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Alfred Akerman, who, through ill health, was forced to give up the 

 headship of the Forest School of the State College of Agriculture at the 

 University of Georgia, is at Greensboro, Georgia. His health is steadily 

 improving. 



The Central West Virginia Fire Protective Association has as its field 

 manager W. Hoyt Weber, of the Mensou-Whitaker Company, of New 

 York. This association has a membership covering between 700,000 and 

 800,000 acres, has twelve patrolmen and also cooperates with the State 

 and Federal service under the Weeks law. 



A new departure in woodlot work has been inaugurated in Maryland, 

 where Walter G. Schwab, of the State Forester's office, is establishing 

 demonstration forests and putting forestry into actual practice on hun- 

 dreds of acres of woodland. The State has adopted the plan not only 

 of advising the woodland owners what to do but, if there is doubt about 

 their going ahead on the recommendation, of supervising the work and 

 even furnishing means at cost to do it, handling the operation right 

 through to a definite conclusion, including, if necessary, the marking of 

 the trees, measuring and estimating the timber as well as finding a 

 market for it, and supervising the cutting. This means accomplishment; 

 whereas under the old plan advice only was given and the majority 

 of woodland owners did practically nothing. 



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James B. Berry, the new head of the Georgia State Forest School, at 

 the University of Georgia, was married on December 26 to Miss Elizabeth 

 G. Jones, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 



The Biltmore Alumni Society plan to place a permanent marker at 

 the old school house in the Pink Beds. North Carolina, and, if possible, 

 convert the old school into a model camp, having it plainly marked 

 that all are expected to leave the camp in as good condition as they 

 found it. 



C. W. Griffith, Biltmore, 1905, is department manager in charge of 

 estimating with the firm of Gardner and Howe, forest engineers, Memphis, 

 Tennessee. 



Ralph Keeler, Biltmore, 1913, is Manager of the Columbia, South 

 Carolina, branch of the Lucas E. Moore Stave Company 



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Dwight S. Jeffers, of the Medicine Bow National Forest, was -married 

 on December 9 to Miss Helen Annette Nelson, of Laramie, Wyoming. 



J. Warrington Stokes, of the Targhee National Forest, was married 

 on December 17 to Miss Edna Louise Smith, of Harlan, Iowa. 



