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University of Minnesota ST. PAUL, MINN. Foreword
Happy days are here again! The Civil Service has been given once mo re . The hurricane has blown a bunch o~ the eligible list, and the Supervis ors are tak ing down their back hair and admitting they are in need of some new blood! What more could a rorester want? Just one thing - - the PEA VEY! And here it is. The 1939 Peavey Staff.
/our D oc-roR H EN RY S CHMITZ
Dedication
This book is a~ectionate l y dedicated to our Chief, "Doc" Schmitz, to whose ever ready tact and tireless energy more than anything else, we owe our wonderful new building and our steady progress. May he live long and prosper. lJJ ~ 0 :c ....J ~ ....J lJJ <( z :c ~ lJJ z f-o lJJ ~ lJJ ~ ~ 0 u.. (.:> lJJ ~ Dedication of Green Hall by Carroll Mattlin
With a full-day program, the new B. Green's Contribution to Minnesota forestry building was dedicated Friday, Forestry." No one is better qualified November 18th, 1938. No building to speak on a subject of this nature, of this nature could have had a more for not only was Professor Chapman learned group of speakers and guests a student in forestry at Minnesota dur than had Green Hall on the first day ing its infant days, but he was closely of its official recognition. How proud associated with Professor Green. Pro Professor Samuel B. Green would fessor Green was instrumental in the have been had be been here to witness appointment of a state fire warden af the crowning achievement of the For ter the disastrous Hinckley fire in estry Department. le was he who start 1894, and also in having the land set ed forestry education at the University aside, later called Itasca State Park of Minnesota, and in whose honor the and the Cloquet Experimental Station. new building was named. "Forestry and the Graduate School" To Dr. H enry Schmitz, chief of the was the title of the talk given by Guy Division of Forestry, whose unceasing Stanton Ford, President of the Univer and tireless efforts won the confidence sity of Minnesota. President Ford of the people of the State, may we ex stressed the importance of the inter tend our thanks. We only hope that lacing factors in the graduate school, we may do our share to show how and the fields open to men interested deeply we appreciate this building, its and capable of furthering their know equipment, and the ideals for which it ledge in the line of forestry. stands. Mr. F. A. Silcox, Chief Forester of At ten o'clock in the morning, the the United States Forest Service, spoke dedication ceremonies under the guid on " How Can the Division of Forestry ing hand of Dr. Schmitz were well be of Greater Service to the United under way. The various addresses States Forest Service." Mr. Silcox pre were given in the $250,000 Forestry sented the trends in present day forest Building's auditorium which seats 400 activities and laid great emphasis on people. First speaker on the program the need of coordinating chemistry was the Honorable Fred B. Snyder, and business administration with for vice-president of the Board of Regents, estry. Increasing use of wood in the whose topic was "The Division of manufacture of benzene, rubber, and Forestry and the University." Mr. clothes brought about by chemical re Snyder briefly ran through the history search has brought this problem to a of the lumbering industry in Minne head. sota, stressing the need for construc The lumber industry was represent tive work in forestry to maintain the ed very ably by Mr. I. N. Tate of the work so nobly started early in 1890 by Weyerhauser Sales Company. His Samuel B. Green. topic was "How Can the Division of Professor H. H. Chapman, Harri Forestry be of Greater Service to the man Profess~r of Forest Management Lumber Industry?" Some time ago, at Yale University, spoke on "Samuel his first remark, "We who are about to die salute you" may have had some Dr. Clyde H. Bailey, vice-director meaning but not today. Mr. Tate of the Minnesota Agricultural Experi painted a true picture of the industry mental Station, then spoke on "Forest as seen thru the eyes of a lumberman. ry and the Minnesota ~gricultural Ex In speaking of the purchase of lands perimental Station." He pointed out by the government for state parks, he the need for trees in shelter belt pro called attention to the fact that in Cook jects, windbreaks, and as a source of County, Minnesota, large owners paid fuel on every farm in the State. The forty-five per cent of the taxes that two divisions have been more closely would, if taken over by the State, united in the past few years because have been tax free. It is true in Min of the work done by the government nesota as in Idaho that the second in reclamation projects. growth timber is of inferior quality, The last speaker on the afternoon and something must be done to im program was Dr. E. M. Freeman, prove this condition. He sees as a D ean of the College of Forestry, Agri salvation for the lumber industry, in culture, and Home Economics. Dr. creased use of lumber and better sales. Freeman spoke on "Forestry Educa "What do you say we tramp tion and the Educational Program of down to the cafeteria and have the College of Forestry, Agriculture lunch? The afternoon session and Home Economics." will start at one forty-five o'clock. After the last speech, Green Hall We musn't keep them waiting." was opened for public inspection and At two o'clock Dr. Schmitz again students acted as guides for those who called the meeting to order and intro as yet had not had the opportunity to duced the first speaker of the after see the building. Of most interest was noon, Mr. Ellery Foster, State Forest the large museum and exhibition room er, who discussed the ways in which on the ground floor-and little won the Division of Forestry can be of der. Dr. Bailey of the Forestry facul greater service to the M innesota Con ty has taken great pride in this room; servation Department. He pointed and because he is an expert on pulp out the ways in which the concepts of and paper products, has been able to forestry have changed in the past set up some very interesting exhibits. years. The marketing of timber by His laboratory on the same floor is the formers from small woodlots has been best equipped for his work in the gaining importance and is destined to country, and no one can say he is not become even more so when the farm proud of it. ers learn methods of improving their The greenhouse at the south end of yields. The Agricultural Division is the building was also closely inspected. assisting in chis way. Many nursery problems that before "Forestry and the Minnesota De had been hard to solve because of the partment of Agriculture" from the cramped quarters and lack of facilities standpoint of the D epartment of Agri will now be solved in this modern con culture was discussed by Dean Coffey servatory. of the University staff. Dean Coffey Graduate rooms, main offices, and brought to mind the numerous ways the auditorium were outstanding on in which the two departments are tied the second floor for interest. The together, both working for the good auditorium is well equipped for run of the other. ning sound and silent films and has tight been used a great deal for those pur and Alumni Banquet was held in the poses. ballroom of the Minnesota Union. A very delicious dinner was enjoyed by Well-lighted laboratories and the everyone. Later in the evening as the library on the third floor commanded after-dinner smoke rose, Mr. C. F. special attention. The library, which Forsling, Assistant Chief of the Branch is very complete and well appointed, of Research of the United States For affords a wonderful opportunity to est Se rvice, gave a short talk on the study amid pleasant surroundings. field of research as an opening for Latest editions of research work are serious-minded foresters and those available, and current literature is up more capable in that line. Our own to date. Charles F. Shearer gave an impromptu The fourth floor and part of the pep talk and made the fellows realize ground floor are occupied by the Lake just how much they owed the State for States Forest Experimental Station. the splendid building built for them. After all the guests had been shown So home to bed with the knowledge through the building and the various that now we've got it, let's see what we departments, the annual Forestry Club can do with it!
nine Contents
FOREWORD 4
DEDICATION
GREEN H ALL DEDICATION 6
FACULTY II
SENIORS 12
CLASS OF 1940 27
CLASS OF 1941 28
CLASS OF 194 3 29
FEATURE ARTICLES
THERF. IS WORK TO BE DONE 30 GROWTH OF COMMFRCIAL L U M BERING C URRICULUM 34 Cof\H\ION SF.NSF. IN H 1cH GEAR 35 Col\1E AND GET IT 38 GRADUATE WORK IN FORESTRY 40 G,\ME MANAGEM ENT CURRICULUM 41 GENERAL FORESTRY CURRICULUM 42 FOREST TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM 43
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
P EAVEY STAFF 45 FRESHMAN CORPORATION 46 CLOQUET CORPORATION • 50 FORESTERS' DAY 55 CASS L AKE CORPORATION 58 FORESTRY CLUB Loe 63
ORGANIZATIONS
X1 SIGMA P1 66 VOYAGEURS 67 TAU PHI DELTA 68 ALPHA ZETA 69
ALUMNI SECTION Al. U MNI SECTION 70 ALU MNI DIRECTORY 86
Ull FORESTRY
I. DoCTOR A . J. 6AIL.hY 5. PROFESSOR R . M . BROWN 2. H ENRY H AKSEN 6. PROFESSOR E. G. CHEYNEY 3. DwtGHT BENDSENO 7. PROFESSOR J. H. Ai.USON 4. DOCTOR HENRY SCHMITZ 8. DOCTOR L. w. REES SENIORS
GEORGE w. ABEL "George" Superior, Wisconsin Central Forestry Forrstry Club. Field Experience, 1936 Superior Na· tional Forest; 1937 Forest cartographer, Douglas Co., \Xlisconsin; 1937· 38 Assistant on resurvey, Douglas County. Forestry inventory, \Xlisconsin Conservation Department.
WAYNE A CK ER MAN " Ack,," Aitkin, Minnesota Gmtral Forestry Forestry Club; Voyageurs; Xi Sigma Pi; Foresters Day 1938·39. Field Experience-Superior National Forest 1933.34: Lake States Forest Experiment Stauon 1934·37: Lake States l?J8.
joMN T. AoKINS ,, } . .,,..,, Minneapolis, Minnesota Gtntral FortJtry forestry Club. Field Expcricncc- Kaniksu National Forest; Chippewa National Forest; Minnesoca Con· servation Department.
EoMuNo ANOFRSON " Andy" Parkville, Minnesota Gt11trttl Fortllry Forestry Club; Rangers Club.
DANIEL M. BENJAMIN "Da11" Minneapolis, Minnesota Gt11tra/ FortJtry Forestry Club; Linnaean Club; Peavey Staff. Field Experience-George Washington Stace ForeSt 1936; MVC Co. 1938.
B ENNIE G. BENSON " Bennie" Stoughton, \Xlisconsin Gt11tral Fort1try Forestry Club; League of Evangelical Students; U . of M. Band. Field Expuience--Madison Forest Products Laboratory 1936. JosEPH J . BLAISDELL rr ]oe" Minnenpolis, M innesorn Gmual Forestry Forurry Club. Field Experience-Wnrer from di rKror. Camp Wells, Big Lake, Minnesora, 1936-37.
Gr;oRGE H. Bovr;soN "Gawge" Si. Paul, Minntsora Rangt Ma11agtmt11t Foresrry Club; Voyngeurs; Delegare 10 Montan3 Conclave. Field Experience-1937 Range Research, Norrhern Rocky Mounrain Experiment Srarion.
DAVIO L. BRINK " Dave" Sr. Paul, Minnesota FortJt Stima1 Foresrry Club; Xi Sigma Pi; Tau Phi Delra; Alpha Zera; Linnaean Club; Phoenix Society; Gobblers: Ag. Studenr Council 1938; Foresrry Dny Associarion 1938-39. Field Experience-Alaska Glacial Survey 1936: Porlarcl1 Foresu 1938.
C. EowARD CARI.SON "Ed" Stillwater, M innrsora Gmual Forestry Formry Club; Xi Sigmn Pi; Alpha Zern; Gopher Puvey Board. Field Experience-Soil Conservation Service 1937; Division of Forestry, U . of M .• 1938: Division of Game and Fish, M innesorn Deparunenr of Conservarion 1938.
J OHN J. CONNORS "Junior'' Minneapoli s, M innesota Porat Tuhnology Formry C lub.
EARL B. DAHL " Earl" Minneapolis, M innesora Wi/tlli/t Ma11agwm1t Foresrry Club; Game Manngers Club. HARRY J. DAVIS UHU Red Wing, Minnesota Central Forutry Forestry Club; Xi Sigmn Pi; Foreseers Day 1939. Field Experience- Wisconsin Conservation Depart· ment 1936; Chippewa National Forest 1937; Tahoe National Forest, California 1938.
RosERT C. DosEN "Bob" Sr. Paul, Minnesota Commercial Lumbering Forestry Club; T au Phi Delea; Gobblers; Y. M. C . A. Field Experience- U. S. Forest Service: Weyer· haeuser Timber Company; Thilmany Pulp and Paper Co.
RoLlERT V. D uNNE "Bob" St. Paul, Minnesota Commercial Lrm1beri11g Forestry Club.
\XI ALTON H. DURUM "Bull" Sr. Paul, Minnesota General Fort11T)' Forestry C lub; Hamline College.
CLARENCE T. EGGEN " Bing'' Kelliher, Minnesota Ce11tral Foru try Forestry Club; Voyaguers; Treasurer 1939; Bemidji Sme Teachers College 1935.
ALFRED E. ENGE:BRETSON " Alf" H udson, Wisconsin Gt1u1<1/ Foratry Forestry Club; All "U" Touchball Team 1936; Pioneer Hall Touchball Champions 1936-37. Field Experience--Superior National Forest 1936. WARREN C. ENSTROM "Duke" Bovty, Minnesota Ctntral F JOHN E11CEGOVICH , JR. "Johnny" Gilbert, Minnesota Gra{ing Forestry Club; Rangers Club. OswALD H. EsTERL "Ossie'' Park Falls, Wisconsin Gtntral Forutry Forestry Club. Field Experience-Edward Hines Lumber Co., Park Falls, Wisc. KENNETH B. GARBISCH "Kera" Waltham, Minnesota C ommucial L11111bni11g Forestry Club. Fitld Experience-Soil Conservation 1937; Chippewa National Forest 1938. DONALD N. GREGG " Don" St. Paul, Minnesota Gt11tral Forntry Forestry Club; Tau Phi Delea; Gobblers; Punchi nello Players; Foresters Day Contest Chairman 193 5; Exhibits Chairman 1936-37. Field Experience-Ka niksu National Forest 1935; Superior National Forest 1936; Columbia National Forest 1937-38. GEORGE M. E. GUSTAFSON "Gustie" Superior, Wisconsin Gtntral Forttlrr Foremy C lub; Commopolitan Club; Y . M . C. A.; Intramural Football. EDWARD G. H ENRY "Green" St. Paul, Minntsota Gt11tral Fortslry Fortstry Club. Fitld Experienct-Superior National Forest J9J6.J7; Cloquet Forest Experiment Sintion 1938. Lours B. HoELSCHER, JR. "Lou" St. Paul, Minnesota Gt11tral fortstry Forestry Club; Y. M . C. A.; Gamma Delt3; Dele· gate to Montann Conclave 1939. WAYNE w. H OLBERG "Wayne" Minneapolis, Minnesota C0111111tr Rrc HARD D. HuLTENGREN "Dick." St. Paul, Minnesoc3 G(lltral Forutry ForeStry Club; Intramural Spores. PHILIP R. )AHN " Uncle" North Sc. Paul, Minnesoca Gmeral Forutry Formry Club; Voy3geurs; Xi Sigma Pi; Alpha Zeta; Formers Day Association 1936·37, Chairman Dedi· cation Banquet 1938; Peavey Boord 1939; Editor of Peavey 1939. Fitld Experience--George Washington Srnte Forest 1934-35 ; Sc. Joe National Forest 1937· 38. CLIFFORD c. JOHNSON "Cliff" Alexandria, Minntsota Gt11tral Fortstry Forestry Club. HERBERT G. joHNSON "Herb" Minneapolis, Minnesorn Gra~i11g Forestry Club; Linnaean Club. Field Experience Barberry Eradication. R ussELL G. joHNSON ~( Ru ss" Dulurh, Minnesota Gtnual Forts/Ty Foresrry Club; Y. M. C. A. VICTOR E. JOHNSON "Vic" Sc. Paul, Minnesota Gt11aal Forts/Ty Forestry Club; Voyageurs.. Field Experience-George Washington Stace Forest 1936; Plumas Nacional Forest, California 1937-38. Rov W. K ES KITALO "Keski" Virginia, M innesota Gtntral Fortstry Forestry Club; Rangers' Club. ERICK P. KIENOW "Boss" Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gt11aal Fortstry Forestry Club; Voyageu!l's; Alpha Zeta; Foresters' Day Association 1936-37-38·39; Freshmen Corpora· tion Steward 1936; Junior Corporation Sreward 1938; Studenr Council 1936-3 7; Honor Case Com· mime 1937, Chairman 1938; Y . M. C. A.; Punchi · nello Players; Sophomore Class President 1937; All Universiry Sophomore Vice-President 1937. Field Experience--ltasca Park Biological Station 1936; Lake States Forest Experimental Station, Dukes, Michigan 1937-38. DONALD E. KJ ELDSEN " Do11" Minneapolis, Minnesota Gmtral Forntry Forestry Club; Scabbard and Blade. Field Ex· pe~ience--E. C. W. 1935. MILTON KRAL " Milt" Cudahy, Wisconsin Gtnndl Fortrtry Foremy Club. Field E~rience--Chelan National Forest, W:uhington; Milwaukee Regional Planning Department, Milwoukte, Wisconsin. CHARLES ]. KRUMM "Chuck" Manitowoc, Wisconsin Gamt Ma11ago11mt Formry Club; Xi Sigma Pi. joHN KR-z1sN1x " Kri'f." Evtleth, Minnesota Gtnt1al Fottrtry Forestry Club. FOREST J. LANE "Forest" Hopkins, Minntsota Gmaal Foratr)I Forestry Club. Field Experience--CCC 1936;De schutts National Forest 1937-38. GOODMAN K. LARSON "Lars" Madison, Minnesota Gamt Managtr11tr1t Formry Club; Tau Phi Delta; Gobblers; Scabbard and Blade; Game Managers' Club; Bird Club; Cadet Officers' Club; Forestry Club Vice-Pruident 1939; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet vice-president 1937; Foresters' Day Association 1939. Field Experience--E. C. W . Brule, Wisconsin 1938; R. 0 . T. C. Camp Fort Shtridan, Ill. T AUNO LEINO " Pee-Wee" Hibbing, Minnesota C t11t1al Four11y Fottsrry Club; Rangers' Club. Field Experienct Kabetogama Srnte Foresr 1936-37. J. GLENN LlDEN " Jay" Minneapolis, Minnesota Commeuial L1w1beri11g Forestry Club; Voyageurs; Gymnastics. Field Ex perience-Lake States Experimenral Station, Chippe· wa National Forest 1937. HILLARD M. LILLIGREN " Ozark" Minneapolis, Minnesorn Gmual Forntry Forestry C lub; Tau Phi Delea; Gobblers. LoREN A. M cDONALD "0 jibway" Park Falls, Wisconsin General Forestry Forestry Club; Tau Phi Delta; Silver Spur; Xi Sigma Pi; Gobblers. Field Experience- Lake Stares Foresr Experimental Station 1937-39. joHN R. M cGu1RE "Ace" Milwaukee, W isconsin Gm"tral Forestry Forestry Club; Voyag ~ urs, Xi Sigma Pi. Field Ex perience-\Xlisconsin Conservation Department. EowIN K. M IETTUNEN " Mate" Soudan, Minnesota Grnaal FortUry Forestry Club; Lodgers' League; Rangers' Club. Field Experience-Oliver Iron Mining Co. 1937. LYMAN c. MILES " Lye" Minneapolis, Minnesota Gm·tral Forestry Forestry Club; Photographic Editor Peavey 1939; Intramural Tennis. Field Experience-Chequamegon National Forest 1936. WILMAR H. MONSON '"Bill" Wausau, \X/isconsin Commtr.-ial L11mbtri11g Forestry Club. Field Experience-Wisconsin Con· servacion Commission 1936; Marathon Paper Mills Co. 1937-38. RosllRT N. M oRLl'Y ''Bob" Crookston, Minntsota Grazing Forestry Club; Pioneer Hall Social Council 1937: Lodgers League. jOSllPH P. 0 GRINI' n Joe'' Aurora, Minnesota Ct11aal Fottftry Forestry Club. THOMAS H . OHL "T om" St. Pa\11, Minnesom Ctutral Fortttry formry Club; Phalanx; Cadet Officers· Club. Field Experience-George Washington Srnre Forest 1936- 37; Blister Ruse 1 93 ~ , Idaho. MORRIS v. OLSON '"Morrie" Welch, Minnesota Crazing Forestry Club; Voyageurs; Xi Sigma Pi: Y. M. C. A . Field Expuien~Minnesoca Forest Service 1934-37. OLAF c. O LSON "Ole" Fosston, Minnesorn Cmual Forestry Forestry Club. Field Experience-U. of M. Soil Survey 1937-38. ROBERT A. OLSON " Bob" foterna1ional Falls, Minnesota Gc11aal Foru/ry Forestry Club; Photography Club. Field Experience - Minnesota nnd Ontario Paper Co. 1933, 'H '35 '36 and ' 37; Minnesota Forest Service 1938. VINCENT N. OLSON " Vince" Comfrey, Minnesota Ra11gc M a11agcmc111 Forestry Club; Voyageurs. KERMIT L. OTTO "Kenn" Frazee, Minnesota General Forestry and Game Mm1agcmr111 Forestry Club; Game Managers' Clu b; Xi Sigma Pi. DONALD H. OVERHOLT " Morue" Minneapolis, Minnesota Gc11tral Forestry Forestry Club; Foresters' Day Association 1939. EDWARD A. PATTON "Pat" Mason City, Iowa Forest T uh110/ogy Forestry Club; Wesley Foundation; Y. M. C. A. ScoTT S. PAULY "Doc'' Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Forul Scie11cu (Botany) Forestry Club; Alpha Zeta; Xi Sigma Pi; Delta Kappa Epsilon; President, Foresters' Day Association 1939; Union Board of Governors. Field Experience . -Wisconsin Conservation Department 1936; Beaver head National Forest 1937-38. H owARD A. PoST " Horvie" Minneapolis, Minnesota Gt11tral Forestry Forestry Club; Voyageurs president and v1ce-prcsi· dent; Treasurer of Freshmen Corporation 1936; Fores:ers· Day Association 1937, '38, '39; Fort· nightly Coordinatini: Committee: General Arrnni:e· menu Chairman, Student-Faculty Reception 1938. Field Experience- Colville In dian Rcscrvnt1on, W.uli- 111i:co11 1937. RALPH M . R1CH r·Rirh" M inneapolis, Minnesota Gweral Forestry Forestry Club. GEORGE L. R oGOSH ESKE ''Rogo" Sauk Rapids, Minnesota Gt11tral Forestry Forestry Club. joE A. R u PERT "Pert" Eveleth, M innesota Gt11tral Forestry Forrnry Club; Tau Phi Dtlta; [ntramural H ockey; Swimming. K EN w. SACKETT " Ken" St. Paul, Minnesota Co111111a HOWARD B. SCHMITZ · "Perp" Spooner, Wisconsin Gmtral forestry Forestry Club, President 1939: Tau Phi Delta: President Cloquet Junior Corporation 1938. RoeERT F. ScHOENSEE ''Bob'' M1lwauket, Wisconsin Commcrcinl L111nbtrit1p. Foresrry Club; Voyageurs; Gamma Delta; Foresters' Day Association 1939; Secretary of Forestry Club 1939. Field Experien c~ lndian Form Service, Washingron 1937 ; Wisconsin Conservarion Deparr· ment 1938. CARL B. ScHoLeERG "Carl" S1illwa1tr, Minnesota Gtntrdl Fortstry Forestry Club. V IN CENT D. SCHURR "Vin KuRT S. SEALANDER "Karp" Kenmore, New York FortJf Tuhnology Forestry Club; Chi Phi; Boxing and Wruding. Firld Exper i r nc~paulding Fiber.Paper Mill Co. DONALD F. SEEBACH "Seeb" Red Wing, Minnesota Gtutrdl Fortstry Foresty Club. Fitld E xperi en c~Pau l Bunyan Start Forest 1936; Wiscoruin Consrrvation Oeparrmen1 1937; Upper Michigan National Form 1938. OGDEN L. ScHUTES Bloomington, Illinois Commercit1I L11mbaing Foresrry Club; Lodgers League. HERBERT F. SORENSEN " Herb" Little Fork, Minnesota Commacial Lr.,nbtring Forestry Club; Y. M. C. A.; Lutheran Student As sociation. Field Experience--Chequamegon National Forest 1936. E. THOMAS STACEY "Tom" Saginaw, Michigan Forestry Club; Delta Chi. Field Experience--U. S. F. S. EDWARD J. STANEK "Ed" Milwaukee, Wisconsin Wood T uhnology Forestry Club; Ag. Union Board. Field Experience -Wisconsin S. C. S. ROBERT v. STOLPE "Torchy" Hibbing, Minnesota Gtntral Fortl/T'f Forestry Club; Xi Sigma Pi. JoHN N. TAYLOR "Johnnie'' Rapid City, Minnesota Gtntral FortJ/ry Forestry Club; Tau Phi Delta; Gobblers; Student Council 1937. Field Experience--B. R. C. Idaho 1937; Private Forest Estate, Jolfrey, New Hampshire 1938. GORDON M. TRYGSTAD "Tryg" St. Paul, Minnesota Gmtral Fort1/ry Forestry Club; Y. M. C. A. FRANK E. TUCKER "Tuck" Deer Creek, Minneso[a Gmud! Fortstry Forestry Club. DAVID B. VESALL " Dave" Stillwater, Minnesota GdllU M dndgtmtnt Forestry Club; Game Managers' Club; Xi Sigma Pi; Alpha Zeta. Field Experience-Carlos Avery Game Farm 1937·38. ROBERT M. w ARNER "Bob" Minneapolis, Minnesota Gtntrdl Forestry Forestry Club. Field Experience-Paul Bunyan State Forest 1935; Superior National Forest 1936, '37; Shawnee National Forest and Illinois Star.e Fores[ Service 1938. W. BRUCE WEBER " Ace" Belleville, Illinois Gentrd! Forestry Fores[ry Club; Camera Club; Chi Pi. CHARLES H. WHITE "Ch11ck" Madison, Wisconsin Ge11erdl Forestry Forestry Club;Xi Sigma Pi ; Tau Phi Del[a; Gob· biers; President, Xi Sigma Pi 1939; Steward, Fresh· men Corporation 1937; President, Junior Corporation 1939. KEITH J. WHITE " Bob" Morris, Minnesota Commercial Lumbering Forestry Club. Field Experience-CCC 1936. ORVILLE A. WITHF.F. "Orv" Minn•apolis, Minnesota Gt11aal Fortllry f'orwry Club. Field Experience-U . S. F. S. Tin» bcr Survey, Oregon 1937; Col urnbia National Forest 1938. RICHARD c. W1THF,RELL " Dick" Sartell, Minnesota CommtT(ia/ lrmrbtring Forestry Club. Field Experience-Watab Paper Co .. ·35 and '36. ALDEN Wou LTRF. " Wo11f1" Floodwood, Minnesota Gt11tral Fort1try Forestry Club; Y. M. C. A.; Punchinello Play•rs. Field Experience-Yellowstone Park, '37. M1KE HeRNYAK " MaMa" Chishohn, Minnuota Gt11tral Fort1try For~my Club. PHILIP L. H U NTLEY "Phil" H ill City, Minnesota Gcrrtral Fortstry Fomtry Club; Y. M. C. A.; 4·H Club; Christian Science Organization. Class of 1940 Melvin Aaberg Wilho Kemp Richard Ahern James Keogh \Xfalrer T . Anderson Thomas Klich Roberr Bilstein Everell Knospe Cht>rles Binger Richard Knox Albert Becker Erick Kurki Eldon Behr Charles Larson Snmuel Bickford Myron Latimer Robert Bingham Allan Lee Lemuel Blakemore Veikko Levander Douglns Boardman Lief Lie J a mes Brooks lrving Lifson Clnrence Buckman John Lindberg John E. Carlson Joseph Meltz John K. Childs James Michels Keld Christensen George Nelso1' Robert E. Clark Leo Nelson Gordon Coffin Ralph Nelson Gordon Condit George Olson Norman Conrad Leonard Orvold Julius Dingle Warren Parker Harry Enderson Thomas Partridge \XI alter Erson Tony Perpich Joe Finnegan Kenneth Peterson Robert Gewalt Leonard Prusnk William Giles Glenn Rotegard Robert H agmann Leonard Rowson Ralph Goddard John Ruspino Robert H elgeson Jack Scott Joseph Hess Clare Sheelar Virgil H ogdal Anthony Squillnce R. Wm. Hosfield Maurice Steensland George Isaacson Ernest Stoccklcr Clifford C. Johnson Walter Talbert Howard Johnson Robert Tcitgcn Robert Johnson Frank Usenik ,Julius Jurek Robert Wnglc Laurie Kallio Douglas Welch '"'~nty-uvtn Class of 1941 William E. Anderson Harvey Hartwig Forest Olson Milner Andrews Warren Has1ings Earl Osborne Millard Axelrod Miron Heinselman Howard Osmundson Robert Barkovic Daniel Helms Douglas Parsons Wilhelm Beckert Joseph Hoffman Milton Pas1omak Bennie Benson Glenn Janirz Randall Peavey Roberr D. Benson Lawrence Jendro Joseph Peierson Eugene Berenbach William Jipson Robert D. Peterson Morris Blackburn Russell Jongcwaard Sidney Peterson August Block William Kalton Gordon Richmond Robert Boos Darius Kask Sedgwick Rogers Lawrence Brown Royden Knowles Raymond Sacktcr John Burt George Kobler Calvert Sandberg Cnrl M. Carlson Jerome Kuehn Lowell Sandmann Donald M. Clark Donald Ledin Orlando Severson Robert Cl1trk William Lehmkuhl Emil Shabatura Chesier Cox Edwin Lehner Ogden Shutes John Cusier Vincent Lindstrom Milron Skoglund William Derx Duan Linker Marvin Smith Donald Diessner Kermit Lodin Walter Solstad Ian Dods Lee Lohmer Donald Spo1ts Sumner Dole Edward Loomis Howard Stiehm L. A. Dyksrra Thomas MacKenzie Richard Stromberg Clifford Egeland Derwood Ludtke John Sweeney William Elkins Norton Mandelbaum Eugene Thies Arthur Eustis Kei1h Markuson Harold Todd Martin Florine William Martin Carl Wallin Joseph Foley Carrol Mattlin Robert Wangerin Earl Frank Galen Maxfield John Weber Albert Freeman William Minon Kenne1h Wavell Warren Gilberison Charles Moore Willard West Lloyd Gillmor Donald Murray Eugene Whirney Wilbert Graupman Marshall Nelson Morris Wiberg George Gruner Ch1trles Neviasky Orville Withee Forrest Hales William Nicholas John Wisharc Walier Hammond Robert Nichols Norbert Zarnar Roberr Hampel Leonard Oja William Zauche Jrve>ily·cight Class of 1943 Alnn S. Anderson Donald E. Johnson Donnld L. Andersen Arthur A . Johnston Rnlph Leo Anderson Winston M. Laughlin Robert Andre Albert Lavoroto Sherrill Angstman Arnold Lognn Herbert Orrin Arestod Thomas Milner J:iy S. Armstrong Raymond L. Moc Golden Batdorf James Sumner Moyer Robert Blomberg George R. Nelson Robert John Boles Theodore C. Nordquisr Robert H oyt Brain James Ogden H oward Branigan Alden Clifford Peterson George Brown Gale Poehler John H . Brennan Robert Ringer John Brogan Earl Arthur Rood Eugene Hall Chatfield Srnn Ro1egnrd Robert Eikum Erwin H . Schacht John H. Evenson Fred B. Sheel Carl A. Ferm Charles Schlesinger Jomes Finnie Francis M. Shipp Robert Vincent Fullerton Robert J . Snow Martin I. Furlong Norbert Socha Pnul N . Goodmonson Brenton Sole Quentin Gustafson Nick Subak Alf red Halverson Walter Swanson Rnymond Henke Hugh Turnbull Johnathon Hen bold Bob E. Van Valkenburg Willinm Holte Richard Warner Theodore Vernon Jacobson Erling M. Weiberg Lnuri Olair Jarvi Lloyd Williams twr11ty-11i11r There Is Work to Be Done by Frank KaJ!-f'ert, '28 Ten issues of the Gopher Peavey and has almost single-handed put to have come and gone since its revival route the harmful bogey "timber in 1929. Ten crops of graduates have famine" that dogged us. Numerous passed through the mill and started on publications by the Southern Forest their way. Whether these years prove Survey have provided a pretty accu momentous when viewed in the light rate picture of the South's timber re of accomplishment and advancement sources. Mother nature appears co by the forestry profession or whether have been kind co the South, because they prove "the most sterile years of despite the worst type of past exploita American forestry" only historians will tion and only slowly improving present be able to tell us. To say that che grad forestry practices, the South is grow uates of '29 were faced with the same ing and is capable of growing timber problems you face today would be as co supply its present industries, with suming the role of a smug historian a enough to spare for all possible ex bit prematurely. Therefore, chis shall pansions. The findings of the Lake not be history except in so far as hap States Forest Survey are equally startl penings of the last decade appear co ing and impressive. A digestion of influence the forest products indust these findings leads one to believe that ries to be discussed and students previous information on this region specializing in forest products, to painted conditions at their worst. The whom this attempt at essay is address average per acre growth figures for the ed. Lake States cannot be scoffed at. The The domain of the forester has in picture for the Pacific Northwest is no creased tremendously in the past ten less encouraging except thac recurring years through expansion in federal flaming holocausts, such as Tillamook, and state forestry activities, the addi may drastically change chose figures tion of the recently grown-up fields of at short notice. game management and soil conserva The condition of our present stands tion, and a mushrooming of research and growing stock is not to be com acuvmes. Emphasis has been shifted pared with what it once was. History to some extent from timber growing is interesting but co dwell on it is to for the forest products industries to evade the real issues. It is possible by so-called "multiple use forestry". H ow comparison with conditions of a hun ever, our forest economists, silvicul dred or more years ago, to utilize the turists, management force, patho data we have obtained through such logists, entomologists, in fact, practic valuable endeavors as the Forest Sur ally everyone having to do with forest vey to paint a picture so dark and for ry is interested in timber growing-the bidding that the worst gloom predictor production of raw material for the would be be put to shame. If, how wood utilizing industries. ever, we accept things as they are, There has been a trend away from recognize what we have to start with, the timber famine scare. The Forest and add to this what is daily being Survey has contributed tremendously learned through research and experi co our knowledge of forest inventories ence, it seems safe to predict that our thirt)' forests can produce sufficient raw ma thirties it was coo easy to sell insurance terial to supply every demand. The or to find more lucrative and less ex optimism evinced above regarding the acting employment in other fields of present and possible future condition forestry. With fourteen hundred grad of our forests does not mean that there uates predicted for 1939 there are should be a decrease in forestry eff orc. bound to be plenty of well trained Judging from the experience of other candidates for positions in all fields of nations and making a last resort to his forestry. The same probably holds tory, it appears sound co assume that for che insurance game. With these every acre of land suited for timber facts recognized, it appears chat in production and not needed for agri dustry offers the forest products cultural or other uses, should be en graduate of today the most promising couraged and made to grow its crop of field of employment. timber. The chances of having an over Take ch e case of che age old and production of timber should not be valiancly struggling lumber industry. as great or have as serious conse There have been real advancements, quences as in the case of agricultural and changes are occurring daily. D e crops. spite these changes and advancements, Better utilization and utilizing more its leaders are the fi rst to admit that of the timber we are producing, stabil there is need for new ideas, forged izing the forest products industries, and promoted by the enthusiasm of adding new industries, enabling the youth. the lumber and ocher forest products If a genuine need exists for well industries to better meet the ever in trained ene rgetic young men in the creasing competition of substitute ma lumber industry, and such is unques terials - these are the problems of tionably the case, rhere should be some every forester and the particular con way of better capping chis possible cern of you who are specializing in this source of employment. H ow are you branch of forestry. The mere mention going to get in? That's a tough ques of industry may cause some to shud tion to put co anyone. You can try der. But despite taxation, criticism, starting at the bottom and learning as some just and some the mere views of you go. This has been done by others dreamers, industry is still with us - before you but possibly under some changed from 1929, ever changing, what different circumstances. It ap· struggling to keep abreast or ahead of pears to be harder today. You may the times, as bad and as good as it is need a union card and may find that possible for the imperfect creature advancement is limired by irs posses called man co make it. There is plenty sion and by the years you have car of room for idealism and for changes ried it. Granting that the activities of for the betterment of che employer unions have improved the lot of in and employee. There is and should dustrial workers tremendously, this one be more room for the well trained, en criticism can honestly be made of ergetic young forest produces graduate chem. They have made it harder for who can or wanes co get in. che young and ambitious, for the well Unfortunately, few of chose trained trained and energetic to carve the in chis field of endeavor have tried place they often deserve. Another al hard enoug~ or have succeeded in en ternative is to cake advanced work. tering it in the past. During the happy If your undergraduate record has been go-lucky twenties and booming mid- satisfactory, you may through special- thirty•011C ization in some field of the lumber in sound trammg at least as good a dustry approach it as a specialist with chance of entering industry as is avail something concrete to offer. able to graduate engineers and chem These are well recognized possibili ists. ties bur they do nor appear to be the To permit the lumber industry to real answer. The lumber industry has carry the entire responsibility is failure been slow to recognize what other in to recognize facts and making unfair dustries have accepted for years, that comparisons with other industries that its future in a highly competitive field are large, closely organized, and f unc depends on the caliber of young men tion independently. They are able to it seeks out and employs. Representa· employ graduates and train them for tives of competitive industries annually years with little possible return in hope comb the universities for promising chat they will in time make worthwhile young men. The schools of engineer contributions. ing and chemistry are their happy It has been said that if the lumber hunting grounds. But due to its loosely industry needs technical and engineer organized and widely scattered nature ing skill, the engineering schools and such a procedure is difficult for the their graduates can make more worth lumber industry to follow. This has while contributions than the forestry been true in the past and with changes schools and forest products specialists. slowly wrought it is almost equally true Granting the importance of engineer today. ing skill to the lumber industry, there What is needed has been suggested is need for individuals with an interest by numerous individuals, among them in and enthusiasm for the uses of wood leaders of the lumber industry. This with the firm conviction that our is-a separate organization, or some forests can be made to furnish wood addition to a few leading schools, or for every purpose. Such training and possibly to the Forest Products Lab conviction every forest products grad oratory - a post graduate training uate should have. school where the problems of the lum There is room enough for both ber industry can be studied; a place groups in the lumber industry. More where a superstructure of training and knowledge makes for greater honesty, tempering can be added to the sound honesty builds confidence, and con base that should have been laid by the fidence we and the lumber industry forestry school staff and the energy need. and application of the student; a place where the widely scattered and dis Wood preservation was suggested jointed units of the lumber industry by your editor as the topic for this pa can come for new blood. In express per. Ir appears that considerable lib ing chis view there is no attempt at erty has been taken in concocting the originality. This need is recognized above rambling account of beliefs and by everyone conversant with the or conv1ct1ons. Much can be written ganization of the lumber industry, with about the advancements made and the the overwhelming problems already problems still facing the wood preser burdening the able staff of the Forest vation industry. Ir is expanding but Products Laboratory, and with the is beset by no less serious problems facilities of forestry schools available than the lumber industry. In the for such instruction. Ir would give heavy treatment field creosote still our forest products graduates with rules. Its rule is troubled but sure. thirl')'•IWO Odor, color, bleeding, lack of uniform· - the field usurped and abused by the ity, failure to protect wood against generally unscrupulous, poorly train certain forms of marine life - these ed, and illy informed termite operator. are some of the problems facing the They, the termite controllers, have creosote specialists. The next big ex done wood more damage than have p:msion in wood preservation looms termites. Some of this has been due in the specialty field; dimension pro to lack of scruples and to greed but a ducts for outdoor use, all forms of greater proportion is due to lack of building material, and especially mill information. It has grown to be a work. Competition has brought this large industry but it is hard to find its about and much progress has been counterpart. Lack of training in en made. Through research a wide va tomology is as much the fault of ter riety of water and oil soluble preserva mite operators as lack of knowledge of tives has been added to the list of wood. Here is an opportunity for the wood preservatives once limited pri forest products graduate with know marily to creosote and zinc chloride. ledge of wood and training in entO· Their merits will be established by ex mo!ogy. I t is a highly competitive perience. Some will unquestionably game in which honesty and knowledge fail. New and, we hope better ones, may often prove handicaps, but in the will be added. Stagnation does not ap· long run they should win out and aid pear to be a possibility in this field. this growing profession to adopt high If you are interested in industry and er standards. looking for an object lesson in what can be accomplished and has been ac Much could be written about other complished through application, en of the forest products industries but it ergy and enthusiasm, you wmll find it would necessarily be in the same gen here. It is credited to one who helped eral vain. Completion of a crowed revamp the Gopher Peavey a decade four years often produces a certain de ago. The creation of a thriving busi gree of apathy, too firm a conviction ness, founded in the worst depression that all has been done, that all pro years when opportunities for forest blems are seeded. At graduation, the products graduates were more limited only possible employment may appear than they are today, is an accomplish to be through replacement of someone ment. It is not being hackneyed or trite less fully equipped or well trained. to say that what has been done once There is apt to be too great an accep· can be done again, and that the pro ranee of the status quo. gressive field of wood preservation of· Rather than write on a specialized fers opportunities to the forest pro topic, list accomplishments, and re ducts specialist with added sound train cord history, an attempt has been made ing m forest pathology and entom to point our a few of the problems be ology. fore us, which, through diligence and To mention entomology brings up perserverance, by better equipping a fresh subject - the control of ter yourselfs than those before you, you mites and other insects attacking wood can help solve. thirty·thru The Growth of the Commercial Lumbering Curriculum by Ogden Shutes and Glenn Liden Growth and progress are the results various srrengrh properries of wood. of one's ability to accurately visualize Likewise in the study of the structure and analyze the future trends, and of wood, srudents work under the best they are also the results of the whole conditions. hearted devotion of one's time and Secondly, because the school fore talent to that end. It is upon these saw the inevitable keener competition basic fundamentals that the growth of of the future and recognized the need the Commercial Lumbering Curricu of more adequate and bette r pro lum depends and these fundamentals fessional trammg, improvements in have been kept in mind during the courses have been made. As far back development of the Commercial Lum as 1910 such subjects as lumber manu bering curriculum. This has material facture, forest by-products lumbe ring, ized and the Commercial Lumbering wood preservation, wood testing, and curriculum was included in the Divi forest mechanics were offered. Later, sion of Forestry. But the question economic and business courses we re might be asked by those less familiar added and prior to 1922 it was pos with the situation as to what progress sible to obtain a major or a minor in has actually been made. forest products. Today the curriculum I n the first place, with the constrnc gives rhe student a very thorough train tion of Green Hall, in 1938, there ing in tbe structure, properties, and came the all important improvements uses of wood, and a good foundation in laboratory facilities. The conditions in the fundamentals of business. The today under which Commercial Lum curriculum includes I I hours of agri bering students work in our school are cultural engineering, 16 of biology. 62 ranked with the best in the country. of professional subjects, JO of chemis A mechanical and physical properties try, 15 of mathematics, 24 of business, laboratory; roomy, well-lighted, and 32 of economics, 9 of psychology, 15 with the best of equipment, is a decid of rhetoric and l 0 of electives. ed advantage in gaining the maximum The revising of the commercial knowledge. A small dry kiln, electric lumbering curriculum has made the drying ovens, a standard testing ma course an increasingly attractive field chine and various miscellaneous ap for the incoming student who wishes paratus meet the requirements for de to prepare himself for a position in the termining the physical as well as the lumber industry. 1hirtr· f 011r Common Sense in High Gear b)' Ly all Pe1,e rso11 , '81 AR E you inrrigued with my enigma combining three elements somewhat f'i tic ride. Or don't you care about as follows: the rationalizing of a national forest (6 S + 100 F) X P = A d-!-!-!-! planner? But perhaps some of you good program. fellows {as one Minnesotan to an other) can straighten me out. Lately In this formula S = scientists, such I've been chinking chat my old idea as soils experts, economists and for of planning, as some new profession esters; F = farmers and other repre akin to an art, is a delusion. The no sentatives of local interests; and P = tion keeps recurring char simplicity is the planner or (if you choose) the co the essence of planning. ordinator of S and F. T he element P is no more or no less important than I can picrure some of my friends the ocher two, but it does seem to be now-conjuring visions of plans for essential. Such a planner might be a management, fire control, recreation, foreseer gone wrong (?), but he cannot flood control, etc. Bue lee's dismiss be a forester per se. chose operational plans for now and think of one covering the use and de Before someone exposes or sues me velopment of a county's resources for for libel, let me hasten co admit char the immediate purpose of giving every the idea I am trying to convey is char family a mi nimum living standard of of County Agricultural Planning, now decency, and for the long-time pur featured by the Department of Ag ri pose of bringing about the greatest culture. le is an utterly logical yet ap· possible social gain. Looks like a parendy idealistic procedure for help· tough assignment for most any county. ing the nation's farmers co help them· And yet, somehow, ir can't be impos selves; through a unified program of sible because, if it is, we are fore agricultural adjustments ( rhar's my doomed. If we develop a program interpretation ) . A true test of this consisting of a highly scientific display procedure will come next year when of data, conclusions and warnings, certain definite programs are devel we'll have something impressive to oped for one experimental county in show one another, bur how about this each state. Of course nobody expects distressed county? Can we dump our a Twentieth Century renaissance as a highly technical plan in the laps of the result of County Agricultural Plan county residents-the people who will ning. What we do seek, however, is have ro live with it and nurse the pro the best possible use of all resources gram along to make it work? You through planning methods which are certainly agree rhat we must work to typically Democratic. Those who ex· gether with these people from rhe peer immediate and perfect results will start, and develop something which most certainly be disappointed. Thar's can be spelled· our in local vernacular. axiomatic with planning- with all hu The scheme boils down to a process of man endeavor. thirly·f•c Getting back into our bailiwick - H e realized that his men could work how about the forester as a planner? to best advantage with the local com· I have heard it said that any good for mitteemen, who were attempting to ester is a planner, but does that mean work out a plan for the entire county, anything? One might argue that the of which his Forest was a part, and so one-time street-cleaner, following old he said: D obbin up the street, was also a plan ner. You can see we are getting no "Now men, I want Axel Bjor where, so let's consider a hypothetical gum co work with you on chis job, forestry problem. and I want all of you to work with the local people through their com· In Brown County, Minnesota, 70 mittees. Axel has a tentative outline per cent of the county land area has here for classifying all of the lands been acquired by the Forest Service we now own or may be interested and proclaimed as the Schmitz Na in. This classification will give us tional Forest. We took over this area an inventory of what we have and despite the fact that large parts of it it will also indicate the ultimate pos have been "milked" by that lumber sibilities. We want a plan for get baron, Cheyney; leaving behind a ting the most possible good out of small community of under-nourished this Forest, but the County also relief clients. (Why, Mr. Cheyney!) wants a plan in which the Forest is The County residents, realizing an integral part, but not the whole their plight, have organized commu works. Please keep chat in mind. nity and county land use planning There will be a lot of data to get to· committees for the purpose of study gether besides the classification ing the situation and developing a when you get it all worked up and sound p rogram. Supervisor Allison shaken down I hope to see a pro· with 20 per cent of the county's land gram on paper that will work. N ow to look after has his problem too. H e go to it; I'm asking Axel to keep in looks the situation over and considers touch with me on progress." what needs to be done. One year flits by. In the Supervi· Thanks to the New D eal, Allison sor's office are gathered the technical and a few county officials are able to men, a group of local leaders and swing a W.P.A. project as a means of Axel. Allison, I can see, is tickled solving the immediate unemployment pink as he listens to all of the men ex problem. Now, in working towards pounding on the virtue of a coordi permanent security of all local families, nated plan of action. On the big map the Supervisor considers the elements stuck up for display they point out of his national forest administrative various areas. H ere's a tract outside job. He wants plans - operational the national forest that should be pur· plans for fire control, timber manage chased because it has some good rim· ment, recreation, roads, wildlife, flood her and is needed co help supply the control and forest farming. Having old sawmill, which is being renovated. specialists in all of these angles he Operation of this mill, with a sustained could simply say, " Here, you fellows timber supply, will mean permanent go out and get the dope, and then security for 20 families. Several other we'll piece it together and live hap spots are needed for recreational de· pily ever after." Supervisor Allison, velopments. Ocher places on the map, however, wasn't passing up any bets. it appears, are questionable. Perhaps thirty-six one of these is clearly submarginal, but And so they talk it all over and John Jones is living on it, and J ones is finally decide on what to do and how to do it. At this juncture, the Super· poor and needs a place to live just visor makes a few closing remarks. now. We'll fix up the house, they de· " My friends, please accept my sincere cide. For $100 or so J ones can have a congratulations and thanks. I con· new roof, a better foundation, screens, gratulate you on a good piece of work, and a few other vital necessities. J ones and thank you for making such a snap can probably be given some road and out of my job. I know that nobody trail work, too, so it won't be necessary is kidding himself that the job is fin· for him to plow the submarginal land, ished-in fact we've just begun,-but except for a little garden plot. When what a start! I know better what my times get better, Jones will be able to duties are now, and so do all of you. move his family our, perhaps down Let's pull together." into the community center, where the The group fil es out of the Super· kids can fi nd playmates. M r. J ones, visor's office. Axel stays behind. it seems, is all important in this pro· "Well," says Allison, "this coordinat· gram. There are many like him, both ed program-building idea is simple, inside and out of the national forest, after all." " Oh, sure," says Axel, and this fi rst county program shows "planning is just common sense in how they all fit into a master pattern. high gear-I hope!" thirty-snren Come and Get It! The following is an unexpurgated criticism a strange species, though. W e would of che Foresters wl'itten especially for che Peavey by two Home Ec's, who wish to remain classify you as hardwoods if it weren't anonymous. In it our graces are recog.nized for rhe fact rhat you are all mighty a nd our e rrors are aired.-(Ed. n o te.) softwoods at heart. Lead us to the So you want the lowdown on what "corny" guys who caUed you ill -man the Home Ec's think of the Foresters, nered rowdies and we'll give them the do you? You' re biting off a large axe. Statistics prove that only a few mouthful but we'll try to make it as foresters are not gentlemen, and there rasty as possible. Think you can swal is a difference between a sissy and a low it? gentleman. Besides, we like the woodsy outdoor nduck-pheasant-and-wild rice" It is only ethical rhat, as members flavor. le is different and real. of our worthy profession, we should consider this discussion as a problem Ir seems, however, that the flavor in Quantity Cookery. Are you ready? depends on the most important process of all- the baking- and that First of all, we'll need a large mix process depends entirely upon the ing bowl- Green Hall will do. T o cook. Some Home Ecs like their for about 3 60 foresters, add 4 5 cups of esters well-done and cooked to a ten· high-water pants, sprinkle in 42 cans der golden-brown ; others prefer them of hob-nailed boors and about 11 2 rare and a little tough. In a few cases bunches of checkered wool shirts. Add you will find some "sweet young some lettuce (for roughage) and thing" who insists that no matter how throw in a few birling logs pickled in you mix them up they always turn out mill ponds. Stir slowly with a peavey. half-baked or burned to a fizzle. We Season well with pine cones, creosote, pine for these mistaken creatures, but and some peppery criticism. Y ell we ponder over rhe fact that the taste "Chain," beat ro a pulp, and place on has fallen Rat at times! hot coals. "Foresters ala H ome Ee" is not a Is something wrong? Many of you new dish by any means. It has been have noticed of late that Foresters the favorite with a good many girls haven't been served in any style on the for a long time, only no one has asked campus menu. T o be quite blunt, you for the recipe before. We're sort of older fellows (juniors and seniors) are glad that you did-we like cooking getting sort of moss-covered, or some· over an open fire once in awhlle. Be thing, and the saplings (freshmen and fore we continue though, we'd like ro sophomores) are following in your remind you that this barter is mixed tracks. You' ve learned your lessons in all sincerity and we hope that the well-you old fire-fighters, you. Who, leavening agent we use throughout will please tell us, blew out rhe Raine? keep it from falling flat. Isn't there even a spark of enthusiasm left in the old slash? You have let the First of all, we definitely do not A gs keep the home fires burning and think of foresters as fresh or hard you haven't even helped chop the boiled eggs-or as crude roughnecks wood. We' re referring to the lack of who chased Paul Bunyan out of the cooperation and support of campus Great North Woods. You really are activities. YES! And we do mean 1hirt y·tight YOU! Some of you are in such a campus. Why not make a comeback rut that you didn't even support your -we're game to help. own Forester's Day-the dance in par· Come on! Jump out of the frying ticular. D eadwood!! Shame on you!! pan into the campus stew. We'll place Though some of us had given up you on a plane r and garnish you with hope, your grand wholehearted sup sprigs of J unipe rus scopulorum and port of the U nion drive proved that serve you with c ream (we won't whip the cream- you have taken enough of there are some burning embers. H ow a beating already). It should make a about a good blaze? Why back in the savory dish that even the most delicate old logging days of '36, '37. and be of H ome Ecs wouldn't mind swal fore, you were the big college on the lowing. Co111 e and Get It! thirt1· ni11 ~ Graduate Work In Forestry Realizing the need for more ade fields and approved qy the major quate training in professional forestry, advisor. the Division of Forestry at the Uni In order to receive a doctor's de versity of Minnesota adopted a new gree, the student must have a reading five-year curricula in the fall of 1938. knowledge of two languages and must These professional curricula are de submit a thesis requiring a great deal signed to meet the increasingly rigid more research work. He is also re requirements for the practice of pro quired to have more credits, although fessional work in the many fields of the number is not definitely stated. forestry. The wide range of knowl The Division's fully equipped build edge required in the fundamental bio ing gives the graduate students very logical, social, and physical sciences, adequate facilities and excellent op together with the ever-increasing num portunities for research work. There ber of courses in technical and profes is a graduate study room with individ sional forestry require five years of ual desks, a large well-equipped gradu work. ate laboratory, and an excellent green The B.S. degree received at the end house available to the students inter of the fourth year is not a professional ested in research. The Cloquet Forest degree, but the M.F. (Master of For Experiment Station, with its 3,000 estry) received at the end of the fifth acres of timbered lands, together with year is a professional degree and en its fine equipment and facilities for re titles the holder to take the Junior search, is also available to graduate Forester Civil Service Examination. students during the summer months This fifth year, designed to be of grad or at any other time their work re uate level, will not go into general quires them to be there. effect until the freshmen of this year At the present time there are nine are in their fifth year. graduate students-four working for At the present time, and for the doctors' degrees and five for masters'. next three years, the graduate with a These students have been graduated B.S. degree in forestry may take a unde r the old four-year plan and are master's degree by one of two meth taking their graduate work in the reg ods. First, he may complete 27 cred ular manner. The research problems its, 18 in his major field with a grade they have chosen cover a wide range of not less than B in any course, and of forestry work. Some of the prob 9 in his minor field with not less than lems are: management of community C in any course. In addition, he must forests; root studies of jack pine; site have a reading knowledge of one for classification of jack pine; germination eign language, German or French or studies; research in wood anatomy; some other language by special per growth factors of Norway pine; and mission, and submit a thesis on some sand culture experiments with jack approved subject in the field of his pine. These problems have proven major. Second, he may substitute 18 very interesting and, although the con credits for a thesis and receive the de clusions reached may not be fully es gree in the same manner as outlined tablished facts, the students have a under the first plan. All credits and better understanding of research meth other work must be in closely related ods and technic. forty Game Management Curriculum by David Vesall, '39 WE who are living in this age rect effect on wildlife through regu of science and industry have lation of the environment. The eco learned to control almost everything nomic and eschetic value of wildlife except the exploitation of our natural is so great chat forestry operations resources-one of which is wildlife. should be put into effect only after While scientists have been exploring wild Iif e has been given due and proper the universe and the fields of chem consideration. For this reason it is istry and physics, our wildlife popu essential chat the game technician have lation has been rapidly decreasing. a sound understanding of all forestry Man can not live successfully and hap practices, finance, and economics. pily by means of factories, laboratories The subject matter of the more spe and automobiles alone! For, of what cific game management courses does value is man's industrial power if his not consist entirely of making study lands are not pleasant to see and en skins of mice or of collecting fecal joyable to live in? samples, as many foresters who attend The game managers' intention is the Cloquet field session are led to co make our land more pleasant to believe. A general idea of the game see and more enjoyable to live in by management curriculum can be had restoring wildlife, as much as possible, by glancing at the major sequence of to its former abundance. Wildlife was courses: comparative anatomy, animal destroyed by the axe, plow, fire, graz parisitology, animal ecology, economic ing, and gun. T he game manager's vertebrate zoology, water fowl and up purpose is to restore wildlife by the land game birds, mammalogy, game proper manipulation of these same fac management, field zoology, technique, tors which destroyed it, and by the game food plants, bacteriology, gen application of knowledge gained in etics, faunistic zoology, and orni such fields as chemistry, forestry, bot· thology. any, parisitology, bacteriology, zoolo gy, and biology co wildlife problems. The game managers curriculum is well developed and quite inclusive. According to Aldo Leopold, " Game However, there is a need for some management is the art of making land course that would bring together and produce sustained annual crops of correlate, as much as possible, the wild game for recreational use." For various viewpoints of the forester and successful game management, a thor the game manager. ough knowledge of the environment and of the inherent characteristics of In the fall of 19 3 7, the W ildlife the game species is necessary. Courses Managers' Club was granted formal in field work offered in forestry ac recognition by rhe University of Min quaint the wildlife manager with the nesota. The club is strictly profes environment of the game animals. sional; speakers are called in and open Such courses as botany, dendrology, discussions on wildlife issues are con silvics, silviculture, and forest regula ducted. Miss Rhoda Green, a student tion, when pu't into actual practice and in the College of Agriculture, is the when properly applied, will have a di- "one" and "only" girl in game man- forly-011e agement. She is the secretary of the could be better. Nevertheless, we club for the second continuous year. game managers are preparing our The art of game management is selves in a field which has wide future still in its infancy, and the employ possibilities, and one in which we are ment prospects for graduating seniors all intensely and sincerely interested. The General Forestry C11rriculum by Ho'ward Post The general forestry curriculum is markedly. From that small beginning, only one of the six curricula offered ro when only one forestry curriculum was the forestry students at Minnesota. offered to the student majoring in for But perhaps " only" should not be estry, the division has grown to a point used, for general forestry is the first where the student may specialize in and oldest curriculum in the Division any one of six curricula- four of them of Forestry. professional and two technological. As early as 1897, Professor Samuel The curricula have grown from the 13. Green saw the need of forestry ed point where it was difficult to offer ucation and introduced into the horti enough courses to constitute a major cultural curriculum two elementary in forestry to the point where it has forestry courses. These courses dealt become necessary to add another primarily with farm forestry and forest year's scudy to each of the professional influences. Other forestry courses courses. The field has developed so were added and, in 1899, one man, extensively rhat it is now necessary for Professor H. H. Chapman, now Har the student to devote five full years to riman professor of forest management study before he is professionally quali at Yale, was graduated who was defi fied in his field. nitely classified as a forestry student. A student who graduates aher spe By 1907 a separate curriculum was es cializing in general forestry must not tablished in the College of Agriculture only be well versed in the fundamen for forestry students. tals and principles of forestry, but he The interest in forestry gradually must also have a working knowledge increased, and, in 1910, Professor of many other sciences. During the Green finally convinced the adminis four years of lecture and laboratory tration of the far-reaching benefits chat work, the student is not only fully ex would accrue to the State from the es posed to forestry and closely related tablishment of a Division of Forestry. fields, but also to the sciences of ge In that year the Division of Forestry ology, zoology, mathematics, econom was established with Professor Green ics, chemistry, and various other sci as the first dean. ences that he may select. Since Professor Green first recog The thoroughness of this trammg nized the need for forestry education is emphasized by the success with which at Minnesota, forestry, both in cur graduates have obtained positions riculu1n and concept, has changed throughout the United States and the Jorly·lwo world. I n every forest region of the sales, doing cultural and educational U nited States, Minnesota men can be work, and carrying out experiments. found distinguishing themselves in the The activities of the graduates from field of forestry. Many of che out the general forestry curriculum, how standing universities also have M in ever, have not been entirely limited to nesota men on their forestry school the United Stares. Men from this faculties. school have aided materially in fur thering forestry in Liberia, Chile, Ha Private industry has claimed many waii, New Zealand, the Philippines, graduates of th is school for manage and the Central American countries. ment work, logging supervision, sur With this thorough training, the veying, and administrative work. Nu graduating senior feels that his years merous private and state forests and of study in the general forestry cur experiment stations have Minnesota riculum have fitted him for technical men on their staffs conducting timber work in public and private fields. The Forest Technology Curriculun1 With a growing need for profes ment, the Division of Forestry saw the sional men trained in the field of For necessity for redesigning the Forest est Technology, the Division of For Technology Curriculum. This new estry instituted, a long with ocher cur curriculum now includes a sequence ricula, a new Forest T echnology Cur of chemistry courses comprising gen riculum in the fall of 1938. The dimin eral, qualicarive, quantitative, organic, ishing lumber market and the increase and physical chemistry; a new course in substitutes for wood and wood prod in advanced wood structure; and a new ucts have compelled the forest prod course in wood chemistry. In addition ucts industries to improve the products to these courses, che srudent may rake already on the marker, to develop new elective credits in any of the support products, to cut operating costs, and ing groups such as other courses in to find new markets. To keep astride chemistry or biochemistry, in physics, with competitive fields the forest prod and in economics. More forestry ucts industries have found an increas courses in rhe utilization and market ing demand for inen capable of coping ing of forest products are also re with the new technical and administra quired. Beginning with the sopho tive problems arising from this vigor more year the student begins the spe ous competition. Their need, then, is cialization, the freshman year being for men who have had a training em rhe same as char for commercial lum phasizing basic sciences and economics bering. rather than men who have had a train The student, after completion of ing emphasizing the field of general this curriculum, should be able to fill forestry. competently, technical or administra To supply men who are capable of tive positions in the pulp and paper, satisfying the new industrial require- wood preservation, wood distillation, f ort y·thrce and chemical wood products indus engineering building has several larger tries. The better students will be well ones that can also be used. For wood fitted to pursue work leading to the specimen preparation there is a cir master's or doctor's degree. Gradu cular saw, jointer, handsaw, and cir ates from the old technology curricu cular saw with carriage attachment for lum are now working in the dry kiln breaking down logs into lumber. The industry, in the pole treating and wood laboratory equipment is exceptionally preserving industries, in the chemical good, and the rooms are well suited to industries, in research and in the teach the type of work to be done in them. ing profession. An experimental temperature-humidity cabinet, electric furnace, ball mill, dry Dr. L. W. Rees, who received his ing ovens, centrifuge, and analytical Ph.D. from the New York State Col balances are some of the pieces of la lege of Forestry in 1929, teaches the boratory apparatus installed in the courses in timber physics, wood sea rooms. soning, and wood structure. He is do Being located in a large city, the ing research in the mechanical and University is conveniently located near physical properties of wood, especially pole treating plants, pressure process with moisture movement in coniferous wood preserving establishments, ex woods. Dr. A . J. Bailey, who received celsior mills, various wood working in his Ph.D. at the University of Wash dustries, and a fiber board mill. Saw ington in 1936, teaches the courses in mills and papermills are also to be wood preservation, wood chemistry, found near the city. The proximity of lumber grading, and wood utilization. these industries makes valuable field H e is carrying on research in lignin trips possible where the student may and cellulose. These two men are see the various practices studied in highly capable, and together with Dr. class put into actual use. Schmitz, have done the work of fram Minnesota's graduates in other fields ing the new technology curriculum. of forestry are at the top, and those To obtain the best results, good who finish the new curriculum should equipment is needed in addition to a also be able to take their place in pri capable faculty. The available equip vate industry or government service as ment includes a 20,000 pound capacity those have done who have gone be testing machine. The experimental fore. forty·fo11r FRONT Row: Lltf Lie, Philip Jahn, Rou Donthowtr, Lyman Miles M100LE Row: Danit! Benjamin, Harvty Harrwig, Marvin Smi1h, Keld Christenson LAST Row: Howard Post, Gent Thtis, Hugh T urnbull, Carroll Mattlin 1939 PEAVEY STAFF PHILIP )AHN Editor Ross DoNEHOWER Alumni Editor FOREST HALES Assistant Alumni Editor LYMAN M ILES Photographic Editor K EU> C 1-1 RISTENSON Assistant Photographic Editor GENE THEIS Assistant Editor CARROLL MATTLIN Assistant Editor H owARD PosT Circulation Manager H ARVEY HARTWIG Treasurer Lm r Lm Business M a11ager MARVIN SMITH Assistant Business Manager DANIEL BENJAMIN Staff Typist GOPHER PEAV EY BOARD E. G. CHEYNEY Faculty Representative EDWARD CARLSON :md PHILIP )AHN Senior Representatives R oss H ANSON Junior Representative R?BERT PETERSON Sophomore Representatil•e ROBERT SNOW Freshman Representative fortr·fi>'~ F R E s H M A N c 0 R p 0 R A T I 0 N 1 9 3 8 1. Room for two. 10. Minneapolis or Bust. 2. For a log driver. his form is good. don't you think? 11. A ma i n~ua y of the team chat played the C.C.C. ). Supervisor's headquart~r$ and lookout nc Cass Lake. 12 . Y e.s. he can work. Look al number twenty. 4. Cass Lake. Qn the Saturday Hoff" . 13. Ah. man at work. 14. One of the soberer moments. S. H e hit-' been s mok!ng 1he $am~ pipeful for the J S. "Hardware" Heinselmann off to the ·~ forty' '. past year now. 16. Whoa! C heyney. Whoo! Thnt'll do. 6 . The " Fnther of Wareu" in its infancy. 17. Across Lake Winnibigoshis h. 7. Tou('hb.. 11 was n popular' p.-as1ime. 18. The s econd floor of the bunkhouse. 8. The camping ground dock with one of its ..cow· 19. One of God':i most b-..autiful sights-the, setting boys". tun. 9. Buxom lassies, aren•1 1hey? 2 0 ...And they cut down rhc old pine tree.' ' Freshman Corporatio11 of 1938 by Walter 11albert I ,-Tasca, the sptru of forestry, Woods" first "packed in" with his men have wirnessed many things since Ik from Park Rapids. Those were try tomi, the creator of conservation, sent ing days when the first camps were me to rule this north woods. I have pitched. M osquitoes, the fathers of all known the great woods as a papoose; mosquitoes, so large they closely re have watched it grow, spread irs ever sembled h:iwks, haunted the area. protecting arms into the vastt regions They were not the degene rated, wrin of the north, blanket the bare soils and kled, measly pests which inhabit the cling to it when Mississippi, the "Fa swamps today. Water Ao wed freely ther of W aters," tries to wrench it from the sky like words from a sena from the ea rth's grasp. I have stood tor. For countless moons the rulers of and nurtured it when Big Thunde r the woods came to my land to work raged and spread his path of destruc and play. I have seen many tribes tion. These things have come and camp here, but of all of them none gone. Bare ground has been reclaimed have been so brave, so cunning and by green things, has made its stand so loyal as the '38 tribe. Bur hush, and fought for life. I have seen the who am I to tell you of these things? "Big Ice" cover the land, rend all Far better that you hear these tales things in its wake, make vaE leys and from him who has been a brother in rivers, hills and cliffs, and then sub this tribe. I bring you this message: side in its wrath and go from whence "T ales from the Log of a Forester," it came. All these things have I seen. the original of which was found lining the nest of a lrdbird. This bird, a rare Many centuries have gone by; and variety, is found only in the immediate then came the white man. Soon many vicinity of Itasca Park; and it f re fields lay bare from his persistent axe. quents the main traveled areas only Farther and farther west he came. Far during "Quizz Burials." Only a few ther and farrher nonh came rhe rab foreste rs and Or. Mickel have ever bits, the deer, the moose and ·the wolf. seen it. Many moons have faded, papooses have grown into men and passed on. June 18 The red man's law of rhe woods was Dragged myself ouc of bed at 3:30 replaced by white man's laws. They and had the satisfaction of knocking a came to know, as I know, that places tail feather out of that infernal wood must be reserved for forests a nd wild pecker that had been rapping on the game. There must be men to watch tin part of our roof for the last few over such reserves, and to lend a help days. Lost Cox's shoe in rhe process. ing hand to Mother Nature, so from " G obbler" thrown in the lake to forest schools come men to rule the day. woods- professional foresters. I have U sed some of "J ake's" cure-all watched the~e men in work, in play, mosquito dope and reckon I'll never and in study. Many tribes have camped be broke again-at least I'll always on my shores since Chief "Bull of the carry a scent. f orty·SCVCll Started out with dry boots and got so Talbert and J ongewaard got a thor wet from the ground up after the ough soaking. first two chains in that swamp. July 5 Noticed the C.C.C. advanced an Feel line after a dip. ·Swallowed a other eight feet on the pipe line today. piece of one of " Johnny" Mondek's Noc bad for nine men. prize bass while swimming co shore. Caught myself a Sacurnidae off an (Damn me for breaching through my old birch log. Didn' t have my cyanide mouch). They have been in che live bottle so used citronella. bait box for eighteen days now and Down in the swamp today driving are sifting through che screen piece a stake and darn near cut my hand off by piece. (I have smelled of more with a wild swing when my buddy hol fragrant morsels!) lered chat a woman was coming our July 14 way. Wonder where Gertrude is to Plenty stiff from hauling back that night? rock to the cabin No. 5 "Beef Trust." Linker j use got through blowing They use it for shoe-putting. Taps and ended up with "Tiger Rag," Personally, I chink I'll never get my so I reckon I'd better hit the hay. part of the final report in. If I did it June 23 like Bill Anderson and Marsh Nelson Today I depart for a typical grove did theirs, it'd be different- but you of Norway. On second thought I be know chose boys. lieve it would be much easier co write J use over to see Knox. He and it up in the cabin. Mosquitoes bad, H ammond worked out a tamarack you know. Don't believe Cheyney height curve while playing a game of will know anyway. "Gobbler" thrown cri bbage. in the lake again today. I hear "Griping" Graupman growl ing at Todd over in Cabin 7, so I June 26 reckon it's time co hit the hay. Hales, Gillmor, Perpich, and com pany cut down the big Norway out in July 16 front of No. 6 today. J use got over the big day-Burial Buhl talked "Jake" into gnawing of the Quiz. on a "J ack in che Pulpit" root. I just Festivities were booming early this came by the bunk house and heard morning. Cabin 5 hauled up seven " Jake" mumbling in an exclusive dia eighchs of the junk pile for their Aoat, lect that he had a mouthful of some which literally "Aoated on the wings --- thing and couldn't spit it out. of the stench." They piled all their mensuration equipment on the cwo June 29 wheeled ice cart and then Buckman Had a run-in with the cook today. crawled on for good measure. It took How did I know those peaches were two huskies every five chains to keep her peaches and that she was running the thing moving. You should have the kitchen? seen Shabatura try to take the D.B.H. July 3 of a couple of "Aoosies" in the tourist J ongewaard and Talbert nearly had camp. I reckon as how they're still the privilege of having a young lady running. from the U.S.F.S. help them cruise The massed parade included every their "40". The rest of the cabin fig thing from Ernst in ferns to black ured that they deserved the Lake and boys; also Perpich wearing a heavy f orty·tight buckskin jacket, impersonating "Old Minneapolis, that unusual event nearly Hutch." He said later if he'd walked caused a stampede. another seven miles he could have The actual burial of the quiz was flown back- about the closest "Pa" pathetic, intriguing, etc. With Mon will ever come to flying. dek leading the service, it was a sight Instead of a band leading the pa which will never be forgotten. rade, we had Whitney and his piano July 19 bringing up the posterior end. The Beans for dinner. "Hardware" music ranged from a light waltz to the Heinselman (with enough parapher uLitde Brown Jug." The vocalizing nalia to last him on a world tour) was terrific. 11 about to cruise his 40". The list: One "bird" (who claimed he had one scout axe-a combination affair also gone to college} wanted to pass with everything from a hammer to a the parade, but we threatened to pick bottle opener, a compass, scout knife, up his car and wedge it between a Bowie knife, three bottles of citronella, couple of Norways, so he pulled in and the rest was a list too long to men his 11horns". tion. "Gobbler" was dunked again today. We were cheered for our efforts at Teddy Wegmann's store. After pur July 28 chasing a gallon of gas for Egeland' s Start for home via the thumb route. car (which drew the piano on a So ends the most memorable six weeks trailer) , we went on to tthe tourist in my life. It was tough sledding at camp. When we got ther.e, the for times; but, thanks to Brown, Cheyney, eigners, who thought that the state of Hodson, Gordon, Mickel, and Buhl, Minnesota had gone berserk, hid we added to that store of knowledge themselves in the far reaches of their which comes thru actual experience tents and trailers. When the boys and remains in one's memory, a last <(lamped" a couple of "babes" from ing tribute to six fine men. I o r1y-11i11 t c L 0 Q u E T c 0 R p 0 R A T I 0 N 1 9 3 8 I. Someone's coming 0 M ouse··. 8 ... Unk" digs in. 2. The bo••-T. Schantz.Hansen . !}. Food Hoven. J. Did you get paid for 1hnt Hurch ? 10. Walker slUdies nnatoroy. 4. The Saturday nh ernoon cl~n nu p . 11. The unfortunates. 5. Sylvia~ t-Mom'', an.d Alml'. 12. T rygstad sights a deo r. 6. The s harks from Poker Flots. 13. O; hkosh b 0 gosh. 7. J-lermi1-1he bco"ers· friend. 14. "Stump cruising". Cloquet Corporation of 1938 by Charles Hutchinson The spring of 19 38 found such a lished-because of interfering social large group of foresters eligible to activities. Anyway, each man drew a take the field work offered each spring, forty, and crews of four men surveyed, that the faculty found it necessary to cruised, mapped, and generally messed split the boys into two groups. Forty around on them according to instruc two fortunate ones passed the time at tions laid down by J. H . " Pop" Alli the Cloquet Forest Experiment Sta son. Because of the very unusual wea tion, while the others went to Cass ther featured by lack of snow, "Pop" Lake. decided to inaugurate a different sys tem of cruising. Sixteen iron pipes A character known as Howard were supposedly placed at designated "Doc" Schmitz was elected to head spots on each forty to mark the cen the Cloquet group, but that didn't ter of permanent cruising p lots. matter because everyone knew that a president doesn't amount to much Because Mr. Cheyney's time was anyway. Ed "Big Steve" Kafka was monopolized by the "lowbrows" at appointed steward; and the boys, op Cass Lake, Mr. Schantz-Hansen took 11 timistically, named Charles Hutch" over the silviculture course, and he did Hutchinson treasurer, simply because very well. "Schantz" had us make a he had taken a course in accounting very intensive study of a jack pine and was able to keep a set of books. stand and also put us to work in the nursery. He then sent us out into the The three officers reached rhat fa swamps to count reproduction and the mous little city of Cloquet on March survival of plantings made by some 26, and by March 28 all forty-two of slip-shod foresters of the past. The the rounders were in camp and ac transplanting was probably the most counted for. The first day and night enjoyable, if work can ever be consid were spent inspecting the facilities of ered that, because the boys were work the camp, and finding out who was ing so close together that friendly ar· easiest to "take" at poker. The second guments were continually in progress. night we inspected the town. By an Leino still insists that the "Bull Pen" unofficial rally of attendance, "Augies" was right, and the rest of the world was found to be the favorite rendez wrong, when the rows of seedlings vous. Augie had a dance two or three curved off suddenly and sharply at the nights a week which helped accounr end of the row where the Bull Pen for this popularity. Louie Hoelscher boys were working. Then there were managed to work up a tremendous the mud fights twice a day between the drag with the proprietor of this famous gang on the truck and those on the resort. ground. And can we ever forget the I guess we will always remember the hours spent at field planting? Ray social aspects of the camp, but we Jensen, Hansen's right-hand man, sometimes ·forget the purpose for spent all his time following us and which the camp was originally estab- pulling out the trees which we had so fi/ty·Otlt carefully(?) placed in the ground, casts of Poker Flat," and someone and let us have the pleasure of plant stoked up the stove to such an extent ing chem over again. During the last that some of the furniture was two weeks of the session Hatfield tried scorched. to cell us everything about game man At "Schantz's" suggestion the Cor agement, chat is, whenever we had poration members put in some of their time left from learning about soils spare moments in the construction of from McMiller. The cabins became a baseball field. We put up a back imbued with a very pungent odor stop and tried to level off the old seed when Hatfield's "sign" collections be bed field in front of Poker Flat and gan to take form. the Bull Pen. The center fielder's It didn't take some of the boys long head was at the same level as the pitch to get acquainted with the citizens of er's feet, and the left field fence was Cloquet. Phil "Doc" Schneider was so close to home plate that any ball getting phone calls from town the sec knocked over this barrier was a ground ond week of camp, and was so lustily rule double; but in spite of these diffi razzed chat he dropped the gal before culties the field provided many hours the middle of the quarter. Then, of of recreation. " Poker Flat" proved course, there was the beautiful ro its superiority on the diamondball mance that blossomed in our kitchen field, which fact made liars out of the between Sylvia, the second cook, and "best at everything" Bull Pen. Shang Walt "Alfalfa" Roebuck. At the KP ri-la and the Boar's Nest had a nip parties, where Alfalfa was supposed and-cuck battle for last place in the co be playing the harmonica in a vain final standings, but the Boar's Nesters attempt to keep everyone singing the nosed out Shang-ri-la for chis "cov same song, he had to be snapped out eted" position. of a reverie occasionally simply be cause little Sylvia was near at hand. A game was played with the Wood Along about the third week, Warren Conversion Co.'s team, but we must " Duke" Enstrom got that far-away have lost, for I can't remember the look in his eye and went tripping gayly score. Some of the boys organized a through the woods gathering arbutus basketball or volleyball team and for some fair damsel of Carlton or played against a girl's team in town. Cloquet. Tom Ohl rushed the Han Conflicting reports leave us doubtful sen's hired girl for several weeks be as to the actual outcome, but we do fore the rest of the camp heard of it, wonder about that black-eye a Cloquet and Bob De Leuw wanted to come to belle was sporting. town every Saturday morning, just so This year there was no large bunk he could be along when we paid the house. What was formerly the bunk bill at Richter's Bakery. It is also true, house was turned into a library and isn't it, Hutch, that you have made scudy hall. An added convenience was several "business trips" to Cloquet the new bath-house with eight showers, since the session ended? twelve wash basins, a small Finnish One night the rowdy element of type steam bath, and two bath cubs "Shang-ri-la" locked the treasurer out, which were completely spurned. Then and he retaliated with firecrackers and there was chat long room with Roe oil-soaked newspapers down the chim buck's tally on the wall. The day the ney. Some will remember the time a steam bath was completed some of the bunch of sophomores visited the " Out- novices tried it and sat there wonder- fi/l'y·/W() ing if there was anything hotter this A radio was mustered from the Boar's side of hell; then Ed "Mate" Miet Nest, and after much cajoling and tunen, and Axel " Hop-along" Hup threatening, Big Steve was persuaded ponen, who probably had their first to part with a few pounds of the Cor steam baths before they could walk, poration's corn meal to spread on the peeked in and started making dispar floor so that the boots would slide aging remarks to the effect that it more readily. wasn't even warm in there. They were wrong, because some· of us tried the The high point of the quarter, so Superior Steam Baths in town and cially speaking, was the Forester's found them~ not a bit hotter than the Dance, held at the Legion Hall. W e hadn't been at Cloquet a week before one 111 camp. some of the citizens began to inquire Various fads were started by Ed. when the event was to held. For "Green" Henry, includjng the one the records, it was held on Friday, May in which someone would step outside 13th, proving that we weren't super the cabin door and holler, " H ey," as stitious. The entire two weeks pre loudly as possible. This was soon re vious to this gala occasion were occu placed by "Let's get going," in the pied by a mad scramble to get dates. manner of Tom Mix's radio serial, and This problem kept " Mom" Watkins, toward the end of the session the Lone Mrs. Hansen, and Big Steve busy. Ranger's inRuence was felt and every Some were well enough acquainted by one hollered "Hi-yo Silver" at the this time to provide their own dates, least provocation. a few lone-wolves stagged it, and a few even went so far as to import gals The Easter week-end found about from the Twin Cities. In this last cate half the camp gone to visit their fam gory were Dan. Benjamin, Vince ilies, so for the benefit of the rest of Schurr, and Ev. Bergstrom; but they us who didn't have anybody pining were all living in that dive known as away for us at home, Mrs. Hansen in the Boar's Nest, and probably didn' t vited the daughters of some of the know any better, so we forgave them Cloquet families to the camp for an for this grave insult to the femininity Easter picnic. The skies, as was usual of our adopted town. all quarter, were over-cast, so the eat ing was done in the mess hall. Of As usual there was a lot of talk course the young ladies were astound about spiking the punch, but as was ed by the class of the china and sil the case with Mark Twain's weather, verware, but that didn't bother us. nothing was done about it. After the eating was accomplished the gang retired to the small picnic Besides the members of the Corpo grounds to toast marshmallows. The ration and their guests, " Mom" Wat high-light of this part of the evening kins, Mr. and Mrs. T. Schantz-Hansen, was Hillard "O zark" Lilligren playing Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Brown, Mr. and "H ome Sweet Home" on the har Mrs. Harry Patterson, and Mr. and monica, while standing on his head. Mrs. Augie Roos, were also present. When the last marshmallow had Duke Enstrom imported his family's been scorched and thrown away some car for chis event and it was the most body sugges.ted returning to the mess popular taxi service in camp for the hall for a bit of the light fantastic. It remainder of the session. Duke would wasn't very light, but it was fantastic. pile ten or fifteen into the jalopy and fifty-thm stack them on the corner of Twelfth the " hat" Dave King presented to Bob and Cloquet, and return them to camp Stolpe as a farewell gift, or the time for ten cents per person. H e never Orvy Withee conducted a jam session did leave anybody in town, but it was by beating it out on Shang-ri-la's stove very trying to have to wait till Duke with a couple of rungs from a chair'? got tired before one could get home The stay-at-homes (they did, occa to bed. sionall y) in the Bull Pen nearly pre cipitated a revolution one night, by The car Dan Benjamin brought up inverting the bunks of Ed. Anderson, ended up in the hands of Phil Schnei Tau no Leino, Ed. Lou la, and Bob der, proving either that Dan was a Olson, and one day Dodd Walker very good salesman, or that Barnum thought it funny to put some foul was right. smelling chemical in Poker Flat. The No report of the Cloquet Corpora Outcasts blamed it on Ed. Deppe's tion would be complete without some dog, but never could find the awful mention of " Mom" Watkins. When thing. we hired her, we thought we were get ting just a very good cook, as attested A refund of seven potatoes was pre by previous Corporations, but as we sented to each member of che Corpo soon found out we got a substitute ration the last week of the session, and mother as well. No sign of a cold went che night of the 27th of May was cer neglected if " Mom" heard of it, and tainly a hectic one. What with trying chose KP parties, one for each crew, to complete the Game Management were at " M om's" expense. and Soils reports, and saying goodbye Dave King was unanimously pro to all our acquaintances in Cloquet we claimed champion of the old Spanish were plenty busy. The refund gave sport of throwing the bull, and "Uncle everyone the whe re-with-all with which Phil" Jahn was conceded co be cham to celebrate and a gay time was had pion burper because afrer some prac by all. tice he got chem to sound exactly like On May 28th we all journeyed to he was saying, " Birch". Remember Cass Lake, while the Cass Lakcrs cook the way Goody Larson and Gordy over our camp. Everyone was against Schwabe did the shag at Augie's, co the trip, but we had to go anyway. the discomfiture of everyone else on We spent a night in Grand Rapids and the Aoor? Those of us who had to looked over the bright lights of that live with it will never forget the Blais town. The Memorial Day holiday was dell "Burners," nor the time Bob spent looking things over at the Cass " Miss Bobbie" D e Leuw rode in the Lake Nursery. When we saw the facili Santa Anita handicap and the Ken ties those Cass Lakers had to put up tucky Derby the same night (it must with it made us all the more pleased have been something he ate). And with C loquet. then, of course, you may recall the time Hutch chopped for ten minutes Thus endeth the chronicle of the on a " dead spruce" before someone Cloquet Corporation of 1938, and I told him it was a tamarack. am sure that we would all like to start Who can forget that excuse for a in all over and do the same thin.gs hat worn by Bob "Chico" March, or again. fi/lr·four Foresters Day of 1939 by Scott Pauley THE fifth annual Foresters' Day ter of the Sioux nation known as at Minnesota got off a bit belated Iktomi ("spirit of conservation") and, ly with the election of the president in keeping with this them.e, a modern and the Executive Committee of the Iktomi, who is a well-known conserva Foresters' Day Association just prior tionist, and two of his tribesmen were to the final week of the fall quarter. present throughout the DAY. But the president, Scott Pauley, and The program of the DAY was ini the executive committee, consisting tiated in customary fashion by the of Joe Finnegan, Tony Perpich, Rob bean feed in the gym, followed by a ert Snow, Howard Branigan and Dave program in Green Hall. The program Brink, gathered up their shirt tails in was opened by fktomi who gave a a joint meeting on January 4rh and prayer in the language of his fathers put the year-old, rusty wheels into and then, in mock-ceremony, initiated motion. Chairmen and assistants for Doc Schmitz not into the Sioux tribe. the numerous jobs were outlined and Iktomi's costume was much admired notified of their various duties. With by all, especially by the " Uncle of a very minimum of reneging and re Paul" (Skipper Spencer) , and it ini adjusting the committees lined up in tiated numerous conjectures as to the the following order: decorations chair nature of the cause for the obvious man, Erick Kienow; assistants, Ed protrusion in the region of the ab Kron, Bob Sharp, Wayne Ackerman, domen. Various members .of the fac Walter Erson and Bob Helgeson; ulty and other inquisitive visitors in dance chairman, Goodman Larson; the audience seemed to be particularly assistants, Bob Bingham and Roy worried over this point. It was finally Lind; publicity chairman, H oward proven to be of saw-dust which every Post; assistant, Dick Barton; posters one considered quite in keeping with chairman, Harvey Hartwig; election the DAY. chairman, Lem Blakemore; assistants, Bruce Weber and Gale Poehler; gen Following the mock-initiation, Doc eral chairman of contests, Ralf K. Schmitz gave a short talk in memory Nelson; felling, chopping and sawing of Samuel B. Green to whom For contests, Joe Finnegan, Tony Perpich, esters' Day of 193 9 was respectfully Carroll Mattlin, John Lindberg, Tom dedicated. Partridge, Erling Weiberg and Ross The principal speaker of the DAY, Donehower; ski race, Don Overholt Mr. W . T. Calhoun, Superintendent and Duan Linker; snowshoe race, Bob of Wisconsin Conservation Education, Binger; knife-throwing, Walter Tal gave a "brief" talk on the develop bert; rolling-pin throwing, Marjorie ment of Wisconsin conservation which Samuelson; chain throwing, Wayne he followed with two reels of moving Ackerman; tug-of-war, Royden pictures showing actual field work 111 Knowles; bean-feed, Forrest Hales various parts of Wisconsin. and H oward Branigan; tickets, Bob Activities were next adjourned to Schoensee. the out-of-doors where it was hoped, The theme chosen for the DAY thru the medicine granted to Wa-zee was built about the legendary charac- ya (Doc Schmitz) by Ikcomi, snow fif tr·fivt might have fallen in the two-hour in ton, or Hthe chipmunk of the high terval since his coronation. But the lines" as he is more familiarly known, last hope for the skiers and snowshoers gamboled up the pole to easy victory was doomed, for the snow was still in in the pole-climbing contj!St. Ralf is the rabbit's tail {as Iktomi put it} . a great stunter and did not let the The Queen of Foresters' Day for audience down on the DAY, for he 1939, Ish-teh-Wahsh-teh {or " Most cracked three walnuts on Ralph Rich's Beautiful Face," also known as Vir head on the way down the pole. (Elk ginia Larson) in company with her ington was the last contestant, Rich Chah-o-ti ("Forest Sprites" to you) was the first.) The skiing and snow including Margie Samuelson, Virginia shoe races which could not be run off Anderson, Ruth Elliot, Susie Van as scheduled on the DAY due to lack Sickle and Ruth Kemske, was officially of sufficient snow were held one week crowned and effectually kissed by Doc later on the previously outlined Schmitz on a semi-collapsible throne courses. "Mouse" Overholt kept the ingeniously rustled and assembled in day of the ski race a secret in hopes the preceding half hour by Bob Snow. that he would be able to collect all three prizes he had rustled. Unfor The athletic contests, arranged and tunately, however, Al Dole and an conducted by Ralph K. Nelson with Ag student happened to be practicing the assistance of Ross Donehower on on the field and Overholt lost the sec the loud-speaker system, centered the ond and third prizes. attention of the crowd for the next two hours. The first event was the The events of the afternoon were felling contests in which Ralph Rich brought to a close by a tug-of-war took top honors. In the two-man between the freshmen-sophomore and bucking contest Nels Grimsbo and junior-senior teams. The tug proved George Roadfelt nosed out the famed to be a complete rout for the frosh Rees-Foster faction by the width of a soph aggregation but then, as some libriform fiber. Chester Cox finally hit one aptly pointed out, how could any· the post with his knife and was uncon one possibly let those neophytes win ditionally announced winner of the anyway! knife-throwing contest. In the chop The evening revelry started at 9: 00 ping contest, Roy Everson split the big P. M. in Marsh Ryman's sanctum toe on his right foot and dislocated sanctorum. The gym, under the ex three vertebra, thereby winning un pert supervision of Erick Kienow and challenged tide in his division. In the his polished crew of interior decora chain-throwing contest, Aldon Woul tors, had rapidly assumed a sylvan tee demonstrated his prowess by tying dressing !between 12:30 P. M. and the a bowline around referee Ackerman's scheduled hour. Dear old Marsh had neck with one end and fouling the urged Erick to start early in the morn chains of the other contestants with ing but Erick had a little side-bet on the other end so that he came out an with some bean in a coffee shop . . . easy winner. Dorothy Mereness prov anyway Erick won the bet. Goodman ed her dexterity with the ammunition Larson, in charge of the dance, revived furnished her in the rolling-pin tossing the tradition of the Bloody Bucket in contest by heaving three knock-out which all of the revelers drowned their punches to the Ag student dummy's cares with Root Beer and Cider at the mid-section. (Many believed the dum expense of Christy's unvoiced revul my was not a dummy.) Ralf Elking· sion and to which, in resignation, the ftft y·six executive committee retired when the become an integral part of forestry at amount of the deficit for the DAY was the University of Minnesota and that computed. Iktomi and Blue Cloud each year it should be improved and (who was dark-horsing for lronheart bettered as we have sincerely striven who got lost on his trap-line on Red to do this year. To the Association Lake) furnished entertainment in the for 1940 we toss the torch with a rec intermission by the singing and dra ord of our mistakes, and we hope that matization of ancient Sioux myths you, and all who follow, will enjoy as and legends. we have done, this work that strives The members of the Association for for unity among the Foresters of 1939 believe that Forester's Day has Minnesota. {if l'f·St'WI c A s ·s L A K E c 0 R p 0 R A T I 0 N 1 9 3 8 I. Cheyney .,alk• Rich. S. Star l It was in the spring (?) of 1938. At As fate would have it, our arrival that time some 36 forestry juniors, and at camp was greeted with a heavy what have you, left the comforts of snowstorm and sub-zero temperatures. home and city life for an encounter That immediately put a crimp in the with " nature in the raw"; frightfully work that Prof. Cheyney had assigned raw. The goal was C.C.C. camp 705 to us. The effect on the camp was in on the south end of Pike Bay of stantaneous. It was then that we fell mighty Cass Lake. into evil ways that haunred us for the remainder of the session. It was then What a brave and stalwart group! that some of us acquired the art of They were to the last man willing to sleeping on sunny afternoons, of venture into the unknown, to a place spending evenings away from camp, from which all sorts of rumors ema of running to the messhall between nated, and to a place where they could meals for a snack, and similar practices toss aside the bonds of tradition and which come under the general classifi set about doing things that would be cation of loafing. Then, too, in the come the traditions of the future. How future we can fondly remember the they accomplished the latter is the sub time when we put on our long under ject of what is to follow. wear and wore it day and night for Two bunkhouses, after a sort, and three solid weeks. Because that snow a messhall, decidedly out of sorts, storm has given us something to hold were given over for our use. For our responsible for all our shortcomings, front yard we had Pike Bay and for it was really a blessing in disguise. our rear yard the Chippewa National Forest. A large area to be sure, yet But the snow soon passed away and little of it remained uncovered - at with it went our last hope of ever get least it seemed that way to us. ting our first report completed on schedule. However, a reversal of form Food, as is the usual thing at for took place when Cheyney announced ester's camps, was the principal item that work in the nursery at Cass Lake of interest. We imported one of our was to begin. With new vigor we set own comrades, Ed Kron, as cook. One out on the task before us. But again thing can be said about the food and our fondest hopes were shattered. Ed's cooking-if the food was lacking After four days of weeding and thin in quantity, quality made up for it. If ning jack pine seedlings to exactly 18 quality was lacking, there was always seedlings per linear foot, even the quantity. There is still some question stoutest hearted man in camp was in the minds of some people as to tempted to slip away and spend the whether the general weight gaining afternoon in town eating ice cream, trend was due to the abundance of sipping sodas, or partaking of other food or to the lack of exercise. We' re liquid nourishment. One memory of sure that ·«Pop" Allison believes the nursery work will always remain, nev latter to be true. ertheless, and that is the devilish grin ftfty·11i11t on the faces of the C.C.C. boys work Bids varied from two cents to five ing at our side when at three o'clock beers. in the afternoon they would leave us while we had two more hours of work Last came "Pop" Allison with his to do. At completion, however, even work in management. By' this time, the most dejected of us had to admit however, spring fever had succeeded that the experience gained was well in getting the best of most of the fel worthwhile. lows. It wasn't long before the fellows found out that a lively discussion on Yes, Paul M cMiller and Don Hat managemenr problems along some field were in camp for two weeks, too. "forty" line, in the sun, had its advan Although a considerable portion of tages, too. It was generally conceded the time was spent in absorbing lecture that there were many ways of making material, we did get a chance to get a management report other than that into the fie ld once in a while, when it method recommended by " Pops" wasn't raining. For the greater part of Allison. these two weeks, it not only rained in So much for the work. The discus torrents and sheets, bur in cubs and sion had to be included in order to buckets as well. One highlight of the prove that we did do some constructive field trips was for instance, when we things while in camp. dug holes for soil profiles. That was one time when the short fellows had A tale about events at Cass Lake would not be complete without men the advantage. Long J ohn M iles had to dig his pit twice as large as neces tioning the Red Rooster, better known as the "Crimson Cock." I t was here sary in order to make room for his legs, arms and the shovel. T hese pro chat on one memorable evening our fil e studies inevitably ended in mud genial friend " Rogo" Rogosheske slinging episodes. climbed the stairs to fame by out-mas tering the master of ceremonies. It In conjunction with the soils work, wasn't long after camp was established we had a taste of forest zoology. For that the people there were learning the two weeks every man in camp had his words to the Minnesota Rouser. The eyes peeled for animal signs. M any a "Crimson Cock" was the haven for wild goose chase resulted from reports any forester who was in the sloughs of of "finds" in certain localities. Inci despondency from over-work. H ere dentally, a long sought-for explana cheer entered again aided and abetted tion for the accusations of members of by Shannon O 'N eil, the girl of "Chi the Hell-Hole, concerning the stench natown, My Chinatown" and "I Got behind the outstanding bunkhouse, is What You Want" fame, and occasion finally brought forth, and truthfully, ally a fai rly decent floor-show act. One too. The perceptible odor was caused of the waiters in an apparent moment by nothing more or less than the ex of weakness said that the University cessive signs disposed of by the men boys were the best gen tlemen he'd in the outstanding bunkhouse in their ever seen. We knew that whoever he fervent work. Coming back to forest was talking about wasn't sober. Either zoology, however, the last fatal day that or the waiter wasn't sober. Ossie drew nigh with some men still short a Krogfoss, Bob Nord, and Wayne few specimens. I t was then that an A ckerman were always willing to spend auction was resorted to with the high a few hours at the "Crimson Cock." est bidder getting a choice specimen. " M icky" Finn gained a distinction 1ixty all of his own. Now there is always a John Miles' plug as an incentive for certain amount of tidiness connected entering. Some six or seven contest even with a forester's camp. But this ants walked up to the line and tried tidiness was an item of importance in first for distance. John Miles won this our camp because of inspections by event with a spat of 18 feet and 7 in army officers. On one inspection ches. However, this was probably due "Mick's" bunk received the title of to the fact that Long John could lean "An Army Officer's Nightmare." The farther over the line than anyone else. only time it was satisfactory was when A white painted piece of wallboard Rollie Jahnke made the bunk for with a target drawn on it was then Mick. erected for the accuracy event. It was placed within comfortable range of all The aforementioned Rollie Jahnke contestants. Wayne Ackerman won served as assistant cook to Ed Kron the event with two spots that hit the on weekends. His Easter ham would bullseye. The target was left in an have delighted the most fastidious epi erect position as an exhibit of Acky's cure. Oh yes, Rollie was the fellow prowess, but, unfortunately, a few "Micky" complained about as being days later a rainstorm removed the a slavedriver, not conducive to good evidence. loafing, etc. The hill-billy influence also took Two bunkhouses were previously effect at camp. "Feudin' " was more mentioned. As to be expected there or less a common thing with the re was a considerable amount of rivalry sulting torn clothes and bruises. The between the two. Unfortunately no deadliest feud, and probably going on specific names were applied to each to this day, was the one involving Don but in conversation it was common to Gregg, Perry Skarra, Ossie Krogfoss, apply the name "Hell-Hole" to the and Wayne Ackermann. rival bunkhouse. To Perry Skarra went the distinc A large number of men gained dis tion of being the owner of the best tinction by various acts, habits, and bunk in camp and consequently the performances. Among them were favorite spot for anyone to snooze a Howie Post, who mastered the knack bit. An air mattress cushioned with an of being the last one out of the bunk eider-down sleeping bag made sleeping house every morning and the last one in Perry's bunk a downright pleasure. on the trucks. Bill Kepman was known On occasions when business was good for his song and dance exhibitions at the bunk was made to accommodate the Red Rooster and elsewhere. The from four to six fellows at one time. man who appreciated good food most Perry also laid claim to "forty-seven was Earle Dahl, while Russ Kauppi years of bigtime championship crib believed in just food and lots of it. bage competition and never losing a "Kingfish" Adkins, the man who game." However, a few beginners beat knows something about everything, him and by the time camp closed, Per was practically persuaded at one time ry was sufficiently humbled. to fetch an "automatic bunkspacer." The truth of the matter is that the One feature of the life at camp was "Kingfish" actually did start out after an expectorating contest held one such an implement. Only a few mem balmy Sun.day afternoon. All contest bers in camp will ever forget ''Mac" ants were given a free chew from Long McDonald's passion for pink silk six/)'-Ollt drawers (men's). It took the camp Rapids and then on to Cloquet. The two days to recover when " Mac" start experiences on the trip, the night in lingly announced one day that he had Grand Rapids, the improvised canopy a 3 2 inch waistline. " Boof" ] ohnson's for the truck in the rain,. and many quietness, ((Davey" Vesall' s good na other things on the trip have become cu re and elevating spirit, "Ossie" Es a permanent part of our memories. terl's willingness to do ocher fellows' Officers of the corporation were: work for them, and "Cal" De Laictre's J ohn Adkins, president; J ohn Miles, impeccable vocabulary all added to life vice-president; Andrew H augham, sec at a camp. Dogpacch had its " Hairless retary-creasurer; and Erich Kienow, J oe," bur we had ours, coo. " Hairless steward. J oe" Connors, former world's log rolling champ, and " H airless Ray" All in all, the quarter spent at Cass Ritchel, his cousin, became known be Lake was a memorable one, to which cause of their prominent red beards. all of us will look back in years to When ic came to a bic of philosophiz come. As succeeding classes set out ing on any or everything, ''Johnny" fo r camp, we are certain to be some McGuire was always present wich ad what envious of the experiences that vice concerning caking chings easy or we know will be in score for them. not overexerting yourself. Despite the fun and foolishness in After che camp itself was closed the volved, we learned a lot of things that entire group made a trip co Grand only field experience can teach. sixt j'·IWO The Log of the Forestry Club Stops Rol~ing by Robert Schoensee 1936 - Even with eloque11t Bill In light of rhe above statements con Major as the driving power behind the cerning disinterest and disorganization, organization, interest in the Forestry to say that the club is functioning Club was rather lax, and the attend would seem to require either a change ance at the meetings relatively low in terms or proof of this functioning. about sixty fellows. But the terms convey the correct meaning. When we say that disin 1937 - This lack of interest was terest is prevalertt, we mean that a felt even more keenly, and attempts great proportion of the forestry stu were made to create a new spirit among dents have no interest whatever in the foresters and to reestablish the club on activities of the Forestry Club. By a better basis. The "Durch U ncle disorganization we mean the lack of Project", an example of what was tried coordination that exists between the to improve this waning spirit, was car officers and members of the group as ried out as follows: all incoming fresh a whole. men and transfer students were in tro duced to campus activities :111d func Now for the proof, and there seems tions by juniors and seniors. to be plenty to offer. The bonfire, 1938 - The Laodicean attitude :in almost indispensiblc tradition at was now more prevalent than ever be Minnesota, was held as usual at the fore. Those present at the meeting beginning of the fall quarter. Herc included only a few more than the nu the freshmen are dusted with a light cleus formed by the officers. spray of traditional forestry humor- I dignify it by that term- and this year 1939- A thorough-going pessimist the fire must have been hotter than would enjoy writing of this stage. He usual. Any old timer will attest tO the would revel in enumerating every sad spell of blazing hickory log-how it step in the long decline; he would de draws out a congenial tale. But when light in pointing out evidences of dis you ger bogged down to rhe knees, interest, disorganization, and even out you know it's rhe Foresters' Bonfire. right refusals to parricipate in Forestry The bonfire was well attended, and Club activities. those who were interested enough to Luckily, all of us are not pessimists show up did ger some idea of the who see only the black and hopeless Forestry Club :ictiviries. side of affairs. We realize these dis turbing facts; we understand that some As a suggestion to future club thing is radically wrong, not neces officers, the bonfire should be followed sarily, however, with the organization. up with a high-powered publicity fresh but certainly with the spirit of rhe man educational program. As it stands gang; we know that the Forestry Club now, nothing is said or done after the is not dead yet and so long as a spark bon fire to publicize and carry on the of life remains, the situation is not en functions of the club in a campus-wide tirely hopeless-it's up to you! manner. Interest is built up at the sixty-thru bonfire, then allowed to drop- with the season. George hobbled around only a few left holding the " log". on crutches for the remainder of the season, and also did considerable mus The banquet, held later in Novem ing about misg.uided fellow-foresters ber, was a last minute success. Quite who think that a touchball game on a few successful grads came back and the soft, green sward is a gentle frolic. gave us a chance to look them over. During the winter quarter Hugh Consternation spread among the Noble took the reins and managed to banquet committee when they learned get a basketball team together. H e that a dance had been scheduled for reports that although the Forestry the ballroom immediately after dinner Club rarely had five men on the Aoor, and that our group would have to the four men that did play served up move to a different room. This ac enough competition to satisfy every tually turned out to be a blessing in opposing team. And after all, if you disguise because the over-stuffed fores haven't a championship team, the best ters with the cigars distributed at the you can do is to make the other team banquet walked leisurely down to the fight for their victories. lounge room to listen, to smoke, and the grads to reminisce. Contentment Because the topic of discussion is and congeniallity was so evident that now concerned with athletics, we might the fears of the committee were im mention the spring diamond ball tour mediately dispelled. nament. The Forestry Club will very likely have a team entered that will In the fall quarter the Forestry Club always blossoms out weakly with a live up to the reputations of former touchball team-last fall was no ex teams. We shall not attempt to pre ception . We mustered our forces for dict the outcome of the tournament the first game and found that we had this spring because predicting can not five stalwarts-just three short. But yet be classified as an exact science in we played and had a good time-the so far as athletic games are concerned. outcome is unimportant. We won Predicting winners, however, is no and lost games all through the season , more of a gamble right now than pre but just managed to keep in the fight. dicting whether our president during Meanwhile our forces had grown, and the fall quarter, Ray Finn, is dead or the three or four impatient reserves alive. Afte r " Mick" graduated in sat on the sidelines at every game. December, he went back to Cornwall on the Hudson. Since then, no one Our final game was with the Soils has heard from him. N o doubt he is team. Come to think of it now, they too wrapped up in his research to drop were a mighty tough looking lot before us a line. In the election held to select we started playing. They were punt Finn's successor, H oward Schmitz and ing. One of our men rushed in and George Boyeson ran a close race. blocked the punt and the ball rolled Schmitz was elected, and without too out into the open. A Soils' man and much ceremony, was made president one of our men racing over to recover of the Forestry Club. it collided with a "crack." That crack sounded just like a pine board being This year the Forestry Club is broken over a "dry hard pan", and in sponsoring a new enterprise. This is effect it was just that. "Our" man, a plan to add a nominal amount (prob George Gustafson, fractured his leg. ably fifty cents) to the quarterly fees That game, left unplayed, ended of every forester. This wou!d entitle 1ixt y·/011r him to a Peavey, to a banquet ticket, say that it has been very active. Activ to membership in the Forestry Club, ity, in so far as an organization is con and to participation in the annual bon cerned, means, first of all: active par fire. Already 8 5 per cent of the fores ticipation in all events by most if not ters have signified their willingness to all of its members; and secondly: full accept the plan. If the Board of Re support of every undertaking. Our gents can be convinced that this is a club regretfully lacks these essential good thing, it probably will go into ef requirements, and the realization of fect next fall. that fact makes us conscious of other things. We realize that something In the winter quarter, the Forestry must be responsible for this non-par Club participated in the fi rst annual ticipation and non-support. Further Western Forestry Club Conclave at diagnosis seems to disclose several Missoula, Montana. The Montana causes. The first, a peculiar situacion State College of Forestry sponsored at Minnesota, is the scattered distribu the entire affair, and twelve western tion of the forestry students, a handi forestry schools sent representatives cap that cannot be remedied. Our stu to the three-day meeting. Four of dents live in four distinct areas: ( 1) Minnesota's best - Lou Hoelscher, the Main Campus; (2) the Farm Cam Ross Hanson, George Boyeson, and pus; ( 3) St. Paul; and ( 4) Minnea Mike Latimer represented us at the polis. To bring these students to· meeting. The details of the Conclave gether, especially at night, is a very are important, but are too numerous difficult problem-the factors involved to be mentioned. However, George being time and transportation. An had this advice to offer, "Fellows, if other cause is that smaller organiza you have a chance to be a delegate to tions acquire and retain the interest of the Conclave at Oregon State next many foresters. When this is the case, year, by all means go, because it is the value of joining whole-heartedly really worth the while". It seems that in the activities of another larger or the Conclave will be an annual event. ganization, the Forestry Club, ap This is a fine thing because it will cer parently seems unnecessary and super tainly aid in establishing closer re fluous. lationships between the different forest schools. Other problems also face the Fores In order to prove further that the try Club, but they can be very easily existence of the club is justified, we remedied. If determined efforts are might also point out the Forestry Club made to reestablish the organization dance in the fall quarter, which by its on a firm basis of cooperation and co very title, The Timberbug Twirl, lured ordination, that spark of life it still re every jitter-bug on the campus to its tains will blaze again-provided, of lair. course, that each of us cooperates with Obviously this array of events shows the necessary spark. After all, it is that the Club has been functioning up to us as individuals-we are the during this past year, but we cannot Forestry Club. sixty· fir~ X i Sigma Pi National Honorary Forestry Fraternity Founded ctl Lorn/ Chapter UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DELTA CHAPTER 1908 1920 OFFICE RS '38 . '39 H ENRY HANSEN Fam/f ')' Advisor CHARLES H. WHITE Forester WAYNE A CKERMAN Associate Forester DAVID VESALL Ranger PH11.IP ]AHN Secl.-Fiscal Age 111 FACULTY MEMBERS ]. H. A LLISON RALPH DAWSON A.]. BAILEY H ENRY H ANSEN DWIGHT B ENDSEND L. W. Rems R . M. BROWN c. 0. ROSENDAHL E. G . CHEYNEY T. S CHANTZ-HANSEN CLYDE CHRISTIANSEN H ENRY S CHMITZ ASSOCIATE MEMBERS P . 0 . ANDERSON s. R. G EVOR KIANTZ ]. L. AVERELL J. A. MITCHELL R. M. C U NNINGHAM J. R. N EETZEL ACTIVE MEMBERS WAYNE ACKERMAN PHILIP R. ]AHN K ERMIT L. OTTo ELDON BEHR ]AMES W. KIMBALL S coTT PAULEY DAVID L. BRINK CHARLES J. KRUMM TONY F. P ERPICH c. EDWARD CARLSON LoREN A. M c DONALD ROBERT v. S TOLPE HARRY DAVIS joHN McGu1RE DouGLAS C. W ELCH Ross J. DoNEHOWER RALPH K. N ELSON EDWARD G. WELLEIN ANDREW HAUGHOM MoRRIS V. OLSON C H ARLES H. W1-11 TE 1ix11-si)( Voyag e11rs FnoNT Row: Orvold, Batesoll, Kienow, Posr, Lehner, Mattlin Seco1<0 Row: Jahn, M. Olson, V. O lson, McGuire, Eggen, 13oyeson LAST Row: V. Johnson. Liden. K. Pererson, Schoensee, Ackerman Forestry Organization FACULT Y ADV ISORS DWIGHT BFNDSEND DR. GUSTAV S WANSON OFFICERS H owARD PosT Preside111 W AYNF A CK ERMAN Vice Presidc111 CLARENCE EGGHI Treasurer EDWIN L FH NFR Secretary A C TTVE M E MBE RS W /IYNF A CKERMAN G LENN LIDF.N A LLEN BATFSON j o H N M c G u rnr G EORGI' Bov FsoN K ErT H M c K EE DONA i n D rESSNER C ARROLi- MATTI.IN C r ARENCE EGGEN M ELVIN M ENC';f' W A LT E RSON joHN N o RUI or.r H ARVEY H ANSEN R o u ERT NoRn PHIL IP j AH N W ARR EN N oRn V rCToR Jo11 NSON M oRRrs 01.soN ERICK K1FNOW V1NCENT O LSON j1M KtMUALI LEONARD 0 RVOLO EDWARll K RON K ENNFTH P ETFRSON j oE F1NNF.G11N H owARD P osT E DWIN LEHNER R o eERT S c H OENsFr Tau Phi Delta National Professional Forestry Fraternity Fowuled at Loral Clu1p1er UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BETA CHAPTER 1924 1926 FACULTY MEMBERS R. M. BROWN E. G. CHEYNEY CtYOE CHRISTENSEN ]. H. ALLISON HENRY S CHMITZ L. w. REES ACTIVE MEMBERS W1tHELM B ECKERT RAYMOND F1NN RALPH NELSON ROBERT BINGER DONALD GREGG HOWARD SCHMITZ LEM BLAKEMORE HARVEY HARTWIG )ACK SCHNl!EWEIS DAVID BRINK GooDMAN LARSON JOHN TAYLOR RUSSELL BYFIELD HILLARD L1LLIGREN DouGLAS WELCH KELD CHRISTENSEN LoREN McDONALD CHARLES WHITE WARREN ENSTROM ]OHN MILES PLEDGES jAY ARMSTRONG LARRIE ]ARVIE WILLIAM NICKOLAS MORRIS BLACKBURN LARRIE KALLIO WARREN PARKER )OHN BURT EvERILL KNoSPE GLENN RoTEGARD CARL CARLSON RoYDEN KNOWLES JosEPH RuPERT HARRY ENDERSON G EORGE KOBLER WALTER TALBERT EUGENE T H EIS GRADUATE STUDENTS AXEL ANDERSON B. FRANCIS KuKACHKA V1NCENT BOUSQUET NORTON S CHMIDT ]OHN H. ALLISON Faculty Advisor FRANK SHEARER Alumni Advisor tixty-tight Alpha Zeta LA GRANGE CHAPTER FRONT Row: Sc;wer, L. H31 verson, C. E. C1rlson, Baughman, Brink Ss cOND Row: McKay, Palmby, R. Smith, Vesall, Perpich, Shelly T 111R D Row: Roadfelc, H inds, A . Carlson, Trizinski, Arny, Donehower, Behr Fou nn1 Row: H arrington, Lerud, Magnuson, W. Nord, Lawcon, Christenson, Jahn National Honorary Agricultural Fraternity FACULTY ADVISORS Dea n E. M. FREEMAN E. G. CHEYNEY L. s. PALMER OFFICERS c. EDWARD CARLSOIN Chan cellor ERNEST BAUGHMAN Censor LLOYD HALVORSON Scribe S T ANLEY S EAVER T rearnrer DAVID BRINK Chronicler ACTIVE M E MBE RS Agrirnlture Foresters D EANE ARNY ELDON BEHR ERNEST BAUGHMAN DAVID BRINK A LTON CARLSON C. EowARD CARLSON C L IFFORD CHRISTENSON Ross DoNEHOWER L LOYD HALVERSON PHILIP jAHN DONALD HARRINGTON ERICH K IENOW MAX HINDS RALPH NELSON KIRK LAWTON ScoTT PAULEY LESTER LERUD TONY PERPICH G ERALD M cKAY DAVID VESALL WARREN NoRD CLARENCE PALMB\' STANLEY S EAVER OREN SHELLEY RALPH SMITH SAM TRIZINSKI Aluinni Section CLASS OF 1899 umnus. H. H. Chapman, who wa~ H erman H. Chapman. Our first fi rsc lase year. alumnus writes chat he has just fou:: The entire staff extends its thanks years co go before retiring at the age to him for sending the " true value" of of 68 from his duties as Professor of the Peavey this year and in years pass Forest Management at the Yale ed. School of Forestry. He is now serv ing as Chairman of the State Park aJ1d H ere is what Walt writes: "We are Forestry Commission of Connecticut. very busy with the proposed program The state has 3 7 parks, most of which for a large Air Force. Juse how large are along the shore. T he attendance it will be, no one can say-that de at che parks last year was 2,500,000 pends upon the changing international persons. Some of the wooded parks situation, and upon the limits chat may and scare forests were badly damaged be sec by legislative enactment." by the hurricane last September. Her CLASS OF 1910 man has written three textbooks on Jim B. Berry who is still citrologist forestry, some of which are familiar for the Wave··ly Citrus Growers Co to forestry students. We might add operative tells us: "This year we ex that he was again one of che first co pe:r co market one and a quarter mil send in his "buck". lion boxes of fruit. With 5000 acres of CLASS O F 1904 bearing groves we have our problems in insect and disease concrol, ferriliz. Martin L. Erickson is now a farm ing, pruning, ere. We operate our own manager handling several farms in fertilizer plant, inseccide and fungicide eastern South Dakota and one in Can plane, and machine shop. T his is one ada. H e is very much interested in a of che most progressive operations, satisfactory farm program providing resting our soils to determine fertilizer for corn and wheat loans to stabilize requirements, resting methods of wash prices for our chief crops, and hopes ing and disinfecting fruit, checking chat Congress continues the present methods of storage, and many ocher administratio n policy whether sponsor problems. ed by one party or another. "Yesce rday I was signally honored CLASS OF 1906 in having M r. and M rs. Mattoon and W . T . Cox, at present, is a biologist Mr. and Mrs. H astings, of the U. S. for the S . C. S. at its Milwaukee office. Forest Service, drop in on me. We H is most recent work was in connec had dinner in the Waverly cafeteria tion with the Resetclement Division in and talked over old times. Mattie said northern Minnesota. he had seen H erman Krauch and Hastings said he had worked with CLASS OF 1909 Arnold Benson. They also had news Walter M . Moore, of Wright Field, of Norman J acobson, Donald Brew Dayton, Ohio, sent his check for three ster, and ochers of the Class of 191 O." dollars by Air Mail in hopes of getting Arnold O. Benson. Still at the it here ahead of our Number One Al- Forest Produces Laboratory. C. L. Lewis, Jr. Had just returned He doesn't know what progress the from a five weeks trip to California. letter is making, and hopes it has not On the way he stopped in to see Her- "bogged down". 1nan Krauch at Tucson, Arizona. He The Peavey hopes the letter is mak says Herman's family of 3 girls and a ing progress too. The chain-letter boy are fine. idea has been suggested by Alumni Don Brewster is with the Hertey editors in the past and this is the first Foundation Laboratory, but we don't time it has been tried, as far as we know where. know. CLASS OF 1912 CLASS OF 1914 Samuel A. G raham. Professor of W alter F. Beyer. With the Home Economic Zoology, Division of Fores Insurance Company, New York City. try, University of Michigan, Ann J ohn A . Stevenson. Still doing Arbor. News? business at the old stand. Senior my CLASS OF 1915 cologist in charge of mycological col lections, Bureau of Plant Industry, Thorwald Shantz-Hansen. There Washington, D. C. are two sections of the J unior Corpora tion again this year, so Schantz will CLASS 0 F 19 13 luve charge of the group at Cloquet. G. H. Wiggin. A pioneer in Fores CLASS OF 1916 try. Last fall he established the first courses in Forestry at the University A. B. Gerlow sent his check all the of Kentucky. One course in General way from Santiago de Chile by airmail, Forestry, and another in Farm Wood and the check was for three dollars. lands. Congratulations, Gilly! That is a nice margin to cover postage, Mr. Gerlow. We hope the Peavey is H e is not ready co say, as yet, as welcome as your check. We will whether the 'kids' learned anything, pass your information on just as we but says that he attended all the classes. got it. He believes he has convinced them on "Nothing much can be said about one score; char he is Doctor Wiggin, my rambling activities here in Latin not Professor. America except that I am just back from a trip looking over an Alerce Charles D . Simpson is Forest {a large redwood-like cedar) tract supervisor, Coeur d'Alene National among the volcanoes of Southern Forest. H e said that he seldom sees Chile (southeast of Puerto Monet) , any of the old-timers, but he gives us where there are plenty of steep hills the following: and big timber-but no bugs." Irwin Puphal is now District Ran Harry Bartelt is a bigwig in the Boy ger at Wallace, Idaho, on one of the Scout organization and as far as we big, busy districts of this forest. have been able to ascertain, is now lo cated at Duluth. "Not long ago Howard Hall of Eugene, Oregon, class of 1913, initiat CLASS OF 1917 ed a round-robin letter and made me Parker Anderson is still Minnesota's No. 2 on the mailing list. I forward Extension Forester and has his office ed it to Paul Tobin who is with the at the University Farm. Potlatch Forests, Incorporated, at J. D. Burnes is treating engineer at Lewiston,· Idaho." the Page Hill Cedar Pole Company in Minneapolis. His home address, we covers a gross acreage of 2, 5 26,000 find, is 5008 Vincent Avenue south. acres, with a net acreage of 1,475,000 acres. Not only do we have acqui CLASS OF 1918 sition work, fire control work with its Herb Swanson is with the Kimberly important educational phase, but we Clark Paper Company at Neenah, are also increasing our recreational Wisconsin. activity, our social work in rehabilitat George Hauser is still coaching that ing permittees on Government land, great Minnesota line. and taking in money from timber sales. CLASS OF 1920 The Ouachita, last year, was third in S . C. Brayton says he is still Ranger timber sales receipts of National on the Mio District of the Huron Forests of the United States. Only National Forest. He thinks the Pea two in the Northwest beat us. This vey has shown "continued fine im year there have been more sales made provement". -two of the largest operators have shut down for a greater portion of the CLASS OF 1921 fiscal year. However, in spite of this, H. L. Persons sends his best wishes it looks like we will again make $150,- for the success of the Peavey. He and 000 or more. I might add that Del Hallin '29 are still handling the forest Thorsen '36 is one of the timber management research in the redwood beasts and helps a great deal to mark region for the California Forest and and handle part of the sales work." Range Experiment Station. He says Abe Everts ' 26 has left Region 5 for CLASS OF 1924 New England. Ernest F. Sheffield writes a resume Lloyd Grapp is with the manage of his life since graduation. He had ment division in Region 9 at Milwau an exhibit at the Forestry Day Cele kee. bration last year. Here is the letter: " ... I have been in the nursery A. E . Wackerman is on the staff at business continuously since graduation the School of Forestry, Duke Univer from the Forestry College in 1924. sity. I have a greenhouse and ffower shop CLASS OF 1923 in Minneapolis and a nursery at Rob Otis McCreery is the Dean of Men binsdale. We employ from 4 to 15 at Washington State. skilled horticulturists, and have land scaped six U. S. postoffices and two Bob Knight is reported to be an veterans bureau hospitals in the past engineer for a dry kiln concern at two years. Memphis, Tennessee. A. L. "Gump" Nelson, a former "The wife, who I first became ac Editor-in-Chief, sends his buck with quainted with as assistant to Mr. Mc sympathies for the present Editor-in lntosh, secretary of the state horti Chief. The Alumni editor prefers to cultural society on the University farm, remain silent on the issue, but will say helps me with my horticultural work the Chief appreciates the words of past and she is as much in love with this members of the staff, they are univer work as I am. sal in their comments. A . L. says, «During January we took a pleasure "Since 19 3 5 I have been Supervisor trip to Little Rock, Houston, Galves of the Ouachita National Forest, sta ton, El Paso, Tucson, Yuma, San tioned at Hot Springs. This forest Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, f(Ytnly·/TVO Boulder Dam, Sequoia National Park, busy keeping up with the rapidly ex Grand Canyon and home. This is our panding forestry interest in the region, seventh winter trip to the south, but with special emphasis on forest man the first one west. We saw the Gen agement research. He recommends eral Sherman tree and had a cabin in an assignment of forestry-cataloging the redwood forest. in an experiment station library for ( StYt11ly·thru Service and has recently moved from Edward P. Duclos advises us that Des M oines to Milwaukee. he resigned from the National Park Service, Milwaukee Procurement Of CLASS OF 1927 fice, last November, to be~ome man J. L. Deen is the Dean of Forestry ager of the T owne Theater at New at Colorado State College. Holstein, Wisconsin. He extends his greetings to his fellow alumni, and Leslie W. Orr writes about his work wants them to stop there and enjoy as assistant division leader of the Divi a good show when in the vicinity of sion of Forest Insect Investigations of New H olstein. The theater is a first the Bureau of Entomology and Plant class one with an R.C.A. sound system. Quarantine. ''It includes a wide va Earl G. Wilson is on the Wayne riety of duties, such as reviewing work Purchase Unit of the U . S. Forest plans, reports, manuscripts, etc., that Service as Nursery Superintendent at are received from our field laborator Chillicothe, Ohio. ies. I also spend quite a lot of time on work in connection with personnel CLASS OF 1928 matters as well as with fiscal affairs of Frank H. Kaufert sends double the the division. This work keeps me here subscription price. H e appreciates the in Washington the greater part of the eff orrs of the staff as it was not so long time but I do get our to visit some of ago that he helped get out an issue. the field stations and see some of their Frank says: " ... My own efforts are work occasionally. I hope that it will still confined to research on preserva be possible for me to go to St. Paul tives for ccllulosic products and re the latte r part of March for the ento cently on chemical seasoning agents mological m.eetings. If so, I will try for wood. This latter study has proven to get around to say " Hello" to my very interesting, and we predict that friends at the University Farm." the use of carbamide, a dressed-up name for a common chemical, will He writes that Ernest L. Kolbe '27 open up a new field of work in season is in Washington on temporary derail ing woods that are now seasoned with taking a statistical course which is being difficulty and often with serious losses given by one of the Forest Service due to checking and other defects." men. Ernie is stationed at the North west Forest Experiment station at Ellery M. Foster, Minnesota State Portland, Oregon. According to our Forester, sums up his work as follows: informant, Ernie is still the same en ( 1) directing the forestry division in thusiastic and energetic fellow that he the work it is already in a position to was when in school. do, and (2) helping to untangle the legal snarls which keep some 5 or 6 Carl G. Krueger writes that the only million acres of potential forest land outstanding thing that has happened bound up in tax-delinquency where to him was a detail to New England. nothing much can be done with them. He was in Rhode Island nearly four months working on the salvage of tim Benjamin M. Whitehill is now a ber in the hurricane district. He says ranger on the Sleepy Cat District of that the work was very different from the White River National Forest. His the usual line, and very interesting. summer address is Buford, and in the The amount of damage could hardly winter he is at Meeker, Colorado. be imagined by anyone who has not Grazing and game are the chief forest seen it. uses making recreation an important S~YC ll/ )'-fo ur problem our there. Trappers' Lake other branches of Government For· lies on his district, and he says it is estry or allied work. reported to be one of the most beauti "We all feel that the Forest Schools ful lakes in Colorado. are giving us a high type of modem O liver Cook is still an unofficial ad day Forest Personnel. However, lest visor to the Peavey as a representative we forget, there is still the old-time of his company, the Flour City Press. Ranger in the Service, whose only col lege training was that of underpaid ) . N . Van Alstine. Still Forest Ran hard work. As time passes, their ranks ger on the New Castle District of the are annually growing thinner. I can Jeffe rson National Forest and is sta not say bur that with my every contact tioned at New Castle, Va. and association with this type of man, W. H . Fischer says there has been a deeper regard and respect for him no change in his employment status is built up. They are still a substantial since last year. Still with the Forest part of the backbone of the Service. Service as Supervisor of the Chatta· T hey may not know all the scientific hootchee National Forest, headquar· te rms, but on the job, rhey still get ters at Gainesville, G eorgia. the results." (This is certainly a fine letter, the Peavey could use more like Ray W. Knudson has the same job it.) as staff assistant in the Supervisors office on the Clark Purchase Units, but John Neetzel, we find, is in charge is now at Kirkwood, Missouri. of the Uppe r Peninsula Experimental Forest at Dukes, Michigan. This is a CLASS OF 1929 field station of the Lake States Forest A . K. Wogensen is District Forest Experiment Station. Ranger on the Minidoka National For est. His letter sums up his career since Dan Thomas would like to know leaving school and carries a few what has become of all the "49'ers" thoughts which we young bucks might of the Freshman Corporation of 1927. remember as well as the graduates. He submits a brief .summary of his "Concerning myself, since leaving the activities since graduation: ttWorked " U" in 19 3 0; I received a Civil Serv for the Inte rnational Paper Company ice appointment two weeks prior to at P iercefield and Glens Falls, N. Y., my notification of passing the J. F. for four years. Then with the U. S. examination. Those things don't hap F. S. on the Nicolet National Forest pen anymore. for three and one-half years. Next I went with the Minnesota and Ontario On my first appointment I started Paper Company working in the mills scaling logs on the Bois Fort Indian at I nternational Falls, Minnesota, and Reservation in Northern Minnesota in Fort Frances, Ontario, for a period of July, 1930. I have since held positions one and one-half years. Have now as Ranger, U.S. Indian Service, North spent almost a year in the insurance Carolina; Ranger, U . S. National Park business in Minneapolis. By virtue of Service, North Carolina; and my pres my present location, I had the privi ent position as District Forest Ranger, lege of attending the Dedication serv U . S. Forest Service, Idaho. ices of Green Hall. After looking over "In my way of thinking, the Forest the present facilities of the student Service has a high priority as the best foresters, it makes one feel that he outfit to work for in comparison with went to school years too soon!" He enjoys the Alumni section, but buck into this office. Congratulations, believes that foresters are inclined to Mr. Chase, you have attained a cov be a little too modest in relating their eted position . activities. Clarence E. Olson has become tired S. B. Andrews, who is with the of living out of a suitcase, even though Wood Preserving Corp. at Charleston, the work was very interesting, and S. C., says nothing has happened ex welcomes the chance to settle down in cept a tour of the east coast and New one place for a while. H e has recently York City, a fi rst-class tornado which been transferred to Salt Lake City to he survived, and a $200,000 fire in the take over woodland activities for the plant in which he cracked the March S. C. S. Previously he was on sur of Time news reel.- A very dull ex veys with the T C BIA division of the istence, Shirlee. Conservation Service, working on vari ous Indian Reservations in the South Dale Chapman says Ralph Lindgren west. H e hasn' t located any Minne and he are still very much in the chem sota Foresters in the neighborhood ical and wood preservation business, yet, but feels that there must surely be although Frank Kaufert of the Du some. Pont Company is making competition keener. Arvid T esaker says "No news is good news." At the time of writing William Hallin is still at the Cali he was in H opkinsville, Kentucky. H e fornia Forest Experiment Station. didn' t say why, but mentioned that the Clyde Christensen, our Forest Path address was not permanent. ology instructor, received a bundle W . H. Brener says: "Things are from heaven last spring. going along fin e here in Wisconsin." CLASS OF 1930 H . L. Mitchell. We gather from his Irwin Puphal is district ranger on stationery that he is a Consultant in the Couer d' Alene National Forest Soils and Plant Nutrition, still at Corn and is stationed at Wallace, Idaho. wall-on-Hudson, New York. I rwin is beginning to wonder what T. Ewald Maki is still in charge of happened to the "Original Four M us Forest Management Research at the keteers." He recalls the " Irish M ors" Intermountain station; still married at Itasca, the home-brew at Libby, the and now the proud father of a daugh old jalopies with no brakes, no lights, ter. no tops, and no morals. I rv would appreciate hearing from some of his Ralph W. Lorenz. When we came old classmates . . . and so would the back to school last fall we were sur Peavey. prised and sorry to find that Ralph had left. But we are glad that he has such Clarence D. Chase is ranger on the a fine position. His letter explains Manistique District of the H iawatha things very well: National Forest, Manistique, Michi "Last fall I ran out on the boys gan. Clarence says the happy family before they got back from the woods. now numbers four, Davy and Judy be It was only with considerable reluc ing the new rulers of the Chase house tance that I did so, for I did wish to hold. say goodbye before I left. During the M r. Chase won the distinctive honor Christmas holidays while at the Uni of being the first alumnus to get his versity Farm, I had the good fortune StYtnly·six to go through the new Forestry Build Louisville, Kentucky, as head of their ing with Doctor Schmitz, Professor research department and research ac Rees, and Professor Cheyney. Al tivities in conjunction with the opera though I had helped in the moving tion of their 2 5 plants. process last summer, I spent only Frank H . Anderson. Technical three days in the new Forestry Build foreman, Gunflint Camp, Grand ing before leaving for the University M arais. of Illinois. I do hope the students now realize that their new building with its E. 8 . Dahl is still virally interested facilities for forestry instruction com in the Peavey, the School, and the pares favorably with any of its kind in Alumni Section. H e is Project For the country. It would have been nice ester in the Soil Conservation Service if I could have spent one year of teach at Burlington, N. C. He sees Minne ing in the new building before leaving sota Alumni quite often in his section, Minnesota. particularly, Bill Maughan at Duke " M y work here at the U niversity of University, Hugo Pawek '30 and Bar Illinois consists of full-time forestry ney Huchenpahler '3 I at Salisbury, research in the Agricultural Experi N . C. ment Station at Urbana, Illinois. A Maurice W . Day is now in charge very small part of my time is taken up of the Dunbar Forest Experiment Sta as an extension specialist, which con tion at Sault Ste. M arie, M ichigan, sists mostly of attending an extension which combines an experimental for conference about once a month and est, demonstration forest, and a forest occasionally giving a talk over the nursery. H e says Minnesota men are University radio. Last summer the not plentiful around there. Among University created a new Department chose he has seen, are Hy Goldberg of Forestry which offers a pre-forestry '26, Clarence Chase '30, and Robley curriculum but does not offer a pro Hunt '3 1. Robley is now near Nee fessional course. Our newly created nah, Wisconsin. department of Forestry has three ex tension men and two research men. Weston Donehower writes that he You will be interested co know that is Assistant Regional Forester in the Guy Hawkins, a Minnesota graduate Soil Conservation Service, Region of 1937, is now working as an exten one, comprised of the 12 northeastern sion man in our Department. As you states from M aine to West Virginia. know, he is a married man." Regional office headquarters were The Alumni Editor will be at Clo moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in June, quet this spring, Ralph, but the Chief 1938. Outside of regular routine du of the staff says "every alum will get ties, he spent a two months assignment his copy this year." Knowing the Ed in Washington, D. C., this past fall. itor as we do, we feel sure that no one To clean up a question that appeared will be slighted. in several letters to the Peavey, Wes does have a young brother. Rolland Lorenz is with the Bureau of Plant Industry, and is generally in Henry Keehn is the proprietor of a Washington, D. C. meat market at Lewisville, Minnesota. CLASS OF 1931 Alf Z . Nelson is still with the Divi Stanley J. Buckman is still with the sion of Forest Economics of the For American · Creosoting Company at est Service in Washington, D. C. Ray Osborne didn't say anything, CLASS OF 1933 but we have reason to believe he is H arry T. Callinan is now at Zum still with the Forest Service at On brota, Minnesota. He is Camp For tonagon, Michigan. ester for the Soil Conservation Service Lyall E. Peterson confesses that there. Considering the way the Serv after checking back over the Peaveys ice is expanding, he isn't sure just how from 1931, he must admit they have long he'll be there, but hopes to get been improving, and that is saying caught in the expansion one way or something, because he claims the 193 1 another. issue was a mighty fine edition. T o make this issue even better than we Emil G . Kukachka is working for had hoped, Lyall has promised to write the U. S. Forest Service, C.C.C. Co. an article. " ... Since my last annual 717, Side Lake, Minnesota, as Tech tidbit the Forest Service has kindly nical Forester. taken me off the hands of the TVA. Ero E. Laitala says he and Art The present job, in National Forest Mayer '31, have been working in the Planning, is set-up as a part of the "Big Swamp" (Pine Island Forest) Land Acquisition branch here in the area since last August. He hopes our Washington office. Although our letters have reached those "who have main job is that of planning the future forsook the northern climate for that course of national forest acquisition, of the south." we are also concerned with a multi plicity of other jobs-many of which Donald E. Price is now acting as will probably never be finished." District Ranger on the Roosevelt Na tional Forest. Due to the "vagaries of A . E. Schneider writes that he has fate," he doesn't know how long he been on leave from his position as will be there. He has moved himself Assistant Supervisor on the Huron and his sleeping bag on an average of National Forest since last September. once every four months for the past He is taking a year's graduate work in two years. H e says C. Gordon Wyatt, Public Administration at the American '36, is Timber Sales Ranger on the University in Washington. He ex forest. pects to be back on the job next sum mer. From another source, we are John A. Rundgren. " Present po told that he will make a trip to Europe sition, Assistant Ranger, Devil's Head next summer, if the trip seems advis District of Pike National Forest. Mar able at the time. How about it, A. E.? ried recently." That's putting quite a lot into "just a few words." Perhaps CLASS OF 1932 J ohn can tell us a little about married Al Laidlaw is Project Biologist in life next year. the Soil Conservation Service at Coon Valley, Wisconsin. H e hopes the Rolland Schaar writes chat he is Peavey is as good as, or better than located at Athens as District Forest ever. Ranger of the Hocking Valley, Dis trict of Wayne, Ohio. He sends news Wilbur R. Isaacson. Quoting: "I of John Ahern, '35, which we will 111- am in the Ozarks trying to stop the clude in the l 9 3 5 group. hill-billies from 'putten out fire' . Have become well acquainted with ticks, H enry A. Stoehr is employed by chiggers, and the other varmints pres the U . S. Conservation Service as ent. All in all, I still enjoy Missouri." J unior Forester. H e says the winters seventy·eight in Tennessee are quite a contrast to of the Grand Canyon. Vic said he those in Minnesota. was up to visit him last fall for the deer season, and he got his buck. Frederick F. Wangaard is in his third year of teaching at che Univer· Harold Tysk, '3 2, is hard at work sity of Washington. They have been on the same interesting studies in Re very busy years for him, for he has gional 3 offices. He is establishing a been working on a chesis for the doc fire danger meter for chat region. Ac rorate. On January 27 of this year, cording to Vic, Harold was married che New York State College granted last fall. the degree of Doccor of Philosophy. CLASS OF 1934 The chesis was in che field of wood George A. Herion has been trans· technology, and dealt wich che heac ferred recently to Santa Fe, New Mex conductivity of wood. He says Elmo ico, from Safford, Arizona. H e says Nauman, '33, and he manage to keep he is still with rhe S. C. S. On his new an irregular correspondence. Elmo is job he is Area Foreseer, Upper Rio in San Francisco, where he has nearly Grande Area. His family consists of completed a course in theology. Walt cwo girls, Pat, age chree, and Kit, age Zillgitt, '33, also drops him a line once one. in a while. C LASS OF 1935 Alice Stuart writes to cell us thac Donald Baldwin informs us chat she is on a year's furlough from the twin foreseers arrived last January 6. Forest Service, and is caking graduate They are his first children, and he work at the New York State College hopes chey attend che Forestry School of Forestry. Alice, who has a racing as at Minnesota. This is the best news a Junior Foreseer, asks thac we tell all the Peavey received chis year. Don who are concerned chat she is looking says he certainly wants to receive a for a job, and she promises a dollar Peavey each and every year. As for from her first pay check for the Pea· his job, he is now Project Forester vey. We don't think chat added in wich che Soil Conservation Service ac centive is necessary, Alice, but we will the Bottineau, N orth Dakota, Project appreciate it. Area. H e went to North Dakota in Vic Sandberg has spent the winter the spring of 1934, directly from under the sunny skies at Albuquerque school, and served as Scace Extension - under the guise as "Ye Editor" for Forester with headquarcers at the Uncle-compiling, writing and edit· Norch Dakoca School of Forestry, also ing ch ree ponderous regional hand at Bottineau, uncil July l , 1936, when books. he accepted an appointment with che S. C. S. O ver Xmas Vic visited with Leon Hill, and says that Leon is either wear H oward L. " Pete" Brown guesses ing a corset or has been raking stren che news that would interest his class uous setting-up exercises-at any rate, mates is that he married a Grand Rap rhe full contour he once acclaimed is ids girl in July, and he is acting Ran giving way co the " true western slim ger on the Dora Lake Discricc of the ness." Chippewa. Harley Johnson is getcing over a Roy M. Carter gladly sends his buck winter of heavy snows up in his para to the Peavey. H e has news of sev dise-the Kaibab, up on rhe north rim eral Foresters. Lincoln A . Mueller, 1tVt11/y· nin~ '3 5, Superintendent of Scott Lake at Coon Valley, and Bernie Peterson Camp on the Nicollet is still interested '37, who is at Independence. in game as he is stationed in the heart Donald B. Lynch is still working for of a deer refuge that is seriously over the Soil Conservation Service at Lanes browsed. Jim Hovind, '35, and Roy boro, Minnesota. Eggen, '37, and himself are practising forestry on the County Forests of CLASS OF 1936 Wisconsin which will total approxi Earl J. Adams is with the Minne mately 2 million acres. He says the sota Forest Service at Big Falls, Min Peavey shows improvement each year nesota. and is looking forward to another Sigurd J . Dolgaard is Field Assist "noble publication." ant for the Lake States Experiment Jack P. Dundas is Forester at Camp Station, Chippewa Branch, located at Irving, Soil Conservation Service, the present time in Cass Lake. He has Black River Falls, Wisconsin. been on the Chippewa since Novem ber, 1936. Wilfred H. "Bill" Lauer, Jr., does not believe that there is enough con Karl Jacobson was shot by a deer crete material on practical farm for hunter last fall. His mother writes estry in Southeastern Minnesota at the that he passed away on November 13, present time to merit an article for 1938, from gunshot wounds received publication. H e leaves in the hands of while on duty in the Acadia National the alumni editor the responsibility of Park at Bar Harbor, Maine. He was getting out a good yarn for this Sec shot by a hunter, supposedly mistaken tion, so here goes. Bill was the editor's for a deer. boss last summer, so this information Miles W. Kelly pleads a rush of is first-hand and authentic. Soon after work for not answerini; our first letter passing the J. F. in 193 5 he became sooner. We received the buck, so you Assistant Project Forester in the S. are excused, Miles. He thinks the '39 C. S. on the Gilmore Project near Peavey will be the best one yet, except Winona. He has been Project For the one his bunch put out. Well, we'll ester since 193 7. Everything is going see about that. "As to what I am do smoothly for Bill, and last September ing? I'm nominally the Research De he gave up bachelorhood. There is partment at the Baker Furniture Inc. every indication that his course will factory here in Holland. The work is continue on an even keel. His time in mighty interesring and not a little Winona may be short, for the five puzzling, but a fine management year plan for the Project is nearly plan always is a great help." completed. Karl Kobes is working for the Bio Peder N. Lund is still at Fenimore, logical Survey at Thief River Falls, Wisconsin, in the capacity of Project Minnesota. Forester. He has the pleasure of work Myron D. Ostrander sends in a two ing with a number of Minnesota For dollar bill, and says they are common esters in his attached camps, namely: in Connecticut. The Chief of the staff Jack Densmore '35 at Viroqua, Roy was gone for two days after this letter Dingle '35 at Ontario, J im Stevenson came in and we were afraid he'd gone '38 at Highland and Howard Hass '37 East (he's having a little financial dif now at Holmen. H e also sees Jack ficulty with the Peavey) . You'll get Fry '3 3 and Al Laidlaw '3 2, who are the back copies you want, Myron. At eighty present Mike is with the Northeastern Axel L. Andersen sends his dollar Timber Salvage Administration and is with wishes for success, and hopes it located in Connecticut. His position will be as good, if not better, than the is as Sub-district Supervisor, whose du preceding issues. January first, this ties are to scale the salvaged timber year, he received a graduate assistant purchased by N. E. T. S. A. and to ship in Plant Pathology in the Depart draw up purchase agreements between ment of Botany at Michigan State. the seller and Uncle Sam. He says Congratulations and good luck, Axel. Sam Poirier '3 7 is somewhere in Conn. Victor C. Anderson encloses his doing the same sort of work. He "financial support" for the Peavey. thinks Bob Sharpe ' 38 is up :in Massa His address ts now Oakes, North chusetts on the Harvard Forest doing Dakota. check-scaling. Myron expects to be in the East until June, but can't say defi Al Engstrom for the past year has nitely. been employed by the Oklahoma State Forest Service as nurseryman at the Leonard J. Pulkrabek is working Sub-Prison. for the Minnesota Forest Service and his headquarters are at Ely, Minne Joseph P. Falbo says: "Mother For sota. estry has not, as yet, knocked on my door." But he has not given up by a Russell Rosendahl is at Duke Uni long shot. He plans to be back for versity working for a Master of For graduate work if something does not estry degree. He hopes to receive the turn up soon . He is now employed as degree this spring. He says they have laboratory assistant in Hibbing Junior a fine forestry faculty there and a large College. The work is interesting, but experimental forest to practise on. He has no connection with trees. He asks thinks commercial forestry will amount us not to be too tough on the Alums to something there if they can con who are slow in answering our letters. vince the tobacco farmers that they can make money on something other Al Hagen sends his check to "do than raising tobacco for Bull Durham, what little it can toward producing Lucky Strike, and Chesterfields. As another 'rip-snortin' Peavey." He far as he is concerned, Southern cook has been in California for three years ing is a "lot of hokum, (with grease now, so he's joining the California added)', and he is longing to get back Chamber of Commerce. He sees a in Scandinavian country for a good bunch of Minnesota students every cup of coffee. year, so the news gets around out there. At the present time he is acting Sulo V . Sihvonen is studying at Assistant Ranger on the Pit District, Yale, but doesn't say what or why. He but is doing his share of worrying expects to be back in his home town, about the coming J. F. He has been Craigville, this summer. in the Timber Sale division up to the CLASS OF 1937 present time and likes it very much, especially since George Sargent '26 is Don Ambrosen is back in Winona, Assistant Supervisor in charge of the and did some work for the Soil Con division. servation Service last summer. He has been pretty quiet, but his marriage E. Arnold Hanson sums up his ac license appeared in the Winona Re tivities in a concise manner: June p1,1blican Herald last March. 193 7 to February 1938-Grazing Sur- eight-y-one vey, Region 4, Cache National Forest, Ed Anderson '3 7 was married last sum· Idaho and Utah. March 1938 to June mer as was Clayton Granros '37. Ed 1938 - Statistical Draftsman, Lake is with the Forestry Department of the States Experiment Station. June 1938 Oliver I ron M ining Company. to October 1938- Assistant Chief of Dick Smith had a little difficulty Party, Grazing Survey, Region 4, getting his Peavey last year. We hope Manti National Forest, Utah. O ctober that doesn't happen again; it won't 1938 to ...... doing graduate happen this year, at any rate. For the work in Silviculture on a scholarship past year he has been with the South at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, ern Forest Experiment Station en Mass. He gives us information con gaged as field assistant in silviculture, cerning several grads, among those not ecology and planr physiology research listed before are, Ed Kron , Salvage from Georgia to Texas. Says his work in Connecticut, Irwin Johnson lungs were full of smoke at the time '36 is on the Dixie National Forest, of writing from doing a little fire re Cedar City, Utah. search. "The local Jeerer Lesters still Raymond A . Jensen is at the Forest prefer to 'scorch 'er (the woods) on Experiment Station, Cloquet, being a ca'm day," so he is expecting a T. Schantz-H ansen's right-hand man. hot winter. Quail shooting has been good chis year, he also got a 'coon and Ch arles Kirk is District Forester two 'possums one night. His alumni with the Missouri Conservation Com· contribution is as follows: Bud Clark mission, and is located at Jefferson '37 is with a paper company at Jack City, Missouri. sonville, Florida, Roy A. Chapman Geddes McMillan has a job as As '27 and Art V erralt '27 are with the sistant Rural Rehabilitation Supervisor Southern Station, Carl E. (Ike) Ben under the Farm Security Administra son is ranger at Laurel, Miss., Jim tion with headquarters at St. James, H enderson '36 may still be at Shreve Minnesota. port, La., P. H . Bryan '24 is super visor of the Kisatchie National Forest Sam S. Poirier is trying to convince in Louisiana. the Connecticut Yankees chat he can F. M. Thomson is a forester with do them some good. H e is working on the North Star Timber Company, a Timber Salvage. Sam says he hasn't large pulpwood logging company, with scaled so much pine yet, but spends operations in the spruce swamps be· most of his time locating ponds and tween Two Harbors and Ely. He says landings. Last summer he worked for they are not operating at the presenr the Forest Service as Campground time, but are cruising and mapping Guard at the Kawishiwi River Camp their holdings. H e has run across and Picnic Grounds near Ely. After several yellow rags on section corners September 1 5 he was with the Gegoka and quarter corners established by U. Camp F2 as Project Assistant. He of M. boys during the Superior Na drove East with Albert Tofte '32, wh o tional Forest Acquisition in I 9 34. is now in Massachusetts in Timber Salvage. He says Rich Townsend '36 Yale W einstein, former Peavey Edi has been going to Yale this year for tor, was back to look over the new his Masters degree, and that Martin building during the Christmas holi Meldahl is working for the Heimbach days. He was glad to see the Peavey Lumber Company in Duluth. Also, was remembered by such a nice office. eighty•/ WO He had a reunion wirh several of rhe che boys in Brownies' problems class boys while he was here. Those he has stumped. seen in rhe sourhwesc are Gordon Vince Bosquet is working on his W yatt '36, now working for Uncle degree in silviculture up in our new Sam in Colorado, Stanley Olson '3 2 grad uates' room. V ince, along with now with the S. C. S., and Vic Sand J ohn M iles, is also handling the North· berg '33 who is stationed temporarily west Forestry Company here in Sr. in Albuquerque where he is getting Paul. Some of you may not know chat some dope for a C.C.C. handbook. Vince is a proud papa now, so we'll We'll quote him on himself:"Still em lee you in on it. ployed as forester for rhe New Mexico Lumber and Timber Company. While Clem Kaufman sirs right across the most of my work has been rather re way from Bosquet up in that G raduate mote from actual forestry, I can see room and it shouldn't be long now be some interesting work in the near f u fo re there is a "Doc" tacked on before ture. That is, the adoption of a new that Kaufman. value selection system of marking with CLASS OF 1938 the ultimate aim of attaining a sustain ed yield form of management. Our Joe Connor is working fo r the Clo mill, which is at present being electri quet Wood Conversion Company. J oe fied, is situated at Bernalillo and the sends his buck, his regards and no logs are brought in by rail a distance crmc1sms. Joe, as you may or may of approximately 50 miles. Truck nor know, was World's Champion Log logging has materially changed the log Roller in 19 3 7. He had a little tough ging picture here in the southwest, luck this year. and as a result, we plan on abandoning Fred Dickinson, we understand, is part of our railroad and substituting now a married man, going off the deep trucks." The Peavey can always count end last New Years. H e is a Forester on past members of the staff for nice in the Day Lake Camp ar Deer River. letters and lots of support. Carl Dion sends in a buck and a half Norm Borlaug is taking his masters to compensate for nor stopping in degree in Pathology here at the Uni while he was recuperating from an ap· versity and has been Clyde Christen· pendicitus operation last January. sen's right-hand-man this past year. Says he and Bob March '38, footed it to the most God-forsaken (nine miles Bernie Shema is another Patholo from a pack base) bur according to gist working on his degree here at M in the records the most productive of the nesota. whole shebang, Blister Rust camp last Frank Shearer is still with the White summer. Bob became assistant boss River Lumber Company in Minnea· and he became crew leader of the re polis. Frank spoke at our Dedication work bunch. Some trophy Bob want· Banquet and has lost none of his ed was discarded when rhe south wind mastery of such things since leaving brought its unbearable odor into camp. school. H e writes an interesting account of his work: "Last spring I had a very in Dwight Bensend has stepped into a teresting job with the Lakes States on faculty position here at rhe fo restry flood control research. I r required school and his problem in jack pine d riving a car for 150 co 300 miles a seedling growth has a good many of day collecting stream silr samples, with ~ighty-thru overtime when floods were rampant. n1c1ans. He hopes to get his masters Idaho was quite a contrast; I didn't soon; good luck Dick. see an auto in two months. I worked Daniel Leach says he isn't doing any again in September on flood control, thing in forestry right now but he has and had my most interesting experi a lot of hope. At the present time he ence when I had to wade a block thru is at home in St. Paul. water above my knees to reach a bridge over the wild Root River at Bob March is waiting for spring so Houston, Minnesota. The stream was he can go back to his job with the running so fast that my attempts to Weyerhauser Engineers at Longview, time its travel under the bridge failed Washington. He spent two weeks in and I pressed a farmer into service to the hospital waiting for an attack of help me rate it." appendicitis, but nothing developed. Says he had some good pike fishing October he landed a job as fore In through the ice this winter. He tells man in a C. C. C. camp near Milwau us that Dave King '3 8 is married :rnd kee. is at home at Orr, Minnesota. He met Mr. and Mrs. Guy W . Haw Alvin Nelson says "since graduation kins in Chicago, and had quite a time last spring I worked at the Hayward seeing the high spots of the town. He Nursery from April to December. says he corresponds with Douglas Omund Seglum '38 and I have just Johnson '37, who is now at home in returned from the Superior National Minneapolis. Forest where we made a survey of rhe forest tentless caterpillar. Most peo Raymond Ellstrom says "I got my ple think we are crazy when we say we self married last August." Ray is work are making a bug survey in the winter, ing for the Northeastern Forest Ex but we were establishing permanent periment Station at the Bartlett Ex plots and collecting egg masses. We periment Forest in New Hampshire. plan to continue this work on the He thinks the station is one of the Chippewa National Forest now." nicest that he has ever seen and is lo cated in the center of the White Edwin Saarnio has been working in Mountains. Duluth since graduation and has no startling news concerning matrimony Dick Gruenhagen is taking graduate to offer at the present time. Says he work in Plant Pathology at Wisconsin. will check up on Central Hall for all His problem is in Forest Pathology. the Junior Corporations at the first op He likes it there but says it doesn't portunity. compare with Minnesota. After he left Cloquet last spring he went to A. C. Stearns writes with some 'mis work for the U.S.F.S. on the Nicollet givings' that he is now engaged in ag National Forest. He was on the tech ricultural work, knowing the reaction nical staff of a camp and had a crew of foresters to "Ags" on the campus. on timber estimating, land inventory, He has been in the Hawaiian Islands TSI and planting reconnaissance. He since the fall of 193 7 working in the liked the work, and was in the same sugar industry. He has just completed camp with two other Minnesota men, a year with the Experimen(Station of Gordie Carr '33, and Rags Romnes the Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Associa '3 5. He claims a good average for tion, and he certainly likes the work. Minnesota, three out of five tech- Other Minnesota men who are down ~ighty·fo 11 r there are Joe Kissen '37 who is asso LATE ALUMNI NEWS ciated with the Hutchinson Sugar Co., and Russell Wold (soils '38) and H.F. Rathbun '28 writes in to wish Chester Wismer, '38 (pathology grad) us success on the 1939 Peavey. Harold is still with the National Pole and H e takes this opportunity to say Treating Co., in Minneapolis, treating "Aloha" to the Forestry School and ties, poles, lumber, etc. H e says that the faatlty, and says tcseriously, it is business has been fairly good during a good place to be from." the past year. Howie Hagen is working in the Di Tom Schrader '37 and Al Grant '28 vision of Information and Education send in their subscription fees from of the U. S. Forestry Service, head S-5 2 at Orr, Minnesota. Tom is still quarters in Milwaukee. H e travels doing game management work, and around the region to show motion pic eventually hopes to land something tures on Forest Service work, mostly permanent in that line. H e says he on fire prevention. H e is very much has become a proud father since leav interested in the work. His audiences ing school-the baby is nearly two range from the hillbillies of the O zarks years old now. Dave King has been to the socialites of the centers of popu transferred to Effie, Minnesota, ac lation. H e says, in all cases the reaction cording to T om's recent letter. is the same, they seem to be very much in favor of the Forest Service and the Ted Myren '37 says he is employed work it is doing. at present as Junior Forester for the S. C. S. at a C. C. C. camp near Ells Edward Kafka has a position as tech worth, Wisconsin. nician with the Civilian Conservation Corp in Wisconsin. H e expects to be Dean Martin, class of ' 1 1, is still transferred to Brule, Wisconsin quite with the Internal Revenue Department soon. H e has been working in An at Washington, D. C. tiago. Ed is quite anxious to know W. T . Kenety ' 11 is now with the what has happened to his classmates Book Paper Manufacturer's Associa and what has taken place at school this tion at 122 East 42nd St.. N ew York year. City. tighly·fr>'t Alumni Directory Aamot, A. Loren '30, U. S. Forest Service, Baldwm, Donald ·n, Project Forester, S oil Con· Jackson, Mississippi. servation Service, Bottinenu, North Dakota. A ckernecht, William '33, Wildlife Refuge Di Banson, Robert ' 18. vision. \Xlnshington, D. C. Barrett, Wilford 25, C Brborundum Company, Adams, E.-trl J . '36, Minnesom Forest Service. Niagara Falls. New York. Big Falls, Minnesotn. Bartelt. Harry ' 16, Boy S couts of America , Du Adams, Hnrry '32, U. S. Forest Service, White· luth, Minnesota. cloud, Michigan. Bateson, Allen R. '38, 2406 Hibbing Avenue, Ahern, John J . ·n, U . S. Forest Service, Camp H ibbing, Minnesota. F-11 , Nelsonville, Ohio. Baumhofer, L. G. '25, Bureau of Entomology Aldworth, Donnld '14, 456 Fourch Avenue, and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A .. \Xlash New York City, N . Y. ington, D. C. Alexander, Frank '33, Wahl Pencil Company, Beard, F. \XI. 'II. Chicago, I llinois. Bender, Edwin J . '36, Chaskn, Minnesota. Algren, Verne N . '35, Hutchinson, Minnesoca. Bendsend, Dwight W . '37, 628 University Ave· Allen, P. T . ' 14. nue, S. E., M innenpolis, Minncsocri. Ambroscn, Donald ' 36, 315 East King Street, Beardsley. Chns. '3 1, Tahoe National Forest, \Xlinona, Minnesorn. Forest H ills, Cnlifornia. Amidon, George B. '36, Minnesocn Forest Ser Benson, Arnold O. ' 10, Forest Products Lnb vice, Rnnger Scncion, Deer River, Minnesotn. or:Hory, Mndison, \Xlisconsin. Andersen, Axel L. '37, Michigan Seate College Benson. Eynnr '30. of Agriculture, Dept. of Bocnny, Enst Lan Berggren, Harold 'Z4, \Xleyerhnuser Lumber sing, Michigan. Compnny, Jnmestown, New York. Anderson, A. A. '22, J 7 14 East St. MariemOJ1l, Bergh, Thor '35, Soil Conservniion Service, Cincinnati, Ohio. H ouston, Minnesota. Anderson. Cnrl H . ' 30. Bergstrom, Edwnrd \XI. '38, I OZ South 20th Anderson, Carl Roan '32, Indian Service, Ash Avenue East, Duluth, Minnesota. land, \Xlisconsin. Bergstrom, Everett C. '38, 545 North Snelling Anderson, Clarence '31, U . S. Forest Service. Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. 732 Meadow Street, Columbin, S. C. Berry, J - B. 'I 0 Wnverly Citrus Growers Co-op., Anderson, Edwin R. "37, 569 Rose Street, Du Waverly, Florido. luth, Minnesota. Betzer, \XI. D. 'H , U. S . Forest Service, Rhine Anderson, Frank H . '3 1, T . F. GunAinc Camp, lander, \Xlisconsin. Grand Marais, Minnesota. Beyer, Walt F. '12, c/o Home Investment Co., Anderson, Philip C. ' 38, 1865 White Benr Ave· 59 Maiden Lane, New York City, N . Y. nue, Sc. Pnul, Minnesocn. Berkey, John W . '38, 6000 Nicollet Avenue, Anderson, P. 0 . '17, 1614 Jefferson Avenue, Minnenpolis, Minnesom. St. Paul. Minnesota. Biskey, George W . '37, Thief River Fnlls, Minn. Anderson, Robert '30, I 104 Post Ollice Bldg., BJorgum, Eldor '3 I, Side Lake, Minnesota. St. Paul, Minnesocn. Bjornst PUT FIRE WITH THE FAMOUS FIRE PUMPS T oday.. thou.sand" of JS O JA~ S nrc in use :ill O\'Ct Lhe worl R~tmbtr. lhal bruwt' lhl")' u.$C: only t lur waler :and are low In upkttp, l udl:ans atf! tht" mo.I inuptnslve and ~ftlcltn l ftr~ tlchUn.r app:a.ra.lus on the m:arktl today. A n rd rrom you • •Ill br'lnt you by relurn mail tomplet.e lnrormatlon and prlct tb ls tor our tu.II llnl' of lndlan Fire Pumps. Dundas. Jack P. '35, Soil Conservation Service, Frisby, Samuel '3 I, Indian Service, Red L~'\ke, Blnck River Falls, Wisconsin. Minnesota. Dunn, F. M . '15. FroSt, Orcutt W . '23, 1809 Washington A venue, Duval, Thure, ' 33. Greenville, Minnesota. Dwyer, Paul E. '21, St. Paul, Minnesota. Frudden, Clyde ' 20, Green, Iowa. Eaton, John J . ' 27, Bemis Bait Company, Cin Fry, John R. '33, Soil Conservation Service, cinnati. Ohio. Coon Valley, Wisconsin. Eggen, Roy W. '37, 818 North Ashland Avenue, Gay, Chester ' 25, Moose Lake, Minncsotn. Green Bay, Wisconsin. Gclbmann, John M . '37, 11 37 Gaultier St.. Eisele, Ralph E. '37, 6305 LyndRlc A venue So., St. Paul, Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. George, Ernest '28, Northern Great Plains Field Eiscnback, Walter ' 11. Station, Mnndan, North Dakota. cllertson. Birger "35, Division of Forestry, Ann Gerlow, Ade 6 . '16, Augustinas 1225, P1so 6. Arbor, Michigan. Santiaizo de C hile, South America . Ell strom, Raymond \XI. '38, Box 12 I, Bartlett, Gibney, David '33, Deer River, M innesota. New H nmpshire. Gilles. J . R. ' I I. Side La ke, Minncsotn . Elo, Arne, ' 36. Gjertson, J oseph 0 . '38, Sandstone, Mmnesorn. Emerson, H arold R. '38, 4232 Grimes Avenue Goldberg, H yman M. '26, Plains Shelter Belt S outh, Minneapolis, Minnesota. ProJect. Wichita Falls, Texas. Emerson, \'(l'illiam J. ' 38, 11I4 Arityle Streer, Gordon. J. R. '25, Gardner Purchase Unu, Sr. P11ul, Minnesota. Springfield. Missouri. C:nitstrom. Albert ' 37, Stringtown, Oklahoma. Goudy, Robert L. '37, Seaforth, Minnesorn. E ngstrom, H a rold '32, 616 North 35th Street, Grabow. Rudolph H . ·20, U. S. F. S., Federal Lin coln, Nebraska. Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Eni::strom, Mrs. Harold '32, 6 16 North 35th Grafton, Cuthbert F. '37, 935 East 71st Street, Street, Lincoln, N ebrask11. Chicngo, Ill inois. Enstrom, Warren, '38, Bovey, Minn. Graham, S. A. '14, Division of Forestry, Uni Erickson, Eugene T. '26, Millbrook, New York. versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Erickson. Leyden N. ' 21, Western Pinc Associa· Granros, Clayton B. '37, Leonech. Minnesota. tion , 1818 37th Street N . W ., W11shini::ton, Grant, Albert '28, Kabetogama Stnte Forest, D. C. Camp S ·52, Cusson. Minnesota. Ericksoo. H erbert '36. Grapp, Ll oyd ' 2 1, U. S. F. S., Federal Buildrng, Ericksoo. M. L. '04. Y. M . C. A. Sioux Falls, M ilwnukee, W isconsin. South Dakota. Gray. D onald '3 1. E rson, Roy J . '35, 1112 17th Ave. S . E.. Min Graves, Ralph L. '35. Spruce Lake Camp, Two neapolis, Minnesota. H arbors, Minnesota. C:rstnd, Andrew ' 13. Griffin, Thos. A. ' l 3, 3529 Humboldt /\venue Ewrns. Tom R. '36, Soil Conservatioo Service, South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cnlcdo11ia, Minnesota. Grigg, J oseph '32, U . S. F. S. Evenson, Clarence M . '34, Camp Ril ey Creek, Grucnlrngen, Richard H . '38, 361 Algoma Fifield, Wiscoosio. Boulevard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Elston, Judson D. '37, 2027 Main Street, La Hnnpaln, Niilo J . '38, 219 Second Stree1 North Crosse, Wisconsio. Vi_rginia, Minnesota (Co. 717, Side Lnke: Minnesorn) . Evrrts, Ambrose ' 26, Assistant Dirrctor, New H WEYERHAEUSER WEYERHAEUSER 4 -SCUARE SALES COMPANY LUMBER FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING ST. PAUL + MINNESOTA .,. _ _ _ _ .. ___ ..., _ _ .,. _ _ _ II I I I ! +--••- .-•- ••- •- ••- ••- w--••- •---·--·--•·---•-••- •- ••--- ••- ••- ••-+ Hatrrupee, Chas. '27. Janelle, H arvey ' 31. Hnrvey, H arry '28. Jirnsscn, Georgl' R. '26. Hnss, Howard C. '37, Soil Conservation Service, Jaskoviak, Raymond '36. Holman. \Xlisconsin. Jensen, H 11y1on M. '37, 939 \X'est Cemrnl A ve· Hnuge, Adolph ' 11. nue. St. Paul. Minnesota. H11user, George '18, Achletic Department, Uni· Jensen. Rnymond A. '37, Forest Experimental versity of Minnesoca, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Scation, C loquet, Minnesota. Hoven, Ross '33. J<'nsen, Yiccor F. '25, 335 Prospect Street, Hnwkins, Guy W. '37, Dept. Forestry, U. of Nor1hcns1 Forest Experiment Srntion, N t'w Illinois, Urbirna, Illinois. H nven, Conncc1icut. Hawkinson, Carl J. ' 15. J ohnson, Harlan '33, U. S. F. S., Kanab, Urnh. H1tworth, Robert '13, Cleveland, Ohio. Johnson, Douglas J . '37, U.S. F. S., Cass Lake, Henchel, Norman '13. Minnl'Sota. Henderson. James '36, 2228 Southern Avenue, Johnson, Irwin H . '36, U. S. F. S., Cednr City, Shreveport, Louisiana. Ucnh. Henry. Leslie '26, Cochetopn National Forest, Johnson. Oscar '16. Philadelphia. Pl'nnsylvnnia. La Garita, Colorado. Johnson, Roy A. '37. Wegdahl, Minnesocn. H erion. George '34, Box 1497, SanrA Fe, New Johnson, Russel W. '35, Camp S.52, Orr, Min- Mexico. nesota. Higgins. Donald J. '38, 910 South Alice Street, Johnson. Vic1or E. '39, 658 Case Strl'et, St. Sioux City, Iowa. Paul. Minnesota. Hill. Leon '33, Cibola Nniionnl Forest, Mc· J l>lly, William '33, \Xlest Norris Road, Norris, Gaffey, New Mexico. Tennessee. Hiller. Robert '38, BAraboo, \Xlisconsin. Joranson, Philip N. '37. 5542 Blnckstone /\vc· Himebaugh, \XI . K. '27, Ft. Snelling, Minnesota. nuc, ChicRl(O, Illinois. Honr, \Xlnlcer G. '24. Juoln, Arne W . '38, 921 Adams /\venue, Hodgmnn. Arthur W . ' 12. Eveleth, Minnesorn. H ofmnn. J . W. ' 11 , Dept. of Forestry, North Kafka. Edward S. '38, Antigo, \Xlisconsin C11rolina Agricultural College. Rnl<'igh. N. C. (Brull', Wisconsin. ECW). H olbrook, Edward '35, lntermountain Range Kalin, Frank G. '38, Box 44, Evele1h, Minne· Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah. SOU\. Holinberg. Ralph E. '27. Kaner, Arnold '26, MinneApolis, Minnesota. H olt, Ted '34, U. S. F. S .. Baldwin. Michigan. KArkula. All'xander '32. H omola, Jerome '28, Chippewa National Forest, Kauferc, Frank '28, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Cnss Lake, Minnesota. Company, Mendenhall, Pennsylvania. Horn. Arthur '33. Kaufman, Clem '37, Forestry School, U. of H ovind, James H. '36, District Rnnger Station, Minn., St. Pnul. Minnesoc". Wausaukee, Wisconsin. Kauppi, Russel \XI, '38, 3 North 63rd Avenue H orton, Gerald S. '27, H orton Wall Paper \Xlest, Dulu1h, Minnesota. Store. I 5 13 Center, Pekin, Illinois. Keehn, H enry '3 I, Lewisville, Minnesotn, Huchenpahler. Bernard '31, Soil Conservation Kelly, Miles W . '36, 111 Ease 22nd Screct, Service. H igh Point, North Cnrolina. H olland, Michigan. Hunc, Robley '3 1, Burenu of Biological Survey, Kelsey, H . B. '26. 2817 17th Avenue South, Neenah, \Xlisconsin. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hupponen, Axel '38, 1425 South 12th Street, Kenety, \Xlm. H . '!I, Book Paper Mnnufaccur· Virginia, Minnesota (CCC 717, Side Lake, ers Association, New York City. Minnesota}. Kepman, Wm. G. '38, 386 College Avenue, Hurley, Eugene '36. \Xlinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Hyatt, Harry '26. Soil Conservation Service, Kienow, Erick P. '39, 1665 So. 32nd S1ree1. Wncsonvillc, California. M ilwnukee, Wisconsin. Hyde. Luther '16, Scenic Stntc Pnrk CCC Camp, Big Fork, Minnesota. King, David B. '38, Effie, Minneso111. Ilg, Robert E. Lee '36, Manitowish, \X'isconsin. Kirk, Chnrlcs '37, District Forester, Conscrvn· lllstrup, Mnrshall R. '26, Deceased. cion Commission, J efferson City, Missouri. Isanc, Leo A. '20, Pacific Northwest Experiment Kircshaw, Dnyton '28, U. S. F. S., Buffnlo, Sunion, 423 U . S. Court H ouse Building, \'l(fyo ming. Portland, Oregon. Kissin, Joseph Z. '37, Hutchinson Sugar Co., lsnacson, Wilbur '32, U. S. F. S., Fredrickcown, Naalchu. K11u, H awaii. Missouri. Kjcll11nd, T. Kent '38, 218 Amherst S1ree1, St. I verson, Edward '33, U. S. F. S., Bnldwin, Paul, M innesota. f' Michigan. Knight, H . Robert '22, Nickley Bros. Lumber Jnckson, Claycon '32, U . S. F. S ., Grand Ma· Co., 1886 Tutwiler Ave., Memphis, Tennessee. rais, Minn. Knoblauch. Charles J. '31, Chippewa Nacion11l Jackson, J. Allen '38, Chequnmegon National Forest, Cass L1ke. Minnesota. Forest. Glidden, Wisconsin. Knudson, Rny '28, U. S. F. S., I 031 Curran Jackson, Lyle '26, Botany Deparcmenc, Univer· Avenue, Kirkwood, Missouri. sity of Pennsylvania, 3437 Woodland Ave· Knucson, Clarence T. '27, U. S. F. S., Cnss nue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lake, Minnesota. J ncobson, Karl A. '36, Deceased. Knutson, Clifford '27. Jncobson, N . G. ' 10. Kobes, Cnrl G. '36, Bureau of Biological Sur· J ncobson, Walter R. '35, Cnmp F.1 I, Clnrk vey, Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Forest, Ellsinore. M issouri. Kolbe, Ernest '27, Pacific Northwest Forest Ex· Jahnke. Rolnnd '38, 2467 North 61st Street, periment Station, 423 U. S. Courthouse \Xlauw1uosa, \Xlisconsin. Bldg., Portlnnd, Oregon. nmtl)'·I~ o +-... - -- .... - -- .. - -- -- ··---- ··- .. --.... - -- - .. - ··- - 11·------,.. _____ .. _.,. _ .. ___+ . I I 1 I 1 ! N ORTHWES T FORES '"rRY C~ OlVIPANY f I • i VINCENT W. BOUSQUET, B.S. I . JOHN GLEASON MILES I !I I. j TREE SEED DEALERS PRIVATE FOREST MANAGEMENT ! : I I : j COMPLETE SHADE TREE SERVICE SURVEYS AND APPRAlSALS j : I f FOREST AND LANDSCAPI: PLANTING FOREST WORKING PLANS i I FOREST-SCAPING TIMBER STAND IMPROVEMENT f ! I I ! I l I MI. J 103 2234 CARTER A YE. I ! I I ST. PAUL, MINN. I I l •- •- oo- •- oo- 00--00- 00--oo- ••- o- •- "- ""- ""- ""- "-""-""--"-o- M- - M- "- "- •- - - ! Kolbe, Robert M. ·37, I 3 11 West 31st Street, Loui, Thomas '27, U. S. F. S ., Plankington Minneapolis, Minnesorn. 131dg .. Milwnukee, Wisconsin. Kopitke, John ·32, (Forest Soils) University Lozinsky, Jos. '33, U. S. F. S., Portage River of Wisconsin. Mndison, \Xlisconsin. Camp, Ely, Minnesota . Koski, Onni 0 36, Firestone Rubber Plantation. Lund, Peder N . '35, Soil Conservation Service. Monrovio, Liberio, \Xlesr Afric!l. Fenimore, W isconsin. Kral, Milton '39, 3667 East Carpenter Street, Lynch, Donald B. '35, Soil Conservation Serv Cudohy, Wisconsin. ice, Lanesboro, Minnesota. Koski, Sulo '33, Chippcw:i Nscional Forest, Lynne, Vicror A. '24, Camp 134, Nevis, Minnc- Coss Lake, Minnesorn. sorn. Krauch, Herman C. ' 10, 304 Agricultural Bldg. . Lystrup, H erbert '26. University of Arizona, Tucson. Arizona. MaJor, William "36, Eureka, Illinois. Krefring, Laurirz '32, 4351 North Mississippi Maki, Tenho "30, lntcrmountain Forest and Drive, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Range Experiment Station, F. S. Bldg., Kribs. D. A. 0 24, Forest School. Mt. Alto, Ogden, Utah. Pen nsylwrnia. Ma nual, Ronald '26, 514 Grace Street, Albert Krogfoss, Oswald K. '35. Lea, Minnesotn. Kroll, Richard J. '38, 918 Seventh Street, Inter· Ma rch, Robert Carl '38, 376 Merrile Street, nntional Falls, Minnesotn. O shkosh, Wisconsin. Krueger Carl G. "27, Shoshone National Forest, Mnrks. Elmer ·29, U . S. F. S., Avery, ld<1ho. Cody, Wyoming. Manilla, Uno '27, Grand Mar:iis, Minnesotn. Kuenzel, J. A. "26, 103 15th Avenue, Colum Martin, Dean WI. • 11, Dept. of I ntcrnal Re"- bus, Ohio. cnue, Washi ngton, D. C. Kuck, Frederick G. '37, 1918 Sr. C lnire, St. MaLtlin. Carrol, White Bear, Minnesota. Paul, Minnesota. Mauuren, H erbert '24, Ottawa Nationnl Forest, Kukachkn, Emil '33, U . S. F. S., CCC 717, Rocklnnd, Michigan. Side Lake, Minnesorn. Mnughnn. Wm. '25, Duke Forest School, Dur· Kukachkn, Francis B. ·37, 201 Enst Fourth ham, North Cnrolin:i. Street, Monri;:omery. Minnesota. Mnyer, Arthur 0 31, Camp S-143, Big Falls, Laidlaw, Alan F. '32, Soil Conservation Service, Minnesota. Coon Valley, Wisconsi n. McCrecry, Otis M . '23, Dean of Men, \Xlash Laine, Edmund N. '37, 123 Sixth Street South, ingtc" Smee College, Pullman, \Xlashingron. Virginia, Minnesorn. M cFarland, Wm. A. '37, 328 East H nrvey St., L!tirala, Ero "33, Camp S-143, Big Falls, Min Ely, Minnesota. nesotn. McGuire, John '39, 1693 No. Cass St., Mil Larson, Jack E. "38, 421 14th Stre ~ t North. waukee, \Visconsm. Virginia, Minnesota. McMillan. G eddes E. '37, Farm Security Ad. Lauer, Wilfred H . '3 5, I 064 \XI est Mark Street, m1nistr!lcion 1 St. Jnmes, Minnesoto. \Xlinonn, Minnesocn. McMillen, John '33, U. S. F. S., Norfolk, Lawson, Edward L. '27. Minnesota State Forest N ebraska. Service'. Mencham. Roger R. "38, l 061 Ashland Avenue, L:izzaro, Charles "32. St. Paul, Minn. Leach, Daniel J . "38. 1878 Selby Avenue, St. Mend, John S . '38, Box 113, Manhnt1<1n, Mon Paul, Minnesota. tana. Le:if, George '27, 110 I Hyacinth Street, Sr. Meldahl, Martin, Heimbach Lumber Company. Paul, Minnesota. Duluth, Minnesota. Leffelman, L. J. '24. R. F. D. No. 3, Sumter, Menge, Melvin ·3s, Deer Creek, Minnesota. South Carolina. Merz, Roben W . '35, U. S. F. S., Sea Gull Leskela, David M. '38, R. R. I. Box 66, Chis Cnmp. Grand Marois, Minnesota. holm, Minnesota. M iles, Clark W. · 15, U. S. F. S., Ogden, Utah. Lewis. Charles L., Jr. 'l 0, I 25 South Oxford Miles, Lee 0 . · 1 Z, Box 24 I. Scranton, Penn Street, Sr. Paul, Minnesocn. sylvania. Miley, Harry '38. Lidberg, Corl L. '3 I . Miller, Kermie W . '38, West 291 1 Sharpe Ave· Light, James '29, Bryson City, Nonh Carolina. nue, Spokane, Washington. Limstrom, Gust:tf '28, Lake Stares Experiment Micchell, Harold '30, Black Rock Forest, Corn Station, University Farm, St. P3ul, Minne· wall-on-the-Hudson, New York. sota. Mohl, Waldemar ·n, 4917 Nokomis Avenue Lindeberg, George C. ·14, Spencer, lowa. South. Minneapolis. Minnesota. Lindgren, R. M. '26, c/ o A . D. Chapman and Moir, John ' 13, Administration Bldg., U. of Company, Inc., 1602 Pere Marquette Bldg., Minn., Minneapolis, Minnesota. New Orleans, Louisiana. Moore, Francis I. ' 34. Lindgren, Roger '26, 1000 Hudson Avenue, Moore, Irving '32. St. Paul, Minnesota. Moore, Lee K. '31. 1143 First Street Northwest, Lindstrom, Lorenz '33. Rochester, Minnesota. Litchfield, Wickliffe "25, U. S. F. S., 745 N. E. Moore, Leonard ·32, U . S. F. S., Bena, Minne· Laurel, Portland, Oregon. sora. Livens, Warren H . '36, Nicolet National Forest, Moore, \'(falter M. '09, Box 234, O sborne, Ohio. Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Moir. M. '35, Camp S-98, Wilton, Mmnesota. Lohn, Dnvid '38, Fosston, Minnesota. Mortenson, Thomas P. '35, Enterprise, Oregon. Lorenz, Ralph W . '30, Dept. of Forestry, U . Moscbrook, H arry S. '37, Le Cent<'r, Minnesota. of Illinois, Urbann, Illinois. Mueller, A. T . '14. Lorenz, Rolland "30, Bureau of Plant Indust ry. Mueller. Fred Robert ·37_ 2818 Oakland Ave· Wnshington. D. C. nue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 11i11tty·fo11r 1--- ..-- -··-··------..------·------...------·+ MI ), l, ER pH A R MA c y I I. I Prompt, Courteous Deli-very Ser-vice ! ! N F.stor 3274 I 2309 Como Avenue W est i ST. PA UL, MINNESOTA I I ! I C~ AMPl S BARBEU SHOl~ i Ser-11ice with a Smile ! I I l.JJFFORD PET ERSON I i 14 35 Cleveland Ave. ST. PAUL I I i I i ' i rr y our Co mmumty. Ban k" I I I M <'mb<'r Federal Depoiit l11mra11ce Corporatio11 I I COMO AND CARTER AVENUES I I L. G·. BAI.. F()UR C OMPANY I I I Fraternity Jewelry I Officinl for VOYAGC:URS I GIB ROBERTSON XI SIGMA Pl I 1309 ',i Fourrh Sr. S. E. PEA VEY CH ARMS I GE. 4889 TAU PHI DELTA I Minnea polis, Minnesora FARM HOUSE I I I THF. i l•'oRESTERS' DAY Asso< ' L\TION ! JN V l'l'ES I 1 I Yot1 TO A ' l " l'E ~n THE rn.io . ' I•'<)RES'rEns· I).\ Y \(''rrvrrrns 1 L------~· ~ -: '.: · :~~~ . ~~~~~~·~ . :~o______J Mueller, George F. '37, Box 8, H amburg, Min Palmer, Rev. Paul '20, 1439 North Wesr 30th nesorn. Street, Oklahoma City. Oklahoma. Mueller, Lincoln A. '35, Nicolet National For Panek, Edw:ird ·35, U. S. F. S., Walker, Min· est, Three L"lkes, Wisconsin. nesota. Myren, Theodore 0. '37, Soil Conservation Parr, Thadeus '29, Yale Forest School, New Service, Ellsworch, \'V'isconsin. Haven, Connecricut. Naum:in, Elmo '33, 2025 Pinc Street, San Fran Parker, Lansing A. '35, Soil Conservation Serv· cisco, California. ice, Foribaulr, M innesota. Ncetzel, J ohn '29, Upper Peninsuln Experi Paul, W alter '36, Extension Forester, School of memal Forest, Dukes, Michigan. Forestry, Boninenu, North Dakota. Nelson, Alvin E. ·38, Pnrk Fnlls, Wisconsin. Pauley, Scott '39, Chippewa Fa lls, W isconsin. Nelson, Alf. Z . '3 I, U. S. F. S., \'V'ashington, Pawek, Hugo '30, Director, Srate CCC Camps, D.C. Box 231, Raleigh, North Carolina. Nelson, Arthur L '23, U. S. F. S., H ot Springs, Pearse, \'V'm . R. ' 12, Faribault, Minnesota. Arkansas. Peel, \'V'm . F. ·25, Soil Conservation Service, Nelson, Earle W. '37, R. F. D. No. 3, Winona, Urbana, lllinois. Minnesota. Pendergast, Earl '18. Nelson, Eugene C. ·37, H omer, M innesota. Person, H . L. '2 1. California Forest Experiment Nelson, H enry Q. '29, 2225 Fourth Street West, Sta., 331 Ginnnini H all, Berkeley, California. Duluth, Minnesota. Peterson, Bernie D. '37, Soil Conservation Serv· Nelson, Leighton '3 6, Stme Office Building, ice, H ighland, \'V'isconsin. St. Paul, Minnesota. Peterson, Horry A. ·29. Nelson, Norman 0 . ·35, U . S. F. S., Pnrk Fnlls, Peterson, Lyall '3 1, U. S. F. S., Agriculture W isconsi n. Bldg., Washington, D. C. Nelson, Rnlph M. '22, Appalachian Forest Ex- Pettibone, H ennon V. ' 12, Chicago Mill nnd periment Station, Asheville, North Cnrolina. Lumber Co., Chicago, Illinois. Nelson, Ra lph D. '34. Piercy, Robert ·38, 2823 \Vest 40rh Street, M in· Nelson, Stanley C. '27. nenpolis. Minnesota. Nelson, Urban C. '36, Soil Conservation Serv ice. Spring Valley, Minnesota. Pillow, M. Y. '24, Forest Products Laboratory, Nerenberg, Ervin '35, 139 Eva Street, St. Paul, Madison. \'V'isconsin. M innesota. Pirns, Stanley '28. Nermoc. Raymond C. '36, Upham, North Planr, George '33, Camp S·98, Winton, Minne· Dnkom. sota . Niehaus, Ted '33. Poirier, Snmuel S. '3 7, Connecticut Timber Niemeln, Leonard U. '38, M iddle River, Min· Salvage Administration, 252 Asylum Street, nesorn. Room 502, H orrford, Connecticut. Niles, Edward '3 1, Chippewa Nncional Fore ~r . Porisch, John '30. Chippewa Narionnl Forest, Box 6, Cass Lake, Minncsom. Beno. Minncsorn. Nord, Robert C. '38, 6 11 Denny Srreer, Sr. Price, Donald '33, U. S. F. S ., Red Fearher Paul, Minnesom. Lakes, Colorndo. Nordell, Carl '3 8, 1616 Ln Fond, St. Paul, Probsdield, E. E. '23, Kisaran. Sumatra, c/o Minnesota. H .A.P.M., Netherlands East India. Norgarden, Emil '29, Siskiyou National Forest, Puglsey, Gerald W. '35, U. S . F. S., Ava. Powers, Oregon. Missouri. Norman, H erbert C. '38, 1511 Raymond Ave Pulkrnbek, Leonard J. ·36, Minnesota Forest nue, St. Paul. Minn. Service. Ely, M innesota. Norman, Sigwald ' 12. 5 I I \'V'allnce, Couer d' Pulphal. Trwin '30. Coeur d. Alene National Alene, Idaho. Forest, \'V'allace, Idaho. Nuffer, H arry D. '13, Michigan Smre Forest Quick, Russell '3 1, 1166 [vy Srreer, St. Paul, Service, Lansing, Michigan. Minnesota. Oase, John A. '38, 1965 Berkeley Avenue, Sr. Paul, Minnesota. Racey, Charles '25, C hequamegon National For· est, H ayward, Wisconsin. Olson, Clarence E. '3 I , Soil Conservation Serv ice, Salt La ke City, Utah. Randall, C horles '3 1. Olson, George '30, T.V.A. Forestry Division, Rathbun, Hnrold '28, Nnrional Pole and Trear· Box 13 3, Norris, Tennessee. ing Co., M inneapolis, Minnesota. Olson, H erma n '32, U. S. F. S., Duluth, M in Rauenhorst, Duane G. '38, Fulda, M innesota. nesom. Rhoads, Ralph · 16, Scott Paper Co., Chester, Olson, Robert '38, 621 Eighth Street, Interna Pennsylvan in. tional Falls, Minnesota. Riss, J ohn S. '37, 2214 Scudder Avenue, St. O lson, Stanley '3 2, Shawnee National Forest, Paul, Minnesota. Rosiclare, Illinois. Ridli ngton, W alter '3 3, Keshena Indian Agency, Oppel, A. F. ' 11 , 15 23 Branston Street, St. Keshena, \'V'isconsin. Paul, Minnesota. Rigg, Milford '3 1, U. S. F. S., Camp F-27, Orr, J ohn E. '12. Carlsbad, New Mexico. Orr, Leslie W . '27, 4621 De D russy Parkway, Ringold, Stanley ' 14, 3 2 East 4th Street, Sr. Chevichase, Maryland. Paul, Mi1rnesota. Osborne, Ray '3 1, U. S. F. S., Ontonagon, Risbrudc, Clifford '3 I , Superior Na tiona l Forcsr, M ichigan. Grand Marais, Minnesota. Ostcrgnard, H arold '24, Dept. of Conservation, Rirchel, Raymond '38, Chisholm, Minnesota. State Office Bldg., St. Paul, Minnesota. Ritchie, Wm. A. '24. Ostrander, Myron '36, 17 Pleasant View Street, Ritter, Lawrence '29, 108 Sourh Cleveland Ave· Jewett City, Connecticut. nue, St. Paul, Minnesota. 11ir1t1y·six r·-..-- .. _.. _ _,, _,, ______,, _ ___,_____ .. ______1 I J~EE HOPKINS' SERVICE STATION I 1 Phillips 66 Dealer 1 I I I Lubrication, Lee Tire>. Repairing, Accessorier, Batteries and Service I I Como Avenue and Doswell Phone NEsto1· 9036 I I I BLOMBERG"S GRO 1ERY f 2310 Como Ave. West , I Nestor 7354 St. Paul, Minn. Nestor 7355 1 I i t i I, w. ],. FINLAYSON I I The Campus Cleaners The Campus Toggery f I Cleanin g, Prersi11 g, Tailoring - School S11pplies, S1111dries i I i I MI. 3 103 i I i I 2234 Carter Avenue 1435 N. Cleveland ! I !I I C()UH'rNEY~S Your Friendly Neighbor I I Co11fectionery and Delicatessen j II Como and Raymond I I i I Open cvcn inJZS nnd Sundays :II I Ice Cret1m Our Specialty 8 1 8 I LUNCHES NE "" ~!~:s~.~~. ~,~~:!'.i''' I 11: All'l'"S RA llREH !i ll OI' DOX'T J<'ORGET I TUE I II &1 1940 PEAVEY .!! D oswell and Como ! iI ... _., ____., ______,,_ ,______., ______,, _____,, ______,J i Roan, Audrey '29, Gamble Store, Rochester, Sischo, Paul C. ' 15. Minnesota. Smith, Howard '32, Pinednle Ritnger Station. Robinson, Winfield R. '28, Grem Lnkcs Indian Pinedale, Arizona. Agency, Ashland, Wisconsin. Smith, Richard C. '37, Harrison Experimental Rockwell, F. 1. '06, Marion, South Dakota. Forest, Saucier, Mississippi. Roe, Arrhur '32, U. S. F. S., Brittmount, Min· Soland, Orio '32, Norw:iy, Michignn. nesota. Spink, Harold W . ' 14, Kansns City, Missouri. Romnes, Ragncr ' 35. Steariu, Alvin C. '38, F"nr. riment Stotion, H. Rose, Logan '14, Mankato, Minnesota. S. P. A., H onolulu, T . H . Roscndnhl, Russel '36, 2191 Commonweahh Sterba, Webster '31. Avenue, Si. Paul, Minnesota. Stevens, Rnymond '23, 4416 McCullock, Du Roussopolos, Harold D. '37, 262 Stevens Street, lu th, Minnesota. St. Paul, Minnesota. Stevenson, J. A. ' 12, Bureau of Pbnt Industry, Royer, Wm. '30, U. S. F. S., Missoula, Mon· 4113 Emery Place, Washington. D. C. r:tnn. Srewart, D. M . '3 1, 219 Federal Building, Du· Rudolph, Paul '28, Lakes States Forest Experi· luth, Minnesota. ment Station, University Farm, St. Paul, Stoehr, H enry '33, Camp Penn S. C. S-4, Mc Minnesota. Kenzie, T ennessee. Rundgren, John A. '33, U. S. F. S., W oodland Stoudt, Jerome '3 1, Chippewa N3tionnl Forest, Park, Colorado. Csss Lake, Minne:otn. S113rnio, Edwin '38, 5 18 I 0th Avenue East, Streinze, Augustine '23, U . S. F. S ., Glenn Duluth, Minnesota. Bldg., Atlanta, Georgia. Si. Amant, Paul '3 I, Chippewa National Forest, Strimling, H enry ' Z8, I 008 Goodrich Avenue, Black Duck, Minnesota. St. Paul, Minnesom. Sr. Amant. Robert '32, Superior National For Strirman, Harry '32. Fort Snelling, Minnesota. est, Duluth, Minnesota. Stuart, Alice '33, Nl'w York Seate College of Sr. Marie, Adrian °14. Forestry, Syracuse, New York. S"ndberg, Victor 0 33, U . S. F. S., Albuquerque, Sturtevant, Arthur '3 5, 26 11 Polk Sr. N. E.. New Mexico. Minnenpolis. Minnesota. Sanders, R. Dale '32, Chequamegon National Sundny, C. W . '23, 4022 H arrier, Minneapolis. Forest, Park Falls, \Xlisconsin. Minnesota. Snrgcnt, George '26, U. S. F. S., Box 277 .. Swanbeck. H . S. "27. 1601 I Ith Ave. South, Mount S hasta, California. Minnenpolis, Minnesota. Savre, Oliver H. · 13. Swanson, Herbert \V/ . ' 18. Kimberly-Clark Sauer, J ohn E. '37. Tolley, North Dakota. Corp., Neenah, \Xlisconsin. S chaar, Roland '33, Locust H eights, Athens, Sword, Wayne '34. 1044 Kurr:i n Avenue, Kirk. Ohio. wood, Maryland. Schmidt, Norton '38, Dundee, Minnesota. Taplin, James B. '38, 177 West \'V'inifred Schneeweis, John '38, 14 Eighteenth Avenut> Street. St. Paul, Minnesota. N . E., North St. Paul, Minnesota. Terch, Lawrence P. '38, Box 375, Virginia, Schneider, Arthur E. '3 I, East Tnwas, Michigan. Minnesota. Schrader. Thomns A. '37, C. C. C. Camp S-52, Tesaker, Arvid '30, 606 Fidelity Bldg., Benton Orr, Minnesotn. H arbor, Michignn. Schroeder, Philip M. '38, t 979 Ashland Ave Thayer, Burton '22, 2400 Bnuine Avenue, S t. nue, St. Pnul, Minnesot:i. Pnul, Minnc!Otn. Schuft, Peter '36. Thiry, Carl N. '36, 43 3 Fullt-r Avenue, St. Schw:irtz, E. R. ' 16, 1821 Liberty Street, Mari Paul, Minnesorn. nette, \Xli sconsin. Thomas, R. D., Jr. '29, Enst Minneapolis ln Schwartz, Roman A. ' 37, 1733 Selby Avenue, ~u rnn ce Agency, 430 E. Hennepin Avenue, St. Pnul. Minnesom. M inneapolis, Minnesota. Sc:ibcrg, George ' 32, Superior Nacionnl Forest, Thompson, F. M. '37, North Star LumbH Co.. Chisholm, Minnesota. Two H arbors, Minnesota. Scnstrom, Paul '34. Thompson, Roy B. '25, Duke School of For· Sedlacek, Edwin S. "38, Radium, Minnesota. estry, Durham, North Carolina. Sc1dcm, Omund '37, 1030 24th Ave. West, Thorsen, Del W . '36, Box 6, Mena, Arknnsas. Duluth. Minnesota. Tierney, D. P. '06. 428 Dayton Avenue, St. Selover, Robert '38, 4644 Emerson Ave. South, Paul, Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tilden, R. B. '29, 253 Louis Srreer, St. Pnul, Settergren, Reuben '29, Knife River Experiment Minnesota. Station, K11ifc River, Minnesorn. Tilden, Floyd '23. Lake Itasca, Minnesota. Shadduck, Nobel '26, I 133 First National Soo Tobin, Paul ' 13, Lewiston, Idaho. Bldg., Minnenpolis, Minnesota. Tofte, Albert '32, Tofte, Minnesorn. Shearer, Charles F. ''7, 2848 Humbolt Ave. S., Toren, John P. '38, Grand Rapids, Minnt'sota. Minnenpolis, Minnesom. Townsend, Richnrd '36. Sheehan, John H . '22. Trench, Paul G. '27, 4024 Central Avenue. SheHield, Ernest F. '24, 3009 Hennepin Ave. • Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minnenpolis, Minnesota. Turrie, L. S. ' 17, Odelle-Turrie Lumber Co.. Shem:t, Bemard F. '37, 703 14th Ave. S. E., 1645 Hennepin Aveirne, Minneapolis. Min Minncnpolis, Minnesota. nesota. Sihvonen, Sulo '36, Craigville, Minncsorn. Tysk, Harold '32, Post Office Bldi,t .. Albu. Simpson, Charles ' 13, U . S. F. S., Coeur d' querque, New Mexico. Alene, Idaho. Turnquist, Clinton 0. '37, 2628 Thom:is Ave. Sknrra, John '38, New Y ork Mills, Minncsotn. North, Minneapolis, Minnt'sota. Slwridan, Edgar ' 27. Underwood, Clarence ' I 0. 11i11tl)' ·eigh1 ,_.,_.,_.,_.,_., __.,_ ,,_., ___,,_,, _.,_,,_,_.,_.__ ., ______i r. WES'r END GROCERY I I I j CLOQUET, MINNESOTA ! 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