EDUCATIONAL 



Appointments at Syracuse 



Since Dr. Hugh P. Baker, formerly in 

 charge of the Department of Forestry at 

 the Pennsylvania State College, took charge 

 of the New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse University on April 1st, the fol- 

 lowing additions have been made to the 

 Forestry Faculty : 



Professor Frank F. Moon, who for the 

 past two years has been in charge of Fores- 

 try at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 comes to the College as Professor of Forest 

 Engineering. Professor Moon is a graduate 

 of Amherst College and the Yale Forest 

 School, 1909. After working for the Forest 

 Service in Texas, he was appointed Forester 

 of the Highlands of Hudson Forest Reser- 

 vation, and while connected with the Forest, 

 Fish and Game Commission of New York, 

 prepared a bulletin on the Forest Conditions 

 of Warren County, New York. Professor 

 Moon will spend the coming summer in 

 Germany. 



Professor Philip T. Coolidge, who has been 

 Director of the Forest School of Colorado 

 College, will take charge of the Ranger 

 School of the New York State College of 

 Forestry on July 1st. Professor Coolidge is 

 a graduate of the Harvard Forest School 

 and after two years' work with the Govern- 

 ment in the West, took charge of the Colo- 

 rado School of Forestry, which he has 

 brought to high efficiency. 



Professor Nelson C. Brown, who has been 

 teaching in the Department of Horticulture 

 and Forestry in the Iowa State College 

 during the past year, takes up work with 

 the College on July 1st as Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Forest Utilization. Professor 

 Brown was graduated from Yale University 

 in 1906, and from the Forest School in 1908. 

 During 1908 he was Forest Assistant on the 

 Absaroka Forest in Montana and in 1909 be- 

 came Deputy Supervisor on the Gallatin 

 Forest. During a portion of 1910 Professor 

 Brown was an instructor in the Yale Forest 

 School Camp at Milford, Pa., and in the 

 fall of 1910 was assigned as Deputy Super- 

 visor on the Kaniksu National Forest. 



Professor John W. Stephen, who had been 

 a Forester with the Forest, Fish and Game 

 Commission of New York since the spring 

 of 1908, came to the College of Forestry on 

 April 15th as Assistant Professor of Silvi- 

 culture. Professor Stephen is a graduate of 

 the University of Michigan, and in 1907 re- 

 ceived from that Institution the degree of 

 M. F. During 1907 and 1908 Professor 

 Stephen was in charge of the Michigan 

 Forest Reserve and during the same year 

 acted as Instructor in Forestry in the Uni- 



versity of Michigan. Since taking up work 

 in New York, he has had much to do with 

 the planting of waste lands in the Adiron- 

 dacks and developed the State Nursery at 

 Salamanca. While connected with the State 

 he published a report on a Forest Survey 

 of Oneida County, New York, and on the 

 Basket Willow Industry of the State. 



In the fall of 1912 Professor Edward F. 

 McCarthy came to the College of Forestry 

 as an Assistant Professor, and will have 

 charge of the work in Dendrology and Wood 

 Technology. Mr. McCarthy graduated from 

 the Forest School of the University of 

 Michigan in 1911, and during his last year 

 there assisted Professor Roth in the course 

 in Technology. During 1910 he was em- 

 ployed by the Ohio State Forestry Depart- 

 ment and in June, 1911, became a Forest 

 Assistant on the Caribou Forest in Idaho. 



Students in the Forest 



The students of the Forestry Department 

 of the Missouri Agricultural College are 

 making a study during the summer months 

 of the forest conditions in the pine forests 

 of Shannon County. A camp has been estab- 

 lished near Eminence on the Current River 

 on the holdings of the Missouri Lumber and 

 Mining Company, of which Capt. J. D. White, 

 the president of the National Conservation 

 Commission, is the president and general 

 manager. The students live in tents, cook 

 their own meals and by "living next to 

 nature" learn to be "woods wise." 



Biltmore Doings 



The Biltmore Forest School students leave 

 Cadillac on the 6th of August, for the west- 

 ern headquarters, established since 1911, on 

 the holdings of the famous C. A. Smith 

 Timber Co. at Marshfield, Oregon. En route 

 to the West, they wiii visit the National 

 forests and the logging operations in Idaho 

 and on Puget Sound, and are looking for- 

 ward, with keen anticipations, to the lessons 

 of the West in practical American forestry. 

 Their address, after August 18th, is Marsh- 

 field, Oregon. 



The degree of Bachelor of Forestry was 

 granted, upon the completion of the statutory 

 conditions, to G. W. Thompson and J. K. 

 Esser, in the U. S. Forest Service; R. V. 

 Myers, with the Champion Lumber Company; 

 Harry S. Welby and Hubbard Hastings, with 

 the C. A. Smith Timber Co.; P. A. Guibord, 

 with the Laurentide Paper Company; Christo- 

 pher Swezey, with the American Forestry 



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