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Banquet Report
The annual CFR Alumnae Banquet was a rousing success with over a hundred participants who enjoyed the reception, dinner and program. The banquet was able to break even, thanks to a one-time auction to a wine tasting event at at the Walter Dacon Winery near Shelton. We would like to extend a special thanks to Forestry Alum Mack Hogans and Dean Bruce Bare who successfully outbid others for the wine-tasting event.
Award recipients included Professors Bob Gara and Linda Brubaker, alum Dick Hopkins and Mack Hogans.
UW Alum Dr. Bob Van Pelt, large tree expert, took the group on a fascinating journey through the world of finding and measuring record trees, be they in the Olympic National Forest or in the tropics. Measuring a large Banyon tree, for example is not as easy as one might surmise. Just finding DBH is a challenge!
Next year's banquet is the premier event for the College's centennial. The College of Forest Resources Alumni Association, CFR staff and the UW Alumni Association are hard at work to ensure an event worthy of the centennial celebration.
Career Day Event a Huge Success
33 students joined 15 alums in early February to discuss careers in Forestry. Interests ranged from the pulp and paper sciences, political, law and general forestry. Both students and alumni appreciated the informal atmosphere, getting to know each other over pizza provided by the College of Forest Resources.
Early reviews from both students and alums were positive, with many excellent suggestions from all parties. There is great excitement from both students and alums to do it again at the same time next year!
The Alumni Association broke new ground and had a wonderful time interacting with students. Special "Thanks," goes to the active support from Dean Bare, several faculty and the College staff who helped ensure it all went well.
Arbor Day Redesign
The CFRAA is going through a major redesign for Arbor Day, 2007. This year, we will do Arbor Day in conjunction with Washington Weekend, an all University celebration which attracted over 23,000 visits to various campus activities last year.
This change was spurred by the harsh reality that the Arbor Day celebration was a costly effort to fund, organize and execute. Folks we've depended on to so generously help us organize and execute the celebration were burned out or had exceeded their employers' largesse in helping us.
Through this redesign, we are looking at more ways of working the College of Forest Resources to both recruit more people into the college, and to partner with the college to share costs, staff time and resources to have an even bigger and better program.
We will continue to engage younger people, combine tree plantings with hands-on demonstrations such as the paper making machine. As always, we will be seeking your help in making these programs happen. See the Washington Weekend site for more information or email Bob Dick at bdick@afrc.ws if you're interested in volunteering.
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