likelihood of counting the same 

 people twice. 



Forestry and Environmental 

 Studies 1980): 



Production of Top Leaders — 



Undoubtedly every institution that 

 has been producing graduates for 

 20 years or more has alumni who 

 have risen to key leadership 

 positions in the South. Though I 

 did not raise this point with all 

 program leaders interviewed, those 

 with whom it was discussed could 

 identify graduates who had become 

 State foresters, pulp and paper 

 company woodlands managers or 

 vice presidents, prominent 

 consultants, association 

 executives, and the like. 



Perhaps the only published listing 

 of distinguished alumni is that of 

 the Duke School of Forestry and 

 Environmental Studies. It is cited 

 here to illustrate further the types 

 of key leaders produced by 

 southern programs of fairly long 

 standing. 



From the 1930s through 1983, 

 Duke awarded 562 master's and 

 165 doctor's degrees in forestry 

 and areas related to forest products 

 (Matthews, personal 

 communication). In 1980, the 

 School of Forestry and 

 Environmental Studies published 

 biographies of 63 graduates that a 

 faculty committee believed to 

 represent a cross-section of those 

 who had attained positions of 

 leadership. By sector and location, 

 they were distributed as follows 

 (Duke University School of 



Education 



24 university faculty who had 

 attained prominence as scientists, 

 teachers, and/or administrators. 

 Twelve were with southern 

 institutions or had spent a 

 considerable part of their careers 

 in the South. 



Government 



15 prominent USD A Forest 

 Service research scientists and/or 

 administrators. Thirteen were in 

 the South or had extensive career 

 time there. Two had been deputy 

 chiefs for research — the top 

 research leadership position in the 

 agency. 



Private 



20 graduates prominent in the 

 private sector. All were in the 

 South or were leaders in 

 companies with extensive southern 

 operations. Five were regional or 

 national vice presidents of major 

 forest-products companies. Two 

 were presidents of important 

 subsidiaries. Three were presidents 

 and/or owners or partners in well- 

 established forestry consulting 

 firms. 



Training Programs for Forestry and 

 Forest-Products Technicians — Some 

 of the same factors that caused 

 surges in demand following World 

 War II for professionals in forestry 

 and forest products also created 

 demands for trained 



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