University of Arkansas Monticello - Boll Weevil Yearbook (Monticello, AR)

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108 Student Life Almost every forestry student has been to summer camp. Certainly every UAM forestry graduate has. Ask him to recount the experience, though, and he will not tell you of swimming and handicrafts; but of ticks, chiggers, and a summer job for which the only checks he or she got were checks in an instructor’s gradebook. Without a doubt, the term ‘‘summer camp” is a misnomer. It does take place in the summer, but the similarity to anything sponsored by the Boy Scouts or your church, ends there, although summer camping foresters, in the face of a rattlesnake, have been known to find religion. During the UAM Forestry Department’s summer camp program, students learn timber: cruising, surveying, and other essential skills with extensive ‘“‘hands-on’’ experience. Some foresters will tell you that UAM’s summer camp is what separates our program from that of many other schools. While graduates of other institutions may only have heard lectures on a subject such as timber cruising, (determing the wood volume contained in a given forested area) UAM graduates have spent at least 3 hot summer weeks in the woods actually cruising timber. After timber Covering one of the many facets of summer camp, Dee Zimmerman measures tree diameter as Cathy Hicks records his findings.

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After everything and everyone in sight is thoroughly soaked with the es- sences of Greek Day, its instigators enjoy a cook-out. Later, they can en- joy a disco dance open to only those who are too exhausted to dance (i.e., the Greeks). Greek Day colors this campus for both Greeks and independents, who must certainly wish that they too could be egg splattered and exhausted for a day. Left: Debbie Casto assists her partner by keeping the pie stationary. Above: Two Greeks try to exchange an orange without their hands. Below: A family portrait, the Hell Fighters pose for a photographer. Bot- tom: Getting wet is only one of the hazards in the canoe race. Student Life 107

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cruising, forestry students better idea of what the real study surveying, mostly world of forestry is like. As outdoors, of course. every student eventually Summer camp gives learns, no classroom can future foresters at least a duplicate exactly the world a N ————————————————— outside, but for many UAM forestry students, ‘“‘summer camp”’ comes uncomfortably close. Top left: Jimmy Jones uses a clinometer to measure tree heights. Left: James O’Donnell gains experience in current compass handling. Above: Surveying is an integral part of forestry. Students learn methods and techniques of handling surveying equipment. Student Life 109