1908

In newsletters of July 27 and October 2 last summer I quoted from a book, "Ancestors and Descendants of Havilah Burritt Hinman of Stratford, N.H." by John Hinman and his brother Harold '10, giving John's story of his early life and of his leadership of the International Paper Company. Following is the conclusion of John's personal history for the "Diamond" 60-year book.

"As I have watched International Paper Company grow into an organization that could not have been imagined in 1913, I have seen it reach out not only to Canada and the South but to Washington, Oregon, and the Northwest and to lands across the seas. In recent years the company has established fabricating operations in Europe and elsewhere. It owns or has under lease something like twenty-one million acres in the United States and Canada which are operated as a giant productive tree farm by an organization of several hundred foresters.

"I suppose my deepest satisfactions have come from the revolution which has taken place in industrial forestry since I was a boy. When I was manager for the American Realty Company we operated on the basis of clear cutting, in order to procure as cheap wood as possible. As the industry became more profitable, we practiced better forest management and cut for growth. I could not have asked for a more interesting life in a more interesting industry during a more interesting period.

"In addition to my work in forestry, I have always had a very deep interest in education. In 1946 I became associated with a group of men to found the Cardigan Mountain School and have continued as a member of the Corporation since that time. I have enjoyed greatly working with Cardigan and also working with the National Citizens Council for Better Schools which I served as trustee from 1956 to 1959.

"In 1956, as Chairman of International Paper Company, I sponsored a program in the secondary schools of the communities where our employees live and work, to help them strengthen their teaching, The method was suggested by John Sloan Dickey, President of Dartmouth, but as far as I was concerned, the idea that education was important had its origin in North Stratford, N. H. For I remember, as youngsters of North Stratford, we were all taught that work and education were a necessary part of our lives. I believed it then, and I believe it now."

Your editor lives in the country, is alone, and sometimes lonely, but country life has its compensations as the following poem by Bertha Elizabeth Campbell reveals. John Hinman would understand.

HERITAGE

They do not understand, the folks that say, How lonely you must be to live away From all the hustling city has to give, That makes it so worthwhile for us to live.

But we know they have not that can compare With breath of pine, our clover-scented air, The fairest city lacks the wonders we In moon or starlit heavens are wont to see.

They do not know that ever we can hear The song of wind, or trees or birdnote clear, That we can gather strength from mountains blue, And find a rainbow in the morning dew.

Ah, little do they guess the wealth we hold Not theirs to buy with silver or with gold, We know the calm of dawn, the noonday's stress Yet ever near we feel God's graciousness.

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