Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-04
DIR. ROTHROCK IS
HONORED BY FRIENDS
Forestry Commissioner Presented
With Silver Loving Cup by
Governor Tener

Eighty-five distinguished Pennsyl-
vanians participated this afternoon in
testimonial gathering and luncheon
to DR.. j. F. Rothrock, recently retired
from active service in the Pennsylva-
MIA Forestry Commission.
The Harrisburg Club, Front and
Market streets, was the scene of the
gathering of men who united to do
honor to a Jealous worker for the
cause of conservation of forests, "a
pioneer and far-sighted prophet who
early in his career pointed out the
need for and shaped measures toward
the protection of resources.
John Birknbine, president of the
Pennsylvania Forestry Association,
presided at the dinner and Governor
John K. Tener presented q silver low
ing cup to DR.. Rothrock on behalf of
more than 200 admirers of the for
ester and his work throughout the
State. The inscription on the cup
shows the spirit in which it was ten
dered. 1t says the cup was presented
to DR.. Rothrock "by his friends and
associates his disciples In forestry, in
token of their love and admiration for
and their appreciation of the great
services he has rendered to the State
of Pennsylvania and to the whole
country by his ng-continued, un-
selfish and patriotic devotion to for
estry in America. in which, originally
a pioneer, he has ever been teacher
and leader" In addition to the low
ing cup DR.. Rothrock was made the
recipient of a substantial token of
regard from his friends.
Addresses also were made by A. b.
Farquhar, of York, president of the
Pennsylvania Conservation Association;
by Clifford Pinchot, president of the
National Conservation Association. j.
Horace Mcfarland and others also
offered congratulatory remarks.
The committee having the affair in
charge included Governor John K.
Tener A. b. Farquhar, DR.. III. S.
Drinker, president of the American
Forestry Association and of Lehigh
University; Miss Flornce Keen, ad-
visory board of PENNSYLVANIA Con-
servation Association; the Rt. Rev.
James II. Darlington, bishop of Har-
risburg; j. Horace Mcfarland, presi-
dent of the American Civic Associa-
ton; John Kirkinbine, Robert S. Conk-
lin, Commissioners of Forestry; Will
liam Russell Smith, York. consulting
engineer, Pennsylvania Conservation
Association, and DR.. Henry Nj. Fisher,
council Pennsylvania Forestry Asso-
citation.
The following guests subscribed
their names to this testimonial which
was presented to DR.. Rothrock:
"The friends of DR.. John Trimble
Rothrock have gathered at Harris
burg on this fourth day of ay, 1914, to
do him honor, and to express by their
presence their appreciation of the
paramount service he has rendered
to forestry in America.
They ask his acceptance of the low
| ing cup presented to him in theii
behalf by the Governor of Pennsyl.
vania as symbol and token of the
love and veneration in which he is
held by his fellow-countrymen for his
long continued, patriotic, and disinter-
ested services to his State and coun'
try, and they tender to him this theii
assurance of esteem and afectionate
regard: John K Tener, John Birk-
inbine, A. B. Farquhar, Edgar A. Wei
mer, Harrison Souder, Henry e
Drinker, j. Clarence Granmer, L. l.
Bitter, j. Horace Mcfarland, George
w. Kehr, Samuel Marshall, c. f
Quincy, j. A. Ferguson, Helen Price
Harvey, 7. l.. Harvey, Anna A. Mac
Donald, Walter NJ. Mumma, John w
Harshberger, Ivanhoe S. Huber, S. T
Moore, Henry w. Shoemaker, John A
Herman, Casper Dull, George H. Writ
Florence Keen, e. A. Ziegler, Charles
Steele, G. X. Sober, Linn Harris
James e. McNeal, w. Gard Conklin
Oliver d. Schock, John Foley, j. S
Illick, X. A. Birkinbine, Henry Gan
nett Clifford Pinchot, DR.. w. p. Will
son, Mrs. David Reeves, Miss e. G
Geggett, +. Gardiner, e. j. Stackpole
Charles E. Ryder, Martha May Roth.
rock, Robert S. Conglin, George f
Craig, l. c. Williams, Farley Gannett
William R. Smith, W. p. Stevenson
Laura Bell, Margaret l.. Blackburn
Margaret Dock, Anna NJ Oliver, Mar.
tha A. Moffit, Mira Lloyd Dock, N. j
Davis, Vera Long, Dr. Harvey A. Roth
rock, S. B. Elliott, S. e. Pannebaker
| DR.. Samuel G. Dixon.