THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY. 



Junior Professor O. L. Sponsler: Born at Akron, Ohio, a citizen 

 of Michigan since early fooyhood; in various business pursuits as clerk, 

 photographer, and iron chemist and salesman with the American Car 

 and Foundry Co., Detroit, Sheffield Car Co., Three Rivers, and other 

 concerns; studied forestry at U. of M., taking the B. A. in 1910; was 

 called to the University of Nebraska to teach forestry, promoted to 

 Associate Professor in charge of the forestry work in 1911. 



Profejssor Sponsler has had experience in lumberyard, drafting 

 room, logging in British Columbia, woodlot-work in Wisconsin and 

 Ohio, on National Forests in Idaho, and one summer in forestry work 

 in North Wisconsin. Sponsler is no new name at Michigan. Several 

 generations of students remember him as a istrong man, earnest and 

 able student, and as the powerful organizer who put new life into 

 the Forestry Club as its president. Professor Sponsler will take up 

 the regular work in Silviculture. 



Assistant Professor P. S. Lovejoy was born at Princeton, 111., 

 (where Prof. Bryant of Yale comes from) in 1884, spent the first few 

 years of his life on a cattle ranch on the Yellowstone, (Mont); grew 

 up on the farm, where his first "official" job was that of the driver of 



