be elected from the same club, this club to be designated as the 

 President Club of the Assocation and to be elected by ballot at each 

 convention of the Association to serve until the next following con- 

 vention. 



The University of Washington was elected as president club of 

 the Association for 1916-17. The members of the Club elected as 

 president Donald Clark, and as Secretary-Treasurer Timon Torkel- 

 son. Jesmond Balmer was- elected as the Vice-President of the 

 Association from the University of Washington Forest Club. 



During the year 1916-17 a strong effort was made to increase 

 the membership of the Association. As a result of this policy there 

 were eighteen member clubs at the close of the term, out of a total 

 of 26 clubs in the United States and Canada. Two news letters were 

 issued during the year by the president club, giving news of the 

 various member clubs and information regarding membership and 

 plans for the convention. 



THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 



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 THE INTERCOLLEGIATE ASSOCIATION OF FOREST CLUBS. 

 At the Third Annual Convention, held at Seattle on March 1, 

 and 3, 1917, eleven schools were represented by delegates, twelve 

 Delegates being present. The schools represented were Yale, by 0. M. 

 Porter ; University of Michigan, by W. F. Ramsdell ; Mont Alto Forest 

 Academy, by B. F. Heintzleman ; University of Idaho, by R. N. Cun- 

 ningham; University of Montana, by J. F. Brooks; University of 

 California, by Ansel Hall; University of Missouri, by C. W. Herald, 

 Jr. ; Syracuse University, by Edward Vail ; Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege, by Earl H. Zeller; Oregon Agricultural College, by Ben W. 

 Schubert and Fred P. Cronemiller; and University of Washington, 

 by Jesmond D. Balmer. 



On Thursday, March 1, the delegates met at Forestry Hall and 

 were taken on a motor trip to the operations of the Colman Creosoting 

 Co., the Schwager & Nettleton Mill, and the Washington Ship 

 Building Corporation. Return to the University was made at noon, 

 a group photograph of the delegates and the members of the Forest 

 Club being taken on the rear steps of the old Forestry Building. At 

 1 :00 p. m. a Douglas Fir Timber Testing demonstration was given 

 in the U. S. Forest Service Timber Testing Laboratory on the campus. 

 The test was conducted by Conrad W. Zimmerman, Engineer in 

 Charge, who gave a prize of a box of cigars to the man who made 

 the closest estimate of the maximum load which an 8 inch x 16 inch 

 x 16 ft. Douglas Fir stringer would sustain. The winner was J. F. 

 Brooks, delegate from the University of Montana Forest Club, whose 

 guess was 90,000 Ibs. At 2:00 p. m. the main business session of the 

 convention was held in the Forest Club office. Among the items 

 of business considered was the matter of a publication of the Asso- 



Iiation. It was decided that the Association should issue an annual 

 ublication to contain articles of interest to the member clubs and 

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