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 ('Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 16) ('Continued on p age 4) 7 359 ! 58 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. I 932 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 Page Seven 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 Page Eight 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." Page N ine 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 Page Ten 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 Page Twelve 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 Page Thirteen 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 Page Fourteen ----------~O~RE~·~G~O~N~S~T~A~T~E~·~F~O~R~E~·~ST~E~·=a~------------------~~~--~-- 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. Page Fi[teen 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. Page Sbcteen Forest Research --cont. f'ullrll-l W('rC gTCII11Crl !'OREST!~ 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.