News of the Men in The Field 



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Smith Has been transferred from 

 the San Isabel to the Black Hills. 



King The Nevada deserts are con- 

 ducive of poetry. Rex (not Rex- 

 ford) has been guilty of sending 

 epistles of admonition and advice 

 to future Forest Assistants of the 

 Class of 1911. Believe us, the 

 advice came in handy. 



Whitney Spending a week at Ann 

 Arbor. He is busily engaged in 

 taking it easy and mixing it with 

 the "youngsters." The concensus 

 of opinion of the boys is that he 



is a "game sport." Here is hop- 

 ing that some more of the "old 

 boys" come to pay us a visit. 

 E. H. Currans, Chief of Philippine 

 Forest Service, made a semi-offi- 

 cial visit to the School. In a num- 

 ber of lectures he discussed the 

 life, the work and the prospects 

 that the Philippine Service offers 

 to the forester. At present we 

 have two Michigan men mere, and 

 this coming year will add one 

 more to the list. 



Harry Day Everett 



In Harry Everett, temperament, 

 ability, early surroundings and pro- 

 fessional training all combined to 

 make a forester par excellence. He 

 was born at Burte, N. Y., way up 

 on the northern edge of the Adiron- 

 dacks, where the mountains and the 

 wilderness were always within close 

 call, and fired the youthful imag- 

 ination while they trained the bov 

 to "take care of himself." High 

 school education, was obtained at 

 Malone, after which he went to Cor- 

 nell University. 



Like many another forester, Fver- 

 ett didn't discover his professional 

 "affinity" at first, so that he was 

 at the beginning of his third year 

 in the Arts course before he defi- 

 nitely transferred to forestry. Then 

 came the discontinuance of the 

 school, and Everett came to Mich- 

 igan to form one of that first class 

 of five. A hard and consistent 

 worker, with an unusual faculty for 

 accomplishing much in a given time, 

 always even^ tempered and genial, 

 no forester whom Michigan has pro- 

 duced gave promise of greater things 

 or was more entirely beloved. 



A summer had already been spent 

 with the Bureau of Forestry as a 

 student assistant in the spruce 

 woods of Maine, a trip on which 

 much of the travel had to be bv 

 canoe, and on which, still, the chief 

 of the party took his wife and baby. 



And Everett used afterwards to tell 

 how "they" he wouldn't incrimin- 

 ate himself got a kodak snap of 

 one of the crew sitting on a stump 

 dandling the chief's baby on his 

 knees, and labeled the picture, 

 "Maine spruce woods, reproduction 

 survey." 



After his graduation from Mich- 

 igan, Everett spent a year in th? 

 Forest Service, chiefly in mill studies 

 for graded volume tables for the 

 yellow poplar in the Blue and Smoky 

 Ridges of the Appalachian Moun- 

 tains. But the "wanderlust" was in 

 his blood, as he used often to write 

 others of the forestry boys, and the 

 next year he went to the Bureau 

 of Forestry of the Philippine 

 Islands. There his ability and indus- 

 try bore quick fruit. He was soo'i 

 placed in 'charge of an important 

 forest district, covering the Vi c aya i i 

 Islands, where he nrule in the island 

 of Negros, the working plans for 

 the first large modern lumber opera- 

 tions in the Island and the prelim- 

 inary examination and report on 

 what is still the second largest, 

 involv'ng ultimately millions of dol- 

 lars. Then, however, he was called 

 in to Manila to be made Chief of 

 the Division of Forest Administra- 

 tion. The same year (1907) he 

 became Acting Director of the 

 Bureau, during the absence of Direc 



