PERSONALITIES 



1. Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. 2. Southeastern 

 United States. 3. Central United States. 4. Northern Rockies. 5. South- 

 west, including Mexico. 6. Pacific Coast, including Western Canada. 

 7. Hawaii, the Philippines and the Orient. 8. Europe. 9. Unclassified. 



The above classification is adopted in order to facilitate the identi- 

 fication of important news items. It is only natural that readers will 

 be interested more in the news from one region than from another. 

 Realizing this, the news are arranged accordingly. 



1. Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada 



Robert Landon Rogers died of tuberculosis in Providence, R. I., on 

 May 25. Rogers was born in 1883, went to school in Providence, in 1906 

 graduated from Yale College, where he was editor of the Yale Banner in 

 1905 and a member of the Elihu Club. In 1908 he graduated from the 

 Yale Forest School and entered the Forest Service where, until December, 

 1908, was engaged chiefly in planting work. In December, 1908, with the 

 creation of the six western districts, he became a member of the silvi- 

 culture staff in District 3, later being made Deputy Forest Supervisor of 

 the Coronado National Forest in that District. In December, 1912, he was 

 transferred to Washington for editorial work, where he remained until 

 continued illness brought about his retirement not long before his un- 

 timely death. 



B. M. Winegar, forester to the Operating Department, Eastern Divi- 

 sion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was married in June to Miss 

 Dohan, of Montreal. 



Edward E. Carter resigned from a professorate in the Harvard Forest 

 School on July 1 and re-entered the Forest Service as an inspector in 

 the Branch of Silviculture with headquarters at Washington. 



Philip T. Coolidge has been appointed Assistant State Forester of the 

 Forest Park Reservation Commission of New Jersey. 



J. J. Levison and Miss Ray B. Haskell were married on June 6. They 

 reside in Brooklyn, N. Y., where Levison is arboriculturist for the 

 Department of Parks. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow's youngest son, Karl, a junior at Cornell University, 

 rowed bow in the varsity boat which won the Poughkeepsie Regatta on 

 June 28. 



W. N. Millar, Assistant Professor at the Toronto Forest School, visited, 

 during the summer, forest reserves in the western part of Canada with the 

 object of gaining data to assist in perfecting the organization and in 

 developing scientific investigation of timber growth in the prairie 

 provinces. 



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