college in New York. The t h ree
younger children are all in the upper grades.
!Vl y wife is sti ll 29!"
OR VAL RA "VIE is operating a dairy far111
at J efferson, Oregon.
BRUCE STARKER writes, 'Tm building
111 ysclf a new h ouse wi th built in office and
drafting room. ll's halfway to Philoma th
and I'm using a Jot of student labor between
it a nd tree planting and s urveying projects.
Looks like I'll be too busy paying for the
house to use my new lightning sailboat next
year.·•
1940
1941
ROI3F.RT W. AP PLEIIY has transferred to
Portland , Oregon, where he is working on
management p lans and sale administration ,
division of tim ber management, regiona l
forester's office, U.S. Forest Service. .Hob
transferred here in September from the
Midwest.
W ILLIAM S. I3AR NES is now district ran ger o[ th e Al pin e r anger district of t he
Toiyabe National Forest in Minden, Nevada.
CORDON C . BLACK writes, "We have
been in ' •Vloitticr, Cal ifornia, for the past
five years as dist rict manager for ORTHO
Division, Cal ifornia
Chemical Company
(Standa rd Oil of Cal i fornia). The entire
family likes this sun ny climate, b u t all thoroughly enjoyed o ur three weeks last summer in 1he great Northwest. Diane is 16, Taylor 14, and Lauric 5 ."
i\. P. COLLINS is access officer with the
Ilnreau of Land Management at Medford ,
Oregon.
J . S. COLLINS, I!J65 ·w. J08th St., Los Angeles 47 , California .
CHARLES M .DARLING is m a nager of
the Twisp-vVagner Lumber Company at
Twisp, ' o\fashingtotL
CHARLES F.. TYLER , P.O. Box 807, Mu lino, O regon , i s forester for the Kappler Lumber Co.
J Ai.VIES B. GABRIEL is sewage engineer
LYL E A. BAKER writes, "Th e fa mily is
in good hea l I h and enjoying life in the conntry. We a re deeply involved in growing bigger and better forest tree seedlings for the
people of Oregon. The nursery is in a beautiful location and we would like to have
more of you foresters visi t us. "
R AY DO UG HERTY writes, 'Tm still at
Redding, California, with the USFS. Now
serve as timber management officer on the
Shasta-Trinity Nationa l Forest. '~'e have two
boys: one 16 and t he other almost 9 years
of age. Vis i ted the OSC campus last August
while on a tr ip. \•Vasn' t able to spend mm·e
than a brief hour or so, and conseq uen tl y
did not get to do much visiting. T he campus has cer tainly filled in and has been
changed considerable since I saw it last
(which I'll admit was too long ago) ."
F. M. HENDERSO N , district warden for
the Oregon Stat e .lloard of Forest ry, Dallas,
Oregon , load his son, Robert C., enroll in
the School o[ Forestry last Septem bcr.
EUGENE :\. H OFSTED , General D elivery,
Orick , Ca lifornia.
FRED C. HOLMES writes, "engaged in
wholesale lumber business at Fort Ilragg,
California, for p ost 12 years selling redwood
and fir wit h t wo outside bu ying offices at
Arcata and Ukiah. '"'e have 3 son and I
daughter all living at bonoe here at Fort
Bragg. Best wishes to all old classmates w ho
OREGON STATE FORESTER
January, 1961
I am sorry to say have been out of contact
with for many years."
LARRY T. MARSH ALL writes, " In the
past year have organized and am now manager of log & timber department of U.S.
Plywood on coastal area of California. H ave
moved to an office in Arcata and am always
h appy to see any Fernhoppcrs w ho arc passing t hrough ."
KARL G. PALMER, with t he service, 376
S. Main St., Andover, Mass.
A. JI. SASSER wri tes, "Still live at the
sa me address: Route I, B ox 1656, Eugene,
Oregon, (2435 E lizabeth Ave.), and still employed as far forester by the Oregon State
Board of F orestry working Lane, Coos and
Curry counties. Around home keep busy
i m proving the homestead and when I can
do it, spend some time in the home darkroom finish ing pictures that I take on and
off the job_ The lack of something to do is
no problem."
EDWARD W. SCH ULTZ is director o[
t h e d ivision of administrative management
of the 11 .S. Fores t Service at their ·wash ington, D.C., offices.
WILTON L. VINCENT wri tes, " Located
at H oquiam, headquarters for the Norl"hwest t imber division of Rayonier Inc. as lllanager, land department. Famil y population
static at seven. Principal act ivi t ies connected
with meeting problems of a fo rementioned
population explosion and scheming maximum potential forest production and other
land u ses for several hundred thousand acres
of prol ifi c forest land on t he Olympic Peninsula."
LARRY ZACH's son, William J., enrolled
in the School o[ Forestry last Septcm ber.
1942
DALE N. BEVER writes, "Liye at 171
Fairhaven, Corvallis, Oregon, with wife (Calif_ import) and four children (Oregon products) . Drop in and see me at the Oregon
Forest Research Center wh e re 1 serve as e r rand boy for a group of fire forest r esearch
scientists." Editors note: Dale underrates
himsel f since he really occupies t he position
o f director of forest lands research. Dale also
holds the rank of Lt. Colonel in the Army
R eserve and was on the faculty of the u_s.
Army Reserve Command for the General
St aff College which was conducted at Ft.
Lewis, Wash., last Jul y. Dale holds the distingu ished unit badge, Croiz d e Guerre,
Bronze Star with three oak leaf clusters, the
Korean Service Medal and the UN Service
Ribbon _
LESTER C. DUNN writes, "Still 1·esicling
at 1G49 Sherwood P lace, Eugen e, Oregon.
I'm district man ager for Bnreau o f Land
lvlanagcmcut at E uge ne, where I have been
for the past five years. No ch ange in family:
sam e good wife and three children_ Two arc
now in sch ool and one pre-schoo l. Job keeps
me busy, but find time for a little fishing,
hunting. and camping_ H ad an interesti ng
G weeks detail to Washington, D.C ., last J anuary, where I saw a number of OSC foresters. Also enjoyed \•Vorld Forestr y CongTess,
and saw many old friends."
BRICE L HAMMACK is logging superintendent for Publishers Paper Company at
Oregon City, Oregon_
CHARLES S. LEWIS moved to Rosebnrg, Oregon, where he's manager of the
timber depar tment for Roseburg L u mber
Company, resides at 807 N .E. Alemecla_
W ILLIAM S. PHELPS has taken charge
of the la ud m anagemen t reforest a tion activities of the North west Oregon D istrict, Oregon St ate Board o[ Forestry. He lives in Forest Grove, Oregon.
WAYNE L. PETERSON is with Medco
Corporation and resides at 426 S. Oakdale,
Medford, Oregon.
J OHN S_ PRESCOTT writes, "Shifted
sideways at Dominion Bridge Company this
year fro m construction manager to sales manager. Am also in the Jogging business as pan
owner of a smal l outfit producing l !i mill ion a year, so there i s never a dull momenL"
C. F.. RUTHERFORD is a utilities disp<~tcher for the Eugene "Vater B oard and
li ves at 145 Hilliard Lane, ' '"·· Eugene, Oregon. H e's operating a small tree farm.
CARWI N A. WOOLLEY secretary-mana:l{er, P acific Logging Congress, P ortland,
Oregon, lives at 100 S.E. 47th Ave, with his
wife, Beverly (Beier) , Alpha Gamma De l ta,
Class of '4 1, and daughter Salley Mae, age 14.
1943
CARL F. EHF.LEBE is forester advisor to
the Em presso Naciona l De Fom ento y Desarrollo de El Pct an and resides at 2A Calle 840, Zona 10, G u a tamalla.
LEROY SPRAG UE is at t he U.S. Forest
Services Boise N ursery at Boise, Idaho.
WILLIAM E. WELCH became sales manager of Paci fic Plywood Corporation, Dillard, Oregon, last May.
I944
"P AU L E. MOYER is homesteading 320
acres 3 miles sou th of Alturas, Cal ifornia.
They moved into their house last May and
have cleared 140 acres . Paul is a lso developing an other '180 acres of irrigated land east
of Alturas in Suprise Valley. Paul resigned
from lhc Forest Service three years ago and
is now a civil engineer with the Cal ifornia
Depar tment of ' •Vater Resou rces. He's involved primarily on planning water projects
wh ich wil l get a heavy work load sin ce the
voters approved a ~ 1 .7 billion bond issue
for such work .
1945
ISAAC W_ GERVAIS, 535 N. Street, Eul·eka, California.
S. T. MOORE is with the U.S. Forest Service in the Rocky Mountain R egion at D e nver, Colorado. H e's in charge of t he branch
of the fire control and reports tha t the 1960
fire season i n the Rocky Mountains was
more severe than usual.
HUBERT 0. PESSNER writes, "Moved
in August, 19GO, the offices of ' •Vest Coast
Timber Products, Inc., of which I am preside n t and general man ager, t o new and larger trua r ters in th e new Jack Tarr o [(ice bldg.,
1255 P ost St., Suite 809, San Francisco 9,
Ca]jfornia. ' '\Te arc looking forward hopefull y to a better lum ber market in l!JG I. "
1946
RUSSEL D. BARRY is with t he Bureau
of Land Management and resides at 11 330
SW 92ncl Ave., Tigard 23. Oregon .
GORDON W . HAGEN is assistant forest:
supervisor on the Malh eur National Fores t
at John Day, Oregon . He's in charge of
fire control.
ROBERT C. LINDSAY writes, " In July
we moved back to Vernonia, Oregon. St ill
with Crown-Zellerbach now as logging superin tendent of their Columbia County Eelward Stamm Tree Fanu_ Our fam ily grows
as all kids do."
ALV IN 1' . WRIGHT is timber evaluation
engineer for Crown Zellerbach Corporation
and moved to their Portland, Oregon, offices
in the Public Service Building last May.
I 947
L. IC BATEMAN writes, "Now living at
our new h ouse on !i04ii Bailey Road, Salem,
Oregon, with our 3 children : David, 10;
Douglas, 8; and Melinda, 2. S_lill employed
as yield tax supervisor , valuation division,
State Tax _Commission."
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J AMES H . .HRI GHA:tvi writes, "Same job
with Moore Mill & Lumber Co ., Bandon,
Oregon, but: have just comp leted one new
house at 1060 ·w. Date Ave., Coos Bay. ' •Ve're s ti ll getting the bills and do not feel
particularly comm unicative."
JOSEPH V. FLYNN was appointed forest
su pervisor of the Eldorado Na tional Forest
last October. Their headquarters are in
l'l acerville, California.
CEORCE C GRI FFITH writes, "F orester
for \ •Villamina Lbr. Co. a t \o\f.illamina, Oregon. "Vork this )'ear primarily in timber sale
appraisal, company inventory, and land surveying. lVIy wife, Karen, m yself, and children,
M ichele 8\/z, Bruce .5y2 , and Gail 2¥2, arc
comfortabl y settled in our new used home
at 1317 Rose Drive, McMinnville. Recreation
hig hlights this year consisted o[ a short vacation at Neskowi n w ith the family and a n
elk hun ting trip with veteran hunters and
OSC fores ters J ohn A ndringa and Joe Bobb."
ROBERT R. HARVEY, % J- C. Penney,
Co_, Caldwell, Idaho.
DONALD B. MALMBERG, formerly resear ch forester for Port Blakely Mill C o., Eloua, ' •Vashi ngton , was put in ch arge of a
n ew project for Crown Zellerbach. Corporation. H e will head a long range research
project to discover methods of increasing
growth and fibre yield in second growth
hemlock stands. H is headquarters will be
at t he Seaside office of the Clatsop tree
fa not.
ALBERT G. OARD moved last August to
Pendleton, Oregon_, where he is now involved in range work on the su pervisor 's staff
of the Umatill a National Forest.
I948
F. LEROY BOND, 4600 Harney St., Vancou ver, ·wash ington, reports that his family
includes a wife, 2 boys and 1 girl. H e's on
the Gifford Pinchot Na tional Forest and in
.June, 1960, changed from fire staff to timbe r
management staff. Reports he spent two
weeks summer "vacationing" on the Snake
River Can yon helping the ·wallowa-"W hitlllan Narion al Forest fight the fires over
there.
MILTON H . EASTON, 1204 3rd Street,
Tillamook, Oregon , is now doing real estate
sales work near Bea verton.
LLOYD D. HAYES was appointed land
use forester on the regional foresters staff
in San Francisco, California , in January,
1960.
WAYNE C. H UB BARD Wl"ites, "Keep
California Green is making strides but fit'eS
continue to plague u s. At least when cam paign fires s trike and good foremen and fire
bosses arc required, we get a chance to see
Oregon Staters on the job. One major fire we
saw in "59 was well-hand led b y Scollay Parker, '48. and \~' yn ne Maule, '50. A n other
project fi re this year had the Flynn boys,
Joe , "47 and .llob, '48, as sector bosses. Beaver
Fernhoppers seem to be in t he thick of i t
when experience and ability are required_
Our boys, Dave y, 8, and Jeff, .5. are growing like young fir trees . ""e would welcome
a vis it t o our home at 5024 J . Parkway, Sacramento, California_"
KENNETH W. JOHNSON, Box 75, Hurney, California_
RO..HERT E. KISCH EL writes from Roseburg, Oregon , " Have h ad the same problems: growing ch ildren and their demands,
rising taxes and the cost of living. E n larging our home only seemed to increase these
problems. Seems l ike a fe llow get s in volved
in community affairs withont half trying.
Everyone here is hoping for improved econ omic con ditions -in the new year."
HOMER G- L YON has m oved to Everett,
"Vashingt.on , from "Vasbington, D .C., where
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h e is now co-ord inator for civil defense in
the Pacific Northwest for t he U.S. Department of Agriculture.
.
J . c. MA N LEY i~ now .L t. Colonel and 111
the Air Force and tS station ed 111 O san, Korea. H e heads up the logistics war plans
branch of the Air Force in Korea. His address is Box 113, 6314th A. B.W ., APO 970,
San Francisco, California. H e's been stationed
t here 8 months and re ports t h at he'll take
a long time to get u sed to the p lace; H e'll
transfer to Tokyo soon where he expects to
spend a n additiona l 2 years a nd. notes th ~t
h e spent 9 years o f t h e last 20 111 the On ent.
ARTHUR B . l\'IcPHERSON writes, " Still
living in Chico and like it ver y tmtch. Fam ily still the sam e. The boys are m 2nd a_nd
4th grades. Sylvia sl 111 takes on a challengmg
secretarial job every . so often but 'h o t:?emaking' for us boys tS h ?r pnmary profession al undertaking! Am mto my 3rd year
as sales m an ager for C hico ~ l ou lding Co.
Now operating 4 m ills. On this ma rket, ennf
sed ? Regards to al L"
WILLIS F.. R AGLAND writes, " Since J uly,
1960, we h ave been pu tli ng d own new r oots
over h ere in the su n ny city of Baker, Oregon. R onnie's roots a rc . growing: t~ot so fast
as they were r uptured 111 I h e ltftmg .operation at Darrington, o n r last sta tiOn . 13!11 an d
D ick are caught u p already it~ the mell'y-goronnd o f high sch ool stmhes and sp orts
(soph omore and j unior). l\ l y initiation o ver
h ere in our Ju ly fire storm was rather severe ,
be ing dispatched as I was, down into H ell's
Can yon of the Sn ake River, a la nd of rattlesnakes, poison oak, and 11 5 degree temperat·ures. Some change (rom l' ugct So und. ' •Ve
a re, however, h appy to be hack in Oregon ."
D ARREL H . SCHRODER is vice president and manager, R el lim R edwood Co.,
Box 356, Crescent City, Cal ifom ia.
GERALD 13. SMIT II moved fro m the Oregon State 13oard of .Forestry to th~ Y.ield tax
sectio n o f the State Tax Commtsston last
i\1arch. His resid en ce address is '1058 Beverly
N .F.., Salem, Oregon.
l30B H . UN DERWOOD, who is now ch ief
woods e ngineer, " ' eycrhacnser Cm;npan y,
Longview Branc h, Longvtew, \•Vashmgton ,
reports th ey have moved into their n ew
hom e in Kelso. H e fi n d s time once a week to
howl with the compan y team a nd reports he's
gut t he same wife and two children .
WARD C. W ILLIAMS became editor of
pu b lication s [or A mcric;ln F~ rcst P rod~ tcl s
Industries last January and ts now offtced
at 1816 N Street NW , Wash ington 6, D.C.
H e was form erly a n associate ed i tor on forest
ind u str ies trade journa ls fot· the Mtller freeman Publicatio ns in Seattle. Jn \•Vashington
h e'll be respon sible for edi ting the "Forestry Digest," a monthl y, a nd a quarterly,
"The American Tt·ce Farmer. "
ROBERT C. ZIN K was made chief park
natu ralist fo r the Lava l3ed s Natio n a l Mo nument, Tulelake, Cali fomia, last April. H e 'll
be in charge of planning and execution or
the i\l ission 66 in terpretive d evelopment. H e
t ra nsferred h e re after t wo and a half years
a t Sequoia and Kings Can yon Na ti~na) P ark
as a park naturaltst where he was 111 ch arge
of th e Grant an d Cedar Grove .
19•! 9
I IAN K D AVIES wri tes, ".Joined t he state
forestry departmen t crew three . years ago in
protection . Spent most of that umc at Klam a th Agency working with the. Bu.reat~ of In dian Affa irs and other agenctcs 111 ft re protect io n of the Klamath India n Reserva tion .
Transferred to Ti lla mook as a farm fo rester
in October. Before b ecoming a state e mployee worked Eor th e \•Vill.a mc lte National
Forest, sa lvagc logged, cnu sed _for Mas<:m ,
Bruce and Girard, asststan t loggmg supenn -
OREGON STATE FORESTER
tcndcnt at Medco. H ave three children : Sall ie 13, Marilee 10, a nd J ohnatha n , 4."
RUSSELL E. FRAME is division engineer
for the Southern P aci fi c Railway and lives
a t 124 1 Harrop, Ogden, U tah.
jAi\IES M. HOLDEN, 656 F.llswo rt h, San
Francisco, Calif.
WILLIA i\l 1'. HOLTSCLAW returned to
Forest Grove, Oregon , as d is trict warden of
the Northwest district of the Oregon State
Boa rd of Forestry. H e s p ent the last few
years doing public ad m in istrat ion w·adua te
work at t he University of Oregon.
ROBERT 1'. KLI NE has 3 kids n ow, a ll
of them boys, ages 6, 3, a nd \12 . They have
a new house in the country four miles west
of Medford. H e reports th ere is a new com pa n )' to go with o ld Kline Logging Co. It's
Kline Contractors, Inc. Shortening up t rees
and delivering them Loa log pond is still his
b usiness .
i\IA LCOLl\I l\lcLENDO 1 is Limber m an agement assistan t on l hc l\Iount Hood National Forest a nd his address is Box 3, Rhod odendron, Oregon.
DEAN MEADOR writes, "Living in Corvallis a t 180 Weatherford Way. H a ve building materia l supply business. Three childn:n : Rick, Cheryl and Vickie; ages 12, 10, 5.
Spare time used fini sh ing up basement in
new house-and a li ttle golf- presen tly furnishing materia l for Dean Mac's t·emodcling
job."
HARVIE E. P ATTERSON is with t h s
mad department of Humbol t County and
lives at I 106 2n d Street, E ureka, Califomia.
R USSELL D. POWERS was made senior
forester of reh abilitation work for t he North west Oregon District, Forest Grove, O regon.
J AM ES W . R ANDALL, 3510 W . Grant,
Corva llis, Oregon.
STARR I V. REED, was p rom oted to O regon opera tions manager of Simpson Logging
Company. H is offices arc in Albany, O regon .
h:tt he continues to reside in Lebanon.
B013 REXSES is sawmill superintenden t
for the Vaughn branch of the International
Paper Com pany. Their sawmill is cutting
200 i\[ per 8-hour shi ft a nd h e's located 20
nti les west of Eugene, Oregon . H e says v isit ors are always welcome.
NORM AN (PETE) SORENSEN , Box f>37 ,
R ockaway, Ore., writes, "Sally, Susie (8 y rs.) ,
and I man age to survive t he storms on the
coast this year, a fter watching o the r being
moved to the East by the ocean . I 'm still at
O regon -Wash in gton l'lywood as logging m anager a nd now that t he Tillamook burn has
been logged, I'm always looking for logs
washing up on the beach to haul to t he mill ,
esp ecia ll y peelers. I understand the fi shing.
clamming, and crabbing is very good around
here. Our door is a lways open to anybody."
RAY TREN HOLM, Rou te I , Box IG68,
Sweet H ome, Oregon , is d istrict wa rden for
the Linn County F ire P a t rol Association .
CECIL VAN DAL, Rox 14 23 . Omak.
Wash ington , Bu reau of Tndia n Affairs.
1950
MORRIS J . AND ERSON is logging engi n eer at the Chehalis Fie ld Office of the D ep art men t of Nat ural Resources for the state
of ' •Vashington.
J lM BAGLEY writes, ''Wilma and T, and
the three yo ung ones too, of course, h ave
moved to 159 Allen Ave., Spri ngfield, to he
near the h om e office o f the Oregon Division ,
U.S. Plywood Corporation . We are happy to
he in t he Eugene area where among other
adva n tages we receive more visi ts from the
many sch ool friends . rc you ' re passing
through call RI 7-2457. We provide guide
service to o u r home. Come see us."
DAN B . A13RAHAM writes from Gold
Beach, Oregon, "Th e tenth ann ~versary of
J anuary, 1961
the biggest and the best class of Femhoppers
has rolled b y already, and finding us ahead
by 25 pounds, 2 kids, and quite a few grey
hairs. Still h oldin!l' Uncle Sam's Gold Beach
fort agai nst t h e ftre bugs, Dou glas fir bugs,
and tourist bugs. See several Fernhoppers in
C urry County such as: l''ra nk McPherson ,
Bruce H orton, Jim Bussard, Ted Ellingsen ,
!'rank St. Clail', Virgil Cla rk, Cecil R odgers,
Norm Smit h; and m any others from the Coos
Ray area and other o utlan ds such as Rill
S ti les, Jim Bag ley (now E ugene) and Lou
Powell commuting from Cor va llL~."
ERIC A. BAUER became assistant to the
genera l manager of t he 'Weed, California,
operations o f In terna tion a l Paper Company
last January .
W ILLARD BERRY was elected the n ationa l director to the U.S. Junior Chamber
o f Commerce and named the most outstanding
J. C. vice p resid ent in Oregon recently. H e
intended the lation a l J . C. con vention at
St. Lonis last June as his first official duty.
W illard is a senior fo rester in reforestation
work in Forest Crove, for the Oregon Sta te
noar d of Forestry. H e has b een a ssociated
with that agency si nce graduation both at
Western Lane forest Protection Association
a nd with the Linn Cou n ty Forest P rotection
Associa tion.
JOHN R . BRANNON is forester with the
Fruit Growers Supply Com pany at Hilt,
Califo rnia.
ROGER CHAMARD has transfened to
Ogden , Utah, from Baker, O regon . R oger
will work iu the division o f engineering of
the regional forester's o ffi ce, U.S. Forest
Service.
fOHN R . DJTTi\•fAN , super intendent,
W'inton Lumber Co., Ma rtel, California, recen t ly authored an article on mo isture con telll in kiln dried lumbe r. Th e article appea red in the Fo rest Products J o urna l last
July.
WESLEY HICKS, assistant resident forest
en gineer for Crown Zellerbach 's Cathlam et
o perations, was r ecently elected vice presiden t of t he Cathlam et (Washington) Jun ior
C hamber of Commerce.
GORDON A. HOPE L AND has becom e
regional sales supervisor for Simpson Logging Company a nd is stat ioned in D en ver,
Colorado.
EDWARD C. HO UGH rnoved to Cathlamet , Washington, last June where he became
forester for the Crown Zellerbach Cathlame t
tree farm .
DOUGLAS L. H UNT was appointed to
t he fores t utilization staff on the Pacific
Northwest Forest and Range Exp eriment Station in Portland last May. Hun t will work
with ind ustry and Forest Prod ucts Laboratory developing improved techniques a nd
eq uipm en t for seasoning, protecting and u sin g lumber, for reducing soil erosion on
steep slopes a nd timber logging op era tio ns.
I Je was Formerl y with t h e \\'estern Pine Associa tion
research
labora tory,
Portland ,
whe re h e had b een d o ing research on waste
111 iliza I ion an d products developmen t since
1953.
NEAL R . ISAACSO , conservation inspector fo r 1he Eastern Oregon District o f th e
Oregon State noard of Forestry wit h h ead quarters in LaGrande, h is wife, 3 sons and
2 daugh ters, live at 2303
o rt h Birch , L aG randc. The n ewest addition to the famil y
was born November 18th. Neal reports the
famil y wanted to get to Corvallis to atten d
the 1950 re unio n but couldn ' t squeeze in
enough time to take the trip.
CLA RE NCE JACOBSON was made district ranger o n 'the Sh asta Trini ty Nat iona l
.Forest at H ayfork, Ca lifornia, last March .
ED KIRKP ATRICK m oved in to the research department of '.Y <;s~~:m Kraft Corpor-
January, 196 1
a tiou , A lhan y, Oregon , last May. He invites
you to stop in if you ar e going hy .
RALPH N. KRAiVIER. 1629 Killen l'lace.
C.ompton, California.
LLOYD H . L ARSO N was assigned to the
Limber m a n ageme n t di vision of t h e supervisor 's sta ff of the Wiliamette Natio nal !'or est. Eugene, Oregon, in April.
MELVI N L. L IEURANCE became assista nt district ranger of th e Sto n yford ra nger
d istrict, i\lcndicino National F orest, Stonyford , Ca liforn ia, last June.
ROBE R T K . LI NDGREN , 1683 F ilbert
Avenue, Chico, Cal ifornia.
EVERETT N. MACDAN IELS, llox 16, Nehalem , Oregon.
R013ERT S. MADSEN became district
warden of the Kl amath Indian Protection
u ,·, it fo r the Oregon State Board o f Forestry
last May. Th eir office is h eadquartered a t
Klamath Agency.
JOH N W. l\IANGA N becames sales manager of 13auman L u mber Company, Le banon,
Oregon , a year ago last D ecemb er.
ALFEO i\ flNATO wri tes, " I am still with
Bate Lumber Company, i n ii'Ier lin, Oregon .
Our oldest boy, David , will be fo ur years
o ld i n Ma y and the baby of th e fami ly, Ri cky, wi ll be two in April. Last year I served
as chap ter president of the Dale Carnegie
Alu m ni Association , Rogue River Valley
Chapter. 1 sincerely mge a ll Fernhoppers
wh o h ave th e op portunity to take the Dale
Carnegie cou rse in e ffective speaking and
leadersh ip trai n in g. Valuable training."
DONALD H . O 'NEIL, 3 11 3 Kalmia, San
Diego, Cal ifomia.
J A MES L. OVERHOLSER, 200 Country
Cl ub W ay, Corva llis, Oregon, s till ed its and
photographs at the Oregon Forest R esearch
Center. H is fami ly includes two girls a nd a
nine-year-old boy.
ROBERT E . PET ERSON writes, "Nothn ig n ew since last year's note. I'm still with
P acific P ower & Light Co. in their ind ustrial
development department. In m y frequent
travels within our five slate service a rea it is
a joy to ' run' into so many O SC Fernhoppcrs. It is in teresting to explain to them
why Pacific Company has a wood products
man on t he staff, b ut wit h so m a n y of o u r
cu stome rs being in the fo rest industries business, it soon becomes apparent. If an y of
you are in Portland, stop b y R oom 404 , Public Service Bldg., a nd say hello."
LO U IE POWELL writes, "Have e njoyed
m y work with the Doug la s-fir P lywood Association . Now I k now more about fi r bark
and its variation t han I tho ugh t I'd ever
know. When not certifying the species going into our WSP-1 plywood, checking millponds and logging operations, I 'm rev ie wing
literatme on western softwoods a nd hardwoods. Saw about a dozen Fernhoppers at
the 1950 class re union at ho m ecoming."
FRAN K E . PRICE, JR., is forester on the
Entiat ranger d istrict on \ Venatchce N a tional Forest, Entiat, Washington .
MARVI 1 ROWLEY writes, "I have been
working on i\(cDonald Forest as an indepen dent logger for the past three years an d have
enjoyed m y work and the people I 've been
in contact wi th and worked with on t his job.
.-\s well as thinnin g on the forest we have
done some tree planting, brush contro l, road
building, a nd several other jobs. As for fa m ily, we have two g irls in the j unior h igh this
year a nd our l ittle forester is in the fourth
grade. This leaves on ly R o nda h ome during
the day to pester her mother. Sh e will soon
be three. H ope to see you at the Fernh oppers Ba nquet."
STAN SPURGEON writes from Susanville,
Ca lifornia, "It's been a busy year at the
R esearch Cen ter, vVe wen t out of the logging
business in July, and turned our Blacks
OREGON STATE FORESTER
i\ Ionn t.ain camp over to the L assen Na tional
Forest in September. The paperwork for all
t his, pitts a mon t h installing and measuring
forest m anagement research plots, kept m e
pretty busy. On t he home Fron t, we had an
8 pound daug·hter in J u ly. Jean and Chip
have sin ce forme d a mutual enterraintnen t.
socie t y."
CHARLES H . WALTER, 2837 Forest Hill
Blvd .. Pacific Grove, California , reports he's
at t he same job at t he same p lace. Three
daugh ters in sch ool; one more at home growing to schoo l age. H e invi tes f riends to drop
b y whe never b usiness or pleasure brings
them by because the coffee pot is always hot.
R ICHARD M. WARD u·ansferrcd to t he
Wash ington, D .C., office of the N ational
l'ark Service from the Ft. Jefferson Nat ional
i\Ionurnent, Florida, ear ly in I9GO anrl is now
assigned as forester to tha t agency. T hey Jive
at Arlington , Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. W ard
mad e a 4,000 mile five-week trip west to
visit his parents in Philomath , Oregon. A
total of 25 National Pat·k Service areas were
, isitcd as we ll as ma n y other po ints o f in terest including a sh ort visit to the School
a t Corva II is.
I951
TWAi t M. RREWER writes fro m Long
Beach, Californ ia , "Still working as sal esman
fo r Diamond W . Supply Co., wholesale d istributer of building materials. Our prod uct
line includes the 'goods of the woods' su ch
as m asonite, pl ywood , fol'est board and insulation boards."
BILL l.I UTLER writes, " I am still with
U.S. Pl ywood Corp. here at Redding, Cal iCornia, as lumber production rn a nagcr for
t he Shasta opera tions. J a n ice and T have a
girl 8 years old and a boy 6 years old . We
have a boat now, and enjoy water ski ing on
Shasta lake during the summer. 1 can 't find
anyone who is too happy about the state
of t he lumber b usiness right now, but o the r
t han that everythi ng is going pre l!y well."
ROBERT J\1 . COLE has been assign ed as
forester to the Paye tte N ational F o rest at
Counci l, Idaho.
DANA COLLINS writes, "Transfe rred b y
the BLM from Salem to Medford in March ,
I !JGO. Now reforestation specialist for Galice
un it of th e Medford d istrict. F amily consists
of on e wife, age-??, o n e daughter, age 3, on e
daughter, age 7 months, and o ne dog, age
2 yea rs. Home address, 1215 Covina Ave.,
;\Iedfo rd , Oregon."
RO NALD G. FRASHOUR, 2 10 W est Berd ine St., Roseburg, Oregon , writes, "Have
been with P acific Plywood Co. in D i llard For
4 years. J ob title is assistant man ager, Pacqna D ivision, Pacific P l ywood . (l'acqua Div.
is particle board division) . W ork in volves
t he operation of particle boar d production
plant a nd prcfinishing· remanufacturing
pla n t. Married; three children: ages 12, JO,
and 6.''
WILI.lAi\1 HIC KERSON , a captain in the
U.S. Air Force, was last h eard of in June.
The address at tha t Lime was 2873rd GEElA
Sq., APO 196, New York, New York.
GERHARD TTUBBE h as moved to Detroit, Oregon , where he's with the 'Willam ette National Forest. Recenlly he became assistan t r anger there.
CLARENCE H . JACOBSEN writes, ' Moved
to H ayfork, Californ ia, as d istric t ranger,
U .S. Forest Service in Feb ru ary, 1960. faiJlil y
now consists of two girls and one boy."
JOHN C. i\fcNIE is in charge of land a nd
timber o perations for Mich igan -Ca liforn ia
Lumber Com pan y, Camin o, California. His
famil y n ow includes two girls, ages 2 and
4\12, and a 7-yea r-old boy.
GEORGE W. LITTEN , Veni ce Park Trailer Court, S_c aside, Oregon.
I' age Eleven
IJ ILL NEWKIRK wri tes, "Am n ow I imber
managem e nt . recr eation , fire, lands, and
watershed staff assistant. o n the Shoshone
Nationa l Forest at Cody, W yomi ng . Again I
want to brag a bo u t t he terrific hun ting a nd
fishing in this great country. One-half o f the
Forest's ~.4 million acres is classified as wilderness. We're a b ack country forest , b u t uses
arc increasing here at a staggering rate too.
i\ fy wife, two girls a nd two boys love this
mild, dry climate as do 1.''
ROBERT C. N ORTON is sales man ager
for L~H Lumbet· Co., Sutherl in, Orego n .
GLEN DUYSEN is an accomplished mem ber of th e l'a mons aggrega tio n of musicians
known as Lausmann's Lo usy Loggers. T h ey've d o ne a magnificen t job in providing
musical e u tertai nment both at the Pacifi c
Logging Congress and at the Sierra Cascad e
Loggi ug Conference.
i\I ANUEL H . SCHRAGER is now forester
with Crown Zelle rbach a t aselle, " 'ashington .
B UD UN R U IT wri tes, " Still fore st e ngin eer on th e Ochoco N ational Forest at Prineville, Orego n , and really enj oying the 'pine
connuf. Have two chilclt'en: Paul, 6, and
Lesl ie, 3. Stop by and say h e llo n ext time
you pass throug h Central Oregon." Rud successfull y p assed his logging engineers test
last i\larch .
S ID ZI EG LER, P it1e Mounta in Lumber
Compau y, Yreka, California.
I952
]O F. BOBB writes from E ugen e, Oregon,
"Pu rchased a T D -9 tractor and Limber. Since
I go with t he other gyppos that. a ll scalers
arc "sex u a l intellectuals." /\gain outpla nted
Georgia Pacific, percentage-wise, but didn 't
bother send ing an y scroungy fi rs to Washington, D .C., t hough. Found an o the r bull e lk
grazing over in the 13lue Mountains. Saving
the part that went o ver the h ill last for
m an y of m y classm ates."
DUNCAN W . BRIN KERHOFF, P .O . Box
593, i\lt. Sh asta, Califomia.
ROB ERT J . .JEN SVOLD moved to Cascades P lywood Corporation , Lebanon, Oregon, last May.
DO NA LD E . M ACKEN ZI E h as m oved h is
fa mily nf fout· to 1095 !'ark Street, Baker,
Oregon, where he's with t h e ' 'Vallowa -,'\lh itm an National Forest. Don recently completed
his forestry work with Boise-Cascade at LaGrandc. H is oldest girl starts kinderga rten
this year.
N ICOL AS V. M ASON is in Kam loops,
Canada, as fo rester in charge of ma n agemen t
for the Kam lo ops District of th e B .C. Forest
Service. Their office address is 5 15 Columbia
Street .
HOWARD W . J'vilTCH ELL wri tes, "St ill
live on Kenwod Ave. in Med[onl , Oregon.
H ave th ree small foresters, age 6, !'i, and 3.
Until February 1960, I worked for T imber
Products Co., then t ried a b usiness venture
with another fellow building five miles of
F orest Service road. Lost m on ey on that so
we term i nated that business in July and
worked for Bob Kline until December. ' •Vent
to work for Allen Smith and Bud N utting
(both OSC'ers) of Medco. H ad a busy year
))lit n o t ntu ch to show for it except experience. Hope to see you at Fernhop per D ay."
RA.J' lDALL PERKI N S was promoted to
district ranger at Butte Falls, Oregon, last
J tll lC. H is fa mily includes four children : 2
b oys an d 2 girls.
KE ITH PETR IE h ad som e exci ting times
last snmmer when he was one of four m embers of the Oregon Moun tain R escue and
Safety Coun cil who p articipated in the successful rescue of three m en from ML. McKinle y in A Iaska. Included in t he party besides
Keith were his brother Ross, Dave Nelson
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and Ray Conk lin, a nother OSC forester.
Keith serves as chairman of tbe state Tescue
work for the council. He was also selected as
a candidate for outstanding young men of
Oregon and in between this activity, serves
as forester for Kaiser Gypsum Company at
St. H elens, Oregon.
ERNEST B. PRICE was recently moved
to the timber management division of the
regional forester's office in Portland, Oregon.
ELMER D. RiCE is engineer and contract
su pervisor for U.S. Plywood at Mapleton,
Oregon.
KEN ROEG NER, is still with the Bnreau
of Land Management, but transferred to
Medford , Oregon , last March.
GARNET ROGERS, when last heard
from , was going to look over purchase of
240,000 acres in Colum bia, South America.
J ACK N . SCHAPPELL, '}730 1-'rieda Drive,
Los Angeles G5, California.
CARL SMITH writes, "We are still preparing sites, planting and seeding in the
Tillamook Burn. My job as staff forester
with the State is t o co-ordinate t he reforestation acti vities on all lands with in the district. I met and married a water skiing
sehoul teacher in 1957. "Ve bo ugh t a house
in Forest G rove in 1958. No family yet."
(Newsletter editor was sorely tempted to put
an editorial comment to Carl's classmates at
this point. Instead he'll desist and nut comment that it is time for all 52'ers to get married-Carl has .)
RON SMITH writes, "Have bee n with
the Oregon State Board of Fores try s ince
'breaking out' in '!)2. I'm presently holding
down the job of training aml sa[et y director
with headquarters in Salem. Our family,
which s till numbe1·s two girls, Tvrama and
11lyself, call home 4722 L01ic Oak Road SE,
Salem."
N ORM SMITH h as accepted th e job of
assist ant timber manager of Jhookings Plywood Corporation at Brooking·, Oregon. H e
took this job in October. Previously he was
associated with the U.S. Forest Se r vice.
1953
BOB BAKER \HiLes, "Have been with the
Oregon State Forestry Department now for
nearly 4 years here in Eugene. On the family
side, our two children arc growing like f irs
o n sit e I. Timmy is three and Laura four.
Onr management d istrict extends to the California border and I have been spending a
lot of t ime in the Grants P ass-Medford m·ea.
Drop in Lo see us at 129 Roundup Drive."
DONALD D. BENSON, 47 Huffman St.,
Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
LEONARD J. BRADY is still with N orthern Pacific Railroad Company as a forester
in their land management operations. His
office address is 1008 Smith Tower, Seattle,
Was hington .
MARVIN W. COATS writes, " Working
a t Willamette National Lumber Co ., Sweet
H ome, Division of Willamelle Valley Lbr. as
plant superin tendent of the sawmill division.
Sawmill unit cuts approximately 200M Douglas-fir and Hemlock on one-shift basis. Famil y wnsists of David, 4 years, a nd Patricia, 3
months. Address 895 2nd Ave., Sweet Home,
Oregon. "
W lLLIAiv! G. COGGAN has accepted employment with R owaters Roan! Company,
Catawba, South Carolina.
BARRETT M. COUGHLAN returned to
Corvallis as a forester on the supervisor 's
staff of the Siuslaw National Forest. B arrett
returned in April. ' 'Vith the Forest Service,
he' ll work on a timber sales program as assistant to the timber management staff officer. His famil y now includes fonr children:
t wo boys and two girls.
JOHN CHRISTIE writes, "No change
OREGON STATE FORESTER
sin ce last yea r. Peter, 7, and Pierce, 6, in
school. Catherine, 5, and Arelta, 2, help out
at home. The job i s 1"11c same with Oregon
Stale Board of Forestry in timber sales, C latsop County. We still lean heavil y to Univers ity o f ' 'Vashin gt on fores ters here. George
Reedy, '53, and I 111anage to keep 'em off
balance though , even if we arc outnumbered.
Most of the time is spent in sale layout and
cruising , although I spent some time burning slash in September."
BILL DOBYNS left Brookings Plywood
Corporation in September to a ccept a job as
Curry County roadmastel· at Gold Beach ,
Oregon.
PAUL ENBERG moved in April to Grants
Pass, Oregon , where he's a highway engineer on the supervisor's staff o f the Siskiyou
National Forest.
JOHN D. GROVE, now a district ranger
for the U.S. Forest Se r vice at Cordova , Al aska, reports his family includes a boy, 2 years
old, and an 8 month old gi rl. J ohn was the
Alaska region field represen tative to the annual 1neeting of the Society of America n
Fores ters in 'Vashington , D.C ., in 1960.
W . DALE HEIGH is now in Darrington,
' •Vashington, where he's working o n the Mt.
Baker National Forest. He moved there in
J uly.
LESTER L. HILL, 1.~40 NW Lawnridgc,
Grants Pass, Oregon, is keeping himself busy
with timber cruising and engineering work
on a consulting basis. Previously he was
cmise r with Bate Lumber Co. a t Merlin,
Oregon.
1954
C HARLES H . BURRO-WS l eft Corvallis
last .June to accept work in the research a nd
dcveloplllen t progra m of U.S. Plywood Corporation. His office address is U.S. Plywood
Corp., Ballard Station, Seallle, ' •Vashington .
FRANK DECKEBACH writes, "Continu ing to work in the Asturia-Svensen area for
Crown Zellerbach Corp. with contract loggers. ""c are doing som e thinning, pre-logging and a bit o[ clearcutting."
ROBERT W. DICKSON, 2749 H arding
Street, Long·view, "Vashington, writes, "Now
development engi neer with Weyerhaeuser
Co. for the ir lumber a nd plywood division .
~roved from Pilot Rock Lumber Co. ahead
of the G eorgia-Pacific tide. l<amily is well
and enjoying o ur new location. The child ren are now in the 5th , 4th, and 2nd grades."
ARVID ELLSON keeps himself busy in
Corvallis as district ranger of t he Mary's
Peak Dis trict of the Siuslaw National Forest.
H e's responsible for administering the land
t hat provides Corvallis with its water supply.
JACK GARTZ, when last heard from, was
research forester with Simpson Redwood Co.
at Korbel , California.
LOUIS GUNTER is associate forest ranger working with the California Division of
Forestry a t Santa Rosa , Cal. He's now business manager in the District I office. H e
reports that his wife, Merilyn , and daughters, L ynn (13) and Donna (9), are enjoying the activities offered in town and they
extend an open invitation to anyon e passing through. "The coffee pot is always on
·
a t 4G34 Bridle Trail."
GENE C. HOLLOTER writes, "Still here
at Parkdale, Oregon, on the H ood River District of th e Mt. Hood National Forest. I 'm
filling the tim ber ma nagem e nt assistant slot
now. "Vife and three boys are still wtih me.
The bad fire season of l9GO did not affect
us too adversly on the district, although
man y of us went of[ to eastern Oregon for
a week or so. ' 'Ve had a heck of a t ime keeping our slash disposal fires inside the clear
cuts, however."
January, 1961
RRlTCF. R. HORT O N was promoted to
logging· superint endent of the Gol<l Reach
operation of lh<' (T.S. l'lvwnorl Corporation
las t M>~ rch.
VAN JOHNSON writes tha t he's still timber management assistan t of the Placerville
district of the Eldorado National Forest in
Californ ia. He's been kept busy for the last
twelve months with fire timber. He looks fo r ·
ward to a more normal 1961 .
ROBERT G. LEWJS was transferred by
the U.S. Forest Service from P owers, Oregon ,
to the Smi th River ranger district, Siuslaw
National Fores t, in April 1959. H e 's now
working as ass istan t r anger under anoth e r
OSC grad, Carl Juhl.
ROBERT D . McPHERSON will leave his
job as salesman fo1· Den ver "Vood Products
C ompany, Denver, Colorado, on January lst
and become technica l promotiou r epresen tati ve of the National Lumber Manufacturers
Association with offices in Seattle, ·washington.
JOHN M. PIEROVICH is now district
ranger on the Boise National Forest wi th
headquarters at Cascade, Idaho.
W ILLIAM F. SMITH is forester for the
Murph y Lumber Company with t he business
address of Box 218, Inde p endence, Oregon.
JOHN C. WILLIAN!S, 6205 Butte View,
noise, Tdahu.
1955
JTM RRADY is sales forest er for the
Northern Pacific Railway Company in Sea t tle, ' 'Vasbington.
JAMES R. CRAI NE has been transferred
to the Hood R iver ranger district of the Mt.
Hood National Forest in Oregon.
DEXTER HEUSCHKEL left Roseburg
Lumbe r Company, J anuary, 1960, to become
chief of party for the woods e ngineering
crew of Crown Zellerbach Corporation at
Mullala, Oregon .
HO,•VARD K. HOPKINS wri tes, " 1 am
still with Longview Fibre Company, s upervising op erations in the Northwest Oregon
area. We are currently involved in various
projects raugin g from thinning to refOl·estatiun. Ve lma and I still live in Longview, and
the family stands at Mark, age 4, and Teresa,
age 2. ' 'Ve are planning to take advantage
of the skiing facilities in this area again
this year."
NORiviAN E . JOHN SON writes, ''I'm back
a t the University of California fin ishing a
P hD in entomology. The qualifying exams
are out of the way and the thesis star ted.
1•Vill continue to work at the ' 'Veycrhaeuser
Company Forestry Research Center, Centralia , W ashington. ' •Vife N ancy and daughter
Kclli cluing fine."
RO NALD F.
McCORMICK retumed
from a two-year hitch with the U .S. Navy
in December, 1959, is now employed as an
assistant fores ter with the Oregon Pulp and
Paper Company, 650 Murlock Avenue, v\lest
Salem , Oregon.
GAYLORD K. PARKS writes, " We arc
now living at Canby, California, where I am
the assistant district ranger on the D evils
Garden district, Modoc Nationa l Fores t. ' 'Ve
have 3 kids now and all are doing fine. "
J ERRY PATCHEN writes, "Have been
in Prairie City, Oregon , on the Malheur Na·
tioual l'orest since August. N ow have 3 children; our latest, a son, arrived last January.
Am looking forward to another Fernhopper
Banquet this winter and hope to see some
of the gang then. "
MILTON E . PHILBROOK, Jlox 188, Scap poose, Oregon.
MARV ROSETTE was promoted to forester in charge of forest m anagement and appraisal work on the State Highway Commis-
January, 1961
s iun 's right-of-ways here in the State ol' Oregon . His headquarters is Sa lem.
1956
CEORGE E . BARR returned from t he
service in Angust, 1958, and i s n ow employed
as a fores ter with the Oregon State Board of
Forestry in Sa lem, Oregon .
JIM BREWER is timber sale administrator for the Mt. H ood National Forest at.
l~s tacada , Oregon. J im, his wife, J o, and
Lwo daughters. Susan and Deborah , took a
fall trip to lvft. Ranie r Na tional Park and
Jim "vaca t ions" r egularly with his Air F orce
Reser ve unit on week and weekend training
111 iss ions.
DARREL CARLSON is teaching social
s tudies and a unique fores t ry cotn·se at Lebauon High School and resides at 30 Isabell a
St., Lebanon , Oregon . Darrel returned to
osc artel· obtaining his forestry d egree to
major in education .
D ALE R . C HRISTI1\ NSEN became city
forest e r fur Portla nd , Oregon , last June. He
previously worked wi th the Forest Service
in Ida ho a nd now resides at 808 SW 87th
Street., Portland.
JOH N COLLINS, al th ough in the service,
is working as a civil engin eering aiel in the
trafficabiliLy sect ion o f the Waterways Ex perime nt Station at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
This station is u nder the direction of the
U.S. C orps of Engineers . H eard from 'round
about mea ns is the repor t that J ohn recently
got married.
' •VARRE 1 G . DAVIES writes, " We're still
in Corvallis working in engineering on the
Sius law National Forest. Famil y bas grown
Lo a daug·htcr, a son , nvo cats and a new
Dalmatian puppy (an ybody got a cnre for
'spolled' rugs?). Spent m ost of the past six
months building bridges and fighting fi1·es
(Man-how that Ca lifornia country does
burn) . ' •Ve've bonght a house and have
started to make improvemen ts (fences, etc.)
so now we'll probably get transferred. Anybody passing through this part o( the coun try, stop in and say hello, we' re usually
around ."
THOMAS J . EBNER returned from the
service several years ago and has been working in the I imbcr d epartment at the Roseburg Lumber Company, Roseburg, Oregon.
While li ving- in that city he shared an apartment with Jacko Burks, 57. Tom left Roseburg Lumber Company last September and
has returned to OSC to obtain an under
graduate d egree in forest products. H e's
cu rrently working with Chuck Dane on a
fores t economics research prof,•Tam.
R013ER T ERTEL w rites, ''T'm living in
Ukia h , California, and working for the Burean of L and l'vfanagemen t. ' •Vife, Alice, and
I have a daughter, Pamela Jane : now 7
month s old."
J AMES G . FISHER moved to Corvallis,
Oregon , last July where be accepted t he job
of editor for the Oregon Forest Research
Center out on the Philomath Road. J im will
be responsible fur editing r esearch bulletins
and turning out n ews releases for the research agen cy .
EDWARD A . HAMILTO N writes, "Prese ntly residiug in H onolulu, Hawaii, while
~ervi ng as operation s officer and navigator
on the fleet oil er USS Kawishiwi (AO 146)
homeported here. P romoted to lie utenant in
July of this year and it looks like a Navy
career with loca tion in Pea rl Harbor until
' G2. Recenll y completed tour as gun n e r y officer on USS Savage (DER 386) , homepurted in Pearl Harbor, a lso. Two recent additions to the fam ily: girl in March , 19!>9; boy
in June 19GO. Due for !J month deployment
to the Orient in February to June, 1961."
OLIVER B. JACK.MOND is still engin·
OREGON STATE FORESTER
eering with the State Highway Depart1nent
a nd resides at 731 B en der St., Myr tle Point,
Oregon.
DO NALD K . JOHN SON moved last A pril
I<! Medfu_rd , Oregon , where he's highway eng meer with the Rogue River Nationa l Forest.
RORER T I. KERR wri tes, " Transferred
and promoted to dis trict ranger of the "Ves tern district of Great Smoky lVltns. Park in
~[arch, 1960. Many new proble ms associated
with t he new job but it is interesting and
not a b1t dull. Daughter, Karan , bo rn las t
February 22nd. Spent part of Jul y in Yellowstone National Park assisting with their
b ad outbreak of fires. Good ex perience but
not the most desirable m et hod of seeing
Yellows tone."
N ICHOLAS J. KIRK!VURE left N atron
l'l ywoud in A pril to become a forester with
T ree Farm Management Service in Eugene,
Oregon , where h e's doing logging engineering
work. Nick resides at 317'2. Richard Lan e.
GEORGE M . LEONARD was promoted to
district a ssistant of th e Quincy ranger d istrict of the Plumas National l~m·est at O u incy, California.
-~
BOB M ADISON who was at the OSC
School of Forestry briefly in the fall of J!J59
taking graduate work is now county forester
rur Hnm bolt Cou n ty, Ca lifo rnia. l3ob and
his wife Amy and family reside at !il99 L euna rd Drive, Eureka. Just last October th ey
a nnounced the birth of an 8 pound 2 ounce
hoy.
RUSS MITCHELL is b usily exammmg
fores t in sects in his work in the Di vision of
Forest Insect R esearch for the Pacific N orthwest Forest a nd R a nge Experiment Station,
Port land, Ch"egon . Russ attended OSC to
complete the requirements for his doctor's
degree in forest entomology .
W ILLIA M G . PADGHAM, 162 H atuna
Drive, Santa Rosa, Califomia.
FLOYD E . PAGE was promoted to a ssistant ranger at Kaibah National Forest last
J lll~ e. According· to the la tes t repon, F loyd
resigned from the USFS and i~ no w working
11ear Coos Bay, Oregon. His address is Route
l . Rox 77 1F, Bandon, Oregon.
DARRELL L. P ALMER, 310 Sou th Gold
Street, Yreka, California .
. ROBERT SC<_:JFIELD is now assisting in
(Ire and replanting work o n the supervisor's
staff of the Siskiyou N ational Fores t a t
Crants Pass, Oregon. His home address is
1316 Vista Drive .
ROBERT D. TO NEY, U.S. Forest Service,
Rux 757, Sitka, Alaska.
.JAMES R . "VALLIS is now doing sedhnentation studies for the Pacific Southwest Forest a nd Range Experiment Station and headquartered on t o f Berkeley, California.
DUAN E K. WELLS, 413 Hillview Ave.,
Uk iah, California, is chief timber appraiser
for the Mendocino Coum y A.ssessor's Office .
H e writes, " My wife, Pat, and I have lived
in Ukiah fur 'I years and have two daughters.
1 am s till appraising timber, sawmills, and
lugging equipme nt for tax puq1oses."
1957
JESS HARTON reports he's assistant district ranger on Lhe Happy Camp district of
the Klamath National Forest in Cal ifornia .
D AVE ROWDEN is s till fores ter with
Longview Fi bre Company and his residence
address is Box 81, Delake, Oregon.
JOCKO llURKS re ports that he's starting
to work with Timber Structures, ln c., in
Portland, Oregon , in J anuary. Jacko sp en t
t wo years w it h the Oregon State Board of
Forcsl r )' mostl y in Roseburg, Oregon.
ROD CARTER is stationed at Schilling
.·\F.B, Kansas, where he's (lying KC-97 tankers for the Strategic Air Command. Their
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second daughter, Cynthia Jane, was born
November 9. Rod reports the sun shines
there between blizzards and that Kansas is
awfu l flat . His address is 40th Air Refueling Squadron.
JOHN M. CLAYTON writes, "Promoted
w e~lgineer , Olympic Peninsula su p ervisory
distnct, Department o f N atural Resources,
~vith headquarters in Shelton, Washington ,
m .June. 1959. Drafted into the Arm y in
May : 1960, with present duty s tation and
address, Headtp.tarters Compan)', Sixth US
.\nn y, Presidio of San Francisco, California."
TF.l\Il'LE T. HAHN writes, "R ecently ret urned from a tour with the Army in Heidelberg, Germany, and currently working on
the Wind River district of the Gifford Pinchot N.F. Still sing le but would not turn
m y h ead il· a good thing would come a long."
CHARLES HILL lnoved to New i'vicxico
last .Jnne where he's doing engineeri ng work
on the C ibola National Forest, Albuquerque.
H e h as recentl y passed t he Civii Service's
highway engineer exam.
GERALD HOLDCRAFER returned from
the service in November and is now fores t er
on the Mt. Hood National Fores t, Bear
Springs ranger district at :Maupin, Oregon.
DOUC l'v fORRISON moved to Medford,
Oregon , where he's employed with the Rnreau of Land Management.
LESTER V. MULKEY, JR., writes, "I am
s till working wi th the U.S . Forest Service on
the G ifford Pinch ot N.F. Have just about
wmpleted m y firs t year as a ti1i1ber m anagement a ssistant in the supervisor's office
where my main duties are with timber sales
appraisals and contracts. H ave enjoyed my
career to date and my wife Allie is also
pleased with our vocation. After several years
of co untry living we are enjoying city life
in Vancouver, Washington, 3016 N. Falk
Road."
.JAMES R. PECKHAM left the Bureau of
L and Management last March and is now
employed as forester with Spaulding & Sou
Inc . at Grants Pass, Oregon.
SANGA SABHASRI is enrolled as a graduate stndcnt at the College of Forest1:y at
l he University of ' •Vashington at Seattle.
WILLIAM H. SCHEUNER is working out
of the supervisor's office a t Placerville, Califo rnia. His work includes field work in compiling maps and tables for management
plans. Rill went in to the army four weeks
after gradua tion and_spent a lmost two years
Ill t he corps of engmeers as a surveyor in
Europe. H e took that opportunity to get out
and see some interesting German forest practices and become acquainted with a local
fures tmeister.
FRANK TORKEL SON JR. resigned from
the Forest Service las t sum"mer to accept private employmen t. His address is 3429 "M on1 azum<I Circle, Sacramento, California.
LYNN D . TRAIL, "Still living at Craig,
.-\ Iaska, and still in the ranks of th e bachelors. Jn September, 1960, promoted to district
ra nger of the Craig Dis trict, Craig, Alaska.
Region 10 is in that rapid expansion phase
so fami liar to all of u s. The welcome ma t is
s till out (as always' for visitors and f ur transfers. Those who wou ld like to take part in
d eve loping the 'last frontier' jus t drop us a
lin e.''
WILEY WENGER has successfully completed the requiremen ts for his masters degree from Syracuse University with t he sub mission of a th esis 011 th e retention of OSC
fcrnhoppers in forestry employment. ' •Viley
b ecame a fa th er of a baby girl last April and
in Jul y moved to I'ortla11d, Oregon, where
he's now doing recreation research for the
Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station.
January. 1961
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WILLIAM H . '"' RIG H T writes: "Have
been with Koppers Co., lnc., Orovtlle, Cal·
i[ornia, since J anuary, 1 ~59, as a limber buy·.
cr and treating supervisOr. Spent ~958 . as
woods fo reman on a contract loggm g JOb
in Montana. There are two fu ture Fernhop·
pcrs in the family n ow, ages 2 yeat·s and 8
months."
1958
LESI.TE R. tVTARTTN w rites, "W e arc now
in Bend , Oregon , whe re I am timber _ma_n ·
agcment assistant on _the Fort. R ock rll~tnct
of th e Desch utes NatiOnal Fmest. H o\\evet ,
this will be chan ged after Christmas ~ts we
will be m o ving to Crescent where I Will ~s·
su me the sam e duties on th e Cresce n ~ _dts·
t r ict. Our famil y is fine. No n ew a ?clitl~n~
just the four o [ us, m y ~;•fe, Jan , L 1sa, 3!/z,
Lori, 2; and you rs truly.
WAY •E BOUSFI ELD m oved to Sp okane,
Washington, last June whe re h~'s doing dcvclopm~nt improvem~n~. work m the s~at~
~nd pn vatc forestry cltVISlon of the U .S. F or_
est Service. His add ress the re 1s East 3824
12th Aven u e, Spokane.
.EA RL BROWN became [orcst ins1?ect_or
ror the new Kla m ath Agency state d1stnct
o[ the Oregon State Board o[ Forestry last
May.
.
P AUL E . B UFFAJVI writes, "Rece1ved m y
M .S . in forest en tomology [rom o sc. i~ t .Jtme,
!960. I a m still employed by th e tllviSI~n of
[orcst insect r esearch of t he P .N .W . I·orest
and Range E xperim ent S tatim~ in Pm:t l,anc~,
Oregon . Two other Oregon_ St<:te. fm cstc1s:
Dr. Russ Mitchell and Btll B•& .J:?addy
Klien, are also bugmen in the dt vtston .. I
am still single and live in an apart~ue t.lt w1th
t wo othe r Oregon Staters. My m at_n J_ob en ·
tails the importa tion and colonizatiOn of
foreign p redators o f t~c bal s.~m woolly aphtd
in O regon and \>\fashmgton.
BYRON M . CO NAN re turned in ~ovel~l ·
ber from a two-year hitch as an oH1 ~er 111
th e US Army and is now back at hts. old
stom p ing ground in t~te 'M t. H ood ~att~!1al
Forest. Mickey is dom g forest cn gmect m g
work.
ROBERT W . CRAM.ER is still with Cat·
apillar-Tract_or compan y in the mi~w~st an1~
his address ts 602 LaSalle Blvd., Matquctte
Heights, P ekin, Illinois. Bob writes, '' Last
September the fa mily in creas~d by Ot~e; n _ow
have two g ir ls, Garol and Lmd a. St.'l.l wtth
'Cat' and very happy. Present posttton ~s
logging represent.ative, ~a l es develo pment cit·
vision. J oh entails offtce work plus lt a_ve l
to logging areas o[ l!.S., _obser~mg: loggm g
operation s, job studtes, . uw.est tgatmg new
m a rkets and tractor appltca twns. A pe•son ·
al inspection o[ Caterpillcr fa ct~ry and r c·
search can be a nnanged for any Fernhoppcrs
passing through this country."
H ARRY l\'f. DEJVIAR AY writes, "We
changed jobs in September from labora,_tory
director, particle board plant, Pop e & :t:"al·
hot, Inc., Oakridge, Oregon , to tech111cal
director, [lakeboard div ision, ~ollins P!n.e
Co., C hester , Cali[orn ia. Stop 111 ~nd VISit
us. T his is a beautiful Tahoe-like ptne coun·
try located about 30 miles southeast of Mt.
Lassen . After this s pring, we'll show you a
unique £1akeboard plant too."
ROGER FOLEY d rop ped by t he school
last A pril on his way to _Korea wit~t th e U.S.
Army. Roger is a first lieu tenant 111 the e n ·
g inccrs and h is cmr~ nt addr~ss ·~ 2nd Dt v.,
APO 73 1, San Francisco, Cahfor111a:
.
HENN I NG HAMILTON and lm [anul y
are living in the l_ittle_ N_orth Swedish tow~1
of Solleftea . Hennmg 1s 111 ch atge of mat k·
ing a nd cutting, cultivating _c u t over lan.d s,_
worker and foreman e d ucatiOn , dc ve l_op n~ g
nurseries and seed orchards, a nd studtes 111
econ omics and world forestry. In 1959, he
and his wife made a trip to the Eump~~ n
continent whc1·e they spen t two weeks VISit·
ing Denmark, Germ any and Switze~land . A
year ago last August. they moved m to the
n ewly built house w 1ll~ lots of spare s p ace
with which they ar e qtnte p leased.
CH ARLES H . H ARDE N writes, " In Oc·
toher I h ung- up m y carbine a nd t ra~led my
poncho fatigues, an~ steel pot [or ram _ge ar~
cruiser's vest., and tm hat. J.eft the 1atn of
Fort Lewis, 'Vashington, for the rain in
T'ortland and the Pacific N orthwest Forest
and Range .Experi_m ent Sta t ion where } r e·
tn rn cd to work with the forest sen•ey.
JOSEPH n . HOLDER writes, ."~anc_Y,
M ary Kay, Ch ris an d m yscl[ a rc livmg m
Flo rence, Oregon, just o[[ highway 101 and
arc enjoying th e wonderful Or~got_J coast.
I'm working on the ~'fapleton D tstnct, U.S.
Forest Service. " ' e hope to see m an y of you
at 'Fernhoppe rs', or wh en you tra vel th e
coast, stop b y."
HOBE .JONES writes, "~ a m c mre t~ tl y em·
ployed in a sales and adv1SOI} capaCity Wl~h
Chemicals distribut ing all kmds for usc m
fo restry. Forestry suppl ies and equip1~ cn r arc
also ca nied by 'The i\•!an [rom Mora. H o me,
wi t h wi[e D oroth y and sons Bark and Dan ,
is in Mi lwaukie, Oregon. Oregon , Southcm
Washing ton a nd Northern Cali[ornia are n1 y
' t orthwcst T erritory.'"
JAMES P. KI NG is attending Michigan
State Un iversi t y where he's wo rkin g o n his
PhD in forest genetics. Jim started just last
September and indicates he ex pects 10 he
th ere for two or tlu-ec years.
WILLlAi\1 H. KLEIN is busily r u nning
all over t he Northwest in his work a s a for ·
est e n tomologist with th e }>acific Northwest
Forest and Range Exp erim ent Station. H e
was recently th e a u thor of a report on the
Si lver Fir n ee tlc Comm ittee's progress.
ROBE RT L. KRAHMER, who fill ed in
brieHy [or T ony Van Vliet durit~g Tony's
absence last year from the st.a[f, 1~ now at
Syracuse, New York, undertakmg h1s d octor·
ate at the forestry sch oo l there. L~st Jul y
n ob b ecam e the fathe r of a baby gtrl.
JOH N L ANGRELL was promo ~ed ro sen·
ior forester in the personnel section o[ the
Oregon State Roard of }'orestr y l a~ t .Januat·y.
LARRY C. MERR IAM, Jr., aSSistant pro·
fessor o [ forestry, Mo ntana' State Unive~·s ity ,
is b~t sy teaching survey o f for~Stl)' f•c lds,
m ensu ration and forest rccrca l tOn courses.
H e is also u'ndertaking a research projec t itt
the Bob i\larshal Wilderness Area. H e rep o rts h is wife and t hree child_ren are well
scltlecl in Missoula and they ltkc th e work
and the com m unit y very much.
ROBERT E. O ' LEARY took a lea ve o[ ab·
scnce from t he Wallowa-Whitman National
Forest and enrolled in the n ew five year
[orest engin eering curricu lum at the Schoo l
of Forestry t his September.
.
THOMAS .J. J>ATTE~SON w ~s appo mted
ma nager of the in spe~twn scrv1ce for ~ly·
wood F abricators Serv1ce, Clarendon Htlls,
Illino is.
JOH N POI'PJNO writes, "Som e things arc
stil l pretly much the. sam ~; ad dress, numbe r
of kids, e tc., but the JOb utle has changed to
assista n t rangecl. \ .Ve n ow live at the ranger
station after movin g off th e h i ll east of
town . The new h ouse is nicer b ut the view
is worse. This fall we visited friends and Tel·
atives from here to t he east coast. The high
point of the trip foT the kids was a v isi t to
Smokey the Bear. We h ave g1·eat plans !or
som e 3 and 4 da y weekends comes ca m~n~g
weather , so maybe we will make the VIStts
we h ave b een promising."
RICH ARD A. l'R \'OR was promo ted W
assista n t fo rest technician [o r the District !I
h eadquarters o~ _the _Ca lifomia Div is~o~ of
f orestry. H e's h vm g 111 Sacramento, CalifOl ·
nia. Dick writes, "We're sti~ l at the. s~ue
stand h ere in sunny Cah[onu a and enJOY'!,g
it very much . The family now ~umbers s1x,
incl uding three boys_ and one gtrl. However
we are exp ectmg rcmforccments of the [e.
m a le t ype in i\larch . The o ld four bedroom
cabin is get ting crowd~d bnt we ca n always
m ake room for travelmg Fernhoppers. The
h omestead is 552 1 Sapunor 'Vay, Cann ich ael,
twe lve miles [rom Sacramento. The _Cal~ ·
[oruia D ivision o f Forest!)' (great outftt) IS
supplying the gw~ stake an~l presen_~ly. I'm
d oi ng forest practtcc work. with a sp11nklt_n g
o[ othe r projects such as [t re con_tro_l a~d m·
sect control. H ad the job of elimmatmg a
few insects on th e U. of C. Blodgett Forest
last March . They h ave an interestin g stand
of tim ber."
St\M U.EL R. READY was promoted to assistant ranger last J une. H e's on the Yo~a
Ro lla ranger d istrict at the Sh ~sta Tnmty
Nation al Forest in North ern Ca ltfornm.
TERRY R . RUDD w rites, ' Tm still work·
ing for t he Forest Service as tim ber manage·
me nt assistant on the Wallowa·' ·Vhitman Na ·
tiona! Fo rest at Wallowa, Oregon. ' Ve a re
livi ng in a new _Forest Service residence an~l
really enjoy Llus Eastern Oregon . weatheL
Our son is now 22 months old and IS ex pe~t·
ing a brother in April ; he _says a s1ster will
be ok, too. '"e've entered mto several CIVIC
a ctivities and seem to be plen ty b usy.
' •Ve extend an op en invitation to stay with
us wh cn eve1· an yone is out our way."
WILLlAi\I H . SAGER writes, " We will be
moving to n end, o~·egon, a b ou_t t he fi~·st of
the year where ~ wtll be workmg as ttmb~r
managemen t asststant on t he F ort R ock d1s·
1r ict Deschutes National Forest. N ancy, J a n ,
Pat 'a nd Don a ll a re fin e."
R AY SCHAAF writes, "Iinishing up Ump·
q ua National Forest ~imb7r type m ap a~1d
util iza tion project. Dmng t1mb~r sale admm ·
ist ration, a lso, on my home d1stnct. A new
baby girl in the fam ily in SeJ?tcmber. Om
fourth child. Both h ome a nd JOb are keep·
ing m e busy. Be glad to sec ~y [nen?s ~1er.c
a t Steamboat, Oregon, anytime. Ftshmg s
good and so is the hunting:, for a n ~:one ex·
cept m e (1 was skunked t h1s year) .
CHARLES KELLEY SIG LER, forester at
t he Waldport pngcr s~ati~n , ·w aldp ort, O_r:·.
gon, reports the fa n.uly. m~lud~s two guls
now. H e indicates the f1shmg 1s good, t he
d oor is a lways open and the coffee's o n.
ROBE RT Sll'E, U.S. Forest Serv1ce, Sweet
H ome , Oregon .
JOH N 0. TOLLEFSON writes, " Received
my MS in industria l managem ent_ at Purdue
in Au g ust. I'm presently workmg toward
Ph.D at the same institution in economiCS,
and teaching two-th ird s time. Sti ll very single. F eel like T've gotten awfully [ar from
t he brush; hope I ca n get at least close to it
again soon ."
TERRANCE. L. TWEDT is working at
the W ood Fibe r Boa rd Compa n y in Albany,
Oregon , on a special _assig!1mcnt from his
e mployer, Tim ber E n gmcenng Compan y o[
Po r tland.
GLENN R . WIGC l NS is assista nt log buy·
er from P e ninsul a Plywood Company at.
Port Angeles, Washington. His residence is
702 E . Carolin a St.
L EO W. WI LSON left Springfield last
Junc to hewme assistant d_istl ict w ~r~cn
'of the Lin coln Forest Protective Assoctatton
at 'fol crlo, O regon. He wast~'t th c~·c for m ore
than a month before Georg•a -Pacth c C~rp_or·
ation hired him away from the AssoCiatiOn
a nd made ]tim th eir h ead fire warden.
LEON ARD R. WOlKE. who's w it h ~he
Forest Service in the Sou theast, marncd
C laire Farris, September, 1960, at Greenwood ,
South Carolina .
VERN p . YERKES b ecame research forest·
c r on the Cascade H ead Experim en tal Sta·
lion a year ago .Ja nn;ll'\'. H• ·'s s1ationed at
Otis, Oregon .
1959
GARY L. ADAMS is with the division of
timber managem e nt o[ Llle regional [OJ·e~ ters
o[fice , U.S. Forest Service, a t San Fran etsco,
California.
RO N ALD A. Ar DERS en tered th e ser vice
for four years in May, 1%9. H is h ome ad ·
dress is 14649 Tustin Street, Sh erman O aks,
Cali[ornia.
STEWART H . ;\VERY, B ureau of Land
~ Ian agcment , ~ I edford, Oregon .
CH UC K RER N ERT w rites, "Living in
Rosebmg, Oregon , working at R osebu rg Lum·
bcr Co., in the qua li ty contro l department.
\Ve have one add i tion to our [amily and all
are doing we ll."
D AVID BELLAN, 119- 14 Sutphin Blvd.,
Jamaica, 36, New York.
STAN LE Y niSHOP RICK retllrncd to OSC
after grad uation in Fores tq: to ~hta in an ·
ot her undergraduate degree 1n b usm ess tech ·
no logy. H owever service plans in terrupted
so he's currently with U n cle Sam. H is h ome
address is Route I , Box 1308, Va ncouver,
\Vash.ington.
DALE BOWDISH writes, "G ary is over
a year old and his sister will be a long in
June . We have been h ere a_lmo~t. t wo years
no w which is a n ew record for ltvmg tn o n e
place. I am presa le forester o n the C rescent
ranger d istrict, Crescent, O regon. Sec you
on Fc rnhopper Day."
SAMUEL P. K. BRITWU iV! enrolled a t
the College of Forestry at Syracuse, New
York, after gradua tion [rom OSC for some
graduate work. H e's now back in Ghana a nd
h is address there is fot·estry Divisio n, Rox
UJJ7, Kum asi.
i\Ii\X B . CARPENTER is with the Corps
of .Engineers, U.S. Army, in Virginia.
ROBERT CLARK is in a m a nageme n t tra in·
ee program for D ant & ' Varnock. He'~ curren tly in produ ction work a t Ta hoe T 1mbcr
Co. in R eno, Nevada.
THOMAS H . CODY, Sr., accepted the job
as forester with Spaulding Pulp & Paper a t
C loverdale: Oregon , im mecli_ately, u pon gt:ad·
ua tion . Hts home a dclt·ess •s 323 1 N W Sky·
line, Portla n d.
D AVID C. D AVIS is now area forester in
charge of forestry interests on Simpson 's 20,·
000 R edwood Creek t ree farm at Blue L ake,
Ca lifornia. T·I e's in charge o[ t ree marking,
timber depletion, fir e control, sup ervising
logging where forestry in~eres ts arc c_oncern·
eel, u ·espass, con e collectton , recreallon d evelopment, and an)' experiments h e wish es
to undertake. L ast Septembc1· he reported
fo ur sides were operating in the old growth
redwood there. H e and his wife, Margie,
have three boys; Teddy, 4; Danny, 3; a nd
Steve, l year. Dave spent two years wi th
Un cle Sam e overseas.
CH ARLES N. DAVJS left Montan a to accept a job as a [orester with the Ohio Match
Divisio n o [ H unts Foods in Colorado. His
resid ence address is 937 Garrison St reet, Cor·
tez.
LARRY G. ELLTS entered t he Army En·
g ineers in J anuary, 1960, from W illamette
Lum ber Compan y where he was employed
as forest e ngin eer. H e's n ow company for·
ester for his Army uni t a t Hanau, Germany.
Larry is attending n ight classes to leam to
sp eak and read Ccrman and Ins bachelor
status a llows him to travel around Europ e.
H e's seen London and P a ris a nd has a ttend·
ed the P assion Play. His address is A . Co.,
23rd E ngineer Battalion , AP O 165, New York,
N .Y .
KIRK EWART is forester on the Umpqua
ational Forest at Roseburg, Oregon.
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OREGON STATE FORESTER
J an uary, 1961
KENNET H L. FALLON is still busy rio·
ing gyppo logging and . is li ving a t. O cean·
lake. Oregon , writes, "Su ll a struggling gyp·
po living in Ocean lake Box 37) Oregon. We
sold nur home i n Salem last .January ancl
moved to the coa st. Nancy and the kids love
the coast weather (6 mon t hs of the year)
and in a few years hope to become accustom ·
cd to it. We live and work in "The 20 Miracle !\Iiles.'' H an y o [ you are ever o ver,
feel [ree to stop in ."
BOB H ARVEY accepted a job as logging
e ngineer wi th I van Jones !-umber Compa n y
immediately a[ter g raduatwn and la s~ year
moved to Mo lalla, Or ego n, where h e s logging e ngineers for Weyerhaeuser.
CHARLES W . JOHNSTO NE writes, "Af.
ter ~raduation wen t to work [or t he Forest
Serv1ce at Blue River , Oregon , for 10 months
as timber sale officer. Then resigned and
worked 6 months [or Lookout Logging a nd
Constru ction Co. to gain ex perience for the
present j ob as [orestcr and timber buyer
[or Blue River Veneer, Tnc., h ere on the
MacKenzie R iver. Like the new job very
much but still have much to learn . " ' e establish ed permanen t residence w~th a pur·
chase o[ a n 120-acre tree farn1 wtth a huge
green house which we named Casa Verd e
Tree Farm. vVe have a lovely year-old
d aughter; a b lu e-eyed, strawbeny blonde
who keeps Pat busy. H ave pl an s for two or
three more to keep Pa t even busier. f ern·
hoppers arc welcome at Casa Verde Tree
Fa rm , Leaburg, O regon ."
FRED LABAR h as been working with the
'.Yillamettc National Forest, stationed out of
Eugene, O regon. During the Win ter O lym·
pies, Freel took a leave of absence a nd found
emp loyment down in Squa w Valley where
he got an up-close look at athletic events.
J AMES L. L UKERT entered the Navy
in Decembe r, 1959, an d h as become an en·
sign in the N avy Air Gor ps. H is home ad ·
dress is 5 l !i7 J ason Street, H ouston 35, T ex·
as.
WILSON L. MACKENZIE is now in the
service. H is home address is 45 18 Kilauea
Ave. , H onolu lu , H awaii.
PETER K. M ARTIN has been ein ploycrl
both in Alaska a nd th e United States. H e's
curre ntly specia l uses foreste r on the Cres·
cen t ranger district of the Deschutes N a·
1ion a ] Forest a t Crescent, Oregon.
KENNETH E. MEYER relttrned to OSC
for on e year to comple te th e course require·
ments [or his m asters degree. H e and his
wi[e, Lon aine, moved to J ackson ville, Ore·
gon, last summer where he is junior forester
o n the R ogue R iver National Forest. Ke n 's
main duties a re timber sa le admi nistratio n
and e ngineerin g a l o n ~ with som e summer
fire fighting in W ashm gton . Ken reports a
child is due in May.
DO UG McCLELLA N D left the Forest
Ser vice last April and has gone into the retail grocery business at Vancouver, ' •\lashing·
ton . His address is 201 8 Grand Avenue.
DARREL D . NICHOLAS is in Libby,
Mon tana, where he is technica l di rector of
the trea ting division for St. R egis Paper
Company. H e's been d oing a pplied research
in seasoni ng, plywood , quality control and
wood preservation a s well as work with
customer compl aints and productio n .
GILBERT OEKERMAN writes, "Since
graduation , I h ave been in plywood a nd ad·
h csivcs research with the D ouglas Fir Pl y·
wood Association at Tacoma, Washin gton.
' "'e n o w h ave two new addition s to th e fam ·
ily since graduation."
GIL OECKERMAN is wood techno logist at
the Tacoma, ' Vash ington, la b of the Doug·
las-fir Plywood Association.
WAYNE E. ORR married Mildred Schexnayder la<t Febru ary in New Orleans, Louis·
sel'l'icc.
1960
The class of 1960 is ex tended a cordial invitation to join the OSC Fo restry Alumni
Association . T h e $2 annual dues will bring
you a copy of th e 196 1 Annual C ruise and
next year's newsletter.
Rea cered itation--cont.
by McDonald and Dunn forest, the help o btained [rom alumni task fo rces, the adequate
level o f financial support, an d the excellen t
support given the program by coll~ge administrative o[[icials a nd co-op eratmg d e·
par tments. ~eatures li~ni t ing forestry e~u ca ·
cation at OSC, accordmg to the committee,
are: lack o[ to ta l space in the Forestry build·
ing, inadequate space a nd fac_i li ties for grad uate students, scattered locatton of resea rch
facilities, the sm all proportion o[ required
courses in basic sciences particu larly b o ta n y
a nd economics, and t h e heavy responsibil·
ities carried b y a ll staff members beyond
the usual teachin g load s.
AERIAL PHOTO SHORT
COURSE SCHEDULED
The eleventh a nnual aerial photo short
course will be held at the OSC Schoo l of
Forestry from March 20 to 24. The popular
course will again cover the theory a nd use
o[ aerial photographs to [orest ry a ppltca·
tions.
Course director is D r. J . R . Dilworth, head
of the school's forest managemen t depart·
m cnt. E nrollment in formatio n is availa ble
from the Dean, OSC School of Forestry.
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Forest Research --cont.
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J anuary, 1961
Forestry Staff--cont.
MeDon a ld-Du n n--co nt.
pas1 )' !'~r . \\'ork ill lhis an•a as well as joh
placc n1Cnl. undcrgradual!' scholarships, sill dent programs a nd course work keeps him
busy. Rill is still involved in his d octorate
thesis on seed physiology and he's busy evenings and weekends x-raying seed by the
hundreds. H e expects this to be lhe theme
with varia tions for the n ext two yea rs.
BOB WILSON is busily preparing for the
first Oregon Logging Safety Institute to be
he ld at the Sch ool this February. Rob 's serving as school representative on the show.
l l c's working on a new course in geologic
and soil aspects of forest roads, and continuing his reasca1·ch on forest wad erosion.
RAY YODER spent the summer ramrodding a research project for the USFS on lhe
cast side. A.ctivities in his spare time arc
cen tered on com/Jleting landscaping and
some in tcrior Finis 1 on the new home. Ray
recommends either decals or dirt ror sliding
glass doors to let children know the door is
there. H e's 11sed up three doors in less than
a year.
I
OREGON ST:,TE
agaill lhis ycat· ror t'll -
largemclll of the proje~:t.
Gran ts were also received from the Nation al Science Foundal ion lO enable six undergraduate students to participate in forestry
science and entomology projects during the
summer. These were later extended to cover
the academic year_ These p rograms are under the direction of Drs. Dilworth and Rurl insky. They are intended to promote the
interest of scholarly undergraduates in a r esea rch career .
Forest Taxation
Strong efforts were made to procure aid
[or a basic study of forest taxation. This
would have compared the burden of the forest owner as against the burden of owners of
other typ es of properLy. Some moderate aid
£rom the research fund of the Graduate
School was given which has permitted exploratory work for evaluation of the proposed working plan. Professors Dane and Sutherland are co-operating in th is.
Animal Damage
Damage of animals is recognized as a major obstacle to forestry throughout the region. Efforts to obtain funds for b'l·eater emphasis of this on the campus have been slow
to come. vVe have, however, obtained assistance (rom th e BLM for Ed Hooven of the
Oregon Forest R esearch Center to advance
this work.
=:ontinuing Research
The normal prog1 am of th e past continues in forest entomology, pathology, soils
and tree seeds by Drs. Rudinsky, Roth ,
Youngberg, and Ching. Tn the School of
Forestry Bob Keniston continues his work on
land use problems, and is completing a t he;is covering small forest owner management
decision s. Bob ' •Vilson is concerned with
sources of erosion on logging roads, Mac :McKimmy with variations of wood characteristics in Douglas-fir races. Randall and Bell
spent most of the summer working u p data
o n growth. ploL~ and establish ing additional
plots in newly thinned sta nds. Bill Wheeler
is studying the maturing of cones and seeds.
Forestry Biological R esearch
Laboratory
The· Pacific Northwest Forest and Range
Experiment Station has been granted apporval for construction o( a scientific laboratory on the campus. Plans for the building
have been drawn and construction shou ld
start eal'!y in the coming year. This laboratory will be located on an extension of J efferson Street on the west sid e of the Ma ll,
adjacent to a site selected for a new forestr y
building which we hope will come in the
not too-dislant future.
Oregon Forest R esearch Center
St1·ong co-operation continues with the two
d ivisions of the OFRC. Th ei r program adds
real strength to the forest research effort concentrated here in Corva llis. Forest producls
L;"radu ate students have been employed in
~ome o[ their research projects and t heir
~taff have assisted o ur professors both in research projects a n d in the classroom. The
proposed consolidation of the OFRC and the
School's forest research. program is d iscussed
in " Mac's Corner," fonnd o n page 3.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
O.S.C. Forestry Al umni Ass'n.
OSC School of Forestry
Corvallis, Oregon
40-753070
FORM 3547 REQUESTED
MR DAN D ROBINSON
SCH OF FORESTRY
CAMPUS
ion lo snag' 1'.- llcd in lilt' I h in ning- opera1io11s. r. lost of I he heavi ly concentrated sm1g
areas have now been cleared.
Last winter and spring I 02,000 2-0 Douglas fir secdli11gs wc1·e planted on no -stocked
areas. This winler 8!!,000 seedlings, grown
fron1 seed collected on r.f cOon a ld Forest, wi II
be planted.
Damage to young seedlings by deer brows;ng has been severe on the forests. This year
hunling was al lowed during four weekends,
and :jOel deer were killed. This compares
with a kill of 278 in 1958, and 243 in 1959.
McDonald Forest Day was instigated this
year by the students, and was held during
lhe rirst part of fall term. SIUdents contributed to the maintenance of thei1· forest lahoraiUry by putting iu a half day of work
one Saturday m orning. Work on various projects included brushing o u t along roads,
fence 1·epair, cabin repair, brush s praying.
sign installation , etc., un til noon. They then
congregated at the Forestry Club Cabin
where the student wives had prepared a
lunch. After lunch a forestry club meeting
was held. followed by contests at Cronemi ller
Lake. The day was such a success that the
studen ts plan to co n tinue the project.
Immediate p lans for the forests call for
continued salvage logging, thinning, planting, brush control, road construe! ion and
ma intenance, snag fa lling and other maintenance projects. Jn genera l the plan for
the 11ext I:J years is to dean up the forests
and build up the growing stock, and, as a
part of this process, lo ha rvest approximatel y
2Y2 mil lion board feet of Jogs per year enlirely from sa lvage and thinni ng.
The OSC Forestr)' Alu!llni Asso ciation
needs your financial supporl. Your $2 an nual dues will bring you a copy of the
1962 newsletter and the 1961 i\ n n ual Cruise.