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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



not being able to attend in person the ceremony of 

 the dedication of your building and to return my grate- 

 ful acknowledgements for the honor, to you and those 

 instrumental in having my name connected with the 

 stately building devoted to the teaching of forestry. 

 This recognition of my services is particularly grateful 

 in that it comes from the institution where my work 

 as teacher began and which has always commanded my 

 loyal interest. 



"Had I been present I would have pointed out that 

 my desserts are more than duly recognized by the 

 handsome compliment of naming the building after 

 me, and that it was only the accident of my being the 

 first in the field and my persistence therein that gave 

 me the proud position in which my friends have in- 

 sisted on placing me. 



"I would also have elaborated the fact that a teacher 

 lives in his students and that the honor heaped on the 

 former is earned by the doings of the latter and would 

 have enumerated the graduates of the earlier years 

 now occupying prominent positions. My pride is cen- 

 tered in them. 



"To your students I would have recommended the 

 adoption of my motto, borrowed from Horace, Carpe 

 diem do the duty of the day with confidence in the 

 due development of the future. 



"The future for forestry seems full of promise and 

 I would have congratulated all who are working in 

 that profession." 



Farm Forestry at tke Berry 

 Schools 



A NNOUNCEMENT has been made by the Principal 

 '* of Berry Schools at Mount Berry, Georgia, that 

 the institution will ofifer a course in Farm Forestry. 

 To all foresters and lovers of forests this comes as an 

 important and interesting announcement, largely be- 

 cause of the character, reputation and plan of Berry 

 Schools. Situated in the foot hills of Georgia, this 

 School has for twenty years served in a unique way, the 

 boys and girls of our Southern Piedmont Region. 

 Early in 1900 Miss Berry, a young Southern woman, 

 saw the need of an industrial and country life school, 

 where the unfortunate but proud and very promising 

 sons and daughters of our Southern highlanders could 

 secure an education fitting them for constructive life 

 and citizenship. The birthplace of Berry Schools was 

 a cabin in a grove near Martha Berry's home. In 1902 

 a small school house was built on property given her 

 by her father, and the Martha Berry Boys' Industrial 

 School began its term of service. Today there are 

 three schools ; one serving the boys, another for the 

 girls and another which is the Mountain Farm School, 

 where foundation training is given to those boys who 

 have never had a chance. The campus, farms and wood 

 lots cover approximately six thousand acres and there 

 are nearly ninety buildings. A remarkable growth from 

 a small log cabin on one's home estate. 



To these schools come young people from all over 

 our rural and mountain South, each seeking a knowl- 

 edge of life and character. From these schools back to 

 their home communities, go young men and women 

 who have learned how to live and be useful. With 

 the ideal of service foremost, they return to their homes 

 to give the best they have that others might live. 



Each student is required to work and thereby earn a 

 portion of his expenses; others by working earn all of 

 their fees. This work takes them into the farm, the 

 wood shop, in the kitchen and on construction jobs. 

 Now some will find employment in the woodlots and 



THIS TKHE ox THK BERRY SCHOOL CAMPUS HOLDS A TABLET 

 ON WHICH IS WRITTEN JOYCE KILMER'S EXQUISITE POEM 

 ENTITLED "TREES." 



learn by doing how best to establi-sh and perpetuate 

 such lands. On the campus everything has been done 

 to help the students understand the beauty of trees and 

 to love them for their great lesson of life. This work 

 has been carried on and supported financially entirely 

 through the efforts of Miss Berry, who is untiring in 

 the struggle to raise money so that some might have the 

 advantage which has been denied many. Unfortunately, 

 funds are sometimes a little slow in coming, and a 

 great many must be refused entrance to these remark- 

 able schools. 



Miss Berry is to be congratulated on this last move 

 towards helping our people to a better understanding of 

 the value and use of our forest lands. 



