Joseph S. Illick (September 16, 1884 - August 31, 1967) was Dean of the

New York State College of Forestry The New York State College of Forestry, the first professional school of forestry in North America, opened its doors at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the autumn of 1898., It was advocated for by Governor Frank S. Black, but after jus ...

at Syracuse University, from 1944 to 1951. He was a graduate of

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

(1907), and the

Biltmore Forest School The Biltmore Forest School was the first school of forestry in North America. Carl A. Schenck founded this school of "practical forestry" in 1896 on George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina.Fifty Years of Forestry ...

(1913); he studied at the

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, as well. Prior to coming to New York, Illick was State Forester, in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

.Federal Writers' Project. 1939. "Conservation Education". Bulletin 214. Harrisburg, PA: Department of Public Instruction, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Available: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/environmental_education_in_pa/13898/appendix/588419. Accessed: February 16, 2010.

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*The Archives from Joseph Illick's tenure as Dean of the New York State College of Forestry are located in the Archives of the SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry http://www.esf.edu/moonlib/archives/ 1884 births 1967 deaths People from Easton, Pennsylvania State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry faculty Leaders of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Lafayette College alumni Biltmore Forest School Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni 20th-century American academics {{US-academic-administrator-stub