beginning, and these seemed sufficient- 

 ly formidable to take away the at- 

 traction of the Cornell proposition 

 and the last of March I asked to be 

 released from my position at Cornell. 



And now that this is over let me 

 say to you one and all, that I am 

 here to stay, that this is no mere 

 truce-business that I propose to de- 

 vote the rest "of my time to building 

 up our school, your school; that I am 

 glad to stay and thoroughly happy in 

 my wprk here. 



I do not need to tell you that it was 

 you, the forestry students of the 

 University, and especially you, the 

 men in the field, who have given me 

 strength and inspiration for my work. 

 And it was this consideration, more 

 than all else, which weighed heavily 

 with me when trying to decide what 

 was for the best. 



As I have repeated many times, it 

 was you, the students in forestry at 

 [Michigan, and you, the men in the 



field, who have made this school 

 what it is, and it is your support to 

 which we all must look in the future 

 for its growth and strength. 



Let us all join hands in this en- 

 terprise and ma'ke Michigan what it 

 should be the great forestry school 

 of the Nation. A school where real 

 live men come together to get such 

 instruction in forestry as they need 

 and desire; \^here the professional 

 man finds a course in keeping with 

 his future work, where the future 

 statesman can imbibe the principles 

 of real conservation, better seen and 

 learned in forestry than anywhere 

 else; and where the engineer and 

 architect, the school teacher and law- 

 yer may all get such instruction as 

 may prove helpful in their vocation. 



A great school for a great profes- 

 sion, for a great Nation! 



Your friend and teacher, 



ROTH. 



THE CLASS OF 1906. 



In line 'with the policy which The 

 Forester has been following, of giving 

 in each issue a brief account of one 

 of the old classes the editors planned 

 to give in this issue a few words rel- 

 ative to the whereabouts and activi- 

 ties of each member of the class of 

 1906. With this idea in view a line 

 was dropped to each man, asking 

 for a few notes. Only four responses 

 were forth-coming, so anything like 

 a complete account is out of the ques- 

 tion. 



In response to a request for some- 

 thing "breezy," Frothingham writes 

 from Washington, D. C., that that 

 isn't in his line; that all he can offer 

 is hot air, and dry, at that. Some of 

 the "dry" facts submitted by him fol- 

 low: "On leaving A2 I was sentenced 

 to hard labor at .Halsey, Neb., but 

 left for Washington in November, 

 1906, and have worked under Zon, in 

 the office of Silvics, ever since. My 

 headquarters have been at Washing- 

 ton and my work has consisted of 

 fielti studies during the summer, and 

 of reports and office routine in the 

 winter. The field work was mostly 



the .collection of data for volume, 

 growth or yield tables for various 

 northern hard-woods and for Douglas 

 fir. Just now I am attempting to per- 

 petrate a report on white pine. Not 

 being a supervisor, or even a deputy, 

 but just a plain forest assistant, I 

 shouldn't be expected to put up any 

 more extended line of persiflage (as 

 Stickney calls it), and will resign the 

 floor to the rest of the class who 

 have got 'oodles' more to talk a'bout." 



Frothingham reports that there are 

 now in Washington six Michigan men: 

 Sudworth, Clapp, Brush, Nellis, Kaler 

 and himself. 



E. C. Clifford "comes across" with 

 the following: "Am Deputy Forest 

 Supervisor on the Madiaon forest, 

 located at 'Sheridan, Mont.; single, 

 poor and sober, but honest; present 

 prospects are that I'll continue so for 

 some time." 



W. M. Drake writes from Flagstaff, 

 Arizona: "Entered the Forest Service 

 as Forest Assistant; was detailed as 

 Technical Assistant on the Washing- 

 ton Forest for about five months, 



