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s we approach the general election in November and the legislative session in January, there is great confusion about where our region, state, and higher education system are headed. There is little consensus, at least at this writing, of how our region's national forests are to be managed. A lengthy public involvement process by our governor and a special legislative session failed to develop a comprehensive tax reform program. The fate of state government programs, including higher education and our College of Forestry and Forest Research Laboratory, won't be resolved for at least another six to nine months. This is a chaotic environment, one that makes planning difficult, forestry and one that could lead to great pessimism about the future. The College of Forestry, however, is blessed with support from many people whose view of the future is one of optimism. And they have affirmed that positive outlook in both word and deed. Fall 1992 In this issue of Focus on Forestry, you'll read about people who are Volume 5, No. 3 committed to the future and to the role this College will play, people ( whose gifts will make it possible for the College to continue its excellence in teaching, research, and service to the public. College of Forestry Since most of these are deferred gifts, they will not pass forward to Oregon State University the College for many years. Thus, they are truly a long-term state­ ment about the donors' belief in the future of forestry in Oregon, and George W. Brown in our contribution to the state and to its youth. Dean And speaking of our students, one of our most important state­ ments of confidence comes from the young people who continue to enroll. Despite the chaos swirling around us, the number of new Lisa C. Mattes students is up again this fall, and the general quality of our applicants Director of Development is also higher than before. I hope you will enjoy reading about the people who have made Gail Wells such a commitment to our College. With their support and yours, the Editor College of Forestry at OSU will continue to provide leadership in these difficult times.

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She's investing in the forests College to establish the endowed taught for a year at the high school in of tomorrow chair. the mining town ofJacksonville, The gift expresses Mrs. Spaniol's Oregon. "My students would mine THE COLLEGE OF FORESTRY'S LARGEST­ long-standing keen interest in for­ gold under the streets of the town ever gift has come from an OSU estry and forest products. "As a early in the morning," she says. graduate and former teacher who had society, we're going to have to do "Then they'd come to school at 8 the foresight to invest her salary in more to preserve and enhance the o'clock and show me what they'd timber land. capability of our forests," she says. found." Ruth Spaniol, of Stayton, Oregon, "We'll need to do a lot in the science She married Eugene Spaniol, a has given the College 800 acres of field-develop new ideas about how 1931 Oregon State graduate, in 1935. timber land worth $3.l million. to manage our forests, not just in the They built a house in Stayton, where Eventually the Mr. Spaniol had a money will go to plumbing and heating establish an business. Mrs. Spaniol endowed chair in taught at Stayton renewable Union High School throughout the Second World War, then continued as a substitute teacher for a while. She went back to work full-tin1e in the late 1950s, teaching Latin at the high school until she !111 e11rlowcrl retired. cl1ni1 for the It was in 1944 that f11 I Ill"<'. /fo I fl her father, H.W. Se1111iol m111ts to Currin, a Hillsboro kee/I 0J'C'SOll 11 real-estate man (and (O/'l'Sfrlf s/11/e. an Oregon State alumnus; class of '09), told her of a nice 40- acre parcel for sale in natural resources at the College of harvest area but in developing new the Tualatin Hills. Not having quite Forestry, the first endowed chair the products." enough money herself, she went in College has ever had. Almost 50 years ago, Mrs. Spaniol with her sister and bought the piece. The gift is being administered by began buying timber land with her Later she inherited more timber land the OSU Foundation under a life teacher's pay. Teaching was not the from her father. She and her husband income agreement involving Ruth career she had planned for herself as continued to buy timbered property Spaniol' s three children, Sherry an Oregon State student back in the up until a few years ago, collecting Chain of Hillsboro, Gary Spaniol of early 1930s- she began her studies in quite a few acres mostly near Hills­ Stayton, and Kathryn Parkans of accounting and journalism. But tin1es boro. Houston, Texas. Under this arrange- were hard, and the few jobs available Mr. and Mrs. Spaniel traveled ment, the proceeds from the sale of in these fields almost always went to extensively before his death in 1984. ) the land will be placed in a trust that men. She changed her major because They made a two-month journey will yield income to the three of them "a girl couldn't get a job in any field around the world in 1971 and a trip for the rest of their lives. After that, except education." to China in the fall of 1983. the trust's principal will revert to the After graduation in 1933, she Recently Mrs. Spaniel took an-

f-0£ '> u 1 fo1t ti 'I II 9q J other, more modest trip- a ride on "We want to help teach them about we've worked awfully hard to turn it the steam train out of Banks, Oregon, the land and how to respect it." Her into the property it is now. We'd go through the Tillamook State Forest. "I husband agrees: "I believe in teach­ up on the weekends and pitch a tent, was in college when that forest ing teachers about natural re­ and later we built a little cabin. We'd burned," she says. "And now, to ride sources." just stow everything in there and through that forest and see wave Lisa Mattes, director of develop­ plant trees all weekend." When their upon wave of green-it's just beauti­ ment for the College of Forestry, says son, Larry, got big enough, he helped, ful." The experience, she says, an estate and trust arrangement too, cutting brush and doing other affirmed her conviction that the similar to that arranged for the chores. forests of Oregon, if wisely main­ Spaniol family will allow the Hicoks They encountered all the inconve­ tained and managed, can continue to to receive income and a large chari­ niences familiar to forest managers, yield their blessings to countless table tax deduction, provide for their including fending off the neighbors' future generations. son's inheritance, and make a major straying livestock and coping with She hopes the Spaniol Endowed contribution to Oregon forestry bad weather. Vera Hicok remembers Chair in Renewable Resources will education, all at the same time. one very rainy Thanksgiving Day. "It attract the top-flight talent it will take Under their life income agreement, sounds funny," she says, "because it to bring such a vision to reality. "If the Hicoks will receive income for the was pouring, but we had to go up there's any possibility of ensuring rest of their lives, and because of the and water the seedlings-they were that Oregon will continue to be a deductible charitable contribution stored in bundles in a little shed." forestry state," she says, "I wanted to they'll bypass capital gains taxes. They left the turkey in the oven and help make it happen." After their lifetime the assets of the told Larry, then 8, to lock the doors­ trust will revert to the College of they' d return shortly. Forestry and will support the educa­ The Hicoks drove up Rogers tional efforts envisioned by the Mountain, took care of the seedlings, donors. then discovered that the highway was Hicoks' gift carries legacy of "We're very grateful to Mr. and impassible. They managed to find a their good stewardship Mrs. Hicok for this gift," says Mattes. telephone and called their son. "I told "We know they're committed to him to get hold of our neighbor and THE COLLEGE OF F ORESTRY HAS good stewardship of the land and to take the turkey out," says Vera Hicok. received a major gift from a former the education of young people. This "And then Jerold and I had biscuits Oregon State forestry student and his gift will be a major enhancement of and Spam in the cabin-that was our wife. Jerold and Vera Hicok have what we're able to offer." Thanksgiving dinner." They set out at donated a 200-acre parcel of timber The Hicoks' land showcases their 6 o'clock the next morning and found land on Rogers Mountain, in the years of hard work. They bought the that the water had receded enough Cascade foothills near Scio. cut-over parcel in 1957, when they for them to get through. They arrived Proceeds from the sale of the were a young Albany couple living home to find a very relieved son and parcel, about $502,000, will eventu­ and raising a child on a truck driver's part of a cold turkey. ally benefit the Oregon Forestry salary. The first year they planted Jerold Hicok was raised on a ranch Education Program (OFEP) at the 8,000 Douglas-fir seedlings all by near North Powder, Union County, College of Forestry. OFEP works to themselves, and in the next few years Oregon, and moved with his family educate and train public school they put in about 7,000 trees a year. to Corvallis at the age of 12. He teachers, from kindergarten through ''My husband has always loved graduated from Corvallis High high school, about natural resource timber land," says Vera Hicok, "and School in 1934. His parents, George issues and how to incorporate them into classroom teaching. "With this gift we wanted to help the young people," says Vera Hicok.

Helpi11g tlie yo1111g people. je'rolrl t7JI(/ \/em Hicok's gi(I cl'ill help cd11cntc f11t11n! ( se11emtio11s of Orcgo11in11s nlio11t (orcstn1 isstfl'S.

4 Focus 011 Forestry Fall ]992 and Amanda Hutchinson Hicok, Capping a lifetime of generosity ("Stub") contributed significantly to were longtime Corvallis residents, as the complex of auditoriums and were his brother Francis and his TRUE TO THEIR LONG AND GENEROUS meeting rooms known as the LaSells sister Freida. history of philanthropy, Faye (For­ Stewart Center, named in honor of Both Hicok brothers attended the estry '38) and Lucille Stewart have their father. forestry school at Oregon State. given OSU one of the largest gifts it Forestry and Faye Stewart go back Jerold was there during 1935 and has ever received, a life income a long way. Born in a logging camp in 1936, and he remembers Professor agreement of $3 million. The gift will Rujada, Oregon, southeast of Cottage T.J. Starker vividly: "He used to eventually be divided three ways to Grove, Faye grew up under the tall preach to us every day: 'if you ever benefit the College of Forestry's timbers. He graduated from Cottage get any money, buy some timber Forest Engineering department, Grove High School, lettering in land.' That was the best advice I ever intercollegiate athletics, and the football, basketball, and baseball, and got. II university as a whole. entered Oregon State Agricultural Vera Thamer Hicok was born on a The forest engineering portion will College, as it was then called, to earn Nebraska farm, but the family moved not only help research and teaching in a degree in logging engineering. to town (York, Neb.) when she was 5 that department, says Forestry Dean A college education wasn't com­ years old. She moved west as a George Brown, but it can be used to mon among lumbermen in those young woman and worked for leverage additional grants. "This gift days, but LaSells Stewart, a self-made several years at the First National will be a entrepreneur with a grade-school Bank in Albany. The Hicoks were marvelous married on Valentine's Day, 1942; opportunity they celebrated their SOth wedding for the anniversary this year. College to In 1965 they bought their second help our piece of land, a 159-acre farm near Lacomb. The new property meant even more work for the couple, but they entered into it with enthusiasm. "You should have seen this place when we bought it," says Hicok. "Most of the existing fences were in very poor condition, and there was lots of dog fennel, thistles, blackber­ A gi(t fo1 ries, and tansy ragwort." His wife Forest adds, "We're still fighting the [11giizrr1 i11g weeds." They spent the next eight Lo11g I 1111r years fixing up the place, putting in .,11pporte1 fences and refurbishing the house. They moved there in 1973. Faye The Hicoks raise purebred Sim­ Stnun1 f. mental cattle and manage the 100 acres of timber on the home place. Jerold Hicok, a long-time member of state's forest industry in some very education, wouldn't have it any other Oregon Small Woodlands Associa­ difficult times," he says. way, Stewart recalls with a grin. ''My tion, was named Tree Farmer of the Bill Atkinson, head of the forest dad told me I'd go to college or he'd Year for Linn County in 1980. engineering department, says the gift bust my head open." They're still going strong, but will be of great help in maintaining After graduation Stewart worked they're both 76, and the Scio parcel the excellence of the program. "It will for his father, who with two partners was just getting to be too much for obviously be valuable in our recruit­ owned a modest-sized outfit called them. "I'm happy we gave it to the ment of top-quality students, and that Bohemia Lumber Co., named after College of Forestry," says Jerold means scholarships and fellowships. the flat-topped mountain in the Hicok. "That's where we wanted it to And it will help us improve our Cascade foothills southeast of Cot­ go." ability to analyze problems, and that tage Grove. When the war came, he Dean George Brown expressed his means computers, plotters, mapping shipped out to the South Pacific­ deep appreciation of the Hicoks' systems, upgraded lab facilities, and attaining the rank of full colonel by donation: "With gifts of this type so forth." the age of 28. everyone comes out ahead. It's a true Although modest about their He was on the island of Saipan testimony to a family who nurtured contributions, Faye and Lucille with the 5th Amphibious Marine the land, and who are now able to ('Cille) Stewart have already shown Corps when he got the news that help nurture our youth-to help great caring and concern for Faye's Bohemia was to be sold. He wrote ) them learn about natural resources alma mater, supporting research home and pleaded with his father not and the importance of sound man­ programs in genetics, marine mam­ to sell, and when he got back in 1945 agement." mals, forestry, and athletics. Faye he argued some more. Stewart, along with his brother Loran Eventually Faye and Loran

Foct1 011 Fo11 t1 !I F 11 1992 5 Stewart and their brother-in-law Using genes to fight disease Wessela got his start in tree disease Larry Chapman struck a deal with control in 1933, as a foreman on a LaSells Stewart and the other owners A 1933 GRADUATE HAS MADE A northern Idaho Civilian Conservation to buy the company themselves. bequest of $125,000 to help College of Corps crew engaged in eradicating Under their helmsmanship Forestry researchers probe the genetic gooseberry and currant bushes to Bohemia grew up to be an industry mechanisms of disease resistance in control white pine blister rust. Blister giant, pioneering such products as trees. rust is caused by a parasitic fungus glue-laminated beams and maxi­ Conrad Wessela, who retired frmn that cycles back and forth between mum-density fiberboard (MDF). In the Forest Service in 1967, spent his white pines and alternate hosts of the 1991, when it was sold to Willamette career battling tree diseases. "I've Ribes genus (currants and gooseber­ Industries, the company employed been out of the race for a long time," ries). The disease eventually girdles more than 2,000 workers at 11 plants he says, "but I try to keep up with and kills the pine trees. in Oregon and California, and it what's going on." At that time the only way to owned some 82,000 acres of timber He's especially interested in the control the fungus was to grub up all land in Oregon and Washington. work of Steven Strauss, a forest the currant and gooseberry bushes The Stewart brothers had moved geneticist and associate professor of growing amid the pines. It was out of active management of Bohemia forest science at the College, and has backbreaking work that yielded only in the years just before it was sold. directed that the bequest be used to moderate success. Still, this was But today, at 76, Faye Stewart is far establish a fellowship fund to support Wessela's first experience in forest from disease control work, and he liked it. retired. That same year he was sent to He's southern Oregon to organize a president control program there. and CEO Wessela later worked for the of two Roosevelt-era Bureau of Entomology other and Plant Quarantine, and then, Eugene when the war came, served in Europe compa­ with the Army. He joined the Forest nies, Service in 1954 and worked on Western control programs for several tree Coating diseases, including oak wilt, a and The significant problem in the eastern Flying United States, and d warf mistletoe Scotsman. and root rots in The latter the West. firm He is encour­ (named B{i tt/1, g t1 C'e aged at the by'Cille rl1 ('fl<; ( (j/l/'tflf progress thus Stewart) far in producing /11 llf1/'C1rls pioneered \!V1·~sc d isease-resistant I/le Cnfl ·gc' gcw the use of trees through helium 1tsrn,Lf1171og111111 conventional balloons breeding to log the methods. "But steep canyonsides of coastal Oregon. graduate students in forest genetics. there are some diseases for which we Today Stewart's balloons are keeping About a year ago Wessela donated have no control at all," he says. "Dr. busy with logging contracts in British $25,000 outright to Strauss's work. Strauss's work could prove to be very Columbia. Strauss, a leading researcher in important." Western Coating produces coated­ forest genetics and biotechnology, steel reinforcing bar, supplying was named a Presidential Young almost the entire market west of the Investigator by the National Science Donors upgrade CoF Rockies, Stewart says. Fow1dation in 1988. He and his computer labs The Stewart bequest will have a students are developing techniques of major influence on university-wide molecular genetics to try to increase GITTS FROM TWO DONORS HAVE MADE programs, especially in their ability to the resistance of trees to disease. significant improvements in the respond to "unanticipated needs and They're approaching the problem in computing capabilities available to opportunities," according to Roy several ways- developing methods College of Forestry students. Arnold, OSU provost. Dutch Baugh­ for inserting disease-resistance genes A gift of $25,000 from Blount Inc., man, director of athletics, also into a tree's cells, studying the genes Oregon Cutting Systems Division, expressed gratitude. "This gift will of a root-rot pathogen that attacks was used to upgrade the com puter have incredible im pact on OSU conifers, and finding ways to sterilize lab used by the professionals who athletics. Faye and 'Cille have made genetically engineered trees to ensure attend College of Forestry Continuing an enormous difference for us." they won' t release their new genes in Education workshops. Six new a natural forest. computers of the 386 and 486 type

6 fows 011 ForC's 111 F. 11 9 were purchased, along with a digitiz­ students in the Forest Resources A little cushion for retirement ing tablet, a color printer, and an Department, as well as other items to assorhnent of word-processing, support their work. WHEN CLIFFORD AND FERN SKtNNER graphics, and GIS (geographic This year, the computers- six bought 40 pretty acres of Clackamas information systems) software. total, including the latest purchase, a County timber land in 1972, they had "You couldn't ask for any better 486-type microcomputer-were a mind to move out there some day. machines to hold workshops with," gathered into a newly remodeled The tract had a creek and a waterfall says Arlene Hester, Forest Resources room at Peavy Hall. The room was and some nice stands of second­ research assistant and the College's dedicated as the Lee Harris Com­ growth timber. But the property was computer lab coordinator. Forestry puter Laboratory, in memory of a miles away from Beaver Creek, near students, she says, may use the graduate student who died in 1979. Oregon City, where the Skinners computers when they're not needed Rick Strachan, a 1978 graduate in lived. for continuing education. forest management and member of Clifford was a Southern Pacific Oregon Cutting Systems, head­ the Gibbet Hill Foundation board of Railroad engineer then, and he had quartered in Portland, is the world's directors, was on hand to cut the to drive to Portland to catch his train. largest manufacturer of cutting ribbon. "You do good work here, the Then when he and Fern retired, they chains for chain saws and concrete kind of work we like to support," moved to the Oregon coast- "the sea cutters, as well as accessories such as Strachan told Dean George Brown at is my first love," says Clifford, now bars and sprockets. The $25,000 gift is the ceremony. 70. Since they knew their waterfall property would never be their home, they decided to donate it to the College of Forestry. Now their gift is giving them something back-a little cushion of retirement income. The Skinners sold the timber on the property in 1979 and replanted the land to red fir-a good paper­ pulp tree-on the advice of Publish­ ers Paper Co., which was helping the Skinners manage their land. But none of their four children was ( interested in managing the new crop, and the Skinners debated whether to sell the land. Then they saw an ad in Focus on Forestry telling about the financial benefits to be gained from donating land to the College of Forestry. Last fall, Skinner called Lisa Mattes, the College of Forestry's director of development, and the terms of the gift were soon arranged. The prop­ erty would be sold and the receipts the largest the division has ever used to fund a trust. Income from the donated to any one recipient, accord­ trust would go to the Skinners as ing to Vickie Hibberd, who works in Up to dote computers. l

Focus 011f01 estry Fall 1992 7 HONOR ROLL

The College of Forestry thanks its Honor Roll of donors for their contributions to the College and the University over the past year. Our mission is much aided by your support.

While we make every effort to obtain an accurate listing, mistakes do occur. To anyone we have inadvertently left off the list, please accept our apologies. We would appreciate being informed of our oversight.

Howard R. Delano Joe 0. Lammi Individual Wilbur E. Dehne Lampros Steel, Inc. ) 99 William A. Dryden Marcus C. Lampros Robert A. Abila Larry Duysen Carl R. Larson Betty Jo Agrons Max S. Ekenberg Lloyd H. Larson Paul B. Alaback Roy C. and Vera T. Elmgren John E. LeTourneux Anita G. and Lucien B. Alexander Ely Forest Products, Inc. Clifton W. Lemons Alvin G. Anderson Michael B. Ely Merle S. Lowden Russell J. Anderson Norman J. Eveleth Elaine H. Luthy David E. Archambault Judith L. Fallow Robert W. Madison Stewart H. Avery Genevieve Fox Robert D. Mahon Robert 0. Ballenger Peter J. Ganahl Daniel W. Mast David K. Bateman Lawrence C. Gangle Theodore W. Maul Paul C. Bell James C. and Marsha R. Geisinger Dennis C. McHarness Mr. and Mrs. Morris H. Bergman Charles A. Gili Claude C. Mclean Daniel E. Binkley Ralph E. Giuffre Austin D. and Ellen E. McReynolds Roger E. Bjorklund Carl W. Greenlund Gregory K. Miller Geraldine R. Black David B. Haas Keith A. Mills Larry G. Black Sybille Haeussler Thelma B. and Walfred J. Moisio K. Gordon Borchgrevink Herbert L. Haglund Glenn M. More David M. Bradford Eric N. Haller Merle A. Mosar Leonard J. Brady Michael A. and Susan E. Hargrave Julie E. K. Nodes Barbara Kay J. Brown Jean S. and Keith R. Harris Susan J. O'Leary Carlos T. Brown Eric R. Hepler Gary Allen Odehnal Carroll E. Brown Jim K. Herold Carolyn S. and Robert J. Olsen Elton G. Brutscher Hewlett-Packard Co. Mr. and Mrs. David F. Olson, Jr. Bernice and Kenneth A. Burkholder James F. Hinckley Scollay C. Parker Dennis J. Caird Hobby Habit Nancy L. Peckman John P. Carstensen William G. Hoebel Steve C. Pedersen James E. Cavallin Carmen W. and Lee 0. Hunt Otto F. and Myrta L. Peters Chevron USA, Inc. Scott Alan Jackson Robert E. and Virginia B. Peterson James M. Clarke William L. Jackson Alice R. and Arth ur W. Rankin James C. Condit Robert L. Jensen David K. Rinell Julius S. Conrad James E. Jess Peter A. Ringen Thomas W. Cook Mr. and Mrs. David Jessup Harvey 0. Robe Bruce A. Cotton Debra L. Jewell W. Lee Robinson Bob W. Cowbrough David C. Jordan James L. and Mary Ann H. Rombach Mr. and Mrs. Owen P. Cramer Clyde R. Kalahan Max E. Ross Kermit Cromack Gerald N. Keck Jeanne H. and Richard E. Roy Robert E. Crunkilton Donald F. Keene Pauline B. Sandoz DAW Forest Products Company Stephanie L. Keys Jenny Santoz-Heiman Thomas R. Danowski Robert F. Kline Gary R. Schaertl Steven S. David Vernon J. LaBau John E. Schroeder Warren G. Davies Elizabeth S. Lahman Laura P. Sheehan

8 Focus 011 Fore~lry Fall 1992 Marian L. Sideris Wyman Williams, J r. Dan E. Christensen James R. Skidmore Larry L. Woodard Larry M. Christiansen William C. Stiles Jon L. Woodside John L. Christie Clyde H. Stratton Lewis M. Work Frances P. and Harland H. Clark Marvin R. Straughan Barbara J. Yoder Janet A. Condit Joyce R. Stuntzner Richard A. Yunker Howard E. Conkle Hisashi Takei Robert L. Cooper John J. Terpstra, Jr. Robert P. Crane Iva P. and Walter T. Thompson Associate Laurence J. Cummings Kent C. Tresidder 0-499 Mr. and Mrs. Ned P. Darling Douglas J. and Julie Ann N. Truax Arleta C. Agun Brian L. Davis Richard C. Tutt Emily and James R. Akerson John W. Davis United States Tobacco Co. Martin W. Bailey Lynn A. Davis Louise M. Van Vliet Frederick A. Baker, Jr. Anne K. DeHaven Hartwig H. Vatheuer Thomas B. Barocan Adelmar R. Dodd Curt N. Veldhuisen Belco, Inc. Robert W. Durland Ernest L. Wagner Rolland R. Benson ERO/Goodrich Forest Products, Inc. Lloyd A. Waid Gordon G. Black Carol B. and Tommy D. Farr Richard R. Wakeley Robert S. Black Robert E. Fehly John C. Weber Bernice M. and Donald W. Borglum Forest Recovery, Inc. Douglas L. Wells David L. Bowden Forestry Services, Inc. Duane K. Wells Robert Dean Boyer Friends of Jackson County Library Garnett W. Welter Brice L. Brandt William H. Gavelis Howard H. Wester Michael V. Brown George E. Swindells Private Janice M. Williams Gordon E. Bunker Investment Richard A. Williams William E. Butler Dorothy C. and Hal E. Goodyear

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Focus 011 Forestry Fall 1992 9 Mary P. and Richard A. Granger Simpson Fund Frederick L. Green Arne E. and Janet W. Skaugset Patron George D. Gremmel Mark L. Slezak Thomas F. Haley John B. and Ruth L. Smith American International Forest Edward Hanscom William A. Smith Products Harold Barclay Logging Co., Inc. Society of American Foresters Boise Cascade Corp. Virgil T. Heath Standard Insurance Co. Dogwood Estates, Inc. Mark Jeffrey Heiman John R. Stevenson Sherman H. Feiss Ole T. Helgerson Stuntzner Engineering & Forestry Harry A. and Mildred C. Fowells Eldon J. Howard Gerald B. Hurley 0 . Keith Hutchison lnternation Paper Co. Foundation Kathie M. and Oliver B. Jackmond James M. Jackson Norman E. Johnson Harry R. Kallander James A. and Joelynn H. Keniston Richard C. and Ruth C. Keniston Lewis N. Krauss Keith V. and Lorain F. Kruse John E. Kuser Timothy P. Kyllo William R. Lefors Habin Li Sislin H. and Walter H. Lund Raymond M. Luthy David L. Lynch M. Nygaard Logging Co. Delbert N. McCluskey Florence and Fremont McComb William T. McGreer Robert L. McNitt Robert H. Mealey Max W. Merlich Ronald E. Stuntzner Co1111c1/ of Regents members Norma Mark E. Miller Swanson-Superior Forest Products Greenwood Eric/,sou (a/Jove, wit/1 Mitre Corp. William Swindells, Jr. Monsanto Fund Suyli Tan Deau Bmw11) £111d Priscil/o D1111c1111. Mark R. Morgans Jean H. and Robert F. Tarrant Alfred H. Murphy Terra Tech, Inc. John J. Garland Anne 0 . Neal The Pape Group Inc. Georgia-Pacific Corp. Donald M. Nettleton Verlyn D. Thomas James A. Hallstrom Philip A. Newton Allan G. Thompson Kinzua Corp. Ivar J. Nicholas Times Mirror Nicholas J. Kirkmire Andrew M. Nygaard Joan L. and Marshall R. Turner Malheur Lumber Co. Lloyd R. Olson Charles E. Tyler Michael Milota James C. Overbay Antone C. Van Vliet Thomas L. Partin Bobbe J. and Gerald N. Patchen Floyd Vike John S. Prescott Lowell E. Patton Clyde M. Walker Plum Creek Timber Co. William E. Welch Plywood Corp. Nicholas Welter Dean's List Elizabeth R. Prescott Weyerhaeuser Co. Boyd L. and Dorothy U. Rasmussen John L. Whittle Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bacon Thomas G. Ray Willamette Industries Inc. Catherine DeY. Bauman Starr W. Reed Jack K. Winjum Blount Foundation, Inc. Kevin M. Russom Woodinville Lumber, Inc. Boeing Co. James A. Rynearson Margaret Woodman Champion International Corp. Ernest L. Sangster Clinton W. Wynn Robert E. Courtney Schermer Construction Inc. Carlton S. Yee Estate of Alfred W. Moltke Douglas M. Schermer Theodore S. Young Hai-Loong and Ta-Yun Wuu Fang Janet Schoolcraft Ross A. Youngblood Genrec Manuel H. Schrager Lawrence W. Zach Green Peter Hoo Hoo Club 226 Seneca Sawmill Co. Marilyn Zeigler Ernest D. Hardman Thomas E. Shrum lwan Ho

LO Focus 011 Joresfly fall 1992 George M. Jemison Gladys W. Goode Mr. and Mrs. Everett MacDaniels Marjorie and Ogden Kellogg Dan A. and Marilyn B. Graham Alice S. Marchel Daniel P. Knutsen Charles S. and Lee L. Lewis Barry L. and Lisa C. Mattes Menasha Corp. Foundation Marion Lord Arnold H. Meier OSU anonymous alumni Jean M. Mater Stanley 0. Norman Pacific Coast Division, PIMA Dr. and Mrs. L.C. Merriam Northwest Area Foundation Pacific Section Tappi Carl A. and Gwen Newport Oregon Community Foundation Rollins Burdick Hunter Claude F. and Helen M. Palmer Gen. Robert G. Ruegg Clifford H. Skinner John C. Pendleton Jack D. and Lile Mae Saubert Starker Forests, Inc. Albert H. Powers Darrell H. and Patricia A.Schroeder ~ Roswell A. TenEyck Clarence W. Richen Judith L. and Julian Sessions Willamette Industries, Inc. Beatrice M. Scheel C. Wylie Smith II Jean W. Scheel Ruth C. Spaniol Louise and Lyman E. Seely Faye H. and Lucille Stewart President's Club* Clifford H. Skinner L. L. Stewart Paul Adams Charles H.E. Smith Stimson Lumber Co. Linda J. and Thomas F. Ahlers Clifford L. and Helen W. Smith Kenneth E. Teter Jane K. and Roy G. Arnold Col George and Gretia H. Spaur WTD Industries Inc. Gilbert M. Bowe Richard L. and Virginia H. Spradling Dorothy S. Wanamaker George W. Brown B. Bond Starker Conrad P. Wessela Kim Ching Barte B. and Marilyn McC. Starker Weyerhaeuser Co. Foundation Richard M. and Tracey B. Clark Carl H. and Rosemary J. Stoltenberg Samuel C. Wheeler Marcia W. and Marvin W. Coats The Pape Group, Inc. Wheeler Foundation Kenneth M. Vroman Willamette Industries Inc. Alice I. and Stanton W . •1 Wallace James W. and Margaret L. Walton Eula Wentjar Council of Regents* .' Associated Foundations, ' Inc. Autzen Foundation ·- John L. Bell David W. Blasen Edith Blodgett Bohemia Inc. Boise Cascade Corp. Elizabeth S. Cameron Clark Foundation Crown Zellerbach Corp. Crown Zellerbach Foundation Milton G. Decker Priscilla Duncan Robert Ellingson Norma G. Erickson Mclane Fisher Georgia-Pacific Foundation Gibbet Hill Foundation Jackie and Natale B. Giustina Hamblin H. Crowell Jerold R. and Vera Hicok Don-Lee Davidson Dorothy F. Hopkins Davidson Industries Inc. Roger W. Imhoff * Outright gift of $25,000 or James W. Duncan James lremonger deferred gift of $50,000; James W. and Joyce N. Dunn Karen B. and Kenneth C. Jones membership is permanent. Mrs. Paul M. Dunn Gene D. Knudson .... Outright gift of $50,000 or Forest Engineering, Inc. H.L.P. Leadbetter deferred gift of $100,000; Giustina Land and Timber Co. Betty A. and Robert W. Lundeen membership is permanent.

Forn!jo11Forcst1y Fall1992 11 He's a Golden Rule giver He liked to walk in the woods WHEN ERNEST H ARDMAN ENROLLED AT the School of Forestry, back in 1950, lT's NOT ONLY ALUMNI WHO FEEL A educational kiosk in Peavy he financed his education with his GI close relationship with the College Arboretum, a major public Bill benefits. Like many students of Forestry. Jack Badewitz had access point to the Research then, Hardman was older than another kind of kinship-a tie Forests. It's a fitting memorial average, a World War II veteran. based on a respect for forestry for a man who liked to walk in He had a wife and two children, education and a love of the woods. the woods and who valued for­ and money was tight. When he Badewitz was a graduate of the estry education, says Jean received a $1,000 scholarship in his State University of New York Badewitz: "We felt Jack would senior year, it eased his financial College of Forestry at Syracuse. He appreciate it." burden considerably: "It was much had been a plywood salesman at At first, she says, the family needed at the time," says Hardman, Willamette Industries in Albany for considered using the memorial who graduated with a degree in 31 years when he retired in 1991. funds for a bench to provide respite forest management in 1954. Over the past few years, he'd for walkers along the Research He's now retired from the Forest taken part in several Forest Prod­ Forest trails. "The city park has Service after a long and fruitful ucts seminars at the College, memorial benches, and sometimes career. But he hasn't forgotten the coming in and talking to students when we walked there, Jack used to helping hand he got when he was a about life on the job. And because say, 'Some day you can do that for student. Hardman recently wrote a he and his wife, Jean, loved to walk, me."' check for $1,000 to the Legacy Schol­ they spent a lot of time in the Then Jean Badewitz talked with arship Fund-money that will extend College's McDonald and Dunn Lisa Mattes, director of develop­ to another student the same helping Research Forests. They went out ment for the College of Forestry, hand. almost every weekend, tramping and discovered that the College is The Legacy Fund is designed to over miles of forest roads and trails working on a $2 million improve­ give people like Ernest Hardman­ with Max, their 7-year-old choco­ ment plan for Peavy Arboretum. former students whose education late Labrador retriever. Sheltered educational and informa­ Badewitz died last April, six tional kiosks are part of that plan, months after he'd retired. His death and the family liked the idea of was unexpected, says Gene Walters, dedicating one of the kiosks to WI's general sales manager for the Badewitz's memory. The family A smile western region and Badewitz's also will purchase two benches as a fora supervisor. "It took us all by private memorial, Jean Badewitz scl1olar­ surprise-he was so looking says. sliip. forward to retirement. He had a lot Accomplishing the Peavy Tltc of friends within the company and Arboretum improvements will I eg11c11 a lot of friends among our custom­ require significant private dona­ f'1111d ers." His many friends, co-workers, tions, says Mattes. The focal point of /'l'llc/tl'S and clients, as well as the company the plan is a new education build­ Utt/ /O itself, contributed to a memorial ing to accommodate the 1,300 lite 11er/ fund that quickly grew to $3,000. school children who visit the Badewitz's family decided to Arboretum each year (please see the gc11em- use the donations to build an story on page 13). 1iu11.

was enhanced by scholarships-an opportunity to help the next genera­ Boise Cascade CEO visits College tion. Created in 1992, the Fund is now at $9,000 and growing. Two students ohn B. Fery, chairman and chief •Demonstrations of the research have received the first scholarships executive officer of Boise Cascade in optical scanning, aimed at auto­ from it this fall. Corp., spent a day last spring at mating the process of identifying "We're going through tough times the College of Forestry, getting flaws in veneer and other wood for education," says Forestry Dean acquainted with the facilities, pro­ products George Brown. "I know this fund will grams, faculty, and students here. • The Wheeler Wood Composites be a godsend for some of our stu­ Fery was accompanied by Boise Laboratory, where innovative engi­ dents." Cascade vice president Donald Smith. neered wood products are devised Ernest Hardman puts it simply: "I The two executives, escorted by OSU and tested was fo rtunate enough to get a schol­ President John Byrne and College of •The Wood Preservation Labora­ arship when I was there. I thought I Forestry Dean George Brown, toured tory, devoted to finding methods of should return the favor." the Forest Research Laboratory and lengthening the service life of w ood Peavy Hall. Among the things they poles, pilings, and the like • saw: • The papermaking machine, a

12 Focus 011 ForesfnJ Fall 1992 small but complete version of the giant machines used in industry • The lumber testing area, where Learning by doing researchers are finding ways to correlate American lumber standards Sixth-graders practice forest management with those of Europe and Russia • A demonstration of SNAP, a ere's the scenario: Grandma vested on a long-term, sustained­ computer program written by forest Cronemiller has died and yield basis. And the four of you must engineering professor John Sessions left 225 acres of forest land agree on any management plan. •' to help design efficient forest plans to you and your three siblings. But Oh, and one more thing: you'll After the tour, Fery met with six she's put some restrictions on the owe $10,000 a year for the next five top forestry students to discuss, bequest. years in inheritance tax. among other things, job prospects for The land can't be sold-the family How do you manage the land? new graduates. "What are we looking must continue to manage it according Nearly 600 Corvallis-area sixth­ for in a new employee? You need to to law and sound scientific principles. graders got a chance to answer that be hungry," Fery told the students. All resources, not just timber, must be question in a simulation exercise "You need to be personally commit- considered. Timber must be har- devised by foresters and educators

ted to moving along­ hungry to continue to learn, to advance your Yo11 neen Leaming 111n11nge111e11t skills. Middle careers, to make a to be sc/wol sf11de11fs e:rn111i11e grow/II ri11gs better tomorrow." 1T1111gry (!lie core s1111111le is fasfe11ed lo Ilic ollil'I' Student Norm Boise side of fl1e /nth strip, 11/Joue) 1111d 111ens11re Baton, a graduating Cnscnde's /Ire din111e/er of 11 /Jo11glns-fir (Jeff) 011 senior in forest man- CEO visits McDu1111/d Forest. agement, said, "It was with interesting. In a short sfuden/s. time I got a glimpse of what Boise Cascade and conducted at the College of was all about." Another Forestry's Research Forests last May. forest management graduating The students spent a day at Peavy senior, Marganne Allen, said, "It was Arboretum and Cronemiller Lake, nice to be able to ask questions about learning about forest soils, recreation, the company's community involve­ wildlife, and timber management. ment, and I was pleased to hear that Students examined soils in an they have continuing education for upland forest and in a wet meadow, their employees." observing the crucial differences between them. They used radios to • track "wildlife" (actually animal

Focus 011 Forestry Fall 1992 13 skins equipped with radio transmit­ ters). They interviewed an equestrian and a mountain bicyclist. And they sampled a forest plot the way timber managers do, using real instruments He puts his research to -work to measure the height and diameter of marketable trees and learning the rowing up deep in the "It gives me an opportunity to get formulas for calculating timber yield. Vermont woods, Mike on my soapbox-to show the stu­ Back in the classroom, the students Newton arrived at adulthood dents that there are many, many had to create a management plan with more than his share of hard­ different things happening in the based on the information they'd headed practicality. He hunted meat woods," he says. "I try to show them gathered at Peavy Arboretum. for the family table from the time he what the forest used to be like, what Doug Eldon, who teaches sixth was 9. "We lived in a township that happened to change it, what diseases grade at Highland View Middle had 39 registered voters, and no and insects might have affected the School, says his students found the store," he says. "If I needed anything, stand, how to recognize signs of real exercise tough but worthwhile. "They I had to make it with my own gusto growth, what will happen after had a hard time at first with the hands." the trees are cut. See, that stand is management plans," he says. "It took His parents, though, weren' t the more than just a collection of cylin­ them a while to figure out the pros typical hardscrabble Vermont home­ ders." and cons, the costs and benefits­ steaders. they' d never done anything this Educated, complicated before. But after a week idealistic or so it started to click." Some of the management plans, he says, were highly creative. "One group wanted to establish an outdoor school. Another wanted to put in a pond and raise tilapia for market." Co111- The students' comments about the billing exercise were mostly positive. One tfieory girl wrote, "I liked doing the manage­ witl1 ment plan. It got you really involved practice. like a real situation." Another added, Mike 1111d "I learned a lot of neat stuff about the f1111l' wildlife, soil, plantation, and much Ne1Plo11 more." al '10111e The College, through its Research 011 tl1eir Forest education program, offers classes and workshops to about 1,300 ('///"/st 11111 s young people a year, from preschool­ free {tm11. ers through seniors in high school. But the research forests are not as well equipped for teaching as the city people, they operated a boys' Newton's approach is clearly a hit College would like them to be. prep school that aimed at blending with his students. Last spring he Programs can't be held during the academic with practical education. received the 1992 Outstanding winter because there's no shelter for "The motto of the Newton School Faculty Award for his excellent the students, and toilet facilities are was 'Teaches hands as well as teaching, advising, and mentoring. primitive. heads,"' says Newton, a forest The award was created in 1990 by the To address these needs, the ecologist and professor of forest forest science students, who get College is gathering resources for a $2 science. "So I got the benefit of both together and choose the recipient million educational improvement sets of ideals- the satisfaction that a each year. plan. The centerpiece of the plan is a classical education could bring you, In his research, Newton studies the new building for Peavy Arboretum and the value of solving problems effects of plant competition on conifer that would enable the College to offer with the tools you have at hand. Both growth. He's done some pioneer­ educational programs year-round. those things permeate my approach ing-and controversial-studies on The plan also includes a large-group to my job today." the efficacy and safety of herbicides. shelter, covered learning kiosks, In his teaching and his research, He and his wife, Jane, put his find­ restrooms, seating areas, and en­ Newton strives to enrich theory with ings into practice on their own forest hanced pond and stream habitats. practical knowledge. He enjoys lands-500 acres of timber land in the The College is hoping to raise teaching for many reasons, he says, Coast Range and a 3-acre Christmas funds for these improvements from one being that it lets him use the tree farm near Corvallis, where they private donations. forest as a hands-on classroom, a live. • silviculture and ecology laboratory. Newton loved the woods as a boy,

14 Tome; 011 forestry fall 1992 but the closest he could get to a 1972 to evaluate the consequences of forestry education in his home state the defoliant chemical known as was minoring in forestry at the Agent Orange, after the color of the Ethington University of Vermont. He majored barrels in which it was shipped. The in animal and dairy science, and then, aim of the study, organized and after graduation in 1954, served in the funded by the National Academy of retires Army to fulfill his ROTC obligation. Science, was to find out whether the Resolving to go back to college herbicide had affected the land's Robert L. Ethington, professor of after his discharge, Newton looked long-term ability to support plant forest products, will retire late this ,... around for a school that offered growth. year after five years as head of the degrees in both forestry and mechani­ The Vietnam war was still on then, Department of Forest Products. cal engineering. H e settled on Oregon and Newton conducted his test Ethington came to the College as State- the only one he could find, he plantings with the sound of gunfire Forest Products department head in says, with first-class programs in both and helicopter engines ringing in his 1987 after a 30-year career as a disciplines. In 1957 he moved west ears. ("I was scared as hell.") He research scientist and administrator with his wife and their two small fotmd that reports of the herbicide's for the Forest Service in Madison, children. devastation were much exaggerated: Wisc., Washington, D.C., and Port­ "I was not long into the forestry "I could get crops growing on that land, Ore. program before I was hooked," he ground in three weeks." The report Asked about his most prized says. "I never touched engineering that emerged from the research accomplishments here, Ethington after that. The woods were definitely received little press, he says, because says, "In a place like this, the people in my blood." its contents were not sensational­ who make up the Department are the He wasn't thinking about an "just interesting and gratifying." key element in productivity. I've had academic career at all. But Bill Ferrell, He's not pushing herbicide, an opportunity to hire a quarter of a professor of forest ecology, saw Newton insists. "But I'm comfortable the faculty, and the array of skills we promise in Newton and encouraged with the information I've gained have provides an excellent knowl­ him to go on for a master's degree. about them, and I've been willing to edge base." He also pointed to "He sparked the idea in me," Newton share that information when it wasn't improvements in the curriculum, says, "that the science of ecology popular. Because I couldn't be talked expanded service to clients, and could be interesting, and that a life of into saying herbicides were bad, I got modernization of the Forest Products research would be desirable." called an advocate." building and equipment. In 1960, working on a master's in Rather, he says, "I'm an advocate Ethington also notes that he's silviculture and ecology, he was of good forest management-of using leaving many things for the attention asked to take over teaching duties for whatever tools meet your objectives. of his successor, especially the need another professor, forest hydrologist The goals, not the tools, are the real to improve undergraduate enroll­ Jim Krygier, who was on leave. issue. All practices should be judged ment. "The changes taking place in Newton taught classes in dendrology in relation to the goals they're wood processing, driven by declining and forest protection, and later in supposed to meet-and then a timber supply and by the more watershed management and forest professional mustn't be afraid to tell international supply and demand mensuration. it like it is." that's occurring, will ensure that the He's been on the Forest Science Newton's current study is a set of Northwest is going to need more faculty ever since. He finished his test plantings of Douglas-fir, grand highly skilled people, even as the master's in two terms and one fir, hemlock, and alder, planted at total workforce declines," he says. summer-"my ultimate incentive many different spacings and in Ethington was educated at Iowa was a wife and two children" he several combinations of species. The State University, earning bachelor's, says-and then started a doctorate in goal is to see how the trees' growth master's, and doctorate degrees in botany, finishing it in 1964. affects and is affected by the other wood technology and theoretical and Newton is a forthright advocate of trees and by certain competitors. The applied mechanics. His career has scientifically sow1d management of study covers about 30 acres in the focused on the relationships between natural resources, and he praises Coast Range. Newton hopes it will the properties of wood and its end technology for the tools it has pro­ yield information for 30 to 50 years. use. He has served on several na­ vided. His position on herbicides­ Funding from research grants tional committees charged with formulated after many years of doesn't cover costs, so Newton is overseeing standards and grading of study-is that they're highly effective paying for some of the expenses out lumber and plywood, and recently he tools, far less toxic to humans and far of his own pocket. Last year he and has been active in efforts to correlate less harmful to the environment than Jane added a $10,000 donation to American softwood standards to most people think. their ongoing support of the research. those of Canada, Europe, and Russia. But saying this in a climate where They have also been generous in their He and his wife, Ellen, live in the d ebate has become politicized support for other College activities Corvallis, where they raise Guide and polarized, he says, "has gotten over the past several years. "The Dog puppies as a hobby. Ethington ( me into the frying pan" many times. College of Forestry is our favorite will continue on the College faculty "But," he adds, "I'd rather be in the charitable organization," Newton on a part-time basis. frying pan than sidestep the truth." says. He made four trips to Vietnam in • •

forns 011 Forest1y [clll 1992 15 To reach out to others, he reaches back to his roots

hilip Lane, a man steeped in the Murtry novel Lonesome Dove tells the The young men were taught to heritage of his people, likes to story of a cattle drive much like that follow their elders' advice without tell the story about his great- one.) He had perhaps a harder question, "with the determination of a grandfather, the Sioux medicine man childhood than most young Ameri­ youth on his first buffalo hunt," Lane Saswe. "He went on a vision quest, cans who came of age during the recalls. "I was taught these things, going without food and water for Great Depression: his mother died and I was always being prepared- I four days. And he had a vision, a when he was 6, his father when he was told to always be ready, never to vision that the time was coming was 13. But he had a remarkable sleep, because there might be a time when we had to heal ourselves, to grandfather, Tipi Sapa (Black Lodge), when I was needed. It never occurred dedicate our lives to others." the son of Saswe, and the youngest to me that there was any other way." The story expresses Lane's task As a teenager Lane was sent to and his inspiration. "I'm old now, Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, and I feel very close to the beautiful Kansas. There, besides gaining a basic ways of our people," he says. "In the vocational education, he developed years I have left, I need to be of his talent at boxing- a skill that service-to help bring about the time would prove useful to him later. He that my great-grandfather Saswe also made acquaintances at Haskell foresaw, the time when we can truly who would influence the course of his love one another." life, including a Umatilla Indian from Lane, 77, a 1941 forestry graduate eastern Oregon and a 13-year-old of Oregon State, was honored in May Chickasaw girl from Oklahoma with the E.B. Lemon Distinguished named Lena Rose Vale, nicknamed Bow. He finished at Haskell in 1934, at the low point of the Depression, and jobs were hard to find. But Lane's Umatilla friend knew about a govern­ ment forestry program in his home state of Oregon, a federal works project aimed at eradicating the l luwe to se1 ve the people. PTtiliJ' l mte western pine beetle. So in 1934 the S(Ck<; /tis src11/-gm11t/(11ffll'l 1~ 11is11m. two young men traveled west to the Warm Springs Reservation in central Oregon and went to work in the pine Alumni Award, and in June with the chief of the Yankton band of the forests there. OSU Distinguished Service Award. Sioux. Lane was assigned to the survey He was honored for his devotion to Tipi Sapa gave up his chieftainship crew under Charlie Chester, a 1932 the service of others, especially to become the first Indian priest and forestry graduate from Oregon American Indians. bishop of the Episcopal Church. By Agricultural College, as OSU was Lane has worked extensively with his English name, Philip J. Deloria, he then called. Chester liked the look of Indian prisoners at the Washington became widely known and respected Phil Lane-his hardworking attitude, State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, among Indians and whites. A statue his intelligence, and his scrappiness near his home. He is the spiritual of him stands in a place of honor in as a boxer. He urged Lane to go on to leader of the American Indian Science Washington, D.C. college and become a forester. and Engineering Society (AISES), and The Rev. Deloria's influence gave This was something bigger than he won that organization's top award his young grandson an intensely Lane had ever dreamed of. His in 1987. He has helped OSU with spiritual upbringing, training him in schooling so far had been pitifully recruitment and counseling of the traditional Sioux ceremonies, poor preparation for college. Most American Indian students. which imparted discipline and Indian students were not expected to Lane was born in 1915 on the respect for elders. The Christian faith aspire to higher education, and they Standing Rock Sioux reservation in adopted by his grandfather seemed a were given few skills to help them if South Dakota. His mother was a natural corollary to the Sioux ances­ they did. "We got a basic education, Sioux, his father a white rancher who tral ways, Lane says, for they both the three Rs," Lane says, "but we came north from Texas in a cattle proclaim the same God and profess were never prepared to go beyond drive in the 1880s. (The Larry Mc- the same values of love and service. that."

16 Forns 011 Forestry Fall 1992 Nevertheless, he applied for and the war, and Lane joined the Navy. the cost. This came down to me from won a scholarship of $400 from the He served with the Seabees and the my great-grandfather Saswe. So Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1936, at Naval Air Corps in Florida. While when it's time for me to go, I will go age 21, he entered Oregon State. stationed in the Panama Canal he happily, because I know I've done the It took him five years to earn a won the all-service lightweight task I was given to do." degree, and it was a tough five years. boxing championship. Besides the E.B. Lemon Distin­ The course work was rigorous, but it In 1943, Lane got a brief leave, guished Alumni Award and the OSU wasn't only tha t. Being both an traveled to Oklahoma, and married Distinguished Service Award, Lane Indian and an older student, Lane Bow, the woman he'd been courting, has won other awards, including the also experienced an enormous mostly by letter, for almost 12 years. Baha'i Community United Nations cultural dislocation. He didn't have "In the old days," he says, "it would Human Rights Award, the State of much patience, for instance, with the have been customary to bring horses Washington Certificate of Apprecia­ tradition that freshmen ("rooks") had to her father to ask for her hand. I had tion, and the 1984 Governor's Distin­ to wear little green caps. And he no horses. But now I had an educa­ guished Volunteer Award. He has never had enough money. "My shoes tion, and I could provide for her." received a Presidential Citation from were so thin," he jokes, "I could step After his discharge, Lane returned Lyndon B. Johnson and an award on a dime and tell you if it was heads to Panama with the Corps of Engi­ from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe or tails." neers to work on the Sea Level Locks for outstanding achievement and But he knew how to ask for help. project. He was transferred to service. "I was befriended by a lot of people," Umatilla in 1949 to help build he says, including his roomates, Earle McNary Dam and several other and Merle Johnson, who helped him Corps of Engineers dams, and then to pass a chemistry course. He also Walla Walla, where he continued his remembers Cal Monroe, Dick Living­ structural design work until his Two Forestry ston, and an Indian friend, Lionel retirement in 1971. Kinuan. All these men were present Today Lane and his wife raise grads honored at at the E.B. Lemon award banquet in quarter horses on a ranch near Walla May. Walla. They have a son, Phil Jr., of Commencement In 1941, Lane was runner-up for Lethbridge, Alberta, a daughter, the Pacific Coast Conference boxing Deloria, of Duncan, B.C., and six This year's OSU Distinguished championship in the lightweight grandchildren. Service Awards both went to division. A few months later he True to his ideals, Lane has ac­ College of Forestry graduates. graduated from Oregon State with a tively helped the community wher­ Philip N. Lane and Faye H. degree in forest management. His ever he's been. He was chairman of Stewart received their awards at program had included some civil the Umatilla school board when the the University's 123rd Com­ engineering courses, and these family lived there, and he continues mencement in June. (Please see proved valuable, for after graduation with much civic and church work, the longer articles on Lane and he joined the Army Corps of Engi­ particularly projects involving youth. Stewart in this issue--Lane' s on neers and was assigned to the He got involved in prison outreach this page, Stewart's on page 5.) Panama Canal. through a fellow horseman who Lane, a 1941 graduate in forest Then, suddenly, America was in happened to be the warden at the management, is a Yankton Sioux Washington State Penitentiary. "He who has devoted much time to told me there was a quite a contingent service in both Indian and non­ of Indian men serving sentences." Indian causes. He is the spiritual Lane went up to the prison and leader of the American Indian offered his services. He saw a group Science and Engineering Society of spiritually impoverished men, cut (AISES) artd has worked with off from their cultural and religious Indian prisoners at the Washing­ heritage. ton State Penitentiary at Walla Lane arranged a regular sweat Walla, helping them rediscover lodge ceremony at the prison, and he pride and hope in their heritage. prodded skeptical officials to allow He and his wife live in Walla the sacred pipe to be used in religious Walla, Wash. services. Now, he says, the Indian Stewart, a 1938 graduate in ministry at Walla Walla stands as a forest engineering, helped model for other prisons. "Many of establish the wood-products those released have gone on to lead company Bohemia, Inc. Stewart meaningful lives and have become also pioneered the use of balloon assets to the people." logging as head of the company For Lane, the life of service is a The Flying Scotsman, Inc. He and happy one. "Even when I was very his wife, Lucille, are among the poor, there was always something University's most ardent sup­ inside me telling me that I have to porters. They live in Eugene. serve the people, regardless of what •

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Kudos for f acuity "sustained excellent professional tion from ground skidding of logs is performance in an extremely adverse internationally known, and he is also work climate." recognized for his research on woody Mike Newton, professor of forest Logan Norris, head of the Depart- debris in streams, stability of ecology, was honored in May with ment of streambanks and slopes, and other the second annual Outstanding Forest forest engineering issues. He will Forest Science Faculty Award. The Science, has retire this year after 21 years on the award was developed by the forest been selected College faculty. He received the science students in 1990; students to chair the award at the OSAF annual meeting select the recipient each year. Newton Society of last April. was chosen for his excellence in American At the same meeting, David Hann, teaching and Foresters' associate professor of forest biometry, research and national received the OSAF 1992 Research his d edica­ Task Force Award. Hann was honored for his tion to on Sustain­ work on mathematical stand growth helping ing Long­ models, and particularly for his students tenn Forest computer model, ORGANON, used achieve their Produ ctivity. to forecast goals. He has "The charter growth in been on the of this task various types Loga11 Norris Forest force is to of stands. Science look at Although faculty since sustaining all values across broad ORGANON 1960. time spans and geographic scales, as was origi­ Brian well as nally written Greber, diverse for the associate ownerships," forests of professor of ~ 1/," Newro11 says Norris. southwestern forest resources, received the 1992 "I can't think Oregon, Aufderheide Award for excellence in of anything Hann is teaching. The award is based on that's more tailoring the nominations from students, and the at the soul of model to winner is chosen by a student com­ forestry in handle condi- mittee. It was presented to Greber at this country tions in other Bill Ripple Fernhopper Day, the annual alumni today." The regions of the reunion event, in April. IO-member state. Greber was also was honored with panel, Two awards from the American the Oregon representing Society for Society of universities, Photogram­ American industry, and Ha11k Frorl1lid1 metry and Foresters' public Remote Tough Tree agencies, was Sensing went award a t the chosen in May of 1991. It will report to Bill OSAF its findings to the SAF leadership this Ripple, annual fall. associate meeting in The Oregon Society of American professor of April. The Foresters has chosen Henry A. forest award is Froehlich, professor of forest engi­ resources. given to neering, to receive its 1992 Lifetime One was a those who Achievement Award. Froehlich was presidential I have demon­ recognized for his contributions to citation for strated knowledge about forest hydrology meritorious and soils. His work on soil compac- B1 ia11 Grelwr George Sf a11key

18 Focus 011 Forestry Fall 1992 service; the other was "in recognition vegetation management, fire, refores­ Last year's Awesome Force award of significant contributions to the tation, and animal damage. He has went to Bill Emmingham, associate aims and objectives of the Society." coordinated the work of multiple professor of forest scien ce and Ripple is also director of ERSAL, the specialist-authors in the production Extension silviculture specialist. He Environmental Remote Sensing of two was honored for his dedication to Applications Laboratory, at the comprehen­ applied research and extension College of Forestry. sive books demonstrations and for his success at George Stankey, professor of aimed at getting Extension agents involved in forest resources, received the 1991 forestry research. Last summer he and Bondi Australian Award in Park and p ractitioners: were co-leaders of Eurosilva, an Recreation Adminish·ation. The Forest Extension tour to the forests of award was given by the Royal Vegetation Germany and central Europe. Australian Institute of Parks and Management The Awesome Force award got its Recreation to honor Stankey for his for Conifer name from an apocryphal story about scientific leadership and research for Production a group of campus-based specialists park management and planning in (Walstad and who toured a field demonstration Australia. Stankey h as worked with Kuch 1987) site. One of the group is said to have Australian authorities for almost 15 and Natural exclaimed, "What an awesome force years to help improve the country's and Prescribed this Forestry Extension team is when recreation planning and managem ent feff IT· 10 Fire in Pacific we get together on a problem!" The through teaching, research, and Northwest award is presented yearly to a ) continuing education. He has lived in Forests (Walstad et al. 1990). Walstad Forestry Extension team member Australia twice-in 1980-1982, when received the Oregon SAF's chapter John Tappeiner, professor of h e taught at Canberra College (now achievement award in 1987, and he forest resources, has taken a position the Univer­ was elected an SAF Fellow in 1990. as a silvicultural scientist with the sity of Jeffry Hino, media production new Bmeau of Land Management Canberra), specialist in the College's Forestry cooperative and in 1987- Media Center, won first-place honors research unit 89, when he from the Agricultural Communica­ headquar­ worked for tors in Education for a video training tered at OSU. both the package he produced. The video He will New South package, titled "Pesticides in forestry: formulate, Wales behavior, toxicology, and risk coordinate, National analysis," was co-written by Logan and conduct Parks and Norris, professor and head of the research for Wildlife Forest Scien ce department, and the BLMon Service and Frank Dost, recently retired profes­ alternative the Sydney sor of agricultmal chemistry at OSU. silvicultural Institute of Hino also received the organization's practices and Technology. Outstanding Professional Skill strategies. /ad l vn1srnrl The 1991 Award for his role in creating the Tappeiner Technology video production. f 0'111 7 nppe111er will continue Transfer and Extension Award of the The Forestry Extension faculty with a joint Society of American Foresters went to conferred its 1992 Awesome Force appointment at OSU, teaching and Jack Walstad, professor and head of award on Mike Bondi, Forestry advising students and conducting the Forest Resources department. He Extension agent for Clackam as research part-time at the College of was honored for his key role in many County. Bondi was honored for his Forestry. technology-transfer efforts, including expertise in management planning those of the FIR Program (Forestry for woodland owners and for his ) Intensified Research), for which he work in Christmas trees, youth was program leader for seven years. environmental education, and forest Walstad has written widely on marketing. •

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