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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1903 51 

After graduation from the Forest School, Gardner entered 
the United States Forest Service as forest assistant, which posi- 
tion he held from 1903 to 1906. His work was directed chiefly 
along the line of reforestation in the national forest reserves 
in California, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Oklahoma. 
He was a member of the First Congregational Church of 
Helena, Mont., and of the Society of American Foresters. 
He died of an abscess at the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat 
Hospital in Washington, D. C., June 15, 1906, and was buried 
in that city. 
He had published: Results of a Rocky Mountain forest fire 
studied fifty years after its occurrence (Address before the 
Society of American Foresters, April 28, 1904), Proc. Soc. Am. 
Foresters, I, 102, Nov., 1905. 
Austin F. Hawes 
Experiment Station, Burlington, Vt. 
Residence, 43 South Prospect Street, Burlington, Vt. 
Austin Foster Hawes was born March 17, 1879, in Danvers, Mass., 
the son of Frank M. Hawes, son of Mather Hawes and Laura (Bond) 
Hawes, and Harriet (Foster) Hawes, daughter of Austin F. Foster and 
Sarah H. (Gilman) Foster. He has one brother, Richard Withington 
Hawes, Yale ’o8, and one sister, Sally G. Hawes. 
He was prepared at the Somerville Latin School and received the degree 
of B.A. at Tufts College in 1901. 
He was married June 27, 1908, in Windsor, Conn., to Miss Alice Clapp 
of Windsor, Conn., daughter of Roswell Clapp and Ida (Pierce) Clapp. 
Hawes was employed in the United States Forest Service 
during the summers of 1900, 1901 and 1902. In 1903-04 he 
held the position of forest assistant, and was state forester of 
Connecticut from 1904 to 1909. On April 1, 1909, he was 
appointed state forester of Vermont and professor of forestry 
at the University of Vermont. 
In politics Hawes is a Progressive. He is a member of the 
Society of American Foresters, of the Association of Eastern 
Foresters and of the Ethan Allen Club, Burlington, Vt. 
He has published: (With R. C. Hawley) Forestry in New 
England, N. Y., Wiley & Sons, 1912, 8vo, XV-+ 479 pp., 14 
figs., 2 maps. . 
