RON STRAUSS SOPHOMORES, BE CAREFREE! Spend your summer months at the University of Missouri Forestry Summer Camp (hereafter referred to as the Lodge)

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1 RON STRAUSS SOPHOMORES, BE CAREFREE! Spend your summer months at the University of Missouri Forestry Summer Camp (hereafter referred to as the Lodge) on sparkling, cool, and delightful Lake Wappapello. Earn 12 hours of credit in your spare time and leisure hour~. Camp facilities and the planned program have received such acclaim from previous student guests that Outdoor Gungho Services, Inc., has decided to give the camp its full endorsement. Thus, increased popularity seems assured for this resort in the 52

2 beautiful, rugged Ozarks. Following is a brief resume of some of the opportunities afforde.d guests. Excellent Dendrological Facilities Patronizing enthusiasts are encouraged to identify and collect 75 woody plant species while on a sight-seeing tour of Butler County. Those who so desire are given a chance to test their knowledge when they feel that it has been sufficiently perfected. Incidentally, the area surrounding camp is covered with witch-hazel, and a specimen of this fclklore-ridden plant will no doubt be the easiest to find. Swim1ning and Boating Beautiful, clear, cool Lake Wappapello is within hiking, hitching, or driving distance of the Lodge. For information on how to obtain that wellgroomed, tan look, or other information about the lake facilities, contact Jerry Tamm, John Strickler, Hal Fisher, Jerry Arter, or Ron Strauss, all of whom have spent many, sunny, happy hours on the lake's beautiful sandy beaches. Ample Number of Trees Although it has been calculated that each student is permitted to measure the heights, diameters, and form classes of approximately 9732 trees (not counting dry-labbed trees) during a 4-week course in Forest Mensuration, there is still an ample number of trees to last until the year 1973, if trees continue to be measured at this pace. Al Troutt has proved himself as the best man with a limesock to be graduated from this course, and Howard Prante is an expert at swatting gnats with tree calipers; Athletic Activities Facilities are provided for contests of badminton, volleyball, horseshoes, table-tennis, poker, pinochle, and that new sport designed to wake you up in the morning, wasp swatting. A tip to future vacationers: play badminton while McDermott is at camp, and volleyball when Fletcher arrives. Experience has proved that the best policy is to limit victories over instructors to not more than one per day. From Trees to Lumber Learn to operate a chain saw, cross-cut saw, axe, crawler tractor, file, sharpening stone, and sawmill! The proper method of piling lumber may also be observed. O'Neil's daily problems are most easily worked at night ~n Rodger's Drug Store. Special arrangements are possible to allow Curriculum E-l students to' register at the Lodge for this period after completing the required number of weeks of summer school in Columbia. lmporoving the Forest Each year the guests select a project which is designed to improve the forest. In 1955 the project was the clearing of a road. During this course Bob Hilliard learned that it is possible to fell a tree, move it some distance in horizontal space, and yet have it remain in an erect, inconspicuous, or as termed by loggers, hung-up position. Dining Accommodations Meals are served in the luxurious camp dining hall, except for frequent midday picnics in the \\.oods. Guests generally prefer peanut butter for 53

3 these picnics; however, KPs will arrange for other delicacies for individuals who so wish. It is rumored that the KPs for the past summer, Ray Ferell and Bill Keyth, have been fired for feeding the guests too much food; but equally intelligent, highly trained individuals will doubtless be selected for this job in the future. Watermellon parties will continue to be held with jncreasing popularity. Trees Trees may be observed anywhere from the damp bottoms of the Mingo Swamp to the dusty Ozark ridgetops; and various plots and measurements may be taken in order to gain more valuable information about these trees, if one so desires. The reward is great for one who braves the snakes, blackberry tangles, g-nats, livestock, poison-ivy, and nature itself to gain a more perfect knowledge of tree specimens. Mike Gwinner, one ambitious young lad, reportedly swam Lake Wappapello, notebook held high above the water, in order to keep a perfectly straight cruising line, while crew member Bad Jack Ferguson looked on with admiration. Another summer highlight is a 3-day pleasure excursion, during which a majority of the pine trees in Missouri are visited. The trip is made in two trucks which feature a healthy, open-air atmosphere and are provided with Professor Fletcher assembles the 1955 Summer Camp force for a Mingo invasion. Front, from left: Fletcher, Hal Fisher, Myron Gwinner, Austin Poat, Howard Prante, Charles Tree, and Ron Strauss. Back: Bill Keyth, Jim Berlin, Alex Cole, John Strickler, Bob Hilliard, Jerry Tamm, Jack Ferguson, Al Toutt, Howard Wolf, Wayne Bell, Glen Schneider, and Ray Ferell. 54

4 mattresses for the comfort of the guests. One enjoyable event of the trip is the overnight campout on the Current River. If anyone happens to find a wallet, a pair of pants, or a pair of boots floating around anywhere, please return them to Al Troutt. A flatboat full of frogs at midnight is a tricky proposition! Extracurricular Activities and Memorable Events The nightlife of Poplar Bluff will be an unforgettable memory of anyone vacationing at Summer Camp. The luxurious air-conditioned theatres are a source of constant new and exciting cowboy mysteries. P. B.'s nightspots will never forget Howard Wolf and Jim Berlin. Arter, Schneider, and Strauss will be remembered for their nonmatching hair and beards; and the girls who worked at the Dairy Queen will never forget the bad times they got from all of the boys of There are bound to be some fishermen in camp. Those who intend to visit the camp in the future and who would like to do some fishing should buy the book, How to Come Home With More Than Stories, by Dick Tree, Jim Berlin, and Wayne Bell, three boys who, among their combined knowledge, know everything there is to know about fishing. It will be impossible to walk through the "bush" for three months (Continued on Page 57) 55

5 ~ail1j J\meriran ~epublir POPLAR BLUFF, MO. Southeast Missouri's Leading Daily Newspaper' Circulation - 12,650 in Eleven Counties and 52 Towns in Southeast Missouri and N. Arkansas "Keeping In Step With The Growth of Our Community" MRS. JOHN H. WOLPERS, Publisher Bell (upper left) prepares some expensive frog legs; (upper right) bushednuff said; (lower left) in the air-conditioned warmth of summer camp, pressure can run high; and (lower right) Schneider, 17.3 feet up, takes d.i.b. ~I\

6 SUMMER CAMP IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING-(from 55) without running into a hornet nest. In order to get the most out of this event when it happens, one should lag some distance behind the group at all times. When the event finally occurs, you will see the fastest scattering of manpower ever witnessed, and if you bother to time some of the individuals' flights, you may find that one who previously was thought to be the slowest and laziest man in camp has just set a new record for the 100- yard dash. Every camp has its share of shutter bugs. If they were to get together at the end of camp and compare snapshots, they might find that one person is represented in nearly every picture. Austin Po-at is just such a person. Many games and ways to pass the time of day will be thought of while the group has nothing to do but sit around the Lodge. Swinging and leaping from rafter to rafter is a very popular sport during the latter part of the

7 summer. The caulked-boot marks on the floor were left as a remembrance of Alex Cole. A major highlight of the summer is the huge barbecue given by Ates. Goat meat is unusually delicious when it is prepared correctly, and when there is plenty of coke to wash it down. One lucky person is excused from camp for a day to gather hickory wood and prepare the fire for Ates. This is not su~h a picnic as one might imagine, is it Jerry? Yes, the ~vents of summer camp are memorable ones. The writer is one past guest'who will long remember the Summer Camp of 1955; and he doubts that P.B. will soon forget the summer camp guests of DOES MORE FOR I, THE FARMER FOR LESS! Cuts more pulp, cordwood, posts, timber, pe-;-do/larl SEEhowquicklyitcuts! saw in seconds Achoice See its powerful Mer- of 7 rail lengths from cury SEE Gasoline its many Engine. attach- SEE 18" to the 40" new 16" "Free-. ~v ments! Among them: End" bow saw with The new Spee-D-Tach DF cha' OA-211 tailstock for conversion m. 25" Bow 5aw - to ~;;t;;~~ 2~ma~ ;;~~~~;;~;~"'~::~...~, 6.. MOTOR SALES ~:~~~~~~-~~, Hiway 60 East Poplar Bluff, Missouri big limb., HIGHW A Y 67 PLANING MILL Dealers in Cypress, Pine, and Hardwoc,d HIGHWAY 67 SOUTH POPLAR BI","JFF. MO