University of Idaho School of Forestry - Forester Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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THE IDAHO FORESTER 35 This year an average of two meetings a month have been held, one a banquet, and the other a business meeting. Speakers at the banquets have come from the School of For- estry, the Botany Department, the Geology Department, the Department of Entomology, and the Agronomy Department. While these departments are all quite closely associated with forestry, topics have been chosen to cover a wide variety of subjects in an efort to get away from purely forestry discussions and get a broader perspective of these related sciences. CHAPTER SELECTS NEW MEMBERS New members initiated this year include Dr. W. D. Miller, John JK. McNair, T. Stewart Bu- chanan, and Paul H. Talich. In keeping with the custom begun last year, each neophyte is required to prepare a plaque of genuine Idaho white pine f10X12X1 inches in sizej and burn on it the Greek letters of the fraternity. Each member of the local chapter signs his name to this plaque and the candidate is required to carry it with him for three days prior to his initiation. In addition, the candidate is re- quested to wear Held clothes on the day before initiation and carry with him some substantial and conspicuous tool of his profession. GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PLANTING Another project completed this season was the sowing of grass seed on the George Wash- ington Bicentennial Colorado Blue Spruce planting area which the chapter undertook last season. The plantation is conspicuously lo- cated between the west end of the athletic field and the Arboretum. At present, plans are under way for a large stone monument which is to bear a plate having engraved upon it the names of those members making the plan- tation. The second annual dance was held April 15 at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. This dance is our only important social event so elaborate arrangements for an enjoyable evening of dancing and cards were not spared. The patrons and patronesses were Professor and Mrs. F. W. Gail, Professor and Mrs. G. L. Luke, Mr. Otto Turinsky and Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Patty. The officers of Epsilon Chapter for this sea- son are: Forester, George M. Fisherg Asso- ciate Forester, Charles A. Wellnerg Secretary and Fiscal Agent, Ralph Ahlskogg and Ranger, Lloyd Hayes. A Believe It OT Not Idaho alums will recall that it is a long way from the window ledge of the large School of Forestry lecture room on the third Hoor of Morrill Hall to the ground outside-35 feet to be exact-but an English setter which fol- lowed George Fisher to school one day last February made it in just one jump. The dog made a little dent in the eight inches of snow and was inclined to set only for a short time. In fifteen minutes he was running around as always. After all the School of Forestry does have a lightning express elevator. FAITH IN YOURSELF STANLEY Foss BARTLETT in Personal Efficiency When you're blue and discouraged and sore at the world, Despairing its lust and its greed, It isn't a hand-out from somebody else But faith in yourself that you need. When the man that you think is no than you better Is prosperous without a creed, It isn't a graft nor a pull nor a lift But faith in yourself that you need. When you're tempted to think that it isn't I worthwhile To struggle for right till you bleed, You will find this the answer to all of your prayers, It's faith in yourself that you need.

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XI SIGMA Pl G. LLOYD HAYES, '34 Ranger, Epsilon Chapter ' EPSILON Chapter of Xi Sigma Pi has, this year, enjoyed one of its most prospe1'011S years since its installation in 1920. As surely as this organization is the leading honorary forestry fraternity in the United States, Epsi- lon Chapter has ass.umed a place of major im- portance among the honorary societies on our campus. Xi Sigma Pi was first organized as a local society in 1908 at the University of Washing- NEW AWARD ESTABLISHED This year the society has instituted a new award. Any graduating senior having aver- age grade of not less than 4.5 for his first two years and 5.0 for his junior and first semester senior year is eligible. The candidates are given a weighted grade on the basis of schol- arship 50 per cent, professional interest 15 per cent, personality 15 per cent, practical ex- perience and recommendations regarding the A ACTIVE CHAPTER or XI SIGMA PI, 1932-1933. Reading from left to right, back row-Dean F. G. Miller, Dr. Edwin C. Jahn, John J. McNair, Stanley C. Clarke, Royale K. Pierson, Dr. E. E. Hubert, Liter E. Spence, and A. M. Sowcler. Front Row-G. Lloyd Hayes, Kenneth Daniels, slsog, Charles A. Wellner, Corlancl James ton. Since that time it has grown to be a national organization and has eight chapters located at leading forest schools throughout the country. The objects of the fraternity are to secure and maintain a high standard of scholarship in forest education, to work for the upbuilding of the profession of forestry, and to promote fraternal relations among earnest workers en- gaged in forest activities. To encourage schol- arship among Idaho forestry students, Epsilon Chapter has maintained in the Administration Building since 1922 a bronze plaque of artistic design. Each year the name of the student of each class who attained the highest scholastic average is engraved on this plaque. This has proved to be a forceful stimulus to scholarship. Those who attained this honor last year were: Senior, Joseph F. Pechanecg Junior, Charles A. Wellnerg Sophomore, G. Lloyd Hayes, and Freshman, Floyd O. Tumelson. 7 Paul Talich, George M. Fisher, Ralph H. Ahl- anol Dr. VV. D. Mille1'. same 10 per cent, and leadership 10 p-er cent. The award consists of membership to the So- ciety of American Foresters and a y'ear's sub- scription to the Journal of Forestry. Member- ship to the Society of American Foresters is attainable only through nomination by a Sec- tion of the Society and election later by the Society, hence Epsilon Chapter shall recom- mend the award winner to the Northern Rocky Mountain Section. This section has kindly of- fered to co-operate and nominate for member- ship the successful candidate. The winner this year is George M. Fisher, Forester of Ep- silon Chapter. A third award sponsored jointly by Xi Sigma Pi and the Associated Foresters is a silver loving cup which goes each year to the class winning the annual track and field meet at the foresters' barbecue. It was won last year by the Juniors. 34

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DO YOU REMEMBER? MUSINGS OF THE ALUMS WHEN it took two cups of coffee for a six- weeks' quizzg four for a final, and six to fill up Hank Hoffman? WHEN Prof Behre took us on a field trip to the adjacent logging camps, and I CH. Baumannj couldn't hike? WHEN Gustafson ran a race with the I Club at a football game and both won and lost? WHEN Tom Jackson broke out of the guard house at Hayden Lake encampment and made his escape in a row boat, and the thrilling capture by the oiiicer of the guard? WHEN Big Bad Bill Calendar used to tell us how the wobblies did things and some- body would always end it by saying '4Yes, 'Big Bad Bill' is 'Sweet William' now ? WHEN The Wobblies of '27 called their meetings by hanging out red lanterns? WHEN Dr. Haasis said You can pour in more cold creosote anytime now, boys ? WHEN Percy Rowe headed a self-appointed committee to investigate the actions of cer- tain members of the class who were alleged- ly s-eeking to become faculty favorites? The investigation was held in the bunk-house of the Priest River Experiment Station and the third degree was freely employed. WHEN the fellows on the Junior Field Trip, '31, took rocks to bed with them? WHEN the CoEee Club was thriving? a talk in the in his WHEN one forestry professor gave about being careful about smoking woods, then put his lighted pipe I pocket and burned his clothes? WHEN Franklin Klepinger explained tail the duties of his summer job to Wes Shull, entomology prof? in de- WHEN Jack Rodner almost froze his feet in front of a sorority house? WHEN Jemison and LeBarron spent a men- suration period discussing which way a tree leans on a side hill? WHEN Fred Kennedy found himself tied to a tree during a surveying lab and it was about 20 degrees below? WHEN and who quoted the following to the Forest Mensuration class of '29, That Rus- sian student thought he was measuring gold bricks ? WHEN a professor asked Frank Klepinger, What do you expect to learn in this course in silviculture? and Klep's answer was That's just what I want to know, Doc ? WHEN a self-appointed Vigilance Committee introduced Farmer to a cold plunge in the creek at Headquarters on the Held trip of 1929? 36 WHEN Prof. Watson was teaching a group of lumber jacks how to trim limbs from trees? I do- Give 'em the ax. WHEN Prof. Dahm arrived on time at an eight o'clock math. class? Neither do I. WHEN Leonard z'Andy Anderson held the gummy on the Junior Field Trip of 1931? WHEN the Foresters hiked to top of Moscow Mt. on a field trip and laid out over night? Rain started falling during the night and it was a wet and dejected party that hiked back through the mud to Moscow. WHEN Dr. C. A. Schenck made his original Moscow appearance in his Teutonic costume of military cape and small fedora with feather very rampant therein? WHEN the mensuration class C265 return- ing from Potlatch unloaded a truck of par- tially undressed foresters? 'fIke Burroughs will. WHEN Dean Miller entered the log chopping contest at the Barbecue in 1925? WHEN Moscow Mt., our dear old lab., was hours away for any lad? Foresters then were real he men, needing no trucks to coddle them. WHEN the forestry class started for Potlatch, away back in the winter of 1913-14 on the electric train and had to shovel the -train out of snowdrifts near Viola? Also an- other field trip to Moscow Mt. when the class was marooned in an old cabin all night and removed the ants from the sugar by the Hotation process? When the Foresters took camp cooking in the Domestic Science Dept.? When the tallest tree in the arboretum was less than five feet in height? WHEN Dodd, Gill and Eastman sang Minnie the Mermaid over the bunk-house phone at Priest River Experiment Station and the telephone girl in Priest River caught it? WHEN the Ags missed around 500 dough- nuts just before their annual dance the fall of '22? Boy, if we had had a little more time we'd had the cider also. Some feed. And a fraternity got blamed. Ha! Ha! WHEN the '30 guard school on the St. Joe turned out to be a singing in the rain party? WHEN Fred Kennedy '29, got lost from the main field party, climbed to the Ohio Match summit, and had to ride back down on the Duce ? How about it, Fred? WHEN Arlie Decker left for the east to take advanced work? We gave him a real send- olf. All who attended will never forget-not even Arlie. Ask him. On this occasion a special unveiling of the statue on the cam- pus was had. fContinued on page 523