Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

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After graduation from UM, US Army Corps of Engineers in France 1954-56. Then graduate school at UC Berkeley and postdoc at NC State in Raleigh. 1961-1994 taught mostly at UC Berkeley, with a year in New Zealand and a year in the former Yugoslavia, and a month or more at U of Washington, and in Canada, Venezuela, Australia, Turkey, Taiwan, France, China, Germany, Norway, and Sweden. After retiring from Berkeley, worked in New Zealand from 1994-1999, and in 2003 led a tour of New Zealand with several Michigan Alpha Phi Delt brothers and their friends. The three most cherished awards are being an Honorary Life Member of the New Zealand Institute of Forestry, Fellow of the Society of American Foresters, and California's Raymond Award for Outstanding Contributions to Forestry in California. Research has focused on the use of clones in forestry, with particular attention to radiata pine, coast redwood and giant sequoia.