tor Ahearn on a long trip to the 

 States. 



In May of 1908 he left for Iloilo, 

 for a mapping and reconnaissance 

 trip through the Island of Negros. 

 With him was onlv one other white 

 man, and several native helpers. 

 When several days in from the 

 coast, the native guide betrayed the 

 party to a band of head-hunting 

 Tgorote savages from the neighbor- 

 ing mountains, and the entire party 

 was drugged by the fums of a nar- 



cotic plant and murdered in their 

 sleep. 



Another month Everett's three 

 years would have been up, and he 

 .was looking forward to returning 

 on a visit to the States. And thus 

 was lost to Michigan one of her 

 most cherished and promising for- 

 estry alumni, and to the cause of 

 forestry one of its most earnest 

 exponents and advocates. 



C. L. HILL. 



Assistant Forester Clyde Leavitt 



To have made anything but a for- 

 ester out of Mr. Leavitt would have 

 been a gross perversion of fate. For 

 he was born in Bellaire, Antrim 

 county, Michigan, in the heart of 

 the great pine country, which once 

 made the state famous, in the height 

 of its palmiest days, and grew up 

 through its "Decline and Fall." 

 After finishing high school he came 

 to the University of Michigan. 



Mixing drinks is said to bring 

 disastrous results. Which only shows 

 how little the proverb makers know 

 about it. Drinks were not an 

 essential item in this young fores- 

 ter's menu ; wherefore he tried the 

 mixing on his draughts at the foun- 

 tain of knowledge, and started out 

 with a year of law. But he cleane'l 

 up on the proverb makers by prov- 

 ing this, in his subsequent profes- 

 sional experience, to be instead of a 

 loss one of the most valuable assets 

 he could have. All of which might 

 point a moral to some latter day stu- 

 dents who are not so anxious to 

 take the law which is recommended 

 to them ; but the editors only allow 

 this space to adorn a tale. 



About that time he saw the light 

 of the new profession of forestry, 

 and the next year went to the onl - 

 forestry school then in the United 

 States, at Cornell University. Here 

 his energy and ability recommended 

 him to good Doctor Fernow, wfio 

 made Leavitt his private secretary 

 and assistant, a capacitv in whiVi 

 he had the privilege of helping i-i 



the preparation of the "Economics 

 of Forestry," the classic of Ameri- 

 can forestry literature. 



At the end of 1902, however, came 

 the unfortunate closing of the for- 

 estry school, and the next fall 

 Leavitt, with a few other students, 

 followed Professor Roth to Mich- 

 igan to start the good work anew. 

 A memorable cla c s was that first one 

 at Michigan, and they early demon- 

 strated their full professional spirit, 

 according to Professor Roth's -defini- 

 tion, by producing at least six opin- 

 ions on any subiect which the five 

 of them undertook to discuss. They 

 were all pretty good scrappers ; but 

 somehow it was generally Leavitt 

 aeainst the field and no quarter 

 shown ; and it is not recorded that 

 he was ever converted to a contrary 

 opinion, though he was sometimes 

 taken into camp, nolens volens. 



On graduation all but one of the 

 class went immediately into the For- 

 est Service. After a little prelim- 

 inary warming up at reconnaissance 

 in Utah, Leavitt was settled on the 

 determination of boundaries for tlr^ 

 National Forests, which were then 

 sprirping up like mushrooms over 

 night. It was in this work that he 

 made what is still the long record 

 for continuous field srvice, bein<^ 

 out for thirty-two consecutive 

 months. His reputation was made, 

 ;ilso, for quality as well as quantity. 

 <'nid since then his rise has been 

 rapid and continuous. He was first 

 called to Washington to assume the 



