Forest Management Center Dedicated at College Grant
AT dedication ceremonies held on the Dartmouth College Grant, September 23, a long-needed management center for forestry activities was formally accepted by President Dickey. Presented by Randolph Pack, president of the Charles, Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation of New York, the new headquarters are located at the junction of access roads leading up the Swift and Dead Diamond Rivers in the grant of timberland given to Dartmouth College by the State of New Hampshire in 1807.
Attending the occasion at which Robert S. Monahan '29, College Forester, acted as master of ceremonies were President Emeritus Ernest M. Hopkins; John R. McLane '07, John F. Gile '16, Harvey P. Hood '18, Dudley W. Orr '29, and Thomas B. Curtis '32, Trustees of the College; John F. Meek '33, College Treasurer; Halsey C. Edgerton '06, Treasurer Emeritus; Edgar C. Hirst '36h, president of the Society for the Preservation of New Hampshire Forests; Rand Stowell '35, president of the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association; and other distinguished representatives of federal and state conservation agencies.
In the course of the dedication ceremonies, President Dickey presented Mr. Pack with a key to the new building and conveyed thanks to the Charles Lathrop Pack Foundation for the $l0,000 center, which was built for the purpose of providing working and living quarters for the College Forester and other College officers responsible for managing the area. Richard W. Olmsted '32, Assistant Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, designed the building and supervised its construction.
Concerned with promoting more intensive management of the timber and wild life resources in the Grant, the Pack Foundation in 1946 financed a comprehensive survey of the entire area, providing a detailed inventory of the standing timber and recommendations for harvesting future crops. Over a long period of years income derived from stumpage sales has been available for use by the College for scholarship aid and for general purposes. Two large timber operators, the Washburn Lumber Company of Pittsburg, N. H., and Robertson and Potter of North Conway, N. H., are now cutting veneer and sawlogs in hardwood stands and pulp from softwood areas on the College Grant.
THE NEW MANAGEMENT CENTER AT THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE GRANT
RANDOLPH PACK (right), president of the Pack Forestry Foundation which presented the $lO,OOO management center to Dartmouth, receives a key to the building from President Dickey. Behind Mr. Pack is Richard W. Olmsted '32, who designed the new center and supervised its construction.
