Bio: Rhoades, Herb (1957)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Rhoades 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) September 5, 1957 
 

Rhoades, Herb (1957) 
 

Did you know that Herb Rhoades, state forester assigned to Clark County, serves Eau Claire County in private forestry services, raced sail boats for two years in Minnesota, was employed at Minneapolis Golf course when national amateur tournament was held there, and has carried a desire to spend at least two years in Liberia, Africa, on a working and sight-seeing trip? 
 

Herb was born in Minneapolis February 6, 1933, and was graduated from high school at Hopkins in 1950.  He majored in forest management at University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated in 1954.  After graduation he was employed with lake states forest experiment station at Rhinelander, and a few months later entered the forest management division of Wisconsin conservation department at Tomahawk, where he worked in the forest inventory section. 
 

During his senior year of high school he took a test for the Coast Guard academy at New London, Conn., standing 251^st; but only 250 were selected and he joined the army in January, 1955.  He was assigned to Fort Bliss, El Paso, Tex., to the Anti-Aircraft and guided missile section, where he remained for six months.  
 

In July 1955, he was promoted to army security work and was sent to the Korean sector, a branch of the service in which only college graduates were considered.  Returning to the United States in November, 1956, he received a discharge from the service and took up forestry work at Tomahawk.  
 

Conservation, forestry, and the out-of-doors have always been of special interest to Herb Rhoades.  During his three summers of university he studied private forests in Connecticut, toured the west with an entomologist professor collecting insects and study- (and the rest of the story is missing).