KENNETH B. KIRK, Arboriculture '50, salesman and 

 assistant manager for Shield Shade Tree Specialists, a 

 leading arborist concern in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. 

 Kirk is pointing out to a client that the large black 

 >ak has heartwood rot. 





FRANCIS DE VOS, Floncultjre '42, secretary of the 

 American Hcrtikulturol Society in Washington, D. C , 

 and assistant la the director of the National Arbore- 

 tum. Mr. De Vos, one of the many Stockbridge men 

 ta continue his studies, holds a Ph. D. from Coinell. 

 He is shown here (foreground) examining azalea, 

 plants. Photo by Washington Star 



30UGLAS W. FORREST, Animal Husbandry '35, suc- 

 :essful Ayrshire breeder and dairy farm owner in 

 lurtnership with his father in Litchfield, Connecticut. 

 Member of the Farm Bureau and past president of the 

 Sairy Herd Improvement Association, he is also the 

 >fficial judge for the Ayrshira breed and contributes a 

 nonthly column entitled, "Notes from the Old Timer" 

 o the Ayrshire Digest. Mr. Forrest is photographed 

 vith his father on Anchor Mere Farm and with a 

 >rize heifer recently sold to South America. 





CHARLES A. GODIN, Ornamental Horticulture '34, vice 

 p.-esident of Adams Nursery, Westfield, Massachu- 

 setts, in charge of letoil sales. As a member of ths 

 Board of Governors of ihe American Association of 

 Nurserymen, as well as an officer in othe; organi^ia- 

 tions, Mr. Godin has done much to further the de- 

 velopment of horfieultura. 



