SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry - Empire Forester Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Interest In A State Supported College At SYIEICLISC Ul'llV6l'S1ty began in 1905 with Chancellor Day of S.U., when he began to consider the prospects for a forestry school, after the College of Forestry at Cornell was forced to close, due to the governors' veto of the 1903 budget' The rapid early development of the New York State College of Forestry was due mainly to three men-James Day, Hugh Baker, and Louis Marshall. Chancellor Day's first step began in 1907, with the hiring of Dr. Bray, a botanist, to the S.U. facultY' In 1920, the fight for a state college began in the state senate. Finally on july 28, 1911, the bill establishing the College of Forestry was signed. Dr. Baker became the first regular dean of the college in 1912. The sch00l now consisted of 3 faculty and 52 students. 4

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I DEVELOPMENT OF SUNY COLLEGE OF E.S. AND F. The site selected for the first building was just west of a hill called Mount Olympus. Chancellor Day thought the new building should face north, as did most of the buildings on the S.U. campus, while Dean Baker thought it should face west, with later buildings occupying the area south of the stadium. He envisioned a separate forestry campus, with a magnificent view of the Onondaga valley, and the city and hills to the west. On the morning before the college trustees were to inspect the site, Dr. Baker rose early, and with a scythe, personally cleared the site he felt the new building should occupy. Chancellor Day was outwitted for Bray Hall does indeed face west today. Q- 4? - 2 when he ry school, forced t0 3 budget. 'ofk State ien-Iames with the aculfY- In the State ,I became The School 5