

Vol. XII. 



SEPTEMBER, 1906. 



No. 9 



NEWS AND NOTES 



New 

 Secretary 



On September 1 Dr. 

 Thomas E. Will was in- 

 stalled as secretary of 

 the American Forestry Association, 

 succeeding H. M. Suter. Mr. Suter, 

 owing to pressure of personal busi- 

 ness found it impossible to devote his 

 time fully to the Association work, and 

 some time ago notified the Directors 

 of his wish to retire as soon as they 

 were able to select a successor. 



Dr. Will has spent much time in 

 teaching, lecturing, writing, and ad- 

 ministrative work. In 1880, having 

 prepared himself largely by private 

 study, he began teaching in a country 

 school in Woodford county, Illinois, 

 continuing here two years. In the fall 

 of 1882 he entered the Illinois State 

 Normal University, graduating in 

 1885. From 1885 to 1888 he was oc- 

 upied in the schools of Illinois, the last 

 two years as principal of the Edwards 

 Grammar School, Springfield, 111., and 

 as an instructor in teachers' institutes. 

 The years of i888-'9i he spent in the 

 University of Michigan and Harvard, 

 graduating from the latter in 1890. 

 He was thereupon appointed 'Henry 

 Lee Fellow and assistant in political 



economy, in which capacity he con- 

 tinued one year. At the end of this 

 year he resumed teaching, this time as 

 professor of history and political 

 science in Lawrence University, Ap- 

 pleton, Wis. Here he continued two 

 years. The following year, 1893-4, he 

 lectured and wrote in Boston. In 1894 

 he was elected professor of political 

 economy in the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College, where he continued 

 five years, three as professor, and two- 

 as president. 1900 was spent largely 

 in lecturing, writing, and magazine- 

 work in Chicago. The two and a half 

 years succeeding were spent in Ruskin 

 College, Trenton, Mo., as professor of 

 social science, and the next two years 

 in Wichita, Kans., as lecturer and 

 writer. In July, 1905, Professor Will 

 entered the Civil Service at Washing- 

 ton in the Bureau of the Census. He 

 was soon transferred, however, to the 

 editorial division of the Forest Service' 

 and, on September 1, entered upon the 

 work of secretary of the American 

 Forestry Aassciation. During the past 

 summer he has lectured under the au- 

 spices of the Forest Service on for- 

 estry in North Carolina, Indiana, Mis- 

 souri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. 



