unable to assume membership on account of the outbreak of the 

 war. 



So much for the formation of the Association. Professor Mulford 

 is well entitled to be called the "father" of the organization, as it 

 was his suggestion that led to the assembling of the first convention. 



Following the convention, C. H. Guise was elected by Cornell 

 as president of the Association; E. A. Gallup was selected by the 

 Michigan foresters as the Secretary-Treasurer ; and C. J. Telf ord was 

 elected by Yale as editor of the Association publication. This publi- 

 cation never appeared, as after some correspondence in the matter 

 it was decided that there were insufficient funds to publish a creditable 

 journal. 



The University of Washington Forest Club joined the Association 

 on March 31, 1915, A. C. Anderson being elected as the Vice-President. 

 (Each Club is entitled to this representation upon assuming member- 

 ship.) 



The Second Annual Convention was to have been held at the 

 University of Michigan in the Spring of 1915, but they were unable 

 to accommodate the convention on account of the fact that the Natural 

 Science Building was uncompleted and the foresters scattered all 

 over the campus. It was then decided to hold the convention at Yale 

 on May 15 of that year, but Yale was also unable to entertain the 

 convention at that time, so there was no convention held in 1915. 



Meanwhile the president of the Association, Cedric H. Guise, 

 had resigned on April 27, 1915, and appointed Miles B. Haman of 

 Cornell University to serve in his place. Haman held the office until 

 the following convention, which was held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 

 on January 28 and 29, 1916. 



At this Second Annual Convention ten schools were represented 

 by delegates or proxies, delegates from eight schools being present. 

 The delegates present represented Cornell University, Yale, Syra- 

 cuse, Michigan Agricultural College, Ohio State University, Univer- 

 sity of California, University of Michigan and University of Wash- 

 ington. The University of Washington delegate, was Donald Clark, 

 ai that time president of the University of Washington Forest Club. 

 He was sent as a representative of both the Washington Forest Club 

 and of Xi Sigma Pi Honorary Forestry Fraternity, and held proxies 

 from the Montana and Idaho Forestry Clubs. The main business of 

 the convention was the thorough revision of the constitution, which 

 was practically re-written. It was decided at that time that the 

 publication of the Association would be one issue of the Forestry 

 Quarterly, a movement which was never put into effect on account 

 of the Forestry Quarterly merging with the Proceedings of the 

 Society of American Foresters. 



It was also decided that conventions of the Association would 

 be held annually and that it should be the policy of the Association 

 to alternate meetings between the east and the west. For the purpose 

 of facilitating the business of the Association it was decided that 

 hereafter the President and the Secretary of the Association should 



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