Students Should Be Encouraged To Submit Papers lor 1953 "\(/ood Award"

Because of the acute over-all employment picture in the United States and the fact that the forest products industries are rapidly emerging from a non-technical to a technical status, there is an acute shortage of technically trained men available. In all likelihood this shortage rvill grorv worse unless the u'ood industry makes strenuous efforts to channei more students into u'ood technologl' courses in the universities.

The industry has long recognized that it must do a l)etter public relations rvith prospective universitl students in order to interest them in a career in n'ood technology. -\s C. D. Dosker, far-sighted president of Gamble Bros., Inc., Louisville, K1.,, put; it, "\\rood is now a highlv competitive material. Is four )'ears enough to train a man for this industry? The graduate should knou' the tools of the industry I and har-e kr.rorr'ledge of the chernistrv of u'ood and horv it grol's." E. S. Harrar, Head of the Forestry Graduate School, Duke University, in his paper entitled "Graduate Training in Forest Products Technologv," emphasizes the need for expansion and improvement in the technologist's training to prepare him for his ultimate emplovment. He also points out the serious lack of industrv sponsored fellos'ships on a scale common in other industries.

One step in the much needed program of interesting undergraduates and graduate students in the forest products industries has been the establishment of the "Wood Arvard." rvhich is conducted by the Forest Products Research Societ_r'.

Each vear the Vance Publishing Corp., Chicago, ofters $500.00 to be au'arded to the student submitting the most signi{icant contribution to the industry.

The 1953 as'ard 's'ill again be made in conjunction rvith the Forest Products Research Society's Eighth Annual Meeting at I\femphis, Tenn., June 15-16-17. This year the arvard has been modified to include both graduate and undergraduate student rvinners. The outstanding graduate paper u'ill receive $350, rvhile the outstanding undergraduate paper n'ill receive $150.

\\rinners u'ill be encouraged to present their papers before the National Meeting.

Subjects mav be of any choosing rvhich makes a fundamental or practical contribution to the forest products in-

<iustry. Papers mav drvell on research, development. production, utilization or marketing. They should be based on research work completed subsequent to IIay I, 1952.

All entries should be submitted through the Executive Offices of the Forest Products Research Societv, Box 2010, Madison 5, \\ris., for consideration by the Society's Education Committee, headed by Professor Robert \\-ellrvood of the University of British Columbia.

Past "\\'ood -A.u'ard" ..vinners who have alreadv made a name for themselves in the rvood industry field include such men as Nicholas V. Poletika, research specialist on adhesives s'ith the Timber Engineering Co.., \\'ashington. D. C., and S. B. Preston, currentlv on the staff of the School of Natural Resources of the University of trIichigan.

It is hoped that t'ood industr.v executives evervrvhere rvill encourag'e student acquaintances to submit papers in competition for the 1953 "\\'ood As'ard." Additional information mav be obtained through the Executive Office of F. P. R. S.. Box 2010. lladison 5. \\'is.

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