Summer 2007 ACF Newsletter - Association of Consulting Foresters ...

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From: Harry Murphy
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:55 AM
To: 'director@acf-foreters.org'
Subject: REQUEST
FORESTER NEWS
ACF NEWSLETTER
Congratulations to member
Harry Murphy who was named
Outstanding Forestry Alumnus
at Penn State University on April
28, 2007.
LYNN; I RECEIVED A GET WELL CARD AND IT SEEMED TO BE SIGNED BY EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED THE PA AN-
NUAL ACF MEETING. IT WAS MOST GRACIOUS AND DEEPLY APPRECIATED, THE EXPRESSIONS EXTENDED TO ME.
TO ALL I AM DEEPLY APPRECIATIVE OF THE "GET WELL" CARD" SIGNED BY SO MANY OF YOU WHO ATTENDED THE
ANNUAL ACF MEETING IN PENNA. YOU ARE A WONDERFUL GROUP (AND FAMILY) OF COLLEAGUES AND PEERS.
I EXTEND TO ALL THE VERY BEST BOTH, PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY, THANKS AND GOD BLESS
HARRY E. MURPHY, ACF
L. Keville Larson, ACF received the Forest Landowners Association’s Lifetime
Achievement Award. This high honor is reserved for those who have given a
lifetime of service to private landowners and to the association. Mr. Larson has
been a member of FLA for nearly 50 years, SAF since 1961 and ACF for more
than 40 years.
In Memoriam
Charles R. Page, Jr., 95, died on June 28, 2007, at Alexian Village in Chattanooga, after a
lengthy illness. He was an ACF member for more than 50 years and was our oldest living
member.
He was born October 20, 1911, in Wildwood, N.J. After he received a B.S. Degree from the
State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Mr. Page
earned a M.S. Degree in Entomology from Ohio State University. In 1936 he married his wife
Anna, and they lived in Wooster, Ohio and Waynesboro and Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, with
their sons Dick and Don, before moving to Chattanooga in 1947.
Mr. Page had 17 years work experience with state and federal forestry agencies including
the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Ohio Division of Forestry, and the Tennessee
Valley Authority. In 1951, he established Charles R. Page, Jr. and Associates, Inc., Forest Land Managers and
Consultants, a firm which is now in its third generation of family operation.
He served as a director of the Forest Farmers Association and the Tennessee Forestry Association as chairman,
Forest Section, Association of Southern Agricultural Workers; and as a member of the Sewanee Research Center
(USFS), Tennessee Conservation League, and the Tennessee Conservation Committee. As a member of the Society
of American Foresters, he was elected chairman of the Kentucky-Tennessee Section.
Mr. Page had articles published in numerous professional journals. His professional awards and achievements included
the American Tree Farm System Silver 50 Award, the Tennessee Forestry Association’s Forest Resources
Award and the President’s Award, induction into the Hamilton County Agricultural Hall of Fame, and the Association
of Consulting Foresters’ Distinguished Forester Award.