Greeting to University of Michigan Foresters Everywhere 



Greeting, not good-bye. Because, 

 although I am leaving Ann Amor, 

 I am not leaving the University of 

 Michigan Forestry School. Most of 

 us have left Ann Arbor, to help 

 carry forestry elsewhere. I am but 

 doing the same, and shall still be 

 with you, one of you. 



But I realize only too well that I 

 am leaving Ann Arbor. It is hard 

 to do this. Hard to leave the Uni- 

 versity, and my colleagues in the 

 faculty and on the benches. Harder 

 still to leave the man who has been 

 my teacher for eight years, two at 

 Cornell, six at Michigan. The teach- 

 er whose enthusiasm, practical view- 

 point and personal magnetism has 

 deeply influenced all of us; the 

 friend whose unselfish devotion has 



bound us closely to him; the helpful 

 guide we all owe a great debt, 

 myself most of all, to Daddy Roth. 



I want to thank the men ad: Ann 

 Arbor for the watch. It means very 

 much to me. 



I want also to thank the men both 

 at Ann Arbor and in the field for 

 the many expressions of regret at 

 my change of headquarters. These, 

 too, I sincerely appreciate. 



Let us still keep in close touch 

 with one another. My address will 

 be in the Directory along with 

 yours. 



And let us all be happy in getting 

 the greatest good from the sane life 

 of the outdoors, and in putting the 

 greatest good into that life. 



WALTER MULFORD. 



May 27, 1911. 



Field Day, May 27 



The success of the Forestry Field 

 Day this year proved conclusively 

 that, as an annual event, it has 

 become a permanent institution at 

 Michigan. The presence of a large 

 number of the faculty and especially 

 of President Emeritus Angell, at- 

 tested to the wide-spread interest in 

 the day and gave promise of good 

 support for the future. 



On Friday afternoon about 15 men 

 appeared at the Saginaw farm to 

 "make camp." By nightfall several 

 tents were pitched and the place took 

 on the appearance of a real camp. 

 After a late supper the men lolled 

 about, burning incense to the red 

 gods and rousing the sleeping cooks 

 to profanity with their "barber shop" 

 melodies. 



Shortly after midnight the cooks 

 piled out to begin their toilsome 

 wrestle with the beef. By sun-up 

 the whole camp was astir and bus- 

 tling with preparation. Newcomers 

 hailed in to lend their aid, and bv 

 the time the first faculty guests were 

 within sight of camp everything was 

 in order. 



When the last guests arrived the 



crowd, numbering upwards of a 

 hundred, assembled on a shaded hill- 

 side for a talk and demonstration 

 of first aid to the injured by Dr. 

 E. K. Herdman. Immediately after 

 the talk dinner was announced and 

 everyone sought out the commis- 

 sariat for barbecued beef, baked 

 "spuds," beans and rice. 



After the meal attention was 

 drawn to a demonstration of canoe 

 portaging. This was followed bv an 

 exhibition of breaking and moving 

 a complete camp. Several men par- 

 ticipated, each packing his private 

 duffle in his own way and carrying 

 it with his own pet harness, while 

 Fay Clark secured the tent and gen- 

 eral outfit to the camp mule's back 

 with his "mule-proof" diamond 

 hitch. The pack-train then hit the 

 trail up the hill, returned and made 

 camp sgrnin. 



At this point Dr. Angell arrived 

 and the crowd collected on the hill- 

 side to receive him. In a character- 

 istic address Prof. Roth introduced 

 Dr. Angell, explaining at the same 

 time the wav in which the Michigan 

 Forestry School originated, and ac- 



