The three outstanding events of the club last spring quarter were \u27the Foresters’\u27 Banquet; the Veishea Parade and Open-House; and the Spring Campfire

Beveridge, W. M.

Meginnis, H. G.

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The three outstanding events of the club last spring quarter were 'the Foresters’' Banquet; the Veishea Parade and Open-House; and the Spring Campfire.</p

Meginnis, H.

Beveridge, W.

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THE    A+lJIES    FORESTER                       93Another Year PassesH. G.  (Punk)  Meginnis, '28, and W. M. Beveridge, 929The three outstanding events of the club last spring quar-ter were 'the  For,esters'  Banquet;  the  Veishea Parade  andOpen-Hous,e; and the Spring Campfire.Th,e annual banquet, held at the Cranford on April 27, wasSOME affair.   Following the menu and music, Paul Bunyan,alias  Bamey  Wiggins,  instigated  a  selection  cutting  withthe  graduating seniors  in  the  title  ro1,e  of the overmatureand decadent age class.    "Pa.ul" rlevealed many guarded  se-crets, and kept ,the speakers wondering just who told.   Theevening's  festivities  ended  in  great  hilarity  and  with  theproduction of ,astonishing qulantities of tobacco smoke.The spring campfire in North Woods was h,eld in the usualplace near Squaw Creek.    As is customary, th,e repast wasperpetrated lby th,e class in camp cookery.    The superiorityof  its   'culinary  attempts   over  the  gastronomic   questionmarks usually associated with campfires will be r,ememberedfor years by 'those present.    Anoth,er minor feature of theevening  was  a  game  of  kittenbal1,  participated  in  simul-taneously by three-fourths of the club, with one ball and anunwieldy  stick  of driftwood  as  accessories.    Later,  aroundthe  campfire,  songs  were  sung,  the  historic  Teats  of  PaulBunyan  (of doubtful veracity)  recounted,  and th,e meetingbroke  up  amid blood-curdling yells  and  a  solemn  renditionof the Forester's Creed.The old  club  spirit  was  shown  to  the  rest of the  schoolduring Veishea.    Th,e float  in the parade depicted the four94                     THE    AMES    FORESTERwinds  bringing  the  Am,es  Foresters  from  their  timberedhaunts to V,eishea.   Aside from an unmanageable pack mule,and four near-prostrated Ethiopian carriers of th,e Amazonrepresentative, no ill effects were noticeable.  (Neith,er wlereany prizes.)The Open-House exhibit was set upon planks ov,,er the ro-tunda in Ag. Hall.   It was a miniature national forest workedout  to  the  smallest  detail  and  showed  protection,  grazing,logging and milling phases of government forestry practice.A magnificent mountain peak and the phenom,enon of smallclouds of real smloke  (source unknown)  rising frlom a recentburn, were special features.    Th,e exhibit won second prize,th,e first prize going to the Dairy Department by the marginof an orchestra and free malted milks.The fall quarter opened with another large freshman classof  approximately  50  prospective  supervisors.    The  record-smashing sale of stag shirts ancI Ag. Club mlemberships wasa  testimonial  as  to  the  sallesmanship  of  Boeckh,  De  Bowerand others.The fall campfire was remarkable in that it was held with-out a fire, due to the bad weather.   In spit,e of this, a largepercent of the  club members mlet in Ag.  Hall and  din,ed onhot dogs, pickles,  beans,  and  cider from what  seemed to  blean inexhaustible keg.   After the grub, a more or less melodi-ous song session was indulged in and Rotty entertain,ed withsome recently unearthed  (King James vel~sion)  Paul Bunyanstoriles.THE    AMES    FORESTER                      95The   'third   annual   Foresters'   Hoe-Down,`  held   at   St.Ceoelia's  Hall  lou  January  21,  was  THE  HOWLING  SUC-CESS of the year.   The ticket committee was almost mobbedby  persons  outside  the  department wino  wanted  to  attendthis notable struggle, only five of th,em being successful. Perl-haps there never has or never will be s,een such ,a display ofplaid woolen shirts and loud suspenders as were wom at thisdance.   Costumes imitating cowboys, lumberjacks and Span-iards were much in  evidence.    The rule,  {tno  shooting"  wasenforced, so less blood was shed than in former years.    Re-freshments in th,e fo]rm lof cider were dispensed over an old-time bar by Klug, Nicol & Co., Beverage Dispensers de Luxe.That dance made history.And so are some of the major things that happened duringthle past ylear.   What will happen in the year coming we willnot ltry to forecast; no man can predict to such great lengths.3!        3!        3£For the benefit of th,e fellows who have not as yet heardabout  it,  after the  cllose  of  school  this  spring  Perkins  Co-ville will no  longer be one  of the  forestry  department  fac-ulty.   "Perk" has been at Amtes six years, teaching the boysabout the manufacturing side of for,estry, and is leaving togo with  the  Forest  Service  at Washington,  D.  C.    We  aresorry that we are to be deprived of th,e pleasure of his friend-ship and the excellence of his teaching, but glad that he ishaving this larger opportunity to further himself in the pro-fession.We hope,  "Perk," that you have enjoyed your work withus as much as we have enjoyed our work with you, and thatyou'll  remember  Ames  and  the  fellows  at  least  once  in  awhile when you get settled down in you1-new job.

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