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

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FIELD DAY Top: Roger McClendon works his way toward a win in the bow sawing event. Left: Freshman Art McCants prepares to fell his pole as accurately as possible. Top right: Senior Joey VanDee fights the sawdust in the crosscut sawing event. Below right: Dee Zimmerman concentrates on put- ting his axe in the bullseye. As times change, tradition has a way of suffering or dying out altogether. Not so with forestry. Since the switch from a two year to a full four-year pro- gram in 1950, our foresters have con- sistently upheld the reputation deserv- ing of quality graduates in the field. There are two sides to the forester, the most important, his academic pur- suits. Forestry is a technical profession- al field, and its curriculum is according- ly tough. On the other hand, the forest- er has time to enjoy a distinct lifestyle which is so traditionally unique that it has been incorporated into competi- tion. 86 Student Life .

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Above: Spectators, including some who have traveled . 1p. F from the far corners of the state, relax between events. eel ) Below Right: Senior Monty Meek competes in the cross-cut sawing event. Each year our foresters compete in a field day and a conclave, the former acting as a preliminary to the latter. They throw axes, knives, chains. saw logs, crosscut, bow saw, chop poles, climb poles, and even, in lighter moments, have tobacco spitting contests. They also engage in a variety of technical events, more dependent on the academic side of the forester’s exper- ience. It shouldn’t come as 88 Student Life