THE ANNUAL MEETING 



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our President, Mr. Pack, during the past three years, in 

 the promotion of forestry interests in our country, and 

 in the notable and valuable patriotic work done by him 

 in the National War Garden Commission, a great war 

 work, cognate to forestry, and carried on in close affilia- 

 tion with our Association and under its auspices, but 

 without a dollar of cost to the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. Also in the collection and presentation to France, 

 Belgium and Great Britain without cost to the Association 

 of tree seeds for reforesting the devastated areas. In 

 the great war the United States put aside for the time 

 all other interests to forward the cause of right and of 

 world democracy. Our students left their studies, pro- 

 fessors enrolled as war aids, clergymen served as chap- 

 lains, professional and business men put country before 

 personal interest, and our American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, under the leadership of Mr. Pack and the United 

 States Forest Service, under Colonel Graves and his 

 able staff showed by the work of the forestry regiments 

 what an element of practical preparedness forestry had 

 built up for avail in the time of national need. 



"We have had at the head of the American Forestry 

 Association a practical forester and lumberman in Mr, 

 Pack, a business man of large experience and executive 

 ability, and a gentleman of charming presence and tactful 

 personality well fitted to forward and promote throughout 

 our country interest in and support of the forestry cause, 

 and we have in charge of our magazine, an editor, in Mr. 

 Ridsdale, of great ability, untiring energy and resource. 



"The American Forestry Association should not be 

 run as an organization for the interest and edification 

 only of its members who are professional foresters. It 

 serves a great national educational mission in forestry 

 through its wide membership and its well conducted 

 magazine. If the Association was restricted to a purely 

 professional membership and its magazine run as a tech- 

 nical journal, the influence of the Association among our 

 people in promoting support for forestry in Congress and 

 in our state legislatures and in combating measures an- 

 tagonistic to forestry, would be very small. We owe it 

 largely and mainly to the energy of Mr. Pack, and to 

 his great personal liberality in the contribution of funds, 

 that the Association has been able to organize so success- 

 ful a campaign for enlargement of membership; and we 

 further owe to him the telling publicity campaign for 

 forestry and forest interests that has been so success- 

 ful. We owe it today to ourselves to show Mr. Pack 

 how we value and appreciate what he has done, and to 

 give him our assurance of support in the continuance of 

 his good and effective work." 



The officers who were elected are : 

 President, Charles Lathrop Pack. 

 Vice-Presidents, Vincent Astor, New York; W. E. 

 Colby, California; Coleman DuPont, Delaware; Dr. 



Charles W. Eliot, Massachusetts; Dr. B. E. Fernow, 

 Canada; E. G. Griggs, Washington; Henry S. Graves, 

 District of Columbia; Hon. David Houston, District of 

 Columbia ; Hon. Franklin K. Lane, District of Columbia ; ' 

 Dr. John Grier Hibben, New Jersey; Hon. Robert P. 

 Bass, New Hampshire; Stephen C. Mather, Illinois; 

 Hon. Thomas Nelson Page, Virginia; Fiibert Roth, 

 Michigan ; Dr. J. T. Rothrock, Pennsylvania ; Mrs. John 

 Dickinson Sherman, Illinois; Hon. William Howard 

 Taft, Connecticut ; Theodore N. Vail, New York ; Hon 

 John W. Weeks, Massachusetts. 



Board of Directors, Nelson C. Brown, New York; 

 W. R. Brown, New Hampshire; H. H. Chapman, Con- 

 necticut; Standish Chard, New York; Hon. P. P. Clax- 

 ton, District of Columbia; Dr. Henry S. Drinker, Penn- 

 sylvania; Alfred Gaskill, New Jersey; W. B. Greeley, 

 District of Columbia ; Chester W. Lyman, New York ; 

 Emerson McMillin, New York; Charles Lathrop Pack, 

 New Jersey; Addison S. Pratt, New York; Charles F. 

 Quincy, New York; E. A. Sterling, N. Y.; J. B. White, 

 Missouri. 



There was presented at the meeting by a committee 

 consisting of E. F. Baldwin, R. S. Kellogg and P. S. 

 Ridsdale, the following resolution : 



Whereas, The National War Garden Commission, 

 organized in March, 191 7, by Charles Lathrop Pack, and 

 conducted, directed and provided for financially by him 

 until it ceased its war time activities on June 1, 1919, did 

 a tremendous and unselfish public service in increasing 

 the food supply of the United States during and follow- 

 ing the war by inspiring the planting of over 5,285,000 

 war gardens and conserving great quantities of fruit and 

 vegetables by canning and drying ; and, 



Whereas, The food thus produced was of the value 

 of $1,200,000,000; and, 



Whereas, The Conservation Department of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association through its officers directed this 

 work, the Association was enabled to conduct this great 

 war time activity which made it known throughout the 

 world. Be it 



Resolved, That the members of the American Forestry 

 Association express their gratification that it was the 

 President of the Association who directed and led this 

 war time activity which so greatly added to the war-need- 

 ed assets of the nation, and for which as a far-sighted 

 patriot he is entitled to the heartfelt thanks of his fellow- 

 citizens. 



At a directors meeting, preceding the annual meeting, 

 plans for an international forestry congress were dis- 

 cussed. It was proposed that the Association hold such 

 a congress during the coming summer, providing it will 

 be convenient for delegates from Europe, South Ameri- 

 ca, Canada, Japan and China to attend at that time, 

 tribute of admiration today for the great work done by 



