Volume 26 Article 13 1-1-1938 Alumni Ames Forestry Club Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/amesforester Part of the Forest Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Ames Forestry Club (1938) "Alumni," Ames Forester: Vol. 26 , Article 13. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/amesforester/vol26/iss1/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ames Forester by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ALUMNI IO4 Nineteen Thirtry-ehght VIho9s Who And Why C. Svendby-1926 the wood pulp industry. I started in 1930, in a plant which was in Graduating from Iowa State in the construction stage and had the March 1926, Svendby went directly enviable opportunity of actually to the Mast Nursery Company in growing up with a new manufac- Davenport, Iowa where he was turing unit. From mill labor my employed until the late months of work progressed thru the labora- that year. He next collaborated tory control of manufacturing into with the Empire Forestry Com- engineering, construction, and fin- pany at Albany, N. Y. while with ally operation of one' unit of the this company he cruised extensive plant; after five years of produc- timber holdings in Newfoundland. tion work I took over the timber In 1928 he went nearly half way operations of the plant. around the world to Pullman, In 1937 I resigned to take a posi- Washington where he became an tion with National Gypsum Com- instructor in the Department of pany, to supervise the design of a Forestry and Range Management.