"C"p" \Tinslow Gives Up Directorship Of U.S. Forest Products Laboratory

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Carlile P. "Cap" Winslow, director for D years of. the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., largest organization in the world devoted to research in the utilization of wood and related products, has given up the directorship to become Forest Service consultant on wood products in the U. S. Department of Agriculture with headquarters at Washington, D. C. George M. Hunt, a member of the laboratory stafi since 1913 and assistant director since January 1944, has been named to succeed him.

Announcement of these changes, effective immediately, was made by Lyle F. Watts, chief of the Forest Service, IJ. S. Department of Agriculture.

Mr. Winslow successfully directed expansion of the work of "the Lab" to meet the demands put upon it by World Wars I and II, in each of which the organization cooper_ ated closely with the War and Navy Departments in solv_ . ing vital problems in the manufacture, packaging and trans_ port of war materials, including airplanes, tanks, artillery, ammunition and food. He recently returned from a lG month special forest products assignment in Europe under the joint Chiefs of Staff.

A member of the original stafi when the laboratory was established in 1910, Mr. Winslow became director in April 1917. At that time, the Madison organization employed gO scientists and other workers as compared to 700 ai tnl peat of its activities in connection with the second world war. Mr. Winslow was graduated from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1905, with a Ph.B. degree in mechanical engineering.

Mr. Hunt entered the Forest Service as an assistant chemist at San Francisco in September, 1911. He transferred to the Maciison Laboratory in January 1914, being . assigned to the wood preservation section. By 1926, Mr. Hunt, through his research at the Laboratory, industry studies in this country and in Europe,'and his writings ani reports, had become recognized both here and abroad as an authority on the subject, which includes preservatioriof wood by physical and chemical means, fireproofing, glue laminated construction, use of sawdust for molded pria*tr, glues and plywood, and wood finishes. Ife was graduated from the University of California in 1911 with a 8.5. Degree.

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