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classnotes 1942 Crossett, Ark., during the spring of changed! Word comes from Herb 1946. Cliff and Don needed only one Winer, Ph.D. ’56, that just one M.F. Dick Jorgensen, D.F. ’54, writes: academic year to earn the M.F., and was among 120 candidates for “Gayley Atkinson is at Foulkeways, they stayed in New Haven that master’s degrees. Herb visited Kroon a continuing care retirement commu- spring.” Don Maus’ wife, Beula, Hall, former Dean Speth’s crowning nity in Gwynedd, Pa. Richard West writes: “Don is slowed up physically achievement before he relinquished went from Florida to a family reunion with arthritis and sciatica problems, his post to Sir Peter Crane. Is there in New London, N.H., and 30 folks but does grocery shopping—those still a place in the field of forestry for showed up from California, Texas, carts are good walkers—and is still a F&ES graduates? I know that courses Louisiana and Florida. Dick is pleased good cook. He will reach his 94th in urban ecology and forestry are that the younger family members are birthday in January. I will be 90 in offered from searching the course still holding reunions. His wife is February.” catalog. Related to urban forestry is confined to a wheelchair because of the damage to the maple and ash arthritis, but they are holding up as 1947 trees that populated large neighbor- an old married couple! I am on the hoods of Worcester, Mass., by the board of directors of a senior housing Class Secretary Asian Longhorned Beetle. Some facility and keep fairly busy. I went to Evert Johnson 22,000 trees have been or are in the my granddaughter’s wedding in process of being removed, trees that South Carolina in July. It was nice 1948 either had become host trees or were because my daughter, sister, grands Class Secretary close to being host trees. The migra- and great-grands were all there.” Francis Clifton tion of the beetle to this city was Otis Hall writes: “I went to Reno last 1946 apparently in wooden shipping year, but not to Orlando this year. crates from China to one of our large Class Secretary My main forestry activity now is industries.” Paul Burns spreading the word that forests and Cliff Bryden’s wife, Burne, writes: trees are the best defense against 1950 60th Reunion Year CO and that deforestation must be “Cliff turned 92 in December 2008. 2 Class Secretary prevented in the United States, as well He is up and going but doesn’t walk Kenneth Carvell very far. We take drives into the as elsewhere in the world. Also, I am country and Cliff goes shopping promoting wider use of wind and 1951 with me. Cliff’s children, Charles, solar power.” George Hindmarsh Class Secretary Bruce and Sally, visit him. He has writes: “I drove up to Seminole with Peter Arnold four grandchildren and three great- my brother and one of my daughters and their spouses for my sister’s grandchildren.” Paul Burns, Ph.D. 1952 ’49, writes: “Only three out of the 22 memorial services. I saw a lot of members of our class are still alive: nieces, nephews and cousins whom Class Secretary Cliff Bryden, Don Maus and me. I I haven’t seen in a while.” Steve Milton Hartley am 89 years old. Dave Smith, the Pryce writes: “My wife experienced Bob Bond writes: “For years I have youngest of our class and my long- a fall and broke her leg. That was in attended F&ES receptions at meet- time friend, died in March (see January, and healing is going along ings and have always been interested environment:Yale, Spring 2009). Dave well. I get in my swimming and in seeing who the attendee from the and I began the two-year M.F. program golf regularly. I do woodworking oldest class was. At the recent New at Yale in June 1941. We both left as a hobby.” England SAF meeting in Portland, Yale temporarily in March 1942, Maine, I found myself in that posi- volunteering for an Army Air Corps 1949 tion. I hope to attend many more!” program in meteorology at New York Class Secretary University. I became a weather officer Daniel Dick 1953 in the European Theater, and Dave Daniel Dick writes: “There were 51 Class Secretary was a weather officer in the of us, the largest class in the history Stanley Goodrich Mediterranean area. When World of the school at that time. We were Eric Ellwood, Ph.D. ’54, writes: “I War II ended, we returned to Yale indoctrinated into the lore and noble was class president and attended the and finished our M.F. degrees in June history of the Yale foresters who had school on a Fulbright fellowship 1946. We were required to take 11 come before us. How the world of from Australia and a Sheffield Fellow weeks of forestry fieldwork at forestry education at F&ES has Fall 2009 31 notes scholarship. I was also fortunate to international NGO dedicated to estab- 1956 win the 1953 Wood Award. After lishing substantial portions of the Class Secretary class graduating I went back to Australia Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Jack Rose to become a research officer with the as a permanent park for peace and Commonwealth Scientific and nature. This brings me full circle Patrick Duffy writes: “While doing Research Organization. In 1956 I because, as a U.S. Marine Corps Energy Information Administration returned to the United States to join artillery officer in the Korean War— (EIA) consulting for the U.N.’s Food the newly established California an interlude that interrupted my M.F. and Agriculture Organization in Forest Products Laboratory under studies at the Forestry School—my Rome this winter/spring, I had the the direction of Fred Dickenson. duties contributed significantly to pleasure to meet with Susan Braatz After five years, I joined the School of the environmental and social disrup- ’80 on climate change and forestry. Forest Resources at North Carolina tion being addressed here. It is a This tied in with my new assignment State University as head of the pleasure to note that Seong-il Kim as international consultant to the Department of Wood and Paper ’84, a professor of forestry at Seoul FAO regional office in Budapest on Science; 10 years later, I was National University, and I are in adapting agriculture to climate appointed dean of the college. I correspondence about pursuing joint change in 12 Eastern European and retired 20 years ago. My dear late efforts in these hopes for the DMZ.” mid-Asia countries. I see an active wife, Dorothy, suffered through 12 Gordon Weetman ’58, Ph.D. ’62, years of Parkinson’s disease and died 1955 55th Reunion Year around the Vancouver forestry scene, and I have been in touch with in 2000. In 2004, I married Dr. Mary Dave Holmes writes from Australia: Gerardo Budowski, Ph.D. ’62. Retired Kilburn, a clinical psychologist. My “Last February we took a drive up from the University for Peace in San current activities include family time the north coast, retracing our steps Jose, Costa Rica, Gerardo assisted me (my three daughters and four grand- to visit Ellenborough Falls, west of on an urban forest inventory for the children distributed in three states Taree in New South Wales, and sev- San Jose municipality a few years ago. and Mary’s two daughters and five eral of the old forests of our former I admire him for his work, including grandchildren), travel, gardening, fly- district. There are vast areas of fine his stints at the International Union fishing, sailing and Rotary Club. My regeneration that do not have our for Conservation of Nature in passion is photography and I am a written name on them, but could Switzerland and at the Tropical part-time professional. Now in my have! A great pleasure to go back to Agricultural Research and Higher 87th year, I would be most interested find that our best blackbutt forests Education Center at Turrialba and the to hear from my surviving classmates are in order and well protected from University for Peace. My current work via email.” [email protected] fire and other perils. These days, we includes trying to find more water for Oakleigh Thorne writes: “I’m don’t feel very threatened by bushfires Accra, Ghana, and advising as a vol- teaching birds and bird banding in here in Manly, New South Wales, yet unteer on the closing of a 30-year-old Thorne Ecological Institute’s Natural some of those parklands we look garbage dump and the opening of a Science School during the summer onto have had wildfires that scorch well-designed sanitary landfill at and birds during the school year. I the crowns bare, sometimes killing Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras. I was appointed to the external board small trees.” Larry Sunderland also serve on an intervener funding of the Yale Institute for Biospheric writes: “Not much activity on my committee on the Federal EIA review Studies in 2008 and enjoyed attending New Hampshire woodland other of a large and complex run-of-the- the dedication of Kroon Hall in May.” than cleaning up some of the river project on the central coast of December 2008 ice storm damage. British Columbia. After 20 years on 1954 My forest management plan, such as Eagle Island, we moved to a spacious Class Secretary it is, is too opportunistic for today’s condo in North Vancouver. With Richard Chase log market.