Faculty and Extension Professional Staff
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, 1905-2003

Year of hiring Year of retirement or resignation Name Expertise

1905

 1925 Stanley Coulter Forestry, dean of science
1914 1959 Burr N. Prentice Forestry, department head, 1926-1940
1927 1930 Fred Franklin Silviculture
1928 1960 Daniel DenUyl Silviculture
1928 1930 W. L. Neubrech Wood utilization
1930 1970 Roy C. Brundage Wood utilization
1930 1946 C.G. Geltz Dendrology
1930 1956 T.E. Shaw Dendrology, forestry extension
1934 1937 E.B. Steen Wildlife biology
1935 1943 Oscar M. Davenport Wood technology
1936 1949 J.L. Van Camp

Forestry extension
1937 1956 A.M. Herrick Forest mensuration
1937 1941 J.C. Kase Wildlife biology
1940 1957 E.R. "Shorty" Martell Forestry, department head, 1940-1957
1941 1947 C.G. Fredine Wildlife biology
1941 1981 Charles M. Kirkpatrick Wildlife biology
1942 1944 J.W. Wright Dendrology
1943 1975 Eric W. Stark Wood technology
1945 1975 Edgar J. Lott Forestry extension
1945 1971 H.H. Michaud Conservation education
1946 1983 William L. Fix Forestry extension
1946 1976 Alfred N. Liming Forestry extension
1946 1982 Charles I. Miller Forest mensuration
1946 1957 A.T. Parrish

Forestry extension
1946 1947 A.R. Tagge Wood utilization
1947 1951 J. Hugo Kraemer Wood utilization
1948 1954 D.E. Stulken Wildlife
1949 1954 M. Martinelli Forestry
1950 1955 Harold Scholten Forestry extension
1951 1956 B.M. Radcliffe Wood utilization
1953 1985 John C. "Jack" Callahan

Forest economics
1954 1976 Durward L.Allen Wildlife ecology, department head, 1957-1958
1954 1987 Stanley K.Suddarth Wood products engineering
1955 1959 Hugh D. Angleton Wood utilization
1956 1991 Thomas W. Beers Forest mensuration
1956 1987 Clair Merritt Silviculture
1956 1983 Robert H.Perkins Timber harvesting
1957 1968 Otis F. Hall Forest management
1957 1974 Forrest T. "Frosty" Miller Forestry extension
1958 1973 William C. Bramble Forest ecology; department head, 1958-1973
1958 1987 Herbert C. Krauch, Jr. Wildlife extension
1958 1988 Russell E. Mumford Wildlife ecology
1958 1997 John F. Senft Wood technology
1960   Michael O. Hunt Wood utilization
1961 1966 Peter E. Dress Biometrics
1961 1969 Charles C. Myers Dendrology, general forestry, Brazil 1967-1969
1962 1990 W. Richard Byrnes Forest soils, department head, 1985-1988
1963   Carl A. Eckelman Wood furniture and cabinet design
1964 1998 Walter F. Beineke Tree improvement
1967 1999 Douglas M. Knudson Outdoor recreation
1967   John W. Moser, Jr. Biometrics
1968 1988 Roger M. Hoffer Remote sensing
1969 1974 J.F. Hamelink Fisheries science
1970  2005 William R. Chaney Tree Physiology
1970   George R. Parker Forest ecology
1972 1974 R.M. Nacker Forest economics
1973 1977 H.L. Archibald Wildlife science
1973 1986 Mason C. Carter Tree physiology; department head, 1973-1985
1973 1979 K.M. Brown Silviculture
1974   William L. Hoover Forest economics
1974 2001 Joseph T. O'Leary Outdoor recreation
1974   Harmon P. Weeks, Jr. Wildlife ecology
1975   Harvey A. Holt Urban forestry
1975 1992 Fred H. Montague, Jr. Wildlife ecology
1975  2005 Anne Spacie Limnology
1976 1988 George S. Libey Fisheries biology
1977   Daniel L. Cassens Wood products extension
1977 1997 Burnell C. Fischer Forestry extension; silviculture
1977   Phillip E. Pope Forest soils
1978   John R. "Jack" Seifert Forestry extension
1981 1990 Douglas C. Andersen Wildlife science
1981 1987 Galen M. Wright* Forestry extension
1983   W.L. Mills, Jr. Forest economics
1983 1988 Thomas W. Reisinger Timber harvesting
1985 1989 Ronald A. Howard, Jr. Wildlife, 4H/Youth
1987 1991 Richard K. "Rick" Myers* Forestry extension
1988  2004 Dennis C. LeMaster Resource policy and economics, department head, 1988 -
1988   Brian K. Miller* Wildlife extension; associate director, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College
1989   Paul B. Brown Aquaculture
1989 1994 Paul J. DuBowy Wildlife ecology

1990

 1992 Kenneth J. Fridley Wood science
1990   Andrew R. Gillespie Silviculture
1991 1995 Pol. R. Coppin Forest biometrics and remote sensing
1991   Robert K. Swihart Wildlife ecology; dept. head 2005 -
1992   Ronald A. Rathfon* Forestry extension
1994   John B. "Barny" Dunning, Jr. Wildlife ecology
1995   Olin E. "Gene" Rhodes, Jr. Wildlife genetics
1996   Rita J. McKenzie* Urban forestry
1997   Rado Gazo Wood products
1997 2000 Doran M. Mason Aquatic ecology
1997   Guofan Shao Remote sensing and GIS
1999   Charles M. Michler Tree physiology, HTIRC**
1999   Brian J. MacGowan* Wildlife extension
1999 2003 Jeanne Romero-Severson Forest tree genetics, HTIRC**
2000   Shorna R. Broussard Human dimensions in natural resource planning and management
2000   Robert P. Karrfalt Tree seed technology, HTIRC**
2000   Ronald Overton Forest regeneration, HTIRC**
2000   Keith E. Woeste Molecular genetics, HTIRC**
2001   Douglass F. Jacobs Forest regeneration, HTIRC**
2001   J. Andrew DeWoody Fish and wildlife genetics
2001   Paula M. Pijut Plant physiologist, HTIRC**
2001   Trent M. Sutton Fisheries biology
2003   Richard L. Farnsworth Water management extension
2003   Richard Meilan Molecular forest tree physiology, HTIRC**
2003   Bryan C. Pijanowski Integrated land-use modeling
2003   Linda S. Prokopy Human dimensions in natural resource planning and management
2004   Maria S. Sepulveda Ecotoxicology

*Extension professional staff.
**Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center

E. W. Stark, “Development of Forestry Education in Indiana,” Forestry and Conservation in Indiana, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University, 1964, pp. 94-95; updated by W. Richard Byrnes, 1989; edited and updated by Dennis C. Le Master, 2003.