Appendix A. College of Forestry Publications

APPENDIX A

COLLEGE OF FORESTRY PUBLICATIONS

The Annual Cruise

Published by the Forestry Club

OREGON STATE COLLEGE CORVALLIS, OREGON June, 1958

To Bill Davies: The Class of 1958 dedicates this Annual Cruise.

Sincerely

[Signatures of the Forestry Club members follow, in holograph.]

[The 1958 issue of the Annual Cruise was dedicated to Professor William A. Davies. The previous page contains autographs of the Forestry Club members with the dedication.]

DEDICATION OF 1958 ANNUAL CRUISE

Professor William A. Davies

This year's Annual Cruise is dedicated to Professor William A. Davies, Head of the Forest Engineering Department. Professor Davies is widely known and respected in professional circles, and greatly admired by his students. Let us take this time to review the life and achievements of our senior forest engineering (F.E.) advisor.

Life began for Bill in Seattle, Washington, where he received his primary and high school training. After graduation he worked in the woods on the rigging until he was involved in a speeder accident. This incident changed the course of his life. Instead of returning to the woods to set chokers, he decided to further his knowledge in forestry and improve his technical abilities. He enrolled in logging engineering at the University of Washington where he graduated magna cum laude in 1938. While at Washington, he was ranger of the Xi Sigma Pi, and a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Sigma honoraries.

Following graduation, Bill worked for the U.S. Forest Service in timber sales and fire control. But soon private industry beckoned and he went to work for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company supervising cutting practices on logging contracts. Still not satisfied with his education, Bill returned to the University of Washington to acquire his master's degree. In 1946, after writing a thesis on "Graphic and Tabular Methods of Determining Tension in Logging Skylines,"

he received his degree.

Soon after, Bill moved, but this time to join the staff at Oregon State College (O.S.C.). In 1951 he was appointed Head of the F.E. Department with the rank of full professor.

Since joining O.S.C. he has spent three summers working for the Oregon Forest Products Laboratory on a survey of Lane County sawmills and a study of decay in Douglas-fir. When not dangling salmon eggs in a nearby trout stream, Bill does considerable consulting for the School of Forestry including work on McDonald Forest and the Adair Tract.

In professional circles, Bill has been active in the Society of American Foresters as a student membership representative for the Columbia River Section, and is a member of the Bureau of Land Management, Salem District Advisory Board. He has also served on several important committees in the Pacific Logging Congress. Along with all these activities, he is responsible for the school's instruments and tools.

Bill is exceptionally conscious of his students' educational needs and has given his senior class considerable practical knowledge that he has acquired from his own experiences. Although he provides difficult courses of study, he is very understanding toward students' problems. Just recently, he passed the professional engineering exam and modestly related his few difficulties to his students. Coupled with this understanding and modesty are his friendliness and willingness to help, and those of us who have had the opportunity to be inspired by him have been fortunate indeed.

It is in recognition of his achievements and contributions to the profession, and in appreciation for his services to the school and its students that this ANNUAL CRUISE is dedicated to Professor William A. Davies.

Bob Cramer

DEDICATION OF 1973 ANNUAL CRUISE

This year the staff of the Annual Cruise takes great pleasure in dedicating the 1973 Annual Cruise to two very fine men, Bill Davies and Tony Van Vliet. Bill Is retiring this year after a distinguished career as an instructor and Department Head of Forest Engineering. Tony a fine instructor and counselor for Wood Products majors was the students' choice for the 1972 Aufderheide Award.

Bill Davies Tony Van Vliet

WILLIAM A. DAVIES

[This page was published in the 1973 Annual Cruise, the year of Bill's retirement.]

Professor William A. Davies, Head of the Forest Engineering Department, Supervisor of the School Forest, "Keeper of the Spotted Owl."

Bill retires at the end of this year, drawing to a close another segment in his long and distinguished career. Down through the years, Bill has followed a course of great dedication to the forestry profession.

Bill was born in Seattle on January 22, 1908. He went to a number of grammar schools in Washington; Port Angeles, Seattle, Shelton, Olympia, even a one-room country school in Lake Crescent. When he graduated from Olympia High School in 1926, his logging career had already begun. At age 14, he began working on one of the first truck logging operations in western Washington as a "whistle punk". After high school and until 1929, he worked in a variety of jobs in logging, road, and bridge construction. Between 1929 and 1932 he surveyed out of Union, Washington. In 1932 he started work with the forest service out of Olympia in timber sales and fire control. Meanwhile, he went back to school in 1934 at the University of Washington to major in logging engineering. He graduated magna cum laude in 1938 and returned full time to the forest service. In 1940 it was back to school for course work on a master's, also in logging engineering with a minor in forest management, at U.W. (University of Washington). He completed his thesis, Graphic and Tabular Methods of Determining Tension in Logging Skylines and received his degree in 1946. Between 1940 and 1946 he supervised logging contracts for Weyerhaeuser Company. Bill finally settled down in 1946 when he came to O.S.U.. He has been on the forest engineering department staff since then and head of the department since 1951.

Bill is a member of several distinguished organizations and committees; three honorary fraternities: Xi Sigma Pi, Phi Sigma, Sigma Xi (associate); Society of American Foresters (S.A.F.); and the Salem District Bureau of Land Management Advisory Board. He has served in various capacities in the S.A.F.; as chairman of the membership committee for the Columbia River Section; as representative for student membership at O.S.U.; and as associate editor of the Journal of Forestry. He became a registered professional engineer in Oregon in 1958.

On the home side, Bill and his wife Joan have two children, William and Robert, both graduates of O.S.U. His recreational interests include fishing and sports. Bill's immediate plans include a trip to Europe to visit his wife's native England. The forest engineering department and the School of Forestry have come a long way in the past 27 years, and Bill has certainly had a unique and important role in this development.

FACULTY FLASHBACK - 1961

FOREST ENGINEERING

[from Oregon State Forester, Vol XXVII, no.1 January 1974]

The past year has been an extremely productive one for the forest engineering department. We have been able to take advantage of some real opportunities in undergraduate education, research, and extension.

We have incorporated more operations research techniques into our undergraduate courses by taking advantage of Ed Aulerich's skills in this subject area. We are currently involved in a curriculum review led by John O'Leary. John and his committee are considering, among other things, the best ways to take advantage of new engineering skills in our department as well as the possibility of cooperative programs with civil engineering. We have also taken advantage of Bill Davies' good nature by getting him to teach winter term in our senior sequence.

We recently developed some exciting research opportunities in logging engineering. Dennis Dykstra is leading a study to compare the operational and economic efficiency of balloon, helicopter, and skyline systems. Ed Aulerich, Norm Johnson and Hank Froehlich have just completed a comparative study of thinning techniques using tractors and cable systems. Hank has begun a study to evaluate the impact of tractor thinning on soil compaction and tree growth. We have also strengthened our logging engineering research by involving people with special skills from cross-campus. We have obtained the help of a mechanical engineer to evaluate yarders for harvesting small wood, and a systems analyst to evaluate simulation techniques to compare alternative harvesting systems. Also for the first time, we are involving undergraduate forest engineers in our research by providing funds for their travel, data collection, and analysis in studies that relate to our regular research projects. We hope to stimulate their interest in logging engineering research, and at the same time show them how research techniques can be used to solve logging engineering problems.

We have expanded our extension program in forest engineering with the addition of John Garland to our faculty. John is an Oregon State University (O.S.U.) Forest Engineer; he also has a master's degree in forestry from the University of Minnesota. John comes to us from Coos Bay where he was a District Engineer for Weyerhaeuser. He will develop a logging engineering extension program that will help us get our research results out to our clients in the field, and help transmit field problems back to the university.

Last year we held the first Forest Engineering Institute for the U.S. Forest Service as part of our extension effort. The program was such a success that John O'Leary will now conduct two sessions, one winter and one spring term.

George Jemison joined our faculty in 1969 after 38 years with the U.S. Forest Service, serving as their Chief of Research for the last four years. George's assignment at O.S.U. was to direct the organization of a research and extension program in forest engineering. The outstanding program we now have is the result of his hard work. On June 30, 1974, George Jemison will retire a second time. We'll miss his leadership, but after two successful careers, no man deserves a rest more than George.

George Brown, Department Head

LOOKING BACK

STAFF OF 1953

The Royal Order of SUBMARINE SCALERS

By these criteria ye shall know and recognize them: Purple noses / Chronic coughs / Creaking boots / Barked-stained clothing / Water-soaked eyeballs

ALPHA CHAPTER ESTABLISHED AT OREGON STATE SCHOOL of FORESTRY ~ FALL 1946

This Certifies Bill Davies Is a Subscaler First Class

[signature] MASTER SUBSCALER

THE LOGGING ENGINEER

He plays with rigging and tackle, And works with "donkey and "gun;" He thinks of trees in log lengths, And imagines he's having fun.

He stalks out in the morning, As Paul Bunyan did of old, And bosses the business proper With bellowed commands, so bold.

He fires his fragrant corn cob, And belches smoke and steam. For all his many drawbacks, He's a ten-horse, rampin'team!

We forget his trousers are dirty, We're blind to his funny gear When we see him roll the timber We praise the Logging Engineer!

The award on the previous page (Awarded to losers of log-rolling competitions) and the poem on this page attest to the lighter side of Bill Davies' career at O.S.U.. Mrs. Joan Davies provided these materials and suggested their inclusion in this monograph. The poem is from the 1958 Annual Cruise and the award is copied from Bill Davies' framed original. Another example of the award, cherished by many faculty and student members, is on page 58 of the 1973 Annual Cruise.