Australian-Forestry-School AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY SCHOOL 1926-1967 (last amended 30 April 2019)
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LINK TO ANU FORESTRY  WEBPAGE
FOREST FIELD OFFICERS & FORESTRY REUNIONS W.A.

AFS notes from Libraries ACT website
The former Australian Forestry School is situated at the intersection of Banks and Schlich Streets, Yarralumla.  It comprises the school and museum buildings, the director’s residence, Westridge House, and formal landscape surroundings.  Central to the main building is a magnificent domed octagonal hall.  Australian timbers donated by Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and South Australia were used throughout the building for the panelling, flooring, and ribs for the dome.
A national forestry school was proposed at the first Interstate Forestry Conference in 1911, and accepted at a Premiers’ Conference in 1920.  Federal Cabinet approved the school in 1925, and agreed with Charles Lane Poole, Conservator of Forests in Western Australia 1916-1921, that it should be established in Canberra to take advantage of Weston’s pioneering research on tree species, especially conifers.
The Australian Forestry School superseded the University of Adelaide’s forestry school course established in 1911. The last intake began at the University of Adelaide in 1926, before moving to Canberra in 1927 under the control of the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau. The course consisted of academic study with practical work in the arboretum, Yarralumla Nursery and surrounding forests, and an annual camp in a different state each year.  The school was reconstituted as the Department of Forestry, Australian National University in 1965, and moved to the ANU campus in 1968.
The first Australian Rhodes Scholar, Norman Jolly, was appointed Principal in 1926 but within the year became NSW Commissioner of Forests.  Charles Lane Poole was concurrently appointed Acting Principal of the School and Commonwealth Inspector-General of Forests, 1927 to 1944.
Student accommodation in 1927 consisted of 27 lined cubicles and three empty houses in Solander Place to be used for dining, recreation and ablutions.  These were replaced in the 1950s by a barracks-like building popularly known as ‘The Waldorf’, which was demolished after the school moved to ANU.
The site became the CSIRO Forestry Precinct, the Commonwealth's centre for forestry and timber research in Australia.

Uncommon lives: Charles and Ruth Lane Poole (from National archives of Australia website)
Australian Forestry School
Charles Lane Poole passionately believed that educating a professional cadre of foresters was essential and he argued successfully for a national forestry school in Canberra. He spent 20 years as its principal. Keeping it open proved to be a consuming task.
Building the school
When Charles Lane Poole was appointed Commonwealth Forestry Adviser in 1925, he recommended that the Commonwealth establish a national school to train professional foresters. Cabinet approved the establishment of the Australian Forestry School in the same year. It was a cooperative venture between the Commonwealth and the states. The Commonwealth would provide the buildings, staff and tuition, while the states would nominate students to attend and pay for their subsistence in Canberra for two years. The students first had to complete two years of a science degree course in their home state universities.
Adelaide University hosted the Forestry school for its first year and appointed Norman Jolly as its foundation professor and principal while the school building and principal's residence were being erected in Canberra. At the end of the year Norman Jolly resigned to become Commissioner of Forests in New South Wales and Charles Lane Poole, by then the Commonwealth Inspector-General of Forests, took over as its Acting Principal.
Opening the school
In April 1927 the students arrived in Canberra and the courses started, although some of the arrangements were makeshift at first. The school was officially opened by the Governor-General, Lord Stonehaven, in November 1927.
The school was adjacent to what are now known as the Westbourne Woods Arboretum and the Yarralumla Nursery, which had been established in 1913 by Charles Weston, the Federal Capital Commission's first officer-in-charge of the Afforestation Branch. These areas served as outdoor laboratories for some of the Forestry School students' studies and there was an annual camp to extend practical training in a different state each year.
In 1927 there were 15 students at the school – six from New South Wales, four from Western Australia, two from Victoria and one each from Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. The staff consisted of Charles Lane Poole as Acting Principal, three lecturing staff, a librarian and a secretary.
The struggle to remain open
Charles Lane Poole struggled hard through the Depression years of the 1930s to keep the Forestry School open. These difficulties were compounded by the nature of relations between the Commonwealth and the states, Charles' bitter personal conflicts with some of his state counterparts
An average of nine students entered the school each year in the late 1920s. The number fell to five for the rest of Charles Lane Poole's time at the school. When only three students entered in 1931, the Commonwealth government wanted to close the school.
The fall in admissions was due to the states' own financial woes and to Victoria retaining its own School of Forestry at Creswick, north of Ballarat.
Victoria stopped sending students to Canberra after 1930. Equally serious was the deterioration in relations with New South Wales when Harold Swain became Commissioner of that state's Forestry Commission and stopped sending students between 1936 and 1941.
By the time Charles Lane Poole retired in 1945, some 80 students had graduated from the Australian Forestry School.


Forestry School Office


Forestry House 2012 (Photo by John Pratt)

 

Australian Forestry School c1955

CLOSURE OF THE AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY SCHOOL 1965-67, OPENING OF ANU SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 1968
The Commonwealth Government announced in 1964 that the school would close at the beginning of the 1965 academic year.
The students wwere enrolled with the Autralian National University School of Forestry from 1965. Physically, the staff and students remained at the Australian Forestry School buildings in Yarralumla, until the ANU faclities were ready, which was for the start of the 1968 academic year. So the 1964/65, 1965/66 and 1966/67 students stayed at Yarralumla. The 1967 intake  (for 1st year only)and the 1966/67 students (for 2nd year) were the last to be trained at Yarralumla, for the 1967 academic year. The 1967/68 students were the first to be trained at the new ANU School of Forestry, in the 1968 academic year.

PRINCIPALS AND ACTING PRINCIPALS
Norman W Jolly 1926
Charles E Lane-Poole 1927-44
Maxwell R Jacobs 1945-59
Kelvin P McGrath 1960-64

STUDENTS 1926-1964
from LT Carron (2000) “A brief history of the Australian Forestry School”
A total of 584 students were enrolled at the school, during its life. This excludes 1965, 1966 and 1967 students, who were enrolled at ANU, but whose lectures and accomodation continued at AFS.

1926 entry (at Adelaide, moved to Canberra 1927)
Frederick Manson BAILEY (SA)
Lance BEALE (SA)
Alexander Herbert CRANE ( Q)
Paul Andre CRIVELLI (Vic)
Edward Lindsay  Stuart HUDSON (NSW)
Alfred Oscar LAWRENCE (Vic)
Godfrey Hubert MACLEAN (N SW)
Angelo John MILESI (WA)
George Walley Marshall NUNN (WA)
Arthur John OWENS (Q`)
'William Frederick Claude POHLMANN (Q)
Mervyn Alexander RANKIN (Q)
Albert John Kingston THOMAS (Tas)
Alan Robert TRIST (Q)
Charles Rupert Gordon VENVILLE (Vic)
Eric Lawrence WESTBROOK (NSW)

Photo from LT Carron (2000) First AFS class at Adelaide University in 1926

Front row L-R: PA Crivelli, AJS Adams, Professor NW Jolly, EL Westbrook, GW Nunn.
Second row: AJ Milesi, AH Crane, WFC Pohlman, AR Trist, MA Rankin, AJ Owens.
Third row: FM Bailey, AO Lawrence, LS Hudson, CRG Venville, GH MacLean.
Back row: L Beale, AJK Thomas.

1927 entry
James Swan Hamilton MITCHELL (NSW)
Hugh Rhodes PIGOTT ( NSW)
Lewis John ROGERS (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal
Donald William Russell STEWART (WA)
William Roy WALLACE (WA)

1928 entry
Andrew Leonard BENALLACK (Vic)
Archibald McRae CAMERON (Q)
William Geoffrey CHANDLER (WA)
Frederick.GREGSON (WA)
Robert Stanley HASSEY (NSW)
Samuel Benjarnin MENADUE (Q)
William Douglas MUIR (NSW) - awarded Schlich Medal
Reginald Edward TORBET (Vic)
Howard Mansfield WEBBER (NSW)
Baldur Unwin BYLES (NSW)

1929 entry
Feter Ternent COOKE (NSW)
Maxwell Ralph JACOBS (ACT)
Alexander Douglas LINDSAY (ACT)
Norman Roland Leslie MACDONALD (NSW)
James O`DONNELL (WA) - awarded Schlich Medal
Raymond Frederic TURNBULL (WA)
Graham Huxley WHITEHlLL (Q)

1930 entry
John Hartley BARLING (Vic`)
Geoffrey BOURNE (NSW)
D’Arcy Ananda Neil CROMER (NSW)
Reginald Henry DOGRELL (Q)
Francis Sydney INCOLL (Vic)
Stanley Gray JENNINGS (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal
Robert Henry LUKE (NSW )
Kelvin Paul McGRATH (Q)

1931 entry
Alexander Gustaf William ANDERSON (Q)
D. A. LANE (Tas)
William Ritchie SUTTIE (Q)

Photo from LT Carron (2000)  The 1930 and 1931 classes in 1931 in Canberra

Front row L-R: Lecturer A Rule, Senior Lecturer CE Carter, Acting Principal C Lane-Poole, Senior Lecturer HR Gray, R Kappler, M Lindley.
Second row: RH Doggrel, AGW Anderson, KP McGrath, FS Incoll, RH Luke, JH Barling, J Cheel.
Back row: DA Lane, WR Suttie, SG Jennings, DAN Cromer.

1932 entry
William BAULMAN (NSW)
George BOYD (NSW)
Edward Kenneth COX (Tas)
John Mervyn FlELDlNG (Q)
James FREEMAN (VIC)
John Maxwell GILBERT (Tas)
Hans Larns GLOE (WA)
Cecil HALEY (Q)
Benjamin Bernard HARRIS (NSW)
James Bannister McADAM (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal
David William SHOOBRIDGE (Tas}
Jack THOMAS (SA)

1933 entry
Douglas Hurtle  BEAN (NSW)
Paul Bevis CASSON (?)
John Lancelot d‘ESPEISSlS (WA)
Cecil Bernhard KAY (SA)
John Hayes KLUVER (Q)
Leslie Gordon MclVER (NSW)
John David RICHARDS (Q)
Arthur Herbert RUTTLEY (NSW)
Pascoe David TEAGUE (NSW)

 1934 entry
Cornelius Patrick O’BRlEN (WA)
Lindsay Dixon PRYOR (NSW) - awarded Schlich Medal
Alan Stevenson RICHARDS (NSW)
William. George SHARPE (NSW)

1935 entry
Bert CLARKE (NSW)
Arthur Henry COLE (Q)
Beverley FARRELL (NSW}
Eric Leslie Ignatius REGAN (NSW)

1936 entry
Nil

1937 entry
Phillip Herbert BARRETT (WA)
Clifford Douglas BOOMSMA (SA)
Sylvins Clarence KAY (SA)
Mervyn Richard Oke MlLLETT (ACT)
Charles Kendall PAWSEY (SA) - awarded Schlich Medal
Paul Thorp UNWIN (Tas)

1938 entry
Vincent Michael HEALY (SA)
Thomas Frederick RYLEY (Q)
Ronald Henry WHALE (Q)

1939 entry
Wilfred BATEMAN (SA)
Charles Donald HAMILTON (WA)
Charles Hugh Cundell HEBBLETHWAITE (Tas)
Edward William PARKER (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal

1940 entry
James Russell HANCOCK (SA)
Lawrence Thew JACOBS (SA)
Thomas William PARKHOUSE (SA)
Middleton Barr RICHARDSON (SA)

1941 entry
John BEESLEY (NSW)
Philip James BOWLING (Tas)
Ronald Gordon GREEN (SA)
Keith Richard HINCKLEY (Q)
Emil Peter JOHNSTON (Tas)
John Chadwick MEACHEM (WA)
Alexander Compson RICHARDSON (SA)
Norman Edward WHITE (SA)

1942 entry
Thomas Richard BRABIN (NSW)
John Oliver DARK (NSW)
William Temple FEAGAN (NSW) - awarded Schlich Medal
Frederick Phillip FRAMPTON (Tas)
Jack Hernbrough GREEN (NSW)
Herbert PORTER (NSW)

1943 entry
Hugh McKenzie BELL (NSW)
William Aloysius HEATHER (NSW)
William Ross HINDMARSH (NSW)
Alan Grant McARTHUR (NSW)
Richard Vynne WOODS (SA) - awarded Schlich Medal

1944 entry
David Boyd DUN (NSW)
Robert James EDWARDS (NSW)
Norman Benjamin LEWIS (SA)
Harold. C. WICKETT (ACT)

1945 entry
Walter BRYAN (Q)
James Gordon Ramsay MacCALLUM (NSW) - awarded Schlich Medal
Ross Terrill MORLAND (NSW)

1946 entry
Jarnes Ainslie ALEXANDER (NSW) - awarded Schlich Medal
Leslie Thornley CARRON (Q)
Alan William GARDNER (Q)
Albert George HANSON (Q)
Allen Bernard HATCH (NSW, went to WA)
Brian Oliver HEALEY (NSW)
Vincent Michael HEALEY (SA)
John Lewis HENRY (NSW)
Richard Peter LECK (NSW)
David Russell LEJEUNE (WA)
Graham Stanley LUGTON (NSW)
Richard James McARTHUR (NSW)
Jack Stanley RALSTON (Q)
Walton Morgan ROBINSON (Q)
Edgar Herbert VOLCK (Q)

 1947 entry
Neville DAVIES (NSW)
Dnnald Robin DOUGLAS (SA)
Walter Henry EASTMAN (WA)
Mervyn John GARDNER (NSW)
John William GOLDING (N SW)
David Alexander HOLMES (NSW)
Alan James LYELL (Q)
Edward King MILLER (Q)
James Douglas Haig MUIR (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal
Donald Ian NICHOLSON (NSW)
Kenneth William Earle VEAR (Vic)
Bernard Burcham Ridley WALKER (Tas)

1948 entry
Geoffrey John ARMSTRONG (NSW)
James Bevan CAMPBELL (WA)
Thomas Murray CUNNINGHAM (Tas) - awarded Schlich Medal
Frank Kenneth CURTIN (NSW)
Mark William EDGERLEY (SA)
Alan Ernest EDWARDS (NSW)
Ralph Wellby EVANS (NSW)
Frederick Edgar FORD (NSW)
Roy Alan FREE (NSW)
Maung GALE (Burma)
Keith Maxwell GRAY (NSW)
John Philip HAUSER (Vic)
James Morton HICK.MAN (Tas)
David HILLS (NSW)
Neil Samuel HINSON (Q)
Colin Frederick HUTCHINSON (SA)
Ian Duncan HUTCHINSON (NSW)
Roderick Robertson KAYE (Q)
Hedley Arnold MALLABY (NSW)
Robert Brian MOORE (SA)
Graham OBRIEN (Q)
Maxwell Alfred POOLE (NSW)
Clive William PRICE (Q}
Reginald Arthur PRIEST (SA)
Phillip Norman SHEDLEY (WA)
Ronald John  SLINN (NSW)
James Alfred John SMART (Q)
Donald Edgar STANLEY (WA)
Thomas Gordon WALDUCK (Tas)
Kevin Cecil \VALLIN (NSW)
Donald Royston WATTS (NSW)
Bernard John'WHITE (WA)
Noel Li.ndsay WHITEHEAD (NSW)
Evan Leyshon Lyall WILLIAMS (NSW)
Thomas Forrest YORKSTON (Q)

1949 entry
Bruce James BEGGS (WA)
Thomas David BLIGHT (SA)
Keith George CAMPBELL (NSW) - awarded Schlich Medal
David Lindsay CRAKER (SA)
Herbert Sydney CURTIS (Q)
Robert Gilder DIXON (NSW)
George Ross DOBBYNS (NSW)
Eric Edward ENSOR (NZ)
Alexander Geoffrey FLOYD (Vic)
Richard Geoffrey GARDNER (Tas)
Anthony Watson GRAYBURN (NZ)
John de Berri Graham GROOME (NZ)
Lytton Fraser HAMMOND (WA)
Charles`Eric HARRISON (Vic)
Peter Jowett HAWKINS (Q)
Neil Buchanan HENRY (Q)
Andrew KEEVES (SA)
Maung KO GYI (Burma)
Owen William LONERAG.AN (WA)
Stanley Raymond MARGULES (ACT)
James Russell McWILLIAM (Q)
Geoffrey Scott MITCHELL (NSW)
Ian George MORISON (WA)
Leonard Stanley MORS (NSW)
Lewis NICHOLL (NSW)
Robert Christian NIELSEN (Q)
John Bernard O’CONNOR (Q)
Vance Seymour RUSSELL (SA)
Jamiel Harcourt SHEPHERD (WA)
David Frank Athol STEANE (Tas)
lan Hume SWAN (Tas)
John Albert THOMPSON (NSW)
Anthony Hopper WHITE (SA)
Donald Malcolm WILSON (Q)
Maxwell Edward Thomas WOOTTEN (NSW)
Martin John Carver WYATT (ACT)
John Richard WYLIE (SA)
Christopher William YEATMAN (SA)

1950 entry
 John Carson ANDERSON (WA)
Peter Gordon ANDREWS (Q)
George Edward BATTARBEE (Vic)
George Norton BAUR (N SW) - awarded Schlich Medal
Stuart Mervyn BILL (ACT)
Alston John BOURNE (NSW)
Alan Gordon BROWN (ACT)
Geoffrey Frank BROWN (SA)
Roger Saunders BUNGEY (SA)
David John BUTTERWORTH (SA)
Terence John CONNOLLY (NSW)
John Clive COUSINS (ACT)
Donald William FRANKCOMBE (Tas)
Neville Clifford GARE (NSW)
Donald Edwin GRACE (WA)
Edward Charles Gordon GRAY (NG)
Alexander John HART (NG)
Eric Roy HOPKINS (WA)
Nai Karin INGAVATA (Thai)
John Hugh Thompson KELLOW`(l\lSW)
John James KELLY (Q)
Malcom John MANN (Q)
Hipolito B. MARCELO (Phil)
Hector Charles McDONALD (ACT)
Donald Henry McINTOSH (NG)
Paul Loreto O’NElLL (NSW)
John Geoffrey RAWSON (NZ)
Bryant Neville RICHARDS (Q)
Robert Ross RICHMOND (NSW)
Tha Tun SAN (Burma)
Brian Edwin SMALL (NSW)
John James Kennedy SPIERS (NZ)
Edgar Arnold SPRENGEL (WA)
John Pendleton STEWART {NSW)
Francisco Neri TAMOLANG (Phil)
Adrian Colin van NOORT (WA)
Nai Sakdi WATTANAK UL (Thai}
William Arthur WELLS (NSW)
Kevin Joseph WHITE (Q)
Harold Henry WILSON (NZ)
Sein Manng WINT (Burma)

1951 entry
Charles Holden BROWN ( NZ)
Ernest Harold BUNN (NZ) - awarded Schlich Medal
Anthony Haslam COLE (SA)
Charles Richard CULLEN (NSW)
Ross Garth FLORENCE (Q)
Trevor Arthur FOLEY
John Edmund GRAY (NSW)
Alan Ronald HILL (WA)
Lyell John HILL (NSW)
William Ernest HURDITCH (NSW)
Peter MULLINGER (NSW)
Arthur Brian PATTON (Vic.)
Edgar Reginald PFEIFFER (SA)
Keith William PRIOR (NZ)
Stephen John QUAIN (WA)
John David REES (SA)
Kenneth Ronald SHEPHERD (NSW)
Graham Leslie VIDLER (NSW)
John Joseph WADE (Q)
John Flinn YARWOOD (NSW)

1952 entry
Richard Anthony CURTIN (NSW)
Lawrence Boyd DELROY (NSW)
Stanley Wallace GENTLE (NSW)
David lrving HAMILTON (NSW)
John Andrew HELMS (ACT)
Robin LEVINGSTON (NSW)
John Michael LOWERY (NSW)
Shlv Dayal MATHUR (India)
Edward Joseph McKAY (NSW)
John MacDonald MITCHELL (NZ)
Geoffrey David POPLE (NSW) - awarded Schlich Medal
John Robin QUICK {NSW)
David St JOHN (NZ)
Thomas William SWALE (NZ)
Richard James TURNER (NSW)
Ian Heighington Ridley WALKER (Tas)

1953 entry
Herbert Torn BARCHAM (NZ)
Colin BASSETT  (NZ)
Patrick James CARTERS (NSW)
Reed Wyatt CLARKE (ACT)
Edward Kevin CULLEN (NSW)
Maxwell Telfer GATENBY (NSW)
Jaroslav Joseph HAVEL (WA)
Neil HUMPHREYS (NSW)
Peter James KANOWSKI (Q)
Ian Douglas LAMB (Vic)
Bruce Vernon LAWSON (WA)
Terrence Alexander LENNON (NSW)
Donald Garth NIKLES (Q)
August Constant van ALTENA (NSW)
Geoffrey Burke WOOD (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal

1954 entry
David Raymond BAYLY (Sarawak)
Wolde Michael Keleeha BIRRU (Ethiopia)
Robert William BODEN (NSW)
Francis John CAMPBELL WA)
Ashley CUNNINGHAM (NZ)
Karel DINNEBIER (ACT)
Peter Neil HEWETT (SA)
Frederick Graham HOSCHKE (NSW)
Bin Haji Ali ISMAIL (Malaya)
Gavin James MOLLOY (NZ) - awarded Schlich Medal
Robert Louis NEWMAN (Vic)
Peter Francis OLSEN (NZ)
Barry PEICK(NSW)
Francis Dennis PODGER (WA)
Peter Moncrief SOUTH ( SA)
Tesfha Imagmi YEMER (Ethiopia)
Telahun Zarwdie YOHANIS (Ethiopia)
Joseph Kim Kwee YONG (Sarawak)

1955 entry
James Field BARDSLEY (Q)
Peter Alexis CASIMIR (NSW)
Andrew Leschen CLIFTON (WA)
Norman Charles CLIFTON (NZ)
Alan Keith FAMILTON (NZ)
Lloyd Wesley GAY (USA)
Ronald Thomas Gould GREAVES (ACT)
Harvey Siddick MARTYN (North Borneo)
John Terence MONAGHAN  (NSW)
Robin Bilbrough MORWOOI) (NG)
Anthony Blair MOUNT (SA)
David Stanley Heath PREEST (NZ) - awarded Schlich Medal
Abdul RAHMAN ALI (Malaya)
Andris Guntars SKUJA (NSW)
Michael George WHITE (NSW)

1956 entry
Myint AUNG (Burma)
Martin Lachlan BENSON (NSW}
Ian Peter BURGBSS (NSW)
David McRae CAMERON (Q)
Frank Harry COPPOCK (NG)
Kurt Wilhelm CREMER (NSW)
Marcelino Pedero  FABIA (North Borneo)
Ian Stewart FERGUSON (Vic, went to WA)
Getachew HAGOS (Ethiopia)
Aiemayehu HAILE (Ethiopia)
John Philip HENRY (NSW)
Hau Zanang KIMLAE (Burma)
Andrew KIRKLAND (NZ) - awarded Schlich Medal
Maxwell Joseph LEONARD (NSW)
Grenville B LLOYD (USA)
Zdenek MAZANEC (NSW)
Ronald James MURRAY (NSW)
Richard Ernest PEGG (Q`)
Rodney Philip RICH (NSW)
John Derek ROCKELL (NZ)
Brian John SCHAUMBERG (Q)
Rai Lian SUM (Burma)
Geoffrey John SWARTZ (Q)
Kyaw Myint THAN (Burma)
Eiliot Carby TUCKWELL (NG)
Peter John TWEEDY (Q)
John William WAY (NSW)
Edward George WEIR (NSW)
Sein WIN (Burma)
Lambertus Hermanus Phillippus WITTE (NSW)
Alan Hugh WOOD (NSW)
Mohamed Nor YAACOB (Malaya)

1957 entry
Robert John ALLEN (NSW)
John Alexander BECKHOUSE (NSW)
John BRUCE (NSW)
Victorino Madriaga CORPUZ (North Borneo)
Cyril James EDWARDS (WA)
Kenneth George ELDRIDGE (Vic)
Wa.rwick Graham FORREST (NSW)
John Leslie Rickman GODLEE (NG)
James Patrick GOOD (WA)
Brian Allan LANE (NSW)
Edward Gordon MANNION (Q)
Geoffrey Fredrick MARTIN (NSW)
Donald John McGILLIVRAY (NSW)
David George ROSE ( Vic)
Gerald Michael SHEA (Q)
Geoffrey Bruton SWEET (NZ) - awarded Schlich Medal
Brian John TURNER (NSW)
Kimball Francis WELLS (ACT)
Ian Donald WHJTESIDE (NZ)
Alan James WILLIAMSON (NSW-now WA)

1958 entry
Brian Alfred BROOKER (NSW)
John Peter BYLES (NSW)
Robert Mowlem COWAN (SA)
William Allred GREASLEY (Q)
Ian David GRUNDY (NG)
Eric Trevor HAMMERMASTER {NG)
Earl Desney HARRIES (NG)
Paul HERBERT (NSW)
Than HTAY (Burma)
B. P. M. HYLAND (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal
David John HYND (NSW)
Thein LWIN (Burma)
Francis Howard McKlNNELL (WA)
Mohamed Elamin MUKHTAR (Sudan)
Patrick Joseph O’SHAUGHNESSY (Vic)
David Roy PFITZNER (SA)
Robert Van SCHIE (Tas)
Gerard Niel VICKERS (Q)

1959 entry
Paul Alfred ARMSTRONG (Q}
Terence John BLAKE (N SW)
Alan Lachlan CAMERON (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal
John Pearce CAMERON (ACT)
Warren Sturgeon CHAPMAN (Q)
Norman StClair CLOUGH (Q)
Peter Thomas CRANNY (Q)
David DOLEY (WA) - awarded Schlich Medal
Brian John FURRER (N SW)
Richard Foster GRIMES (Q)
U Khin Maung HTWE (Burma)
Eric Arthur JENKINS (WA)
Soeparman KARNASUDIRJA (Indonesia)
Christopher John LACEY (NSW)
Brian James THAGEN (NG)
Stephen Leonard Rupert. OLLERENSHAW (NSW)
Oo (Burrna)
Maurice Daniel PASSMORE (Q)
George Buel PEET (WA)
Thomas RYAN (Q)
John Edward Nayler SMITH (NG)
Michael Kevin SMITH (NSW)
Warwick James STOKES (NSW)
U Aung THAN {Burma)
Robert David UREN (Tas)
Alan Jemes WATT (NSW)

1960 entry
Geoffrey Lintern AIREY (WA)
David Ian BEVEGE (Q) - awarded the Schlich medal
Neil Leonard BRlGHTWELL (NSW)
Peng Wah CHUNG (Malaya)
Robin Neil CROMER (ACT)
Francis Albert COULTER (NZ)
Kevin Albert EGGlNS (NSW)
Peter Alfred FISHER (NSW)
George William HORTON (NSW)
Ian John JEFFREY (NSW)
Alfred JOHNSON (NSW)
Charles KELERS (WA)
Charles Maltby KERRUISH (WA)
Hin Ling LEONG (Malaya)
Kwen Koo LIAN {Malaya)
Bruce Duncan McCONCHIE (NZ)
 Colin Lochart O'LAUGHLIN (NZ)
 John James REILLY (Q)
Barry James STEWART (Tas)
Ross Frederick James WAINING (NSW)
Alan Edward WHITE (NG)
Arnold BruceWILLIS (NZ)
Geoffrey James WINDSOR (NSW)
Ross Edgar John WYLIE (NZ)

1961 entry - 1962 final year
Gordon Peter Stewart ALLAN (NZ)
Frank Edward BATINI (WA) - jointly awarded Schlich Medal
Francis John BRADSHAW (WA)
WaIter George CARTER (NSW)
Keith Campbell CHANDLER (NZ)
Noel Pliillip CHENEY (Vic)
Leon Thomas CLIFFORD (NSW)
Ernest Patrick COONEY (NSW)
Wilfred James Boyd CRANE (Tas)
John Henry FRYER (NSW, ACT)
John Alan Stirling GALVIN (NSW')
Donald Alan GILMOUR (Q)
Ian Paul GORDON (NSW)
CoIin Charles HANKINS {Q)
John Edmund KEATING (Q)
Donald John KEENE (WA)
Jeremy Wilfred LEECH (SA`)
Bernard MACK (Tas)
George Alexander MATTHIESSEN (\VA)
John Graham McCOLL (NSW)
Kenneth James MOXON (NSW)
Ken Maung  MYA {Burma)
Kyaw MYINT (Burma)
William Archibald NIELSEN (Vic)
 John PRATT (SA)
Evan Douglas SHIELD (NG)
James Peter STANTON (Q)
Geoffrey Charles STOCKER (NSW)
Ross George TREVETHAN (Q)
Roger John UNDERWOOD (WA)
John Antony WARDLE (NZ)- jointly awarded Schlich Medal
Roger Michael WELBOURN (SA)

1962 final year, in 1962, Photo provided by Roger Underwood

1962 final year, at October 2012 reunion, Photo provided by Roger Underwood

Front row (L-R): Frank Batini, Phil Cheney, Roger Underwood, John Keating
Centre row: Jack Bradshaw, Wally Carter, Ian Gordon, Colin Hankins, Don Gilmour, Evan Shield
Rear: John Wardle, Ken Moxon, Peter Stanton, Jerry Leech, John Pratt, Bill Nielsen, John McColl, Geoff Stocker

1962 entry
Paul Gerard BOSMAN (Q)
Hans De VRIES (Vic)
Johannes Marten De ZWART (Q)
Robert Leslie EDMONDS (NSW)
Erwin August EPP (Q)
Graham Noel GOODRICK. ( Q)
David JERMYN ( Q)
Thomas Edward JUST (Q)
Denis Douglas KELLY (NZ)
John Edward LAKE (NG)
David LAMB (WA)
John Westell MARRYATT (NZ)
Edward Charles NICHOLLS (NSW)
Robert Alexander NIMMO (NSW)
Kenneth David OLDFIELD (NZ)
Barry Alwyn STARK (Q) - awarded Schlich Medal
Robert John  THISTLETHWAITE (Q)
Kenneth Lindsay WAUGH (Q)
Alan John WENT (NSW)
Douglas Ronald WHEEN (NSW)
Robin Albert YULE (Q)

1963 entry
Kenneth David BLACK (N SW).
John Christopher BRANDIS (NSW)
Michael John CLARK (Vic)
Peter Michael CROWE (NSW)
lan Stewart CURRIE (NG)
Michael DOUGLAS (Tas)
John Alexander DUGGIN ( NSW)
John Ernest DUUS (Q).
David Alexander ELLIOTT (NZ)
Lloyd Calvern EVANS (NZ)
Samuel Johnson Oladipo FALEYE (Nigeria)   `
David Sydney FISHER (NSW)
Lall Singh GILL (Malaya)
David Kenneth GOUGH (Q)
Graham John GRAY (NSW)
Allan Hamilton GRAY (SA)
Kenneth Ross HAMWOOD (Q)
Peter Vincent H0LZWORTH (Q)
Terence Norman JOHNSTON (Q)
Philip Rivogbe Oluwole KIO (Nigeria)
Chong Foong LOW (Malaya)
Peter Seymour MALE (Q)
Bin Ahmad MANUP (Malaya) - awarded Schlich Medal
Ian William McLEOD (Q)
Mustafa. Bin MUDA (Malaya)
Ellis Austen NICHOLSON (NSW)
Christian Richard PALZER (Tas)
David Glenn RYAN (NSW)
Bin Mohd Nor SALLEH {Malaya)
John Ashley SIMPSON {Q)
John Dawson TADMAN {Q}
Philip Bromley TELFORD {Q)
Robert Hall TELFORD {QJ
Chester TEO {NSW)
Frederic Peter WALLIS {NZ)
Ronald Victor WILSON {NSW)

1964 entry - 1965 final year
First year enrolled at Australian Forestry School. From the start of the 1965 academic year, the students became ANU students, but lectures and accomodation continued at AFS. Graduated with BSc Forestry from ANU, the initial graduation year.
John Charles Gripper BANKS {Q) - graduated 1966
Lynton BOLLAND {Q}
Christopher John BOROUGH {NG)
Robert P. BRUCE {NG)
Leo CHAI {Malaya)
John DAVIDSON {NG) - awarded Schlich Medal
Robert J. DAVIS {NSW)
F. George DAY {NZ.)
Victor Ian Pierce EDDY {NSW)
Rex W. GRATTIDGE (NG)
John G. WALTER {NSW)
John W. HARRISON {NG)
Christopher David HAYNES {SA)
Ma1com D.HIGGINS (Q)
Marcus L. HIGGS (Tas}
Ronald  J. HOOPER {Q}
Keith S. JENNINGS {Q)
Ronald H. KING (NZ)
Ben Hock LOW {Malaya)`
Graham Smith McCUTCHEON (WA)
John D. McKINNON {NZ)
Kenneth S. PHILLIS {NSW)
Paul Anthony RYAN {NG)
Paul E. SMITH {Tas)
Rod Hugh SQUIRE (NSW)
John C. TRAIL {Tas)
Frank John VAN DER SOMMEN {SA)
John Denis WRJGLEY {NSW)

1965 entry •
John Cecil Percy TURNER {NZ)

1965-66-67 entry (1966-67-68 final year) from name lists drawn up for April 2013 reunion

1965 entry-1966 final year
From the start of the 1965 academic year, the students became ANU students, but lectures and accomodation continued at AFS.
Mark R ALLEN
David S BARWICK
A Dave BENSON
T BIRD
David BOOMSMA
Peter C BOWYER
Trevor B BUTCHER (W.A.)
Harry LC CHEAH
Ernie CHISWELL
Joe PH CHUONG
Gerry J ROSS
John DAVIDSON
Saki A DUKUNO
Ray L DUNDON
Peter R EMERY
Flaggy MH FARROW
Dave McD GREVE
Clarrie JL GRIMMETT
Ismail bin HARUN
Graeme D HILEY
Peter HITCHCOCK
Brian SH HODGSON
Rod HOLESGROVE
Roscoe R HORNE
Shik bin S Ali IBRAHAM
Ryde N JAMES
Geoffrey T JOHNSON
Graham A KING
Dave G KNAGGS
H Norris LEWIS
John S MEAKINS
GE MEDHURST
Col NICHOLSON
Sulaiman NOORDIN
John (Fred) F NOWILL
Biggles RK ORME
Roger H PFITZNER
John G REYNOLDS
Lindsay R RICHLEY
PA RYAN
Roger SANDS
Mick E SEARLEY
Syd R SHEA (W.A.)
Graeme R SIEMON (now W.A.)
Ian TELFORD  (Qld) (failed)
Marco E TEMU
ken LW TRAISE
Marcelo P UDARBE
Terry VOWLES

1966 final year attendees at April 2013 reunion, photo provided by Nick Malajczuk

1966 final year (L-R): Mark Allen, David Barwick, Dave Benson, David Boomsma, Gerry Cross, Ray Dundon, Flaggy Farrow, Clarrie Grimmett, Rod Holesgrove, Ryde James, Geoffrey Johnston, Graham King, G Medhurst, Roger Pfitzner, Lindsay Richley, Syd Shea.

1966 entry-1967 final year
In 1966 and 1967 the students were ANU students but lectures and accomodation continued at AFS.
Noel G ASHCROFT (WA) - awarded Schlich Medal
Paul E BEAUMONT
James D BELFORD
Phil CARTER
Rod V CLARK
Michael J COOPER
Brian CUMBERLAND
James A DALE
James J DOUGLAS
Clyde R DUNLOP
Humphrey J ELLIOTT
Jim GL GATTERA
Ross A GOBBY (WA)
Keith E GOULD
Wally GE GROUT
Ghaffar a bin HAMID
Tony J HOWE
Peter J HARPER
Don M HOBSON
Ismail bin AWANG
Paul A JENKINS
Malcom E JOHNSON
Gary C KING
Buong T LAU
Bruce H LEAVER
Bob G LYONS
George MALAJCZUK (WA)
Alexander McDONALD
Richard (Dick) B McCARTHY
Dennis R MUTTON
Laurie A NEWMAN
David NUNN
Dick W PASSAUER
Bob G POWER
John A RIGGS
Jim B ROBINSON
Ray F ROBINSON
Brian J SALTER
Ross W SMITH
Joe L STELLER
John W Van PELT
Trevor J VOLLBON
John P WOOD

1967 final year attendees at April 2013 reunion, photo provided by Nick Malajczuk

1967 final year (L-R): Michael Cooper, Brian Cumberland, James Dale, Tony Howe, Peter Harper, Don Hobson, Dennis Mutton, David Nunn, John Riggs, Brian Salter, Ross Smith, Joe Steller, John Van Pelt, John Wood.

1967 entry-1968 final year (last entry-first to move to ANU)
In 1967 the students were ANU students but lectures and accomodation continued at AFS. In 1968 lectures and accomodation was at ANU.
Anderson, Juris (NSW ?)
Anderson, Michael (Qld)
Archer, Gary
Armstrong, BE
Baharudin, Johari (Malaysia)
Boland Doug (NSW)
Bridges, Robert (NSW)
Busby, Peter (Qld)
Corkery, Noel A (NSW ?)
Done, Chris C (ACT)
Fabian, John D (NSW)
Fisher, WJ (Bill) (Qld)
Gallen, Maurice J (NSW)
Gavidi, Osea (Fiji)
Goodwin, GJ (John) (ACT ?)
Hanrahan, Pat L (ACT)
Harris, Merv C (Qld)
Hart, Ken (ACT)
Hashim, Saad Bin (Cambodia ?)
Hatton, Peter J (NSW)
Hayward, John D (Jack) (NZ)
Heberle, Greg W (WA) - awarded Schlich Medal
Hills, Ross J (Tas)
Hodder, Ross AC (NZ)
Johnson, Peter (SA)
Malajczuk, Nick (WA)
Meakins, Vic J (NSW ?)
Ormond, RH (Bob) (NSW)
Paunovic, Peter (NSW ?)
Reichel, Reg (NSW)
Sario, IH (Sam ?) (Tanzania ?)
Saurine, Les E (NSW)
Sharp, Jim S ( NZ)
Smith, Charles David Roger (WA)
Sneeuwjagt, Ric J (Vic)
Tang, Hon Tat (Malaysia)
Tinson, Peter R (NSW)
Turner, A John (NZ)
Watson, Alan “Boxer” (Tas)
Whyte, Ian N (Tas)
Williams, RJ ( Bob) (NSW ?)

ANU Forestry 1968 Final year, photo taken at Forestry School 1967, provided by Rick Sneeuwjagt.

Front row (L to R): Osea Gavidi, Johari Baharudin, Vic Meakins, Reg Reichel, Bob Bridges, Mick Anderson, Saad Bin Hashim , Jim Sharp.
Second row: Roger Smith, Sam Sario, John Fabian, Merv Harris, Ken Hart, Peter Johnson, Peter Tinson.
Third row: Bill Fisher, Chris Done, Pat Hanrahan, Les Saurine, John Goodwin, Ian Whyte, Rick Sneeuwjagt, Ross Hodder.
Back row: Tang Hon Tat, Alan "Boxer" Watson, Bob Williams, Nick Malajczuk, Doug Boland, Peter Busby, Peter Hatton, Noel Corkery, John Turner, Jack Hayward, Randy Anderson, Bob Ormond, Maurie Gallen, Greg Heberle.

1968 final year attendees at April 2013 reunion, photo provided by Nick Malajczuk

Front row: (L to R) Mike Anderson, Peter Johnston, Nick Malajczuk, Peter Tinson, Paula Reid (Librarian), Jack Hayward, Rick Sneeuwjagt.
Back row: Craig Busby (representing Peter Busby), Bill Fisher, Greg Heberle, Alan (Boxer) Watson, Noel Corkery, Juris Anderson.   Missing: Pat Hanrahan.

Attendees at April 2013 reunion of 1966-68 (final years) Australian Forestry School graduates, provided by Nick Malajczuk

1966 final year: Mark Allen, David Barwick, Dave Benson, David Boomsma, Gerry Cross, Ray Dundon, Flaggy Farrow, Clarrie Grimmett, Rod Holesgrove, Ryde James, Geoffrey Johnston, Graham King, G Medhurst, Roger Pfitzner, Lindsay Richley, Syd Shea.
1967 final year: Michael Cooper, Brian Cumberland, James Dale, Tony Howe, Peter Harper, Don Hobson, Dennis Mutton, David Nunn, John Riggs, Brian Salter, Ross Smith, Joe Steller, John Van Pelt, John Wood.
!968 final year: Mike Anderson, Peter Johnston, Nick Malajczuk, Peter Tinson,  Jack Hayward, Rick Sneeuwjagt, Craig Busby (representing Peter Busby), Bill Fisher, Greg Heberle, Alan (Boxer) Watson, Noel Corkery, Juris Anderson, Pat Hanrahan.
Staff: Paula Reid (Librarian), Dr Ross Florence.

INSTITUTE OF FORESTERS OF AUSTRALIA (IFA)
Presidents from Australian Forestry School. - From ANU  - From elsewhere (early ones from Adelaide University). (names from IFA website)
Steven L Kessell 12/1935 - 12/1938
A Charles Shedley 01/1939 - 12/1941
Theodore N Stoate 01/1942 - 01/1946
A A Hone 01/1946 - 01/1948
C R Cole 01/1948 - 03/1950
D A Neil Cromer 04/1950 - 10/1953
Alexander H Crane 11/1953 - 02/1958
Stanley G Jennings 03/1958 - 11/1959
Walter Bryan 12/1959 - 12/1961
Brian H Bednall 01/1962 - 09/1963
Norm B Lewis 10/1963 - 11/1967
Alan C Harris 12/1967 - 09/1969
W Roy Wallace 10/1969 - 09/1971
R J Grose 10/1971 - 09/1973
D W M Paine 10/1973 - 08/1975
Mark W Edgerley 09/1975 - 10/1979
Roy A Free 10/1979 - 10/1981
Ellis A Nicholson 10/1981 - 09/1983
Keith S Jennings 10/1983 - 09/1985
Gary J Bacon 10/1985 - 09/1987
R C Ellis 10/1987 - 09/1991
Frank H McKinnell 10/1991 - 09/1995
Ian Ferguson 10/1995 - 12/1999
Heather Crompton 01/2000 - 12/2002
Ian Barnes 01/2003 - 11/2005
Peter Volker 11/2005 - 11/2011
David Wettenhall 11/2011 - 12/2011
Rob de Fégely 3/2012 to present
Aidan Flanagan (interim) 12/2011 - 3/2012

The N W Jolly Medal is the Institute’s highest honour (W.A. only)(names from IFA website).
The award citation reads: “Awarded as the Institute’s highest and most prestigious honour for outstanding service to the profession of forestry in Australia.”
1967 A. C. Harris
1994 I. S. Ferguson
1995 F. H. McKinnell
1999 B. J. Beggs
2008 R.J. Underwood

Fellow Membership (W.A. only)(names from IFA website)
Any Voting Member of the Institute who in the opinion of the Board has rendered outstanding service to forestry and the Institute may be invited to be a Fellow of the Institute.
• Mr Frank Batini (jointly)
• Mr Bruce Beggs
• Mr Frank (Jack) Bradshaw
• Prof Ian Ferguson
• Mr Peter Hewett
• Dr Eric Hopkins
• Mr Paul Jones
• Dr Frank McKinnell
• Mr John Meachem
• Dr Frank McKinnell
• Mr Alfred (Charles) Shedley
• Mr Phillip N. Shedley
• Mr Don Spriggins
• Mr Roger Underwood
• Mr Jim Williamson

WINNERS OF THE SCHLICH MEDAL from W.A.(Most outstanding student in final year of AFS/ANU Forestry course - incomplete - for complete list see further down by John Dargavel)
James O`DONNELL (WA) 1930
David DOLEY (WA) 1960 (Jointly)
Frank Edward BATINI (WA) 1962
Noel G Ashcroft (WA) 1967  - graduated from ANU
Greg W Heberle (WA) 1968  - graduated from ANU
Martin Rayner (WA) 1982  - graduated from ANU
 

Schlich medal (Australian Forestry School, ACT)
by John Dargavel  (Citation details:  John Dargavel, 'Schlich medal (Australian Forestry School, ACT)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://oa.anu.edu.au/entity/9522/text31703, accessed 31 July 2016).

Sir William Schlich (1904–1925) was a famous German forester who became Inspector-General of Forests in India. He established the forestry course in the Royal Indian Engineering College at Coppers Hill (UK) and founded the School of Forestry in the University of Oxford. A Memorial Fund was established in Oxford to recognise outstanding contributions to forestry in a number of countries including Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA and Canada.
A medal was awarded annually to the outstanding forestry student in the Australian Forestry School (from 1928) and the Australian National University. It was not awarded in other Australian institutions.

1964 C. R. Palzer and B. A. Manap
1963 B. A. Stark
1962 F. E. Batini and John Wardle (NZ)
1961 D. I. Bevege
1960 D. Doley and A. L. Cameron
1959 B. P. M. Hyland
1958 G. B. Sweet
1957 H. Kirkland
1956 D. S. H. Preest
1955 G. J. Molloy
1954 G. B. Wood
1953 G. D. Pople
1952 E. H. Bunn
1951 G. N. Baur
1950 K. G. Campbell and J. R. McWilliam
1949 T. M. Cunningham
1948 J. D. H. Muir
1947 J. A. Alexander
1946 J. A. B. MacCallum
1945 Not awarded
1944 R.V. Woods
1943 W. T. Feagan
1941 & 1942 Not awarded
1940 E. W. Parker
1939 Not awarded
1938 C. J. Pawsey
1936 & 1937 Not awarded
1935 L. D. Pryor
1934 Not awarded
1933 J. B. MacAdams
1932 Not awarded
1931 S. J. Jennings
1930 J. O’Donnell
1929 W. D. Muir
1928 L. J. Rogers
 

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