PERSONALITIES 

 1. Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada 



Dr. B. E. Fernow has again been honored with the presidency of the Society 

 of American Foresters. 



Roy L. Marston and Miss Mary E. Emery, of Skowhegan, Me., were mar- 

 ried on October 17, 1915. 



H. Warnick Robb, Biltmore, 1911, is professor of forestry at the Inde- 

 pendent Agricultural School at Essex County, Mass., and, incidentally, 

 organizer and manager of the American Timberland Association, a group of 

 consulting foresters scattered throughout the country. Robb's address is 

 14 Hunt Street, Danvers, Mass. 



Mr. Albert Grigg, M. P. P., for Algoma, has been appointed Deputy Min- 

 ister of Lands and Forests, for the Province of Ontario, succeeding the late 

 Mr. Aubrey White. 



R. G. Lewis, F. B. Robertson and D. Brophy, of the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch, Ottawa, have enlisted. 



Page S. Bimker, formerly of the Forest Service, is in charge of the municipal 

 forest of Fitchburg, Mass. 



Mr. George Chahoon, Jr., a director of the Canadian Forestry Association 

 and Associate member of the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers, has 

 been elected president of the Laurentide Company, Limited. 



Abraham Knechtel, chief forester, Dominion Parks Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, died at Ottawa recently, being in his 56th year. Knech- 

 tel held the degree of Forest Engineer from Cornell University. 



George H. Wirt has been appointed chief forest fire warden of Pennsylvania, 



The marriage of Bessie Idella, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Drew, 

 and Harrison V. Bailey took place in Brockton, Mass., on December 23. 



The continued serious illness of Eugene Bruce, which confines him closely 

 to his home in Washington, D. C, will be learned with keen regret by his 

 many friends. 



Messrs. B. Guerin, G. H. Boisvert, and E. Menard, graduates of the Laval 

 Forestry School and now of the Quebec Forest Service, where each holds the 

 rank of District Inspector, have been elected to Active membership in the 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. 



2. Southern United States 



Sydney L. Moore is with the Sizer Lumber Company, but has changed his 

 headquarters from Savannah to Jacksonville, Fla., address 43 Bay Street. 



Lincoln Crowell has been transferred from Neopit, Wis., to Cherokee, N. C, 

 where he is in charge of a reconnaissance of the extensive timberland s of the 

 Cherokee Indians. 



Mr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Downey took an extended trip through South 

 America last summer. They are living at Nashville, N. C, where Downey is 

 connected with the Fosburgh Lumber Company. 



Alfred Akerman is dean of the recently incorporated Georgia College of 

 Forestry. The college is located in the woods, four and a half miles from 



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