Personalities 289 



Henry S. Graves was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the 

 closing exercises of the Senior Class of the Yale Forest School in New 

 Haven on February 27. The thirteen members of the graduating class 

 are now in Alabama on the lands of the Kaul Lumber Company. 



W. Hoyt Weber, who, as Vice-President of the Munson-Whitaker 

 Company, has been manager of their timber estimation department for 

 the past seven years, has lately sold his interests in that firm and enters 

 the business under the style of W. Hoyt Weber and Company, located 

 at 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. 



Another firm of consulting foresters has recently entered the field under 

 the style of Empire State Foresters. The members of this firm are John 

 Bentley, Jr., Ralph S. Hosmer, Frank B. Moody, A. B. Recknagel, E. C. 

 M. Richards, and Samuel N. Spring. This firm has its office at 156 Fifth 

 Avenue, New York City. With the exception of Richards, the members 

 are all on the staff of the Department of Forestry at Cornell University 

 and are specialists in the lines they represent. Richards is manager of 

 the firm. 



On February 13 there was formed in Boston a "Biltmore Club of New 

 England." Twelve Biltmore alumni were present, and it is hoped that 

 eventually all the Biltmore men in New England may be included in 

 the membership. 



Chas. J. Musante, E. L. Claasen and Donald White, all graduates of 

 the Class of 1912 of the Biltmore Forest School, have organized a firm of 

 forest engineers and timber cruisers, known as Musante, Claasen and 

 White, with headquarters at Potsdam, N. Y.. and Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Hammond Robertson, Biltmore, 1913, until recently Assistant Superin- 

 tendent of the Newark plant of the American Creosoting Company, is 

 established as a lumber and creosote inspector at 2270 University Avenue, 

 New York City. 



Hubbard Hastings, Biltmore, 1911, has established himself as Con- 

 sulting Forester in St. Johnsburg, Vt. 



Dr. H. D. House, who has been Acting State Botanist of New York, 

 since the breaking up of the Biltmore Forest School, was recently 

 appointed State Botanist. His first annual report contains a well-illus- 

 trated treatise on "Certain Features of German Forestry." 



To State Forester and Mrs. A. H. King, of Albany, N. Y., a son was 

 born on January 20. King is a graduate of Biltmore Forest School, Class 

 of 1909. 



