There an education could be had at very low cost, 

 low even in those days, and we couldn t afford a 

 relatively expensive place. My mother and I went 

 to East Lansing, had a talk with President Snyder 

 and learned that for those who had not completed 

 high school there was a &quot;prep&quot; course which included 

 an extra year, enabling such a student to graduate 

 in five years. So, since my mother and sister had 

 to return to Pasadena in the spring of 1902, we ar 

 ranged with the College for me to Join the class 

 of 1905 in the spring term and then enter the five- 

 year course in the fall of that year in the class 

 of 1907. Meanwhile I attended Central High School s 

 eleventh grade in Detroit and sat next to Margaret 

 Snow, sister of Neil Snow, the fullback on Univer 

 sity of Michigan s point-a-minute football team. 

 That was a minor thrill for me! 



My class of 1907 contained only a handful of 

 forestry students. We had a very likeable head of 

 the forestry department, Professor Bogue, but I am 

 sure neither he nor his assistants were equipped to 

 give us the quality of forestry teaching that was 

 provided by Roth at Michigan or Graves at Yale. 



