OREGON STATE
FORESTER
VOLUillF. XV TT
Corvallis, Oregon, March 1964
Level of Growing Stock Study
--~~
~·rw•~~~·
A typical plot of th e recently established Level of Growing Stock stu dy set up last summ er
near Corvall is. T here are 27 o ne-fifth acr e plots a ltogether which include seven
treatmen ts p lus a control, a ll replicated three tim es. T he sta nd is approxima te ly 17 years old
on site II land.
The OSU Forest R esearch Laboratory and
Forest Science Dep<~rtmcn l s arc coopera ting
in a level-uf-growin!? stuck stud)' in Do uglasl'ir under th e d irection of A I n erg a nd Joh n
llcll. T h is is the first coord in ated attemp t
to develop a research project in young
growth Douglas-fir m<~nage m e n t beginni ng
at an early age in wh ich the resu lts of different iuvestigations and from various locatious may be readily compared.
The work plan was developed by George
Stabler of the 'Vej•erhaeuser Resea rch Cente': at Celllralia, Washington . The project is
be1ng coordinated by the Pacific Nort hwest
Forest
and
Range
Exper iment
Station. A ltogether there arc four complete in sta llations, three in the state of ' •Vasbingtou , and one here in Corvallis. The Corvallis
project is being conducted on Starker's land.
The objective of this experiment is lo
determine how the amoun t of growing stock
retained in repc<lted ly th inned stands of
Douglas-fir affects ct unulal ive wood production, tree size, and growth-growing stock
ratios. The tre alln ents are planned to cover
enough ra nge of Rrowing stock levels so that
the rin dings wi ll 1<'11 how to prod uce an y
co m bi nat ion of !"actors decn1cd optim um fro 111
a ntanagemelll standpoint.
A single SLIHi y at one loca tion will be
wmp lctc study in itself as well as part
of the cooperative stud y. Young sta uds 20
to 40 feet ta ll will be given a series of thi nn ings until the trees ha.ve r~ach eu a b ~if\ht
ot 80 to 100 feet at wh 1ch lime the cntlcal
developmental period o[ the stand has been
passed.
il
The treatments control growing stock a t
differen t levels. Crowing stock is, in tum , expressed as basal a rea. Following 1he preparatory thinning, a ll plots in a single study
will have very near ly the same basal area
or growing stock. In succeeding thinnings,
change in basa l area for the various treatmelllS will be varied from 10 to 70 percent
(in 10 percent intervals) of the gross basal
area increment as measured on the unthinncd
plots provided for in th e ex periment. The
underlying assumption is that gross incrclllent on un thinned plots a pproximates full
production. The experiment is designed to
find out how much of full prod uction shou ld
be accumulated in the growing stock and how
much should be cut. The experimcn t;ll resu lts c<ll l still be evaluated even th ough one
or more of 1he 1rcatments gives greater than
lu ll prod uction.
N umbe r I
SCHOOL FORESTS
The principa l activity on i\fcDonald and
Duu n Forests during 1963 was salvaging the
timber blown down by the O ctober, l !JG:l
storm. During the year 7\/.1 million board
feet of. lo~s, most ly hlowdo1~n , were harvestt·d. Th1s 1s more than 2\h limes the computed allowable Cllt, a nd will result in reduced
cu ts. after the sa ll:aging is completed. A p·
prox unately one million board feet of down
ti ~n ber r_emains to be sa_lvaged during l 96-!.
lliil Dav1es, forest superv1sor, says t11at having
Flexible contracts with two g-ood operatOl"s,
:\!arvin Howley ('50) and llill L yche ('60)
was a big factor in being able to salvage the
down timbel".
Approximately three m iles of road were
co_nstructed during the year to reach the
w1 nd -damaged areas. About I V2 miles were
rocked for win ter hauling. Fou r more miles
of road arc needed for complete coverage
of the two forests.
D u.ri ng December 30,000 2-0 Doug las-fi r
seedlings were p lanted on McDonald Forest.
Some of I hese were planted in a dense stand
of young big- leaf maple w hich had been
killed with basal spray during the summer.
It •s hoped that the dead shade of the maple
will aid smvival.
T_he forests were opened for deer hunting
dunng four week-ends, and <198 deer were
killed . This compares with a kill of 290 last
year and 424- in 1961. These special seasons
appea1· to be keeping the deer herd at a
reasonable level.
Th<; plan for _the nex t few years ca lls for
salvagmg, planllng, where necessa ry, an d
brush treatmen t in the areas logged man y
year~ ago. Commercial thinni ng will also be
conllnued. It is hoped that by 1970 salvaging will be completed on both forests an d
that the entire area, except some of tl1c tough
South slopes, will. be adequately stocked.
Mci nti re-Ste nnis Act
For t he past ye<ll" or so much has been said
about the i\Jclntire-SLe•mis Act. T h is is the
law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1962 providing for financial support fur forest research in State colleges and universities. The
Secretary of Agriculture has placed adm in ·
istration under the Cooperative State Research Service which a lso administers Hatch
.\ct funds For agricu ltura l research.
Included in the i\l clnt ire-Stennis Act arc
provision for establishment of a na tional
advisory board of not less than seven officials
of qualifyi ng forestr y schools and a uational
advisot-y committee com posed equally of
forest industry representatives and State and
Federal forest agency representa tives. The
board has been established and is ca lled the
Cooperative Forestry Research Advisory
Board . Duties include advising on fom1ula
for distribution of funds and general progran! po licy. /\ppointlllelll of mem bers of
the national advisory com m iu ce should be
(!'lease turn to page 24)
OREGON STATE FORESTER
Page Two
Alumni Business ....
Oregon Stale Uni vcrsit)' Forestry
Alumni Association
Board of Directors
W . F. l\l cCulloch
(Advisory)
I 963-64
School o [ For estry
Orega n Sta le
University
Corva llis, Oregon
Norman E. Bjo rk lund Ind u strial Forestry
Associat io n
( President)
1+ 10 S. W . l\lorrison
Portlan d, Oregon
T er m Expires March 1964Brice L. Hammack
Publishe rs Paper Co.
P . 0. Box 5!> 1
Oregon City, Oregon
Term Expires Ma rch 1964
Clayton N. Weaver
U. S. Forest Service
Washington . D. C.
T erm Expires M arch 1964-
Gilbert l\f. Bowc
l\Iason , Bru ce & Girard
Ame r ican Ran k
Building
Portland. Oregon
T erm Expires 1\lfa rcb 1965
L ynn F. Cr onemi ller 1760 Win ter SE
(Vice- P resident)
Salem , Oregon
T erm Expires March 1965
Rex \•\la kefield
Clemons Forest
Products In c.
Philoma th , Oregon
Term Expires M arch 1965
Robert W. Appleby
U. S. Forest Service
P. 0. Box 3623
Portla nd 8, Oregon
T erm Expires March 1966
Ross W . William s
Clifford-P in ch o t
Na tiona l Forest
P. 0 . llox •149
Vancou ver, \ •\lash.
Term E xp ires Ma rch 1966
C. 'vV. D a ne
(Secretary·
Treasure r)
Presently on leave at :
2307 E. 2nd St.
Apt. N o . 25
Bloom ington , I ndian a
T e rm Ex pires March 1966
D . I'. Pa ine
(Acting-Editor &
(Secre taryT reasu rer)
Sch ool o f Fo restry
Oregon State Forestry
Corval lis, Oregon
Financial Statement
5341.70
1850 .73
E xp enses:
1963 N cwsleue r
·127.7!">
1963 F e mhopper
1099.6:i
Banquet
1963 Annua l
C ruise
.J6:i. IO
:\lise. Expenses
24.2:i
201 6.7:">
Balance, J a nuary I . 19G4
Fe br u a ry 23, I 96'1
!'resident Sch rode r called the annua l mcCli~g o f t he O .S.U. Forestry Alumni Associa ~IOn to o rde r at 4: 00 P .M., Feb ruary 23, 1963,
111 roolll 302, Forestr)' Bui ld ing, Oregon Stale
University, Corvallis, Oregon.
1! was mo ved , seconded, and approved that
the reading of the m inutes be d ispensed with .
P residen t Sch roder reported on th e O .S.U.
Forestry Al umni Associa tion Board of Di rectors meeting h eld earlier in the day.
A discussion fo llo wed concerning t h e governor's proposed Depar tment o f 'atura l R esources, wh ich wou ld consolida te the Ore gon Sta te Boar d o ( Forest ry with se vera l
othe r resource agen cies.
It 1~a s an noun ced that a stat e lcgislali ve
commillec was to m eet on the even ing of
February 26, 1963, concern ing the state's
hunting a nd fi sh i ng reg u la tio ns. As a result
o.f t his meeting it is feared th a t the establishment of hunting regulations might b e
tak~n o u t_ of the hands o f professionally
tramcd wildlife me n and into th e hands of
m en without such train ing.
II was moved, seconded a nd passed tha t :
The O .S.U. Forest ry Alumni Associa tion direct a m essage to t he /l ropcr legislative commiLtcc to t he effect t 1at the Association favors a continue nce of the present gam e
m a n agemcn_t 1~olicy a nd tha t gam e manage·
me~1t re m~m . m the hands o[ professio nally
tramed wildlife managers.
It was moved, seco nded and passed tha t:
The O .S. U. Forestry Alumni Association
wn te a letter to th e Oregon State Legislature
to the effect the Associa tion supports the
present Sta te Board o f Forestry o rgani7a tio n
a nd t he management o f the state forests
should remain completely in the hands of
pro fessio nally train ed foresters. T he Association d oes not favo r the esta b l ishment of a
Department o f Natu ral Resou rces.
D c.an McC ulloch reported o n the com nmnu y co ~ lege program ii~ !·elatio nship to
su b-pro fessiOna l fo restry t raimng a nd on the
stall_Is o f t h_e n ew fo restry building.
Bill Dav1es, rep o n ed on the damage
caused by the wind sto rm of O ctober 12, 1962
to th e school forest. lllowdown estima tes
range fro m 5 to 9 million b.f., most of which
wi ll be sa lvaged . He stressed that the big
d a mage was to the residu al sta nd .
.-\ brief sta tem ent was made b)' D ean i\l c·
C nlloch abou t forest recrea tion cuniculum .
, Tl~ e m eeting was adjo urned a t 4:55 by
I· reside n t Schroder .
- - - -- - -
En roll ment Statistics
- - - -- - -
January I , 1964
Balance, J anuary I , 1963
In come:
1963 Dues
I 963 Fe rnho pper
970.00
Banquet
Misc. Income
24.73
Minutes--Annual
Meeting
$175.68
Fall term enro llment was down 32 slu·
d_ents ~ r 7'7o fro m _last fall. Even more signifi Cant IS the d rop 111 new students which was
36 or 19%. This_ decrease is undoubtedl y a
direct result o f m creased tu ition . . \n addiliolla/ wi tion hike of S96 per year h as been
announced for next year and the results will
prob<lbly be even more dam aging (see i\Jac's
Corner).
FE
FM
I' P FE-Fl\1 T
New
Freshman 25
68
17
I
11 0
104
Soph.
31
5~
9
I
95
20
.J un ior
20
86
9
3
118
19
Sen ior
1·1
55
8
2
79
2
Graduate I
24
5
()
30
Special
I
l
I
91
288
~8
6
433
15 1
Eig h teen per cent arc marrie d and e leven
precent veterans which compares with nine·
teen and fifteen percent respecivtcl y <I S or
last year.
March 19(H
~ l arc h
OREGON STATE
FORESTER
OREGON STATE FOR£STER
Page T h ree
School Doings
MAC'S CORNER
Annua l news le u.er o r the OSU l'orestry
Alumn i Associa tion ma iled to th e last kno wn
add ress of all OSU Fe rnhoppcrs.
NORMAN E. BJORKLUND
From the Alumni
President
Dear Fernhoppers:
vile a lumni o ften wonder h o w we can h elp
the School o f Forestry. Bo th as indi vid u a ls
and thro ugh our Forestry Alumni Associa tion
we can be o f gre;II he lp .
Currently one of the most important
pro ble ms facing the Sch ool is the gene ral
squ eeze o n h igher ed uca tio n in the Sta te o f
Orego n . Our School over t he years has built
a re pu tation as o n e o f th e outstanding
forestry schools in th e country. This is a
reputa tion we want to protect. T hose of us
in Oregon can d o ou r part by >11aking sure
tha t o ur own local S tate Legisla tors kn ow
the facts about our fo restry sch ool. Gen er al
support o [ high er edu cation is also needed if
we arc to get adequate support rrom the
Legisla LUre.
Yo u r Alumni Association is considering
pla ns to re-assess in the next two years t he
o bj ectives a nd p rogram of t h e Schoo l. This
re-a p pra isal would be simila r to th e o ne
made _in _ 1956-57 b ~ a compe_ten t group o[
a lumn1 lo rccs. J th111k t here IS no quest ion
hut t hat t he task forces' work greatly
strengthe ned a nd im p roved th e School. T h ese
rc-assessme 11 ts are need ed periodically to as·
sure t_hat the Sch oo l_ is !nee ting chang ing
need s 111 the forestr)' fi eld . I'h1s re-assessme n t
will also h elp assure tha t t h e School will
continue to graduate the type o f st uden ts
need ed b y the fores t industry and forest
managem ent agencies in o u r regions. i\ lany
of you ma y be cal led upon to h elp in this
m atler a nd we ;n·e certain that yo n will be
willing to give you r tim e an d effort to
ma intain a 11d i mprove the rep11ta tio n o f our
schoo l.
Ve ry t ru ly )'Ollrs.
N. E. llporklund
!'resident
I 9Ci-!
I
l n 19G3 the O regon State System of H ig her
Ednca tion was ca ught in t he m iddle o [ a
ha ss le be tween legisl ators and taxpayers. D efeat o f the legisla ture 's tax b ill la st October
15th crea ted some d iffi cul t ies fo r all educatio n iu the sta tc. The m easures requ ired 10
cope wit h the sta te's fin an cial Jl ro blems will
add more d ifficult ies, p articn arly for t he
Sc hool o f Forest ry as n o ted below.
N orma lly hal( our enrollm ent comes from
o u tside Oregon . T h e out-of-sta te tui tion fees
were raised to 900 last sp ring and I he rec·
o mmenda tion For nex t year is S990, t h us
gradually making it a lmost pro hibitive [or
students to com e h ere from oth e1· stat es. Th e
in -slate tui tion s fee is also up: and ~ i n ce
ma ll )' forestry students are self-supporting.
we wi ll lose more m en. The Sch ool has
never been interested in a la rge enrollm ent
merely for the sake of n u m bers. H owever,
maintaining a reasonabl e level o [ enrollm ent
now ass umes considera ble impor tan ce, since
the legislature is very p osi tive a bo ut setting
a ratio o[ staff m embers.
For some years Lo com e we can forge t
tho ug h ts o f a ne w building su ited to t he
n eed s o f modern forestry. In the la st se vera l
sessions, legisla tive building a ppropriations
have no t kept up wit h rapid ly increasing
campus po pula tio n s. The community colleges
a lso d epend o n some state aid for build ings
now, ~ n d wha tever limited funds ma y becom e
a vaila ble must be sh ared with them in th e
futu re. Inciden ta lly, th e fed e ral government
currentl y is snhsidizing 8 forestry technician
progra ms a t va r iou s comm unity colleges or
vocational schools in the state.
l'iscal stringen cies and o t he r rest raints will
make it more di ff icul t to do o ur job as we ll.
or as rea<li ly. Tlul forestry iu Oregon rem a in s
j ust as it was before October 15th , o u r
o bligations a re unch a nged, and we inte nd
to work just as hard, or hard er , to meet
the m . Despite 1he presen t problems we don 't
propose to give up , and there are so lid adva nces to oftset the d isad vantages. The School
continues to benefit from t he gene rosi ty o f
the Hill Fam ily Foundat ion , t hrough the
good o ffices of David T . l\Jason . We a re
d eeply indebted to Dave (or support which
is al ways valuable, and esp ecially so in t he
p resent p eriod of stress. Staff members con ti n ue to extend th eir ca pa bi li ties with a d ded
sw dy an d resea rch ; and o n t he ir own I ime
have contribu ted a goo d d ea l to forest ry
throug h man y sho rt courses.
T he Forest R esearch La bora tory becom es
mo re and more closel y a part of t he to ta l
forestry en terprise a t Oregon Sta le. T here
is fine co-ope rat ion iu o u r team approach to
r esearch; in staff exchange o n research- tea ch ·
ing assignments; in effective employmen t o r
gra duat e slUdents as research aides a t the
Laborat ory; and in op e ra tion of a joint
m otor pool.
Of rea l in terest is the fac t that we seem
to have some fi ne young stude n ts now t•n ter ing t he Schoo l. T his a rgues wel l for ca pable
pro fessional m en in the years to co me.
Reviewing these very favorable factors arc
we inclined to get o n with o ur business a nd
forget the unfavorable circumstances. ln the
so-ca lled " good old cla ys" th e advice and supp ort of a lumn i was alwa ys he lp fu l and most
welcome. ln th e apparen t ly Iou g h n ew days,
such ad vice and suppo rt w ill be still more
va luable.
Norma n Bjorklund was in the offi ce re·
cc n t ly and a sked how the Forestry A lunuti
(!'lease turn to p age 2·1)
G le n T illitt (Dec. '63 Graduate) receiving Certifica te of i\ieri L (and $100 checl<) fo1· F irst
~l ace in. the .1963 'Vestern Forestr y _an d Conservation Association essay contest, San F ran·
c1sco, C~!Honua , ?eeember, 1963. Top1c: Comments 0 11 the Public lmage of Foresl en: \Villiam
J. Sch olield, Presuleu t of the '\Vestern Forestry and Conservation Association.
Disting uished J apansese Foresters
Present Lectures
In Ma rch , 1963, Dr. a nd l\Irs . . \ yaakira
O kat.aki a rrived in Corvall is to b egin Dr.
O kazaki 's t wo- month service as visiting pro fessor of forestry at OSU. T h ei r visi t was
m ade possible by a grant [rani the Sou th
Sa nt ian1 Education al aud R esearch Project.
This proj ect of t h e Lou is W . a nd l\l a ud H ill
Famil )• 1-"oundat io n h as 111ad e i t possible to
bri11 g several o utsta nding Am erica n and
European Foresters to OSU as visiting professors. Dr. O kazaki was the first <listinguish cd
.-\siaLic fo rester to be bro ught to th e School
by t he Hill Fou ndation.
Dr. Okazaki is Chairma n o f t he De pa rL ·
me nt of Forestry at Koyoto Universit y,
Kyoto, J apa n. H e is n ot o nl )' P rofessor of
Fo rest l\l a nagcmen t a nd D irector o f the Universit y's F orest Research Inst it ute, b ut is
a lso P rofessor o l La ndscap e Arch itecture. H <·
is. in ;Idditio n. Vice- presiden t or th e .J a pan ese
Forestry Socie t). P rofessor Okazak i had been
in Corva llis fo r a few d ays o n a p revio us
visit. H e h as spen t two )'ea rs stud ying i n
Germany and on e yea r m F ran ce. He is
rt ue n t in bo t h German and fre nch.
1\rrs. Tsuro ko Okazaki , D r. Okalak i"s
chann ing wife was in th e U ni ted Sta tes fo r
t he first time. In Kyot o sh e teaches classes
111 Jap anese flo ra l arra ugement.
Wh ile a t O SU , Professor Okan1 ki cond uct·
ed a weekly seniin a r for grad ua te st.ud<'n ts
aud fa cul ty, on se lected ex;unplcs o f J apaucsc
fo restry. H e had excellen t colored slides o f
J a p a nese forests a nd forest p roducts. Professor Okazaki also gave a senes o f i ll ust ra ted lect ures on Japan ese cu llll rc, la nd scaping,
and forestry. H is excellent seu sc of h umor
added greatly to t he audie nce's in terest in
his lcclll res.
Professor Okazaki 's lecwres a rc soon to be
pub lished hy the OSU Sch ool of F01cstry
uuder t he 1itle " l' orcst ry in J a p a u ...
Th ~ _Sch ~ol was ho n ored a utl ~nricii c d IJy
t he VISit of Dr. and i\Irs. Ayaak1ra O kazaki .
Page Fou r
SCHOOL STAFF
NEWS
GEORGE BARN ES says t hat he is still in
hot pursuit of additional funds for research. Short lcnn grants seem to run out
in n o time, and replacements mus t be
found. He made a trip to British Col um bia during J ul y, and anothe r short one
to South e rn California with the Dean between C hristmas and New Years .
JOHN BELL continues to be busy te<oching
· mensuration cou rses at the sophomore,
junio r, and graduate levels during the
school year. He spent two weeks in northe rn Califom ia during the summ e r visiting
ranger dis tricts, the Pacific Southwes t
Forest and Range Ex p eriment Station and
indus tr ial companies to catch a first hand
glimpse of what a lums are doing.
CHU CK D AN E is buried d eep in midwest
snowdrifts, deep in course work at Indi ana 's
Graduate School of Business, and d eep in
deb t. C huck, Louise, and the two youngste rs a re spe nding the year at Bloomington ,
where Chuck is studying production manage lll ent, ope rations research , s tatistics, and
applied economic analysis. H e spends most
of his time explaining what a forester is
doing there studying business.
BILL DAVIES keeps busy adminis tering the
FE departme nt, t eaching senior and gradua te FE courses, and supervising the school
forest opera t ions. Th e past year was a busy
one o n McDonald and Dunn F orests clue
to the O ctober 12, 1962 blow-clown.
DIC K DILWORTH reports tba t the past year
was rather routine. A high light was his
presenta tion o[ a series of lectures at Montana Sta te Universit y in May. Dick colla borated with .John.n y Bell in prepari ng
an expanded ed i ti on of " Variable Plot
Cruis ing" and published a revised edition
of "Log Scaling and Timber Cruising. "
The 14th Aerial Photo Short Course was
held unde r Dick's direction.
BILL FERRELL was lucky enough to get
a gran t from the Hill Foundation this past
summer to take a trip to northern Europe
to attend the Firs t International Forest
Gene tics Conference. He had a fin e time
with th e Danes, Swedes, Dutch. and Germans, their forests, t he ir research, and the
other products of their countries. (Bill
didn 't elaborate on " their products.")
H e was impressed with the vigor of th e
argu me n ts on forest genetics and forestry
subj ects in gene ral and hopes that all
of you will some tim e be able to experie nce
th e same things. Bill is busy with the same
courses as before, plus his research , with
severa l graduate and u nder-graduate s tu d e nts, in drought t·esisten ce and photosynthesis in Douglas-fir seedlings. The research efforts a re s pon sored primaril y b y
feden 1l fund s provided to the Experiment
Sta tion and b y the
' atio nal Scien ce
Foundation.
H ELGE TRGE S-MOLLER is presentl y o n
sabbatical leave in Denmark as the l'es ult
of a N ational Scie nce Founda t ion award.
Helge report s that t..hings are working out
very well both with regard to the s tudy
and 10 the "establis hment'' or the fami ly.
The children arc al tending a public school
and are rapidly p icking up the lang uage .
ALE X J. JAE ti CKE. With a newly a cqnirecl
"E1neritus'' s tatus, Alex, is now a per·
manent m ember of the staff e ven when he
[inall y " rolls up his blankets " to retire.
. \lex has been with the school since the
[all of I D56 after more years in the U.S.
l''orest Se r vice in th e west than he cares
to admit. \•Vith Dick , his one son, an
( l' l<:ase tum lo page ~3)
OREGON STATE FORESTER
March 19fil
FOREST RESEARCH PROGRAM CONTINUES
The program of research in forest products
a nd fo rest management is continuing into
the third year since the Laboratory was consolidated with other forest research at Oregon State University. Some new proj ects have
been s tarted, and some old ones have been
com pleted , but most long-term work is still
continuing along lines described in las t year 's
news letter. Rather than d escribe the work
again , you might prefer to become acquaint ed wi th the staff. The program of the Laboratory is administered by Rudy Kallander.
Academic sta[[ working full-time a t t he
Forest Research Laboratory n umber 32 , and
one additional man works half-time. There
are seven assis ta nts and aides working full t ime, and one working parl-t ime . Several
s tude nts are e m ployed part-time to assis t
work carried 0 11 at the La boratory.
The research staff is supported by a crew
of seve n directed by Arthur Hawks in main·
t cnance , housekeeping, and fab rica tion of
equipment for research. Secretarial , bnsiness,
and library staff numbe1· nine . Office and
maintenance crews arc headed by \!Vilbur
Varah , bus in ess man ager. J ames L. O verho lser
edits t he st a[f's publications, assisted by
Ruth Keniston.
Forest Management
Heading work on forest manage ment is
Dale N. llcvcr. Dale's associate head of forest 1lla~1agcm e n_t is Alan B. Berg. Alan 's particular mterest I S managemen t of young forests .. and i~ this research bas the help
of s tl v1cultuns t Rudolph Gangur.
Ecologist Richard H. Waring and Richard
K. Hermann study problems in forest regeneration aided by silviculturist I•cdor l.
Kudrjavcev. Studies in ph ysioiOf,")' o[ forest
seedlings by Dennis P. Lave nder are part of
t he work in rege ne ration, in whicl1 Ralph L.
Carmichael , assistant in forest managemen t,
a~1d Allan Doe rksen , in plan t anatom y, participate.
R esearch on fores t insects occ upies half
the time of William P. Nagel in the D epartment o[ Entomology.
Ernest \'Vright conducts s tudies of forest
diseases. !'vlycor rbizal relationships and root
rots arc his prin cipal interes ts.
Relationships of climate and weath e r to
forest management and fire hazard arc
studied by m e tcrologis t William P . Lowry.
Fores t wildlife biologis ts Edward F . Hooven
a nd Hugh C. Black are busy with problc111s
ca used b)' animals that eat seeds or seedlings. Alberto llfozjko. graduate assis tant ,
help with problems of fores t wildlife.
Kim K . Ching, forest geneticis t, i~ condu ct.ing a regional provenance s tl_tdy of Douglas-hr. H1s most recent work 1s concerned
with pres erving po llen by freeze -drying.
Forest scientists arc assis ted by a ides and
t echn icians; among them arc L ee 0 . Hunt
who lends in s ummers his exp e rience gained
wtlh the Bureau of Land i\.fanagement, and
l van Cutsforth . Stanley Dill, Thom as Popham , and Lloyd G r aham who sen·e whc re1•er
needed.
Forest Pt·oducts Reseanh
The 18 academic staff m embe rs working
on forest products include wood chemists,
e ng ineers, ancl wood technologist s. Lei[ D .
Espenas is de partment head. James D . Snodgrass directs physical resea rch and Douglas
W. Glennie is in c harge of chemical studies.
Harve y .-\ft continues s tudy of chemicals
from wood and bark , and Herbert .-\ .
Schroede r is wo rking with lignin. Gary Manne rs is working in wood chemistry toward an
ad vanced degree. Pulp and paper processes
arc the province o[ Clyd e A. l'crkins.
Products such as plywood and particle
board arc s tudied lly ILI ) IllOIId A. Currier.
aided by William F. Lehmann.
George H . A therton is mechanical engin ee r
in charge o[ work in milling a nd engineering,
aided by engineer Stanley F.. Co rder.
T ests of strength properties of wood and
wood compone nts are directed b y James \•V.
Johnson . Thomas .J. Albert, Robert L. K.rah mcr, Robe rt H . Kunes h and Herbe rt U.
Sie be n work in tes ting, assis ted by Ke nneth
i\ . Birch.
Charles J. Kozlik conducts rcsca rch in wood
seasoning, helped by Louis W. Hamlin. l.ec
L yman is s tudying lumbe r drying in work
todwanl a n ad vanced d egree .
Robe rt D. Graham , Donald J. Miller , and
John S. Mothersh ead wor k on means o[
preservative and fi re retardant treatment of
wood products.
To keep up wi th rapid advances in science
and technology, staff membe rs, as time p e r mits , take courses of stud y that fi l each
one' s particular needs. Of eleven me n now
so engaged, [ivc arc working towa rd th e
Ph.D. degree, and five toward M.S. or M.F .
Such s ta([ improvement will lead to enlarged
capabilities in assis ting in the solu tion of
forest industry proble ms.
Forest Science
Las t year, we mentioned the gcnerons support o f the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family
Foundation for four o ld project s and a p proval for the initiation of two new ones.
One of th e latter t wo, p ermitted t he cooperation of Professors E vans-llotany, Youngberg
- Soils and N ewton- Forestry to s tudy th e
role of certain shrubby species in nitrify ing
fores t soils and consequent effects on success ional changes in veJ?;eta tion. The other was
for the support o f Professor Krygie r to in vestigate the water use of various plan t
s pecies on fores t watersheds .
In the late spring we were furth er successful in obtai n ing approval o f two proposals
submitted to the Public Health Service. One
of these allows [or coope ra tion of Professors
Hall-Fish and Game,_and Krygiet~Fo restry.
to expand then· wo rk 111 the Alsea Bas in concerned with s trea m -flow , wate r tjual i ty and
aquatic life before and a fte r different t·yp cs
o f c utting on three small waters heds. U nder
leaders hip of Professor Freed-Agric ultura l
Chemistry the second PHS grant provides for
investigating the us c of chemicals o n fores t
lands and the tox icity of residues to an ima l
life on land and in wate r. Mike Newton and
Logan Norris- Forestry, are working with
Or. Freed o n the project.
.-\not her proposa l in the area of chemical
uses was s nbmittecl to PHS in No vember.
This would enlarge the s taff in basic
s pecia lities such as Chem istry. Biochemist r y,
Tox ico logy and l'bannacy to advan ce our
knowledge in basic phases and to provide ass is tan ce a nd advice to field research worke rs.
T his t ype o f ser vice is much needed.
With the above successes behind us, all
looked very bright for the current fiscal
year. Res ults o[ the November Iii el ection
however bronght u s up sharply. The Fores t
Scie n ce De partme nt suffered to a minor
ex tent compared with mos t oth e r departments on Campus, s mce a large propo rtion of
our fund s are ded icated - coming from gifts,
grants and sales.
Report ed above, a rc merely the highligh ts
of the pas t year. Con tmued support o f the
l'aci£ic N orthwest Forest and Range Experiment Statton 111 the De partmen ts of Entomo logy and Agricultura l Economics mus t be
acknowledged- a lso the long-time and continu ed s npport of t he Bureau of Land Manage me nt in arc<ls of brus h control and rehabilitation , range improvement and ccollUtnics, and anin1a J dan1ag·c.
March I %4
With the
OREGON STATE I-OR ESTER
Classes
ITEMS OF INTEREST
DON R . BAUER , class of '41. Supervisor
the San Bernardino, N . F. writes T . .J.
Starke r that he has d iscovered a lodgepole
pine on his for est thai meas ures 19.7 _feet t~l
circumfe rence. is 110 feet tall and IS esti mated to be -!00 year s old. T. J. can' t help
b11t wonder if their tapes shrink down there
in that dry climate.
FRED 1'. CRO ' EMILLER finall y received
his 191 7 diploma last August--46 years la_le .
Fred vol un teered for \•Vorlcl ' •Var l serv1ce
a nd was allowed to graduate in absentsia .
H e didn't miss the diploma unt il after retirement (for the seco nd time) when he
s ta rted to assemble some sou venirs. To make
a long story short , the diploma ~vas located
las t July in a n old box o[ unclannecl dlpJomas at OSU. dusted o [f a nd sent to Fred wtth
congral.lllation s.
LYNN F. CRO N EMTLLER , class of 1914
has written a complet e history of forestry in
Oregon , a nd now is in the process of r e vis ing it.
" MAC" McCULL OCH was presented the
J% 3 ' •Vcstern Forestry Award h y the \•Vest ern Fores try and Conservati?n Association
" Jn recognition o f dis t inguished life-long
achie vcm~nt in the field of forestr y." The
award was a beautiful 8 by 10 bronze plaque.
WlLLIA iVf
"]1M MY " . O 'N EAL
('17)
donated a sca le stick to the School o[ Forestry
which scaled G40 million bd. ft. of timber
blown down by the Sept. 21 ,. 1938 Hurricane
in N ew England.
BOYD L. RASSMUSSE N , a 1935 grad, bas
been promoted to Deputy Chief of the U. S.
Forest Service in charge of Cooperative State
and Private Forestry in ' 'Vashington, D. ~­
Boyd has been Regional Forester at Missoula, i'vfontana since A pri l, 1961.
JACK SAUBERT, class of '35 is the [ather
of J ean Saubcr t, who JUSt recently . won two
medals at the recent winte r Olymp1c Games.
DARROW THOMPSON - A fores ter turned " cupmaker." Have you noticed the new
disposable plastic cups- the kind that don' t
burn your fingers when filled with hot
coffee? They arc tbe product o f Darrow
Th0111pson and his phys icist broth er. Aft~r
g-radnating from the OSU Forestr y School 111
1939, Darrow spent seve n years w1th the
U .S.F .S. as a range ecologist, resigned , borrowed $6,000 and started a m occasin·making
business in Flagstaff, with Indians as his fa ctory workers. He soon sold this su ccessful
business and earned a law degree a t the
U niversity of Arizona. For 10 years Darrow
was a su ccessful lawyer. One day when he
was drinking his coffee out of a hot paper
cup. he had a sudde n inspiration . He called
his brother and asked i[ he could make a
machine 1hat would make cool cups o f
s tyrene plastic at a competitive price wi th
paper cups. That was the beginning. They
uow not only make five different sizes of
cups fo r world -wid e distribution but also the
machin es that make the cnps. Thompson
Tndnstries have now spread to Los Angeles .
l'h oenix. Atlanta , and New .Jerse)' with
anoth er plant being built in Holland.
SECO N D (;EN ER.-\.TIO N 1' 0RESTER S:
Several sons o [ distinguished Fernhoppe rs
enrolled in the forestry School this fall:
Harold Eubanks, son of Wally Eubanks ('4G) ;
Herb H ammo nd , son o[ H e rb Hamm ond
('39) ; Ernest H ardman , son of Earnie Hardo[
OBITUARIES
JOH N P .-\ UL DRUM i'v fO ND, class of
1940 died .January 23 , 19(H. John
worked in Montana as a State Extension J''orest.e r for 2 y2 years. Since
1940 he has bee n
Ass is tant Area
Fo1 es ter for the 13urean of I ndian
Affairs. H e was the hus baud of
Lavern a D r ummond aud the fat her
of Mrs. Elle n llczona , Johna A.
Drummond. and Lois D r ummond .
HARRY W. EI.OFSON. Class of 1918
died on November 14, 1962. Harry
s pe nt most of his career with th e
lJ . S. Forest. Service . re tiring as assistant s uper visor of the \•Venatchec
Natio nal F'orest in Wenatchee. Washington. He is survived b y his wife
and two boys.
KE NN ETT-I M. ~fURDOCK. C lass of
19:l5 was killed A ugus t 7, 1963 when
his car left highway 30 and st ruck
a large boulde r about I I miles west
of Th e Dalles. Ken was well known
in Northwest Fores try circles ha ving
been secretary· manager o f the Pacific North west Logging Association
and having a long career with pri vate indu stry prima1·i ly in logging
engince 1·ing. He was on the original
"Joint Committee on Conservation "
whose purpose was to promolc bette r
fo restry and timber pract ices as a
part of the Nal ion a! R ecover y Act.
and late r was tempararily with the
Oregon Tax Commission as timber
engineer. Ken is survived by his wi fe,
Mary, and daughters Suzanne and
Judy.
H AROLD S. NEWI NS. Passed away
qui etl y in <I Florida hospital on
March 6 , 1963. Harold was l'rofcs·
sor of Wood U tilization a t OSU
from 191 2 10 1922. Later be taught
at Penn Stale, Mich igan State, and
the n in 1937 he establ ished the Department of Forestry, which became
the Schoo l of For estry in 1937, and
was accredited by the S,\f in ID·ll.
H e is survived by Mrs. Ella H. Newin s. a daughl cr , J\lrs. Ben 0. }')·auklin and three grandchildren , and a
son Harold S., .Jr.
man (':i4); Steve Sorscth, son o f AI Sorseth
1'48) ; and Jim Udell , son of Bert Udell
('<10) .
ln addition to the above new s tudents. th e
follo wing Fernhoppc rs' sons are curre ntly
e nrolled; Thom as C . Parke (So.) , so n of
William N . Parke ('33) ; John E. Schroeder
(Jr.) . son of J ohu E. Schroeder ('47) ; Gerald E . Thomas (Sr.) , son of Gail Thomas
('36) ; and William J. Zach (Sr.) , son o[
Lawrence W. Zach ('~ 0) .
SCHOOL VISITORS: So m e o f t he alu mni
and t h eir families visiting the School in EJG3
include: Vern Chu rch ('!\9) ; Emmet Thompson (Ph .D. candidate, who is now leaching
forest economics in Virginia) ; Lawren ce
Duncan (':i 4) ; Dick Corthell ('48); Arl
Rankin (':i3); a nd Phil Paine ('28) , whose
son, Dave is 110w on the staff.
Page Fi ve
1910
T. J. STARKER reports " be had a nice
vis it with "Coos Bay" Scotty- C lass of 1938.
Scolty has been in the Philippines for three
years with Dick Kearns, C lass of 1930. Says he
had so man y diseases over tbere that he is
im_mune to almos_t an ythi ng including snakes ,
s p1cle rs, a nd nat1 vcs, whtch have ke pt him
busy for about l4 hours per da y. T . J. reports th at he is working about that many
hours, under bette r conditions, just trying
to keep his head above tax es. ( A fine is for
d oing wmng, a tax for d oing O.K.) "
1913
\ •VALT L. D UTTON is a forest service
retiree living in the nation 's capital. He
wri tes tbat "The Dis trict of Colum bia forester
published by the \•Vas hington section of the
Society of A merican Fores ters has blossomed
o ut into a mul~i - pagecl news letter fully
Illustrated and ftlled with vibranl bits of
reporting. And all nnder the chairmanship
of no less of pe rsonage than r\ I Arnst , Class
or 1931."
I914
. .JAMES C . EVEN DEN . "Sin ce retiring from
federa l scrv1ce tn 1D55 I have been more than
busy in city and county activities. Mrs.
~ve nd en and I are in good health and cn .JO)' our semt-frecdom doing the many things
that someone must do. Our son, Dr. J. T.
Evenden , and _his. famil y live in Spo.kane,
\•Vashmgton wh 1ch IS but a few minutes dri ve
toward Coeur d Alene. I plan to attend the
:10 year reunion in June, 1964 ."
LYN N F. CRON~MI LL ER writes, " Fifty
years s1n ce _g!·aduatlon and s till busy with
van~d acuvttJe.~ . . Cons ultlllg work keeps me
sem1 -busy: crulSing, estate apprai~als, tax
l_natters, occasional survey ing and witness
In damage cases. Spent considerable time
in putting in a readable [orm h uman interest
notes and mental pictures of logging and
lorestry that 1 have preserved si nce firs t hittmg the woods on the Fremont during
the s umme1· of 1910. I have also written a
con~p l ete his tory of forestry in Oregon which
ts. 1n the process o[ revision . M y family is
widel y separated; son, Lynn F. , Jr., a Lieut enant in the Air l'orce , Honoluli1, daughter,
Mrs. Gordon \ •V . Davis is in Munich where
hubby is broadcaster for the Radio Free
Eumpc: Son , Donald, is a cons ulting fores t er m Corvallis. M y wife and I can boas t of
8 granclchilclrcn. "
1915
E. G. " BEA NS" RATES. '' Rclired at 72 ,
mean tired , but not too tired. Spe nt s ix
and one half years with the fede ral census
bureau as su pcrvisor for Oregon from 195•1
to 19GO. I worked em the cens us for ag'l·icttltnrc, bnsmess, and population , and final.l y
rei ired for age. I now live at l 2 l:i Irvi ng
Road, Eugen e, Ot·egon. Reg-ards to all old
timers. Will be back in 1905 for the 50
year class reunion. "
1917
W . .J. ".JIM i'vlY " O ' N F.lL. " l reti re Se pt.
I. We bo ugh~ a n ew I 0 _room h o me in Sept.
and are gctun g !l repa1red for hibernation
in Missouri. \>\lc spent three days in Corvallis
in .\ugus l. It looks like we have a good
baskc tba II team again. "
HARRY C. PATTON. "A fter 36 years with
the Hammond Lumber Compan y l retired
when Hammond sold to Georgia Pacific in
I 956. I am now serving the seventh year as
preside nt of th e Portland gun club . a tra p
shooting organiza t ion . Do a considerable
amount of bowling (but not on T .V.) and all
kinds of hunting. Have a swimming poo l in
the back yard and two go-earl s which help
to keep m y four grandchildren busy during
the sunnncr vacalions ."
'
Page Six
WILLiAM J. WA K E M ~N- ''Assoc i a~ed
with Mason , J3rucc, an d G 1ra rd, Cons ultmg
foreste rs. l'ort land ,O regon.-FR ED P. C R ONEi\ IILLE R wri tes, "After
work ing fo r 41 yea rs wit h t he U. S. f o rest
Service I ret ired in J a nuary, 1958. Th_en
took a job with the State of Ne~.a d a, m ·
vestigat in g the Department of l·tsh . and
Game. Su bseq uen tly, I wor ked for t h e State
Di vision of Forest ry, a l umber company, tl~e
San ll la teo Cou n ty Fi rewarden an d the Ca li forni a Dcparunen t o f Fish and Game. Averaged abou t six months work per year. T h e
lett uce was nice. Retired aga in in J anuary
this yea r. T hin k f' ve had e no ug h ."
191 8
RO.BERT STAN LEY SM IL E£. Re tired in
1963 frorn Sm ilie Co., Camping Eq uipmcn~.
Address: 1373 C lay St., Sa n F ran ciSCO, Ca lifornia.
1920
D ONALD N. MATTH EWS. has been
elected p residetlt of the Inter~auonal _W ~ocl
Col lecto rs Society, a non- p rofit orga ~11z a tto n
fo r the mu t ua l assistan ce an d enJoyment
of wood co llectors, wood technologists.
dendrologists, wood craftsmen, and ot her 1 ~1Lercsted in woods. T here are mem b ers 1ll
severa l fore ign countries. Mem l?crs exch ange
woods a nd woods lore a nd p u b lish a mon t hl y
bulle tin .
L LOY D C. R EGNF.LL. ' I h ave comple~ed
35 years of civil serv!ce over 32 of wh1ch
were con t in uo us servtcc Wtlh tJle Bu1 ~a n
of Public R oads and tb P. p ast 22 of w l?t~h
include the Pan ama Canal Zone. the Plultpp ines, Ethopia, Liberia, and Napa!. Thus m y
wife R u t h an d l bave roamed the world
q u ite a bit. Expect to settle down som ewh ere
in the U.S.A. before too long. My ad(~ ress
wi ll be in care o f my son D on w_ho d ectded
t hat the in surance b usi ness was h ts fort~- ! lc
ami llis wife and three childre n a rc lt vm g
in Bethesd a, Mar yl and."
1921
FRANK O. KO LLER . ''r've been m arr ied
over 40 years, have a m arried d~ugh tcr an d
two gra ndchildren. H ave been re ti red for t ~vo
years. " ' o rked as office rrtanager and sh tp ·
p ing clerk for_ 36 years for Western Coop~rage
Co.; serv1ce tn World \ Var 1. Dean 1. ~avy
was ll ead o f t he school and I a lways VISited
hi m after gradu ation , saw him very oft en in
l'ortland.''
1922
LA WR ENC£ H . SMIT H . "R etired in 1958
from [ood ind u stry. H ad occ~t si o n a l assign ments as ind us trial consu l ta nt 1n several fore ign cou n n ·ies o n fish p roblems: ~~herw ise
I 've been b usy with hook and l m e.
1923
R O TI ER T P. CO N KLl , Man ager. Ti mber and VVes te rn L and , U. S. P lywood Corp ..
Eugen e , Oregon .
.
ERNEST E. FISH E R . ". \ fter va n ed career
o n logging and lumbering during th e "h igh
hall" years which kep _L _me som ewhat _"scar-.
red up'' I took a pos1llon w1 th t he c1ty of
Portland a nd for the past 23 years h ave been
curato r of the Hoyt Ar boretum where we
specia li1e in growing gymn osperm s.''
DEWITT C. J ONES: "U n fortunatel y I was
serious!)• h u n iu a logging camp accid cut
in 1923 so l never made much use of m y
fo rest ry education . l took u p Ill )' ~a ther's
life work , adj usting leases for th e ftre In s ura nce companies and still do some adj usting o n catastrophies. In t he mean time I do
insp ection a nd engin eering work [or St. Lo u1s
Insu rance Co. i n F lor ida. For th e past Hille
years my wi fe a nd I have m ade o ur hom e
here in south F lo rida a nd enjoy t he wea t her
a nd the trips on busin ess a ll ove1· t he s tate."
ERNEST WRIG H T. " I enjoyed talk ing
wit h 13ob Conk lin an d Gordon D unca n at
<>n r lOt h reunio11 at OS
las t J u ne. O t he r-
OREGON STATE FORESTER
wise m y trave ls h ave been restricted beca use
of locomotion problems. I exp ect to visi t
with more of the old gang in th e n car
futme, especia lly after t h is fa ll when l am
sched u led to ret i re . In the mean t ime, I h op e
to sec you at t he Fernhoppers Tla nq uet. I
will be look ing fo r ward to h avi ng you ca ll
on m.e. !\fter al l, we _are a prcll y big group
and ll IS easy to miSS on e a not her in the
t h ro ng."
1924
W.'\RRE N V. BE E DICT. "1964 is a far
piece from 1924 when I walked o ut th e door
sh eepskin in han d i n q uest of a job. I m ade
a beelin e for Doc Boyce's fores't pathology
den in Portland . Som e of D oc's e11th usiasm
for blister rusts, b ligh ts, and insects must
have r u b bed o f[ since after 39 years, one wife,
3 sons, 8 grandchild re n an d o ne d a ughter
la ter l'm sti ll at it, h el ping Uncle Sa m pro tect the fores ts of America from disease and
insects. I live in Maryland and work in
Wash ington D . C. for t he U.S. F.S. a nd like
b oth ."
EDWI N L . ~ IO W A T. " I retired from m y
job as research foreste r wi th a P IW E xperiment Station last Ap ri l, b u t st ill main ta in
some conn ect io n as an unpa id consul tant.
13end is st ill home for m yself a nd wife bu t
we hought a t ravel t railer and are trying to
see some o[ the cou ntry th at we h ave n ever
had ti me to see before. T his win ter we have
the t rai ler in Ph oenix an d arc enjoying th e
suns hine and sigh ts of t h e sou thwest. "
PERCY E. ~1E UES writes, "A fter a for estry ca reer with t he Forest Service and t he
13u rea u of Indian Affai rs, I 1·cti red in 1962
at Rillings, Mon tan a. My wi fe, C la ra, a nd
1 now reside in Sa lem , Oregon : 864 Carol ine
St. .South and are b usy enter taini ng gr an dchi ld ren a nd getting reacqu ai n ted in O regon."
1925
VER
E. McDANIEL. " I spe nt 40 years
growi n g trees for th e Stale F orest ry D ept. It
d oesn ' t seem t hat long, b ut 1 must ret ire
because t h a t old age o [ 65 will soon be u pon
me. Mary an d I are moving to Corvall is
and we hope to keep b u sy helping o thers.
Come and see us wh en you have t he t ime."
J AM ES L. MIELKE - who wri tes. " I am
enjoyi ng re tiremen t. My home here in Logan,
U tah is about a m ile [rom the Cache Natio n a l forest. Trou t f ish ing is excellent, deer
p lenti ful, some elk, lo ts of ducks, geese,
grouse, ch ucka rs, p heasants, and ra bbi ts.
P lenty to keep busy-fly t ying. ca rt ridge
reloadin g. loafi ng, etc."
G EO RG E SPAU R wri tes " I <t tn s till in
T u rkey as ch ief forestry ad visor. J wil l com p lete my cu rrent tou r of d u ty nex t fall; a ft er
t he11 o u r p lans a re indefi n ite. " ' e now have
a staff of seven fo resters assigned for o u r
p roject. Fred Vogel - OSU - 1937 is h ere
with us as forest u til ization ad visor. P lease
ex tend an invi tation to an y and all OSU
fo resters wh o may t ravel to T u rkey to stop
a n d see us. \ Vc ca n b e con tacted t hrough t he
.'\ n tcrican Embassy in th e Agen cy fo r I ntern ation a l Develo pment in Ankant, Tu rkey.
Ou r fo rester s tationed i11 Ista n bul is Lester
:'oi . F.dge. U . of Monta na , '26. Lcs can be
co n tacted th rough t he Am er ica n Cons u la te,
lsta u b nl."
1926
T H O M.-\S L CAR TER. R cceive<l t he distingu ish ed service a ward from the Dept. of
I nter ior fo1· his 39 years of service. ~ l r.
Can er received the award at the some ti me
a simi lar a wa rd was given to Percy Mel ics. as
reported in la st year's Oregon Stater. i\l r.
Ca r te r is retired and living in Long C reek.
Oregon . When h e retired he was assistan t
i\larch 196 1
area directo r , Bureau o f Lan d Affa irs, at
Min neap o lis.
1927
J 13. H AN - is !n ch arge of the p u bl ic
works actlvlttes, Rcgwn 4, Forest Service and
a lso p reside n t of local 12il of th e Na t ion a l
has
Fed e ral io n of Federa l Emp loyees. H e
a daugh ter emolled in the Stanford graduate
school working toward an i\L A. in journalism.
J O H N C. W I LKINSON. "ret ired Jul y 31 ,
1963. H ave been ver y i ll sin ce Sept. '63 and
lost lower portion of my right leg. but a 111
stilt looking forw ard to o p eni ng a fish ing
season . Son .J o hn graduated fro m OS{) i 11
'58, Industria l Eng in eeri ng, and ma rried
sam e year ; R o bert graduated U o f O, Busin ess Adm in istration 1960 and married 1963.
Both sons work for 13oeing a n d live close
to Seattle. No grandch ild ren , but we have
h opes. Ad d ress. 2418 S. W. Troy St. , Po rtland ,
Oregon.''
ALVI N L PAR KER. Si n ce Ju ly I , 194!i ,
. \1 has been F a rm Fo reste r for t he N. F..
W ill;nnetlc Va lley of O regon . Origi nally h e
was with th e USFS an~l sin ce J u ly, '48 with
th~ O regon
State . !•o r~s try Department.
H ts area of rcsp o ns1b thty Includes Cl ackama s.
M ultnom ah, a nd Hood River con ttlies. T he
o_rtice is wi t h t he Clackam as Coun ty Exten SIOn Agents .. P. 0 . 13ox 511 , Oregon Ci ty,
Oregon . R estdence 1 2.~ E. J ersey Street, Cladstone, Oregon .
1928
R EX D ENNEY. "retired fro m U. S. Forest
Serv ice in May '62. Spent su mmer in A laska
fishing an d seeing t he slate. Traveled 12.000
mi les via p icku p an d trai le r in the wi n ter of
'62-63, ~esig.n c d a new house and p urchased
a buildmg Ill Du fu r. Last sum nter we bu i lL
th e ho use and moved in in t he fall j u st befo re C lu-ist mas. Am now ready to " Jive," n o
reaso nable o[fer to go hu n ting or fishing will
he t urn ed down .'' Address: P .O . .13ox 235 ,
D ufu r , 01·egon. "
ROI3ERT 0. H UTCHINSO 1• "Retired
h om [ar ming a nd ranching in Albert, Can ada in 1948 a nd moved to Corva ll is. H ave
si x ch ildren , 3 boys and 3 girls. T wo grad uated [rom OSU '62-63, on e g raduated from the
Universi ty of O regon '63, on e girl h as two
)'~ars at OSU a nd 1~1 arried an OSU gradu ate.
1 wo boys a re tn lu gh school a nd may enter
OSU . The wife , Mary, a nd I arc rated num ber 2 a nd 3 as bridge p layers i n Oregon. We
spen d m uch of our ti me p laying d upl ica te
bridge and we won m ore m aster p oin ts th an
a n y other person in t h e north west cor ner of
the United States in 1963." P. S. "\Ve probab ly worked much hard er t h an gell ing a
degree from college. "
DOUGL AS R . M I L LE R . ' 'Work in U.S. F.S.
Regiona l office in San F ran cisco on forest
d iseases and d isease surveys. r\ su rvey of t he
roots of the 1962 wind thrown t im be r in
north ern Ca li fornia sh owed t h a t a bou t 60'1,
of t he t r~cs ha d vaq~i ng amoun ts of root ro~
at t he tnne o r the1r blow-d own . My wi fe
Edna s ti ll teaches in Oakla n d . da ught er
Glad ys is married a nd 11:e h ave two gra ndchlld ren . Son Oo ug, ma rn ed and d o ing gradua te work in forest pat h o logy a t t he Un ive rsity of Cal ifo rn ia i n Berkeley. "
PH ILI \ L: l'AI NF.. '.'After 32 )'ears with
t he lJ. s. l·01·est Servtce m y w1fc ami I
have enjoyed five yea rs o f reti rement leisure.
T hese years have been b us)' years seeing the
cou ntry thruogh the eyes of t ra ileritcs. We
have covered m u ch of the western United
Sta tes a nd m ade o ne 1r ip to Florid a. \ Ve hilve
traveled 30.000 mi les wi t h o ur .\irstrca m
tra iler, 1n tly a n cxcellclll wa y to see the
count ry. Ou r su m mers a rc spen t at .'\lo h a,
Oregon, located in t he T ua lati n Va lley west
of Port la nd . O u r e ldest son , O avid. h a~ fo llowed me in the forestr)' profession . . \I ter
~ l a rch
1964
som e years o f experie nce with the U. S.
Forest Service, he is n ow tea ching· fores try a t
OSU."
H AR O L D WEAVER writes , " I a111 still
wi th th e Forest ry B ra nch of the Tlureau of
i ndi an Affai1·s. My son is n ot inc lined towards fo restry or engineering, he is a soph omore a t the Uni versity of Oregon."
1929
LO R A CE
\\'. EICKWO RTH . " .\ ftcr
leaving Evans Produ cts Co. in 1958 1 took the
state real estate exa m , pa ssed an d am now
with .Jus trom a n d Strom me Rcallors, Coos
Bay , O regon , working h ard an d liking it.
Last yea r my eHorts m ad e it possi ble fo r m e
to joi n th e millio n dolla r rea l ty cl u b. M y
wife , formerly C la ra Mann . class of '30, is
teach in g sewing at our new Jr. College, he1·c
in Coos .Bay. O ur d a ughter Ca rolyn , on e year
a t O SU ma rried to !lark VanCalcar a n OSU
grad, now livin g in Cal i forn ia. Our son , L arry
ts u ow a seu ior iu Business Admin. a t OSU.
In my spare t im e I am p lanting a piece of
loggcd -otf land to Pseudotsuga lax ifol ia for
the fu lllre gcn nation. I will be g lad l o hea r
fro m any o f t h e old f c rnhopper gang if they
should happ en by.''
J. F . C R ANT writes t h at he is in h is
fo urth year as s u pervisor of the C h ugach
Nat iona l Forest a t Anchorage, Alaska, where
they h ave a bo u t five m illion acres o( some
o f th e most beautifu l o utdoor couu t1·y, no t
all d eveloped yet, b u t that is com ing fast.
·O ur on ly daug h ter, Sandra g radua tes from
hig h school this spring. Sh e h as app lied a t
O~U and a cou ple of ot her colleges for this
fa ll. There are severa l fernho ppers around
these parts-some dat in g back to m y vin tage.
The locker is full o r moose Hn d caribo u . The
fue l tan k is full a nd it looks like a good
winter."
LESLiE D. LLOYD. "Spen t from .-\pril to
Sep t. in Yugosla via in E u rope o n a lorcign
AI D con tract. ' •Ven t ou t h e S. S. I n d epende nce
to Genevc, and retu rn ed via the world's
most exaspera t ing airline via Iceland [rom
London alter touring th rough Ita l y, Swi t zerland, Fra n ce, .Belg ium , a nd H olland. I gave
a series of illus tra ted lectu res in fores t schools
o n Pacific Nor t h west Forestry a n d logging
methods, besides advising the fo rest enterp rises and governm ent on logging an d con struction equipme n t. The two mo nths spen t
in Slcvenija was highligh ted b y m an y cl imbs
in th e beau t iful J u lian Alps, inclu d ing i\ l t.
Sviujac. r saw H n ine year o ld poplc1·, 23
d .b.h . repro<lu ccd from cut tings , a nd our
own ponderosa p in e doing excellen tly n ca r
Greece. "
LEST F. R J- i\!ci'H ERSON wri tes, " I t's
been 35 )'Ca rs si nce I gradua ted . I t's been a
wonderful 35 yea rs. If I h ad it to do over
again, I wou ld m ake t he same ch oice- work
for t he U. S. F orest Ser vice. 1 have been a ll
over t h e state of Oregon and Wash ington .
I h ave a son wh o is a de n tist an d a da ug h ·
tcr who is <1 secretary to a d octor a t t h e
U. of 0. ~ I ed ica l School. 1 won ld like to
sa)' that to gel the most o ut of l ife, en jo y
t he work )'011 arc doing, raise a fam il y you
arc proud of, an d ge t alon g wi th yo ur fe ll ow
worker."
1930
HOi\fE R J. H ARTMAN is st ill with t he
U. S . Fo rest Service. i\Iissoula, Monta n a,
wh ere h e head s up the I egiona l forest insect
a nd disease con trol b ran ch. H is three chi ld ren p rogress fro m one p rob lem s tage to
a nother.
VON DI S £ . ~ Il LLER . ".\ftcr 3~ yea rs, 3
ch ildren , 5 g ra ndchildren , I dep ression , 1
war , a nd one un believa b le boom period , l
approach my reti rem ent age. i\Iy chief claim
to fa me is that I have ind uc ted, ind octri na ted. and ho no red tn ore youn!l fores ters I han
a n y oth et· man in the scrv1cc. Some have
O R EGON STATE FORESTER
gon e fa r, I'm prou d of t hem al l. r\m still
su p ervisor o f t he Um pq ua and am s t i ll r un n ing an d healt hy. "
PHILI P ,\ . NEWTO N. Is on t he supervisor
staff i n Col u mbia, South Carolina . Son is in
t he .\ ir Force , and has o n e d a ughter. O ldest
da ug h ter is in For t Worth he lping p ut h er
husban d t h rough S. W. Baptist T heological
Semin ary. The younger daughter fi nish es
hig h school in i\ !ay. She plans to e n ter college in Colum bia nex t fa ll .
I'RAZER W. SC H LEGE L. " \Ve live in
Belcfon te, l'a. I am retired and now a m enjoying th e wi nter life in l~l ori da . I h ave a
wife and married son, a grad ua te of Lock
Haven State College who is teach ing in
13 rown Technica l H igh School in Delaware.
We expect to 1·eturn to Pennsylva ni a in
.\ pril and visit the wor ld's fair in New York
Cit y in Ju ly '64.''
1931
ALI3E RT A R NST. "Accepted a job wit h
the lJ. S. Forest Service in November, '62
as a staff assistan t to Arthur \\1. G reeley.
Depnt)' C hief, Natio nal Forest Resource
Management , ' •Vash ing ton D. C:. The change
from edi t ing the t rade journ al h as o ffered
in teresting new fie ld. A ll t hree chi ldren a1·c
in co llege at t he sam e time. "Vashingto n h
a fascina t ing p lace in which to live and
wor k. T he re are many O regon Staters here."
H AR OLD BO\VER MA wr ites. "Am now
in r igh ts-of- way work in the division of
L ands. T h e ski ing job has been Lunted over
to yo unger blood , n o t th at I am decrepit
yet."
H ENRY F. DR EW FS. " 1\ l y wife a n d I arc
ho lding down the fort a t Lake Oswego. The
la tch s trin g is a lways o ut.. Bot h boys a rc n ow
gradua tes of the U. S. m ilitat) ' acade my
at West Poin t. First Lt. H e nry, .J L is now
s tation ed in Cnman y wi t h h is wi fe an d presem ed us wit h our fi rst grandda ug h ter, .Jallua r y 23, 1964. 2ncl L L R a lp h has comple ted
the en gineer course at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
ai r-bo rne an d ran ger t ra in ing at Fort .13en ning, Georgia. He will be s tationed at 1<-ort
Lewis, \•Vashington in ea rl y Ma rch . I a m
s till with Bonneville Power Adm inistration ,
l'ortlan d.''
R O L:\ D H . F ERGUSON. " I n recent years
have been classified as a fo rest economist.
Each ti me t h is 1itlc is u sed I can vision Dean
Peavy shaking h is head at me and saying.
'You should h ave taken more cou rses in
economics.' I write the t imber reso urce re·
ports fo r e ach of t he 12 sta tes in the n or theastern forest cxperirnen t station . i\l y old er
boy, L a rry is a junior at t he Un iversity of
Virginia, and Ill)' yo u nger son Ke nny is
a l Ot h g ra der in Upper D arb y, Pa. My wi fe
.-\u d ie, whom I met a nd married in Lousian a,
is now a cafeteria 1nanagcr fo r a gra1n mar
school and is he lpi ng out wi th college expen ses. "
PH I LIP C. J O !INSO N- is project leade1·,
d ivisio n o f fores t insect research , l n ter~ l o u ntai n Fores t and R ange E xper imen t
Station , U. S. Forest Service, i\ l issou la , i\lon tana. H e is currently e ngaged in planning
t he bark beet le research on problems a ffect ing timber g rowth in t h e nort h ern R ock
i\It. In 19!i3 h e was appoin ted to the
F.n t )' mological Society of America Com mittee
on Com mon Names of American Econo m ic
lnsect Pes ts; also cha ir m an of Western For est Insect VVork Con ference on comm on
names o f forest insects of Western U. S.
a nd Can ad a.
j Ai\IES W. KI ~ l ~ IE Y- tra n sfer rcd April I,
'63 to new la bora tOI')' bu ilt b y th e U.S.
Forest Service. H is new address: Forest
Scien ce Lab., P . 0. Box <lli9, i\foscow, Jdaho.
1932
H A R RY .\ . 1!0WE LLS wr i tes , ''had a dc ligh rfn l tri p to Finla nd and Sweden last
l'age Seven
.-\ ug ust. Particip ated in t he world forest
gen t ics meet in g in Stockho lm . W ife M ildred
and I then wen t to Spain. O ldest son Bill
is n ow comp leting Ph .D. at Syracuse after
five )'ears wi t h C rown -Zellerb ach a t Camas.
Washington . E xpect to be a gr and fa the r this
year. "
W A LTER A. GUSTAFSO 1• "St ill on th e
i\lt. H ood Nation al Forest L akes Distr ict.
D oing tim ber sales app raisals. Still go home
o n weekends to 5417 S. E. 99th , P ortland .
Stop in.''
L E E 0. H UNT. " R etired last spring a fter
30 )'Cars o f fed eral service wi th the B urea u
of Plant Indust ry, Forest Service, Soil, Con servation Service, a nd .B urea u o f La nd Ma n agem ent. Am spending fiel d sea sons as a
part-t ime assista n t in forest management with
t he forest research lab OSU doing field work
in Sou th west O r egon (no paper shu ffling)!
Tletwecn tha t an d d cvelop tng a small t ree
farm wi t h a seed orch ard, C hristm as t ree
p lantat ions and gen era l reforestation p lus
ch airma n sh ips of local fam1 bureau center.
Win ston City p la nnin g com m issio n , Do ug las
Cou nty School com m ittee and Doug las Hig h
School Paren ts g roup, I can ' t seem to find
all that leisu re t ime a retiree is sup posed to
enjO)'· ' •Vo rking harder t han ever, but mor e
fun. "
S l ~ l E. JA R VI -Sim is s uper visor of th e
.-\ngelcs National Forest of Sou thern Califo rnia. T he fo rest represen ts one quarter of
the total land area o f Los Angeles County.
I I is th e back yard and p la yg round for
seven million people. Sim and Mary live a t
!i38 S . .Bradoaks, Monrovia , Califo rnia. T h eir
matTied daug h ter J oelle n lives in Santa
Maria: sons, Ted, is in t he Air f orce attend ing Arizona State U .; C bris attends Ca l
Poly, at San L uis O b isp o; <md youngest son
Rob in is a sop homo re at i\l arobia H igh
Sch ool. Severa l OSU foresters arc o n t he
.-\ngeles NF in South er n Cal ifo rn ia. "Th e boss
sees to th a t."
E DGAR J . l'ARK.ER - is e11gaged in recreation work o n t he D eschu tes Nationa l Forest.
Address: l'. 0. Box 751, Ben d, O regon. "My
wife M iriam Kenn ed y of Corva llis d ied Au gust 24, 196 1. I m arried Mrs. Elsie Carl~o n of Bend on t h e 13t h of J anuary, 1963.
I h ave 8 g randchildren a nd one more ad ·
d it io n is exp ected . M y h o b by of bird pho to·
grap hy sti ll pre,·ai ls."
MERLE S. LOWDEN wri tes, "Spen t o ne
mon th in t he s ta te o f P a n a m a, .B razi l last
fall , (1963) where I was on a ser ies of fire
situ ations. More than 5 m ill ion acres of fo rest
la nd b u m cd in a few days in wh ich 153 p er sons los t the ir lives. l a lso visited Canada and
Mexico o n [ire work last year."
VET.DON A. PARKER is s till with t he
U. S. F o rest Service. H e m oved from Cali fo mia to Wash ington D. C. in 1960. a n d to
i\lilwau kce, ' Viscon sin in 1962. H e is presently Assistant Regional Forester i n cha rge
of O pera tions an d F ire Con t rol for the Nor t h
Cen tral Region. His wife, d au gh ter, 16, <tnd
son , 10 are livin g a t 3025 ' Vest Va lanna
Cou rt, ~I i l wau kce, W isconsin. !i3209.
LORAN L STEWAR T is s till !Jresi de nt
of Bo hemi a L um ber Company a t C u p C reek,
Oregon an d Cascade F iber Compan y i n Eu gene.
I 933
D ALE C. B AKER . " I have j ust comp leted
32 years wi th th e Forest Service. \ Ve have
t h ree high school studen ts and live at Beaverton. O regon . O ut· oldest bo)' will start to
OSU next fa ll. My work is w t th the d ivision
of fire con trol i n Po rtland R . o:·
C.'\RRO LL E. BR OWN-is fores t sup er,·isor Rogu e R iver Na t ional Forest, ~ I edford ,
O re~o n . "O u r d a ughter .Bobbie present ed u~
wit h o ur first grandchi ld o n April 18. H er
nam e is T h eresa .J oAnne. Bob bie Lou a nd
P age E ight
he 1- fam ily Jive in San J ose, Cal ifom ia. H.er
h usband works for Lockheed as an e leclrontcs
engineer at nea rby !\ founta in View. Our s<?n
LaiTY graduated f~om _OTT: K lamat l~ F alls 111
jun e. H e and h 1s Wife hve 111 L ivermore,
Calif., whe re he works as a d raftsman fo r
Sandia Corp. i\fy main hobby is ham radio.
Cet a lot of re laxation w ith i t. ''
\Vl L LlAl\1 N. P ARKE-is b ranch ch ief i n
ch arge of recreations man agem ent an d con cession s Washington , D.C., U.S. Forest S~ r­
,·ice. "Recreation faci lil ics a nd opp o r t um t1es
in t he nat ion al fo rest con ti nue IO improve
a nd a m p leased to be associa ted wi th the
program t o p rovid e t he m ."
ll UG H j . STEW ART- is li ving .. at .'133
Harvard Lane, Bo ulde r, Colorado. R eti red
[rom t he Arm y in Ap r il, 'G I a[ler more than
20 ye>IrS active and mo re t_han 28 years
corumissioned service. Served m th e lVh d d le
E ast, Fa 1· Easl and Europ e. Also tr_aveled
outside t hese areas. T am now workm g as
an editor-writer with t he Bould er La bo r~­
IOries Nationa l B u reau of Stam~ards_. D 1d
som e graduate work at the U niversity of
Colorado in '6 1 and '62 towards a n M.A.
a nd h opefull y a P h .D. Had to drop ou t fur a
wh ile ;m el go back _to wo1·k . Bo th da.ug hters
are m arried. One 1s a stu den t at CU. the
other is a mot her, busy wi th o u r first grandch ild. W e plan to stay in Boulder ."
1934
RiCHARD
P . BOTTCHE~-is . c.h!ef.
.Bran ch of M u ltiple Use P la nm~1 g, D 1v1s~o n
of Wate rshed l\l anagem en t, R egwnal Office,
Porl land . " 1 h ave a liLLie over 30 years govern ment ser vice. Son R obert is in the N ?vy,
lll arricd a nd o ne son . D a ug h ter Cara lee 1s a
senior in Oswego High Sch ool. " .
.
GEOR GE W . C H URCHILL:-Is w1th ~h e
D ivision of Recreat ion, Rcgwna l Ofbce,
Pul'lla nd . " ' i[c B ea is a counselor at t he L ake
Os wego 1-1 igh Schu?l. " O ur third bu y 1s
sophomore class president at ~SU . Tl~e otl_lCI
boys are h"·aduates o f clectnc~ l engm ee1 11~g
[rom OSU . There arc no ch ildre n left a.~
home. Very, ve r y qu ite a. round t h_e h~~ 1 se.
KEN •ETH \\f . LlNSTED T - wntes, fu nny how the years s lip by. Eve r y on ce in a
whi le I meet some OSU classm a te that T
h a,·en't seen in years and T am frequenti.Y
shocked at how h e bas aged , an d I d on t
ch an ge at a ll. Same o ld h o use, sam e o l ~
dog. sam e ol d job, a nd sa m e '~!fe (n ul old) .
am r u und m g
J . R. PHT L~ RICK-w ri~es,
o u t 30 years w!lh the U.S.l•.s . Am n ow s u p elviso r of the Siskiyo u N ational Forest at
Gran ls P ass, Oregon . Married and
two
duagh lers, 8 and 16. "
AN DR EW C. U l' Tl A M- is e m p lo yed with
th e Oregon State Hig hw;1y D ep~n~t~n en t in
Po rtl a nd . Resid e n ce: 291::> N. E . :>:Jth .\ ve.
1935
HOWAR D \V . B ULLARD - has ret ired
as ch ief e ngineer of wes1crn ope ra ti on~ a fter
27 yea rs o f service. He has. opened . h 1s own
consulting o(ficc at 1000 S. W. V 1st a Ave .
in Portland u nde r th e n ame of B u llard
Eng ineering 'co. a nd is c~nTen tl y _e ngaged in
both foreign an d d o!n es tJc work 111 the pl ywood a n d lu mber f1c lds. He a n d Ins w1fe
Earline Jive at 3820 S. \V . .Ba r ber B lvd. an d
wou ld like to re new old fr ie nds hips.
S. T . t\ LOORE- is fo rest supervisor Si us law
N a t ional f orest, Corvallis. T he b iggest jo b
cu rrentl y being d on e on th is fo rest is excel le rated t im ber sa les program to market
750 million board feet of tim ber b lown down
in t he win d stor m of Oct. 12, 1!!62.
C . W . LU C H EN-re po rts- "Everywh e re T
go i n m y work for Crown-Zelle r bach I r u n
in to O SU Fernhop pers. . \ g rea t bun~h o f
guys. 1 am p roud, lUO, of the g rea t ad van ~es
in education at Oregon Stale i n a ll fi elds.
T h ave 1wo son s, a sen ior ;1 t OSU. and a
'Ll]Jhunlul e .o l :)t,lnl'urd , ,llsu J d J ugh le r 1u al. -
O REGON STATE FOR ESTER
ing ready to go to college in the fall. "
J ACK SAUllER T - '1 am n ow back wh ere
t he t rees grow ta ll and the s now fa lls d eep
(5 ft. al p resent) as T imber Staff m a n on
the l'ayette Nal ional Forest in I d aho, a fter
I V2 years of educational bu t fr ustrating
work in Ogden , Utah. Bobbie and T leave
J an . 24 for a 30 day vacat ion in Eu rope. T he
h igh ligh t wi ll be a fa m ily re u n ion wi th on e
d augh t er, Joan Ford fro m Is tanbul, Tu r key,
an o th er daughter J ean a t the winter Olym p ics in lnns b ru ck, A ust1·ia . J ean has been
doin g real we ll as a n a lpine skiie r in p reolym pic con1 peti1io n an d we h ope to cheer
h e r to a g-ood finis h . McCall is h ard to
bea t fur people who like the o u t or d oors;
wate r, e lk , d eer, goa ts, pheasants. dnck ,
geese, sk iing, golf, etc." (cdilor's note: At the
t i me of publicat ion , J ean is t h e only Am erican to win more t h a n o ne med a l in the 196'1
winl er o lym p ics, p lacing second a nd third.)
G EO R CE H . SC HRO D ER -wri tes, ··son
Neil an d wife A rd is mad e us gra ndpa re nts
fo r 1he second t ime with the birth o f L or i
Ka t hleen. She and h e r b ro ther Bryce are
perfect in the eyes of gra n dma and grandpa.
Vacation money i n '63 t ook son George a nd
Clara wi th me to Wash ington , D.C. A won derfu l experience for a ll t h ree- jet p lanes
m ake the world so sm all. Oct. saw u s helping the Forcs1ry sch ool a t l\l issuula celebrate its 50th anniversar y. David !\ Jason d id
a m agn ificant job as th e honored g uest and
fea t u red speaker a t tbc tcslimonia l dinner.
LL wa s a grea t p r ivilege to be t h ere ."
1936
T . AL fiERT DAVIES- is o n the T . M .
sl aff. Willa mc u c F o rest, E u gene . " Tt gets
more an d mo re compl ica ted e ach year. but
interesting and keeps me busy. W e a re s t riving fo r good m nl t ip le use and q ual i ty t im ber m an agem en t. Tim be r sa les galore. 1\ m
very active wi th loca l tim bcrmcn . Always
in te rest ed in Fores try school. Am a life me mber OSU Al umn i Assn ., a nd be long to t he
local 30-Staters Cl u b. A m sti ll d eeply in terested i n OSU teams. We have almost l l
years at o u r 100 Jepp ese n Acres D rive residen ce. I passed 1he 25 year m ark of service
severa l years ago. \'\life L o u ise is an in st r uctor a t t he Eugene Beaut y ColJege, p re p aring
you ng women to assist in keep ing our bet te r h alf's coiffu re beautifu l. Son T ad secon d year at OSU and at present is doing
well."
H.\ROLD \ V. GUSTAFSO N - writes. " at
work as fi re recrea t ion an d land s taff on
Okanogan
a tion al Fores t si nce '!;7. W ife
Ve lm a, class '38. is secreta !')' in local gt·ad e
school. D a ugln er A nne is senior a t Oka nogan
H ig h and h as m ade app licat ion 10 OSU for
nex t fall. Son Phil is m arr ied a nd a se nior
a t L' ol' I da ho."
ELMO N W. H O W ARD-" retircd fro m the
U. S. Forest Ser vice in 1960 on a tota l d isa b i li ly [rom sp in al arth ri t is. ,Vfy daugh ters
Sa l ly and l .in da each p resen ted us wi t h
gn1ndsons, 0 11c a nd two years old now. l
llllln age an eight u nit apar t ment house t o
he lp keep b uS)' · i\l y wife H enrietta still works
in t he offi ce fo r Crown -Zellerbach Corp.
Spen d som e l im e in the s ummer fish ing. "
ED W .\ RD H . :\1.-\ RSH ALL- "was promoted a nd 1ransferrcd Front \ Vashington D . C.
back to Oregon in .July as assis tant region al
fores ter, U.S.F .S., Division Sla te and Prh ·ate
Forestry, Po rtland . Our son is now a sophomore in p ha rm acy a t OSU. Our n ew add ress
is 2G I8 N.E. Steward Drive, Portland 12, Oregon. Drop in and sec u s."
D.-\ J.E H . T H Ol\ 1.-\S- is a forest con sultan i. Be nd . Oregon ; cha ir m an Columbia
River Sectio n S.. \ .F. and looki ng fo r ward 10
mee ting a ll his l'e llow foresters at the S.A.F .
a nnnal meet ing i n B end , May 1s t >111!1 2nd .
O l d c~ l IJu ) ,l c11) i:, J :;cn iur in lurc:,ll )' .1 t
March !!JG-!
OSU this year. l\Iorc foresters o n t he wa y.
V F.R O t A. FR IDLEY writes. ' T h ings
p rogressing very nicely wi t h us. R uth is stil l
teaching but has a much s ma ller class this
year. I a m s li ll p ush ing a crew for the P .G. &
£ . Saw Carl H awks while attend ing t h e
spr ing fie ld trip of t he Northern Cali forn ia
section SA F. Also a ttended winter S.-\F m eeling with Carl. T hings seem to be going well
wi t h t h e H awks. I l ope to see man y of yo u on
campus th is w inter ."
1937
M AR VI N ANCLE- h as spe n l the last 17
yea rs at the sam e p lace wi 1h t he com pa n y.
I n cha rge o f 1!5fi tho usa n d acres o f timbe rlan ds in sou t heast Texas a nd is now a proud
grand fa t her. The next to t h e o ldest, a sun ,
is a j un ior in medical school. O ne son is a
l'reshma n in college a nd t he othe r a so p h·
om ore in h igh schoo l. T he daugh ter is the
o ldes t and prod uced t he gr an dson . (red h eaded)
H OWARD A. " H AC" CO L LINS-fi nds
that growing C h ris tm as trees t akes a bo ut as
much t ime as ru nn ing Twin City Lumber
Com pan y and Lake Logging and Lu mber
Company, and t he p ay so fa r doesn 't com p are. O ldest offsprin g is n ow 2 1 and t he
youngest 6. Jn b etween is a 17 year old and
o ne 8.
VIR G i L T. H EAT I-1-" our 17 year o ld son
Dick w h om we had high hopes of becom ing an OSU forestry studen t was k illed last
j u n e in an auiOmohi le accide nt a long with
two of his fr ien ds as t hey were retu r ning
fro m a fishing tr ip d uring a vio lent thunde r
~ Lo nn. T his leaves a daug h te1· L inda in hig h
s~ h ou l , a junior. R ig ht n ow I am wo rking on
g·c l t in g a fore ign assig nm cnl on wh ich to
s pend the rema in ing two )'Cars o f federal
ser vice befo re ret ireme n t. ..
EM I L J O H NSON- is assistan t Tim b er
Sta ff Officer, Umpq u a Na tiona l Forest, 1'. 0 .
Box 1008, R oseburg, Oregon .
D ONNELl . O 'R R I EN- is em ployed at
F ort Lee, as Land 1\ l anagem en t agron omist
fo r the Dept. of th e i\ rm y, complet ing 2 1
yea rs of U. S. C ivi l Service in Tennessee,
l\Jississippi, a n d Virginia. Wife L ela, fO llliCrly
of Corvall is, da ug h ter Kathleen , 16 years old
and a junior in h igh school. Would like to
hear from all)' Oregon Siat ers !raveling
lh r uugh the eas te rn p an o f Virginia.
F RED E RI CK H . VOCEL- rcpor ts, "after
two yea rs workin g ou t of Is ta nbu l, Tu rkey,
T was 1ransfe rred in J anuary 1963 to Anka ra ,
still with old fr ie nd Ceorgc Spa r r , '37. Last
sum n1e r m y fam i ly a nd 1 spen t o ur h ome
leave in ' Vash ington , D. C. a nd I he st ales of
i\ li ch iga n, \Vas hin g10n , O regon, and H awaii.
\\'e extended o 11 r t ra vel a nd fla ttened o ur
wa 1le1 to m ake i t fu r t h e second time ar o u nd
1h e wor ld . W e stop ped in A u stra lia, Ger ma n y, De n ma r k, Ire la nd , Cont ine nta l U.S.A.,
Hawa ii , W a ke, J apan , Hong Koug, Thailand ,
:•nd I ran . Th e world is sti ll big iu spi1 e of
jc1s an d sate ll ites. Ad dress: F . H. Vogal ,
(. \ id) , i\1'0 25~. New York C ity."
F.DW .\RD H. VOCT- " m ;orried Fra ncis
Bruwu , OSU. '37, and h ave one sun Norman ,
who is attend ing OSU as a j un ior i n forestry.
We live on a ran ch n ca r Ju nction C ity, Oregon , w h ich is operated as a game manageIne n t area for pheasa nts and d ucks. I worked for Crown \ Vi lla mellc l'ape r Compan y
fur about two years afte r leaving school.
T left because of illness and h ave been farm ing m ust of the t ime since. H ave been active
in various fa rm org anization s. Ou r recreatio n a l act ivities ~ rc mosl ly h un t ing and fish ing in Lhe n ati ona l forests in p r im itive
areas of o u r Cascad e Moun t ain s."
V I NCE NT (BE ) W ARD - is a lumbe r
w h u l es~ l c r a nd ex porter in Sa n Fra ncisco .
' 'Vi fc G l;o d ys exp ect in g s ixth son an y d ay.
0 1 w u r:,L, th ere is a re m ote cha nce of a
~ l a rch
..
I
r
19G~
girl. Vis ilnrs in San Fra n cisco a rc welcome
a t 68 1 i\lar ket Street.
W I LL!.-\l\1 .-\. W E LDER-is a fo res ter wi th
the F ru it Grower's Su p ply Co .. B u rney a n cl
Alasi n Forests. " We have th ree ch ild ren .
Lynn is a surgical n urse at Ph ysicia ns a nd
Smgcons Hosp ital in Po rtla nd. Jane at Helcls
fi usincss Sch ool in Sacra m e n to, ' an d Kat hy in
~c h ou! here at
Bu r n ey. Not much m ore in
the way of news, btu hope lo get u p to t he
Fcrnhopper D ay 1h is year.''
K. 0. W ! LSO N-"T he W ilson fa m ily. two
tec n ~gc buys, a re e njoying very mu ch o u r
retu rn lu the Pa ci fic Nor thwest. Same job,
assista n t R egion al 17 oresl er . U. S. Forest Ser vice Fi re Control. It 's a real treat to be
worki ng aga in with o ld classm ates ;ond
frien ds."
1!:138
KENNET H A. fiURKHOLD E R- has been
working in fire a nd othe r resource prot ect ion
projects wil h t he B.L.M. la nds i n O regon ~n d
\Vash in!!to n . H e is stationed at th e s t ate office in l'ortland , and is ch ief o f t he p rotection bran ch . H e h as a so n in t he first grade
an cl a daughter in t he fo urth grade.
C. DOUGLAS H O L E- is Assista nt Stat e
Conserva tion ist wi th the Soil Conserva tio n
Service , H onol u lu . H awaii. " Pron u ncia tio n
of H awaiian words is coming a li ll ie easier
fur us a fter two yea rs jn the fift ie th stat e.
W e're busy putting fo u r water-sh ed s into
operation while plann ing an oth er. Soi l erosion is the ma in p roblem . One s torm lasl
April du m ped over 18" in e igh l hours. !I
wou ld require a fu ll lime bulanis t In keep
up wi t h the tree ide ntifica tio n he re . Seems
as t hough every other tree is a d iffcrc n l kin cl
of Legu m inosac. W ea t h er ? Mos1 l y gorgeous."
C E NE EAR l. l\I!LLS- Colon el. U. S. A rmy
- has b ee n sta tio n ed for t he p ast th ree years
in t he heart of D ixie as exec u tive o ffi cer at
Fon St ewa1·t, Georgi a . Daughte r .Jean o\ li lls
is a j u n ior in ad ver tisi ng at th e Un iversi t y
of Wash ington . whe re sh e is a m ember of
Kappa Delta sorori t)' ·
GEO R GF. T. MUEL LER-h as been with
the Douglas Aircraft Co. for 24 years-ever
s in ce laking a " t emporary " job in 1940 . llis
presen t posi t ion is p roject e ngi neer f01· 1h c
avy 's :\-4 Skyhawk A tl ack pla ne. Ts adv isor
of an explo re r scou t p ost. " Las t sum mer t he
Pos t and 1 t ook a ca n oe trip for 1h ree weeks
to Min n esota a nd Canada. \ Vc h ave 1wo
chi lclrcn . ages I I and 16."
F . R . P HILLI PS-is p resen tly in charge ol
materia ls fu r 1hc Tillamook P .U.D . after 18
yea rs i n lu mbering, plywood , loggi ng, and
office work. "So fa r onl y o ne son to ;oll cnd
OSU fo r two years, but h ave four m ore sons
a nd o ne d augh ter. O u r ho me is a 12 acrl'
fa rn1 fur beef a 11 d C h rist mas trees even l ua lly.
The whole fam ily a rc OSU boosl c:rs in d lld ing my wife Lorra ine wh o m 1 ma rr ied after
h er sopho m ore year. "
II OWA R D J. SLONECKER-wriles. " noth ing lll lltsua l t o report. St ill at t he same old
sta nd a s ind ust r ial engineer for Sou thc n 1
Paci fi c Co. in l'orlla n d . J\l y wife an d T arc
enjoying life at o ur h ome in Oak Grove a nd
would enjoy visils from a n y of the old ga ng
who h a p pen to p ass ou r way . . \m ,·e r y ple;Jscd
and h a ppy about t he success of d a ugh l cr
J e an of an o ld frien d J ack in t he sk iin g
world . How p roud he m us t be and I hope h e
pops some more bu tton s."
DAR RO W T H Ol\li'SO '- is livi ng in
Ph oenix and is preside nt of Thompson I n dus t ries i\ lan ufacturing Co. wit h p la n ts in
Los .\ngeles, P hoen ix, .\ t la nl a , and New J ersey an d is bu ild ing a p la nt overseas in H o11a nd. The Thom pson 's h a ve t wo boys- on e
wa n ts to he a foresler and altcnd OSU.
P A I IL T O LO N EN- repu rl s. "a t p rcsen l m y
1n a in p roj ecl is ' I DT. \ projec t 0 R E-_r,.
T rai n ing foresl r y a ids <~ I C l <~ l so p Col lege 111
O R EGON STATE FOR ESTER
Astoria. This sec I ion ope r at es <~fte rn uons and
even ings enabl ing t h ree part t ime instructors,
lwo fro m Crown -Zellerbach , and on e from
1he s tal e Forestry D ep artmen t to assis t with
th e teach ing. . \t home I have sons 17 an d
14 years an d da ughter I I wh ich h ave grad uall )• d e moted me to either fo urth 0 1· fi fth
in command depending u pon t h e sou rce o f
infor mation . .-\m bearing up j u st fi ne autl
wi ll soon be do ing m y part i n a dd ing to the
e n rollment p roblems a t OSlJ."
.J. MI L O W.-\ L T F.R- is wi th t he Sou t h
S;o n t iam L um ber Co. , L e ba non, Oregon.
C l.lFFO RD W. W HIT TE N - is a fi reston e
dea ler in Hood R iver. located j ust of( Hi gh way 30. " W ou ld enjoy seeing the boys if
t hey h ave t im e to s top som e time. O u r
da ughter Kath y L. W h itte n is a ttending Orcsron State U ni versity a nd is a sop homore in
secre1aria l science. I have been t rap s hool inl!' fur severa l years and last yea r won th '!
st alf' PTTA s hout. Su re like 10 do it again.
too."
ROSS W . W TLLI.-\MS- is Su pervisor of l h,..
Gifford P i nchot ' ation al F orest. R oss ha •
o ne daughter l'eggy wh o is a junior at OSU
H e has two sons. \·Voodrow. m arr ied a nd
r m o loyed by t he U.S .F.S. H e a nd wi fe have
., habv bov also na m ed Ross wh ich make'
•n" a "Tandfath er . R oger , aged 11, is s l ill a t
home."
H F.R13ER T .-\ . YOC O l\ 1- livcs at 315 16th
S l. , Birm ingh am I I, A labama .
1939
R O D E RIC K K. BL. \ C KER . " T wil l soon
com plcl c m v fi fth vcar as s u pervisor of t h r:
Shoshone Na l ional Forest a t Cody. \ rVyom illl'.
My iob contin u es to b e in lcresling- w it h
m any varied ch alle n ges. H ave two boys i n
Univers i ty- o ne a
jun ior
in
W yo m ing
astrona utical e ngineering a nd on<' a soph ·
omorp in busi ness. Ol•r yo n ngrs l is now in
l he fo urth grade. We h ave fo ur g-randchi ld ren. "
LEW IS H . BL.-\. C KERRY- is t h e western
"ditor Puln & Paper at 73 1 S. W. O ak St..
Portla nd . Oregon .
HUBER T l\ 1. BO WE-is a partn e r in th"
firm or ~ J ason . Bruce and Gira rd . 1030
.\ me rica n Hank Building. Port land !i. Oregon .
fi:\ RTO N H . B ROWN- reports. " h avr
rolled u p 22 vcars ser vice wi th t he Pacific
Northwcs l 13cll T epchun e Co. where I am
cu stomer service ma nager. l\•I y wi fe Louis,..
and I ha ve been pre lty husv o vc1· th e yea rs
raisin '!: t h ree sons. T h e o ldest. Slewa rl. is 'I
sen io r in the seh oul of Scie nce a t O SU. I
st i ll keep up an avid in t erest in forcsl l'V an d
am nro nd to b e an ex-Fcrnhop pe r . W i ll d o
111 y besl to m ake t he banq ue t Fur the 2!i t h
t-l nniversary.''
JO H N F . CROSS- wri tes. "Do lty and I
alonl!: wit h ou r d a ng·h ter Kav. 13, and sun , 7.
:trc b u ild in g a new home in H ilu. H awa ii !I Sing western red cedar s id ing and H aw;1i ia n
h;ordwoods t hroughou t. T am wit h roya l
Hawa iia n ~ l ac adamia Nu t Co. in Hil o as
its vice p resident ;o nd man aj!'er of a 12 h und red acre orch ard and a macadam ia nn l processing- plant. wh e re we vacu u m pack both in
ja rs >llld t ins this 1·e la t ively n ew "king of al l
nn ls". T look forwa rd to reading the issu es
of the Oregon State Fo res ter to see w here
m v cl assm a lcs are now . .\loh a to yo u a ll."
H OW.-\RD R . D EL.-\.YNO- has been with
the B ureau o f Land i\I an age m e n l for 2:; years
and his presen t posi lion is Chief. D ivision
o f R a n{!e M anagement for Ore!!on an d W ash ing-ion . fl is o ldest da ughte r is now attend ing
lhe Universit y of O regon .
FLOY D "SCOTTY" ED o\ITSTON-is s ti ll
a l t he same o ld s ta nd wit h t he B.L.. o\ 1. in
Sa le m . OrcJ!,'Oil.
C J-1 R IS I~ M I I.- is Opera lions l\ la nag·er or
th l· l.e lle rb;och Pa p e r Company , Sea l l le,
Page N ine
Oivision. H e joined th e grand fa the r ra nks
Novem ber 3, 1963; time m arches on.
HF.R R H Al\fl\10 ' D-is operating t he
1\ ui lders Supply a nd Woodworking 11us iness
in Cor va llis.
GEORGE l\ 1. HANSEl -writes, " have
tra nsferred m y edit ing from ind us try loggi ng
and lum ber t rad e j ourna ls t o the rarified
atmosphere o f tech nica l publ ications as
w r itcr-edi lor of t he P aci fic Nor thwest Forest
and R a nge Exp e rim ent Stat ion . After the
third year in the new work i t is sti ll sli m ulat i ng ~ n d like going to schoo l a ll over aga in .
Forestry now has lit t le in common with 1he
J93!J version . F a mi lywise, there are l he M rs.
and three boys aged 11 , 1•1, a n d 17, a ll
science minded . The o ldest will he at OSU
t h is fa ll in fo restr y. The families an nu a l
vaca tion goal o n week lo ng b ack-p ack treks
is t o fin d th at illusive wilderness whe re l ite
beer can h asn't pen etrated . An y s uggestion s?"
MYRL .-\ . 1-lA YG OOD. " 1 am st ill single
an d m aking a hom e fo1· my semi-in val id
mo the r in Ph iloma t h . 1 a m postmasl cr at
P h i lomat h, which is gell ing set to double
and triple in population it seems."
STA 1 LEY O R r- TA N. "No news here except a n ew ad d ress as follows: 1503 S. W . 6 1th
Drive. Portland , O regon .''
G L E1 B. PA R SONS. " J am p resen t!) e m ployed as ch ief forester, Eastern Oregon
Region . Bo ise C ascade Corp . wi th hcad qua r lcrs a t LaG ra nde. Evelyn and I are just
ahoul alone now wi th Jo h n a jun io r in Ji igh
seh oul a nd .Judy and Susan being m arried.
J ndy h as a yea r old son . We are p roud to be
gra nd pare n ts."
ROU ERT R UEGG--Majur-Genc ra 1, U. S.
.\ir F orce-is st ill a t Wright P a tte rson Air
Force n ase, O hio, as Co m mande r of Aerona u t ical Systems D ivision. He has been
especia lly b u sy with sen ate tactical fighte r
experime n tal hea rings s in ce h e h as headed
1he mi litary selection board. I t was his
plei!sn rc to p lay golf in a fou r-some lasl
i\l ay with Gene Sarazen who shut a 74; B ob
broke h is own record with a 7Ci. 1ot bad for
a weekend golle r. Son Bob, J r. is a sophomo1·e
al \ Vh eat on College.D augh lcr 1 a n cy e n ters
O h io State U. nex t fa l l. Do ug is a sophomore
in high school. R ill goes to Jr. h igh n cx l
fal l.
.JOH 1 B. SMI T H is St aff Officer. D ivision
o f F ire Con t rol, U.S. Forest Sen•ice, W ash ington, D . C. i\Larried R uth L ange, OSU '39.
T hey have two da ughte rs, one son, one son in -law. a nd o ne g randson .
L ESLI E J . SULLIVAN has re lumcd to
l'unla nd a fter n ear ly six yea rs in J unea u ,
.\Iaska. H e is now work ing in lit e D ivisio n
ol Tim ber l\fa n agcm cn1·, R egiona l O ffi ce,
U.S . Forest Se r vice .
E L ME R L. SURDA i\l is m a n ager o f th e
Fo rest In dus t ries R a di o Com munications
wit h nationa l headq uart ers in Eugene , Oregon . T h e as.~ocia li on fur Jfi yea rs has been
roordin a l ing for forest in d ustries the sh ;orcd
use of radio cha n nels for priv;1te two-wa y
r~ d io commun icat ion s.
G L EN N .-\. T H Ol\ f PSON is Assistant
Regional Forester, So u thern Region . U.S.F .S.,
Division of W atershed , W i ld life. Range,
~ l u l ti pl c- se Coordination. and R iver fi asiu
Plann in g. All this in p rogram developme n t
slagcs scallercd over II st ates spells action.
"i\ l y wife and I arc thriving in A t lanl a and
are enjoyi ng lazy living in 1his so u 1he m
clim ate ...
L. LF.S I.I F. W ALK F.R is assis t ani ch ief
d raftsm an wi t h i\ f ul t nu m ah County .\ ssessor.
Is s1 ill keeping property m a ps. Wife. ~ I ur i e !.
is on lhe Oregon School Boa rd ,\ ssn . as we ll
as on ~o u n t y a n d loca l dist rict hoard s. O ldt'SI d a ug h ln is a senior a t the (J. o r 0. Son
is a l'reshman a t O SU in e lcclron ics e u g in cering. ll ig h sehoul da ug h te r is at Edin burg h
Page Ten
for a year and yo ung~st is in. t he first grade.
" 'Ve arc dabbling wtth Chnstmas trees on
out· three acres.''
1940
L UC IEN B. ALEXANDER is a partn er
with ~ l ason, Urucc. ami Girard Consulting
Foresters, Portland . ' Vork takes him throughout the wes tern Uni ted States; once in awhile
into other sections of the U.S., Canada, and
l\fcxico. " 1 have two sons at OSU , both in
the Schoo l of Science. They found out about
dcvil's cluh, sa lmon -berry, and poison-oak
early in l ife.''
H013 AP I' LF.BY ha s moved to a new and
in terestin g jo h in the D ivision of Fi re COt~­
trol in the Region Office a t Por tland. H e tS
stil l resid ing in southwest Portland a t G909
S. W . G2ud Place.
HOW.\RD W. K1RI<PATRTCK has moved 10 Eugene as of Sept. 15, '62. ~-lis work
with the B.L.M . It as bee n most ly cruiSing and
log sea ting. His wife June, class of '38, is
teaching a ;)L h and 6th grade class at
!\ leadowlark Grade School in Eugene . O ld est
boy Tom was m a rried l~s t .Jun~ an~ graduates from the U. of 0. 111 mustc thts J une.
Larry is a sophomore in recreation and youth
work <tl the
niversity. Steven is a junior at
Sout h Eugene lligh . Edwin goes to Spencer
Butte r J r. H igh . . \11 s tay ht!Sl' • but will be
glad to see anyone s to ppmg Ill Eugene. Gi ve
a r ing.
FREi\IONT W. MEREWETHER is a land
and mineral specialist with the Bmca u of
Land ~ J anagcmcnt, Spokane, ' •Vashinglon,
a nd is respon sible for lands and minera ls app raisals and recrca1 ion planning on a ll
B .L.lVT. land in the state. Appra isals are
made on 1im berlands, grning, recrcalional,
urban, a nd comm ercial la nds. Current!)' conducting a min et·a ls and recreation al inventory for the slate of Washingtot~. Son Mi_k e
and daughter Kath leen arc marned and living in Seatt le. Mike and da ughter Jean attending U. of W .
ANDY \V. PRIRNOW- writes. " 1 left m y
family in Ar lington , Virgin ia while I sp en t a
year in South Viet N<un as chief of t he a irmobil it y section of the Arm y concept team .
We evaluate the effectiven ess of our Army
counter- ins urgency warfare doctrine as app l ied to the Viet-Cong. Coup d ' eta t here in
Sa igon a nd side trips to India, Hong Kong,
and Ran gkok have kept t hings from ge tting
too monotonous. Out· arm ed h elicopters and
a rm y pilots who fl y t h em are g iving an ou tstanding· account of themselves in a very
real and ho i war."
ALl J. SANDOZ- reports-"1 have lived
in Lon gview, Washin g ton fo r 18 yea rs. H ave
been pre-occupied wi th I n terna tiona l Paper
Co. s upplying [our sawmi lls. four pl ywood
plants. a nd a new paper mi ll with raw ma terials as wel1 as forest m anagemen t and
rela ted mauers. I would like to see O SU
handle public foru ms on resource supply
disc ussions of t he region rather than sch ools
unrelated to forest management. i\l y wife
.\nn e and children Joli, Frase1·, Cory. and
Sara enjoy o ut· cabin at Si lver Lake in north west Washington, which is decorated with
obsole te fe lling and bucki ng equipm ent. We
now have a driftboa t to fish for s teelhead.
,\!ways glad to see an old OSU acquaintancve a nd m ake new ones.
FRED J. SAN DOZ has been at 2517 Taylor
Street, Lon~vi ew. W ash ington . for two years.
si nce tcach111g forestry, logg ing. and milling
at Sout h ern Illinois U. as a visiting professor in 196 1. Jl e s ti ll has Lhe same problems in
logging road building, reforestation, proper t y
taxes. brush, wet climate, etc. "Pauline, the
new generation of two and I welcome you to
stop for a visit at a ny t ime."
R AY ST EWART ts co-own er of G. & J .
Tire Service . Corva ll is. R ay m arried fean
OREGON STATE FORESTER
Purtzer in I 940 and now have t wo boys,
Steven 16 a nd Tim 13. He is still active in
the U. S. Ma rine Corp reserve and spen t fou r
years in service duty during ·world vVar 11.
H is present rank is Lt. Colonel.
CHARLES TYLER is in the T imber Dep t.
of th e Publisher's Paper Co. and lives at
Mu l ino, O regon . Address: P. 0. Box 807.
1\futino, Oregon .
R URT W. UDE LL has been in consulting
work for 1he past 18 years. He has a son Jim
enrolled in OSU forestry school and a daugh ter Faye is a jnnior at OSU in entomology.
lan ct is eighth grade. " T keep busy with hobb ies hunting, fi sh ing, and tree fanning. Am
on th e Union High School Roa rd a nd presentl y involved in reorganiza t ion, which takes
care of the s pare even ings. Leb a non is one
of th e few high schools offering a forestry
counc, taught by Darrel Carlson, OSU }<ernhopper.' '
JAMES M . USHER is regional engineer.
l nter-1\Iount;tin R egion. U.S. Forest Service.
Ogd en, Uta h . His o ldest son J ames, Jr. is
attending OSU School of Enp;in eering. Ad·
dress: G45 E. 2750 ., Ogden, U tah.
ERNEST L. \'\TAGNER is propertv appra iser 11 1 (Timber, 16 years) for the Oregon State Tax Commission . in charge of
timber tax administration for Klamath and
Lake Cou nties. H e has been a Kla math Falls
resident si nce 1954 and his address is 4640
Peck Drive. Daug hter Tam graduated from
BYU in 1963. is m a rried and teaching high
school in Springville, Utah. Son Mike, tO.
and daughter J a ne l, 12, are in t he 5th and
7th grades at Peterson School where wife
I rene is the school secretary. "Fo r the past
10 years I have been b usy helping tax pri va te timber an d la nds in th e above t wo
co un ties. \>Ve have added some 400 thousand
acres of th e tenn ina ted K lamath Indian R eservat ion to the tax role and have seen a
complete change itt timber ta x laws in
csatern Oregon . Need less to say. it's been in·
Leresting."
H OWARD H . \VESTER. " On a bnsiuess
trip late last s umme r for vVestc r Bros. , Inc.
a p leasant night was passed in Corvallis.
Not h aving been in Corvallis for 23 years I
was astonished a t the changes which m ade
parts of the campus and Corvallis a lmos t
unrecogn izable. Apparently a few changes
had l<tken place outside Corvallis because
Rex Wake fi e ld had to identify me to the
"old rai lroader." Non e of us had any trouble
recognizing the school of Forestry building.
and a po tent , nosta lgic feel ing was taken with
me on departure."
CLINTON W TNN has been married since
1945. has two SOttS, Hi and 13. He is with
the J.. H . Ba x ter a nd Co. (pol es a n d p iling')
and ltves at 773 N. E. l it h St., Crants Pass.
LAWRENC E W. 7.ACH-reports, "we a rc
residing a ! Hidden Valley 1ree fa rms. Star
Rou te, Box 71, Si lverton, Oregon. Al l the
7.aclt's except myself, 8 of them , arc in
school this yea r. Fo ur in coll ege with a freshman, soph omore, a jun ior, and a sen ior. The
junior is ~ I rs . 7.ach. I work for Gilbert 1\'f.
Bowe of i\l ason , Bruce. and Girard mostl y
on b low-down management in L ynn County
for we arc over the hump if win ter s torms
don' t get o ut of hand ."
FRA N K LI R. LONGWOOD recentl y had
his piclure in t he magazine, " Forest 1ndusl ries" for February ha ving been appoin ted
to direct the new labo ratory for the U.S.F.S.
a t Princeton , W est Virgiuia. This la b, is
expecte_d to c~st $'~50.000 and will st u d y
pnman ty the m creased 11se of lower grade
hardwoods.
1941
LYI. E A. 13AKER- writes, " Have been a t
the E lkton Nursery for severa l years. The au nu a l produ ction has steadily r limb ~d to
\Ia rch 1964
where it is now- nea rl y 200 mil lion. The
fami ly is gelling a long rea l well. The two
boys are in h igh school and are active in
sports, music, and other activities. Best wishes
to all Fe rnho ppers."
DO N R . BAUER is forest s upervisor. San
Bern ardino Na tional Forest in sou thern
California , where he handles the southern most fernhopper outpost of the Pacific states
- no easy task in an area averaging less than
10 inches of rain annually for the past six
years! Brigh t spots fo r the past year include:
massive reductions in fire losses, down 92%;
d iscovery of larges t lodgepole p in e in t he
world n ea r Big Bear Lake d.b.h. 6.3 '; forest
visitations, based on traffic exceeded 7. 7
m i ll ion ; secon d growth site li T pine la nd
cu t in 1895 sell in g [or 20 th ou san d dol lars
per acre lll Arrowhead . With wife Jeanne
and 4 teenagers; Kath y, Don, Patti and
Steve lives in Riall<>.
D ICK W . BERR Y- reports-"1 live in
£'lagstaff. Arizon a where I teach fores t protectio n , recrea tion management, ecology, and
introduct ion to forestry. Received a Ph.D .
from OSU last spring. 1\fy wife and I have
two children one 7 and one 10. ' "e spend
most of o ur weekends Oil! of doors hiking. or
enjoying the fine fi shing here. Our s ummers
arc sp ent hiking in wilderness areas or
canoeing in the lakes of Canada , camping.
etc. No, I d o 11 't feel guilty abo11t goofing
off all s umm er. "
J . WAR N ER BLAKE resides at 258
Chanticleer Place, El Paso, T exa s. "S ince '49
my work has been considerably removed
from th e fie ld of forestry .. Frankly, it's a
pretty good trick 10 practice fo restry in this
part of Texas. For the pas t 14 years I have
been an insura nce adj ustor for Employee!
Group I nsurance Compan y. El Paso office
sup ervises Arizona, New Mexico, a nd hal f of
Texas, ancl I am presently a ssis tant s upervisor
over this area . Along the forest ry line, 1 can
report that I am m anaging a s tand o f 8 bearing p ecan trees. though , and in fact I may
d ecla re the property a tree farm particularly
afte r l get I he new house landscaped ...
RAY
DOUGH£TRY is timbe r manageme nt officer of the Sh asta Trinity Na tiona l
forest, R edding, Califo rnia.
LESTER C. DUNN of the Eugen e Dis trict
for the B.L.i\ T. has been selected to be the
n ew Chief, D ivision o f Range and Forest
Man ageme nt for th e B .L.J'I'I . in California. In
his new posi t ion in the California state offi ce at Sacramento h e will serve as tlte
Bureau 's chief technical advisor on range
and forest ntana~emen t for l!i.5 mil lion act~es
of publ ic lands tn Ca lifornia."
R ODNEY 0. FETY is with t h e R ureau of
Land Management , Portland, Oregon , a nd
sp ends most of his lime sa lvaging timber
over-t11rned a nd damaged b y th e C olumbus
Day Storm on 0 &: C and public domain
lands i n Western Oregon. H as a son a nd
daughter. bot h in hig h schoo l.
RALPH D. £'LOBER G was elected president and n at ion a! trustee of the Oregon
Societ y for Crippled Chi ldren and Adu l ts at
the organiz;t! ion 's seventeenth anmwl m eet·
ing in Por t land .
W AY E E. GURLEY has retired from the
U.S.F.S. H e lives n car the a irport in Cascade Locks and is busy in comnlltnity affairs, (city CD Director . City P lanning Com·
mission . Lio n 's C lu b .. \mer ican Legion Roy's
Sta te .)
VAUG H N 11 0£'ELDT reports- "with
Kay, '42, and three poten tial Heavere11 es, 3.
9, and 15. Have recently moved to Region
7 headquarters in Upper Darby, Pa . 1\f y job
is Bran ch C hief of Recrea tion. A ll h ands
a nd 1he crew arc looking forward to con tinu ing lesson s rn American history. No house
I'
address yet. lf you come east for th e fa ir,
cal l at the o ffi ce.''
l!:UGJ::NE .-\. H OFSTED. " This tn arks the
start of our fifth year at Orick. Calif.. lor
Geraldine and me. After 10 years in Hunthold! County. being forester for Arcata Redwood Co. s hould become a routine, bul the
managemenL of old growth redwood in con·
,·ersion to second gTowth is never I hat simple.
W e tell the public on Highway I 01 what
we are doing; some like it, some don't. Our
company motivated the Fish a nd Game Commission to conduct the fi rst e lk hunt iu 80
years this las t fall , and som e of t he pressure is of[ o n r reproduction tem porari ly.
Our son has a year sch olarsh ip at 1he art
~c lt ool at the Brook lyn Museum in New York.
Some of his work in po!! er y has been shown
in J ackson Square in San Francisco a nd
~lanhatlan. Our grand son walked across th e
Brookl yn Rridge before he was a yea r o ld !
We visi ted them on Oct. during i\F l'l an nual meeting."
\VOODWROW W. H OLL\ ND. "1 a m a
CPA and have been a part ner of Yergcn and
~ l ej•er, CPAs for seven years. This m ea ns
t ha t 1 am extremely busy this time of the
year with income taxes. ;\ t the same tim e
I'm sweat ing out t he world si tuation since
I h old the ra nk of Colonel in the M arin e
Corps. R eser ve. My wife Harriett has been
busy gett ing our two ch ildren through
school. i\Jarelyn is 15 and Tom is 12. Would
like very much lo see everyone, hut will
not be free unti l aftet- the 15 th of April. ''
LARRY T . MARSH ALL-writes, "The
famil y a nd I have had a fine , hu t busy year
righ t here in H um bold t County. We took
one week for a t rip to Portland a nd 1h e
Pacific Loggi ng Congress. Our interes ts are
now incl uding golf. 0n1er than t hat , il is
fami ly, logging, forestr y, and plywood m;n11t facttu·ing."
FRIT7. 1\1. MORRISON-reports that he
is Fire a nd ·watershed Staff Officer for t h e
We na tch ee N ation al Fores t. H e has spent
six yea rs on th e 'Ven a tchee with hot, dry
su mmers and cold, snOW)' winters. H as made
t h e Mot-rison fami l y confirmed east-siders.
Son Ft·itz L ee worked on the Rog u e N a tion al Forest th is summer and n ow is a
sophomore al OSU. Elaine, as leader o[ the
Wenatchee High School Applette Ol'i l l T eam
keeps busy in h er senio r year. i\fonte (age 4)
keeps 1\fyrtice and the old man young and
physicall y fit , in sp ite o[ th eir ever-i ncreasing age. "Th e welcome mat is always out to
an yone co111ing this way-1919 N. Harbc l
i\ ve.u
AL i\ I URI'JIY a llended t he 1!JG3 Water shed 1\ fanage mem Symposiu m h eld at OSU
last Marcil. AI works in ra nge mana~e u 1 cn t
research fo r the Un iversi ty of Cal tfornia .
Address: 1'. 0. I3ox 308, H opland , C;tli[ornia.
T ORREY .\. N EWTON retired form the
U. S. Navy o n the first of J un e. 19Ci3, after
2!1 years. H e is presentl y residing at 32 1
C hu rch St.. Empire, Cal i fornia . and attending
the Univcrsil )' o f Pacific, Stockton, C;tl it ont ia ,
~ loing graduate s t udy for a Master 's d eg ree
Ill educa o on .
R liS N IJ3LOCK is with the Division o[
Engineering, Regiona l Office, L1 .S. F .S., l'ortland. Rus is s till active in I ra ck at the age
o f 5 1. He entered the 300 meter run a t
t he Nort h wes t Olpmpic Developm en t Track
meet in Sea tt le, Sept. 14, 1963. H e casil )'
won over all compet itors in th e 40 year
age· class and pl;1ccd second in the open class
wit h a t ime of 37.9 secon ds.
CA RL PET ERSO N- is "stil l opera ting a
ponderosa pine cut-stock plant in Madras,
Oregon , furnis h ing blanks for window and
d oor frame ma n ufact urers . T h e b usiness had
a n ice grow t h last year bul nu l eno ugh to
be e ntire ly sa tisfactory. vVe are working hard
OREGON STATE FORESTER
to continue this kind o f dissatisfaction ."
A. H . R.\UCH is now located at L eb a non ,
Oregon, where he is m anager of Resea rch
and Development for the Oregon Division of
U. S. Plywood. He has a new laboratory
building and plenty to do. H is wife and
ch ildren are healthy and enjoying life in
a big rauchhonse with a couple of acres.
Clad lo b e b ack ncar OS U and hopes 10 lake
in more activities now that I.e is ncar .
ARTHUR H . SASSER is still working ;ts
farm fores ter with the State l'orestr y Depart m ent and is now serving Benton , Lan e, and
Douglas counties. "The defeated Octohet· tax
meas ure caused us some cha nges. After March
1st I wi l l be headq uartered with Eas tent
l.anc Forest Patrol, Springfield. Changed
place of living a year ago. The old place we
huil t in the urban a rea outgrew us.
an·
now living at a slower pace at 94 Greenacres Road , Eugene."
EDWARD W. SCH U LT Z is Associa te
Depu ty Ch ief, Na t ional Fores t Protection
a nd Development. U . S. Forest Service, Was h ington, D . C.
HERGERT U. SIEBEN is with the OSU
£'orest R esearch Lab on P h iloma th Road, Corvallis.
R .\LI' H F. YEATER is still with the State
Fo restry Dept. in Salem. His daughter Marci:J
is a junior at O SU in e lementar)' education.
DEA N FORD writes, "I am working itt
th e Bend District o[fice of the Deschutes National Forest in t he ·'Other Use'' section.
I n the summers 1 pilot the fi re suppression
crew in the DC-3 o ut of the Redmond Air
Center which is now under cons I ruction.
Hom e address is sti ll 326 N. 30th St., Corva ll is."
ROBERT AL HORN is a Consul ting En gineer at 55 S. Richl a nd Avenue, York, P en nsyl vania.
OWEN P . CRAMER is a research m cterologist and project leade r in Fire-Weather Research , l'.N.,•V. Forest and Range Exp. Sta.,
U.S.F .S., Portland. H e is presently e ngaged
in met eorological st udies in weathe1· variations in mountainous terrain . He initiated
t he Cascades Fire-Weat her Project in upper
C lackam as River Basin in 1963.
1942
T O I\ f C LIFTON - reports, " W e have se ttled in Boise, 1daho. M y wife Louise and
I h ave t hree wonderful daughters-Diattttc.
Doris, and G;t yl e. I was with tbe U.S.F.S. in
Calil'ontia about 10 )'Ca rs. Twelve yea rs ago
we moved to Idaho wh ere I ha ve been ;1
com pan)' forester , a land surveyor, a tax
commission forester; and m ore recently,
Terry Rncld , an OSU F e rnhopper, an d I
joined forces i n the consul ting field. lL isn 't
l ucrative, bnt it's a rea l ch al lenge and makes
one wis h that t h ey bad studied h arder and
lon ger. We like the In ter-Mountai n area rc;tl
well."
HARL.\ N D R. C.\R\1.-\T is Chief, Opcra t ions Branch l' ho togr;unme try Di vision. U.S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. He is responsible
fo r opera I ion of two a ir p hoto missions and
a ll photogrannnetric field s urveys in the
United Sta tes and territories. He h as been
nlitrried 20 years; no children . R esidence:
LaPla ta. Maryland. H e works in "'a s h i n ~­
ton, D . C. except [or man}' field assignmcnls
that in recent years have included fabul ous
places s uch as home ( Por tland), Vinalah aven Island , ~ I aine , Carolina Onter bank s,
.\m erican Samoa , and the entire H awaii an
g ro up .
R IC:IL\RD C. DU N L.\Y is "st ill wot·kin g
and l iving in Hawaii after com ing over h ere
in December of '60 to take job of State P arks
Director, with the Departnletll of Land and
Nal11ra l Resources. Our ljQth state is a
wonderful p lace to li ve, and I have been
lort unate to sec mos t o[ il due to t h e
''"C
!'age E leven
nature of m y work. During tbe p ast three
yea rs I have been able to keep u p som e contacts in Oregon t hrough correspondence a nd
with those vacationing here. Had a pleasant
talk with Jack Hann , class o[ '42, who spent
C hristmas in the Islands."
LOUIS L. G ILLI AN is the unit conserva tion ist for the Soil Conservation Service
located at Conden, Oregon. His work in cludes the Gillian and ' •Vheelcr County area
in which the responsibility of technical aid
to a landowner's conserva tion practices is
primary. ''The family includes m y wife Jean
and four children , Ch er yl, Ricky, Mary .Jane,
and J uliann , ran ging from 16 to 6 years.
.J ean is a good mother, o rganist at church ,
active in women's grou ps and a sewing in structor. The children are in high school
and grade act ivities. Lou 's tennis activity was
s hatte red last Ju ly with a fall wh ich res ulted in a fractured skull and ;1 ten week
la)•off in the h ospital and at home. Recovery
h as been good, with no pcnnancnt injury
resu lti ng. Bowling has r eplaced tennis on
my activity schedule."
L.\URE I F. GODARD-writes, " I always
enjoy reading the activities of the Fernhopp ers. O ccasioona l ly paths cross. The Godards
have been l iving in M ilwaukie sin ce 'ii2. The
ed ncation mill has been keeping m e busy
teaching at Milwaukie High School a nd now
a t the Rex Putnam High School o[ the same
dis tr ict. Before settl ing down here, i\fildred
and I took the two pre-school girls for a
year of study in a London school of arls and
crafts. Bicycling with one passenger each
was easy t h en . A boy a nd two girls tn ake
our fanti ly complete, b u t not so mobile.
13eth and Nancy a re in h igh school; J ack,
Sally, and J udy keep the grade school teachers bnsy. Though th e pace of forestry h as
le ft me in t h e days of the square w heel, J
enjoy keeping tab on things green and the
guys who include themselves in the s pecia l
class ca lled fores ters."
HAL E. GOODYEAR is s till p l ugging
a long with sand and gravel and building
mate rials. "Also ducking assessors who would
like to reclassif y two tree farms to recreat io na l homesite areas. .-\ few mo re sales
around us, an d we may be fo rced to ch a nge
our thinking. '~'e're invaded by flat- land e rs
1rying to get out of the s mog and a ratrace at any price."
LEW 1S T. HAYES is Portland Branch
~Janager of the Walter N . Boysen Paint Co.
This year he will be marketing a revolu tionary new vi nal acr ylic l a tex house paint
that ma y be applied on any exterior wood or
ma~on r y surface .
JOSE P H ].\EGER, J R.- repl ies, "Resigned
m y position as Director of Sta le !'arks on
D ec. 6, '63 and filed fo r t he Democratic
nomination for the office o f Secretary of
State for M issouri. All m y t ime now is spent
camp;ligning in hopes for a victory in the
p rim a ry election Aug . 4, '64."
CH.-\RLES S. LEWIS is working fo r i\Iason .
Br uce, and G irard and li ving in Corvall is.
Residence: •130 N. 33rd. H s is currently work ing o n a Master's d egree in fores t econom ics,
al OSU. ·'The weat her had more than a
lillie bit to do with making time avai lable
th is winter term . H ave n o ticed m ore th an
jnst a few gray-haired, wrinkle-faced s tuden ts
on the campus. Stop in and see us."
_1.\ GK C. 1\I .-\CE is forester for the Federa l
Land Bank in Spokane. During the past ~y2
)<'a r~ h e has appraised over 300 treefa rms
for timber loans. I n his s pare time h e appraises agricultura l land. H e and fam ily
recen tly moved across town to 141 19 N.E.
23rd Ave. , Van couver. \Vash ington. "Next
fall nt )' wife and 1 wi ll send a daughtet· to
co lle9e. Time cer tainly flies too fas t [or cont for t.'
·
·
·
O R EGO N ST ATE FORESTER
Page Twel ve
GEORGE l' . OSBOR N- repor ts, " W ife
H e le n , son ' Villia m , a nd daugh ters i\Iary and
Su san moving int o ' lumberm an's n ew bm~J C,
just completed al 8 11 lOth St., Oregon G1ty.
Since \Vorld W ar ll, h ave been workin g
a t the Kruger Lun•ber Yard a s office m a nager-purch asin g age~ t. Just e levated to .a
term as di rector wtl h t he ' Vestern Retatl
Lumberman 's Assn. Am looki ng forward to
s p ring sa lm on run in t h e ' .Yi llamette."
AN DREW .J . PAR IS, J R .- ~vrites, " A~t er
graduati on 1 s pen t 30 mont hs tn t he service .
Since '46 have been e ngaged in lan d su rveying in Lake O swego a rea . M y wife Do ro thy
an d 1 h ave been ke pt b usy wit h community
affa irs. T he ch i ldren Dick , 19, is in the
Navy; J anen c, 17, sen ior in high sch oo l and
wo u ld like to a ttend O SU this fall ; J ill, 14,
and Andre;1, 8. Best regards to facul ty and
fe ll o w cl assmates.··
C. K. (KEN) PEC K- r eports, " I h a ve been
wheat far m ing since out o[ Navy in "45, an d
o p er a te the fa mily farm at L exington , M or row Count y. W ife Lucille teaches sch ool in
H eppner. T wo child ren , Stephen is 17 an d _a
sen ior- is OSU bou n d t h is [all . i\lartha 1s
Iii and a freshm a n in hig h schoo l. T h e wh ole
famil y sp en ds its t ime campin g s ummers
and s kiing win ters. 1 ha ve a ski s hop in
H eppne r an d am a regis te red P NSI A ski
ins tructo r."
TOi\1 H . RADCLIFFE is s t i ll hold ing forth
a t 91 5 N . 9 th in Klama th Fa lls. H e is scaling
s upervisor for the local 'Veyerh auser p lant.
H is oldest da ugh te r is a j un ior at Eastern
O regon Col lege in LaCran d e and the yo ung·
est wil l be s ta r t ing school in two m ore
years. 1n be tween are another g irl and a possible fut ure i'em ho\Jper, thou g h he's more
i nterested in b aseba I and sledding right
now .
WiLL i t\ i\f E. WELC H is l iving in P or tland a t 19 10 S. W . W inthro p Ave. With his
daug h ter a nd twin sons a ll in co ll ege, both
Bill and R u t h are wo rking in th eir b usi ness
Cons tructio n Componen ts, i nc. The firm
markets s t r uctural wood systems to the cons u ·uct ion induslr)' in Oregon an d 'Vashing·
ton .
JOH N H . W iKST R Oi\f is Project Leader,
T imber Growing a nd P rod uct ion Econom ics,
D ivision of l'orest E con omics R esea rch o[ t he
lnte r-i\loun ta in Forest R ange Exper im en t
Sta tion , Ogd en , Uta h .
CA R W i N 1\. WOOL EY is E xecu tive ViceP reside n t o f the Pacific Logg ing Congress,
616 America n J.lan k Ru ilding, Portlan d 5.
Oregon . He 111arried Beverly Beier , class o [
-~I , and h is major hobby is La king care of
wife 's fuchsia's and steelhe ad fishing.
1943
L O U H TATT is s t ill selling Maytags fo r
the J\l a ytag Co . in Portland . H e en joys r e adin g ne ws a bo ut frie nds in fores tr y. H e sees
Brice TTammach often , and last su m mer he
ran in to Kei th C lar k.
llOB RUTH is s ti ll d o in g research work in
Cor va ll is. He is Jcade t· of the Sil viculwre
llf Truc-J\Io u n tain 11 em lock, Sitka Spruce
Western Ite m Jock Proj ect and a lso serves as
th e Directors rep resentat i ve a t the new F orest Scien ces Laboratory. H ome is a t i l ~ ~ 30th Street.
F. LERO Y Sl'lv \G UE is s till employed b y
the lJ.S.F .S. on the Boise National 1-"o rest in
ch arge of the L u ck)' Peak N u rsery tr ying to
d o his bi t to refores t the i n tcr-.\loun tai n
tegio n . He is fin ding it th e m os t satisfying
j ob yet.
1944
RLC K J O H NSO N-writes, "'After leavi ng
co llege 1 s pe n t 9 years wor king fo r t h e Bu r·
c;~u of E n to mo logy ;wd one yea r [o r the
U. S. Forest Service. 1 resign ed [rom t he service in ·5~ to accep t a p ositio n as fo rester
and land ma nager fo r t he Ch en ey R ed woods,
I nc. at Ar cata, Ca liforn ia. A t present i am
s till working fo r C hen ey R edwood s in the
llnmbo ldt nay area an d like the job . Be tty,
Ill )' wi fe, and o ur five child ren (3 boys and
2 girls) a rc h a ppily sett led in ou r new fi ve
bedroom h ome a t 11 05 A Stree t, Eureka, Cal ifo rnia."
LYLE F . SM IT H is ma rried , has 4 chi ldren
and is a Forest Sta ff O(fjccr on the T oiyabe
Na tiona l Forest in charge of recrea t ion , la nd
use, mine ra ls, a nd land ad jus tm en t. " Occasiona ll y see o ld Fernhoppers s uch as W.
L. '..V r ight, J ack Schum ate, R oy Sp rague , who
is a lso in R eg ion 1-"o ur, a nd m yself have spe n t
ou t en ti re careers o[ twenty yea rs o n t he
Toi y ~b c . Ga mb ling pays off."
i946
C H ELS I!:A .BR OvV NE is with th e llrowne
Lumber Co. in Springfie ld where he is p recutti ng and packag ing resid ential fa rm and
COlll lllerci;li b ui ldings in additio n to w bolesaling. C h elsea, .J r. is a sen ior at the U. o f
0 . Cheryl is a freshman at OS U. David an d
Erk a re in g rade sch ool.
l\ 1.\ FR ED I. DO UGLAS- reports- " the
Douglas fam ily is p lann ing a t rip to the
i\ fi dd le East a nd th e Orient wit hin t he n ext
18 months combining both busin ess an d
p leasure . As vice-presid en t o f Oregon Pacific
Forest Prod ucts, r a m pleased to an n ounce
contin ued growth o ( ou1· Nat ion al Sales
Fir111 . \·Ve h ave o pe ned t wo new sa les offi ces and added severa l m ore peop le to our
Po rtland sa les s taff, incl uding Cordon H op·
la nd , an OSU a lum . \Ne a rc p lan ning to be
in our ne w office bu ilding with in 12 mont hs.' ·
Prudence Dou g las (Hin d s) is back a t school
stud)•ing (or he r M aster's i n Middl e Eas tern
Affai rs, specia lizing in Arabic."
W.-\LLY EUBA •KS is presen t ly employed
by the Oregon Sta te Ta-x Commission as
Supervisor o [ Timber Ap p raisals. His h ome
is in Salem . He has a daugh ter in t he e ighth
grade and son who is a fresh m an fores ter a t
osu.
J . 1'. "JI M ' " KUEH NLE-writcs, "This
Fcrn h op p cr h as stra yed consid erab ly from t he
fie ld ot forestry." Is president and gen era l
m a nager o f Holiday P oo ls, I nc . in Spo kane,
Washington. H e is engaged in the ma ufacturing o [ t h e wo rld 's la rgest o ne-p iece, fiberglass sw immin g poo l an d a lso t h e dist ribution
o f a ll swim m in g pool supp lies an d eq u ip m en t. H e started in t h e pool business as a
sid e li ne to lum ber and hard wa re b usiness,
but t h e cat got to wagging th e d og.
ROBERT C. LI ND SAY- rep orts, "I moved t his year in early Sept. to Port Ange les,
"Vashington. ,\ m st ill with Crown -Zellerbach ,
bu t now working m ore in the a rea of sa les,
p u rch ases. a n d cl1 ip s u p ply. H owever, I a m
st ill with a tree fa r m as m anager o f the
Crown -Zeller ba ch Ol ympic T ree Farm-27,000
acres. "
.\ LV!N 1' . W RIGHT- wri tes, " M y wife
a nd i and two children h a ve been li ving
at St. Antho n y, Idah o. We moved here w hen
l hccame su pe rvisor o f th e Ta rghce N atio n a l
Fo rest in "59. Any O regon Stat n s passing
th n 10gh , slOp and pay us a visit.··
i\1 .-\ RS H .\LL T UR N E R wri tes t hat he is
with Tim be r Structures, i nc. in Po r t lan d ,
O regon . a nd lives at 4137 N. E. 28t h in
Port land . l i e has (o u r ch ildren , :\la rshall.
Iii, a sophom o re a t G rant , Step h en , 13. eig hth
grade . . \ nne, IU. and D oug las, 6 . .. I work
cu t the g rass, a tte nd PT.-\ , teach Sunday
Sch ool, coach Li ttle L eague a nd boys · b aske tball ga m es, p ay taxes, grocery bi lls and make
m o rtgage paymen ts. I get one year olde r eve ry !\larch . I l ave a good wi[c an d part·
ne r th a t keep s a ll the a bove tied together.
O ne o f t hese days we'll l ook back on it all
including o ur da ys a t OSU with t h a n ks to
a ll the fr ie nds who h ave made our way
easie r and m ore joy(u l."
llfa rch I 96 1
1947
J Al\mS H . BR IG H .-\ i\ 1- is "still ma kin g
t racks o n t he wind-swep t coast no rth an d
sou th of Ba ndon fo r l\l oorc i\lill and L u mber
Co. and lives i n Coos Bay. Son T im , born in
Corvall is in '4(i has m ade application to the
engineers schoo l. OSU , [or the fa ll of '6~ .
Best regard s to a ll."
.B I LL BU R GESS- writes, " moved to Sc·
att ic, ' Vashing ton lrom Be nd , Oregon in
1960 a nd a m now a forester wi t h t he I n terna l R evenue Se rvice. i have been working
with the k ids o n sp r ing board d iving wh ich
he lps keep me o ([ the st reets. Have fi ve
youn gsters •cattcred from co llege to g rade
schoo l.''
G I LB ERT i\ . GA RD N ER is p resentl y a
pa rtn er with Ga rd ne r a nd D abe l Surveyo rs
a nd Eng in eers, Sacra1n cn to, Cali fornia wh e re
t hey h ave a s mall o ffi ce o f 8-12 employees.
is a minera l s urveyor a nd a n occasional 1im bcr cruiser fo r the eval ua t ion o [ t imbe r
lands. H as little contact w ith fo rest i n d us tries, bu t woul d welcome mo re.
A R NOLD C . CIBSO t- wr itcs, " Am being
kept vcq• b usy surveyin g Sta te Fo res t la nd
boundaries and r unning out road s. T he wo rk
is sta tewide a nd enta ils considera ble tra veling. Lately, tho ugh , I a m being kept m ore
a nd m ore in t h e office check ing other p eople's work. A fa m ily of [our ch i ldren, t wo
boys 8 a nd 15, a nd two gir ls I I a nd 13, k eep
111 c busy the rema in d er o f m y so-called free
ti111e . T a king colored movies and repa iring
th e ca r arc m y bob b ies.''
EUCI!:N.E D . H ANNF.i\V\N-writ es, "Am
still headquartered at Salem with th e Sta te
Fo res try Dep t. O ur h om e is e ig h t m il es
so u th on R t. I. 1\ox 321, A·B T urn er. ' 'Ve
ha ve a Sale111 phon e, 36·1-3939. Our t h ree
chi ldren atten d Cascad e Fl igh . T wins L ori
an d Linda are sophom ores, Craig is a (j" J" "
freshm an. Barbara is cunent ly working for
the legislative inter im commi t tee on wildli fe ."
D ON ALD 13. l\ IALt\IBERG- T he year "64
find s t he l\ lalm bcrg"s enjoying life o n the
Oregon Coast. Living in Seaside a nd em ployed b y t he C rown -Zcllet·bach C oqJ .. a
b usy schedu le is assu red . ' Vork contin ues to
be in thin ning research , esta b lish ing n ew
tra ils a nd m ain tain ing e xis ting experi ments
in young g rowth sta nds o f coastal species.
W ife Stephan ie a nd d a ughter T anya arc
rap id ly beco m ing sk illed d iggers of the fa mous Seaside razor clam . \ •Ve a rc an xious to
see ne ws o f progress toward s cons truction of
a new School o f Forestry bu ilding a t O regon
Sta te U niversi t )'· O ur p roud old b u ildi ng is
no longer ad eq u a te."
H AR RY L. MERTENS is no w semi -retired
having w m cd over t he operation o[ his
g rocery busin ess to a manage r . H e has sp ent
a b usy summ er ma k ing t he h ydro- p lane racing circut with 16 yea r old son i\ !ar k, who
won the R egion 17-ll Stock H yd ro C h am pi ons hip . Da ug h ter L esley, 14 , s tudies pian o .
cla rinet , a nd fl ute . \•Vife Dodic, age Llll·
Ievea led , kep t ver)' busy keeping up wit h the
o th er t h ree men t1011ed a bove. Vacation ed in
o ld i\l cxico . P resen t ly in ves t iga ting oppo rtu ni ties [or investments in re;tl esta te .
JO H N EDWARD SCHRO DE R is "st ill
serving as d ep uty s ta te fores te r [o r l he Sta te
Dept. o f Forestry, Salem, Oregon. H owever,
t he a usterity p rogram in Sta le Governm en t
has resu lted in my filling in for t he ,\ ssistant Forester in charge of Fire Pro tection.
O u r son , J o hn , i.~ a junior in t h e School of
F orest ry, with our youngest, Ka t h )'. sign ed to
e nroll at O SU t h is fall-course o[ st ud)•
- undeterm ined ."
J .\ C K B. SH U I\.1.\TE is com p leting h is
>econd year i n so uth ern Utah . '"T he L a nd o f
Ra in bow C;myons " as su pervisor o f the D ix ie
Nati onal f or est. H is fa m ily s till includes
I\ larch I !JG4
'
I
t he sa me wife .\rvis and t wo sons .Jon and
Jim . "J on is struggling t hrough h is second
)ea r in pre-fores try at the College of So u t h ·
ern Utah w hi le J im explores t he m ysteries
o( t h e ith grade. We are readi ly en joying
this co lorful coun tq •. The D ixie ad j o ins or
surroun d s Zion and llr ycc N a tion al !'a rks as
well as Ced ar Brea ks and Capita l R eef N a tiona l 1\l onume n ts, so it is a fi ne place for
wa nd e rin g Fe rn hoppers to visit. Don "t fai l to
slop in i[ you come t h is way."
1948
1'1 f\ L!SS-writcs, '" i am in m )' 7 th year
with t he Neima n R eed L um ber C01npa n y,
Van N u ys, Ca lif., as sa lesm an and buyer fo r
o u r disl r ib u tio u yard . M y w i[e C onnie and 1
h;•ve been b lessed wit h five h ealth y child ren
and we love t his Cali forn ia su nshi ne. Ou r
a dd ress is 702G Andasol Ave., VanNuys, Cali fon da."
\
I
L E R OY 30 D transfered in J u ne, 1962 to
Su per visor of the i\lal h cur Nationa l J: orcs t in
.J o n n Da)•, Oregou. Fam iJy num bers unchanged for the last. 10 years, bu t eldest Sllll is
abou t to o utg row his fath er.
GORDO ,
BO RCHC R EVf N K- wr ites, " 1
have been wi th the Weyer h aeuser Co. five
) cars as a prod ucts sp ecialis t in the Mauu·
iact u red Pane ls T echn ica l D epar tmen t. i do
tech nical se rvice [or indust ri<li and cons truction acco un ts and h elp spearhead t he developme n t o f new hardboard prod ucts and
p la n t processes. I have [our chi ldren : Karen ,
J{; Beth, 12; E r ie, 8; a nd J an ice, 7. W ife
Nancy Car ter, class of '48, is 1h e hea d of
t he home eco nom ics d cparl111en t at L ower
Colum b ia Co llege in L ongview."
R IC H ARD A. CAM P BEL L is Jog bu yer
[o r t h e Roseboro L u m ber Co. of Sprin gfield .
Oregon . D aughter is a sophom ore ·at th e U .
o l 0. T wo boys in J r . and Sr. H igh .
NO RM CAREY-rep orts, "I o wn a nd
o pe rate a sh oe store in down town Alban yLong's Sh oe Store. I ha ve been here sin ce returni ng [rom Ko rea in '52. 1 Jive w ith m y
wife and t wo boys, R on and .Bard, at 1170
W a lnu t. R on is 12 a nd Ba rd , 9. T hey s hare
m y en t husiasm for sp orts, especiall y basketball. \ Ve n ever miss an OSU game and t h C)'
know mo re abo u t the team t h an I do . i\ ly
wi fe He t ty is b eg in n ing to forge t what a wom an 's world was li ke. H ad a rea l nice cha t
with fo m1cr dean P au l D unn a co uple of
weeks ago. H op e our friends will stop b y
and see us.''
l\II I.T EASTO N is "stil l a t 1204 3rd St.,
T illamook , where Mar jorie bas her hands
[u ll wit h t he t h ree children, John , 15; .Ja n in e,
12 ; an d J e ffrey, 10. \•Ve arc enj oying the
g reat t im ber count r y h ere as alwa ys, b u t now
in the i nsu rance busin ess as agent for Sta le
Far m . A II Fe ru hop p crs p lease drop by and
sa y hello ."
BOll KISC H EL-rep orts, " Am neari ng
t he complet io n of 12 yea rs serv ing Do uglas
Cou nty O regon as land agen t. T h e rising an d
fa lling o f t he t ides of p o lit ic ians goes ou each
day. As u su a l, some a re [o rest ry conscio us
and som e are 1 cry d isinterested. T h e issue
of loca li zed h igh er educatio n interests m e to
a g reat ex tent, hav ing been a j u nio,· coll ege
transfer to OSU myself. W e h ope to bring
t iH: matter of es t ~ blis h m cnt o f junior college
d istrict to a vote h ere in th e near fu LUrc.
Rea ll y d on 't pla n to run !\lac an y compet it ion ."'
AR T H UR
i\fC l'HERSON-wri tcs, .. It's
good to have the opporuniJ y to aga iu say
h e ll o to a h t mn s and fr iends. No ch aug(• in
' " )' f: un il )' s ta tus, just a li t t le o lder a ud , I
h ope, a l it tle wiser. St ill Jive at 107 Ten·acc
Drive. Chico. and h ang my ha t in t he same
o ffi ce, though now a p artner a nd sa les lll anager o r Yn ba C it )' l\l il l-wo rk ( 19G:I sa les, 3
bill io n) . l\ 1)' p rinciple citizens hi p responsi·
b ili t)' fo r "64 is chairman , B u l le Cou n ty,
OR EGON STATE FOR ESTER
Young Repu blica ns, and a member of the
Sta te Board, Young Repu blicans o f Ca lifornia. 1\ l y pe rsonal choice for President is
Sen ator .Barry Coldwate r of Arizon a! Good
l uck a nd best wis h es to a ll m y ex-class ma tes
and professors a t osu:·
JAMES C. ;\ l.\ 1 LEY. L t. Colo ne l l\ lan lcy
and h is wife are in th e O rien t and ho pe to
•ctum to t he U.S.A. iu l\lay, '(j l. Their
presen t address: 3l:ith Aid D ivisio n , Box 9 ,
APO, 323, San Francisco, California.
H .\RR Y G . PEAR SON is Assis tant Dis tr ict
W arde n in cha rge o[ the P rineville-Sisters
u n i t of the Central O regon F ire D istrict.
Lin da Ann is a j u n ior at the U . of 0 . and
on t h e ho nor rol l. Steve is a junior at C roo k
County High School, li'Iark is in t he 6t h
g rad<.:. R on is in t he 4th . '-~' ifc Anne is a
rcccp t ion ist at t h e P ioneer Memoria l H ospi ta l.
W I LLIS E. RAGLAN D-wri tes, " H el lo
from the Raglands. On ly Mom and P op left
a t ho me n o w in Baker , Oregon . St ill with th ·~
rorcst service in Recreation Land Uses and
.\dj ustm en ts. Son D ick is a so p h omo re a t
Eastern O rego n College in La Crande anti ·
cipating a tra nsfer lo OS U next fa ll. Son
£\i ll is a fresh man a t OSU in oceanograph y.
\Viii lr)' to make i<c mhopper Banquet t h is
year."
DAV ID H . ROGERS sp en t an int ercstin:{
s u mm er on the new frecwa~ ove r I h e Sierr.l
between Do nner La ke and Soda Spnngs. H e
ho p es to be a pa r t o[ t he sta te fo rce, b u ild·
ing free ways in Sa a·a m cnto this year .
JAMES A. RY NEA R SO N- writcs, '"We
have bee n in Arcata , C a lif., since gradual ion
in "48. For t he last five years I have been
Logging Super in tenden t for lJ . S. Plywood
in t he 1\rca ta-Eurcka area . My wi fe and l
h ave two u ice boys. Mark and Cary, th a t
a re grow ing fast. Tile boys a nd i had t he
p leasure ol attending t he "63 homecomi ng
game. We were im p ressed wi th t he growth of
t he campus. I t is good to see m an y friends
and OSU classm ates at t he logging con fer.
.
.
en ces each year."
D .\ RRELL H . SC HR OD ER IS vtce-prcst·
d ent o f the Rcll im R ed wood Co. and treasurer <llld general manager of the i\ l iller R ed wood Co. which is constructing a com p lete
new saw mil l at Crescent City, Cali fo rn ia .
C ER .\ I.D 13. Si\l!T H is n o w work ing fo r
t he Sta te Tax Commission as Timbe r ,\p·
p ra iser. H e has been wi th the state since
graduatio n and uo w has nearl y six teen years
in . H is ho me is in Salem ; fam ily nearly
grown . H as a son at OSU in engineering a n d
a daughtc•·. a j un ior in high schoo l.
W I L I.I AM I. STE[N received his l' h.D . in
Fo rest Ecology from Yale Un iversity, June,
"63 . H is d issertat ion t itle was "'Co mparative
.J uven ile Growth o f Fi ve Western Con ifers.""
Emp loym ent con ti nues in forest research as
leader o f seedi ng, p lan ting, an d nursery
practices proj ect, P N W Forest R ange Experimen t Sta t ion , P o rtland .
R .\Y 1.. T R EN H OLM is Dist r ict Wa rde n ,
Linn Coun ty }"ire Patrol Assn., Swee t If o m e.
Oregon .
SH E R WOOD C. TROTTER is tho ro ugh!)'
cujo ying his assigu ment as Fores t Snpen ·isor
of th e II iawa th a N a t ional Forest wit h headq uarte rs a t Esca na ba , i\l ichigan. H e an·
n on n ccs I len ry She rwood , b orn J u ly, '62 in
San ta Bar ba ra , California which makes a
to tal of fo u r daughters and one son .
1949
1\0B .\ LL i SO N moved [rom Tahoe Nat io uill Fo rest to Shasta-Trinity :-<a t ion a ) Fo rest ii S D cpu l)' Sup er visor in l\fay, 'G:l.
C. DW,\ YNE B LAK ' EY-writcs, " W e
moved from llkiah, C a lifomia in t he fall of
·n:J to ·123!; Scchcr Lane , Corval lis, Oregon .
I an • now working for Evan·s Prod ucts Co.
in Co rva ll is in the h ardboard division."
Page Th i rteen
C HA RLES V . CR OWE. l\ !r. and i\l rs. VIC
C rowe and fami ly are living in Sun land.
Ca li f. Vic is a Survey Party C hief wi th the
Los Angeles Cou n ty Engi neering Dept. and
a L icensed Land Su rveyor. T he oldest of t heir
t hree sons. Bmce is a &·es hman in the School
o f Scien ce at OSU.
H EN R Y C. D AVI ES has assumed the positio n o f Co unty Fores try ,\gen t in Lane
County as of A ugust '62. H e works out of
t h e court house in E ugene with forest farm ·
ers t h rou gho ut La ne County, a rranging
dcn•onst rations, to u rs, an d m eet ings, as well
as work ing t hrough personal con tact, mailings, and the news faci lit ies to br ing knowl edge to those w ho grow trees.
RO ll ER T E. EHM is '"stil l with the La nd
Dep t. S.P. Co. a t t h eir San Fran cisco head·
(t ua r tc rs. F orestry and lau d m anagem ent in
Calif. arc being affected to an ever- increasing degree by the p opula t ion boom. The
work is interes ting and challeng ing as usual,
b u t the re are more things to do than time
to do them .. \ m doing some work with the
·1-H C l ubs in San i\ fateo County in Christ·
mas t ree managemen t. llest regards to all."
TOi\1 J ACKSO 1 is opera ting a sand and
gr avel and concrete p lan t in A lban y.
BOB KLI NE-wri tes, " H ave p ut a lot o[
Lime o n the Cessna 310 th is past year, keep·
ing track of logging sid es in H app y Cam p
and i\ l cLeod, Ca li f., as well as a side here
in the Med ford a rea . L ately 'spa re Lime· has
been taken up teaching my three boys, aged
3. 6, and 9, to ski ; or maybe I should say
the)• a rc teaching me, on t he n ew l\(l. Ash·
land a rea ."
.BO H L AR SO N . "We arc home in Clack ·
amas. Oregon. I am s till in the T imber D ept.
o[ P ublish er's Paper Co . ' •Vh cn some of you
stump j u mpers a re up th is wa y, Stop ! P hone:
li58-2327.''
3 0 13 LECKLTDE R- reports. " I h ave recen t ly completed a year with the Uni ted
States Plywood Corp . a t R oseb urg. ll is qu ite
a d ifferent way of Iil e &·om t hat of the
co nsulting b u siness."
DAVI D R . McMI.t'!N is Assistant Superinteuclent o f the Clatsop D ivision, Crown·
Zellerbach Co ., a t Seaside, Oregon .
D EAN MEA DOR is curren tly l iving in
Cor va llis at 180 Weat h erford Way. Wife
J oan, daug h ter Vickie, age 7, Sh eryl, 13, and
son R ick, 15. For the p ast 7 years he has
operated K ings R oad B u i lding and Su p ply
a t 90 1 Kings R oad, Cor va ll is.
A. L. O 'llRTEN is assistant sales man ager.
Col lin's Pip e Co .. C hes ter, Cali f. H e has two
sons ;md one daughter. O ther OSC:cr·s at
Co ll ins are : Wal ly Reed , t he head fo rester,
aiiCl H an-y Demaray, tech nica l d i rector o J~ the
fre ig h t board d ivision .
E UGE NE O 'K EEFE-writes, " T am st il l
living in Port land, wo rking fo r the Forest
Service in the R eg iona l O ffice, Division of
lnfonna t iou a nd Edu cation with a tit le
"P u blic l n[o n u ation Off icer'."" \ Vc h ave been
here a lmost five years. O ur longest s tay in
o ne p lace siucc join ing the Forest Ser vice.
The [a mily n ow consists o f four boys and
o n e girl, wllh 'something else' expected about
June."
ROSS l 'ETRIE- w:ri tes, · ·~ry teach ing
duties with the Portlan d Public Schools include classes in l\falh in the gi fted child
p rogram . \ Vccken ds and h o lidays, i work
in the win ter sports p rogram of t he l\ft. H ood
:-<a t io na l l'oresl a nd d uring the summer
n w u t hs in the ir i nfon n a tiou and Ed ucation
p rog-ratn a t Timberl ine. O regon Il l L R escue
and Ski P a trol Acti vities fi ll my leisure hours.
M y wife C h arlene, sons 8 an d 6 . and <laugh ·
ter 2, a ll sk i a n d enjo y the out o f door op·
portun it ics or m y du al roles in the profcs·
sional world."
OREGON STATE FORESTER
Page Fourteen
HERMANN C. SOMMER-writes, " In
i\Iay, '63, Weyerhauser transferred me from
lhe Coos Bay o pe rations wl~ere l ~1ad. been
engaged in forestry and loggmg act1v1t1es ~or
the past 14 years. l am now Area Supcnntcndent at the Twi n H arbors Branch, R aymond , Washington. l enjoy the area ~ nd tl.1e
variety of problems encountered w1th different timber types: topograph y, markel ,
equipment, e tc. iVIy_ '.vife is now _w ell sett led
and anxiously awattmg the arnval of our
third child. Our address: Rt. 2, Box 12 A,
Raymond, '~' as hingto n ."'
J ACK R. USHER is presently Titnher .Staff
Officer on the Freemont Na llonal I•m·est
headquartered in l.<tkeview, Oregon. The
fami l y consists o[ a wife and two daughters.
aged I2 and 8. H e sees other Fcrn hoppers
Non n Gould, George Wardell, and others at
S.\F meetings frequently.
DONA LD D. WOODS works Cor the
U.S.F .S. as District Ranger o n the Siskiyou
i'\atio nal Forest in Grants Pass, Oregon.
i\ l;1iling address: P . 0 . Box 11 3 1, Grants
Pa:.s. The family consists of Mary Lon Wood ,
class o [ '48, and two daughters 13 and 10.
THEODORE (Ted) KOS_KELLA wri_tes,
''H a,·e been w ith 1he USFS sm ce g raduauon .
H ave been on various assignments in Idaho,
' ·Vyomin g, and Utah. P resently I am ass i~ncd
as Forest Su pervisor of the Cas_h Natwna l
Forest in Logan, Ul ah. Have enjoyed m an y
Cine association with Oregon State grads
l h rough the years. Family of [Ol~r girls ~nd
one boy, ages 17 to 9 years, e!"IJ.oy golfmg,
skiing, and other ou tdoor a C! IVIllCS. ' V1_£c,
.J oy, is active in Cirl Scouting a nd commumty
affairs."
1950
D AN ABRi\ H Ai\1 is still Fire Protectio n
and Lands Sta[fman with the Fo rest Service
at Klamath Fa lls. " After 37 years in the
rai n, fog, brush, and p oison oak, I am now
a confused 'east sidcr', not yet wearing 'Peak ed toed' shoes, but working up to it."
MORR IS J. ANDER SON- writes, " I am
1hc Forest Engineer fo r the Soul hwest ·washington Supe rvisory area, D ep a rttncnt of Natural R csuorces, Sta te of ' •Vashin gton. I have
two sons iu high sch ool and a son in the
4th grade. '"'e have Jived in Chahalis five
years and like il very much."
A LBERT J. APP ERSON-reports, "We are
still doing bus in ess at our Mink Ranch easl
o[ Salem. Our two boys' school work, '1-H
and music keep us hopping an y time we can
spa re fro m business. Dqring the summer. we
m anage a few days o f t1·ail ridiug. in the Big
Lakes area. Marjorie and I arc -l-H leaders
(2 clubs for her), and she plays in the
Salem Pop's Orchestra. I am a chrector ou
the fire board and o n the board o[ our feed
co-op a nd have just completed a term as
President of our local mink assn. and a term
on the School Board. For th ree weeks last
su mmer, we were host famil y to Gaudc ncio
Fe liciano, an Internationa l Fa rm Youth Excha nge boy [rom the P hilippin es. This was
a most fascinating experien ce which we h ope
10 repeat."
L. J AMES BAGLEY. "At the lime of this
wri ting we are still in R eedsport. l am
operatio ns m anager h ere for Un ited States
Plywood Corp. Wilma is very busy keeping
the young three BeLLy Lou, Alice Ann, and
Ronnie tra nsported to their man y schoo l
activilies. ' •Ve like it here, and we arc happy
to hear or receive visits fr ou1 old and new
Critnds. Come on in and coffee up on your
way throug h."
W•LLARD R. BERRY-writes, ''Th is J ul y
r will comple te m y l41h year with 1hc Stale
of Oregon Forestry Dept. l a m c urrent!)' a
Timber l\la nagement Assislant with the
Ti ll amook unit working o n timber sa les layOlll .utu J<hnin hu ~li o n. Our dni JU ,d <u t i:.
approximate ly 40 million board feet per yea r.
find the work very interesting since I
have a chance to be on th e sa le [rom the
layout to the plan ting of the new seed lings.
This past December the new ju nior high was
ope ned across the street from o ur honse.
Just south of the junio1· high is the elementary school. We have one son in th e junior
high and a son and daughter in the clemenlal·)' school. H aving them so close is really
I
convenient .''
ROGER R . STTAlVIARD-writes, " We left
for Washington , D. C. on J an. 2-l, via m icrobus in a raging storm. The transfer to v\lash ·
ington sho u ld be a good experien ce, b u t
hope to get back '~'es t some day."
R .\YMOND S. DALEN has just recen tly
been p rom oted and transfercd to a R ange
a nd Wildlife staff job on the LosPadres National Forest, Santa Barbara, Calif. H e was
fom1cr ly District Ranger of the Desca nso
Ranger District, Cleveland Nat ional Fo rest,
D escanso, Califo rnia. His new add ress:
U.S.F.S. Federal Ruilding, Sa nla Ba1·bar a,
Calif.
HARRY CH 1\ SE is "wit h Weyerhauser doing development engineerin g work, m ost ly
hoard products. ' 'Ve have fo ur ch ildren, ages
3- 13, a nd one car , well-aged. Enjoy tbe work,
the compan y, and the area. Less rain would
also be nice . H ome address is 3 155 Wildwood
Dri ve , Longview, \.Vash in gton."
TED ELLINGSEN is now living in North
Bend, Oregon . employed as forester for the
i\Ienasha Corp. which operates a plywood
plant. stud mill . and paper mill. "\ \le have
a famil y of lhree boys who a re a ll in grade
school. Currently extra activities include Cub
Scout master o[ the local p ack, Toast Masters,
and Coos Artists League. H obbies in clude
beachcombing a nd carvi n g. H ave a ll~ nde d
several enjoyable sho rt courses at OSU 111 recent year s."
GLEN D. FISHER-wri tes, ''Since leaving
the i\Iarinc Co1·ps. in '59 after e igh t years, 1
have been loca ted in Ventura County as a
Deputy Sheriff, which really is 1~1 y first love.
law enforcem ent. 1 now bave f1ve cluldrcn,
Glen and i\ lae, II ; Linda, 10; Douglas, 7;
Leona D ee, 6; a nd Gary 4. We just bought
a new $24,000 ho me in October and have
moved in and are very happy. As you m ay
have read , Ventura is the la rgest growing
county in 1he slate. We have a 180 man department here and arc adding more all the
time. l [ anyone I know is worki1~g in lbe n~­
tional fo rest here, I wou ld be n1te rested m
contacting him ."
ROBERT N. H ANSON. "O n Fe b. I. '6-l, I
will change companies, moving from Product ion Man ager of U .S. Plywood. Le banon
pla n t, to General lVIanager of J oseph ine P lywood Corp .. in Grants Pass. The H a nson
foursom e is looking forward to this move
with great enthusiasm. "
WESL EY S. HIC KS is with Crown-Ze llerbach Corp .• Cat hlamet, \Vashington .
DO UG LAS HU NT is slill a1 3724 S. E.
i\ Ia ld en St.. Po r tland wilh wife Millie and
om six childre n . ' "'e have been with the
Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experime n t Stal io n for the past four years. I find
m y job very in teresting and in traveling
thro ughotll Oregon and \ \lashington. have
an o pportunity to meet man y OSU classmates.
H AROLD 1-1. " BI LL'' KEI L- writes, "secon d son , Gr eg, was horn last Sept. join ing
Dick, 2. H ad a n in teresting trip [or Forest
Industries i\ fagazine into Nonhcrn B.C. to
see ri ver driving on the N ass Rh·er and logg ing along the Skecna by Celgar in Augusl.
.\lso a couple o[ days at Ketch ikan to see
Kcli chikan Pu lp's logging, in unbelieva ble
brig ht and snnn y we<lther (for Alaska) . I a m
~ pe nding InUi t: tilnt: 011 \\'ulld Wood, our
i\farch 19(;-1
Company's international pu blica tion and wi ll
make a six week trip to .Europe in :\Ia)• and
June to see logging and mill oiJera lion ovc1·
there- Germany, F rance, Swec en, Finland .
ami England. 'W ill a lso try to get a weeks
vacation for spring sk iing in Switzer land wi1h
Ward \<\li iJiams. class o f '48. ou r compan y's
Zurich representative (ed itor o[ Pulp and
Paper In ternational). Nearly all finish ing
touches on the i\'!1. H ood A-framed cab in
(after 3 years), so now we have the chance
lo enjoy it weekends."
ED WARD .J . KIRKPATRICK is wilh the
' \/estern Craft Corp., Alba n y, Oregon.
W ILLIAM R. KN IG H T is in his tenth
year with th e S0111h Coast Lumher Co. as
forester a nd engineer at Rrookings . Oregon.
H e and his wife have two sons and a daughter; R ay, 12; i\ like, 10; and Sylvia. 8. They
enjoy their home on a hill overlook ing the
Pacific i u Croft Lill y fields. Friends are
welcome to e njoy the view with them.
R013ERT K. KRELL "'(i<J Fent hop pcr
time finds the K rell tr ibe 6 d eep in T onasket,
Washington with !he U.S.F.S . Yes, Pat is sti ll
with me along with Kenn y. 14, Ricky. 12.
Kat h y, 10. and Rand)', 9. The work here is
no more or no less satisfying than other assignmen ts. but all of us are tired o[ our
nomadic li Ce and a re looking for a p lace to
plant some roots. Anyone know a good site?"
LLOYD H . LARSO N-writes, "the past
year was most busy an d pleasan t. T o round
o ut a heavy schedule, outside activi ties were
engaged in at every opportunity. Water and
mountain sports were some of o ur principle
endeavors which took us to ma n y interesti ng a nd bea u ti fu l places th roughout the
West. Lake Tahoe in Nevada a nd the SelwayBitteroo t wilderness area in Idaho were the
h ig hlights for the outdoor recrea tion . W hile
in Eugene, Laura spends m ost her extra ti me
working with handicapped ch ildren al the
Chi ldren 's H ospital. She wen t to summer
school at the Universi ty furthering he r education on hand icapped and retarded children. "
. MELVIN L. 1;-LEU RANCE is curren tly asSigned to Sequoia N atwnal Forest and is responsible Co r I he preparation of the recreation area plans o[ the forest. He and Virginia
arc studying the arts and crafts of rock
houndi ng at adu lt courses in Porterville, and
their five pe bble pups give lo ts of he lp in
scarchmg for cho1ce sam pies 011 occasiona 1
field trips to the d eser t.
J i\ i\IES W. i\fARTlN- writes, "1 am still
working fo r the Pack River Lumber Co. as
assistalll to the Woods Superi n tendent. i\1y
fami ly (wife and 3 children) a nd I seem to
have rooted righ t here in Sandpoin l. I daho.
\ l'e would welcome a cha nce to visit wit h a ll )'
classmates that come ti ns way for sk iing,
fishing. or a n y o ther reason ."
\V.·\ YNNE i\ 1. i\l A UK is Recreation Staff
Officer on the Los Padres Nationa l Forest,
San ta Barbara, California. The fam ily consisls of two g irls, ages 12 a nd I 0, and one
hoy 2\h. all hccoming well acclimatized to
Sou thern Ca li[. Lots of O regon Staters on
the fo resl.
C:\RL L
EWPORT-writes, '·by the
lime that T have wTi llcn 1ha1 l work in Port land in the Division o f I'orest Econom ics Research at the PN \ V Forest R ange Experi ment
Sta tion a nd live with m y wife and two sons,
all read ers wi II be out of breat h and the news
letter wi II be out o f space."
EARL E. N !C ll OLS. "T he f o rest Service
has us back in the ' land of Lassen · as a
S1aCC Fire Con lml O fficer after a si x year
campaign in Southern Calif. All 1hree boys
arc sk iicrs uow and arc finding Snsan\'illc
a great place 10 Jive."'
ROBERT E. l'ETERSO N-sa)S, " It's 1he
sa me report as last year. Forest Ind usl ry
Specialist Ind usiTial Developmen t Depart -
i\larch 196<1
OREGON STAT E FO RESTER
men t. Pacific Power and Light Co .. Portland,
O regon. 1964 looks like a great yea r for lhe
industry."
J ERRY PHILLIPS. "Rose and I came here
10 Coos Bay with th e State Dept. o[ Forestry
in '52. Now 12 ye<~rs and 4 additional children laler, we fee l like coast natives. Our
five children includ e a I3 year old daughlcr
a nd 4 sons. aged 4-Il . O riginally with lhc
p rotection division here, I have been assisling in m anaging the Elliot State Forest lands
for lhe past 7\h years. Perhaps lhc term
'sa l\'aging' 1hc Elliot State Forest would have
been more app1·opriate. for in '63 and '64 .
due to the wind slo rm damage in our second g rowth sta n ds, we seem never to lack
a challenge here."
FR.\N K E. PRICE. JR.-writes, " I continue to hold down the p osit.ion of Timber
Staff Offi cc1· on the Si uslaw. I took on th is
job in Feh. . '62 and moved into a new
house just sou lh of Lcwisbmg and lhe whole
fa mily is enj oying 1hc Corvallis area . This
is lhc largest com mun ity we have lived in
si nce gradua ting-the next largest having a
population of 360. The productive capacily
of the Siuslaw is a real treal 10 work with
in terms of tree growth , and T expect records
lo be mad e here that will be made d ifficult
for a ny forcs l to exceed."
.Jli\I RICHARD SON was "lransferred to
An chorage, A Iaska as of Feb. 3. with the
13.L.i\1. The new j o b will be a Training
Officer w ith emphasis on Fire Control. The
lure of 1hc 49th state holds great interest
Cor lhc whole fam ily.
have always hccn
in terested in the land of R obert Service and
.Jack Lo ndo n. O ur new address: c jo Bureau
or Land Ma nagem en t, Anchorage. Alaska:·
DOUGLAS S. Si\llTH-writes, "C reel ings.
fe llow Fernhoppers. T his past year has been
an in teresting o ne. i\fy work with U. S. Plywood in Lebanon has been varied and challenging. I have had the oppor!llnily to do a
great deal of developmen t work on basic log
measut·emellt proble ms. Th is past fall 1
participated ou a pa nel at the Pacific Log·
ging Congress. The p resentation involved an
appraisa l of otu· presen t log measuremcn1
practices and suggest ions for future developments to meet the needs of a sophisticated
forcsl industry. T his year I am Chairman ol
1he Willamell e Cha pter of the Society of
American Foresters. l'vfargarct and I have a
ti me keepi n ~ u p wit h o u r three chi ldren a nd
thei r ac1i vi t1es."
ED STAUBER-"have a new address this
year: 216 University Ave .. i\ Iissoula. i\Ion tana.
\Ve were trans[encd from Coos 13ay lasl
summer by the Bure<lll of Land i\lanagement
a nd a m now ho lding forth as District Man ager of the Missoula D istrict. ' •Ve miss our
fr ien ds in Oregon and J particular!)' miss the
big timber and stecl head fishing. hu t then
we a rc finding lh at i\Iontana has ils rewards.
T he one at l he momcnl is ski ing with the ski
area within 15 minutes drive. Next summer
r hope to gain some acquaintance with lhe
several wi lderness a reas nearby. Mon tan a is
<1 great vaca tion country and with this being
Ccntcunia l year o[ Montana statehood, we
hope tha t man y of o ur friends will visit us."
CLIFFORD i\ f. STEPH ENS has been employed for 13 yea rs w ith the Forest Sen,icc.
assigned to the Cleveland National Forest
the past 6 years and is present ly District
Ranger livi ng iu Sa nta Anna . H e is married
wi th daughter I I and son 16. R etained ready
reserve status wi th lhc Navy for the past 21
years. He spent two weeks on active du ty in
\Vash ington, D. C., i n November of '63 and
loured Capi lo l Hill, the White House, the
Forest Service headquarters, M l. Vernon.
Arlin gto n
<ll io n a I Cemeteq•. elc. T he lour
is highly recomm ended for all ci1izcns.
CH ARLES WALTER . Chuck and Claire
'"'e
wilh their six children ranging from 5 1.o
16 years have grown roots in Pacific Grove.
Calif. T heir home is on the ~ l onterey Pcnninsula overlooking the l'acifil'-a deligh lful
place to visit and the invitation to drop in
is open to all former classmates. Chuck's
office, D istrict !i Headquarters of the Ca lif.
Division o[ J<orestry, moved out o[ the renlcd
headquarters 10 their own new quarters at
222 1 Garden Road , i\lonterey last i\larch. Low
rambling architeclure set amid native pines
and ample room make it one of the nicest
offices in the state. Chuck would be proud
to show it to visi tors.
RO N RING moved lo Shel ton. Wash . with
Simpson Tintbcr Co. in '63 . H e is enjoying
his new home with salmon in 1he creek by
I heir fronl yard. and is enjoying the logging
production and the ronghesl conntry he has
ever seen.
RICHARD
(DICK)
WARREN- writes,
"Stop and sec us. ' 'Vc. !'at, Tom , 15; Patty,
13; Dick, I I; and I live at 5209 Dewey Drive .
Fair Oaks. I am manager of D iamond Na tiona l Corp. R ela il yard in Fair Oaks. Best
of all to our friends.''
C.\L WETSSENFLUH - writes. " I am
probably the most nntravcled foreslcr in R egion (j. H ave worked about 13 years for the
Forest Service and for that entire time have
either worked in !he coun ly in wh ich I wa~
born and 1·e;ncd or in the cou nty which
borders i t. At present f am headquartered
at Hi nes on the Snow i\lountain D istricl.
Ochoco ational Forest."
R . E. WORT HI NGTON is located in
Port land as a mem ber of the M1. H ood National Fores1 since '59. He was in the Recreation and Land staff for 2 years and now
Deputy Su pervisor. Sen ds regards lo all.
EDWARD C. H UGH is still with the
Crown -Zellerbach Corporation and has been
promoted from Forest Engineer to Loggin:;Supervisor.
TOM .JACOBSON has moved Cron1 i\linneapolis, Minnesota to Eugene, Oregon and
is now with the Lumberm an 's Buying Ser vir~
in Eugene. His new address is 282 Sterlin ~
Drive. Eugene, O regon.
1951
DAVID G . B.\ NTA has been lransfered by
Crown-Zellerbach Corp. from Port Angeles
Washington 10 Vernonia, Oregon, as of Sepl.
As Division Forest Engineer [or the Colu mbia D ivision. Ids major duties i nclude dirccl ion of forestry engineering in construction activities. One major project for 1961
will be the complelion of a 22 mile Cohnn hia [oresl road ma in line from Oi,·ision
heaclq uarters ncar Vernon ia to Scappose.
WI LLT:\i\1 E. BUTLER. " l a m st ill with
the U. S. Pl ywood Corp . here in Redding,
Calif. ' \lc have had a busy year with the 14
week slrike and lhc work connected with the
acquisition of the i\lcLeod R iver Lumber
Co. i\ly 1imc is divided between the i\lcLeod
and the Shasta operations. hut I live in
Redd ing. Janice and I have lwo boys, one
~~ and the ol hcr jusl a year. so we keep
busy."'
.JO H N L. CA RACOZIAN is "st ill enjoying
the 'banana belt· here in San Diego as Lands
Staff Officer on the Cleveland National Forest. The latest episode in the prob lem of
land I have had to tackle is lhe shortage of
mountain tops for radio, T .V.. and cleclron ics use, which in the long range planning
involves such things as the Tel-Star satellite. There aren '1 too man y Fern hoppers
drifting this far soulh , so l extend by inl'itation to all to come and enjoy sunuy
(smog free) San 0 iego."
1.. i\1. C:l-IRISTI.\NSEN is Forester wilh
lhe Santiam Lu mber Co. tn Sweel Home,
Oregon.
130B COLE keeps moving further away.
bu t is still with the U. S. Forest Serv ice as
District Ranger at Island Park in N.E.
Idaho. He hopes some day to take a vacation
during "good" weather and do some visiting
wi1 h old friends and p laces. In 1he meanlime, Bob and wife, .Jo)'· would certainly
be happy 10 see anyone that happens to be
in 1hat area.
DANA COLLINS is Timber Manager.
il.L. t\<1.. Medford. in charge of li mbe•· sales
for abou t 10% o[ the Medford Dislrict's 288
mill ion annual cui. After hnurs and weekends
he tries to keep up with his tivo daughters.
one son , one wife, cat. a nd dog. H e says
it gels tougher as one gets older.
ER WIN COW LEY is Actiug District
Ranger of 1he Petri fied l;orest National
Park in Hol bmok .. \rizona.
RONALD FRAS H OUR is living at 1367
S. E. !\fain S1 .. Roseburg. Oregon . Ron is
married and has three children. He is employed by Forest Industries. ln c. in D illard
as Manager of the Particle Board D ivision.
He recently toured seven European countries
looking at particle board and l umber plants.
H is wife wenl along for the vacation. They
report three week trip was very interesting
a nd informative.
GORDO N W . fRU ITS is still 1he Dislrict
Warden for the State Forestry Oepl. H e has
the Grant County unit of the Central Oregon D istrict. Gordon and his wife ' •\Ianda
have four ch ildren aged 2 to 9. and they
still live in John Da y, Oregon.
DA1 A. GRA I-! Ai\I is a partner in the
Hills Creek Lumber Co. at J asper where he
is in charge of the planing m ill. shippi ng.
and yard. They cut D ouglas-fir peelers into
specialty lumber products, dry, and machine
1hem to customer specifica tio ns and ship
100% domestically. Dan and his wife.
i\ larilyn. have 2 girls and 2 boys aged 10.
8. 5, and 4, and one white-faced Hereford
heifer. one Angns steer, one bird clog. one
cat- we'1·c still down on the farm . His league bowling average is l !i9.
WI LLIAM V . .JO 1 ES has recently moved
inl o a new home at 4440 Sta rk Place, Annandale, Virginia. Bill was transferred last July
from San Francisco and promoted to a position in 1he Division of Land Adjustments.
U. S. Fores1 Service, Washington. D. C. The
Jones · have 1wo daughters and three sons.
WI LLIAM V. D. (D O ) H l C:KER SONwrites. "Please dou 't think me <I lra i tor 10
the forestry proCession, since l have been in
I he .\ir J.'orce since graduation . I still have
the Chrislmas tl·ee [arm ncar Ol ympia and
contin ue my S.\F mem~Je.rship . I foun~l n_u1clt
usc Cor my fores try tr<unmg 111 1he .-\1r l·orce
especiall y tluring m y tour as a Hel icopter
Rescue pilol a1 McCord t\fll. O f course.
we' ll all [i nd usc Cor the little extra eduGI·
lion "i\lac" gave us thai ca n be used in any
profession. Now at \~' righl Pallerson AFB,
Ohio, near Dayton and welcome visitors. Lots
o[ hot coffee and cold beer. !' hone : 8642208."'
E. \RL i\1. K.\RLlNGER is going in to the
second year o[ his new assignmcn l with the
Regional Office in Portland. Di vision of
Tim ber i\Ianagemenl, mostly in appraisal
work. H is home address: 2208 S. E. !80th.
Portland 33. Oregon.
OON KISTNER is appraiser with the
13ureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild life in
the Portland Regiona l Office. Don appraises
real property, negotiates for land purchase,
and docs some timber cruising. His family
includes one son and one daughter.
CEORGE K 10 WLES is wilh the State
Tax Commission. Salem, Oregon. where he
It as been for the p<tst two years.
OICK L Ei\Ii\ ION- writcs, "I am still with
the U.S .F.S. as District Ranger on lhe Unit y
I'agc Sixteen
Ranger District o r the Wallowa -\Vhitman 1 a tiona ! Forest in Eastern Oregon . The long
winter nights in the b r ush alon g wi th the
wal e •· in this coun try has caused the fam •l y
to grow-three sons and three daughters.
I h ave been at U nity as a R anger since 1958
a nd e n jO)' the work, the people, and the hving in this p lace."
RAYi\IO ND i\'1. L UT H Y is still wi th the
Publishe rs Pa per Co. and has been assigned
to th e L u mber Di vision since last i\farcl1.
i'"IER LE A. MOSAR is Division Manager
Cla l lam D ivision , Crown-Zellerbach , nca r
Nca h Bay. H e states that this is wh ere a ll
t he we a t h er comes fro nt , as t he wea t herm an
says, "From Tatoosh Island to Cape lllanco."
R IC H ARD PLATT is still employed by t he
lJ . S. Forest Service, but curren tly doing
graduate work in public Administration at
USC under provisions of the _Government
Employee's Training Act. He wil l return to
the Paci fic Northwest in June. H e has four
children now-three boys an d a girl.
ARCH LE RICHARDSON. " Lucille and I
h ave 3 children , and I am presen tly working
with the Sky Corp. which distributes the
Fran tz l\ firaclc Oil Clea ner. I haven 't changed m y oi l for four year~. I am a ls? employed
with Lockheed as tool ltatson helpmg to kee p
the hugs out of missile tooling."
W ILLLAi\f F. Si\IIT H is sti ll with the J.
H. llaxter ;md Co. after 13 years. H e built
a new h ouse o n a hill in Ukiah in 196 I .
He has four ch ildren , 3 boys and a girl,
aged six months to two years. H e work out
or th e Baxte r office in Wi llits managing
timber h oldings and procurring raw rn atcrials. T he timber is poor, h ut the buck
hu n ting makes up for it. T here i~ . a lso goo~!
skin diving. Fish ing, and water skm~g._ H e rs
still married to the same woman , Btl hc Lee.
Address: 257 Mendocino P lace, Ukiah, Cal ifornia.
BOB STERi\ IIT Z is uow vice-presiden t of
the Intermountain Lumbe r Co., Missoula .
H is duties arc ad ministration of sales and develo pm ent. li as has been Chairman of the
Western Pine Assn. Grading Committee for
severa l years, and is presentl y Chairman of
the NLii i A Grade Standardization Committee.
H e is m arried , with two boys and two girls.
ERNEST THE UERKAU F is still with the
Three Po int Logging Co. H e spent last year
living i n a trailer at IUamath where h e is
logging a sm a ll tn1ck for U. S. Plywood. H e
has a two year o ld hoy and a new son born
Dec. I 6. He purchased a home wit h 10 acres
between Arcata ;mel Eureka where t hey stay
when they a rc n o t l iving in the traile•· near
t he logging o p era tion .
STU WELLS is st ill Uu it F orester with the
State f orestry De pt. a t T il la mook. W it h h is
wife, L uci, and sons and daugh ters Craig.
I I; Bruce. !!; Gayle An n ie, 7; Mark , 3, he
enjoys th e l iving on the coast.
H OWARD WORKI ICER is now with the
:-.lew York Li[e In surance Co. with office in
Albany, Oregon. Howard. his wife, and two
children li ve at 18 17 '· W . Broadwa y. A lbany.
l\1. E. (Bud) U R UH is sti ll wit h the
UST'S and was recently tran sferred from
Prineville, Oregon to P ortland, as forest
Engineer o u the i\11. H ood Nat ional Forest.
1952
DAVID C. C:ll ;\i\ I B~~R LI
writes that he
was married in 1952 and t hey now have 4
ch ildre n- 10, 8. 6. and -!. " I am still wi t h
t he Forest Service a t Cave J unction. I have
been worki ng on re forestation for three year s,
bnt will ch ange to miuera l claims examination soon. In my spare momen ts, the Boy
Scout troop, Cub Scouti ng, G ir l Scouts, family, fishi ng. sk iing, and a 16' sai lboat keep
m e b usy. I hope to get the sailboat on the
water this year. The co ffee pot is a lways o n
O R EGON STATE FOR EST ER
for any of m y fri end s, so drop in some time."
. DALE (JACK) FROST . " M y famil y resid es at Ba ker where we have been serving
[o r the past th rec yea rs as Fo rest Engin eer
on the \Vallowa-\Vhitman ' ational F orest.''
KE IT H PETRIE is D istrict :Forester for
t he I ndustria l Fo rest ry Assn.
KE NN ETH C. ROEGNER -wri tes, " I am
employed as Distri ct Eng ineer b y the B.LM.
li l y duties related to road construction , t-ccrcation construction , and main tena nce of
roads and recreat iou fa cil ities. Our family
consists or two boys, Keith Eric, an d Randal l
F. van. fi oys arc fin e playmates. \ •Ve are p lanrn ng a su m1n cr vacation to Ch icago to visit
[amily and fr ie nd s and take part in re11nions.
l\ lost of our activities are wit h ou r church
and employee fami l ies. "
GLENN S. SMITH- writes, " I have been
working with the Forest Service since gi·adua lton and for the p ast three yeal·s I have
been District R a nger on the Mendocino N ation~! Fo rest. Shirley and I have five children
rangmg from 3 to II years. About a year ago
we moved o ur h eadquarters from Paskenta
to Co rn ing and at the sam e time bought an
o l d~r home ten -r oom _home and a quarter of
a ~ll)~ block. O ne thmg about home-ownersh tp IS that you never lack for something to
do. Our address is 903 Ch ickeq• St., Corning,
California."
NORMA N R . SMITH-writes. " I am now
with ~he L?&gin K: Eugineering ?ept. of the
Gcorgra-~'actfic Corp. at Coqullle, Oregon .
\ •Ve a rc Ill the p rocess of m oving from P ower:~ to Coquil le. Ou r address at Coquil le
wtl l be 540 N. Cedar. Our four childrenBruce, 16; Ch r istine , 12; Dwaine, 10; an d
Al t hea, 8, have agreed to go wit h us . W e
hope that this wi ll be our last move for
so1ne ti rne."
RON Sl\IITII-writes, "Enjoying m y second year as District Warden For the Coos
Forest Protecti ve Assn. (headq uartcrs in Coos
.Bay)·. i\fary Lo u a nd daughters have taken
to. thts _soutl_r_ coast country, particulady its
mtld wmter.
ALLE ' K . STOLL is still with the Calif.
H ighway Patrol , but has moved to J une Lake
as the_ Resid ent_ Officer as o f J ul y, '61. T he
e!eva non the re ~s 7,600 fee~, ~nd i t is prin~tpa ll y a •·ccreauon a rea . Ftshmg and carn ptng_ arc strOJ_•g 111 th~ sumtn er wit h skiing
tak mg: over 111 the wr nter. An y Fcrnhoppcr
travcllng U. S. 395 south from Reno , drop
by and say h ello.
ELDO
D . STROUP-reports, " My wife,
Mary Lo u, onr two daughters , and I have
our home in R ed mond, Oregon . Tf I a m not
ou t fishing or hu nt ing, engaged in SAF duties
a;' Acting Chairman _of th e Cen tral Oregon
Chapt ~ r or out look tng for t tmbc r to bu y,
you m tght find n1e at th e office of Jefferson
Plywood Co. in Madras. We welCom e all
visits from travel ing Fernhoppers.''
1953
1\013 llAKER -writ es, " H a ve been wit h the
Engcne District of the B.L.l\ f. for n earl y
!'.~o years. !\l y work was recentl y shifted from
I •mber Management to the Resource section .
I am spe nding abo ut hal f my time in the
field in the office on future development
plans. fioth the child ren are in school n ow
which gives H ele n more time for coffee with
the ne ighbors. The Army Rescr\'e st ill
beckons each su mmer a t Ft. Lewis.'·
JO H N L. C HRIST IE, J R . "The Christie
family is still re posing in Olney. Oregon.
n ear Astoria where we en joy the beach and
h ills. Peg is busy in church work. whi le I
s~e m to get on evcq• sch ool com m illcc there
is. especial ly during b udget time. Peter. our
10 year o ld is gettins- read y for scouts. P ierce,
t he 9 year old is 111 a forestry a nd insect
•1-H clu b. Kathy, who is 8, audits a garden
•1-H club since her mother is the leader.
March J9<i-!
R c ll, who is a lmost 5. still helps wit h the
d a il y chores at home. \•Vc welcome any who
h a ppen to stray ou t t his wa y for ei ther steelh ead fi shing or h un ti ng. "
BE 1 1 ETT M . COUGHLA N is n ow with
the U. S. Forest Service In ternal Audit. H is
work involves t ravel to all the national forests wesl of the Mississippi and i ncludes
Al aska. He is headquartered in Portland;
home address: 148 N . E. !30th Place, Portland.
R USSELL KA HRE-writes, "The h ig hlight
of '(i3 for Be tty and me was be ing t ransferred
to the Supervisor's O ffice of the Sinslaw Nat io n al Forest here in Corvallis as Assistant
T M Slaff Officer. We arc enjoy ing our new
ho m e and work very m uch. Mapleton was
home to liS for about 10 years. Our address
i n Corva llis is P. 0. Box 143."
ARTHUR R AN KI N-reports, ' ' i\Iy wife,
Alice, and I have lived in Sacramento since
1953. ' •Vc ha ve two children, .James 10, and
Katherine, 9. I have been with the T opographic l\fapping Unit o f the Calif. Dept. of
Water R esources since 1957. Our mapping
unit is smal l, hut well eq u ipped. We have
a n electronic distan ce measuring system, S('Veral second order European Theodolites, and
penc~ul_um levels. a nd a stereo p lotting u ni t
consrstmg of three Ke lsh -typc ploucrs a nd
one C-8 tereo-planigraph . l\Iy job includes
planning mapping projects, design in ~ aeria l
photography for 1napping a nd rccon naisance ,
liaison wi t h aerial photography contractors,
a n d supervising the activities of the stereo
plotting unit. "
R OBERT SA UN DERS - reports, "the
Saunders fa m il y has been livi ng in Illinois
ro~· the past 3\1:! years. We arc not, however,
midwesterners. Con versely, we often t h ink of
our frien ds in ~he Northwest and eagerly
anttcrpate t he tune we can return tO th e
'fresh' cou ntry. The girls, aged 10 and 8,
have retained ma n y fond memories o f their
fi rst love, the moun ta ins and the ocean.
Bobbie, m y wife, a nd I join them in t his •·espccl. I am a Section Manager of the Process Development Group at the i\lasonitc R esearch and Develo pment Lab. I h ope to see
som e of t he old wood tecbs at the national
l'I'R S meeting in Chicago next June."
IRVING A. STEERS has been at Mill City
since I !.159 when the district was formed .
They burn a little slash , log, cruise, a nd
check mining claims, as well as look after
a bou t 225 thousand recreation visitors. The
D etroit R eservoir is proving to be one of
the m ost popula r water recreation areas in
t he sta te. We seem to be void of Fern hoppers on the north end o[ t he \•Villamc tte
Nat ional Forest. T he r est of the United States
is well represent ed , however.
BI LL STILES is Logging Man ager. Evans
Products Co., Roseburg, O regon.
R USSELL S. WALTERS. The Wa lters are
s till located at 125 Morris ,\ve., in Athens,
Ohio. H e has two ch ild ren , Jane .\nne, 8.
and Tom. a lmost 3. He is working as a Re,·ca rch Forester at the Athens Resea rch Center
of the Central States Forest Experime nt
Station. li e is worki ng on the sil vicultu re of
upland h ardwoods. llfo rc specifically, most of
his time is spen t on st u di es dealing wi th the
regu la ting
natural
regeneration,
factors
especia ll y finding ways to improve and regulate com position a nd growth in regenerat im~ stands. _In ~dd i tio n , h e is workin g on
proJects whtch uwolve the regulat ion of
stand density to achieve g rowth a n d quali ty.
1954
LEWIS E. GU£NTER is p resen tly a Forest T echn icia n in the Nort h Coast Distr ict,
Stale of Cal if. Division of Fo restry, at Santa
Rosa . Ca li f. He and h is family reside a t 17 15
T a hoe D r ive. 1963 brought a new addition
to the fa nlil y; De bb)' J o j o ined Lynn, lfi .
il l arch I!Jfi4
Donn a , 12, and Brian 2.
ERNEST D . HARI).M.\N -w rites . "The
family and I arc still enjoying our tour or
dut y in the Land of Enchantment. \Ve have
cmc son who is taking forestry at OSU and
om othct· son is a j un ior in high sch ool.
\ Ve welcome any of our many friends to stop
b)• as they p ass through.''
GENE C. H O LLOTER is still in J ohn
Day in the Supervisor's OITicc of the illalhcur
i'iational Forest where be is .\ssistant Staff
Officer in Lands H andling and Land Exch a nges . His t hree boys arc all in schoo l in
the first, second, a nd third grades . There
arc severa l Oregon Sta ters on t he forest:
Su pervisor Roy lionel, Fire Staff Gordon H agen. Wi ldlife Biologist R od Mi ller, District
Ra nger J erry Pa tch en,' and .Bob Naish, j ust
to name a few.
KE ITH R . LEA VITT is sti ll working [or
Edward Hi nes Lumber Co. in Westfir, Oregon. He recent ly acquired a new son, wl~i ch
e{Cns the score at two boys and two gn·ls.
In 1!!62 he passed the Oregon State l'rofcssion al Engineer's Exam.
ROBERf G . LEW.S is with the U. S.
Forest Service o n th e Bu tte Falls Ranger D istrict. Rogue River _ ational Forest.
ER ' EST C. i\lCDONALD is with the U.S.
Forest Service, Regional Office, P. 0. ~ox
3623, Portland, in the D ivision of lnfonnatron
and Educa t io11.
ROB i\ICPH ERSO t is still with the National L u mber Manufacturers Assn. as Nort h west A rea T ech n ical Re p resentative. Rob repo rts the work to be very in teresting since
it consists of promoting the . nse of wood as
a building nlaterial to a rchitects, engu~c~rs ,
school officia ls, an d whoever else ts wtllt ng
to listen. The office is al 808 lOCit h Ave.
N.E .. 13e ll ev ue, Washington . Hoh and h is
wi[e, J oan, have t hree chi ldren. Scott, 7.
S;d ly, and Stacy, 2. They would love to hear
from any of you who arc in the Seattle area .
H ERBERT !.. "BERT'' l'R.-\TT has been
work ing for the past two years in the Division
of Watershed i\fa nagemenl, Regional Office
( Portland), U.S.F.S. Prior to his present
assign ment he spent four years on the
Willamctte Nat ional Forest and four years on
the Rogue R iver ' ational Forest.
RI C H ARD SPRAY- reports, "I am stil l
with the U.S. Forest Service, Regional Office,
Division of Recreation , a fter almost two
years, and enj oy it enough to have rccentl_y
p urch ased a new home. The new address ts
t 380 N. W. !37 th Ave ., Portland 29. The
fa mil y now consists of my wife Helle, son
D oug, and daughter Ka1·en. T he work cntatls
rccre;ll ion planning an d adminislration, a
lin e o f work I didn' t anticipate, but now
enjoy it very m uch."
JIM AS H ER wri tes, " I enjoyed very n•uch
the quick visi t to the School of Forestry last
i\larcb. Am living at !>3 .Blackfoot Trai l, Ri mforest, California (mail at P. 0. Box 723,
La ke Arrowhead) in tbe San Bernardino
il lounta ins of Southern California wi th my
lovely wife, i\Iarily,. and o~r two daugh t~rs .
Pro moted to llaltah on Chref as Prevent 1011
OHicer of the Crest F orest Fire D istrict and
am still maintaining a consulting forestry
practice .. \m busy, but like my duties veq•
much a nd we arc fond of this area."
1955
R IC HARD L. BAR BER was commissioned
in the regular Army as Second Lieutenant.
.\rtillcry. soon after graduation. He saw scr' ice in Korea [or t hirteen months as a Jst
l.t. commanding an Arti llery battery ncar the
truce li ne . At present he is in Germany as
Cap tai n , Arti llery, with assign men t as Assistan t Bn. S-~ wi th expected tour of ~ years
c·nd ing in tile fal l of '66. H is mai ling address
is Captain R ichard L. Barber, 027'137 6th
OREGON STATE FORESTER
Battalion. lOth .\rtillery, APO 13!!, New York.
Y.
J .\iiiES R. C:R.\INE has left the Forest
Service and is with the Edward H ines Co. at
Westfir. "The entire fami ly is looking forWllrcl to being able to stay in one place for
awhile. We arc ~oing through the acclimatization to the Willametle Valley-rain-Qnce
again, but the second time it is easier. We
now have two young ones. n~aking life in trcsting, both at home and on the ski slopes.''
DAVID F. KEISER is Timber Staffman on
the Rogue R iver F orest. The family in creased to five last August 2<i, with the arrival of Nancy.
GAYLO RD K. PARKS is Forester, ·Modoc
National Forest on Devil's Carden Ranger
Dis I riel in Californ ia .
~ lf LTON SCH ULTZ assumed the position of n ight Sawmill Foreman at ' Vcycrilaeuser's Cottage Grove plan t in Feb. of '63.
H e previously worked for Brooks-Scan lon ,
Inc. in Bend . His new address is cf o of
Weyerhaeuser Co., Cottage Grove, Oregon .
1956
GEORGE E. BARR-writes, " illy wife
i\fitt.i, two children , Gar)'• 7. and Tammi<'.
<(, and I still reside at 163 Gregory Lane S.
E. Salem. I continue to work in the R ecords
~lanagement field
for the State Forestry
Dept. ~litzi is keeping fairly active as a registered nurse by working part time at th:
Salem Memorial Hospital. In March of 'Ci3
I accept ed command of Company D . 1st
Ha tta lion , 4 14t h R egiment, U.S .A.R . at Corndlis which keeps me busy."
.fAillES E. BREWER - wri tes, "I am still
with t he North T ongass National Forest in
Ti mber Management. ' •Ve took a vacat ion
tri p t h is fall t h rough the Northwest to Sacramento to visi t m y brother, an Air Fore
Flight Surgeon. We also had a chance to
visit many o ld friends a long the way. Now
we are ready to sta)' in Alaska for another
couple years. We continue to be amazed at
the way this country is developing and find
a lot of satisfaction in being able to help
in its development. ' "e expect our fourth
daughter on Fe h. 29, a sort of very persona I
contribution to .-\Iaska's growth. ' .Vc alwa)S
have th e latch string out for any OS U forester passing through.''
L.\WREt CT:: D. BROWN-reports, ''I am
going on my third year as D ry Kiln Fon:man for Rrooks-Scan lon. My family includes
my wife, Mari lyn, Doug, fi, and J u lie, 5 .
We greatly enjoy the community of Bend
and the Central Oregon recreation fac i li ties.
I am pondering a new area for fly fi sh ing
sin ce Rou nd Butte Dam covered m y fa,·orite
spot."
E DWARD 'I'. COBO- Ted, l\larilyn , and
three children arc now living in Cli[ton,
Colorado where Ted is the pastor of the
~lethod ist Chmch . The family plans to reI urn to Oregon in abou t three years, after
graduation from the ILIFS School o f T heology in Den ver.
WARREN G . DAVIES- writes, "We ha,•e
moved to Portland since the last news let tcr.
I am now working on Programs and Plann ing
in the Division or Engineering in the R egional Office. We are really enjoying the
big rit y life after living in a smaller town
for about 10 years. ' "e have spent most
of the time since the move putting t he finishing touches on the n ew house. landscaping. fi nish ing the basement off, etc. We have
a spare room now for overnight guests, so
if you arc ever in our neighborhood, stop
in and say hello. We are at I l:i-!0 S. W . Fairfield, .Bea verton. "
Jli\f FISIIER .- " For ' tile past year and a
hair r hav(' been working as Assistan t Personne l Director for the O regon Stale Forest ry
Deparlluen t at Salent. i\fy wife, four chi ldren ,
N~
Page Scv('ntecn
three boys and a girl , and I live at 52!!6
. \ •·cade .-\ ve., . E. H ope to see a lot or class
of '56 at the Femhopper .Banq uet next
.-\pril."
RICHARD G. fLANNER.- "After four
years in Kansas, a long way from an y 1 imbcr·, J oann, Jamie, and I are now living in
Washington, D . C. where I was transferred b y
the Soil Conservation Service. Although we
are sti ll a long way from any 32 foo t logs,
m y work in Contract, Administration , and
Program Management is challenging and rewarding. While we look forwa rd to ret urning to the \•Vest Coast some day, we find our
life at the Capitol interesting and can be
found a n y weekend taking in the sights with
I he rest of the tourists."
GERR Y W . KELLY is Staff Assistan t O ffice r fo•· the D ivision of Informat io n and
Education, Sn oqua lmie Nationa l Forest, 905
2nd Ave., Seattle, '~' as bington. He has just
completed his third year of try ing to rehnc
Forest Resources to the editors, educators,
user groups, and other city oriented folk.
There arc as many people as there arc acres
on his forest- ! y.j million-so there is not
much chan ce of his nmuing out o f work.
He sti ll lives at 3854 13!!th S. E. Bellvue ,
with his wife Carol and two sons. The wel come mat is out.
ROR ERT 1. KERR is still a t Shenandoah
National Park enjo)•ing the cast and the
job and gaining a lot of good experience in
adm i nistration , fire control, and the various
phases o f forestry . The family is no largersti l l [our.
NICK IURKMIRE- reports, "R usy producin~ the paper work that makes a good
organtzation cl tck . R ece ived baptism o f fire
at the \•Vashington State Legislture where
T worked in the inlercsl of Industrial Forest ry
in ' •Vashington. Engaged in several outside
activities and have a happy fami ly, one dog
;mel one cat, which helps the idle hours pass
rapid ly. And always glad to see an y Fernhopper that hap pens to pass t hrough ."
GEORGE L EONAR D is working in the
Branch of Management Plann ing and Inventory in the Regional Office, San Fr<Incisco. H e started his famil y with a boy last
February.
ROBERT W. ii!.\DISO . -The l\Iatlison
family is back on the coast at Tillamook . .Bob
has a job as R esident Forester fo r the Publisher 's Paper Co. H e says the Coastal Divi sion is both interesting and challengin~.
When you are in T illamook , his home rs
open . Don't worry abou t your kids as they
have four. Phone U I 2-4768.
fLOYD E . P AGE- wri tes, "I now have a
job of Protection F orester here wi th Weye r haeuser in North .Bend. \oVe bought our own
home in Sep tember aud sure arc enjoying
it.''
ROBERT J. SCOF IELD- P. 0 . Rox l!i8,
Walden, Colorado, writes, " St ill wi th the
lJ.S.F.S., but now D istrict Ranger on the
Routt National forest , in R egion 2. This is
great country, but a little cold for Ill )' web ·
bed feet. The [amily now consists of wife
Nada, and two daughters, Jenneffer, 4, and
Rebecca, 2. We expect another in June and
arc pulling [or a boy. Hope to sec any of
your that may be back this way.' '
DONALD H. Si\IITH was transferred to
the Columbia Gorge District, l\ft. Hood
National Forest, as D istrict Ranger, in October 'G2. H e recently moved headquarters
and residence (rom Cascade Locks to Springdale as a result o[ district reorganiza t ion
and expansion. He has a wi fe and t hree
children.
CU RT IS L. SWANSON-wri tes, " I ha ve
been D istrict R anger on the Ill i nois Va l ley
D istrict o[ I he Siski you National Forest sin ce
19Cil. Married Mill ie Nelson of ~Ied ford in
Page Eighteen
1956. We have two children , Karen, 5, and
E r ic, 3. I have been work ing on the Siski you
Nationa l Forest since graduation as Timber
1\lanagemcnl Assista_nl, Assi~tanl Ranger,
Project Leader on tnube_r t:emvcu tory, and
Recreation Survey. We IIWite ever~· one l?,
stop in fo1· coffee when t ravel mg th1s way.
,\1. THOI\ll'SON-writes, " For the past
two years I have b een selling life, accident,
and sickn ess insurance for the Standard In·
surance Co. of Portland. My biggest accom·
plish ment- group contrac t~ with the Ore·
gon State Employees Assoc1allon ? v_olume 60
m i llion dollars. Am presen tl y butldmg a new
home a t 359G Came lia Drive, S. E., Salem,
Oregou. Any o ld broken-down foresters please
call or stop by."
GENE TOlvlLIN- writes, " 1 am now with
the U. S. Foresl Service in Gardiner, Oregon.
1\fy address: 2500 Ga r~en 1_\ ve., Reedspor~. I
r eturned to Oregon th1s. spnng after spend~ng
six months in Alaska w1th the Forest Serv1ce.
!\lost of the time l was working on R ecreation 1\lanagement. l am now Res~ur~e Assistant o n the Smith River Ranger D1stnct. The
job includes recreation , wildlife, a nd watershed manage ment, and financial management for 1he District."
] Ai\IES R . WALLlS.-" Kath y an d 1 have
managed to accumulate a small son and a
large house while at Berkeley. We hope to
rc ln rn to the North west some time, al though
it will have to be after l complete my Ph.D .
in Forest Soils (Sept., '64?)"
DUANE K. WELLS. ''I'm still working with
the County Assessor's Office. I an~ currently
working with a study group that 1s attem pting to make Ca li f. tax laws more compaublc
with 1he grow ing o [ timber.. My ~vife , Pa t,
and I ;He livi ng at 4 1. 3 H1lls V1ew Ave.,
Ukiah, California."
NEl L L. ZIMMERMAN received his (ive
year service pin from Crown -ZelledJacb Corp.
last week . He is still in Vernm11a and st11l
u·ying to keep his wife an~ two boys from
getting western O regon cabm fever.
1957
JESS BARTON is District R anger, Tejunga
District, Angeles National For~st. H e was
married in ' ov. '63 an d now hvmg 111 San
Fernando Valley. His new address is 8629
Willis Ave., Apt. II , Panoran1a City, California.
G. ' ELS0 1 BEVARD-writes, '"1\fy wife
H elen. and Cindy, 6 , Scott, I V2 an d I are
enjoying life here on Ch esapeake Bay, but
have fond m emories or Oregon country and
our friends there. ·we built our first sailboat
about three years ago, sold it _at a nice profit , and wi ll begin constructiOn on a new
26 foot Ketch this s pring. My job as Chief
of Lands and Engineering for the Game and
Fish Commission keeps me busy w1th a cquiSI·
lion, dams, buildings, roads, and a ht tle b1t
of everyth ing else. Have o ne Civi l. Engineer
and a draftsman to help. Am work1ng mghts
on a degree in C. E . at J ohn Hopkins U ni''ersity in Baltimore. 1 heard from Don Kotcn
(fE ":i ?) a year or so ago when he cam e
east to work on his Ph.D. at Cornell. \Vou ld
enjo y hearing from others of the class of
'57."
LOU IS A. B LASER is Logging 1\fa.nager.
Oregon Timber Lands, Sim pson Timber Co.,
o iTice in Albany, home in Lebanon.
JOH N E. (JOCKO) BURKS. Til, is workill" as District i\lanager [or Timber Struc. u~LS In c. Spokane, Washington. H e is re,)()nsible for design assistance, glu-lam promotion , a n d g lu -lam sales fo r Eastern Wash ington, Northern Ida ho, a nd Montana. H e
is enjoyi ng Spokane and doing lots of camping and skiing. H is wife. Ru t h, teaches swimming in the summers. He has o ne hoy I y2
vea rs with a new bally due in i\ lay of "6'1.
.- \11 )' OSU 1· ernhoppers are welcome.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
DAVE DAVIS-writes, "I am working as
P roduction Corrdinator for Simpson T im ber
Co., Korbel. CaliL The work is exceptionally
interesting and enjoyable. Marge and T and
our four boys have b een in Northern Calif.
fo r 4 V2 years. We like the area and the
people very much. W e make about two trips
a year to Oregon so t he boys won "t g row up
wi thou t seeing the sun. Our address is 1'. 0.
Box 79, Korbel, Cali f. H ouse o. 31. Fernhoppe rs always welcome."
KENNETH L . EVANS - writes, ··we are
st ill on the Deschutes National Forest. Be ing
District R a nger at Sisters has kept m e ocwpicd for the last three years. J ennifer is 3
and J ulie 2. This has been the winter of the
"big blue snow'."
ROBERT E. FEHLY spent a little over one
year on the California coast as the Humboldt
County Forester . Tn Nov. of '63 he returned
10 the position of Company Forester for J . W.
Fisher Logging Co. H e is enjoying private
industry III llCh more than public. Daughter
Sarah, 6, Charlelte, ly2, a nd Dorothy, fine.
J. 1\1. FlNNIS lives at 428 Carlyon Ave.,
Olympia, \•Vashington- wri tes, "Fernhoppcrs
always welcome. Wife, two boys and self are
all nourishi ng. Working with the State Dept.
of Natura l Resources on Reforestation problems. Am u-ying to grow trees a nd control
brush. 1 paid a [lying visit to England last
summer, crossed the Atlantic in the time i t
takes to drive from Olympia to Corvallis.'"
BE NETT B. FOSTER-writes, "'We left
the PN W in the etem al search for knowledge in th e form of a Ph.D. in Forest
Economics at Duke. Bob Keniston first rubbed my nose in economics and now J i m
Yoho is he lping me keep my head above i1.
Oregon may be Cod's country, but don "t sell
North Carolina short (Jim and Marge Reed
shou ld get a kick out of that sentence.) .
This coun try is reall y beautiful in sp ite of
red bugs and green briars and t h e trees may
be small, but man, do they ever grow fast!!
We got a big thrill om of OSU meeting Duke
in the NCAA consolation game last year. Our
feelings? We didn 't want either team to win
b y too much."
C H UCK H ILL-writes. ··my new address is
Box G31 , Silver City, New 1\lexico, and is
good d uring the winter. The rest of the year
is "via mule' to White Creek R an ger Station
in the Gila wi ld erness. Davies, O"Leary, \Vii son, and Dane may now heave a sigh of relief-T"m out of th e engi11ecring racket, I'm
Ranger on the Wilderness D istrict of the
Cila Forest now. \>Ve have 7 horses and 12
mules for transportat ion. Finall y con vinced
the gal she ought to. so some time this spri ng
I'm going to be a b ride. I'm going to take
her 10 lhc woods and teach her how to 1·ead
a lransit. Ha ve a ball. l'ernhoppers:·
GERALD :-.1. HOLDC R AFER is with the
ll. S. Foresl Service in Dufer, Oregon.
GEORGE W . UDDlCOAT-wriles, ··r
am District Ranger on the Mariposa District,
Sierra National Forest. Peggy, the kids, and
1 are in good h ealth and happy. .\s always
the door is open . the coffee pot is on [or
road-weary travelers. we·d be glad to see
yon an y time. We live west of Yosemite National Park in l\lariposa, Calif. P . 0. Box
1001."
DOUG i\lORRfSON is with the 13.L.i\ f. ,
R oseburg, Oregon.
LESTER V. l\fULKEY has changed his
address agai n and is now in Seattle , employed
with the l nle mal R e ven ue Service as a forestcr. He. Alice, and Deborah are prese n tly
loca ted a t 211 4 5th Ave. W.
ZOLT.-\N MUTTNYANSKY
wr ites.
··since 19GO have been empl oyed by the
Western Office of D esign and Construction,
whi ch is a profession:tl oHice of 1he N a t io nal
l'ark Se rvice in San Fran cisco . rh is o ffice
1\larch
196~
provides [or pro fessional services in more
t h an h a lf the USA. Presently, l am assign ed
as Project Super viso1· to lhe 1\l t. Rainier National Park in \·Vashington . where mads.
large campgrounds, wa ter, a nd various types
of buildings are be ing constructed.""
EARL N ELSO N -writes, " We are back in
Corvallis again where 1 am employed at the
Fores t Scrvicc ·s F orestry Scien ces Lab. located 011 t he campus. Som ehow Corval lis looks
a little belle r to me than it d id when l was
here as a stude nt, a nd l think we will like
our new situation. Carol and I have a ucw
home at 293 1 Ashwood Drive which we arc
ve ry ha p p y wit h and would like to share
wi t h all ou r cl assmates and other fri ends
wh en ever the y migh t be in town. \>Vc have
no children yet, (Sometimes a wi fe can b e
enough t rouble on h er own) so lhere is
loads of room a nd som etimes it is almost too
quiet. W e will be look ing Forward to seeing
you."
SA N CA SABH ASRl co mp leted his Ph .D.
at the U11ive rsity of Washington in 1961 and
reports from Bangkok , Thailand that be en joys teaching a t the University and that he
no w has a new responsibility as the head
o f the Advising Staff in Forestry and Soil
Conser vatio n fo r the Ministry of National D cl elopmcnl. Sanga ·s wife, Cachira , is a graduate of the U. of Oregon , and is also on
the [acult y o f Kasetsart.
WI LLIAM H. SCHEUNER is ·'still on the
E ldcrado Na tional :Forest as TM.A of t he
Consumers District. Finally go t [ar enough
a head of the ti mber m arking business to gel
married last Nov. to R osemary Anderson, a
long tim e ·rric11d .' I doubt if she will curtail my sk ii ng activities, sin ce she is quite
a ·snow bunny· h erself. Last su mm er I was
happy to h ave two undergrad Fcrnhoppers
give me a helpi ng hand in scales. Roy
Scantlebury and Dick Nash did a fine job." '
FRANK W. ST. CLAIR . The St. Cla ir
famil y now includes two girls ;md two boys,
aged 2-1 3. H e h as been in Port Orford, Oregon for t h e last four and one-hal( }'Cars
working for Western State Plywood as Tiruber Divisio n l\lanager. The door is always
ope n and t h e coffee pot on at 903 W . Lake
Shm·c Drive . Drop in .
FRA N K TORKELSON is working as Budget Analyst [or tbe Sta le of Ca lif. He is assigned to t h e D ep t. of Conservation which
includes th e DivisiOn of Forestry and D epartmen 1 o f Fish and Game. T he work is interesting but h e misses the woods of Oregon.
DICK TUTT- rcports, "Num ber 3 chi ld
was born in August. \•Ve fin ally got a boy to
keep up with th e two girls. I gave up working for Uncle Sam, both Arm y and Forest
Service. We a rc Ji ving in Eugene where I
am a Forester for J . H . Baxte r and Co."'
LEO W. WILSON-wri tes. "I am u ow residing in Da llas. Oregon with m y wife,
i\lary Lou. and lillie ones Short y, Kathy,
Bo b . Lo ri, and :\lary. Am Distri ct \•Vat·den
of the \•Ves t Orego n Forest Protection District and am still working to keep fires o ut
o f the fm·est and fern. "
L:\RR Y L. WOOD.\RD is still working
wi th the B.L.l\1. in Roseburg, and is presently in charge of the a ccess, re forestatio11.
planning . and recreation activities north of
R oseburg. H e Fin d s the j ob very rewarding-.
but wish es more Fernhoppers would join h1s
organizatio n . R ccemly Fran k Snell aud J ohn
Mears joined him. Says it 's gratifying to see
thai Mac is still pu lling out top-notch foresters and th at h is wife had a baby girl last
O cl.. so th ey now have two boys and a girl.
1958
HOB ARNDOR FE R is work ing wit h Geo rg e Cook, '5!l. 011 1hc De schu tes National Forest.
1\1 arch 1964
.JOH N G . BAR13IERI-wri tes, "1\fy wife,
Mary An11. our son 1\Iatthew, and T reside at
G02G Osage A ve., Do wners Grove, Illinois. I
have been wo rkiug with Fran k Novot ny and
.\ ssocia tes. Consulting Civil Engineers sin ce
.June, 19GO. I am happy to report to Rill
D <~v ies a nd Jo hn o ·Leary that an FE can
d o t he same work as a Civil Engi neer if he
h as the desire to do so: ·
JA CK D . BARRJr GER was 11 am ed t' irst
Junior Citizen of the Yea r i n Swcel H ome.
CLF,MET W. BERLIER -writes, " ! a111
wor king fo r T ygh Valley T imber Co. a1 T ygh
Va lle y, Orego11 , a nd have been since !\ la rch
o f ·.~ 9 as a .Foresler. Nan cy and I have four
chi ldren. lwo g irls and lwo boys . We live
i11 a large farmhouse on Juniper Fla t seven
nli k s (rom the mill. Besides cr uising all t he
Forest Serv ice sa les that come u p in this area,
Frank Thomas. m y b oss. a nd J worked up a
logging plan to take 6.4 m i ll io n boa rd fee t
off compan y land each year."
C.\RL 1\l. BER NTSEN . "'Fou r years in
Bend h as con vinced us that th is is the p lace
to li ve . Year round sports activities sa tisfies
the ex t ra-curricular requi rem en ts for m yself
a nd Kcilh , 13. while evening stud y at lhe
budd ing Cen tral Orego n College keeps l\ la ry
occup ied . Geoff. 2 \1:!. r eflects his approval
by con tinning 10 be hea lthy, and somew h a t
overl y acti ve youngster. Novem he1· 2fi, 1963
m ark ed I h e occupan cy o[ t h e new Fo rest
Service Silviculture Labora tory at Ben d by
ou r research sta ff. These fac i lit ies w ill con t ri b ut e grea tl y toward our research objective
to develop il nprovcd si lvicul t ur al p ract ices
fo r 21 111illion acre.~ of com mercia l forest land
in eastern Oregon and \•Vashi ngton .""
PAUL E . BUF FAM- reports, '" I a m working as an entomologis t in Tnse ct an d Disease
Con trol for the U.S.F.S. Regi ona l O ffice in
l'o nland. l\l y principa l job is in [orcsl in sect b iologica l evalua tion, bu t 1 also p ar ti cipate in survey and con trol act iv ities. Lasl
summe r I was Project T echnica l D irector on
a 70 tho usand acre s pra y projecl against t he
He mlock Looper in sout hwest \.Vash i ngton.
On Oct. 15, 1963, m y wife p resen ted me wilh
a fin e son and t he t hree or us reside in
lleaverlon, m y hometown."
C.\RL G. C.\Rl.SOr is back o n th e job
as D ist r ict Engineer on t h e Co llawash District
ot the 1\l t. Hood 1ational Fo rest after a two
years a bsence to the Army. He was s1a1ioned
at R ed stone Arsenal in H un tsvi lle, .\labam a.
where he wo rked as a civil engineer on misslc
tcsl fa cil ities. He brough t hack a n Al<1ba111a
bride to G od"s coun t r y. She is a lmost used
to th e rai n now and things have settled down
to gelling th e job done. T h is in cludes r aising
a new daugh ter.
WALLACE N. CORY-writcs, ··1 am hoping lo go to eithe r Stanfo rd or Un iversity of
Ca lif. nex t yea r for a l\laster"s degree in
H ydraulics, as I wi ll be gett ing my Bachc lor·s
in Civil Engin eel"ing th is sp ring. W e h ave
o n e child. Steve , aged 3y2 . O ur address is
I 613 Campus Co urt , Corvallis."
ROBERT W. (BOB) CR ,\1\ IEH..-wri tes,
··Lasl summer we were transferred from t h e
Eas1 Coast hack lo ' Cod "s Con nlr)'· · H om e
address is 1341 S. E. 17 th !'lace, Port land.
. \111 still Logging Represen tative for Calerpiller Trac tor Co. The territory is lhe West
Coasl fro m Alaska to i\Iexico."
i\1.\HLON R . HALE lives a 1 Rt. 2. 13ox
9. Tiller, Oregon and is still worki ng on the
Umpq u a National Forest. The fami ly is t he
SCII11C site.
Cl l.-\ RL ES H . T-1 .\RDEN. New address: 1'.
() . Box 8:1. Chemult, Oregon .
J OSEPII 13. HOLDF.R-wri tes, "'Th e onl y
rh <Inge fron1 lasl year is less hair on Ill)'
head . We a rc st ill in Corvallis. so d rop by."
IIOBE .J O N I~ S is working [or the L. H .
Butcher Cu ., a division of Wi lber-E ilis Co .,
OREGON STATE FORESTER
sell ing agricu ltural chemicals. i\ lost of his
work is with the fo rest ind ustry in brush
control. T hey a lso hand le a pretty comple te
line o f fo restry equipment. H e covers Ore·
g-on and \ Vash i ngton . wit h P ortlan d as home.
I lis wife, Doroth y, is b usy ch asing you ng
J o nes·, l\latl. Dan , and Bart. ,\nother brot her
due early th is yea r fo r t he boys.
OTTO F. KR UGER tran sferred to R eddi ng in Febrnar)' of '62 and i~ presen tly in
charge o[ t he Forest Developm ent Program .
li e has been able to ind ulge in his new
hobby. skin an d scuba di ving. New address:
c j o H.L.M ., 2460 At h ens Ave. . R ed d ing.
Ca liforn ia .
J O H N R . L \ NCRELL-rep orts. ··wi fe.
Cheryl. and 3 ch ildren , Ron. Kelli , an d
Kimberly Ann are l iving in Gran ts Pass.
where .J oh n is D ivi.sion Super visor of the
S1a1c f orestry Depart me nt."'
CR .\I G 1\lacCLOSK.EY is en ter ing the U ni versity of Oregon l\ledica l School i11 the fall
of "G4 after finishi n g pre -med a1 l'ortla nd
Slate College. H e h as two gir ls, aged 4 and
I lh· H is add ress: 4280 S. W .. Chcsa pcak Ave..
l'orlland .
J O H N E. l\1. \ LO NE- with t he U. S. t'orest
Service in Kelso, \Vashin~ lon, writes, ··pat
and I have a real bouncmg baby boy, I !l
mo n ths old. and a girl d ue in 1\ larch . .\ s
Tl\1.\ on the Spirit Lake D istr ict of the
G iffo rd l'inchot. th e sm allest district in the
Region. I have a lul to do becau se it is
calcu lated as a one-man job . H ope to sec you
from 1i mc to t ime.''
LARRY i\ IERR IA I\1 is teaching foresters
abou t Recreat ion Land Use at Mo11 tan a Sta le
Unive1·si ty a 11d n1aking ta lks on wi lderness:
st udies an d ski i ng on the side.
T HO MAS
JOSE P H
P ATTERSO N-reports, "Th e lr>tvels of the l'allerson fa m ily
have brought them back to Wash ington
hom I llinois. Ou r 7 yea r old daughter is in
1he second gr ade and our boy h as reached
the independ en t age o[ 4. I belie ve he is
going to be a woodsm an , since his favor ite 1oy
is a h a ndsaw wi th which h e tries 10 fall th e
legs of 011r ch airs. My work in T acom a wi t h
1he .\ p pl icd Research Lab of Lhe Douglasfir Plywood ,\ ssn . cont in ues m y in terest in
struclu i·al app lications of g lued wood produels. He len contin ues to enjoy bridge whenever t ime perm its. La tely, 1 have been infected wit h a 'bl u e nose disease· con tacted
by wild-eyed e lk hun ters."
C:L.\ Y E. PETER S was married in No1.
an d transferred fro m Sequoia an d Kings Canyon to t he M t. R a inier 1a tion al Pa rk. H e
lives a n d works at P a ra d ise, where th ey now
have l!i fee t o f snow and lots of good skiing-.
.JOH N 1'0PP1N O-reports, ··1n Oct. of "62
I was 1ransferred [rum Estacada lo Ihe USD A
R iver base survey p arty in Salem . A week
la ter our third ch ild , a boy, was born . It
seems like ever ythi ng ha p p en s at once. \·~c
arc now settled a nd h appy wllh t wo g1rls 111
school and kin dergar ten and one boy who is
in10 every t hing. T he coffee pol is now a l 4840
R iver Road, Nor th Salem, so slop and have
:1 cup."
RI CHARD .-\. PRYOR resigned from the
Calif. D ivision of f oreslr)' in Sept. and
started teach ing the two year fores t techn ician program at Sierra College, R ockland,
Cal if. H om e is st ill al 460 1 R igler St.. Fair
Oaks. Calif. T he welcome ma t is always ou t
at college or home (or an y l'ern hoppers passing th is way.
r ERR Y R . R UDD-writes, ··our abode is
in Lcwislon now. where banana trees gTow in
1hc snow . Ha! \ Ve a re ou t scratching [or ourselves n ow under the name of "lll ter-i\lountain Ti mber Services.' 1\fy pa rt ner, Thomas
Clifton . an d I a re 1hc size of it. 1\l y la nd ly
stil l cons ists of two acli ve boys. b u t it won ' t
be long u ntil th ey are tramping in t he woods
Page
~ i neteeu
wit h D ad. Ou r address is 15 11 Alder Dri ve.
T here is a n extra bedroom and j>lenty of
victuals j ust wai ting for our [ricn s.'"
GLEN , A. T HOR NT ON is working with
1he U. S. t "orest Service as Ti mber Managenlt:IIl ,\ ssistan t. Smith Ri ver District. Siuslaw
National Forest. H e has four chi ldren: I girl.
an d 3 boys; t he last boy arrived in June of
"fi3.
R O BER T L. SlPE says "'hi" from a point
as far west as a forester can find himse)(
in the con tin en tal U.S., where a Fcrnhoppcr
feel s righ t a 1 home i n the lush growth , steep
mountains, and lots o( ra in. Bob is present ly
Resource Assistan t on the So leduck R anger
Dist rict . _Forks, Washi ngton. H e was presented w1th a fu t ure forester last spriugRona ld . bo rn 111 late May, who can 't wail till
he ca n rom p out i n the back wilh his older
sister Sh aron. Welcome mat is out to all
Fern hopp ers.
C II A RL~ K. SIGLER is at the Waldport
R anger. Statwn . Wa ldport, Oregon . H e has
I hrce g 1rls a nd expects one more in July.
J AMES A. Si\!EJKAL states that Ius fa mily, slil l consisting of a wife, three ch ildren
a nd himself, has esta b lished a new mileston~
hy residing at one address: 908 Larrieuc
Drive. Euge ne, for 29 consecmivc months.
H e is still h ead q u artered at Georgia -Pacific"s
Spnngfi eld . Di vision. Stop in any time. Welcome m at IS ou t.
G LENN R. WICGI~S reports no new
n ~ws 111 l'?rt Angeles t h 1s year. He finds 1hat
k1ds and li mber grow well here and his roots
gel deeper. H e tried a b it of sk iing this season a nd is ~ nj o y ing iL just enough to keep
I rom break tng somethin g before the Field
season hegins. Se nds regards to a II Oregon
Sl ate frie nds.
V l~ R N P. YERKES is with the U . S. Forest
Service. R_ocky M t. ForesL and R ange Experiment Statwn . Rapid Ci t~• 1;ield Un i t. worki ng
as a Research Forester 111 Forest Products.
R1 CH ,\RD
D.
ZECHENTiVIAYER- reporls, "We a re still busy at B lue River- me
with the Giusli na exchange and the wi[e
~n d t_wo girls. 1 have ?een in charge of cntislllg u mber for Gmstma exchange wilh the
f orest Service. Thi ngs h ave been going qu i lc
well; tha t is, t hey were unti l 1he January
snows which now keep us in lhc office. Hope
w see ever yon e al Fern hopper's Banquet."
1959
STEWA RT H. AVER Y is now working for
lhc B.L.M. a t R oseburg. No fami ly or any·
th ing e lse exciting to report.
VE R N CH URCH is with the Hampton
Lu mber Sales Co . in P or tland and resides at
4G05 S. W . 27th , P ortland .
RI C H ARD G. ELLIOTT- writes. " l have
been with Lh c Longview F i ber Co. since
gra d uation and am p resently being transferred from shift Chemist to Assistant Srock foreman in t he pape r mi l l. M y wife. Shirley. and
1 recen tly p urchased a new home in the
Lexington a rea north of Longview. Our new
address is 206 Louise St., Kelso, Washington."
L ARRY G. ELLIS is presently at OSU
work ing toward teach er certifica1 1on at the
second ary level. He wri tes, '"T here arc now
two of us. so we seem to be twice as busy
as before. Janet l\lac Pearsall, class of "60 .
became 1\lrs. La rry Ellis in June and is
p resen tly teach ing in E ugene. Throughout
most of th e yea r '63, 1 worked for the con·
su it ing firm of Bigley and Feiss in E11gene.
P rior to th at. I was wilh the Timber Service
Co. in Sweet Ho me."
R ON ALD G.-\LDABINL ""After graduating in "59. 1 sp en t two )'CaJ·s in 11te Navy.
T h en, in '60. I m arried the fo rmer Karin
Sum111c rs of Eugene. In February of "li2. I
SI<Irled work wit h the Forest Service on the
Detroi t District, Willa mette Nat ional Forest.
~ l y wife an d 1 with our daughter, Christine,
Page Twenty
live a t the Ranger Statio n a t Detroit.. A t
presen t , with two fee t of snow al the stat~on ,
my work consists of timber sales, appnusa l,
a nd reforestatio n pape r wo rk."
.JOSEP H R. GRIGGS. Th e Griggs fam_il y
is still in the Grass Valley area and hke
it very 1nuch. They find 1~10rc than enough
>~CI ivi tics including SAF, Lions Club, church ,
etc. , ;~s well as hunting ami fish ing. J oseph ·s
wife, Shirley, m anages the h ome front Wi th
1hrce he lpers while J oe h as a few th ~msa nd
acres of timberland to care for. He 1s now
cmplo)•Cd b y the Yub_a River Lumbet: Co. in
Grass Va lley; work mcludes m anag1ng the
Co. la nd, forestry services to loca l landown ers a nd working wi th ~o ntractors in. ha1:vest·
ing sales. Sends best w1shcs to all Ius fne nds
in O regon .
LeROY C. JOH NSO t . "The J ohnson's are
now three with another on the way. A ft er
com pleting the course work fo r a l\laste1: o f
Science a t OSU, we moved to Placerville,
Calif. where 1 wor k as Assistant Fo rest
Geneticist for the R egion 5 Tree improve·
mcn t P rogram, U.S.F.S. Our la rgest projects
arc 1he mass p roduction of kno ~· Cone, iVIontcre)' • and J cffrey -C? Iter h ybnds _a nd, the
b reeding of rust resiSta nt s u ~ar pm c.
.
C LAUDE KING is presentl y 111 partnersl11p
with Wal ter l\Iaxwell , known as Maxwell
and King, Surveyors and Engineers. P. 0 .
llox 1421, San Bernardino, Calif.
\V1LSO N L. i\IACKENZIE-reports, "After
grad u;~ t i on , I wen_t to wor~ for Pope an d '1~~1 bot Lumber Co. m Oakndge unttl Nov. :>9.
f hen Uncle Sam asked for my services. From
'59 to '62 I spent most of my_ time in German y with the i\ rm y. I marned a German
girl , and we are now back wtth Pope and
Talbot. I am day shi ft fo re ma n in the sawmi ll. ' •Vc have on e child, 6 mos. named
Sybille. "
JO N E . ME ' AND-writes, ''Wife Cynthia
and three sma ll ch ildren, aged 3, I \12. and
8 months, arc enjoying the snow cou ntry at
Pinecrest, Calif. After two and one-ha lf years
in the Army at Fort Be lvoir, _I returned to
Ca lif. in ,\ug. '62 10 start with the Forest
Service o n the Stanislaus Natio nal Forest. I
spent o ne year in timber management on the
i\fi-wok District. 1 then tra nsferred to th e
Sununit District in Sept. '63 to begin work
in the new Visitor Inform ation Service Progra m as Forest Naturalis_t. .\ Fernhoppcr
needs to be more than ttmber beast these
days! Enj oyed seeing friends at homecoming
this year."
GILBERT F. OEKERi\I At reports that
h is family has stopped grow il~g, h_c hopes. He
has four ch ild ren n ow a nd ts st tll w1th the
Douglas-fir Plywood Assn. in I heir Tacoma
La b·.
W 1\ YN E E. ORR is still at Flagstaff with
hopes of moving this pring. His fami ly nun~ ­
bcrs the same and the one two year o ld IS
wild enough For awhile, even tho~1gh it's
J anuary. H as been on IWO 10-acre fu·es this
1110nth. There is usually a cold one in the
ice box, so stop b y au y time.
C:LI ' TO '
I'ETERSON - writcs.
"T he
fam ily and l moved to Baker last Sept.
where I am work ing as an Area Engineer for
the \\lallowa -'Vhittman Na tiona l Forest. I
spent pan of Ill )' time on the ·wallowa River
side whe re I work on road plann•ng location, design, a nd ~ons tru c tion. Th e remainder of m y t1me ts spent worktng o n road
m a intenan ce and trail location . We have
enjoyed the snow this wi nter and are becom iug avid toboganists."
R . A. PE'l- rEY, JR . is still wi th the Coos
fl ay bran ch of Weyerhaeuser Co. at i\lorth
lleud . The family is well. Li ves at .-\llegan y
eve n though th e address says Coos I\ay.
D rop in when in the vicinit y and be shown
o ne of the fin est tree farm properties around.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
Work load varies, but he is ca lled In ventor y
Forester. If you want to write, the hom e
address is Coos River Route, 640, Coos fla y.
Oregon.
KENNETH D . R AMSI NG-writcs, "The
Ra111sings, now numbering four , with twin
sons born in August. still reside in Eugene.
Ken is looking toward the end of the work
fo r the doctorate in business at the Un iversi ty of Oregon."
DAVID K. RI N ELL reports from H awa ii
that they arc proud pa ren ts of Audrie i\larie,
born J\'f ay 27, 1963.
RAY SCH ENCH re ports, "after six years
as a smokcjumper and one year as Assista nt R a nger in Idaho, 1 decided to quit
being a bureaucratic pa rasite, so I resigned
an d_ went to work ~oi n g P ine logging
e ngmeenng [or Ketchtcan Pulp Co. in
Alaska. l won the tree topping and hand
bucking trophy at Sitka in July at the all ·
,\_Iaska Timber Cant ival. I a lso did a sky·
ch vc parach ute j u mp into Si tka Bay, just
lo show them how to do it. In short I am
sing le and happy."
'
M ELVI N SOUVEN IR says that he will
be released From the ser vice in Feb . o f '64 and
furth e r reports, "'We have had a pleasant
tou r in Europe. Our plans arc indefinite as
to 11:hat ci_ty we will be living in, but know
t ~ wtll be m l~t e Northwest. Our fami ly conststs of [our with Carole, 3 yea rs, and Dan n y,
I. H ope to sec man y of you at the next reun ion."
C ~ UCK . SWITZER-reports, " following
a1~ mtc restmg tour o[ 27 months in Japan
wtth the Army, I am through with active
dmy and back at work with the B.L.M .
Home is 960 Pattc_rson Street, Apt. D , F.ugcn c.
A one- month tnp through the Colorado
Rock ies, Southern l>ine region a nd Lower
Eas~ C?ast was an enjoya ble break prior to
bcg1nnmg work. Spent I y2 clays touring the
TVA p rojects __ and_ theit· forest nursery in
Tc~1 1~essee. Sknng IS now a m ajor weekend
act tvtty and several acquaintances with Ore·
gon Sta ters have been renewed through con ·
tact 'on th e slopes."'
LEROY T AYLOR , JR . is sti ll with the
~;ali f. Oi vision of Forestry, bu t is now located
111 Oroville . His prin cip le liSsig nmelll is In spection and Administration o f the Sta te Forcs_t I~ract i cc Act_ and Rules on private land
wtt h tn the nattonal forest boundaries. H e
is n o w married and has three boys. He just
purchased a new house so he now has a ll
the tria ls '!"d Lribulations of a ll famil ym en .
An yone gomg hts way, sto p tn a nd ~ay hello
a t ~5 R osetta Wav. O rovi lle, Cal if.
D.\LE A. WOOD . On Dec. 14, 1963, at the
Presbyter ian Church in Salem, Dale married
.J oa n 1.. Klcinke, class of 'GO, at th e U. of 0 .
Dale is still with Wi lla mettc N ational Lum ber C~>- a t Foster . Ore~o n , as Forest Eng ineer.
J oan ts an tnstr uctor m Art e ducation at th e
L:niversi ty o f Oregon . ' Woodacres' , Sweet
Home, is the home of Dale and J oan wh o
recently mmed in to their new home which
Da le and h is Dad buil t.
E0\1'.\RD F. ZO NT EK- wr iles. " Our fam ily now includes m y wi fe .J e ri, our son Ed ·
ci te. and o u r d au!)hter Shawn . In Ma y, a [ter
onr Oregon va ta twn. we moved fro n• Cres ted !'Iuiie. Col.?rado to Gunnison. We 're right
on I-b g hway :>0. '"c have plenty of room for
a n y of o~t r friends passing this way. I have
b~c n . Asststant Ra nger on th e Taylor River
Dtstnc t of the Gunnison , at ion a l Forest
for two years. Most of the workload is devo l ~d t<;' range and rec1:cat io~1. Our ranger
s ~ a llo n IS at 9,000 (l. whtch gtvcs us a shon
~1e ld season, 6 mo nhts at th e most. Spring
IS a Iways welcome by everyone, except th e
skiers."
FREDERICK R . LaB:\R is with the U. S.
Forest Service on the \\'as>~tc h Nationa l Fo r-
i\1 arch I 96·1
est, Utah. His duties d eal with the develo pment of recreation site pla ns. In addil ion
he is responsible [or the coordination o f
recreation planning with e ng ineering conside ra tions including road locatio n and d es ign
by wor king closely with the Forest Engineer.
Married stallls: still single. Address: 446
East Third Sout h , Salt Lake City, Utah
84 111.
RICH ARD W I LLIAMS writes. " W as rcle;tsed from the U.S. 1avy in December o f '63
lifter ' I \12 years in t he Civil Engineer Corps.
R ecentl y worked o n construction of Loran
Sta tions in Northe rn J a pan and lwo Jima.
Closest association wi th fores 11·y was th e in spect ion of 6~5 foo l and 1350 foot towers.
Afte r two m onths vacation I int end to start
working for Chris Berg, Inc., Gene ral Contractors in Sea ttle . Still single wi th no prospects."
I960
WA RD .-\Rl\ISTRO NG-wri tcs, " I am
Excwtive Assista nt for the r\ssn. of Orego n
Counties. i\ ly wife a nd I are l iving at Salem
with the newest me111ber o[ our fa mil y, Ken neth, born last Ju ly. "
MERLI N l. CARTER , JR.-writes, " Have
just re turned from A Iaska where 1 was employed b y the Alaska Pacific Lumber Co.
lor the past 8 months. I am curren tly em ·
p loyed b y the Bureau of I ndian Affai rs,
Wa rm Springs, O regon , as th eir Fo rest
Engineer. While in Alaska , I saw Di ck
Sykes, class of '6 I."
HAROLD CLARK-writes, "i\I y wife,
Elaine, and I are now Ji ving in Crescent
Ci ty. Ca lif. Since graduation , we have added
two boys to the family : Mike, 2, and Jeff, 5
mo nths, and all are in excellent hea l th and
q 11itc happy . .James Archiba ld a nd I have
forme d ACCO. Cont. , l nc. ' •Vc work primarily
in government access road construction. Two
highland sides a11d cat logging are concur·
r ent wi th construction. Current contracts in clude Simpson, i\Iecl-Pl)'• i\1 &: P Lumber,
Biulding Materia ls, and Oregon Coast Veneer.
Of special interest to presen t a nd prospective
mobile spa r owners, ACCO has one of th e
two spars operating in the redwood. We ha ve
Fo11n d 1·hat th is to~ver ca 11 operate co n ~is tantl y
1n1der the combmat•on of b•g hmst, big
motor, big line, and big redwood. I t may be
in teresting to see tha t such a combina tion
does not necessa r ily rule out a mobile spar.''
C f! UC K DERIDDER-reports, ·s·ince ou r
las t correspondence we have moved twice.
However. our las t n1ore was inLo a new
ho me that we finished in Nov. I am stil l with
the Forest Service, stationed a t Forest Produ cts Lab in Madison, Wisconsin . iVI y rccrllitme nt responsibilities a long with employee d el'elopm cnt duties have kept m e hopping. but
most of my troubles <~re limited to the East
and M idwest. Last su mmer we spent 2\12
weeks near Salt Lake City for m y :\rm y reserve summer camp tra 111ing and enjoyed
the visit . H owever, it was quite a job to
keep our car from head ing furth er 'Vest."
WILLL\J\I RAY FRANKS report s fro m
\Vise River, 1\lontana, th a t he a nd famil y
a rc pack ing again. After graduation he retllrned to the Kan iksu Nationa l Forest where
he w;,s assig ned to the Falls Ranger Disthct
as Timber Management Assistant. In January of '62 he was married to Vicky i\lcCon naughey and in August they were transferred
to the '~' i sc River R anger District, Beaver·
head National Forest where Ray has been
ser vi 11g as T~ J A . On Sept. of '63 Linda Rae
was born . T hey are prescll tly packing again
fo r a move to the J ackson Ranger District.
13e<~ verhead N ationa l ·Forest, where Ray will
serve as Resource Assistant. Th ey will be
li ving j ust east o f the Conti11 ental D ivide in
" h igh mountain va lley having an elevatio n
o( 6,'100 and a 111id~ t some of the finest elk
~ l arch
I!JG I
hunting th e west provides. Trout fis hing is
a lso exce llent. r\ n invitation is ex tended to
an y Fc rnhoppcr travel ing through south·
western Monl<lna .
.J .\MES R . !lOWLAN D is n ow with Cen tral Oregon College in Bend, Orego11. The
jnb is cou cerned with the tra in iug of forestry
technicians under the auspices of th e i\lanpowcr Development Train ing Act. T here are
several other OSU gradu ates involved as part
time instructors. T he emphasis in tra ining is
" how to" rat her than " why''.
1\ IO N ROE E. Ki i\ISEY is Assista n t Fi re
Control Officer on th e Shasta-Trini ty N ational forest, Region 5, R edding, CahL H e
li ves at 6400 l'aso Drive, R edding.
ROY S. Li\ R SON. Roy is prcsellll y on a
)Cars leave of a bsence front Crown-Ze llerbach's Cla tsop Tree Farm a nd is at the
Norwegian Forest R esearch Inst itute in 1 orway. The pu rpose o[ this year's visit is to
~Ind y i n genera l t he r orwegian me r hod o r
for~st m anagcme11t, and in particular to o btain any in(onna l ion that Crown·Zellerbach
could use here in the Northwest. And, of
course, since R oy is a bachelor, the re a rc
those Norwegian girls. He will retum in
April.
KE NT ~lF.YF.R is working for Bemis .Ba y
Co. in Vancouver, \>Vash . after resigning fro m
the Forest Service in Sept. o[ '63. H e is
~i n~le and his add ress is 6704 N. £. 14th,
Vanco uver.
DARRF.LL D . MO HR-writes, " 1 have
made a few changes in the last yea r . 1 am no
lon ger working in the product ion dep<~rtme nt
of th e furni lltrc compan y. Early last ye<tr I
left there to become a lum ber trader with
North Pacific Lumber Co. The con1pet ition
is keen b u t the results are grat ifyi ng. We
a re still living in Portland a nd expect 10 he
here for a long time."
MARSH .\LL D . MURRAY-writes, " \Vc
left Idaho in Sept. and a re now li vi ng in
Centralia, " ' ash . where I work for Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. on the Vail-i\IcDo nald
T ree Farms."
ROBERT .J . OLSON. "After two years, we
still cal l Svensen , Oregon, our hom e. The
famil y hasn 't ex panded pasL three with
Steve being two years old . I'm slill a l'o rcst
Engineer tor Crown-Zellerbach and in m y
spare time I do some work with the Astoria
J.C.'s. An ybody coming through th is way,
d on't hesitate to stop in . \Ve arc o nly a short
d istance ofl Highway 30."
13:\ RR.-\T G. SCOTT-writes, " Weyerhauser has tnmsterred m e to Coos fl ay as
.-\ssistant .\ rea Logging Engineer for the ,\1 legany area . I am presently li ving at 272
S. 8th in Coos Bay. 1-\ fter putting u p . with
mu ch in terior mo isture in th e Austin- Hea ley
(it leaked) [or 2y2 monLhs, I 1n1ded it in
on a maroon l'orsche Super J(i()() Coupe."
VICTOR E. S ISSON, JR. lives at Box ~;i·l ,
Lapwai , Idaho.
CH:\Rl.E S. STODDARD says, "Still have
the same job, R esea rd1 a nd D evelopment .\ ssistant w ith the sam e outfit under a new
name, which is Sr. R egis Paper Co. , Forest
P roducts Division, in Libby, i\lolllana. I work
with lumbe r , plywood , cut·stock, po les, pil ing. trea ted lumber, and wood che111icals.
.Ju d y <111d I tlOW have our first little Stoddard,
a son, BatT)' Leonard , born l'eb. 1963. rr
an y o[ you h appen to get oH the beaten
pa th as Far as Libby, Montan a, we wou ld be
happy to show him off. \Vc arc a lways g lad
lo sec an cl f or hear from old [riciHls."
GLENN L. SYKES is R esou rce .\ ssislan l 011
the .\l aqs Pea k Ranger Dist rict, Si uslaw Na tional Forest , Corvallis. H e is married ami
has four ch ildren.
OLAF Tlll NC: VA LL-writ es, "Greeti ngs to
a ll Fcrnlwppcrs from "'Y wife and I down
here in sou thern Oregon. \•Ve were trans-
OREGON STATE FORESTER
(erred to th e Ashland Ranger District in
J uly from Sisters. I a m the District .Engineer
here a nd Find it quite interesting. As som e
of you may k now, I was marr ied in Dec. '60
lo Rosctnary Manfu l!. \>Vc purchased ;1 nice
home a t 3() 1 Ida ho St., a nd wou ld enjoy
a visit from fellow Fcrnhoppers."
D\V.\I NE T . U LLt\IANN-writes, " ' ot
much has cha nged si nce last )'Car. 1 ant sti ll
working fo r t he State o f " ' ashing ton , D ep t.
o f Natu ra l R esources as a n Engineer at the
Okanogan ll o nor Camp. Our address is still
th e same: Tlox 14-H Omak, \oV;~ s h . The size
of ot tr famil y has increased with the addi·
lion o[ a baby boy, born in Jan . '64 , giving
us a total of 2 boys. Spare tim e h;1s been
spent hunti ng, fi shing, skiing, ;mel working
on the Omak Volunteer Fire D ept."
RO N W.\ITT. ··our big news this year
was the birth of twin boys o n the 19th of
D ec. ~ l ut h e r and sons do ing fine. Father
still in shock. We a re still at Steamboat
R anger Statio11 and will be he re (or a while
yet."
1'\ILI . \rVARNER was d ischarged front the
.\rm y in April where he was a nuclear weapons disposal specia list. He is presentl y working on I he Mr . H ood N ational f orest, but
will soon be on the Siskiyou.
R . N. WITHROW, JR.- reports, " Fami ly
and self doing fi ne. I was recentl y transferred
(rom the fo rm er position as Assistant i\lanagcr, La tour State Forest, and ant now o n
the District 2 Engineering StaH. Best wishes
to all my instr uctors and classm ates."
JO N L. WOODS ID E is still in Law School
at Willamettc Un ive rsity in Sa lem , as a sec·
ond year law studen t.
BILL SCH ULTHEIS writes. "Nothing
much to repor t. A short whi le ago I left
the IB ~ I Corporation . I 11ow have m y own
busi ness in R eno, Nevada. This ne w way o[
making a living is very in te resting a nd present a trcmen (fous challenge.''
1961
i\IATT .\ ND E RSOi\1. "The Andersons have
migrated again . After th ree years of soaking
np the sunshine on the Oregon Coast, we
have moved inland to Dallas to dry out. Matt
is st ill with the State Forestry Dep t. but now
as ;\ ssistant District ' •Varden with the West
Oregon District. T he famil y is still enjoy·
ing good hea lth. The p1·ed ictcd future forestry (rau lein tnmed o u t to be a potent ial
Fernhopper i11stead . We a rc always g lad to
sec a fa m il ia r face and eager to re-hash the
good -o l e- d ay~."
R O I'I E RT L. llr\RSTAD -wr itcs, " I am
still working fo r the Forest Service.
were
trausfcrrcd to Union Creek Ranger Sta tion.
Prospect, Oregon , in June o[ '63. We enjoy it
here very IIlllCh . The sno w is a little deepe r
th>~n we arc accusto med to, bnt it sure makes
for good sk iing. Drop b)• if you arc near
Rogue Ri ver this summer."
WINSTO N D . fiE NTLEY "was tra nsferred
from R ager R anger Stat ion on the Ochoco
.'\a tion al Forest to Burns District Station on
the ilf a lhe ur National Forest as T imber Staff
Assistant. ll is nice to bavc the big city o(
Bu rns after be ing iso lat ed in the Pa ulina
"'c
arca.u
ROBERT S. BL.-\ CK-writes, "1 a m now a
second lieutenant in the U. S. A rm y a fter
bein g commissioned in Oct. o[ '63 after com·
plet ing OCS. l was married to Li11da Grisham
last Oct. \Vc are n ow living in Virgin ia ami
am attc11di ng school at th e .-\rmy Engineer
Celllcr. Fo rt Belvoir, Virgin ia.''
C .\R Y TII..\ NC I-l .\RD-reporls, " \Ve arc
'ti ll enjoying the rain in Corva llis at ~10 S.
36th. i\ 1)' job is with Starker Forests a nd has
been both enjoyable a 11tl interesting. Thl'
stork paid us a not her visit last spr ing so
now we lt avc l wo g irls. H ope to sec any of
you any 1in1e )'OU are in town .''
I' age Twenty-one
ROGER S. BRASS FIELD is st ill working 011 Interstate Highway D esign wit h i\lo rrison· Maicrle In c., Consulting Engineers of
Helena , i'vlontana . Son No. 2, R obert Ke nt,
arrived 011 Nov. 16. His new car recei ved
a good road test from Canada to Arizona
and twice to th e coast.
RICHAR D 13RIN GHURST lives in Port·
land and works for .the Forest Service on the
Col umbia Gorge D ist rict. i\11. H ood Nationa l
Forest. His second child is due on Feb. 15.
ROBI~RT N. CRO N was m arried in June,
1963. !'lob and his wi[e, J ane, are pt·escn tly
living in Fa ll River Mills, Calif. where he
is Assista n t District Ranger for the U. S.
Forest Service. They in vite an y o f' their
forester frie nds find ing themselves in th e
neigh borhood to stop in and visit.
H.-\ RR Y C. DANO-writes, "T am working
for the Forest Service on the Crescen t District
of the Deschut es National Forest. i\ly specific
job is sale administra to r. The famil y is a ll in
good hea lth and we a rc expecting our second ch i ld in i\larch. An yone interested in
drying-o ut , hunting, or fishing, com e on
over; the coffee pot's always o n.''
H UGH E . EDDY-writes, "The fall a fter
gradua l ion , I was e mployed b y the flureau of
Land Ma nageme11t i n Coos lla)'· It's pre tty
wet down th ere, but pre tty mild. One soon
becomes acclimatized and th e ra in gear becomes as much of the attire as the cruiser 's
vest. i\ly job is primarily concerned with th e
cruise and appra isal of timber. i\ly love ly
wife, Karen , and I have a ).lrct ty little 9
month old daughter, Caro lyn.'
BOB EDWARDS. " In a year's time, th e
famil y a nd I have moved hom Ol ympia to
the Canadian bo rder and d o wn to the Colulll bia R iver border. Last year 's news le tter fo und
me working in the electronic data processing
portion of th e State D ept. of Na tural R esources, l' orest Inven tory Section . Front .Jul y
until Oc t., '63, I worked as Assistant Man agement Forester i11 o ur Deming District near
Bell ingha111. The area offered bea utiful
moun tain peaks and meadows for our famil y
enjoym ent. Cat hlamet, Washing ton has been
hom e sin ce Oct., where m y job as Manage·
m ent Forester offers interesting variet y as
well as a unlim ited opportunity and chal lenge. W e live b y the beach h igh way, so
dro p in aiiCI see us.''
VER N l' IUDLEY, JR.-writes, " I a m still
w ith the W inema NaLiona l Fo rest, but have
m oved norllt to Chemult Ranger Disl rict.
1\ l y fi rst assignmen t here was to write a report on the stumpwood pilot p roj ect whi ch
was conducted by H yden -N ewport Chemical
Corp. The sa le which they bought in volved
~y2 nlill ion tons of pine stumps located o n
portions o[ 1he D eschutes, Fremon t, a nd
Win em a Na tional Forests. Ka y a nd 1 now
have a (i months old g ir l, Susan .''
MICH AE L GR IGGS-reports, " In ,\ pri l
I wi ll re tu rn to the Washington D ept. of
.'\a lural R esources as a Forest Practices
Forester in the Vancouver District. R igh now
I am a m ember of the a ll Army Rifle team,
International Di vision . M )• wife, Sara , has
been d oing gradua te work in educa tion at
nea rb y A uburn U niversity, and hopes to
complete he r Master 's degree in J\larch . ' •Vc
spent an e njoyable trip to Key West, Florida,
and the Everglades Natio nal l'a rk last Nov.
One high\Joint o[ the Park in additio n to the
1·aried wi dl ife and vegetatio n was the crossing- of Rock Reef Pass, elevat ion 3 feet.
.\l iKE 11.\LON is a 1st Lieuten a nt , USA F,
Orlando, Florida. He spen t h is last yea r in
3 1 states, Canada, and i\fexico o n dtffereut
survey projects for the Ai r Force.
DI CK H OL MES-wri tes, "The average of
at leasl one n•ove per yea r still h olds. In
.-\ugust we migrated from Astori a 10 Salem
ll' here J have assumed the du ties of Assistan t
Page Twenty-two
Forester with the Legal and R igh t-of-"''ay
Division of the Oregon State High way Dept.
So fa r T have run into quite a few interesting situations si nce we cover the entire
state. J believe the lo ng range plans of the
ll ighway D ept. include getting a t least half
of the state under aspha lt by 1975. The remainder will be one big slate park. Tloth
J ennifer who is now •1, and Marge are fat and
sasS)'· 1 am looking forward to gelling together with classmates and friends at the
coming Fcrnhopper Day. Hope to see yon
a ll there, especially mem be rs of the class of
'6 1."
.JOH N ;\. I FFT is cu rrct~tly working w_ith
th e TI.L.M. in Medford do111g road locatwn
a nd design work. H e is a proucl fat her ~ f a
7y2 pound baby boy born J an. 18. He ]liSt
bou~ht a house and hopes to stay lhere
awhile.
CHARLES KLEMME-writes, " On April
22, 1 became the proud fathe r of a baby
gi rl, o ur second child. Since June of '63, I
have been working for Scott l'aper Co. ,
Everett, ·wash., as a logging engineer."
TOM LAWLER- writes, "Th is fall the
three Lawlcrs 'Volkswagonecl' and camped
out way to Al~ska th_rough wcste;·n Canada.
It was a beaultful lnp and all f ern h uppers
a1·e invited to stop by in Sa lem and see our
sl ides."
STEVEN NESS. " Upon completion of
school in August, T went to work for the
l'orest Service at Lowell in the Willamctle
National Forest. After spending three months,
the long arm of Uncle Sa m nabbe_d me, so
tor two years I was a_ to pog_rapluc survey
instructor at Fort .Belvotr. vVIHle at the fort
a blessed event occnrred March 29. 1963. H er
name is Lisa Marie. I am now back at
Lo we ll. This spring after 1 comple te that
Forest Service Training Prog ram , T will be
in Timber Sales Ad ministration. Jn other
words, a 'silver picker'."
RON R. OLSOt , Ro n and wife, Kathy.
arc fanni ng ncar Madras, Oregon . They have
an 18 mon ths o ld daughter, Kim.
R AY S. !' AGE- writes, "We live in R eserve, New Mexico where l am Assistan t
Ranger on the Gila National Forest. Chuck
Hi ll is R a nger just lo the sou th , but T
clon't see a whole lot of him. Come and see
11s whenever you are nca r."
LEO STADEL~ £;\ 1- writes. "Scratdl o ne
su mmer vacatio n for this family. Just as plans
were shaping up for a leisurely two weeks in
Jul)'· 1 was asked to tnu~sfcr. to our R edding,
Calif. operation. I am sttll Wtth J. H . Baxter
and Co., buying poles and piling. The fan1il y
likes it fine he re with warm , dry summers
<l nd m ild win ters. O ur girl is in the second
grade and boys are growing fast. The door
is open, so be sure lo stop. "
WHITEY TOURTE LLOf-writes from
Redding, Calif. that he ''is employed by the
Fo rest Service as a Forester on the Shasta
Lake D istrict of the Shasta Trinity Na tiona l
Forest. The job entails the preparation and
adm in istration of a 25 mill ion a nnual cu t on
the District and is complica ted by rights-ofway problems clue to the ownership pattern
of the a rea."
D ICK R. WAKELEY was married in Nov.
of '63 and is presently changing jobs from
Ch ickering in Eugene to " ' eyerhae user in
Tacoma.
FRED WEAVER is Fo rester o n the Chiloquin D istrict of the Winema District Forest.
LEWIS M. ·wOR K. " My wife, .\nne, and T
now have th ree boys. They are a rea l hand [u I. I am still working for Weyerhaeuser in
Klama th I' a lls and enj oy it tre mendously.
T he job. weath er, httnting. and people a re
hard to beat. T hope to all c nd the Fern hop·
OREGON STATE FORESTER
per Banquet this com in g April and will he
g lad to meet my classmalcs."
1962
DENNY CA IRD is happily settled in Oakridge wit h his wife and job helping Uncle
Sam stabilize the limber industry by doing
pre-sale work for the Oakridge Ranger District.
THOMAS CHRISTIAN is in Naval F light
Train ing wilh the ran k of Ensign. H e was
married o n Dec. 27.
L ARRY CRON writes that he is still enjoying his job with the U.S.F.S. in Region
5 as Assistant TM A o n the Mcnimac District, Plumas National Forest. Variety has
made his job idea l for lea rn ing. Larry is being promoted to Fire Control O fficer on
a nother district on the Plumas but bas not
h ad o ffi cial word yet o n the effective elate.
He a lso reports that he hasn 't been hooked
by a female yet.
ROBERT CR UNKILTO N-rcports, "Our
fam il y consists onl y of m y wife a nd myself
with no junior Fcrnhuppers in sight. We are
still living in Corvallis where I am working
as a particle board quality con trol supervisor
fur Timber Engineering Co. While traveling
the field 1 occasionally run into Fernhoppers
who are anxious to swap yarns over a cup
of coiTee. I am look ing forward to visiting
with a ll the Fernhoppers at banquet time."
D.\VID W. DAHL- L t. jg.-is presently
serving a board the USS Zelima as Com munications O fficer.
JIM K. FU L LER-who wr ites, "1 was
drafted in Nov. of 'fi2 and have spent m y
ent ire ser vice career a t Fort Ord. On Feb .
'G3 I was assigned to the 84 th Engineer Ba ttalion as a Construction Surveyor. After
seven mo nths in this slot, I finally decided
they would never have an y work for me,
so 1 jumped a t the opportun ity of becoming
the Commanding Officer 's d river. This joh
unl ike most other Army jobs doesn' t require
1hat 1 pul on a show of looking busy. so
1 spend most of my time readin!l' a nd stud ying. 1 ho pe to acquire my pnvate pilot 's
license within the next two months."
AR NOLD Tl. H ARMSEN- writes, " l'vl any
things have happened since graduation from
OSU in '62, most of them pleasan t. I have
been working as Forester and Assistant
Ranger on the Pin e Ridge District of the
Nebraska National Forest. Althoug h I find
a Forester's job here quite d ifferent fro m
what schooling and persona l experie nce
ha ve taugh t me, the job has been very in te resting. Undoub ted ly, lh e most importan t
e\·e n t si nce graduation was my marriage last
June to Miss J oyce Blundcl. Joyce is teach ing :i th g rade here in one of Chadron's
elementary sch ools."
E DW.\RD .\1. ~ I C.\LU . \GE- reports,
"1 am a permanent fixture in Grants Pass.
fiu siness (Pacific Custom Loaders, Inc.) has
heen good this past year. We have added
new machinery and expa nd ed in several d irections. Our oldest girl, Karen. is a junior al
OS U. \\' ill have a sun ready to enter in
a not her year. H you arc in C ran ls Pass, slop
in a nd see a rea lly busy pl ywood remanu facturi ng plant.''
G l..Ei\'N 1\l. i\fORE. After g raduation he
worked one year with the B.L.i\L out of
Redding, Calif. He then enlisted in the Navy
and was sent to ;'llcwport. Rhode Island
where he was commission ed as an Ensign
and is present ly serving a s Communica tions
Officer O il a mine-sweeper based at Long
J3each, California .
LELAND L EE i\I EYERS. Leland has been
working for Edward Hines Lumber Co. as a
Forester since his gradu atio n in '62. There
he acted as genera l handyman and trou ble
i\larch
1%~
shooter. Le land , o r !'in ky. as many know
him. says that his job has well prepared him
fo r his new business. On Dec. I , 1963 Norman Meyers, a nd his three sons, Le la nd,
.J erry, and Gayle, purchased a small semi portab le mill and logging ettuip me nl in
Su mpter, Oregon. T hey plan to salvage a nd
rclog o n ti mber sales ltftcr the prime logging
show to pick up ma teria l classified by the
Forest Service as mcchantable- un merchantable. Being self cm pi0)1ed has been one of
Pinky's prime goals since leaving school ancl
now his chan ce of sucess is to be tested .
ORI N F. PA LMER went to work fo r the
U. S. Forest Service at La Grande R anger
District ' 'Vallowa-Whi ttman Nat iona l Forest
in 1962 as Timber Sales Officer. li e was
transferred to " ' inema Na tio nal Forest in
Oct. of '63 with wife n etty a nd 4 sons . H e
is assigned as R esource Assistant in charge
of range, wild life, and watershed management and enjoying the work very much.
DENNIS PAYNE- Has taken a j ob with
the Map le to n D istrict of the Siuslaw Nationa l
Forest as Assistant Forest .Engineer.
DAVID M. PRICE is now living a t 719
Linder, Lewiston, Idaho. T heir third child,
Patrick H ale was born in Sept. 1963 .
EARL SPANGENBERG is with the Air
Force now, stationed in Great Falls, i\l ontana (Ma lmstrom Air Force Base). He received his comm ission as 2nd Lieutenant in
Sep t. of '62 and now has t hree more years
active duly. Then hopefully back to school
a nd forestry.
.JERRY L. Sl'viiTH is now married a nd employed by the BLM and ca n be reached at
1206 Mill Street, Eugene, O regon.
1963
ROB BALLENGER is working for Bohemia Lumber Co. T he work consists of
quali ty control and production study in
both pl ywood plant and lhc sawmill. H e
was recently married to former Sue Cill,
class of '63, and she teaches in Eugene.
DOUGLAS N . BA R TON writes, ··r am a
ti m ber sa les officer here o n the Sandia
District of the Cihola Nat ional Fo rest and
have charge of Iii picn ic areas. \ •V e ha ve
over a tnilfion visitors on this district yearl y.
Qui te different from what I am used to,
but l like the work rea lly well. Tell everyone hello for me ancl that I kind of miss o le
O SU ."
RI CH AR D DODYFELT writes, " l am presen tly e m ployed as Assistant Loggi ng E ng ineer, Springfield branch, \>\leycrhacuser Co.,
Springfi e ld, Oregon . On Sep t. 14 I tll arried
Kath leen M. Kirkpatrick of Corvallis. Kath y
will be gradua ting fro m OSU this J une in
Education."
JOEL E . D AHLIN writes, "I a m working
now on the Siuslaw Nat io n a] Forest, Smith
R iver District, and li vi ng in Gardner , Oregun . In J u ne, my wife, twins D ebora h and
i\lichacl, 18 months, and I will be going to
Georgia where 1 begin two years in the
A rmy as a 2nd Lt."
J OHN L. D AVIS says, '' I a m working on
the South Um pqua Ran ger District of the
Um pqua NaLiona l I•orest a t Tiller, O regon.
l have been d oi ng the usua l wide variety of
jobs a forester expects. One in te1·esting job
has been a surve)' of the district for needed
thinning operations. " ' ith th e help of a
couple ot her OSU g rads the practice of intct~sive_ fur~st ma nageme_nt is on the u pswt ng Ill thts area. i\ ly wtfe l'hoebe, an OS U
grad . is teachi ng in th e local high school."
ROBERT .-\.. DUNN wri tes, "I am now a
Lieutenant a t Fo r t Ben ning wh ere I comp leted airborne u·ai ning. l w ill soon be sent
to the 82ncl rie ld art.i llcry in Fran kfort,
i\ larch 1961
Germany. I was ma rried in Sept. and we
traveled to Fort Tlenn ing, Georgia fo r o ur
honeymoon.
\ •V e both miss the "I'acific
wonderland". A Iso was reccn tly a n escort officer for fi rigadier Genera l Finn who is
Brian Finn's fath er."
JAMES r\. GOAD writes, "The east side of
the Cascades arc still to Ill)' liking. i\fy wife
and fa mily are residing in Bend where I
work for l3rooks-Scan lon, Inc. illy job is ConI racr ing Superintendent and clo some spu r
road location work. My spare time consists of
teaching a n aid course in Forest Engineering
and some huntin g and fis hin g when time perJnits."
ALEX GOEDHARD lives at 4918 La H aldo
N. E., Tacoma, 22. '~'ashington.
ROWAN C. Hl DS was recentl y local
coordinating officer for a massive tree planting reforestation program beginning in
Karlsruh e. Germany and even tually extending th roughou t the mil itary installations in
lhe Northern Area Command.
WAYNE HOLLEY, .JR. writes. " f was
married the week a fte r T fi nished school at
the end of winter tem1. O n March 26 I
went to work for the Forest Service on the
Collawash District of the M t. H ood atiunal
Forest. Uncle Sam caugh t me on June _10
and 1 am now serving my two years wrth
the 84 th Engineer Battalion. Presently stationed at Ford Ord, California."
JAi\IES (J I M) l REMO NGE R . .JR.-"Since
gradua tion last J nne we have added a member to the fam ily, hi s name is R obert T odd
a nd was bom Sept. 9, 1963. '"'e have sctllcd
in Salem afler living in Prineville during I he
last su mme r. 1 am working for I he J3u reau or
Land i\lanagemenl. So fa r I have had a
variel y or jobs, bu t have spenl most of my
time working on thinning. The work is new
and int eresting beca use our area is sett ing
up a thinning prog ram to manage accessable.
well-stocked tim bered area which are suitable
for such progra ms."
JO H N H. MEAR S 1vri1es, " My wife and I
are li ving in Rosebmg. I a m working for the
Bl M a nd d oing prima r ily road locat io n and
design fo r timber sa les."
IRVA 1'. PAAVOLA-" ! am worki ng ill
Port land for the Corp. of .Engineers as a
GS-7 Civil Engineer. At present I am on a
20 month training program and will get a
GS-9 in Dec. I passed the state E.I.G. e xam
this sum mer. I find that as an FE ma/'or I
a m fa r adva nced in road and rai road
relocat ion as compared to the C ivi l Eng ineer
g radua tes. I miss school a t OSU."
KEN P.\PROKE reports noth ing new.
Death and taxes arc still the only things
certa in.
LYNN SPRAGUE. Is employed by the
US FS, Degion 4, Division of T imber i\lanageoncnt in Timber In ven tory . He lives at
1209 Capitol Blvd., Boise, Idaho. Lynn recentl y visited the OSU campus where he was
enrolled in J ohn ny Bell 's Va riable I'lot
Cruisi ng Short Co urse.
D.-\ Vl D W I LEY-Dave is on military furlo ug h from R egion :;, U. S. Forest Service,
for 2 years. The L t. and his wife Linda will
be stat ioned with the 5th i nfantry Di vision
a t Fort Carson, Colorado Spring, Colorado.
OREGON STATE FORESTER
Page Twenty-three
STAFF NEWS (Continued)
e lectron ics engineer after reecnt gradua tion from OSU, Alex lost his one chance
to have a nother forester in the fa m ily.
Now on part-time basis. he is teaching
general forest ry and forest administration
during the winter and spring terms.
BOll KEN JSTON'S chief research interests
are now small-fores t managemen t, valuation
of land and pre-commercial stands for tax
purposes, a nd inter-effects of timber growing and grazing on footh ill lan ds in both
eastem and western Oregon. Bob Sl ill en·
joys teaching valuation, dendro logy, and
land use. He bas four children: but his
famil y is a ttending five different schools,
because Mrs. K. is worki ng on a second
degree at OSU. (A nd each of the student
members of the family earned betlcr grades
than Bob didl)
RORERT L. KRAHi\IER 'S work is d ivided
into research al the Forest Research
Laburatur)' and teach ing in the Forest Products Department at I he School of Forestry
at OSU. H e now has two children in his
fam ily: a girl 3V2 years old and a boy
born in November, 1963.
J I M KRYGIER now devotes about ha lf of
his time to teaching ·w atershed Management and other subjects, half 10 watershed
studies on water quality and wate1· use,
and half lO finishing a Ph .D. program .
His spare time is devoted to bui lding a
small " Berlin Wall '' on his suburban property.
KEN McLA R EN joined the staff early in
1963 to " learn the ropes" as the Dean's
assislan l in an ticipation of taking over
Chuck Dane's duties as Assistant to the
Dean wh ile Ch uck is on sabbatical leave.
Ken g raduated from I he fo restry school in
December of 1962, and will be here until
Chuck returns.
"i\IAC" i\IcCULLOCH spent a week last
summer prowling around the watersheds of
the high coun try of Nevada, Utah, and
Colorado. Returned minus muffler and
oth er assorted mechanical appendages, but
this loss was offset by the gai n of a nice,
new 6" hole in the floor of the car. A good
deal of effort was devoted 10 figuring
ways of meeting the pmblems created by
the tax and budget ·prices. On a more
constructive level, considerab le lime went
into our project financed by the H ill
Famil y Foundat ion , "The improvement
of lcaming and training."
M. D . McKIMMY. Mac was able to attend
the national F.P.R.S. meeling in New
Orleans this past sum mer and spent about
a mon th traveling to the various eastern
Un iversities and Research Cen ters. Otherwise he con tinues lo Leach the same courses
in forest products at Oregon State, ie, wood
properties, timber mechanics, seasoning,
and preservation.
"N ET" NETTLETON visited his 82 year
old brother at Dutch Flat, Cal ifornia in
June. Picked a fight with h im and got
" whipped." Net's brother said , "Everytime
you open l'?U r big mouth, th_e LOp _of your
head ts an tsla ncl, so Net t(llll" ta lkmg and
came homel
i\llKE NEWTON has transferred his efforts
from teaching to one hundred percent
research at the Forest R esearch Lab. i\like's
fervor in stomping out brush has let np
somewhat to examine some of the things
that brush is doing to benefit us. and to
look at weeds other thau brush as a l'<tctor
in reforestation . The location is still Corva ll is, where acltvtlles such as stump
ranchiug aud thesis writing occupy most
of his spare lime not taken up by more
entertaining activities. The recent acquisi tion of a place to build a house gives the
family a cha nce to p lan bow 10 threaten
Tlill \Vest with a brick and alumiuum
house. However, he will probabl)' break
down and usc some wood-after all, it
floats! Stop by. The e lk steak is almost
gone, but he would be glad to shoot the
bull.
JOT-IN O'LEARY S<I)'S nothing new ot· exciting· to report. Still teach ing school dming
the school year and work ing for the forest engineering research lab summers.
DAVE I'AlN.E is gradually moving into his
specialt)' by relieving J ohn Bell of bolh
mensu1·ation courses one term per year and
teaching the graduate course in pholomensuration along with his usnal forest
pt·otection. In lois "sp are time" he is busy
trying to pu t the finishing touches on his
Ph .D. dissertation "Aeria l-Photo i\fensura tiona l Technif)ues for Ohta iuing Forest
J'vlanagcmcnl Data from Ponderosa Pine
Stands." The JaiLer project has temporarily
come lo a halt until after the pub lication
of this newsletter, but he still has hopes
of finishing before J une.
C,\SEY Rr\1 DALL spent son1e time last
summ er (I he hottest part of it) travel ing
in the Southwest and California, acquainting himself with many of the aspects of
outdoor recreation on federal and state
lands . Later, for a slight change of pace,
he did a bit of personal recreating on
northern Vancouver Island. Casey is also
working on a revision of his tree identification book an d hopes to have it completed
soon.
D.\N R OB I SON continues to promote the
virtues of the east side pine country. His
fire control and silviculture classes are now
held in the eml end of the forestry build ing. The family (l wife, 2 boys, l clog)
recentl y moved into a new home at 3010
McKitdey. On a clear clay lherc is a
fine view eastward. to the Casca des.
CHUCK SUT I-IERLUND. Last summer
Cl.lllck comp let ed a survey of the fores t
industry in north east Oregon in cooperation with the Ah•Ticu ltural Economics Department. He is beginn ing a new research
project on the effect of transporta tion
costs o n the distribu tion of fores t products.
School work ~oes on much as before with
time being chvidecl betwee n teaching, ex tensio n, aud research. A trip to Southern
Ida ho and a back-pack in the T h ree Sisters
' 'Vildemess Area with his two older boys
rounded out the Southet·land 's vacation
fu r the year.
TONY V.\N VLIET. Starting in Janu ary,
1963, Tony entered part time dnty with the
Extension Service and the Lab liS a ' Vood
l~rodu cts Specialis_t in the field. Teaching
forest products sull consumes much o[ his
time d uring the school year . Extra curricu lar tinoe is devoted to his wife, fo ur
chi ldren . house, and water coloring (in
tha t o rder) .
J31LL WEST rep or ts tbat last (all the
Graduate Council app roved the addil ion of
a Ph .D. program to the curriculum of the
forest products departmen t. Tt is contempla ted that the Ph .D. will he in the field
of wood conversion and wood science. This
should penni! lati tude in pcnnttt tng
specific cand idates academic a nd research
programs in coopera tion with the forest
research div ision , agT icultu ra l experitnent
statio n, and other departments of th e
Uni versit)' ·
Page Twenty-fo ur
OREGON STATE FORESTER
March
I!JG~
Staff News--Cont.
Mel nti re-S tennis--Cont.
Mac's Corner--Cont.
BIL L W H E ELE R and Bill Fe n ·ell a re cur rent ly in the throes of arra ng ing a n Artificial R egene ra t ion Sho rt Course to be
held in early ~l ay at OSU. The ma ndate of
the people last O ctober 15 has resulted in
lower en rollments t ha n previously, but
Bill indicates th at the jo b situalion is
1ighter than last year , so he is still faced
with th e same dilemma of matching men
and jobs.
ROB \!\TILSO N repor ts that there are girls
a llending O SU. T-hwing spent so much
tim e o u t in :McD onald Forest on FE 123,
FE 223, and FE 36 I la bs, he had forgotten
tha t the re wer e any students other tha n
foresters. This sta rtling discovery ca me
abo ut when he became adviser for the
ASOSU Senate. ' •Vhat free time he has remaining is spent collecting coins and raising registered d achshunds. An yone mte rested in a good buy?
T ED YOCUM is busy trying to complete his
Ph .D. wo rk and a t the same time teach
labs in forest protection and fo rest engin eering. H e fi nds it difficu lt to ret urn to
the books a nd compe te with such a fin e
group of fo resters a fter 20 years in the
forestry profession. H e reports th at he
may co me o u t of hibern a tion next June
a s soon a s he fin ishes his academic work.
T ed's future pla ns a re uncertain and h e is
looking around fOl" a bit of some thing
suita ble a nd he hopes that be can find a
situa tion where he can make a contribu tio n.
RAY A. YOD ER . A trip back to the Southe rn
Pine Reg ion last summer con vinced him
that the south is growing more Limber by
acciden t th a n on purpose. E xodus from
the sma ll hill fat ms si nce i"\l'o tld War If
has resulted in o ld field pine sta nds over
a tre mendous area.
made soon . T he g roup will meet a nnually
with the administering agency and the Coo perative Forestry R esearch Ad visory Board
to discuss progr am pla ns, research progress
and financing, a nd to offer recommendatio ns.
Since Fede ral suf?port is a vaila ble on a
ma tching fund basts to the 50 Sta tes and
Puerto R ico, a base a llocation o f SIO,OOO
per yea r was established for each. Those
ma tching this a mount would have S20,000
availa ble annually for forest research. This
is consid ered the amo un t necessary to provide fo r one full-time research scientist, suffi cient assistants, and operating funds. If a
State or Puerto Rico is unable to match th e
$ 10,000. it receives no Federal funds. The
ba lan ce of the appropriation for research is
a llocated according to a formula based on
three factors: ( I) a rea of no n-Federal com me rcial forest la nd , (2) volume of timber
cut a nnuall y and (3) amount of non-Federal
fun ds ex pended a n nua ll y for forest research .
A one- million do llar initial appro priatio n
was made ava il able for fiscal year 1964 . Allocations to the individual Sta tes a nd Puerto
Rico will not be grea t; however, this provides
a s ta rting place. Something that has been
n ec~ e~ for a lo ng time. There is great
optnmsm th at fo rest research is gaining in
sta ture and r ecognition. It is now up to
those in forest resea rch to d emonstrate
through p roductive effort tha t g reater support is j ust ified a nd can p ro vide both
economic and social ben efits.
Associa tion could be o [ assista nce. The best
a id to fo restry wo uld he indirect, by helping H ighe r E duca tion in gene ra l. Because
this is one of t.hc state's largest expcud itures,
H igher Educatio n took q u ite a scrubbingat the last session of the legisla ture. Forestry
at OS U ca nnot make prog-ress unless O rego n
Stale an d th e State Syste m also con tinue to
prog ress. So you r he lp is requested in askm g your loca l legisla to rs to support Higher
Educa tio n whe n the next session rolls
a ro und . No plea is made [or special con sideration at the ex pense of an y other state
fun ction . i\ 11 we would like is a fair shake
so that Hig he r Edu cation (and Forestry)
will be able to meet the responsibili ties o[
producing capab le citize ns and bitilding- the
sta te"s econo my. S ta te e mployers cannot make
such requests d irectly, and prop erl y so, lest
they get hip -deep in lobbying. nut the depende nce of the state on educated peo ple
d ocs wa n ·a n t a strong effort by p rofessional
people to obta in a reasonable appropria tion
for Higher Educa tio n .
Your hel p in this rega rd would be most
welcome.
' "'hen you are in th is territory, sto p in .
W e'll be g lad to sec you.
ser~'~ ti_o u Associa ti1:1n are co-sponsoring an
arttftctal regenerat ton short course at the
Unive rsity on May 6 and 7. Tbis cOlme is
a im ed prima rily at the p racticing forester
in the D ouglas-fi r regio n although some of
th ~ techniques discussed will apply to the
mrxed types as we ll. T he o bjective of the
course is to bring a bo ut as much interchan ge
as posstb lc be tween the practicing forester
and the research fo reste r and between practtcm g foresters using d ifferent techn iques.
The la test techniq ues will be disw ssed . In cluded in the progra m will be such topics
as r egene ra tion surveys, cone and seed pro-
ductio n methods, site prepa ration and r e lease techniques, seeding ope rat ions, plant ing- 0\)era tions, animal damage problems,
a nd t 1e letting of planting and seedi11g
contracts. O ver 2!) fo resters from pu blic
agencies, un iversit ies, and priva te industry
will se r ve as instructors in this course to give
ot hers the be nefit of their research a nd experience.
i\ d e tai led p rogr am for this course will be
mailed o ut fro m the School of For estry at
Oregon Sta te to all those in terested in it,
soon after April I. Registra tion fee for the
cou rse will be 5.
Artificial R egenera tion Short Course
The School of Forcsll)' a t O regon State
University a nd the North west R efo restation
Counci l of th e , ,Vestern Fo restq • and Con -
-------------------------------------------OREGON STATE FORESTER
O.S.U. Forestry Alumni Ass' n .
Sincerely,
Mac McCulloch
-----------------------------------------------BULK RATE
U.S. Postage
OSU School o( Forestry
PAID
Corvalis, O r egon
Pemtit No. 207
Corvallis, Ore.
RETURN REQUESTED