OREGON STATE
FORESTER
VOLUME XIX
Corvallis, Oregon, January 1966
THREE GENERATIONS OF
O.S.U. FERNHOPPERS
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Photo by Ralph Osterling, forestry senior
Thr~e
generations of OSU forestry students are shown in this photo taken in
November 1965. Shown, from left to right, are Bruce Starker, '40, T. J. Starker,
'10, and Bond Starker, currentry a freshman at the School of Forestry.
Bond Starker, son of Bruce Starker,
continued in his father's footsteps in
establishing another forestry "first." Bruce
was the first son of a fernhopper to
enroll in forestry in 1936; Bond becomes
the first third-generation forestry student.
Bond is the grandson of T. J. Starker,
a member of the first graduating class
of foresters who finished in 1910.
The first forestry course was taught
around the turn of the century, so
forestry as an official program at OSU is
over 60 years old.
While Bruce Starker was the first son
of a fernhopper to enroll in forestry, many
other fernhopper sons have enrolled at
osu.
Some of
past years
Chester
Chester A,
those who have graduated in
are:
A. Bennett, Jr., '59, son of
'30;
Stanley Bishoprick, Jr., '59, son of Stan,
'34 •
Larry Gilbert Brown, '63, son of Ralph
G. , '30;
Wallace N. Cory, '58, son of Henry N.
Cory '32·
Phillip' E. Crawford, '65, son of Melvin
E., '38;
Donald 0. Cronemiller, '54, son of Lynn
E '14·
. Ver~on A. Fridley Jr., '61, son of
Vernon A., '36;
Lynn Jackson Horton, '56, son of Lynn
A. '28;
James D. Lemery, '65, son of Frederick
0., '34;
Norman E. Spangenberg, '62, son of
Norman F., '33;
Lynn G. Sprague, '63, son of LeRoy
Sprague, '43;
Ge rald E. Thomas, '65 son of Gail M.
Thomas, '36;
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MAC'S CORNER
I'd like to share with you our present
concern with curricula. Constant changes
and developments in forestry do not allow
us any leisure to sit on our hands. Courses
likewise must change and develop, and
the School's standing committee on curriculum planning will never finish its assignment. In addition to this continuing
effort, a volunteer group of staff members
has put in a great deal of hard work this
fall on curriculum reappraisal. With Tony
Van Vliet as chairman, the group includes
John O'Leary, Dave Paine, Dan Robinson,
Dick Waring, and Bill Wheeler. My thanks
go to all of them.
A number of reasons compel us to devote our best thought and energies to
curriculum revision.
(1) For the first time in the last 34
years at OSU it is possible for a student
to obtain a master's degree in the field of
business. We have had a close and
pleasant liaison with the School of Business and Technology since its beginning,
but joint programs of study were limited
to undergraduates in the past. Now the
State Board of Higher Education has authorized the master's level in Business.
So we are working on joint graduate programs, particula rly looking toward a
Master of Business Administration degree
follow ing unde rgraduate work in forestry.
With Corvallis in close proximity to the
best and biggest operations of the forest
industry there should be real incentive
and opportunity for undergraduate and
graduate students alike to come here for
a combination of forestry and business ..
In addition to such combined programs
our curriculum study group proposes to
augment the regular forestry curricula
with more business courses. The gradual
amalgama tion of small companies into
large brings about large business problems
along with growth. Our graduates must
be well prepared to grow with the fiscal
problems of business if the are to operate
successfully in the industry.
( 2) With further reference to business,
we were privileged r ecently to have
with us for several days Dr. Lew is R.
Grosenbaugh of the Southwest Forest and
Range Experiment Station, U.S. Forest
Service, Berkeley. Lew gave us a valuable
assist in curriculum development with his
emphasis on the quantifying of forestry.
It is his position that foresters cannot
cope adequately with the problems of
the day by guess, opinion, or hunch. Our
complex industrial society requires a hard
nosed, hard fact a pproach to problems.
Howeve r, the multitude of variables in
forestry makes exactitude very difficult;
even impossible , when solutions are attempted with the feeble mathematics of
the past. However, when computers can
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AlUMNI BUSINESS
Oregon State Unive r~it:r Forestry
Alum ni Assoc1at10n
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OREGON STATE FORESTER
Term Expires April 1966
Robert W. Appleby U.S. For est Service
P.O. Box 3623
Portland, Oregon
Gifford Pinchot NaRoss W. Williams
tional Forest
P.O. Box 449
Vancouver, Wash.
School of Forestry,
C. W. Dane
osu
(sec.-tr eas.,
Corvallis, Oregon
editor)
Term Expires April 1967
George W. Churchill U.S. Forest Service
P.O.Box 3623
Portland, Oregon
U.S. Forest Service
Spencer T. Moore
A!>h Building
(vice-president)
Corvallis, Oregon
State Forest r y Dept.
Theodore Maul
2600 State Street
(pr esident)
Salem, Oregon
Employe r
Bureau of Indian Affairs
BLM
US Forest Service
Park Service
scs
Othe r federal
Tota l Federal
Cal. Div. of Forestry
Wash. De p't. of Natura l Resources
Oregon State Forestry Dept.
osu
Other States
Tree Farm Service
P.O. Box 278
Philomath, Oregon
State Forestry Dept.
2600 State Street
Salem, Oregon
Boise Cascade
Medford, Oregon
School of Forestry,
Frank Sargent
Sam Taylor
W. F. McCulloch
(advisory)
osu
Corvallis, Oregon
Enrollment Statistics
Marl'ied students comprise 18 percent
of the student body; veterans only 7 percent.
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Crown Zellerbach
Weyerhaeuser
U. S. Plywood
Oth er companies
Self employed
Cons ulting Firms
Ind ustrial Associations
Ot h er Private
Tota l Private
Fall term e nrollme nt was up 85 students
or some 37 percent from a year ago. Almost a ll of the increase is in new stude nts
rather than a high er percentage of o~d
students r eturning. The sharp r eversal m
enrollment trends is attributed to larger
high school graduating classes an~ th:e
increase in tuition costs at other umversities and colleges. The percentage of outof-state st udents em-oiled at t h e School
increased from 28 percent to 39 pe r cent,
still some 10 points less t h a n the late
1950's. Very little of the enrollment increase is attribut oo:d to the larger draft
calls since almc!::; a ll of the new students
h ad a p plied a nd had be en admitted to the
School before August 196:>.
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Total State
Service
Unknown
Retired
Graduate work, between jobs
Non foresh·y
Deceased
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48
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The School of Forestry is often asked to
provide assistance in locating foresters
for governme nta l a nd indus trial positions.
The policy of the School is to suggest
alumni wherever OSU graduates are well
qualified. However, to r espect employer's
rights, t h e School cannot forward a man's
n ame unless h e has specifically indicated
his intent to cha nge jobs, or the School
h as cleared w ith his present employer.
Those who may be looking fm· a change
in employment can h e lp t h e School help
you by preparing several copies of a
r esume, listing experience and education
j ust as it would be pre pa r ed for a prospective employer. Such information
should be sent to t h e School by those
interested in a career cha nge.
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24 156 156
1 88 26
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An invitation is extended to the class
of 1965 to become members in the OSU
Forestr y Alumni Association by sending
your $2.00 annual dues to t he School of
l"orestry.
Dear Fernhoppers:
Of real interest to Fernhoppers should
be the plans soon to be considered by the
Board of Directors for reinstituting the
task forc e review of the School's instructional ana r esearch progra ms. Any plan
finally approved by the board will n eed
t he active support a nd time of alumni
if the School is to benefit from such a
review.
The n ew fo restry building is now fifth
on the OSU campus building priority. De ta ils are r eported on a nothe t· page.
You may r ecall that past-president
Bjorklund discussed in the March 1965
issu e of t he Oregon State Forester, the
n eed for a "summer institute" for promoting an interest in forestry to Oregon's
hig h school students. This will b ecome a
reality in the s umme r of 1966 with the
scheduling of a special week-long institute
iri forestry for outstanding high school
students in order to provide them with
some ideas of the challenges in a forestry
car eer .
The financial crisis faced by the OSU
Forestry Alumni Association last year
($26.48 in the r ed) has been weath er ed.
By rigid economies a nd e fficie nt operation,
the past adminis tration turned over a
$337.29 balance to the current operation.
However , complacency had better not set
in; we still need the active support of a ll
Alumni in paying dues.
Financial Statement
January 1, 1966
Balance, J anuary 1, 1965
Income:
1966 Dues $ 5.00
1965 Dues
920.00
1965 Banquet 756.25
Misc. Income 268.77
Ex pe n ses:
1965 Newsl'tr 511.7 0
1965 B'quet 803.55
1965 Annual
Cruise
276.00
1966 B'quet
5.00
Bala nce, January 1, 1966
OREGON STATE FORESTER
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SCHOOL STAFF NEWS
Number
69
42
37
.January 1966
SCHOOl DOINGS
Fernhoppers will be interested in the
following statistics on the employers of
OSU forestry g ra duates compiled from the
School of Forestry's personnel records.
The summary r e presents information on
file as of December 1, 1965.
Term Expires April 1968
Marvin Rowley
From the Alumni
President
Annual n ewsletter of t h e OSU Forestry
Alumni Association mailed to the last
known a d d r ess of a ll OSU Fernhoppers.
Board of Directors
Fresh.
Soph.
Junior
Se nio r
Gr adu a t e
January 1966
OREGON STATE FORESTER
Page Two
- $ 26.48
$327.29
GEORGE BARNES reports two major
e ve n t:; during the past year. He and
Mrs . B. made a bus tour from Vancouver, B.C. to Prince George, Prince
Rupert and thence by Alaska fel'l'y to
Skagway, Alaska, the White Pass and
Yukon Railroad to White Horse, Yukon
Territory and thence over the Alaska
Highway to Mile Zero at Dawson Creek.
The return trip took him to the Peace
River hydroelectric dam which is under
conztruction. Pri ~ce George. Kamloops
a nd over the Princeton-Hope highway
passing through Manning Provincia l
Par){. The second and most important
P.VPnt was his change in status to grandfnther. Son Jim and wife Phyllis adopted a t hree-month old boy: Ronald Wallace Barnes.
JOHN BELL continues to teach m e nsuration for sophomor~s, juniors and graduRtc students. With the help of t h e
Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foun(l,tion h e h ad the opportunity to v isit
with faculty members, industrial and
~overnmental foresters in Ontario and
0ueb ec, Ca nada, during the summer.
The highlight of fall term was a threerlRy visit by Dr. L. R. Grosenbaugh of
the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest a nd Range Experime n t
Station. As a res ult of Lew's visit, John
h Rs exposed his students to 3-Pee samplin~ (probability proportiona l to production) a nd he looks forward to more
work with this n ew technique. John
enio:ved seeing many fernhoppe rs at
the WFCA m eeting in Vancouver, B.C.
He !.'. ntic ipates 1\ sabbaticl\1 lc:we n ext
vear Which will tak r. him to t h p fln;ve r sity of Michigan for doctoral stu dies.
CHUCK D ANE r eturned last spring from
his graduate work in business a d n inistration to t h e Northwest and ;1 )W job
title of assistant dean . He's busy incorporating some of th e oper ations r e search concepts h e learned into the industrial for estry course .
Currently,
Chuck is working with sevewl forestry
and B&T profs to develop an MBA program minor for those interested in
working in the forest industt·y.
BILL DAVIES continues to teach senior
and graduate courses in forest engineering, and supervise the school for ests.
Bill visited Southern pine operations in
t h e Southeast for 5 weeks during Ma rch
and April.
DICK DILWORTH re ports he has spent a n
in ter esting if not spectacular year. Highlights of his travels included profess ion a l talks in Detroit, Eugene, Roseburg, Medford. Dick again offered his
Forest Conservation Seminars in Lebanon and Sweet Home, and his sixteenth
annual Ae rial Photo Short course. He
finds that research administration is
taldna more time with two National
Scienc:! Foundation gra nts to supervise
plus r e gular departmental r esearch.
BILL FERRELL has returned from a year
in Denmark and Northern Europe a n rl
has m a ny inte1·esting examples o:
European r esearch and practice to r e port to his students. He and his class
continue to trample the r epr oduction
in the forests across the Cascades as
Photo by Ralph Osterling, forestry senior
Shown exam ining a m a p of the proposed site of the new foresb·y building. at·e
Dean Mac McCulloch (on the right) and Bill West, chait·man of the faculty commtttee
w ho will be working with the architect. It is expected that an architect fm· the
new f01·estry building may be named this. spring Thl~ does n~t ~ea.n that ~he
School is q uite r eadv to pack up and move JUSt yet. While t he butldmg IS now f1fth
on the OSU priority ·list, construction is dependent upon funding from the Jegislatm·e.
they go on their trip to Pringle Fa lls
but t h ey no longer spend the night at
Hebo on th eir trek to the Coast. We've
h eard that Hebo is in a state of mourning . Bill a lso introduces a number of
graduate students to the wonders of
r esearch in tree physiology and is beginning again some research of his own
in photosynthesis a nd drought resistance.
HELGE IRGENS-MOLLER spends a good
~ha re of his time in the plantation, and
m an ages t o mix up some of the trees
by crossing various types. So far h e has
b een uns uccessful in develo ping trees
with square boles and no limbs but h e
is still trying.
I J.BX JAENICKE still h as a desk in thC!
For estry Building even though he
finished his eight years of teaching on
the for estry staff in June 1964, and
presumably was ready for retirement
after a fifty -year career. To suppleme nt
the efforts of the English department,
Alex is now on a part time basis working with freshmen foresters to improve
the ir s kill in the- u's e . of writte n English.
His son Dick is a gradu ate of OSU and is
an electronics engineer in t he San Fra ncisco Bay area. Be tty and Alex plan to
continue to live at 2941 Mulkey Street
in Corvallis .
BOB KENIS •'ON is t eaching both Dendrology a nd Tree Ident. this year while
Casey Randall is on leave in Colorado.
W ith t h e a id of a Hill course-improvem e nt grant, Bob is trying to develop the
u se of more s lides and tapes in these
classes. Casey's recently-dev eloped slidetape series for Tree Ident. is useful to
both classes. Excellent close-up photog ra phy by Bill Hoeb el '58 and others
adds greatly to the quality of t his
s lide-ta pe series. Bob is developing a
slide-tape lecture on paleode ndrology
of Oregon and forest geography of the
Northwest. Two of Bob's offs pring
entered OSU this fall: Anne, a junior in
Education, transferred from Lewis and
Clark; a nd Richard, a freshman in the
science honors program, is sp ecializing
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January 1966
OREGON STATE FORESTER
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SCHOOL DOINGS (continued)
Forest Research
Important changes occurred during the
past year in ne w projects started and in
new faces to work on them. The Forest
Research Lab in the southern edge of the
campus along Philomath Road smells like
a sawmill because of the many samples of
ba rk needed in · studies of utilization, and
the large volume of lumber piled around
for r esearch on structures lends a considerable resembla nce t o a sawmill yard.
One new face belongs to Everett Ellis,
director of forest products Research since
June, w hen Leif Espenas resigned the position to spend more time on teaching and
research. Others are Russell Molyneux
a nd Bill Ross, chemists, a nd Anton Polensek, building engineer. Joseph Zaerr is our
n ew plant physiologist. Return o f Robert
Gourly from military service has brought
t he ratio of forest scie ntists to technicians
t o nearly 1 to 1, a decided improvement..
Two old faces are absent temporarily;
Jim Snodgrass a nd Harvey Aft are on
leaves of absence to work in industrial
research and teaching.
Short courses on drying lumber and
veneer were attended by almost 50 operators, conferences have been held o n us"! of
water by forest products industries in
the state, and a ttention has been focused
on elimination of a ir pollution caused b y
burning woody r esid u es.
The w ide range of research at the Forest
Research Lab is accompa nie d by corresp onding activity in professional and scientific organizations. Research reports a nd
lon g-1·ange pla nning a re r a ising consumption of paper to new levels .
A new wing to t h e presen t laboratory
h as been approved for forest science b y
the State Board of Higher Education. It is
planned to h ave two floors, be a ll w ood ,
a bout 50 b y 100 feet. It w ill add n ew
facilities for work w ith radioisotopes,
chromatography, microenvironment a nd
animal biology, besides having space for
work by graduate students. Actual construction depends on success of an application for a grant from National Science
Foundation.
Forest Science
Bill Ferrell h as returned from Europe
and continuing his research on the high
light inte nsity effects on photosynthesis
a n d on drought resistance in Douglas-fir
seedlings . Chet Youngberg, OSU's forest
soils exp ert, returne d from his leave, a lso.
New cooperative resear ch agreements
w ith the U.S. Forest Service have been
written to h elp underwrite research on
dwarf mis tletoe, si te index studies on
high Cascades tree species, a nd two studies
to be done at OSU's engin eerin g experiment station.
Bill Wheeler a nd Mac McKimmy are
complet ing and r epor ting on their studies .
Bill's studies concerned X-ray studies of
seed a nd Mac's involved t h e heritability
of wood ch a r acteristics of Douglas-fir.
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LAB. STAFF NEWS
GEORGE ATHERTON continued a study
of strength and stiffness of residen t ia l
floors. Some Douglas-fir floors have been
tested. Present tests are on floors with
western hemlock joists.
ALAN BERG continues studies in managing y oung-growth Douglas-fir, at the
same time pursuing th e elusive PhD-both
of which lead to the psychiatrist.
DALE BEVER says i t has been a bad
year for strange a ilments and accidents.
He just barely r ecove red from a serious
attack of Grant Applicatio nitis when h e
was inadvertently caught in the Reichart McCulloch teaching mac hine, from which
he emerged with a badly mangled ego.
H UGH BLACK completed his doctora l
dissertation and r eceived his degree in
June. He traveled extensivel y this summer in cooperative survey of animal
damage on forest plantations in Oregon
a nd Washington. H e a lso continued
grazing trials in sou thwestern Oregon ,
and participated in a n investigation of th e
ecology of t h e mountain beaver. His joint
study with Kim Ching prompts his request
for reports of seedlings t h at a ppa r ently
have
some
"natur a l
repellency"
to
animals.
RALPH CARMICHAEL reports that 1965
was a good year as he caught up with
t he back log of chemical a nalyses for
various tree nutritional studies. Analyses
for bioassay of soils with Douglas-fir also
h ave absorbed a fair amount of time.
KIM CHING suffered a mild seizure
when news came from the S tate o f
Washington that one of his seed-source
plantations, established in 1 959, was consumed by fire set off by a thoughtless
soul. Now, instead of s tudy ing genetic
cha racteristics of live trees, he is investigating wood qua lity of dead t r ees.
BRIAN CLEARY has calibr ated ther mographs and assisted in the installation of
25 permanent field plots in the Siskiyou
Mountains. Current work is on a pressure
bomb to be used in field evaluation of the
water r e lations of the tr ees on th e plots.
STAN CORDER continue d study of nondestructive testing which might b e useful
for grading stru ctural lumber. Wood floor
systems were also investigated.
RAY CURRIER has been working on accelerated m ethods for evaluating adhesives for wood, a nd soon will t ake
another look at possible uses of bark in
manufactured products. He a ls o assist s
Tony Van Vliet in t eaching one course.
ALLAN DOERKSEN says that it is hard
enou gh to keep up with a ll the work in
the microtechnique a n d physiology labs
w i th out doing it on one foot. He broke
his foot while playing tennis and had to
wear a cast for six weeks.
DAVID ELFERS has assisted in younggrowth management r esearch since h e
joined t h e st aff in July.
BOB GRAHAM is serving as chairman,
Resear ch Committee, Western Wood Preserve rs Institute, which provides an excelle nt forum for discussion and action on
research. As chairma n of the Faculty
Welfare Committee, Bob is helping to co-
OREGON STATE FORESTER
January 1966
o rdinat e the activities of d iffer ent organizations seeking to improve sa laries
a nd non-sa lary benefi ts so that OSU can
build the staff needed to maintain excellence in teaching a nd research.
DICK HERMANN went to Europe during
the summer and, among other t hings,
visited forest research institutions in
sever a l countries. Since his return, Dic k
again has been studying regeneration
p r oblems.
ED HOOVEN is still working on t he li:e
history data of ~mall mammals, testing
animal repellents, and hoping to get
through Germa n . As a sideline h e is
growing noble fi r Christmas trees w i th
Lavender and Gartz and trying to rai~::J
fish in beaver ponds that go dry in the
summer.
HELGE IRGENS-MOLLER has been bugy
with h ybridization amon~ various str ains
of Douglas-fir in a breeding arboretum
now con taining types of Douglas-fir frcm
through out t he range of the species. He
is also checking resp onS::!a of the various
types to different t.empcr atures a nd
photo-periods and to difrer ent qualities of
light under controlled envir onmental cond itions.
JIM JOHNSON has been busy on corrosive effects of fire-retardant-treated
lumber , helping select specimens for a
d rying study, and working w it h in dustr y
on load-sharing studies. A wet trip to th')
W a llowa mountains a n d an appendectomy
wer e included in a n enjoyable ( ? ) cur:l m er. J ust wasn't my year , h e say s.
RUDOLF KANGUR says that his fir st 15
years with the Lab have been enjoyable.
At present he is desperately trying to
keep up with the growth of vigorous
young hemlock and hemlock-Douglas-fir
stands.
CHARLIE KOZLIK completed three projects on the e ffect of kiln drying on the
strength of clear specimens of Doug lasfir and western h emlock, high-temper ature
drying of Douglas-fir , and drying schedules
for 4/4 Oregon bigleaf maple. In December, the annual Wood Drying Course,
including lumber and veneer, was presented. He was chairman of the 17th
annual meeting of Western Dry Kiln Clubs
held in Portla nd last May. In July, he
was elected as vic') ch'lirman elect of
the Wood Drying Division of the Forest
P roducts Resear ch Society. Present st udy
is on drying western hemlock to a uniform
final moistur e content and the effect of
ltiln drying on th e strength of Douglas-fir
and western hemlock dimension l umber.
BOB KRAHMER h as become involved
in research projects oriented towar d
wood-growth quality. He presented a
paper on specific gravity variation in h emlock trees at the second TAPPI Biology
Conference. Under the staff improvement
program supported by the Hill Family
Foundation, he a lso attended t he nondestructive testing symposium at Spokane,
W ash., and the confere nce on "densitya k ey to wood quality" at Madison, Wisconsin. Spring term he is teachin g Wood
Anatom y and Timber Mechanics at the
School of Forestry.
BOB KUNESH has resurrected a n old
Ph.D. progr am in Wood Science and is
attempt ing to compete with t h e c urre nt
generation of whiz kids. In the i nterim,
he has completed sever al studies on th e
compression of w ood and is now pondering about new projects for the coming
year.
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WITH THE CLASSES
1910
T. J. STARKER wri tes, "One of the problems fac ing many of our Western timber
growers is h ow to get the most from our
overstocked stands. On the other end is
the problem of how to get better stocking
on our poorly stocked stands, often the
nost productive land we own. But is the
Utilizer the answ"Jr or is the Saw-N-Chip
machine the better ? I'm trying to figure
it out. A milk shake for the best answer."
1917
HARRY C. PATTON, 10250 S. W. Arborcrest Way, Portland, 97225, writes, "Ret ired in 1956 a fter having been employed
by Hammon d Lumber Company for 36
years: the last 21 years as manager of
Hammo nd's Oregon operations when Hammond sold to Georgia Pacific Corporation.
Have interests in summer home sites at
Detroit Lake and on the North Santiam
River. Spend leisure t ime hunting, trapshooting a nd bowling. Have been president o f Portland Gun Club fo r the past
eight years a nd secret ary-treasurer of the
Oregon State Trapshooting Association.
Have four go-karts and a motor scooter
as well as a swimming pool in back yard
to k eep in service for four grandchildren ."
1923
ROBERT P. CONKLIN, 1032 Northshore,
Lake Oswego, Ore., 97034, retired January
1965, from his position with U.S. Plywood
Corp. a nd is now starting a new career
as a management and r esearch consultant.
W. E. GRIFFEE, Diamondhead, Lake
Oswego, Ore., writes, "I have left the
Western Wood Products Association after
some 32 years and started on a new venture which sh o uld be more rewarding in
both fun and money." Bill, in his position
as secretary-manager of the Western Pine
Association, was a m a j or force in shaping
the Western Wood P roducts Association.
EDWIN L. MOWAT is retired and living
at 625 Lit Way, Ashland, Ore.
1925
GEORGE SPAUR writes, "We are still
in Ankara, Turkey, wher e I am chief
forestry advisor to the Director General of
the Turkish Forest Service. We will complete our work o n June, 1967, then will
retire after 12 years in the overseas program. Hope to see some of my old friends
in Madrid, Spain, n ext June at the World
Forestry Con gr ess."
1926
ERNEST E. FISCHER, 4000 S.W. Fairview Boulevard, Portland, Ore.
1927
JAY B. HANN, bra n ch chief of the division of operations in the regional forester's office in Utah writes, "Expect to retire at t he end of 1965 after over 40
years o f nearly continuous service. May
travel in Europe next summer and otherwise catch u p on some fishing and other
travels b etween longer trips . The address
is still 1383 Lark Circle, Ogden. Son, Jay
B. III, is a practicing orthopedic su rgeon,
Oakland, Cal. ; daughter, Rosa, is employed
in Palo Alto, Cal. Wife, Dortha, will help
ring doorbells and m aybe even help with
the fishing."
JOHN C. W ILKINSON reports that the
best news for 1965 is that he and his
wife are grandparen ts. John's son Robin,
w ho graduated from the University of
• • • • • • • • • •
OBITUARIES
EDWARD G. BATES, '15, died
April 22, 1965, in Eugene, Oregon. Survivors include his wife,
Alta, two daughters, a son, and
six grandchildren. Bates owned
and managed E!co Dairy, operating a 2,000-acre ranch near
Junction City. He w as a member
of the 1925 House of Representatives and served as Oregon supervisor of the 1960 Census.
JAMES L. GILKEY, '48, was
killed April 23, 1965, in a light
plane crash near Estacada, Oregon. He was enroute from Lewiston, Idaho, to his home in Eugene
with his father as a passenger.
Since graduation, Jim has been
with Cascades Plywood Corp. and
Stimson Lumber Company. Since
1958, he owned and operated
Laurence David, Inc., manufacturers of plastic wood.
FRED J. SANDOZ, '40, died
March 27, 1965, from a stroke
suffered while fishing. His wife,
son, daughter, five b rothers and
a sister survive him. Fred was a
veteran of WW II and had been
in the forest product s industry . .
25 years. He joined Evans Products Co. in December 1964.
Prior to that Fred was assistant
manager for Longview Fiber's
timber department and had been
land and logging manager for
Booth-K e 11 y Lumber Co. in
Springfield, Oregon, for 11 years.
Oregon in 1960, had a son born last
August. His other son, John, who graduated from OSU in 1958, married Nancy,
daughter of George Schroeder, '35. Son,
John, is an indus t r ial engineer with
Boeing in Seattle, Washington, while Robin
is in the US National Bank in Portland.
John himself is now r etired.
1928
LAWRE NCE J . CUMMINGS reports, "At
the t ime of this note, Dec . 12, 1 965, I am
just completing a four-year tour of duty
in the United St a tes with the Agency for
International Development in Washington, D. C. and making arrangements to
depart for Quito, Ecuador for another twoyear tour overseas. Like many foresters in
this agency, I have drifted somewhat far
afield. I am going to Ecuador as an Agriculture Advisor to USAID and the Ecuadorian government. Don't worry, forestry
will st ill have high prio rity in my prog r ams. Merry Christmas to all."
JOHN M. HENDERSON, 2201 Blue Gum
Avenue, Modesto, Cal.
ROBERT D. HUTCHINSON, 637 North
32nd Street, Corvallis, Ore., writes, "Am
enjoying my fifteenth year of r etir ement
after farming twenty years in Alberta,
Canada. I'm now rated second leading
contract bridge player in Oregon. Takes
more time than a college education, and I
guess I have worked harder than getting
a degree. It is all a hobby and made me
forget fishing and hunting."
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1929
T. W. "TOBY" CIDLDS, reports he is
still doing business, or trying to, at the
P.N.W. Forest and Range Experiment Station, Portland .
F. S. McKINNON was promoted to
deputy minister of resources for the Canadian province of British Columbia. McKinnon moved up from his post as chief
forester last July. Fin is considered to be
the most highly academically t rained man
in the BC Forest Service. A native of
Nanaimo, he first worked for the Forest
Service in the summer of 1926 as a
compassman. After graduation from OSU,
he attended Harvard University on a
forestry scholarship and graduated with a
m a sters degree. He also attended the University of California for special studies
in forest economics.
LESTER J . McPHERSON, retired from
the U.S. Forest Service last summer and is
now residing at 2221 S.E. Elliott, Portland, Ore.
1930
VONDIS E. MILLER retired from his position of forest supervisor from t he Umpqua National Fore st and now is at Route
1, Box 294M, Redmond, Ore.
ALLEN C. SMITH, 316 Lindero Avenue,
Medford, Ore., writes, "My seventh year as
logging and timber manager for Medford
Corporation was devoted to repairing the
damage of the Christmas flood and trying
to balance out a logging year s tat·ted in a
mass of mud and snow. Among the Oregon State foresters with the firm are Bud
Nutting, Howard Mitchell, Joe Clark, and
Harold "Red" Thomas."
HAROLD BOWERMAN writes, " Retirement is thinning our ranks, but we are
looking forward to at least another 5 or 6
years with the Forest Service. Alice and I
are at Yachats, Ore., the majority of our
free time; some day we are going to forget
to come back to the job. No traffic, no
telephone, no TV. Quite a welcome change!
Better come down and t ry it!"
ALAN A. McCREADY writes, "Retired
June, 1964. Last 16 years of professional
car eer were on various staff positions
(principally range and wild life) of Stanislaus National Forest, Cal. Worked in three
regions and nine s tates spread from Atlantic to Pacific. Two sons, one daughter.
Neither son "f o 11 owed
in Pop's
steps" but one was the ranlting scholar
in his 1962 class at University of California, and received the University Medal.
Since retirement have kept active in local
city planning, Toastmasters International,
and v isiting many N.F.s and National
Parks in western states. Made 1965 Fernhopper Day; first since g raduation."
CLEON L. CLARK retired last June as
supervisor of the Ochoco Nat ional Forest,
Prineville. In his Forest Service career,
w hich began in 1928, he has served as
assistant supervisor of the Umpqua and
Deschutes National Forests and in the
Division of Fire Control in the regional
office before becoming supervisor of t he
Malheur in 1943. He and his wife have
three children: Stanley, a s tudent at
Hastings Law School, San Francisco; David,
student at Central College, Bend; and
Karen, in nurse's t r aining at the University of Oregon Medical School, Portland.
Clean's address is Route 1, Box 305, Redmond, Ore.
LEE 0. HUNT writes, "R.-Day (retirement day) plus two years and six months:
the busiest 2% years I've ever known.
Half time employme n t during six-months
field season with OSU's Forest Research
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Lab., teaching forestry courses at Umpqua
Community College, developing Fir Springs
Tree Farm, (Christmas tree business), and
a bit of consulting on the side keeps retirement anything but dull! Extra curricular jobs include Winston Planning
Commission, Farm Bureau, advisory committee-Vo-Ag HS program (75 students
taking forestry option), SAF and member
County Land Classification Board. Could
almost wish for that easy bureaucratic
swivel chair again!"
MERLE LOWDEN, director of the U.S.
Forest Service's division of fire control
in Washington, D. C., was sent on an inspection tour of fire areas in the Dominican Republic last spring. Merle was
on the inspection tour when the revolt
erupted there. For three uneasy days, he
was a ringside spectator of the sniping
and bombing in Santo Domingo, before he
and about 600 other civilians were transported by bus, helicopter, and U.S. ships
to Puerto Rico and thence to the United
States.
W. J. MOISIO was named coordinator
of an interagency study of the Columbia
River basin water and land-related resource needs and problems last August.
Fritz was formerly supervisor of the Okanogan National Forest in Northern Washington. In his new role, he will be assigned to the watershed management division in the Forest Service Portland,
Oregon, office. He will be the Forest Service representative to the U.S.D.A. fiveyear study. The study covers a sevenstate area and includes portions of the
Northern and Intermountain regions as
well as the Pacific Northwest region of
the Forest Service. Moisio has been supervisor of the Okanogan since 1959. He
started work with the Forest Service in
1929 and became a permanent employee
in Missouri in 1934. Fritz held several
positions on national forests there before
transferring to the Pacific Northwest in
1946 as district manager of the Skagit
district of the Mt. Baker National Forest.
In 1953 he was named ranger on the
Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon and, in
1954 was promoted to the Siuslaw sup'ervisor's staff in Corvallis. He and his wife
have two daughters: one at home, and
one married.
DENNIS W. PATCH, 1070 15th Street,
N.E., Salem, Ore., is presently supervisor
of vocational and private school licensing
for the State Department of Education.
He's been with them since 1951.
WALT PUHN is supervisor of the Sierra
National Forest in central California. He
reports the area is well populated with
Oregon State foresters. Walt writes, "We
grieve the loss this year of two of the
finest, classmates and neighboring forest
supervisors: Sim Jarvi of the Angeles and
Eldon Ball of the Sequoia."
1933
HENRY L. HOMOLAC WTites, "I have
been working here for the BLM at Coos
Bay, Ore., most of the time as a reforestation forester, for the past ten years. My
working days are about over, however,
for I plan on retiring in December, 1965.
I do have a 245-acre tree farm here in
Coos County, which although not being
large by tree farm standards, should help
keep life from becoming too boring after
retil·ement."
WILLIAM N. PARKE writes, "Fernhoppers everywhere will be interested in
knowing that our School of Forestry now
has an approved forest recreation option
OREGON STATE FORESTER
in the forest management department. I
feel privileged and honored in having the
opportunity to help develop a course in
forest recreation management, and in
pinch-hitting for Casey Randall in other
courses while he is studying for his doctorate this year."
1934
GEORGE W. CHURCHILL and his wife
Beatrice (Tefft), '34 home economics, still
live at 3393 S.W. Shore Boulevard, Lake
Oswego, Ore. George reports that he is
in his eighth year in recreation management and planning at the U.S. Forest
Service's regional office in Portland. Bea
is making good use of her master's degree
which she earned at the University of
Oregon in 1957 as a college counsellor at
Lake Oswego High School. Son, Tom, who
earned his masters at OSU in electrical
engineering, is now a research engineer
with United Aircraft at Hartford, Conn.
Son, Frank, who also obtained an electrical engineers masters' degree at OSU,
is with F.M.C. at San Jose, Cal. Youngest
son, John, who took his pre-dent work
at OSU, is now a dental student in Portland. George extends an invitation to
classmates to drop in some time at their
home on the shores of the lake.
HORACE G. "COOP" COOPER has completed his career with the U.S. Forest
Service. During the past 36 years, he
worked on the Mt. Hood, Olympic, Chelan,
Snoqualmie, and Wenatchee national
forests and spent the last six years as fire
equipment development engineer in the
Portland regional office. Coop is now
working with fire control friends as a
technical representative for the people
who blend and distribute the retardent
chemical called "Fire-Trol." Oldest son,
Douglas, is an ETC-(ss) in the Navy and
with his wife and four children in Guam.
The twins, Leslie and Glenn, still live at
home and are both sophomores at Portland State. Home is 13767 N.E. San
Rafael, Portland, Ore.
RICHARD P. BOTTCHER retired from the
U.S. Forest Service in January, 1965 and
lives at P.O. Box, Lake Oswego, Or~. He
writes, "Son, Bob, is attending Lewis and
Clark College and hopes to be an oceanographer. He and his wife have a son.
Daughter, Coralee, is attending Multnomah
College.
She won national women's
spear fishing title this summer."
JOHN E. WEISGERBER is with the foreign forestry service section of the U.S.
Forest Service with a mailing address
c / o USDA, Washington, D. C.
1935
BOYD L. RASMUSSEN, deputy chief,
U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C.,
is in charge of state and private forestry
and insect and disease control. Boyd has
served with the Forest Service as district ranger, forest supervisor, assistant
regional forester and regional forester. He
wr~tes, "My wife, Dm·othy, class 1937, and
I live at 5539 Columbia Pike, Arlington,
Va. Our son John is a Navy pilot and our
daughter Mary Pat is a teacher in Salinas
California."
'
HOWARD W. BULLARD, 7925 S.W. 89th
Avenue, Portland, 97223, stopped at the
School for a short visit in November. He
is back in the U.S. after a stint in the
Philippine Islands setting up a plywood
plant. Howard worked for Evans Products
at Coos Bay until 1963 but for some time
has operated his own consulting company
January 1966
specializing in plywood and sawmill design and construction.
S. T. MOORE, forest supervisor of the
Siuslaw National Forest, Corvallis, reports
two boys in college; three boys and one
girl yet to go through college.
JACK SAUBERT writes, "Still with the
U.S. Forest Service as timber staff man
at McCall, Idaho, on the Payette National
Fm·est. Daughter Joan and her husband,
Bill Ford, will soon return from Ankara,
Turkey; daughter, Jean, O.S.U., '65 at
University of Utah."
GEORGE H. SCHROEDER writes, "With
two of our three children now established
as responsible and successful citizens,
Clara and I are enjoying the problems and
accomplishments of the last youngster as
he fights his way through his first year
of college course work. He says he will
be an electrical engineer. We tell him
to get a broad-based two years of fundamentals behind him and then decide on
what he wishes to specialize in. Too many
lose sight of the need for a good education in their hurry to hang out a shingle.
Clara is still secretary of the Sherwood
Chamber of Commerce, and I am still
forester for the N.W. timber department
of Crown Zellerbach Corp. I find a forP-ster's life a demanding one in this busv
and fast-changing world but also very
rewarding. Exerywhere I go in this man's
U.S. there seems to be an Oregon State
forester to sit down with for a meaty discussion oi forestry affairs and ways to
~et the timber growing fRster, taller and
bigger. Al Arnst and I killed an evening
in Washington, D. C., in October and
solved most of the problems of the world,
but a week later in Detroit, our new state
forester, Ed Schroeder, and I found a lot
of new ones! Life is like that!"
1936
VERNON A. FRIDLEY writes, "We are
busy with our jobs. Mrs. F. has a class
of 26 little ones, and I am herding a line
crew for Pacific Gas and Electric. Spent
a very enjoyable two weeks, although
very hot, last July, in the Estacada, Ore.
area. Got in some hildng and fishing, and
also helped our son and family move into
the Timber Lake Job Corp. Center. Quite
a project. The center is now occupied by
over two hundred corps men. Hope to
visit the center this Christmas time."
EDWARD H. MARSHALL writes, "Am assistant region11.l forester. division of state
and private forestry, U.S. Forest Service,
Portland, Ore. Our family are all grown:
two daughters married and six grandchildren. The third daughter is teaching
in Portland, and son Ed is taking pharmacy at OSU. We have a small house
trailer now and enjoying the great outdoors the easy way. Hobbies include
square dancing and fishing-what a combination. Home address is 2618 N.E.
Stuart Drive, Portland. Come see us sometime.
GAIL THOMAS writes, "Still keeping
busy in business for myself as a private
forestry consultant. Work consists mostly
in valuation and in the pursuit of tax
matters, with a generous sprinkling of
surveying thrown in. Breathing somewhat
easier since shedding some SAF responsibility. Graduated my oldest boy, Jerry,
in forestry from OSU this past spring.
1937
CARL L. HAWKES writes, "Finally
reached the grandfather stage, and I used
to think that grandfathers were old!! Am
January 1966
OREGON STATE FORESTER
still feeling like a country boy in the big
city-San Francisco and Bay area. Haven't
yet oecome reconciled to commuting for
2% hours each day, but wife and I are
still reluctant to try high-rise apartment
life. Am still finding it fascinating trying
to help apply forestry techniques to the
tremendous variety of forest conditions in
Hawaii and California: sustained yield on
three-year rotation for Christmas trees,
40-year rotation for saw logs (Hawaii),
recreation, etc."
J. R. STEVENSON, 4633 East Gila Street,
Farmington, N. M. 87401, writes, "Still
teaching school at Farmington and collecting Navajo rugs and archeological
relics as a hobby. See a few of my forester
friends from time to time. Latest headcount of grandchildren was four."
D. LESTER LYNCH is with Norcoast
Constructors at Phoenix, Ore.
K. 0. WILSON writes, "No major
changes from last year's report. Still employed by the U.S. Forest Service as chief
of fire control for the Pacific Northwest
region. Same wife, same two boys. The
elder is now enrolled as a freshman at
the University of Oregon, and the younger
a junior in high school, plans to attend
O.S.U. Certainly will complicate my sports
allegiance, especially at the Oregon-OSU
games. Nearly five years on the same job
in the same location is an all-time high
for the Wilson tribe, and we all love it."
fot·ces on Bataan, Colonel Sampson
worked as a POW in warehouses, railroad
yards, steel mills, ship unloading, and on
farms. He was returned to United States
control in September, 1945. At his retirement, he was presented with the
legion of merit.
PAUL TOLONEN, C l at sop College,
Astoria, Ore., writes, "Continued graduate
studies at O.S.U. summer 1965; plan to
complete the Master of Education this
coming summer. Keeping a seat warm
for me at Corvallis in winter is son, Norman, enrolled in engineering. Am holding
my own as chairman of the vocationaltechnical division at Clatsop Community
College where we've added Howard Brock,
O.S.U. forestry graduate with state and
federal experience, to keep our forestry
technology program operating smoothly.
Thoroughly enjoy being a part of the
'cutting edge' of American education with
its wide spectrum of demand on the individual."
1939
GILBERT M. BOWE is partner in the firm
of Mason, Bruce and Girard, 1030 American Bank Building, Portland, Ore.
MYRL A. HAYGOOD, P. 0. Box 587,
Philomath, Ore., 97370, is still working in
the post office department.
FRANCIS L. HICOK, 4005 Hancock Drive,
Sacramento, Calif., is now employed parttime for the county engineer's office there.
1938
KEN BURKHOLDER reports, "Working
for BLM since 1938. Present duties in field
of resource protection and fire control.
Have been able to work in Oregon much
of the time. Presently responsible for fire
control on vast areas of non-forest grasslands in southeast quarter of the state.
Many contacts with classmates around
the state. Married and two grade-school
children."
I. J. CALLAGHAN returned last August
from 25 years work overseas. He reports
he spent the last 17 years with Caterpillar
Tractor Co., where he is now in the logging section of the marketing division. He
will oe back in the U.S. on a permanent
basis and indicates he is interested in
learning where his classmates are and
what they are doing."
RALPH W. DEMPSEY, 3641 P. Sanchez,
Manila, Philippines.
C. DOUGLAS HOLE, assistant state conservationist, with the Soil Conservation
Service in Hawaii reports, "Major emphasis is on planning and in operations phases
of small watersheds (PL-566). Don't have
much time to do 'bikini watching' in Waikiki; and when I do, my wife insists I
wear blinders! Forestry is starting to go
in Hawaii with recent announcement by
state of one million board feet sale for
milling here. We wonder about the ships
bringing mainland Christmas treees out
here while we ship some to the mainland?
There's opportunities here for
woodland development."
COLONEL CHARLES P. SAMPSON, a
World War II prisoner of war of the Japanese for more than three years in the
Philippine Islands and Japan, was honored
at a retirement parade in December at the
Presidio. He entered the army through
the ROTC program immediately after
graduation from OSU. Prior to and during
the early stages of World War II, he served
as a battery commander with the 24th
field artillery in the Philippine Islands.
·with· the surrender· of the American
KEITH HUTCHISON writes, "My first
major job following graduation was for
Uncle Sam; enlisted with 29th Engineers
(Topographic), in January, '41, and returned to civilian status in January, '46.
In October, '46 I joined the Central States
Forest Experiment Station at Columbus,
Ohio, and spent 13 years there on forest
inventory and economics research (was
privileged to author several publications
while there and found time to obtain an
MS degree at Ohio State). Since October,
'59, I have been at the Northern Forest
Experiment Station, Juneau, Alaska, leading •ne forest survey project. A report of
this work is being prepared for publication. These rapidly passing years have
been made happy and enjoyable by my
wife (nee Layena Bedingfield of LaGrande,
Ore.) . We married in '42 and have two
children: Bruce, born in '48 and Pamela
in '51. Duty in Alaska is great if your
family likes it and if you can keep in
physical condition to take part in strenuous outdoor activities. So far, we qualify."
MARC PALMER is carrying on a surveying business in Central Oregon with headquarters in Burns. His two sons who work
with him are now enrolled in civil engineering at OSU.
JOHN B. SMITH moved to Juneau,
Alaslm, in 1964 to accept an assignment
as assistant regional forester for resource
management. He and his wife, Ruth E.
(Lange), '39, now count their family as
two daughters, one son, one son-in-law
and one grandson.
LESLIE J. SULLIVAN was named forest
supervisor of the Ochoco National Forest,
Prineville, Ore., last June. He first worked
for the Forest Service on a seasonal basis
starting in 1935 in the Umatilla National
Forest. Leslie has worked throughout
the Pacific Northwest except for a threeyear hitch with the Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1949, as a result
of saving a man who had been pinned by
a log, he was awarded the USDA distinguished service award for heroic action.
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Leslie is active in the SAF and National
Ski Patrol. He and his wife, Virginia, have
a daughter in high school, and another
daughter enrolled at Northwestern University.
ELMER L. SURDAM, manager of Forest
Industries Radio Communication with
headquarters in Eugene, Ore., writes, "This
is an industry-sponsored group that presents the communication needs of the industry before the Federal Communications
Commission. Radio Communications is employed by large and small operators for
field activities. Radio is now an indispensible tool."
A. L. WARE, 1460 Highland Drive,
Stayton, Ore. 97383, is with Freres Lumber
Co. at Lyons. His activities there center
primarily around road building and supervising contract loggers.
1940
LUCIEN B. ALEXANDER writes, "Still a
partner in Mason, Bruce and Girard,
traveling the west, and keeping bees on
Saturday. Family is growing; one son with
a BS in science last June from OSU.
Another now a junior. Grandfather, but
don't feel it."
BOB APPLEBY reports, "Am in the division of fire control, USFS, Portland.
New developments in this field make the
work real interesting and challenging.
Have two of four children at home at
6909 Southwest 62nd Place."
BILL BRANSON is with International
Securities Corp. selling investments in
Springfield, Ore.
DALE E. BURNS, P. 0. Box 586, Medford,
Ore.
ALEXANDER P. COLLINS, 640 Palm
Street, Medford, Ore.
ERNIE DAWSON, Box 1107, Oroville,
Cal., is kept busy running his own construction company.
MAL E. HARRIS is vice-president of the
Distilled Spirits Institute at 1132 Pennsylvania Building, Washington 25, D. C.
:HOWARD W. KIRKPATRICK reports,
"This past year my work for BLM has included helping on the Douglas-fir log
grade and mill utilization studies. The
projects are a cooperative study, headed
up by the Pacific Northwest Forest and
Range Experiment Station, with the help
of the Indian Service, Forest Service and
BLM. A great amount of data is being
obtained about Douglas-fir in western
Washington, Oregon, and northern California. The month of August saw the
'Kirks' on vacation driving to Tetons,
Yellowstone, Glacier and the southwestern
Canadian parks. The trip was very informative and scenic. Give us a ring when
in l<..ugene."
COLONEL ANDY W. PRIBNOW writes,
"After 23 years I am again stationed at
Fort Lewis, Wash. My job is chief of staff
of the Fort. My New England bride is
about ready to change her allegiance to
the great Northwest. Our oldest daughter
is teaching high school in Olympia; number two is attending Central Washington
State; and the last two, boy and girl, are
attending high school near the Fort. It
was a pleasure for me to attend the last
Fernhopper gathering and see Mac and
other old friends. Our door is always open
to you."
EDWIN TIPPNER, is with the plant engineering department of the wood products division at Weyerhaeuser Company's
Longview, Wash. operations.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
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1941
REX CAFFALL JR., 5931 N. Lagoon Ave.,
took pen in hand to defend U.S. Forest
Service management of western timber
lands in a November issue of the Oregonian. T. J. Starker passed this item on
with the comment that it was always
good to see our foresters express themselves on such issues.
WAYNE GURLEY, Pleasant Drive, Cascade Locks, Ore.
VAUGHN HOFELDT reports that he expects to be moved to Atlanta, Ga., after
February 1, to assume a job in recreation
and watershed management at the Forest
Service's Region 8 headquarters.
LARRY T. MARSHALL writes, "Am well
into my sixteenth year in northern California, and my fourth as manager here
for U.S. Plywood. Seems I seldom get
out into the woods anymore. Haven't
visited the school in years, but see Oregon
Staters here and there quite often. Saw
Paul Dunn briefly in Portland in November; sure hope to get to see Mac this
winter."
HAROLD SASSER reports, "Still farm
forester with State Forestry Department.
On July first, a1·ea assignment was
changed to be Benton, Lane and Linn
counties. Headquartered at Eastern Lane
FPA, Springfield. Home as before, 94
Green Acres Road, Eugene, Ore."
EDWARD W. SCHULTZ is an associate
deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service,
stationed in Washington, D. C.
1942
HARLAND C. CRAVAT is chief of the
operations branch of the photogrammetry
division of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey. He and his wife, the former
Lulu Penn, of La Plata, Md., reside on
Oak Avenue in La Plata. Cravat has had
25 years of service with the Coast and
Geodetic Survey and in 1964 received
the Department of Commerce's meritorious service award.
HAL E. GOODYEAR reports he is still
in lumber and building materials and
sand and gravel business. Trinity Lake
is now a national recreation area so expect more flatlanders than ever. Salvage
logged 120 acres of tree farm burned in
fall '64. Enough seed trees left and seedlings started already to make things look
a little better. Fernhoppers always welcome. Still live at Weaverville, Cal.
BRICE HAMMACK, logging manager,
Publishers Paper Co., reports, "There are
nine OSU foresters within the woods staff
of our expanding company. Raw material,
which is becoming increasingly inflated in
value, is forcing continued refinements
in our methods of appraisal, land management, logging and economics. The undergraduate might well consider this and
lean heavily to business and particularly
accounting in selecting minor courses."
MEL R. KNUDSON is technical director
of the forest products division of St.
Regis Paper Co., and stationed at their
Tacoma, Wash., offices.
CHARLES S. LEWIS writes, "Corvallis
is now our home. Lila is on campus getting some more education. I'm covering
Western Oregon for Timber Access Industries Co. trying to lteep ahead of ten logging sides. It takes a lot of stumps. We
have four children ranging from preschool to high school that I see occasionally."
JOHN S. PRESCOTT writes, "Rather than
write about me, I'd like to write, for this
time, on the gratitude I feel to the School
of Forestry for the opportunity of getting
an education. I am grateful to W. F. McCulloch, H. R. Patterson, C. J. Budelier,
T. J. Starker, George Schroeder, and Clarence Richen, who did their best to relay
some education, plus some philosophy of
their outlook toward the forest, and toward lige to all of us. When I think of
the School of Forestry, these are the men
I think of and am grateful to. I'm grateful, also, for the fine life and abundant
opportunities that we learned to appreciate due to our forestry education."
TOM
H.
RADCLIFFE,
134
Dahlia,
Klamath Falls, Ore.
REX WAKEFIELD reports, "Corvallis is
still home where I keep busy trying to
supply logs for Clemens' veneer plant and
sawmill. Both daughters married in one
year; almost too much for Dad. Fernhoppers welcome at 1144 N. 18th.
1948
ROBERT H. RUTH is doing research at
Corvallis. He is project leader of the
"silviculture of the true fir-mountain hemlock and Sitka spruce-western hemlock
project" with headquarters at the Forestry
Sciences Laboratory. Home is 714 N. 30th
Street.
1945
HUBERT 0. PESSNER writes, "Moved
the company offices (West Coast Timber
Products, Inc.) to marvelous Marin county:
P.O. Box 388, San Rafael, Cal., 94902, 16
Mary Street, Suite #2, just in case there
are any tired lumbermen listening that
want to stop by and cuss or discuss the
current market. Our oldest son, Verne,
is in the Air Force in France doing some
kind of classified work, and he is not
even remotely interested in becoming a
forester or lumberman. There may be
some hope of making a lumberman out of
our other son, Kirk; but at 12 he is mostly
interested in just being a boy and getting
A's in school. My wife, Lu, is keeping
busy PTA'ing and Campfiring with our
9-year old daughater, Sandra."
1946
ROBERT C. LINDSAY reports, "Still at
Port Angeles, Wash., and still working for
Crown Zellerbach. Utilization of very
small, low-site fir is a current problem. I
also am working in chips and wood supply
for two pulp mills."
W. F. SARGENT recently moved from
Forest Grove to 1347 Marigold Street,
N.S., Salem, Ore., where his new job assignment as deputy state forester began
in November. Frank reports his son,
Dennis Sargent, enrolled at OSU this year
in the school of science.
1947
LOUIS K. BATEMAN, 5045 Bailey Road,
Salem, Ore., reports, "Still working for the
State Tax Commission. Current job is
supervisor of timber appraisals. Family
is growing up: David, 15, in second year
of high school; Douglas, 13, in junior
high, and Melinda, 7, in second grade."
JUSTIN DUCRAY was named departmental management consultant for the
California Department of Public Works
last April. His address is 1120 "N" Street,
Sacramento.
JOHN E. SCHROEDER was appointed
state forester by the Oregon State Board
of Forestry November 1. This culminates
over 24 years of service with the department. Ed reports he hopes to be able to
continue the promotion of a good, modern
state forestry program for Oregon.
HARRY A. ROUND, P.O. Box 293, Lake
Oswego, Ore., is in technical services with
the resin division of Georgia Pacific operations.
JACK B. SHUMATE writes, "Not much
new to report this year from Utah. Still
operating as supervisor of the Dixie National Forest with home base in Cedar
City, Utah. Son Jon is married and a
senior in forestry at Utah State University. Son Jim is a 9th grader this
year. Had a fine visit recently with
several Fernhoppers at a training session
in California, but normally I don't see
many of you in this part of the world.
Be sure to stop in for a visit when you
come to the 'Land of the Rainbow canyons.'"
1948
GORDON BORCHGREVINK reports, "Still
at Longview as Weyerhaeuser's hardboard
specialist, spearheading product development, sales service technical problems,
process improvement and special test
work. Find great variety in job and travel
considerably (just completed 125,000 miles
by air). Wife, Nancy (Carter), heads
home economics department at Lower
Coulumbia College. Family of three girls
and two boys, now 16, 14, 10, and 9 years."
ROBERT E. FLYNN is with the U.S.
Forest Service at 4831 E. Shields, Fresno,
Cal.
PHILIP JUDSON is production engineer
with Willamette Plywood at Aumsville,
Ore.
ROBERT E. KISCHEL reports, "My family
and I have had the wonderful experience
of having a German girl exchange student
with us for one year. Our oldest daughter,
now 16, hopes to qualify next year as an
exchangee; this year she attended the
JESSI session at Willamette. Received my
certification as an appraiser for VA and
FHA; next hope is to get state D.V.A. certification. Wife has completed six years
of leading a 4-H home economics club.
Her girls have won many fine premiums
and honors and my son and I enjoy
hunting and camping together."
THEODORE W. MAUL, executive assistant of the protection division for the
Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem,
is president of our Alumni Association
th!s year and next. Ted and his wife,
Wm, have _two boys: Steve, 18, and John,
12. Steve 1s now a freshman at OSU.
EARL A. NEWBERG, Box 153, Nehalem,
Ore.
HARRY G. PEARSON is district warden
of the East Central District for the State
Forestry Department at John Day.
DAVE ROGERS is now assigned to the
headquarters division of the California
Department of Highways where he is with
the computer section. He reports their
current project is to raise the level of
computing services as applied to location
survey, geometric design and construction
staking.
DARRELL H. SCHROEDER writes, "Residing in Crescent City, Cal., managing
Rellim Redwood Co., and Miller Redwood
Co. Most of the time currently is spent
in opposing the various park proposals
that will eliminate a large segment of the
redwood industry in northern Cal. Have
initiated a recreational program that is
unique and established a demonstration
forest for the public use and educational
purposes. Two children: Julie Anne 15
and Scott, 11." Darrell and his company
were featured in an article published in
September.
Besides
picturing Darrell
Schroeder in his position as general
manager of Miller Redwood Company, it
commented on the 24,000-acre woodlands
which the firm owns.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
January 1966
January 1966
WILLIAM I. STEIN, 7345 S.W. Landow,
Portland, Ore., 97223, is currently project
leader of the seeding, planting and nursery
practices research for the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. Bill reports his family status now
includes eight boys and three girls. The
oldest two are in high school and five are
in grade school. The oldest six are active
in ooy and girl scouts and mom and dad
are too.
ALVIN L. SORSETH writes, "The Sorseth
family is presently living at 2900 River
Road, Eugene, Ore. Arlene and I enjoy
the kind of activities the city of Eugene
has to offer. Both sons, Steve and Craig,
are attending OSU so just us old folks are
at home. Present job is staff in charge of
lands, recreation and minerals for the
Willamette National Forest."
DARRYL E. STORM was named financJ
director for the State Forestry Department,
Salem, Ore., last September. In his new
capacity the accounting and payroll group
is under his direction. In addition he is
responsible for the preparation of recommendations relative to all financial matters and administration of the entire staff
program for finances. Darryl has been
with the department since 1948. He has
worked in both Douglas and Lane counties
before his 1951 promotion to the Salem
office.
BOD H . UNDERWOOD reports he is
still forest engineering with Weyerhaeuser
Company at Longview, Ore. Last April
Bob was advanced from chief woods engineer to forest engineer for Weyerhauser's
wood product division. The newly created
position will be responsible for planning
woods engineering and forestry activities.
Bob is keeping active in civic ,a ffairs by
being on the Kelso City Council, vice
presiaent of the Cowlitz Regional Planning Commission, first vice president of
the local Kiwanis Club and a past president of the PTA group.
RALPH A. WEISE, 2939 Madrona Lane
Medford, Ore., has enrolled in a masters
program at Southern Oregon College of
Education.
1949
l
JOHN S. FORREST was named executive
director of Forestry Building Inc., 1006
Public Service Building, Portland, Ore.
97204 . The non-profit corporation was
established by several prominent lumbermen in an effort to rebuild the old forestry
building which was destroyed by fire last
year.
RICHARD W. HENTHORNE was named
job corps coordinator in the division of
operations for the Forest Service. He will
be responsible for over-all planning, operational coordination and installation of
the Job Corps program in the intermountain region of the U.S.
TED W. KOSKELLA is head, branch of
recreation management in the division of
recreation and land uses in"the U.S. Forest
Service's Washington, D. C., offices.
JULIAN F. MILLER is farm forester with
the Oregon State Forestry Department.
HERMANN C. SOMMER is superintendent with Weyerhaeuser's Cosmopolis,
Wash., operations.
RAY L. TRENHOLM is district forester
for the Linn County Fire Patrol Association stationed in Sweet Home, Ore.
JAMES A. WHITE v isited the campus
last August while on leave from his duties
as forestry advisor in West Pakistan. Jim
has had six years as an aid advisor to
~ countr~ with 50 million people, about
3 'h million of whom are directly conCJrned with the forestry resource. Jim
indicated it is a most challenging task.
Si.J.1ce graduation he has worked for the
U.S. Forest Service, spent seven years in
Africa as an advisor, and took graduate
work at the University of Minnesota
be fore his r ec·mt assignme nt in Asia.
LYLE D. WINKEL is a technician with
Plywood Fabricators, 282 Minocqua, Park
Forest, Ill.
DONALD D. WOOD writes, "Still district
ranger on the Galice ranger district of
the Siskiyou National Forest. The wife,
Ma rylou (Pu'3tzhold, '48), is as busy as
ever with church; PTA; 4-H; New Column;
daughters Nancy, 15, sophomore, Grants
Pass High School, Bonnie, 13, eighth grade,
Fleming Junior High. District office now
s ; cond floor of the Post Of"ice in Grants
Pass. The whole family is well, and we
all hope our friends at and from OSU
are the same."
RALPH L. WORSTELL was promoted to
assistant supervisor of the Willamette
National Forest, Eugene, Ore., last April.
1950
DAN B. ABRAHAM, staff officer on the
Winema National Forest, Klamath Falls,
wa s selected la st Ma y to be a job corps
conservation center director. Dan is currently stationed at the corps' regional office in Portland and will presently be assigned to one of the job corps conservation centers. The last word your editor
had, home was still being maintained in
Klamath Falls.
JIM BAGLEY reports, "We have now
b een at home at Lebanon, Ore., for a year
and a half. I am still with U.S. Plywood
n a naging the timbe r and logging for the
Cascades division. Betty Lou now attends
OSU, Alice Ann is at Lebanon High and
Ron shall be a freshman there next year.
Wilma is busy with home and taxi service
responsibilities. We'd sincerely appreciate
your dropping in for a coffee and visit.
We live only ten minutes off the freeway .
We'll welcome a call and provide guide
service. Hope to see you soon."
JIM DENISON reports from Toledo, Ore.,
"Have boat, will travel. Salmon fishing
good on coast this year. Come on over
and try it."
NORM GOULD moved from managing
pine trees on the Winema to supervising
poverty youth on the Mt. Hood National
Forest. He is now the director of the
Timber Job Corps conservation center located at the o ld Acme Mill Site on the
Clackamas River. The job corps program
gives basic education and work experience
to about 200 young men from all parts of
the U.S. Norm is currently attempting to
set up a logger training course as part
of the camp's vocational training program.
ROBERT N. HANSON is executive vice
president and general manager of Columbia Southern Plywood Corp., at Minden, La.
NEAL R. ISAACSON was named farm
forester for the Oregon State Forestry
Department at La Grande.
GLENDON K. JEFFERIES writes, "Still
district ranger on the Ashland, Ore., district of the Rogue River National Forest.
Community affairs keep me busy during
spare time. Active in Lions, Toastmaster,
YMCA, United Fund, church etc. Wife,
Jane, teaches in the Ashland public school
system."
HAROLD H. "BILL" KEIL reports, "Have
joined greater commuter's club, beetling
my way from Government Camp to Portland, Ore., every day. Fixed up weekend
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cabin there for full-time living for this
next year. Kids (Dick, 4; Greg 2) love it
witn five feet of snow out the front door:
wife (Gloria) not quite as sold. Our Portland home didn't have enough yard space
for kids. Now they have 40 x 50 (miles)
yard. Also will enjoy cessation of mortgage payments for a year (cabin's paid
for!) Bpending nearly full-time editing
World Wood magazine, Miller Freeman
Publication's international wood journal.
Will go to World Forestry Congress in
Madrid next June. Last March-June had
interesting trip doing stories on mills and
logging in Fiji, New Zealand, Australia,
Singapore, Thailand (even a stopover in
Saigon), Philippines, Hong Kong (-yes,
there are forests and mills in Hong Kong) ,
Taiwan and Japan. Friend spent most
of one Saturday trying to find ski boots
big enough to fit me in Tokyo; but no
success, so no Japan skiing." Bill was
named winner of the Pacific Northwest
Ski Association's press award for 64-65.
ALFEO E. MINATO reports, "Last March
Marcella and I had our third son, Marco.
David is eight and Ricky is six years old.
I have completed my second year with
Forestal International of Vancouver, B. C.,
a consulting forestry and engineering firm.
This past summer we spent two months
near the mouth of the Orinoco River in
Venezuela, S. A., on a feasibility study of
a proposed pulpmill. We can certainly
learn from the Latin American 'way of
life.' Best · regards to all fernhoppers!"
ROBERT E. PETERSON writes, "After
six years in Portland with Pacific Power
and Light Co., they decided I should move
to Medford and try my hand at otherthan-forest-industry work. Fortunately,
my duties as executive assistant, COPCO
Division, 216 West Main, Medford, Ore.,
provide me opportunity to maintain fai.J.·ly
close contact with the industry and its
people. Specific activities during the past
year include the completion of a pulp mill
feasibility study in Wyoming and being
elected president of the N.W. wood products clinic. The Wyoming report provided several brief, but exciting and
beautiful, trips into the Rocky Mountain
area. Naturally this led the Peterson
family into spending our vacation in the
Tetons."
LOUIS POWELL reports, "I find the
work with American Plywood Association
pleasant and challenging as we continue
to expand nationally. Plywood testing
and spe cies differentation problems occupy
most of my time. Life is more enjoyable
everyday even though there are problems,
since I have become a "born again"
Christian. You will find m en who feel
this way if you go to a Christian Businessmen's Committee meeting in your locality."
FRANK E. PRICE, JR. reports, "Time
seems to have moved rapidly since I was
assigned to the Siuslaw N.F. four years
ago. Scaling problems, Frieda salvage, the
Christmas floods of '64, and the new
Timber Management Plan which includes
the yields from intermediate cutting are
the milestones of the job. Our oldest son,
Frank, in Da Nang with the Navy, our
daughter, Mary, entering OSU, and wife,
Marilyn going to work are the high points
of family life. We enjoy living in the
country at 1024 Alder Cr. Drive, Corvallis."
WILLIAM A. RADCLIFFE, U.S. Plywood
Corp., McCloud, Cal.
BOB REXES, lumber plant superintendent of International Paper Company's
Vaughn, Ore., branch, extends an invi-
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OREGON STATE FORESTER
tation to classmates to drop in and see
him.
RON RING writes, "Enjoyed the 1 950
class r eunion in Albany. Have great location for investigation of all types of
logging from slackline yarder to horse.
We live at 514 N. 3 rd, Shelton, Wash ., on
101 going through town. Stop and say
h ello."
WESLEY C. STANFIELD, 4025 Sunland
Ave., Central Point, Ore., is a t imber appra ise r with the Oregon State Tax Commission. He reports, " For the past year
have been doing site studies on private
owne rship in J ackson County. Site studies
include pla nt indicators, degree of slope,
aspect, type of slope, soil depth, roads,
and r a infall a nd e levation of each parcel
of la nd worked. Salmon and steelhead
fishing on Rogue, plus camping with the
family, occupy sp a r e t ime . Pat, my wife,
likes bowling. We have three children,
Carol, Lynda, a nd Douglas. "
CHARLES WALTER is in the district
h eadqua r ters of t he California Division
of Forestry at Monterey. He works on
the staff of the deputy state forester as
fire con trol coordinator. His area of work
includes cooperation with the Los Padres
National Forest and has brought him into
contact w ith Ray Da le n, '50 on the U.S.F.S.
staff at Santa Barbara. A coffee break invitation is op en to all Fernhoppers, particularly classes 1946-1954 at 2837 Forest
Hill Boulevard, Pacific Grove, Cal. Bring
the youngsters, h e says; Chuck and Claire
h ave six childre n 7 to 17 to keep them
compa ny while the 'old folks' swap yarns
and memories.
R. E . DICK WORTHINGTON was named
forest supervisor of t h e Olympic Nationa l
Forest last December. Dick h as been with
the U.S. For est Service both before a nd
since grad ua tion. He has served on the
Umpqua, Rogue River , Mt. Hood and
Olympic National Forests. He and his
wife, Haroldine, have a son a nd two
daughters.
1951
HOWARD W. BROCK was n amed forest ry instructor at Clatsop College, Astoria,
Ore., last September .
W. E. BUTLER writes, "This past year
h as gone very fast here in McCloud, Cal.
We are cutting lots of t r ees a n d making
lots of boards. The Butler family find s
McCloud a fine place to live . We w o uld
like to see a n y Fernhopper s who happen
to be in t he area. Our h o use is just about
100 yards from the office."
JOHN L. CARAGOZIAN reports, "Still
on the Cleveland Nationa l For est as la nds
staff officer dealing with this high-priced
southern California real estate. Didn't
run into many fernhoppers during the
year, but did run into quite a few Oregon
Staters in Pasadena on New Year's Day.
Would like to read of the wherea bouts of
the rest of the class of '51."
IRWIN C. COWLEY is with the National
P~rk Ser vice at P.O. Box 206, El Portal,
Cal.
DON GOODRICH reports, "Am still trying to cope with the problems of a district
ranger with the U.S.F.S. at Garden Valley,
Ida ho. My girls (aged 10 and 14 ), a nd
boy ( 4 ) keep Donna and me busy during
off duty hours with camping, boa ting and
sigh-seeing trips. We both drive to Boise
( 120 miles) each week during t he winte r
to bowl. Admittedly, this is a screwball
idea, but we need s ome activit ies to keep
from getting 'snow fence.' We do enjoy
the fine fishing, hunting and life in
gener:~l
January 1966
h e r e and would be r e luctant to
All old friends a r e cordially invited to stop by for a drink of whatever
warms your heart when in this vicinity.''
NORMAN E. GOULD was named job
corps director of the Timber Lake Job
Corp Camp being operated by the Mt.
Hood National Forest.
CARL JUHL is fire control officer in the
Rogue River National Forest, Medford, Ore.
EARL M. KARLINGER is timber manager.:~ent staff man on t h e same n ational
forest.
. HOWARD W . MITCHELL reports, "Wor!{mg for Medford Corporation at Medford
Ore., since Decembe r, 1960. Home addres~
is 1480 Skyview Drive. Phone is 773-5515.
! a mily consists of wife, Naomi, three boys
m grade school a nd a beagle dog who
thinks he's a t imber cruiser. We live on
six acres of poison oak on the outskirts
o f Medford a n d hope t o have a n increase
in the family one day in the form of
banty chickens, ponies, burros or anything that will eat poison oalc Man age to
keep pretty busy and ou t of mischief with
the job, the 'farm', SAF, and Scouts."
EARL E. NICHOLS, 811 Mark Street
Susanville, Cal.
'
RICHARD PLATT is district ranger on
the Deschutes National Forest located at
Sis ters, Ore.
KENNETH C. ROEGNER reports "Joan
a nd I with our two boys, Keith a~d Randall, live at 2871 Regal, Redding, Calif.
I am with BLM as r esource area manager
covering a ll activit ies of range, forestry,
la nds, minerals, and recreation. The area
c:>vcrs Butt.<!, Tehama and Gle nn counties.
Our nctivit ies a r e centered around our
church, school, work and recreation
Ocague bowling). We have been in Redding for t hree years a nd w ith BLM eleven
years. Time sure flies by very rapidly.
Wh en you a re near, stop by to visit."
steel fo 1· a ll sorts of buildings to the t une
of some 15,000 tons per year . Liz and I
still live in the house we built seven y ears
ago in La Habra at 360 N. Pa rsons Street.
Also w ith u s are our two young ladies:
Chris, an Oregonian, is a high school
freshman, and Karen is only a year behind
her in school. We m anage to keep busy;
but our siding, mine a nyway, is curtailed
for t his year while the right leg spiral
breal{ of last March at June Mountain
heals completely; but we'll make up for
the lost time next year. We will welcome
the sight or sound of old wood buddies
wn e n ever you'r e around.' '
DON G. PATTERSON is Portland district
manager fo r J. H . Ba xter and Co. He resides a t 17701 S.W . View Drive, Portland,
Ore.
RANDALL F. PERKINS served as project
director for a s pray project carried out
in Oregon last s ummer covering 67,000
acres on t h e Malheur and Ochoco National
Forests.
ED W. PIERSON is on leave from Humboldt State College a nd enrolled a t the
OSU School of Forestry completing his
doctoral graduate work. Ed received a
National
Science Foundation science
teaching grant for this year's work.
ERNEST B. PRICE JR. moved to the
timber m anagement division of the Regiona l Forester's office in Portland, Ore.
last September.
ELMER D. RICE is logging at Happy
Camp, Cal.
ELDON F. STROUP writes, "We are still
living in Redmond, Ore., and still working
for Jefferson Plywood Co. a t Madras. The
girls a re 9 and 11 years old, now so we
a re r apidly becoming old folks."
VERLYN D. THOMAS is a r egistered land
surveyor a nd running his own firm at
Talent, Ore.
ERNEST THEUERKAUF writes, "Living
at Bayside, Cal., near Eureka. New son
arrived April 20 malting three sons and
two step-sons for me. Our company log.~ed ver y little this year. We are busy
bidding and doin g flood debris clean-up
jobs for the Army Corps of Engineers. It
was interesting work."
WYMAN WILLIAMS JR. was named
manager of the newly created fabr icated
wood products section of American Factors
Lt d. Th eir main office is a t Honolulu
Hawaii. Wyman is c urrently stationed
on th e islands and, as a t last r ep ort in
Septembe r , was planning t o move his
family ther e as soon as housing and
school arrangements could be worked out.
HOWARD D. WORKINGER, 1817 N.W.
Broadway, Albany, Ore., is working for
his science education d egr ee at OSU.
BOB BAKER reports " The family is
doing fine. Tim is in the second grade and
Laura in the third . My work with the
Eugene, Ore. district of the BLM is in
reforestation. Get a chance now a nd t h en
to compare notes wi t h Gerry Hubbe '51
on the Willamette national forest.
'
JOHN CHRISTIE writes, "This past June
m a r ked ten years in Astoria, Ore., for
me with the State Forestry Departm ent.
The work still proves interesting, a nd the
~h o.le lot of u s in the Christie clan enjoy
life m Clatsop county. Our fifth youngster
third boy, was born June 13 a nd ha~
never let us forget it since. His name is
Robert, a nd h e thrives on the attention
of the family. Fernhoppers are always
welcome at Route 1, Box 852, Astoria."
BARRETT M. COUGHLAN was named
timber management staff officer for Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Vancouver ,
Wash. Barrett has been with the office
of inspector general of the USDA since
1963. Prior to that h e was ranger of the
Mary's Peak d istrict in Corvallis. He a nd
his wife have two sons a nd two daughters.
FRANK G. DECKEBACH w rites "We
~ave just completed one year of \~orking
m the Port Angeles-Port Town send area
for Crown Zellerbach . The main field
of work has been wood supply for the two
pulp mi!J's. The fam ily has foun d the north
Olympic a r ea interesting a nd different
with new a r eas to explore as we are n ear
t h e Puget Sound country.
JAMES E. LARSON is public relations
represen tative for the Springfield Ore.,
oper ations of Weyerhauser.
'
!~ave.
1952
GENE W. CARLSON writes, "I am still
district ranger of Steamboat r a nger district, Umpqua National For est. At present
I am v ice-chairman of local SAF chapter:
My ~ife's (Betty) life a nd my own, are
dommated by the number of times each
w~ek we drive to town (Roseburg and
Glide ) for activit ies pertaining to scout ing
YMCA, etc. All for J ohn a nd Ann of
course."
'
JAMES P. CRADLER reports, "As for
t he. past seven years, I'm still conniving
ngamst glulam and selling lots of steel.
At Riverside Steel, in South Gate, Cal.,
we m ake tapered steel girders by the mile
and fabricate piles a nd piles of structural
1953
OREGON STATE FORESTER
J anu a ry 1966
DALE HEIGH is district r anger on the
Wallowa-Whitman National For est.
ERNEST C. McDONALD is on educational
leave from the U.S. Forest Ser vice at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Ernie
is conservation education officer for the
Forest Se rvice in t he states of Oregon and
Washingt on. Presently he plans to return
t o Portland in June, 1966.
RONALD G. METCALF, 1740 Blume, NE,
Albuquerque, N. M.
THOMAS D. OPATZ, products sales manager for FMC Corp., at 301 West Avenue
26, Los Angeles. He and his wife Marilyn
have three childre n: Tommy8, Cathy 6,
and Betty 4.
R. J . SAUNDERS reports from 208 Third
Street, Towanda, Pa. 18848, "The Saunders
four a re now calling Towa nda home. The
wife, Barba ra, is still a practicing housewife, a lthough the hospital "pink ladies"
make some demands on her time.
Daughter Kim is 12 and entering the
horsey stage. Daughter Dayna is 10 and
catching up fast. Old dad is helping build
a new hardboard plant for Masonite. We' ll
h ave the headaches of technical director
when we become operational. Saw OSU
beat Syracuse this year--was a real thrill.''
JOHN A. TUCKER, 4825 Brookwood
Street, Eugene, Ore.
ROBER·r W. DICKSON, plant engineer o!
the Twin Harbors branch of Weyerhaeuser
Compa ny, reports they moved into their
new offices at Cosmopolis, Wash. , the
first of the year. He's been involved t his
past year in computerizing inventory syst em . Bob is in charge of their branch Jog
yield stu dy and industrial engineering
program.
ARVID C. ELLSON is on the s upervisor's
staff of the Umpqua National Fm:est, Roseburg, Ore.
LOUIS E. GUNTER was n a med forest
fire prevention officer for the California
Division of Forestry at Sonoma, Cal., last
May.
WENDALL J. JONES, district ranger for
the U.S. Forest Service at Detroit, Ore.,
reports, "Wife J essie helping keep the
wolf away from t he door as local r epr esen tative of Avon Products. Children,
Linda 1 2, Steven 11, Sandra 9, k eeping
parents involved in PTA, new ( ? ) math,
etc. Looking forward to a n uneventful
winter after last winter's chaos."
ROBERT G. LEWIS is the director of
Angell J ob Corps Conservation Center,
Yachats, Ore., a 120-man cent er. The
center h as h ad job corps enrollees since
April 28, 1965. Bob and Florette have one
son a nd live at the center, which is on
the Waldport r a nger district of the Siuslaw
national forest.
JOHN M. PIEROVICH is with the U.S.
Forest Service a t 2635 West Street, South,
Falls Church, Va.
1955
L. JAMES BRADY is timber management
forester for Northern Pacific Railway Co.,
and stationed at their Seattle office.
JOHN DAVIS reports, "Shirley, our
three childr e n a nd I purch ased a home
(n ew to us) at 530 Oak Te rrace h~re in
Sweet Home, Ore., t his summer. The interesting feature is that it is m ade entirely
of wood (paneled walls, b eam ed and
p a neled ceilings, hardwood floors). Any
Fernhoppers passing through town will be
warmly welcomed. I am still wit h Santiam
Lumber Co., as a contract logging supervisor, and Shirley is a business teache1·
at the high school."
AL R. HICKMAN, 1 220 Hardesty Drive,
Reno, Nev.
D ~VID F. KEISER is forester for the Mt.
Ashland Corp., P .O. Box 22, Ashland , Ore.
WILLIAH H. McCREDIE W'\S n amerl director of t imbe r land planning for Simpson Timber Co. last April. He is stationed
at Bellevue, W ash.
GAYLORD K. PARKS, Sierra National
Forest, 4831 E. Shie lds, Fresno, Cal.
GERALD N. PATCHEN is on the timber
management staff of the Winema Nation al
For est, 411 Main, Klamath Falls, Ore.
C'\PTAIN MARK A. SMITH, JR., Melbourne Building, 98-38 57th Ave., Lefrak
City, N. Y. 11368.
CARL G. WESTRATE, district r a nger on
Modoc National Forest at Adin, Cal. r e ports, "Job load on the d istrict is heavy
to r a n ge activities with timber and fire
n ext. Doing considerable hunting a nd
fish ing while still in this location. Winter
still sees the family and me at Mt Shasta
skiing. Anyone passing thr ough the n ortheastern corner of California is invited to
stop."
1956
GEORGE E. BARR writes, "My position
of personnel assistant for the State Forestry Departme n t in Salem hasn't changed
since last year. It is still as interesting
as ever . Mitzi and I live at 163 Gregory
T.'\n e S.E., Salem, with our two children,
Gary a nd Tammy."
DONALD K. JOHNSON is wit h t h e
Winema National Forest, 411 Main,
Klamath Falls, Ore. Don reports that h e
is back in Oregon after a two-year absence
and that's enough said.
ROBERT I. KERR report s, "Transferred
to Evergl~des National Pari{ in August as
chief park r a n ger. Arrived just in time
fo1· Hurricane Bet sy which is something
to tell the g r andchildren about. The Eve rg lades a r ea is quite different t h an other
a r eas where we have been a nd has a lot
of c h alle nges not prese nt in most parks.
The fishing is great as is the southern
Florida climate (at least in the winter) is
hard to beat. Hope some day to be far
e n ou gh west to visit t h e school, but it's
a 'fur piece' from h ere. Hello to classmates of '56."
NICHOLAS J. KIRKMIRE, 15226 S.E.
First Place, Bellevue, Wash., was named
recipient of the first a nnual award of the
Puget Sound section SAF. After graduntion from OSU, Nick accepte d a Rotary
Foundation fellowship for graduate study
at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Then Uncle Sam used him in the corps
of engineers. Nick held v arious engineering and consultant positions with private
firms in Oregon before accepting the job
as district forester with the Washington
Forest Protective Association at Seattle
in 1961.
GEORGE M. LEONARD, 1326 Egret Drive,
Sunnyvale, Cal.
RUSS MITCHELL reports, "There is little
that is new w it h me or m y family since
last year's r eport. I con t inue to work in
forest insect r esearch with t h e Forest
Service in Portland, spending most of my
t ime investigating t h e mysteries of th e
balsam woolly a phid . At home (in Milwaukie), size of my family r em a ins unchanged, con sisting of the same good wife,
an extraordinarily intelligent four-year
old boy, a n d a bobtailed cat. Drop in the
next time you are in town."
RICHARD M. MORRIS is a r egistered
land sur veyor with offices at 1125 Brockwood McMinnville, Ore.
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FLOYD E. PAGE, protection forester at
the Coos Bay Branch at Weyerhaeuser Co.
1·eports t hat their twin girls are walking
now and giving their mother a r eal work
out.
WILLIAM G. PADGHAM is a loan officer
with the First National B:mk, Eugene,
Ore. His address is 4560 Mill.
1957
KENNETH L. EVANS writes, the house
is full of boxes and the family and I a r e
h eading for Temple, Texas. I have tak en
an assignment with the office of the ins pector general, USDA, and will be working in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Arl{ansas, and Louisiana.
JOHN MICHAEL FINNIS, a m e mber of
the technical staff of the for est m anagement center for the Washington department of natural resources, is r esponsible
for seeking better methods of r es toc kin ~
forest land for that state. Mike is a Londoner and served in WW II and a British
Royal Artillery Unit in the China -Burma India t h eater of operations. Mike w ill
obtain U.S. citizenship this year. He and
his wife Joan have two sons.
CHUCK HILL reports, "There are still
a few of the jobs you hear about available; I've got one. Riding horse back all
the time, camping out, hunting, fishing
(time out for work once in a while) ; a ll
this in bluebird weather. Still ranger on
the Wilderness d istrict, Gila National
Forest. Trying to drown m yself, now.
Came to New Mexico before acquiring a
canoe; paddle it in a ll stock tanl{s and
mud puddles. Come see us. Just bought
a n ew can o f coffee."
GEORGE W . LIDDICOATT is rura l c enter
director for the Los Pinos Job Corps Center
on the Cleveland Nationa l Forest whose
h eadquarte rs a r e at 1196 Broadway, San
Diego, Cal.
WALTER H. MEYER, JR. is with t h e
Bur eau of Outdoor Recreation stationed in
San Francisco.
EARL E. NELSON is research plant pathologist w it h the U.S. Forest Service at
their Corvallis For estry Science Lab.
DONALD M. PETERSEN was named
forest fire prevention officer for the California d ivision of forestry a nd stationec;l
at Sanoma.
W ILLIAJ\.1 H. SCHEUNER is with the U.S.
Forest Service a t Arnold, Cal.
LYNN D. TRAIL was named district
ranger on the Tahoe National Forest at
Downieville, Ca l. Ly nn r ecently completed
sever a l years with the Forest Service in
Alaska.
WILEY D. WENGER acce pted a teaching
posit ion a t the State College of Forestry at
Syracuse, N. Y., where h e is also undertaking doctora l work Wiley formerly
was w ith the U.S. Forest Service's research
station in Portland working on forest
recreation research.
1958
JOHN H. BEST is with the Siskiyou Nat ional Forest whose h eadquarters are in
Grants Pass, Ore.
R. W. BOB CRAMER writes, "Last spring
I was appointed district representative
for Caterpillar Tractor Co. The new position involves dealer adminis tration responsibilities a n d covers the caterpillar
dealers in western and south ern Oregon
a nd northern Ca lifornia. In June, Barb
and the three girls moved t o Medford;
new addr ess is 1690 Grand Avenue. "
P.O. Box 83,
CHARLES HARDEN,
Chemult Ranger Station, Che mult, Ore.
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BILL HOEBEL reports that during the
last 1 % years, he has been working as a
graduate assistant to Dr. Reichart, Director of the school's Self-Learning Center.
This ~as proved . to be a very rewarding
expenenca for Bill and has provided an
opportunity to become more proficient
with the camera (many hours spent in the
s~udio and dark room, preparing training
aids for use in the Center) . After completing work on a Master's in January
1 966, he hopes to locate in the Pacific
northwest with private industry.
LESLIE R. MARTIN reports, "As many of
you know, last March we moved down the
road one mile and changed jobs: USFS to
P;ivate industry. I am now with Gilchrist
Ttmber Co. marking, cruising and what
have you. The family is the same size·
one wife, three girls, and one dog. Extra~
curricular activities at this time of the
year, December, are mainly confined to
goose hunting. Stop for a cup of coffee
when you come through Gilchrist."
L. KENT MAYS is district ranger on the
Rogue River National Forest, Jacksonville
Ore.
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LARRY MERRIAM writes, "Have accepted position of professor of forestry
(r ecreatiOn) at the University of Minnesota beginning summer of 1966. Am working on a special study of recreation lands
i~ the west for BLM. For this year contmue to work on recreation conservation
teaching research at School of Forestry
University of Montana."
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JOHN POPPING reports, "The first of
~ovember we moved from
Salem to
Ststers, Ore., where I am district ranger.
For . a native born westsider, this is
shapmg up as a very educational experie~ce .
Among other things, I find that
mistletoe grows on something besides
Oreg~n .W,hite oak and is not even good
for kJsst,n under. The family, same wife,
three lnds, and dog, is settled in our
house at the ranger station and clamoring
for snow so dear old Dad can shell out
for ski outfits."
. RICHARD B. REA was named district
timber management assistant on the Coffee Creek Ranger District of the ShastaTrinity National Forest in Northern California.
TERRY R. RUDD reports, " Our two boys
are four years and six years now. The
oldest just had his tonsils and adenoids
removed. He also wears glasses which
makes him .look .older. The youngest is
fast becommg d iscontented with home
life since his brother started school. We
are still consulting but most of our ser:<ices are in value appraising. Enjoy hearmg from classmates. I hope at long last
to make Fernhopper Banquet this year."
WILLIAIV1 H. SAGER is involved in job
corps work on t h e Siuslaw National Forest
with headquarters here in Corvallis, Ore.
RAY SCHAFF writes, "I am in my third
year at Tiller, Ore. , as timber assistant
on the South Umpqua district. Terrie and
I are deeply involved in the scouting program; she's a den mother, I'M a scoutmaster. In between I'm busy w ith the job.
My family (still four) , school board, or
whatever else I can find time for. I would
!ike seeing any and all of my friends. Stop
m and say hello."
HAROLD S~ES, 1539 Linwood, Eugene,
Ore., reports, Moved to Eugene last September after 31,2 years in Blue River.
Natalie, David, Lisa, Michelle, Melinda and
I. all agree there are several fringe benefits that go along with living in town.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
H?pe I can afford them. Enjoy working
With !ernhoppers AI Davies, Lloyd Larson,
~harlie .Lord and Gary Hubbe in TM secbon, Willamette National Forest. Getting
n n 'w prr::;occt ive to some of the problems in timber management."
<TOHN J. TERPSTRA is Captain with the
U.S. Arm~ Corps o~ Engineers and present!);' stu.dymg for h1s masters in civil engmeermg. at .?klahoma State University.
He a~d his Wii e, Janet, have three: Steve,
6, tWins Phil and Jeff, one year.
G!-EN A. THORNTON is with the Ochoco
NatiOnal Forest stationed at Hines, Ore.
VERN P. YERKES is undertaking forest
product~ marketing research for the Rockv
Mou?tam Forest and Range Experiment
Statwn at Fort Collins, Colo.
1959
.CARL M. BERNTSEN writes, "Bend is
still our home, and the FS silviculture
laboratory my headquarters. Official duty
frequently calls f?r t ravel independently
or m ?ompany with lab staff to outlying
areas m eastern Oregon and Washington.
Also, I make almost weekly trips to OSU
for. conti.nued thesis study and consult:ttJon With major professor Dr. Ferrell
Wife 1\.;fary is als<;> involved in continuing
education: part-trme student at Central
Oregon Community College during the
regular school. year, and residence study
at U o f 0 durmg the summer. For k icks
"'!~ (Mary, Keith, Geofrey and I) piloted
light p lane to New York and returned in
October.
CHARLES BERNERT is veneer buyer for
Vancouver Plywood at Springfield, Ore.
NORMAN L. HALL is working for the
Mt. Hood National Forest at Estacada, Ore.
BOYD RUSSELL McCALL writes, "I have
~orke~ for Weyerhaeuser Co. of LongVIew smce 1961. First started as a forester , then promoted to a r ea engineer at
~rays Rive r, Wash. I was married in 1962
m Augm;t to Linda from Kalama, Wash.
We have two daughters: Marilee is 2 y,
and. Sherri Lynn is one year old as c;;f
Chnstmas '65. We live at Cathlamet
Wash."
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KENNETH R. MEYER is with the U.S.
Forest Service at Tiller, Ore.
GILBERT F. OEKERMAN writes, "Have
moved bag and baggage to Vancouver
Wash. I was sent here to establish and
manage the plywood association's new
Vancouver regional laboratory. Visitors
are always welcome."
CLINTON M. PETERSON reports "Nancy
and ~ are living in Baker, Ore. O~r family
h~s mcreased to five children with the
btrth of second son in May. I am working
for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
as an area engineer. My area covers the
northeast corner of the state and contains
some of the most rugged and primitive
coun.try ifol ~he west. The country makes
my JOb difficult but quite satisfying."
RAYMOND B. SCHENCK spent the first
half of last year working for t he t imber
di":ision of Ketchikan Pulp Co. and then
sw1t?hed to .the BLM at Fairbanks Alaska.
He IS workmg with their smoke-jumpe1·
crew there.
M. D. "BUD" SHRUM was named operation manager for U.S. Plywood Corp.,
Reedsport, Ore. last summer.
WILLIAM SCHULTHEIS is presently
worki?g for Oscar Mayer and Co. in San
Fra~c1sco as a salesman. He reports he is
takmg the big step April 17 when he gets
married.
January 1966
MELVYN L. SOUVENIR is an assistant
forest engineer at the Tillamook division
of the Crown Zellerbach Corp. He reports
"we live east of Tillamook along the Wilson River highway. Our three children
take most of our spare time."
. LER_OY 0. TAYLOR, JR. is forest practices mspector for the California d ivision
of forestry and lives at 45 Rosita Way
~~~.
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RICHARD A. WILLIAMS, 2565 Portola
Drive, S:1.nta Cruz, Cal., writes "after much
vain .str.uggle w ith ':luskeg trying to convert It mto super highways in Alaska we
deci~ed to take. the e~sy way out-flying.
Obtained a pnvate license, an airplane
and much pleasure in the process. Mix
in a l.ittle fishing and you have it for ' 65.
Stop 11" sometime and give us a fly."
EDWARD F. ZONTEK is assistant ranger
on Gunnison National Forest at Gunnison
Col.
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1960
GARY L. AMES is with Mt. Hood National Forest at Estacada, Ore.
ROBERT B. BELLAMY, U.S. Plywood
Co., Gold Beach, Ore.
WILLIAM LEONARD HARVEY 130 N
Holladay Drive, Seaside, Ore.
'
·
QUAY JORGENSEN is operating his own
veneer plant at Winlock, Wash.
C. BRAD KRUEGER is an engineer with
the BLM in Eugene, Ore.
K~NNETH W. KRUEGER is studying the
physiOlogy of Douglas-fir seedlings as relt;tted to current northwest nursery practices at the U.S. Forest Service Forestry
Scie·nces Lab on the OSU camp~s.
JOHN D. MacWILLIAMS is with the division of watershed management of the
r egional forester's office in Portland, Ore.
BOYD R. McCALL, Route 1 Box 419
Cathlamet ,Wash.
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'
RICHARD P. QUINN is partner in
Vockert-Quinn Pole Frame Construction
1969 S.E. 122 Ave., Portland, Ore.
'
MAX E. ROSS was named assistant to
the general manager of Willamette Valley
Lumber Company, Dallas, Ore., last September.
CHARLES L. STODDARD reports, " I am
currently manager of the wood preservation department, forest products diVISIOn , St. Regis P;;per. Co.! here at Libby,
Montana. The famtly size IS still the same:
Judy, Barry and myself. We bought a new
h ouse this year, so now h ave more room
to put up anyone who might get this far
off the beaten track. We wish this would
happen more often."
FLOYD J. VANDERVELDEN writes, "We
are presently located in Coos Bay working
for the BLM. We are looking forward to
the annual meeting and hope to see many
friends."
WI!-LIAM R. WARNER reports, "Will be
marned the twentieth of November to
Pat Banks, a girl local to the Grants Pass
area. We will be living at 703 Wharton
Grants Pass, Ore. I would like to extend
an invitation to any Fernhoppers down
our way to stop in. I'm still handling the
reforestation program on the Galice district of the Siskiyou."
ROBERT J. WOMACK is handling plywo<;>d sales for Boise Cascade Corp., at
their Portland, Ore. office.
JON L. WOODSIDE writes "I am still
located in Portla nd, Ore. I gr~duated from
Willamette University college of law in
June 1965, and I passed the Oregon State
bar examination in September 1965. I am
~ngaged in the private practice of law
m Portland at this time. Not married yet."
OREGON STATE FORESTER
January 1966
1961
MATT R. ANDERSON writes, "We are
still in Dallas with the State Forestry
dept. The job is still fire control. The only
additions to the family are one large dog
and a three-bedroom house. As taxpayers,
we can now join the ranks of those who
object to everything, particularly progress."
WINSTON D. BENTLEY reports, "I am
now employed by Chelan Box and Mfg.
Co. as logging superintendent and enjoy
the work immensely. Chelan is a beautiful small town which draws thousands
of tourists in the summer and many hunters during fall and early winter. It feels
good to be back home in the state of
Washington again. My wife, Judy, and
daughter, Becky Jane (age 3), a lso are
fond of our new location. We wish to invite any fernhopper and his family coming
to this area to drop in to see us."
ROGER S. BRASSFIELD is employed by
Tudor Engineering Co. and lives at 15
Lewis Avenue, Apt. D, S. San Francisco.
ROBERT M. CRON writes, "Jane and I
have moved to 99 Bettcher Cour t, Grass
Valley, Cal. Here I am the resource forester in charge of fire control, recreation,
and roads and trails on the Nevada City
district, Tahoe National Forest. We
couldn't come to Corvallis for Homecoming
because of the long fire season but hope
to be up for Fernhopper Day. J a ne and I
like our new location very well and hope
our friend s will stop by to visit when they
a re in the area."
ROBERT L. EDWARDS reports, "Thi3
year the newsletter finds us living in
Olympia, Wash. I'm employed as systems
forester for the state of Wash. Department
of Natural Resources . Our second boy
was born last May. That brings our family
blessings to one girl and two boys. Jan
and I enjoy living h ere. We would like to
hear from some more fellow Fernhoppers
and femm es. Our address is Route 8, Box
176-C. We're easy to find, too."
NORMAN J. EVELETH reports, "The
Eveleth family is at present situated on
Turner Avenue in Shelton, Wash. I am
employed by Simpson Timber Co. as assistant to the management forester, a job
that is as interesting as it is diversified.
Reforestation,
research,
minor forest
products, seed production, land rehabilitation, weed and animal damage control,
are some of the areas encompassed by the
management department. There have been
no additions to the family in the year
past except for one pack burro named
Jack who has proven to be a real trail
burner. We hope to g ive him a work out
in the Olympics next summer."
VERNON A. FRIDLEY, JR. is with the
job corps at the Timber Lake Job Corps
Camp on the Mt. Hood National Forest
in Ore.
JOHN FRED GRAF is conservation inspector for the State Forestry Departme nt
stationed at Prineville, Ore.
W. MICHAEL GRIGGS writes, "Last
August I was transferred to Sedro Woolley,
Wash. to be the management forester for
the Sedro Woolley district Department of
Natural Resources. Our sales include
thinnings, old growth and hardwoods. Our
first child, Lewis Edward, arrived on
March 14. Got to hunt deer h e re and in
Wyoming this fall. Am glad to be near
good mountain-goat hunting and ski
areas."
BLAIR A. HOLMAN, 324 Alder
Drive, Toledo, Ore.
Lane
RICHARD W. HOLMES writes, "Since
February 1965, I've been with Publishers'
Paper Co. in the Valley Division keeping
busy with rehabilitation and thinning
programs. The most enjoyable part of
working here has been the great variety
of challenging projects ranging from trying to exterminate mountain beavers on
plantations to procuring a Christmas tree
for the Lloyd Center, which was actually
no small ope ration. In July we moved
from Salem to Milwaukie where the four
of us are busy taking care of the homestead and studying the level of growing
stock of rhododendrons, azaleas, and
quack grass. Address is 145 33rd St.,
Milwaukie, Ore., call any time. Hope to
see many of you on Fernhopper Day."
FRED G. JOHNSON reports, "Since this
time last year, Joyce and I have had our
first child, a boy, Jeffrey, born in la te
May. He is doing fine and should be
ready for chinook fishing this coming
spring. For the past year I have been the
p lywood graveyard-shift foreman for
Weyerhae user in North Bend, Ore. By the
time this newsletter comes out, the family
will have moved to Longview, Wash.,
where I will assume duties as the night
shift sawmill superintendent for Weyerhaeuser."
RODNEY E. JOOST is out of the Navy
and now employed by Nevada Division
of Forestry. Rod, his wife and baby
daughter live in a ranger cabin, address
Box 25, Carson City, Nev.
CLIFFORD W. MANN writes, " I'm still
in Coos Bay where I've been since graduation. I'm a senior forester for the Oregon
State Department of Forestry working in
timber management on the Elliott State
Forest. I just received my private flying
license in September and am enjoying
seeing Oregon from the air."
DAVID M. PRICE is with Potlach Forest
at P.O. Box 247, Deary, Idaho.
LEO R. STADELMAN is with J. H. Baxter
Co., P.O. Box 1690, Redding, Cal.
J.'RED WEAVER reports, "Am working
a s timber sales officer on Entiat district of
Wenatchee National Forest. Have bee n
busy at home making furniture and finish ing gunstocks. Deobie 4, and Scott 1,
also keep us busy."
LARRY CRON writes, "I am still district
fire control officer at Challenge on the
Plumas National Forest. We had an average fire year with ten man-caused and 13
lightning fires; burned 18 acres on a
lightning holdover in October that held
more than 30 days. Now it's time to keep
the umbrella handy; it rains twice as
much h e re as in Corvallis. I'm planning
to contract for a maid, cook, etc. next
spring for better or for worse; i.e. get
married. Would like to hear from or see
old friends. Stop in if you are near Oroville, or write or call."
DAVE DAHL is presently in charge of
refor estation and TSI on the Estacada
Ranger district of the Mt. Hood National
Forest in Ore.
DONALD H. DOYLE is on special assignment to the job corps on the Umpqua
National Forest at Glide, Ore.
RICHARD H. EVANS is an instructor
teaching marketing in the business administration department of Washington
State University, Pullman.
.ARNOLD B. HARMSEN, Halsey, Neb., is
with the U.S. Forest Service.
.R_OWAN C. HINDS has completed his
military service and is a graduate assistant at the School of Forestry at Corvallis.
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JOSEPH J. HOLMBERG reports, "I have
recently been promoted to the position of
recreation resource specialist in the project development division of the Bureau of
Reclamation's Regional Office in Sacramento. My job consists mainly of coordination with various agencies on outdoor recreation, fish and wildlife watershed and other res ource oriented ~ctivities
as they will be affected by future reclamation projects. I spent six months of
the past year assisting in establishing a
job corps conservation center near Redding, Calif. I enjoy the salubrious climate
of California but miss the forests of the
northwest. I' m still single, and it appears
as if I'm destined to remain so for awhile."
LeROY C. JOHNSON, 64 Ridge Court
Placerville, Cal.
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SAM LEE and ]+is wife Carolyn visited
the OSU campus last June and brought
along their young son Sam Lee, Jr.
GARY D. MANNERS is working at the
forest research lab on the OSU campus.
DENNIS A. PAYNE, Erskine Lumber Co.,
Swisshome, Ore.
ROBERT C. SANDERS is forester with
the St. Joe National Forest at St. Maries,
Ida.
ROBERT PAUL SCHULTZ is stationed
with the Southeastern Forest and Range
Experiment Station nt Olustee, Fla.
JOHN SHELTON, Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, Wash.
R. BROOKS SIBLEY is teaching in th3
division of natural resources at Humboldt
St ate College, Arcata, Cal.
N. EARL SPANGENBURG is still on duty
with the Air Force and his latest address
was 626 AC&W Sqdn ., Box 103, APO,
Seattle, Wash.
1963
BOB BALLENGER writes, "Am beginning
my third year with Bohemia Lumber Co.
at Culp Creek, Ore. My primary duties
include plywood quality control and
special production studies throughout the
entire operation. My wife, Susan and I
live in Cottage Grove near the 'Village
Green."
JAMES D. COOK has been with the
peace corps in Equador during the last
several years. Jim has been in charge of
forestry activities for the town of Pinas
and the surrounding area. He's been kept
busy establishing a forestry nursery, acting as a technical consultant for the extension ser vice, supervising several reforestation projects, conducting forest
surveys and participating in local community development activities.
JOHN L. DAVIS writes, "Not much to
add this year. The family is still the same
size (one girl ) and healthy. I'm still
working on the Umpqua National Forest
in Tiller, Ore. I'm engaged mainly in
timber sa'Jes work with some pre-commercial thinning work being done in the
spare t ime. We would welco:ne any grads
to stop by and visit. We are located on
a route to Crater Lake and the Rogue
Rive r valley.
WILLIAM F. (BILL) HAGEDORN reports
"I have been employed by Weyerhaeuser;
was a topographer in the main office. My
work consisted of paper location of roads
and office work pertaining to field problems. While on this job, I took night
classes at Lower Columbia College to complete the requirements for my degree.
In September, 1963. I was transferred to
the Longview branch's Camp Baker area
as a party chief on the field engineering
crew. At this job I have been in charge
of a crew ranging from three to six men
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OREGON STATE FORESTER
locating logging road s, running pro perty
lines, and laying out a reas to be logged.
Wiie Car olyn and son Tim and I reside
at 223 N. 21st in Kelso, Wash ."
BERT L. HOCKETT reports, "Since January o f 1964 I have b een for ester for Cascadia Lumber Co. at Toledo, Ore . My wife
,mdy has given up her teaching car e2r
:>.nd stays home w ith our new daughter
Amy Maureen. Amy was born Friday the
13th of August, 1965 . We r eside at 1909
Kauri S t re et, drop by any time."
J JI CK HOUSE, now a first lieutenant in
t he U.S. Marine Corps, reports, "getting
r eady to deploy to Carribean with HMM
162 for four-month cruise. Hope to transition from UH 34 to H 46 upon r eturn
in April '66. Wife and I plan to visi t
Horthw.::ct during May or June."
J:::JHN MEARS is with the BLM i n Roseb u rg, Ore., w ith primary r esponsibility
in road location, d esign and a ppraisal.
John and his wife r eport they n ow have
a boy one year old w ho is growing like a
weeu.
DOUGLAS P. RICHARDS is in the economics division of the Canadian Departm e nt oF Forestry at Ottawa, Can ada.
JAMES E. SEHORN is with t h e 20t h
Tactical Fighter Wing with an APO New
York address.
JAN VAN W AGTENDONK stopped by
Cor vallis en r oute to Vbtm\m HS an artillery officer. His addr ess is U.S. Army
Elm USAMACV, APO San Francisco, Cal.
JOHN M. WHEELER is seni or forester
with the State Forestry Department.
1964
LARRY B. BLASING is with Walla Walla
Mills Inc., P.O. Box 1318, Walla Walla,
Wash.
CARROLL D. CROPLEY w rites, upon
grad uation my wife and I moved to
Brookings, Ore ., where I was employed
as assistant logging engineer with Oregon
Coast Veneer. I worked on t h e company's
lands in Curry County, Ore., and Del
Norte County, Cal., from June to October,
1964. The n took a timbe r sale officer
position with the Six Rivers National
Forest, Mad River ranger district, in northern California. My wife gave birth to a
boy on October 25, 1965. So watch u s
~row now ! Oh, a sur prise for John Bell,
I am now a qualified cruiser and scaler,
qualification number Q2."
DONALD JESS CURTISS is assigned t o
the division of tim ber management o f the
regional forester's office at Ogden, Utah.
STEPHEN ALLEN FITCH is w i t h the
San Bernardino National Forest at Fawnskin, Cal.
JOHN C. FLANAGAN is working toward
his teacher' s cer tificate at Portland State
College.
His
r esidence is 316 S.W.
Whitaker , Portland, Ore.
Tm.-1 HINTHORNE received a Weyerhaeuser fellowship at the University of
Oregon. He sp ent the summ e r of '65
working w it h Weyerhaeuser on road costing problems a nd expects to complete his
g r aauate work by t his June.
MICHAEL D. JACKSON writes, " I am
in m y second year as a forester for the
inventory section of the Washing ton Department of Natural Resources. Our main
office is in Olympia on t h e capitol grounds.
Duri ng the s umme r I was in Darrington,
Wash.; will be in Port Angeles in J anuary
and February. Still enjoying single life
and plan on a pplying for the p eace corps
in the near future.
TED R. KINNEY s till on duty w i th t h e
Air Force a nd his latest address . is · 20
Scott Circle, Apt. B, Bedford, Mass. Ted
married a Portland, Ore. girl, Rayda J ane
Sandwick, last June.
TERRY A. LITTLE is on dut y with the
Army.
JAMES A. MASON is a n ensign statio!lcd
aboard t h e Coast Guard ship, The Com anche, sailing out of Treasure Island,
Sa n Francisco.
THOMAS J . PATERSON is a Roseburg,
Ore., area foreskr for Weyerha euser Co.
Besides h elping to hand!::! some 20 million
bnard-feet o 1 S!'.nit:1t ion so lv>u?;e ,nnd thi n ning, Tom h as responsibilities in for est
protection and r e generation.
ROBERT D. PFISTER is with Intermountain F orest and Range Expe rimen t
Station at t h eir new forest scbnce lab
a t Moscow, Ida.
WILLIAM J. PICARD, 2405 'h Gales \V:J.y,
!"orest Grove, Ore.
ELSBERY W. RE YNOLDS i!; attendin~
the S eabury Western Theolcgical Seminary, 600 Haven Street, E vanston, Ill.
KIRBY W. SCHWINCK is wit h th3
Apache Nation a l Forest at Alp ine, Ariz.
GARY V. SMITH, Box 82, Mapleton, Ore.
JOHN B. SMITH is w ith the ELM's
Salem , Ore. office.
~RANK C. SORENSON is a forest physiologist with the PRone Northwest For est
and Range Experiment Station at the ir
OSU campu s office.
RONALD E . STEWART is doing refo restation r esearch work for the Departm ent
of Natural Resources at t h eir forest land
m anagement cen ter at Olympia, Wash.
. ROBERT F. STRAND was named s uperVIsor of Crown Zellerbach Corp's for estry
res~,rr.~ "'1d ;s stationed at C'lm"'s, Vlasl-J..
RICHARD TARAS repor ts he is b eing
moved to Guam.
GLEN TILLITT is with the State For estry
D epartment stationed at Hood River, Ore.
. MILES _F. WEAVER is on th') Rogue
River Natwnal Forest at Jacksonville, Ore.
ROBERT A. WRIGHT is with the Bureau
of Indian A ffairs at Hoopa, Cal.
School Staff News (cont.)
tion, forest valu ation, and research in
forest-range problems occupy much of
Bob's time and interest.
JIM KRYGIER spends his t ime on forest
watershed management teaching both
g1·adu ate and undergraduate courses.
He's a lso heavily immersed in watersh ed
research w h ere h e's heading up six research projects.
MAC McCULLOCH reports a quiet summer,
mostly at Corvallis. A t rip to Cana da
was very rewar ding, thanks to the
courtesy of Ed Hayes. Through him, the
McCu!loch s wer e able to spend a week
in a delightful log cabin on the bank
of the Bow River at Canmore, adjacent
to Ba nff National Park. An unexpected
~vent was . getting stuck momentarily
m a 5-mmute, 3 -inch snowfall on
August 28th , in southern B.C. not far
n orth of Spokane. Tourism is a potent
factor in A lberta's econ omy: more than
"80,000 people were clocked into Banff
in July. Mac says: "weather was superb
mo~ntains magnificent, Kodachrom~
funously expendable. Young officer at
Jasper Park entr ance said 'Welcome to
Jasper.' I asked a couple of questions
and he said ' you seem to b e familiar
with the Park.' W h en I told him I was
fire warde n t here 40 years before he
said 'Then , sir , you are thrice welc'ome
to Jasper.'"
Janua r y 1966
M. D. McKIMMY spent the summ e r completing study of specific g r avity in
Douglas-fir. Presented r esults at the
Tappi Forest Biology Conferen ce last
November a t Madison, W is. Continues
to teach t h e same Forest Products
courses.
KEN McLAREN is working full -time in t h e
Self-Learning Cente r and assists the
Forest Engineering Department in handling field labs.
JOHN O'LEARY is still teaching courses in
logging methods and road design. IIe
still h a s a special interest in new and
experimental logging equipment, so is
usually close by when a new version •.>f
the balloon is launched or a n ew skycrRne is t ried out.
·
DAVE PAINE is m aking up for a slow
start on r aising a family with their
~ 'cond girl, Mary Katherin, who arr; ved lPst S ~ot. With the PhD. out of
the way, Dave is in the p r ocess of comple tely r evising his Forest Protection
and g r a d u at e
Photo -Men sur ation
courses. We now have a good insect
collection and have added about 350
excellent J;>ic tures of insects and pathoge ns to the slide collection. The F-520
class now not only makes photo cruises
but also makes the required photovolume tables with the aid of e lectronic
data p r oc2ssing equipment. The n ext
step is to intr oduce the n ew 3 Pee
Sampling t h eor y (probability proportioned to prediction ) to photo cruising.
This might b e the subject of a Ph.D .
ciissertation in t h e n ear future.
CASEY RANDALL is on sabbat ical leave
at Colomdo State University u n dertaking advanced studies. Casey's prog ram t h er e will emph asize forest recr eation.
BOB REICHART reports the S elf-Learning
Center continues to extend its activities
outside the School of Forestry. During
fall term Director Bob Reichart h as gone
back to school himself, auditing the
course in "Geology for Foresters" to
make tapes of the class lectures for
individual student use in the Self-Learning Center. Even t h e s ecretar y w ho is
t r a n scribing t h e tapes for future revision says the cour se is interestingand she hasn't had a chance to see the
pictures.
DAN ROBINSON pursues more effective
techniques of teaching fire control a nd
silviculture. Some r ecent class room
learning aids are models and colored
slides. . Committee assignments relating
to curncular matters of the University,
forestry school and forest technician
t r aini ng are some cu rren t " fringe benefits."
CHUCK SUTHERLAND has a number of
new p r o jects underway this year. W it h
plenty of a ble student help, he has been
summarizing data for some extension
service forest demonstration tracts and
d irecting a s tudy o f Lane County forest
resources. A study of transportation
cost s in the lumber industry w ill also
be completed for the state as soon as
mills in northeastern Oregon are surveyed. H e is still tea ching the same
courses but for est economics (F-412)
now h as a lab w here problems are u sed
to clarify lecture material.
TONY VAN VLIET has two m ajor p rojects
underway with ind ustry; work-learn
programs and "planned company education. " These ideas h ave consumed
most of his extension time. Teaching
forest products a n d working on a n ew
forestry cu rriculum kept Tony out of
January 1966
mischief during the school year . The
childr en continue to g r ow w it h the
shocking r ealization that they are w ith
you for a short time and t hat $5 doesn't
even buy good shoes a ny more.
BILL WEST completed the fourth e dit ion
of t h e " Index of Journal Articles Pertaining to the Forest Products Indus t ries" covering 1963-64. The index is
well r ec3ived in research, teaching and
industry as a refe rence guide. Bill continues to teach a senior sequence and
(!radu:-tte courses in forast products. The
depa rtment staff has spent considerable
time in discussions leading to p robable
curricu lum revision in recognition of
the rapid developments i n t h e field
and
growing
opportunit ies.
Earlier
char.ges r esulted in eleven stu dents r e cei vi ng second bachelor degrees in
buc;iness and t echnology and six in
ch emistry , since 1959. Several current
students in fo r est products are considering pr ograms leading to a Master in
Bu~in~ss Administration which is being
o'fer;c\ ~or t h ; first time this yea r in
Du:::in~ss and Technology.
BILL WI·IEELER spcci:ied that contrary to
the situation last yea r, enrollment has
increased considerably in the School o f
Forestry. The employment situation
looks quite good , particularly from the
v iewpoint o f possibilities in industry
where a greater number of c ontacts
have alr ead y b een r eceived. It appears
t hat the number of t h ese contacts will
increase considerably during the w inter
term. Bill's research studies indicate
the possible need for a c h anged approach in seed collection from trees at
high elevation to increase the y ie!d of
v iable seed from these areas.
BOB WILSON is still teaching forest engineering to freshmen a nd sophomores .
Bob w ill be teaching summer school
again this year. In his spare time he is
a beachcomber at Lincoln City and
hopes to take up sailing this summer.
Three Generations (cont.)
Fred C. Weaver, ' 61, son of Clayton
Weaver, '38;
John F. Weisgerber, '60, son of John
E., '34;
Wm. J. Zach, '64, son o f Lawrence W.
Zach, '40.
One unusual fath er-son combination
was t h at of Tom Cody Jr. a nd Sr. They
both attended t h e School together in the
111-te 1950's.
Sons of OSU fernhoppers currently enrolled at OSU' s forestry school include:
Thomas Parke, a senior, son o f William
N., '33, w ho is currently teaching at the
School;
Craig and Steven Sorseth , freshman and
junior, sons of AI, '48;
Bruce
Stewart,
freshman,
son
of
Faye, ' 39;
Joh n B. Parsons, f reshman, son of Glenn
B., '39;
Everett M. Hansen, Soph omore, son of
George M .. , '39;
James E. Jess, sophomore, son of Orville, '37;
Ha r o ld B. Eubanks, j unior, son of Wallace, '46;
He r b Hammond III, junio r, son of Herb,
'39 ;
James F. Udell, junior, son of Be r t, '40.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
STEVE WOODARD did not appear very
busy with mensuration so he has been
gi ven t h e job of teaching n on- for ester s
that conser vation is important. In his
spare time he is getting t h e Ph.D. thesis
project off the desk and into the field.
RAY YODER spent much of last summer in
t:l!>ing his c ' ursc in For~st I.Ianag:··1eut
apart a nd then putting t h e pieces back
togeth er. One r esult is a better con·elation between the laboratories and the
daily work. Another is elimination of
all computations which do not lend
themselves to a better understanding
of the subject. Finally, omission of t h e
" busy work" aspects of the laboratories
has made it possible to include problems and questions which help enhance
the student' s understanding of where
and how the individual subject fits in
the complete context of forest managem ent.
Lab Staff News (cont.)
DENIS LAVENDER spends much of his
t.i•::tc during the week riding h erd on
growth rooms and greenhouses. Dirt
forestry activities are confined largely
to weekends on the multiple-use Gahola
Tree farm, where trout and b eaver are
raised a mong t h e fir and a lder.
BILL LEHMANN is working on the durability of hardboard and particle board in
exterior exposure and on variables of a
paint-adhesion test.
D. J . MILLER di verts his attention from
wood preservation long enough to suggest
that Ladybird's efforts to eliminate public
eyesores should shift from telephone poles
to fat ladies in shorts.
RUSSELL MOLYNEUX joined the staff
in October. He has been stu dying the reactions induced by gamma irradiation of
flavonoids from Douglas-fir bark, supported by t he Mcintire-Stennis program.
JOHN MOTHERSHEAD is still looking for
the m agic elixir t hat will restore h ealth
a n d well-being to fai ling u t ility poles.
Meanwhile, he is taking a few courses on
campu s in an e ffort to determine whether
PhD means Probably Highly Desirable or
Perhaps He's Delirious.
MIKE NEWTON continues to stomp out
brush and weeds. During off-hours, slack
is taken up by house building and defending himself from irate foresters w ho
accuse him of using too many bricks .
JIM OVERHOLSER, swamped by the
flood of repor ts from hard-workin g researchers, h as gained a part-time helper,
Dorothy Carson. With h er able help, p ublishing w ill be speeded.
HERB SCHROEDER has b een separating,
purifying and identifying low-mo lecularweight lignin su lfonates under a grant
from the Public Health S ervice. He is
a lso supervismg graduate and undergr aduate research in t wo-stage sulfite
pulping of red alder, determination of a
particular constituen t w ithin the lignin
structure, and investigating chemical
change of the structure of hemicellulose
during its isolation fr om wood.
RICHARD WARING continues ecological
study in the Siskiyou Mountains where
25 micrometeorological stations a r e being
maintained. Development of a portable
p r essure bomb is being pursued to permit
measuring internal moisture stress directly
in the field.
JOE ZAERR commenced work at t he
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forest Properties of School
Contribute to Program
As alumni o f the OSU School of Forestry, we are all aware of the contribution
w hich the McDonald and Dunn Forests
mak e to the instructional program. Alt houg h field lab trips o~ten seemed like
hours when inhaling the wet spray thrown
up by t h e tires, most of the property is
within a 15 -minute ride from the campus.
However , in addition to their prime role as
instructional-s upport
facilities,
the s e
forest properties also contribute to the
forest research program.
Bill Davies, forest supervi!;or , indicates
it is impossible to total a ll the curren t
re::Jearch projects underway on the forest
since extensive usc is also made by cr ossCrlmpus and other governmen tal agen cies.
The botany and zoology departments o ften
h9.ve graduate thesis project s underway.
The entire forest ser ves as a unique
laboratory for the fish and game departm e nt since hunter access can b e easily
controlled. The forests were opened for
c\e"r hunting during four week end s in
October a nd November and 256 deer were
kille d . This special hunt is k eeping deer
d a m age to seedlings down to reasonable
levels as well as providing useful fie ld
exp erience and statistical information for
OSU's fish and game majors. A complex
o( fisheries research buildings h as sprun g
np around the Oak Creek guard station.
That particular s ite is close to the campu s
yet still has an unexcelled water supply.
Certain areas on the forest a r e reserved
as contr ols for study a nd instructional
purposes. The remaining a reas a r e under
operational use following long r ange plans
d raw n u p by Bill. During 1965, 5 1h million b oard feet of salvage and thinning
logs were harvested from McDonald and
Dunn Forests. This is approximately
double the computed a llowable cut. This
acceler ated cutting, n eeded to salvage and
improve the forest, w ill continue another
five years.
Approximately two miles of new road
were constructed during the year. Nearly
all the forests are now accessible during
the su m m er . Additional roads will be
rocked for w inte r access by classes. Marvin
Rowley, 1950, and his partner, Dick P a r ker, a re doing t he logging, road construct ion, maintenance and other chores on the
forests.
During Janua ry and February 1965,
45,000 3-0 Douglas-fir seedlings were
planted on 85 acres. The area had pre viously been salvaged and the hardwoods
ch emically treated.
These operations are being conducted
from timber incom e without a n y suppor t
from other funds. In addition the forests
contribute about $25,000 annually to t he
research budget a nd also support two
g raduate assistantships. The foresight of
early alums and staff in initiating the
forest acquisition program is now apparent.
Laboratory in September, and has embarked o n a r esearch program to investigat e the naturally occur ring growth hormones in Douglas-fir. Cur rent emphasis is
on the development of a bio-assay using
Douglas-fir seedlings to detect plant
growth-r egulating substances at ver y low
concentrations.
Page Sixteen
OREGON STATE FORESTER
January 1966
Mac's Corner (cont.)
Shown above a r e t wo forest r y club cabin s phot ograph e d from approxim ately t h e
sam e gro und point. Ralph Ost e rling, fo•·estry s enior, photographed t h e presen t
forestry club cabin (built in 1949-52) this last Dec em ber. In set phot o was taken by
Ball Studios at the dedication of the first forestry club cabin in 1926.
FORESTRY SHORT COURSES SCHEDULED
T hree short cow·ses of interest to foresters
have been scheduled at Corvallis during
the next six months. Additional information may be obtained by writing the appropriate short course director at the
Sch ool.
Aeria l photographs a nd their use in for estry, March 21-25, Dr. J. R. Dilworth , d irector.
Forest Watershed Management symposium, March 29-30, Prof. R. L. Wilson,
coordinator.
Variable Plot Cruis ing, April 6- 8, P rof.
J. F. Bell, director.
These short courses are presented as a
service to the forestry profession by the
School of Forestry. Th e School has been
very fortunate in receiving the cooperation and assistance of numerous industrial
a nd governmental organizations in these
short course programs. This help ranges
fr om assisting in compiling mailing lists
to t h e loan of ·key people as short course
instr uctors. It is through such assistance
that short course fees have remained
nominal.
The School welcomes suggestions for
new short courses. These will be presen ted when the need is well established
a nd competent instructors are available.
Alumni a r e encouraged to forwa rd suggestions to individual staff members.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
come up with appropriate choices from
thousands of alter natives at close to the
speed of light, no fo r ester can afford t o
remain ignorant of the poten tialities in
this m iraculous tool. Hence Lew a r gues
for a stronger m ath base; for the developmen t of competence in statistics; a n d for
at least an acquaintance with compu ter
capacities for problem-solving. It becomes
increasingly importan t to deal with precise quantities in such forestry concerns
as mensuration, bu t even more urgent
is precision in su c h business concerns as
markets, models, simulation, ope rations
research. These all rest on quan tifying
factors which computers can analyze to
benefit the future profitability of t h e
forest industry. So our curricula m u st p r ovide at least a beginning acq uaintance
with some computer languages; Algol,
Cobol, Fortran, PL/1 and oth er s; and I'll
stop hurriedly right h ere because at this
point I don' t know enough to continue.
( 3) Another curriculum situation has
its origin in high out-of-state tuition .
There is a trend for students in other
states to stay at h ome as long as p ossible
in order to cut expenses. We have t he
h ighest percentage o f o ut -of-state e nrollment in the State System, usually about
half the forestry studen t body. These
people certainly deserve any consideration
which can be given . It will be necessar y
to j uggle the timing and p re-requisites of
r. number or courses so transfers may
rc;:ularize their progr ams as quickly as
pos::;ible. Even the modest saving in cost
of board ana room is a factor encouraging
local students to stay home and attend
Oregon colleges. These tram;fers too are
likely to increase, and will add to changes
in cou rse sequences.
( 4) Acr oss campus curriculum adjustments are also taking place. These create
further pr oblems of meshing credit hours
and clock hours to provide reasonably
smooth programs for the largest possible
number of students.
I 5 l Just one short note will illustrate
that the problem of capable communication is a lways with u s, despite our best
curriculum efforts: Forbes magazin e for
Dzcember 1, 1965, says "Most American
engineers today can't spell a word larger
than cat."
I am sure that per s istent staff efforts
will develop curricula which will continue
to make Fernhoppers comp etent a n d competitive.
Best wishes to all hands. I'll look for
you on Fernhopper Day February 19, 1966.
BULK RATE
U.S. Pos tage
PAID
Permit No. 20 7
Corvallis, Ore.
O.S.U. Fm·estr y Alumni Ass'n.
OSU School of Fo•·esb ·y
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
MR DAN 0 ROBINSON
SCH OF FORESTRY
CAMPUS
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