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GALENDAR
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Black Bart IIoo-Hoo Club 181July 14, annual B-B-Q and swim, Ukiah, Cralif., place to be announced.
San Diego Hoo-IIoo Club 3-July 16, golf tournament, Cottonwood Country CIub.
Los Angeles Hardwood Lumbermen's CluHuly 20, meeting, Briars Restaurant, City <yf Cornmerce.
,AUGUST
'lVestern Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Assn.Aug. 9-12, Bayshore Inn, Vancouver, B. C.
National Christmas Ilee Growers' Assn.-August 16-18, meeting, Corvallis, Ore.
Los Angeles Hardwood Lumbermen's Club-August 17, meeting, Briars Restauranl City of Commerce.
Los Angeles Hoo.Hoo Club 2-August 18, meeting, election, Califoraia Country Club.
Humboldt Hoo-IIoo Club 63-Aug. 25, lbth annual stag
- day and golf tournament, Baywood Country Club.
San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club B-Aug. 26, installatjon dinner meeting, place to be announced.
September
San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3Sept. g, installation dinner. place to be announced
Western Wood Products Assn.-Sept. 9-14, fall qreeting, Washington Plaza, Seattle, Wash.
American Wholesale Hardware Co. Sales Galaxy-Sept. 10, dealer hardware show, Long Beach Arena, -Ircng Beach, Calif.
Forest Products Research Society-Sept. 10-1b, wood in_ dustry plant tour originating and terminating in portland, Ore., a week-long tour of western eoast particle_ board and hardboard plants.
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Recollections of 50 years in the business by the grandson of Pacific Northwest pioneers
A gentleman who also celebrates a 50th anniuersary this month is Bob Osgood,, louniler and president ol Robert S. Osgooil, Inc., who was kind, erwugh to set down lor us his personal rem.iniscence ol the last hall cerdury that lollows. His lamily has been ac' tiuely engaged in the lurnber business in The Vest lor more than 85 years' -Editor
VOUR founder Jack Dionne's first r issue of The Merchanf, then the California Lumber Merchant. and I appeared on the Los Angeles scene the same day, fifty years ago, July lst, 1922.
I am sure I have read every issue of your wonderful trade journal since, and feel it has been one of the most constructive influences in the lumber industry.

When I came to Los Angeles it was as manager of the Wheeler, Osgood Co., of California, distributing Doug' las fir doors and plywood for The W'heeler, Osgood Co. of Tacoma, Wash., who were, at that time, the largest door and plywood manufacturers in the world. I operated that business until 1931, and then became general sales manager for the Washington Veneer Company's group of mills in the Northwest.
In 1932 I became sales manager for Cadwallader-Gibson Co. of Los Angeles, who were leading pioneer producers in the Philippines and distributors in the United States of Philippine Hardwoods. After eight very happy years with Cadwallader I left to start Robert S. Osgood, Inc., selling imported and domestic plywood, lumber, veneers, furniture components and special wood products on a national basis.
I have been a member of Hoo-Hoo since 1922, with number 32105, and president of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo twice. Both Jim Forgie and John Osgood of our firm have served as president of L.A. Hoo-Hoo.
My first full time job in the lumber industry was in 1914 when I became office boy for the legendary James Tyson, president of Charles Nelson Co. in San Francisco. back in the days when Charles Nelson still operated sailing ships in the Pacific lumber trade.
My father and grandfather were pioneers in the lumber industry in the Northwest, having established The Wheeler, Osgood Co. in 1887, and I was raised in the mills and logging camps of the Northwest.
After well over a half-century oI personal participation in the lumber business I find great pride and satisfaction in the high character of lumbermen throughout the country, and in the part they have played in the growth and development of the nation.