of sage brush and lack of promo- 

 tions, there is evidence everywhere 

 of rugged enjoyment of your work, 

 of contentment based on brave effort 

 and success, and there is clearly 

 pictured that your foresters' ideals 

 have not suffered with practice. It 

 was to be expected that in our new 

 vocation we should have a goodly 

 proportion of men who really be- 

 longed behind the counter, who 

 would "bolt" as soon as they struck 

 packsaddle and frying-pan life of the 

 desert or the mountains. It is there- 

 fore a surprise to me and will be one 

 to you when the report says other- 

 wise. Almost to a man, the Michi- 

 gan bunch in the ''bush" are happy 

 and not a single one has deserted 

 the line. More than that, marrying 

 has become epidemic and Phillips' 

 fine boy is well offset by Smith's 

 trio and about a dozen others, and 

 the "returns" are not all in. But 

 jokes aside, this feeling of "at home" 

 in the "bush" and in the work is 

 significant, and is one of the best 

 signs of general satisfaction. In 

 applying what you have learned in 

 the school there is no longer the 

 spirit of seven years ago. It is not 

 a matter of "theoretical stuff" and 

 "better forget most of it before you 

 get in the field." To the contrary, 



Supervisor S. fairly revels even in 

 his Se; Field Assistant F. is ponder- 

 ing over the proper Yr. and another 

 "works" in "Ottelt's" conception of 

 G=Yr J to develop some sensible 

 and reliable basis for cutting timber 

 on his forest. 



Here at school, things are growing 

 as they are with you. Professors 

 Mulford and Hill with three assist- 

 ants are with me trying to make the 

 course what it ought to be. Our 

 total number has grown from 20 

 students in 1903 to over 200 in 1910; 

 and from 9 students, separate men, 

 in forestry courses in 1903 to 84 

 registered in our courses this semes- 

 ter. But let me say to you men in 

 the field, that we fully appreciate 

 your share in the growth of the 

 school. In your good work and in 

 the absence of failures among you, 

 you have made a name for Michigan 

 as a forestry school; you have added 

 another score to the long list of 

 achievements of this great and truly 

 American University. For this we 

 in forestry and with us the whole 

 University, thank you. May health 

 and happiness be with you, and may 

 success reward every effort for each 

 and every Michigan man in the field. 



FILIBERT ROTH. 

 May 20, 1910. 



Demonstration of resuscitating a drowning person, Field Day, 1910. 



