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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"HALL OF FAME" FOR TREES 



This tree, which stands on the farm of Melvin Sims, two 

 miles west of Whitehall, Indiana, marks the "final, sure- 

 enough, honest-injun" center of population of the United 

 States. The spot was determined by Prof. W. A. Cogshall, 



Underwood and Underwood. 



TREE MARKING THE CENTER OF POPULATION OF 

 THE UNITED STATES 



of the University of Indiana, an astronomer, after taking 

 observations of the sun, and the result of complicated calcu- 

 lations based on the 1920-21 census figures. Prof. Frank G. 

 Bates and Professor Cogshall are shown in the photograph 

 standing beside the tree. 



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THE QUENTIN ROOSEVELT TREE 



On Armistice Day, the first anniversary of the planting of 

 the American Forestry Association's tree, the pupils of the 

 Force School, in Washington, held exercises in memory of 

 Quentin Roosevelt, for whom the tree was planted. Young 

 Roosevelt was the only former pupil of the school to lose 

 his life in the World War. Miss Janet McWilliams, the 

 principal of the school, announced the new memorial tree 

 committee, which is self-perpetuating from year to year. The 



new committee members arc: Edith Duchay, Edward Steph- 

 an, Henry Herzog, Alice Spalding, Clement Sabotka, Walter 

 Sweeney, Theodore Grissinger, Arthur Sperry, Ferrer Vitorri, 

 Margaret Borges, Clarence Long, Manning Gasch, Agnes 

 Gill, Melvin Church, Hamilton Shea and Dorothy Harrison. 

 James Bradley was appointed school historian for the new 



THE TREE PLANTED BY THE PUPILS OF THE 

 FORCE SCHOOL TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF 

 "QUENTIN, THE EAGLE." 



year. In the picture are shown Edith D,uehay, Edward 

 Stephan, James Bradley, Melvin Church, Hamilton Shea. 

 This committee reported on the condition of the memorial 

 tree, a lombardy poplar, which is planted in the school yard. 



