Photos from the WFIWC Archives:
Personnel

1 William K. Coulter, Portland Forest Insect Lab
2 John M. Whiteside, Portland Forest Insect Lab
3 Kenneth H. Wright, Portland Forest Insect Lab
4 Robert E. Denton, Coeur d'Alene Forest Insect Lab
5 Tom T. Terrell, Coeur d'Alene Forest Insect Lab
6 Calvin L. Massey, Forest Insect Lab, Ft Collins, CO
7 Ralph C. Hall, Berkeley Forest Insect Lab
8 Warren V. Benedict, Regional Director, Bur. Entomology & Plant Quarantine, Berkeley, CA
9 Noel D. Wygant, In Charge, Forest Insect Lab, Ft Collins, CO
10 Archie L. Gibson, Coeur d'Alene Forest Insect Lab
11 George R. Struble, Berkeley Forest Insect Lab
12 William F. Barr, University of Idaho
13 John F. Wear, Pilot-Forester, Portland Forest Insect Lab
14 W. J. Chamberlin, Oregon State University
15 Walter J. Buckhorn, Portland Forest Insect Lab
16 Dale C. Prentice, Western Pine Association
17 Thomas J. Orr, Jr., Forester, Weyerhaeuser Co., Klamath Falls, OR
18 Royce O. Cornelius, Weyerhaeuser Co.
19 Jim H. McLeod, Dominion Biological Investigations, U. B. C. Vancouver
20 Alvin Lindsten, Research Forester, Oregon State Board Forestry, Bend
21 Richard I. Washburn, Forest Insect Lab, Ogden, UT
22 R. C. Dobson, Oregon State University (Student)
23 Jack W. Bongberg, Berkeley Forest Insect Lab
24 Jim M. Kinghorn, Forest Insect Lab, Victoria, B.C.
25 Wm. G. Mathers, In Charge, Forest Insect Lab, Vernon, B.C.
26 John A. Chapman, University of Montana, Missoula
27 Herb L. Haglund, Portland Forest Insect Lab
28 Robert E. Stevens, Oregon State Board Forestry, Salem
29 Robert Z. Calaham, Berkeley Forest Insect Lab
30 Malcolm M. Furniss, Berkeley Forest Insect Lab
31 Robert L. Furniss, In Charge, Portland Forest Insect Lab
32 Kenneth Graham, U. British Columbia, Vancouver
33 George R. Hopping, In Charge, Forest Insect Lab, Calgary
34 James A. Beal, Chief, Forest Insect Investigations, Wash. DC
35 James C. Evenden, In Charge, Coeur d'Alene Forest Insect Lab
36 M. G. Thomson, Forest Insect Lab, Victoria, B.C.
37 Alex J. Jaenicke, Forester, Forest Service R-6, Portland, OR
38 Avery S. Hoyt, Chief, Bur. Entomology, Wash. DC
39 Hector A Richmond, In Charge, Forest Insect Lab, Victoria, B.C.
40 Paul G. Lauterbach, Research Forester, Weyerhaeuser Co., Centralia

Note: F.P. Keen, In Charge, Berkeley Forest Insect Lab, absent from photo to attend Pest Control Committee, Western Forestry Conservation Assn. Also not in photo: Leslie W. Orr, In Charge, Forest Insect Lab, Ogden, UT; Hal G. Simkover, Washington State College, Pullman; and John Woods, Jr., Deputy State Forester, Salem, OR.

WFIWC Portland, OR 1951. I was one year into my employment at the Berkeley Forest Insect Lab when the 3rd WFIWC was held in Portland, Nov. 26-28, 1951. The fall meeting was scheduled to coincide with the meeting of the larger Western Forestry Conservation Association, in which the WFIWC founders like Paul Keen participated (the first WFIWC was held to coincide with a WFCA meeting in Portland in 1949). That association soon faded in favor of locations that were more representive of conference membership. Also, timing was changed to spring-time, beginning with the 1957 meeting in Calgary, to accommodate university personnel.

I remember going by train from Berkeley to Portland with Keen, Jack Bongberg, Ralph Hall, and George Struble. That was a great way to travel. We were together in the club car where we could converse and view the passing scenery. North of Mount Shasta, the train would its way upward through a vast brush-field containing Ceanothus. Paul remarked that there had been an outbreak of the California tortoise shell butterfly there. I did not imagine that a few years later, I would be in Idaho studying insects of wildland-shrubs, along with bark beetles.

The accompanying photo is the first one taken at a WFIWC meeting. It was distributed separately and not published in the proceedings. It includes 40 of those attending; a few others such as Keen were at the concurrent WFCA meeting. Those attending, and their affiliations, are shown in the caption. Notably, Avery Hoyt, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology (equivalent to Chief Forester) came from Washington, DC. James A. Beal, Chief of the Division of Forest Insect Investigations, also attended. He was the last Chief before the Bureau was disbanded in 1953 and transferred to the Forest Service. The meeting took place as a group with a discussion leader for several pre-chosen topics. Work shops were yet to be. Also, this meeting had the first semblance of a banquet... members decided to go to a local restaurant together for dinner. I had cracked Dungeness crab in a bowl of delicious warm marinade. And a beer. -- Malcolm Furniss --

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