about myself tonight that I didn't 

 know before. But we learned for- 

 estry in those early days just the 

 same. But then, we had the one man 

 to teach it to us. There wasn't a stu- 

 dent in those days who didn't take 

 with him a conviction of what for- 

 estry was, and what we should do to 

 manage it correctly. There is not 

 another jnan in the United States to 

 whom is so much due the fact that 

 the Forest Service is where it is to- 

 day. It is the man who makes the 

 school, not the school that makes the 

 man. I feel that it is worth while 

 that it is a great thing in our lives' 

 to have gone through the Michigan 

 forestry school, and I assure you it 

 has been an honor and a pleasure to 

 have been here again. 



"I am more grateful tonight than 

 I can tell, to you men who have 

 stretched out your hearts to make me 

 believe that I have had some small 



part in the school's success. I am 

 sure this school has a great future, 

 and no one will be more glad than 

 we to see new facilities and support 

 back of Professor Roth. 



"This evening has been a pleasure 

 of which I can hardly tell you. I as- 

 sure you, in closing, that no one will 

 ever hold a closer place in my mem- 

 ory than the men who have been 

 here and made the time I have spent 

 here such a pleasure to me. I shall 

 always remember the good, solid fel- 

 lows who have been here. They are 

 the kind of men who are drawn here 

 by the sort of man we have at the 

 head of the school. 



"I wish you all, from the bottom of 

 my heart, God-speed and the highest 

 success in the world, and sincerely 

 hope that we may meet again and 

 pass across the good warm hand- 

 shake of Michigan men." 



News of Men in the Field 





S. D. Smith, '10, says: "Glad to see 

 that Michigan still leads." Smith is 

 putting the trees in and taking them 

 out by the million, and what is more, 

 he simply makes them live. 



Leavitt, '04, is "working into his 

 job" nicely; a few thousand miles of 

 railroad lines do not seem to bluff 

 him. Courage and a bit of support 

 will go a long way. Our best wishes 

 are with you, and with Canada. 



D. C. Birch, who is out a year and 

 has run against the Red Tape (De- 

 partment, did not get back to help 

 W. W. White at Missoula, but is 

 roaming the big bluffs of the Kern 

 river country. He wants to contrib- 

 ute to Hegner's Squirrel, bird and 

 bug album, but says he is a little shy 

 on pointers as to the best method of 

 treating. Must have fallen down on 

 the creosote classification of Course 

 7. At any rate we have the moral: 

 Get wise on preservatives. We miss- 

 ed you on Field Day, Birch, for Hill 

 had to do all the fussing. 



Strothman, '10, is still happy on 

 the California. "Fire protection per 

 heliograph is the big game," and he 

 says a station on Shasta will enable 

 him to flirt with Larsen and wake up 



Wulff. But he says Lyons ducks 

 down and can't stand the glare. 

 Might turn it round and protect big 

 game with heliograph, but Maris says 

 a club is better. 



E. V. Jotter likes Weaverville and 

 San Francisco and claims that 

 Smithy, '05, is conducive (whatever 

 that means here) to timber sales and 

 good cheer. It is natural for him, 

 Jotter, especially the latter, but he 

 says he can't endure too much sci- 

 ence at the menagerie. But it is in 

 the "Trinity Forester" that Jotter 

 shines; good editors make good con- 

 tributions, and some of the articles 

 on fire protection are the best put 

 out yet. 



Morris, '09, ban his very abode in 

 a bit of sentiment (Coeur d'Alene), 

 in spite of its general surroundings. 

 He says the charcoal market is dull 

 and he prefers yellow pine green. 

 The motto on the Coeur d'Alene is to 

 "catch the fire before it starts." Stick 

 to it, Morris, it is good gospel. They 

 are quite "cocky" on the Co~nr d' 

 Alene, and they are getting ready to 

 "do up anything that walks" on the 

 St. Joe, in wrestling, riding, and rid- 

 dling, the three r's of the North 



