Spring trip to Marys Peak, 1923. Students in background: with fry pan, James L. Mielke; Kenneth Murdock; with pipe, Trevor Lewis; with stick, James D. Shaver. At table, Dean G.W. Peavy and H.I. Nettleton. Note circular saw used for stove top.
27th Annual Fernhopper Banquet which brought the Forestry Centennial Conference to a close February 21, 1959. Head table includes: Governor Mark Hatfield, Secretary Ervin L. Peterson, Dean W. F. McCulloch, and Dean E. B. Lemon.
A. L. Strand and E. B. Lemon in suits in the picnic chow line. August LeRoy Strand served as president of Oregon State University from 1942-1961. Strand helped create the Oregon State College Foundation in 1947 and introduced the idea of an OSU golf course.
Marvin Rowley received a degree in Forestry in 1950 and became Benton County's timber manager. Rowley helped rebuild the Forestry Club Cabin after it burned to the ground in February of 1949. Rowley received the Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2003. Harry Nettleton was an instructor for the Forestry department.
TJ Starker in a classroom, leaning against a log. Thurman James Starker was a professor of Forestry from 1922-1942. Starker taught courses in forest management and silviculture and purchased land during the 1930's which would become Starker Forests. Starker helped Corvallis gain Avery Park and was made a member of the Oregon State Board of Forestry by Governor Mark Hatfield in 1962.
George Wilcox Peavy is sitting in front of the fireplace in the OSU forestry cabin. George Wilcox Peavy was the first Dean of Forestry from 1913-1940 and president of Oregon State College from 1932-1940. Peavy founded an arboretum that would act as a laboratory for forestry students. The arboretum also contains the Forestry Club Cabin for club meetings.
Paul M. Dunn served as Dean of Forestry at Oregon State College from 1942 until 1955, when he joined the St. Regis Paper Company. Dunn was instrumental in obtaining the 6200-acre Adair Tract for teaching and research and it was subsequently named the Paul M. Dunn Research Forest in his honor. In 1952-53, Dunn assisted in establishing a school of forest engineering at the University of Chile.
Michael Newton was a professor for the Department of Forest Science. Newton received his M.S. from OSU in 1960 and Ph.D. in 1964. Newton's focuses of interest include herbicides, reforestation, and forest ecology.