PERSONAL 



I. Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada 



V. A. Beede has resigned his position as secretary of the N. Y. State Forestry- 

 Association, to join the recently estabhshed Timberlands Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Company, at Portsmouth, N. H. R. M. Ross, lately of the Vermont Forest 

 Service, is also working for this company. S. L. de Carteret is treasurer and 

 manager. The president and organizer of the company is W. R. Brown, of Ber- 

 lin, N. H. 



W. W. G. Hastings, supervisor of the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, has 

 resigned to become Chief Forester of Vermont, under Mr. E. S. Brigham, Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, who under the new law is ex officio State Forester. 



B. A. Chandler, formerly Assistant State Forester of Vermont, has been ap- 

 pointed Assistant Professor of Forest UtiUzation in Cornell University. He is 

 at present engaged in a study of the utilization of the Adirondack hardwoods. 



Hugh P. Baker, Dean of the N. Y. State College of Forestry at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, has entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, 111. 

 Prof. F. F. Moon will serve as Acting Dean during Dr. Baker's absence. 



Dr. S. F. Acree, formerly of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., 

 has joined the N. Y. State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, as head 

 of the Department of Forest Chemistry. Other recent appointments at Syracuse 

 are Dr. C. F. Curtis Riley, in the Department of Forest Zoology; Dr. Allen V. 

 Povah, special lecturer in Forest Mycology; H. L. Henderson, instructor in 

 Forest Utilization; H. C. Bellyea, instructor in Forest Engineering; G. T. For- 

 saith, instructor in Forest Technology, and Carl J. Drake, instructor in Forest 

 Entomology. Prof. Ernest G. Dudley succeeds R. T. Gheen in the Extension 

 Department. 



Shirley Allen is acting as temporary secretary of the N. Y. State Forestry 

 Association, vice V. A. Beede, resigned. 



H. O. Cook, of Massachusetts, is a captain in the Second Forestry Regiment 



C. R. Pettis and F. W. Rane have been among those active in recruiting men 

 for the forestry regiments. 



Profs. S. N. Spring and John Bentley, Jr., are both teaching in the Yale School 

 of Forestry this autumn, during their periods of annual leave of absence from 

 Cornell. Spring is handling Chapman's courses; Bentley, those of Bryant. 



R. C. Bryant took A. B. Recknagel's place during the summer in the Cornell 

 Forestry Camp on the Frank A. Cutting Preserve in the Northern Adirondacks, 

 giving the course in Forest Utilization. 



A series of lectures, under the general title, "Wartime Uses of Our Forests,'" 

 were given this year before the Cornell Summer School by Profs. Filibert Roth, 

 R. C. Bryant, A. B. Recknagel, Miss Eloise Gerry, and Messrs. R. G. Kellogg, 

 John Foley, and V. A. Beede. 

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