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Title: Campus Notes
Language: English
Year: 1954
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Fulltext: • CAMPUS NOTES • TWELFTH MOVING-UP DAY CELEBRATED President Pro Tempore Manuel C. Briones stressed the importance of maintaining our forest wealth and lamented the fact that the government has been negligent in looking after the needs of the Bureau of Forestry in his address before the graduating classes of the College of Forestry during the convocation program celebrating the 12th Moving-Up Day last March 21, 1954. President Vidal A. Tan of U.P. awarded the certificates to the graduate rangers and prizes to the winners of the 11th annual oratorical and Spanish declamation contests before introducing the guest of honor. Musical numbers were furnished by Miss Grace Turla, soprano, Mr. Michael Briones, violinist and Mr. Ray Paguio, pianist, all of the U.P. Conservatory of Music. The community was treated to a movie show with the College of Forestry projector, a recent donation of the alumni to the student body organization, during the evening, The following day, the seniors honored the faculty with a dinner at the Makiling Swimming Pool with Gov. Dominador Chipeco of Laguna as guest. During the dinner, the . Governor pledged to act as "messenger". of the faculty to appraise the President of the need for rehabilitating and expanding the College of Forestry building in connection with a bill recently filed in Congress appropriating PlgS,000.00 for the College. • • • FELIPE AMOS IS APPOINTED FORESTRY DIRECTOR Senior Forester Felipe R. Amos, until recently division forest inspector, has been appointed director of forestry by President Magsaysay. He took his oath of office last Saturday before Executive . Secretary Fred Ruiz Castro. Amos joined the bureau as ranger in 1915 and rose to ranger-scaler, government pensionado to United States, district forester, UP college of foreltry assistant professor, acting division chief, senior forester and division chief. He was the first Filipino to become district forester of Zamboanga and had been chief of various divisions in the bureau. Considered by his colleagues as a "foremost utilization man," Amos was assistant director of forestry in 1944 and was connected during libe!'ation with the 1002nd Forestry Battalion of the US army as assistant director of concession. He finished his secondary education at the Manila High School, and obtained his ranger certificate GRADUATION Isstra-APRn., 1954 from UP in 1915, his bachelor of science, in forestry degree from the University of WaShington in 1922, and his master's degree from Yale university in 1923. He is a member of the national research council of the Philippines, International Society of Tropical Fore~ters, International Union of Forest Organization, and Society of Filipino Foresters. The bureau, the new forestry bureau head said, will carry r!!search projects to study areas that could be placed under sustained-yield management, seed trees to find out the minimum number that should be left for adequate regeneration of the logged-over areas, and problems of small sawmills and their solution. • • • SILVICULTURE, LUMBERING AND WOOD PRESERVATION STUDENTS UNDERGO. FIELD TRIPS Classes in silviculture, wood tech 3 and lumberin1 · 1 underwent separate field trips during the second semester. The class in silviculture headed by Prof. Teodoro Delizo and Forester Domingo Jacalne went to the Ilocos regions via Baguio City. In Baguio, th. visited the forest nurseries at Camp 4 arid Pakd111l together with the reforestation projects · wi~ the rity limits. City forester Lizardo gave the students an interesting lecture on the nursery and plantation practices in the Mt. Province. The Tangaoan Reforestation Project in Piddig llocos Norte and the Paraiso Ref. Project at Nueva Era, Ilocos Norte were also visited. The Parai.O Project is considered the best site for silvicultural 1tudias and instructional purposes because of its being located in an utterly barren and desolate cowitry where immediate planting is imperative. Foresters Makil, Zumel and Ranger Ancheta gave •. series of lectures to the boys. On the return trip, the Caniaw Ref. Project at Bantay, Ilocos Sur was visited and there, For. Veleta talked about the pro.l>Scts of planting Banguet pine in that region. Meanwhile, the Wood tech 3 class under Forest,.,. Rosario Cortes visited the Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Co's. Wood Preservation Plant at Farola, Tondo, Manila. While there, they were taken around the plant by plant superintendent Reyes who most graciously explained the different procellBSll and opemtions that the company practiced. The students observed the actual operation of tteating lumber by the Wolrnanizing process. It was also there that they observed how materials were brought in and transferred from cylinder cars and retorts. The visit to the plant made lasting impressions on the students Page 29 regarding the different steps that are required in treating_ poles, piles and lumber with preservatives. More recently Prof. Gregorio Zamuco took hi" Lumbering 1 clas!' to Tagkawayan, Quezon when~ d1ey spent four days at the Sta. Cecilia Sawmill11 Inc., compounds and concessions. While there, they witnessed actual logging operations which they have studied and observed in College with the aid of miniature replicas of the different logging equipment. At the mills, they observed the different steps m sawing a log into finished lumber and were ·also informed of management practices. • • • GERMAN FORESTER DR. KLAUS BREHME Forstmeister Dr. Klaus Brehme recently visited the Forestry Campus, College, Laguna escorted by Forester Valentin Sajor of the Manila Office. They visited also the forests of Tagkawayan, Quezon l'rovince. Dr. Brehme is a member of the "International Society of Tropical Foresters" wherein several Filipino Foresters are members including Sajor. This German Forester was passing through Manila uu the Norwegian M.S. TAI YIN of the Wilhelmsen Line from Germany to Japan. He is conducting 11 research work on the occurence of Japanese larches. a timber species which is highly regarded by thP Western World for its fast growth which is go<Kl fo1 reforestation. Compliments of Senote Sawmill Company Page 30 Oroquieta, Misamis Occidental Dr. Brehme's special spheres are tropical forestr), forestry nursery practice and afforestation of wasteland. His chronological and climatological investigations concerning the annual rings of larches within the indigenous larch-stands above the Koenigsee in Batarna. Germany, created great interest among European foresters. He is also a contributor to the World Forest Atlas being edited by the "Federal Institute for Forest and Timber Economy" in Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany. He intends to spend several years in tropical countries. Apparently his territory is tropical Asia and the Far East . • • • FORESTRY PROJECTS APPROVED The Philippine Council for United States Aid and the Foreign Operations Administration mission hav11 jointly approved a Pl,286,000 project in forest, aoil and water management, it was announced yesterday._ The project to be imp!emented by the bureau ot forestry aims to take inventory of the growing stocks. survey and mark boundaries for protection, rectAlo· tio11, exploitation and pasture purposes. It also plans to protect public forests from fires, illegal cutting, and other forms of forest destruction by means ot systematic forest patrol, and at the same time stimulate forest productivity as well as protect vegt.tated areas from flood-run-oft ana sou P-r()sion by establishing experiment stations. The project includes thb .-ehabilitatiot1 of tl:ito University of the Philippines colieAe of forestr;,' to enable it to accoznmodate mure students a11d turn out t:n1Jre Araduates needed by the bureau ot foresiry and the lumber industry. However, the rtoconstmction of the college of forestry in Los Banos will depend on how soon the U.P. can put up funds to watch the sum of Pl67,000 set aside in the counter-· part budget. The project was granted a dollar allocation of $204,000 in addition to a counterpart peso budget of P878,00 IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD UNIVERSITY Good education is not determined by the number of courses offered, the number of credits earned, the number !>f hours a teacher appears in the cla11 room, by the clock hours, ctedit hours, per capita student cost, nor by any other formal or artificial tests. Good education comes from contacts with great scholars, teachers and men of character, in an environment of adequate libraries and other ed11· cational facilities.-E A. Gilmore. A· good teacher is merely a good signpost. try to do too much for your boy. Your help him help himself, not to help him ponsibility.-Henry Ford. So don't job is to shun resFORESTRY LEAVES