Boyd Lester Rasmussen '35, former deputy chief of the Forest Service, died in August. He was 85.

Boyd Rasmussen was born April 19, 1913, in Glenns Ferry, Idaho. After graduating from the Oregon State School of Forestry, he went to work for the Forest Service as a junior forester. His Forest Service career spanned 37 years; Rasmussen rose through the administrative ranks until he retired as deputy chief in Washington, D.C., in 1966. He then served as a director at the Bureau of Land Management until 1971, and then as staff officer to the Secretary of the Interior for international forestry affairs. From 1972 to 1984 he served as a forestry liaison to Congress.

He was a member of the Meridian United Church of Christ in Wilsonville, Ore., and Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Shaurita, Ariz.--dividing his residence between those two cities.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy, son John of Vancouver, Wash., daughter Mary P. Long of Richland, Wash., four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.