The Fraternity of Forest HistoryAuthor(s): Walter F. McCulloch, Corydon Wagner and John H. MooreSource: Forest History, Vol. 6, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 1962), pp. 14+19Published by: Forest History Society and American Society for Environmental HistoryStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3983171 .

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The Fraternity of Forest History The Forest History Society is a fraternity of persons formally organized for the purpose of collecting, pre- serving, researching, writing and publishing the forest history of North America. The editors take pride in devoting this section of Forest History to introducing some of the businessmen, foresters, teachers, college and university administrators, professional writers, conservationists, editors and others who are taking most active parts in carrying out the purposes of the Society.

Walter F. McCulloch THE CANADIAN-BORN DEAN of the School of Forestry of Oregon State University at Corvallis, Walter F. Mc- Culloch, has channeled his abilities and energy into a wide variety of indus- trial, governmental and educational ac- tivities. McCulloch acquired his first knowledge of forestry as a youth in the woods of his native British Columbia serving the Dominion Forest Service as a compassman and cruiser. He con- tinued to work for the Forest Service wvhile attending the University of Brit- ish Columbia, from which he received his B.A. in 1925 at the age of twenty. Descending Puget Sound the follow- ing year, he began graduate work at the University of WaEshington and file(d his papers for naturalization as a citi- zen of the United States.

The years 1927 to 1936 found Mc- Culloch in the East. There he sttdi(ld at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University and rounded out his experience by manag- ing a wholesale hardware store, work- ing for the Erie Railroad, and becom- ing a Graduate Assistant at Syracuse. Armed with the degree of Master of Forestry, McCulloch went west again- this time to Michigan where he be- came director of a nursery and forest experiment station at Michigan State College.

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Corydon Wagner THE WORK OF "CORDY" Wagner has not only established him as a leading lumberman on the Pacific Coast but also carried him to the four corners of the earth as a representative of the American forest products industry.

In 1949 he was an advisor to the United States delegation at the Third World Forestry Congress in Helsinki, Finland. The next world congress. five years later, found Cordy in Dehra Dun, India, as a delegate. When the congress in 1960 was held in Seattle in his native state of Washington, it was only fitting that Wagner should have been the Vice Chairman of the Ameri- can delegation. In both of the two pre- vious years he had been the Chairman of the U.S. delegations at the sessions of the E.C.E. Timber Committee in Switzerland.

Wagner's qualifications as a sp)okes- man for American lumbering have been earned through many years of indlus- trial experience. Born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1895, he became Vlice- President and Treasurer of the St. Paul and Tacoma Luimber Company in 1933 and continued in that post until 1960. For 20 years following 1937 he served as President of the C. W. Gri gs Investment Company of Tacoma. His activities on behalf of the indtustry led him over the years to become Presi-

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John H. Moore THE DIRECTOR OF the Lumber Archives at the University of Mississippi is Dr. John H. Moore. Both he and his wife, Margaret DesChamps Moore of Bish- opville, South Carolina, are associate professors of history at the University of Mississippi. Born in Greenville, Mis- sissippi, in 1920, Moore has focused his' interest, teaching and research on the. economic history of the Souith. He has written many articles in this field for scholarly journals and a book, Agri- culture in Ante-Bellum Missismippi. In 1959 he used materials in the files of the Masonite Corporationi to produce a paper on the career of William H. Mason which he read to the Southern Historical Association. This study of the development of masonite and its con- tribution to the southern forest prodl- ucts industry was published in the Journal of Southern History in May, 1961.

Moore's early interest was not in history, but in aeronautics. He was trained in aeronautical enginieering and during World War II served as a pjilot in a troop carrier squadron operating out of Italy. Returning home deco- rated with the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Moore was employed( by the Curtiss Wright Corporation as an aerodynamicist. In 1949 he embarke(d upon graduate study in history at the

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W. F. McCulloch (From Page 14)

This experience in practical forestry behind him, McCulloch turned his at- tention to education. The University of Southern California, Oregon State College and the University of Oregon all contributed to the training which ultimately earned him the position of Assistant Professor of Forestry at Ore- gon State College and the degree of Doctor of Education from the Univer- sity of Oregon.

The coming of World War II drew McCulloch back into the practice of forestry as Assistant State Forester of Oregon under Nels Rogers. His last big job during these critical years in the Oregon woods was that of camp boss in the fight to contain the great fire of 1945 which swept the Tillanmook Burn-300,000 acres of giant snags produced by the two earlier disastrous blazes of 1933 and 1939.

Back on the campus at Corvallis in the fall of 1945, Professor McCulloch was made head of the School of For- estry's Department of Forest Manage- ment. He soon converted his position into a focal point for a wide variety of forestry activities both state and national. Job-placement of graduates of the school became one of his major concerns. To promote this work Mc- Culloch instituted a program of check- ing up on the records of graduates at periods of one, three, and five years after graduation which has won com- plete support from personnel managers of the largest logging companies and manufacturers of forest products. Af- ter three years as Acting Dean, McCul- loch was made Dean of the School of Forestry in 1955.

Mac is a man of great personal en- ergy. He is an active member of the Society of American Foresters, which recently elected him one of its Fellows. He has served as Salem District chair- man of the Bureau of Land Manage- ment Advisory Board, as editor for the Western Forestry and Conservation Association, and carried out several as- signments for the Point Four program. His interest in history has brought him into the Oregon Historical Society as well as the Forest History Society. In addition to numerous articles he has written, McCulloch is the author of A Forester on the Job and co-author of Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Of immense value to the student of forest history is his com- prehensive dictionary of loggers' terms, Woods~ Words, the result of more than 30 years of researc?h.

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(From Page 17) job on state lands and was also called upon to give assistance and advice to private owners in their cleanup and salvage operations.

The establishment and development of the system of state forests began in 1914 with the appropriation of $90,000 and the appointment of a State Forest Commission. In 1961 there were 170,- 000 acres of state forests, a creditable showing but still considerably less than the goal of 500,Q00 acres set by the legislature in the 1930's.

Fifty Years a Forester is more than just the account of the life and career of one man. It is, with individual vari- ations, the story of the common ex- perience of foresters during the past half-century. It is the story of a for- ester's love of his work and his belief in its importance, of efforts justified by accomplishment and also of hopes dashed because of obstacles we hold in low esteem. This is all entertainingly told and with a fine sense of humor.

Corydon Wagner (From Page 14)

dent of the National Lumber Manu- facturers Association, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and the Western Forestry and Conserva- tion Association. He is still a director of all these organizations.

Wagner's business interests in the Northwest span both sides of the Canadian-American boundary. He now holds the positions of Chairman of the Cariboo-Pacific Corporation of Tacoma, President of Merrill Gardner, Ltd., of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Vice President of the R. D. Merrill Com- pany of Seattle. He is also director of the Merrill & Ring Western Lumber Company of Port Angeles, Washing- ton.

His interests in forestry and forest history have carried Cordy Wagner into many activities outside of his business enterprises. In addition to being a director of the Forest History Society, he is a member of the Society of American Foresters and of the So- ciety of Sigma Xi, and a director of the American Forestry Association.

Wagner married Eulalie Merrill in 1924. They have three children: George Corydon III, Merrill, and Wendy, who is now Mrs. George H. Weyerhaeuser.

John H. Moore (From Page 14)

University of Mississippi, where he earned a Master's degree. He then went to Emory University in Atlanta where he was awarded a Ph.D. in his- tory and undertook his first teaching. In later years he taught at both Delta State College and the University of Mississippi.

Moore was called to "Ole Miss" to teach and to direct the newly-estab- lished Lumber Archives. These ar- chives had been established in the Uni- versity library in 1954 by the coopera- tive efforts of Dr. James Silver, then Chairman of the Department of His- tory at the University, and Elwood Maunder, Director of the Forest His- tory Society. As the archives grew through the accumulation of increasing quantities of materials dealing with timber operations in the region, the University decided to put them under the direction of a man well trained in southern economic history and Moore was chosen.

Under his guidance the archives are not only expanding in size and utility but are becoming a center for research in southern forest history. This sum- mer Charles Crawford will begin work under the direction of Professor Moore on the history of the R. F. Learned and Sons, Inc., of Natchez from the Civil War to World War I. Contacts between the archives and forest prod- ucts companies of the region have opened up the possibilities of a wide variety of historical projects. Moore's own study of the Masonite Corporation has demonstrated the rich potential- ities of the work he is undertaking.

FHS Board (From Page 15)

David T. Mason, Mason, Bruce and Girard, Portland, Oregon; John H. Moore, Professor of American History, University of Mississippi, Oxford; A. D. Nutting, Dean of the School of Forestry, University of Maine, Orono; Bernard L. Orell; Wendell H. Stephen- son, Professor of American History, University of Oregon, Eugene; Cory- don Wagner, Chairman of Cariboo- Pacific Corporation, Tacoma, Washing- ton; F. K. Weyerhaeuser, Chairman of the Board, The Weyerhaeuser Com- pany, St. Paul; David J. Winton, Presi- dent of the Winton Companies.

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