Forestry graduate students and faculty, 1932. Seated (l to r): Fred Schreiner (Instructor in Logging Engineering), H.R. ("Pat") Patterson (Professor of Logging Engineering), Dean George W. Peavy, T.J. Starker (Professor of Forestry), and Richard S. Kearns (graduate student and Assistant in Forest Products). Standing (l to r): William J. Baker (Assistant Professor of Lumber Manufacture), Harry Fowells (graduate student), Merle S. Lowden (graduate student), and Vern H. McDaniel (graduate student and Forest Nurseryman).
President George Peavy is shown at a desk in the library room donated by Mrs. Mary J. L. McDonald, a patron of forestry. 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.