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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy

Chapter Fifteen: 1950 - 1959
University of Florida Forest Ranger School

The Columbia
Forestry School,
established in Lake City
after World War II, became
part of the University of
Florida and, in 1950,
became the University of
Florida Forest Ranger
School. According to a
paper by Dr. Susan
Summers (“Forest

Technology Program, Lake
City Community College”), Students at the Columbia Forest
Herbert Attaway Jr. Ranger School in Osceola
became director of the National Forest in 1951
school in 1954 and remained there until 1966. Enrollments started
increasing under Mr. Attaway so that about one hundred students
entered each year, of whom about 75 percent graduated. (More
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about the school in the next chapter.)

At the UF Forest Ranger School in 1952 were
Charles Goodman of Panama City driving the tractor and
Cy Perkins of Lake City planting seeds behind the tractor.
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