Gopher Peavey 1969

- - DEDICATED TO FRANK H. KAUFERT Professor and Director of the School of Forestry . .. for his part in having made many men into foresters. He has aided forestry student organizations in ways wiknou;n tu most students, always managing to come through for the sl1tdents when they needed help. He has shared his many experiences with lmndreds of students over the years, giving them in the process the benefit of his many years of activity in forestry. He has always maintained an open door and a listening ear for students. He is a demanding teacher, a keen critic and a dispenser of good advice, but most of all he is a man the students might con,sider a friend. - Gopher Peavey Jl.lumni CJ[ew'1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1969 REPORT ON THE SCHOOL . 2 STAFF . • . • . 4 CLASSES ..... ............... .. 12 ACTIVITIES . ....... ... .. .. .. 24 SUMMER JOBS .............•.... 48 ALUMNI ...... • .......... ..... 52 annual publication of the FORESTRY STUDENTS University of Minnesota St. Paul 'I Foresters' Day, Xi Sigma Pi, Itasca Session, fall and School of Forestry Report spring quarter Cloquet Sessions, and many other ac tivities may be responsible for the relative calm atmo All of you no doubt have had the kind of year sphere in the School as compared to the turbulence that seemed unusually busy and involved but yielded in student bodies generally. Maintaining this situation little on which to report. As this report is begun, that will require even more dedicated and improved in appears to be the kind of year just completed by the struction, far better teaching facilities on the St. Paul School, the kind that has been filled with activity but Campus and Cloquet Forest, and developing more does not appear on first glance to have had the sig effective channels of communication than now exist. nificant happenings and progress reported to you in Graduate student enrollment is down, from 65 in recent issues of the Gopher Peavey-Alumni News. 1967-68 to 55 in 1968-69, due largely to the draft situ Both the quantity and quality of undergraduate ation. There is every indication that this is but the students continue to increase. The fall quarter saw lull before the storm and that graduate enrollment 441 students enrolled in the School, the largest num will rise rapidly, far more rapidly than undergraduate ber in the history of the School. The quality of these enrollment. About 2/3 of the graduate students are in students is indicated by the fact that about 85 per Ph.D. programs and the remainder in Masters' pro cent were in the upper part of their high school gradu grams. Since a good deal of our research is done by ating classes and 97 per cent had completed three or graduate students under the direction of staff mem more years of high school mathematics. Also, the trend bers, our research program during the past year has of our population towards concentration in cities and been somewhat handicapped. suburbia is reflected in the source of our students. Doug Gerrard, who received his B.S. and M.S. de About 90 per cent of our students have urban back grees from the University of Toronto and Ph.D. from grounds and three-fourths come from the Twin Cities Michigan State University, joined us last fall as As and surrounding suburbia. The fact that close to three sistant Professor in the forest measurements area. fourths of them graduated in high school classes of Tim Knopp, who earned a B.S. in the School in 1957 over 200 makes their high school performance all the and an M.S. from the University of Arizona, was more remarkable. However, there is still room for im appointed an instructor in forest recreation. Tim provement in quality and we expect the trend toward spent parts of two years following graduation on added quality witnessed in recent years to continue. bicycle trips around most of Central and South Ameri The enrollment of transfer students continues to ca and Africa. This may sound like recreation to some, increase, and transfer students annually make up a but sounds pretty strenuous to me. Tim's fabulous higher per cent of our student body. As our junior and collection of slides has received much acclaim. Vilis state college systems develop, this trend towards a Kurmis who has an undergraduate degree in forestry larger number of transfer students no doubt will con in Latvia and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Minnesota, tinue. This could result in doubling the number of jun has been a Research Associate on our staff during the iors and seniors, as well as graduating classes, with rel past year, assisting Henry Hansen on his vegetation atively little total enrollment increase. Since more than management research in State parks. We are happy 90 per cent of School of Forestry courses are at the to have these new staff additions and invite all alumni junior-senior level, we could in 5-10 years double our to stop to meet and get acquainted with them. teaching load without a major change in total stu With staff gains normally come staff losses. In the dent numbers. This trend towards more transfer stu first two weeks of March six School staff members re dents could make a shambles of our long-range en ceived enticing offers of positions from other forest rollment predictions. schools, from FAO, a forest industry, and from a non Forestry students in common with all university forestry institution. Four of the six offers have been students are more critical, more challenging, and more turned down, one is still very much alive and may demanding of top quality instruction, advising and result in loss of a most important staff member, and counseling. Fortunately the School has the type of one offer was accepted. Carl Reidel, who will receive advising and counseling system under Ken Winsness his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota this sum that is responsive to students. This plus abundant mer and has been an instructor on our staff for the involvement in Forestry Club, Forest Products Club, past four years, accepted an outstanding offer from Gopher Peavey-Alumni News, Christmas Tree sales Williams College in Massachusetts. Carl will head project, Foresters' Day, the Special Event preceding that College's new natural resources program. The 2 'I challenges and opportunities in this new position are Plantations. Schantz continues to serve on the Board many and Carl is the kind of individual who can of Directors of the Northwest Paper Foundation and fully meet them. We congratulate Carl and wish him continues active in an advisory capacity to the Clo well in this most interesting position. We need more quet School Board. Schantz suffered a broken hip in a foresters in positions of this type. However, his leav fall last winter but is recovering and anxious to start ing will seriously interfere with our development of a his annual trip to Florida. "Brownie" is busy with stronger conservation of natural resources course and local library and community activities and travel to of the proposed Master of Forest Resources Adminis the southwest and other points. Mrs. Louis Rees is a tration (MFRA) program in the School. most welcome guest at such Forestry School activities The somewhat abbreviated and later field session as the annual Staff and Graduate fall picnic, Lumber at Itasca, during the last week of August and 8 weeks men's Short Course banquet and Foresters' Day of September before start of the fall quarter, for in events. Walt Nelson, former superintendent at Itasca coming juniors and transfer students appears to be and, with Scott Pauley, an addict to Sir Walter working out well and is accomplishing the objective Raleigh pipe tobacco, is enjoying good health and re of exposing all students to a field forestry experience tirement at Alexandria, Minnesota. Walt and alumnus prior to entering their last two years of professional Stan Ringold (Minn. '14) keep us honest with their forestry education. Also, this arrangement permits meaningful but good natured criticism. interested students to obtain an added summer of The Minnesota Forestry Alumni Association Board field experience in forestry, which was not possible is an active and productive group. Its activities in under the old arrangement. Last fall we.held our first connection with the two annual MFAA evening meet session for juniors and seniors at Cloquet. It worked ings, School plans and problems, and the recent ques out well. We plan to have two Cloquet sessions, fall tionnaire sent all alumni are deeply appreciated and and spring, in the future, with 50-60 enrolled in each are productive. Without the activities of the Asso session. Added winterized cabins and improved class ciation and Board the School's program would be room and laboratory facilities at the Cloquet forest greatly weakened. We need the type of guidance, are essential to accomplish this two-quarter offering, counsel and support the MFAA provides. made necessary by rapidly expanding enrollment in Foresters' Day this year was featured by an out creases. We urgently need the $500,000 classroom standing talk by Dr. Norman Borlaug (Minn. '87), laboratory building requested of this Legislature by now with the Rockefeller Foundation and in charge the University but not included by the Legislative of its world wheat breeding program, on his work to Building Commission in its recommendations. We help solve our food problems in underdeveloped coun have proposed phasing this building, constructing first tries. Norm credits his undergraduate forestry train the classroom portion for about one-half the total ing for the background and incentive that have estimated cost.

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