PERSONALITIES 



1. Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada 



Dr. H, N. Whitford has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Tropical 

 Forestry at Yale and is to begin work next September. 



R. B. Miller, of 315 Church Street, Fredericton, N. B., was married on June 

 8 to Miss Burchell of Sydney, N. S. 



G. Harris CoUingwood has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Forestry 

 at Cornell University. He began his work — which will be as Extension 

 Professor, succeeding Frank B. Moody — on July 1. 



Dr. Charles C. Adams has been promoted to the professorship of Forest 

 Zoology in the newly formed department of Forest Zoology in the New York 

 State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. 



Reginald D. Forbes has been appointed Assistant Forester of New Jersey, 

 to succeed P. T. Coolidge, resigned. He began his work on July 1. 



A. Oakley Smith has resigned as City Forester of Mount Vernon, N. Y., 

 and re-entered the service of F. Vitale, Landscape architect. 



Philip T. Coolidge, who has been Assistant State Forester of New Jersey 

 since the beginning of 1915, has opened an office for timber estimating and 

 forestry work in the Stetson Building, 31 Central Street, Bangor, Me. 



D. N. Trapnell, assistant in the Forest Products Laboratories at McGill, 

 was killed at the battle of Ypres. 



G. H. Gutches, head of the New York State Ranger School, has resigned 

 and will return to the Canadian Forest Service. 



Lieut. Arnold M. Thurston, student at the University of Toronto Forest 

 School, was killed in action in June. His commanding officer writes of his 

 bravery and "that it was my intention to promote him to the rank of Captain, 

 if he survived the present fighting." 



Messrs. D. A. Macdonald and C. H. Morse, of the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch, have been elected Associate members of the Canadian Society of 

 Forest Engineers. 



Mr. Morse went overseas in the spring with the 234th, Forestry Battalion. 



Sub-Flight Lieut. J. R. Chamberlin, who had enlisted in the British Air 

 Service, was killed in an aeroplane accident in England early in June. Mr. 

 Chamberlin was a graduate of the University of Toronto Forest School, and 

 a member of the British Columbia Forest Branch staff. 



2. Southern United States 



W. B. Greeley has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the 

 Society of American Foresters for the current year. 



Elwood Bushnell of Johnson City, Tenn., was married on June 21 to Miss 

 Lucy Sitton of that city. 



Walter G. Schwab has been appointed Assistant State Forester of Virginia. 

 He assumed his new duties about May 15. 



Ernest Bruncken, early patron of forestry and author of an elementary 

 textbook on the subject, was dismissed from the position of Assistant Register 

 of Patents in the Library of Congress because of alleged indiscretions in his 

 utterances. 



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