Vancouver Hoo Hoo

The Vancouver Hoo Hoo Society is the Vancouver club of Hoo-Hoo International. Over the years, the Vancouver Hoo Hoo club has provided tremendous support to Evans Lake Forest Education Society.

About Hoo-Hoo International
The Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo is the oldest industrial Fraternal Organization in existence in the USA, having been organized in January 1892. That it has survived during these years is due to the fact that it has included among its membership, 98,000 men and women whose interests are the welfare and promotion of the lumber industry.

Membership is drawn by invitation from all aspects of the forest products industry, which involves the growing of trees and the management and harvesting of forests. It includes people from forestry, saw milling, research, education, manufacturing and marketing of all wood-based products, officers of lumber associations and suppliers to the lumber industry--in fact it includes all who derive their main livelihood from the forest products industry.

Hoo-Hoo membership is limited to persons who are the full age of 18 years, (with the local club having the option to raise the age to 21 years) of good moral character and are engaged in one or more of the above facets of our industry. Membership is granted to an individual in his own right, not as a representative of any company or organization.

Hoo-Hoo, as it is commonly known, has fun with unusual names and titles. Fortunately, what we are called is less important than what we actually are. Hoo-Hoo is an organization of individuals dedicated to the idea of a united and progressive forest based industry, contributing to the welfare of the community. It is uniquely constituted as a fraternal order with an industry base.

Hoo-Hoo could also be appropriately called the "Public Relations Department of the Lumber industry."

We are the "Fraternal Order of the Forest Products Industry."

Our Motto is "Health, Happiness, and Long Life."

Hoo-Hoo: Origin of the Name

The following article is an excerpt from The Story of Hoo-Hoo - an address delivered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 8, 1924, by Bolling Arthur Johnson

Whence came the word Hoo-Hoo? It was a made word, made by myself in a whimsical phrase - a month before, at a lumber meeting in the Midland hotel in Kansas City - calling attention to the fact that Charles H. McCarer was not bald-headed, as he had - for the delectation of the company - twisted up a little wisp of tawny head-covering, in the very center of this otherwise glistening poll, into what might have stood for an Indian topknot, had it not - at the birth of a whim in MY mind - suggested that the startling appendage should be called a Hoo-Hoo.

The birth of the word Hoo-Hoo had no genesis whatsoever in a certain, oft-referred-to, railroad wreck. The five people who were in the Hotel Hall at Gurdon, had been present with Mr. McCarer at a meeting of the old Arkansas Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association in the seat of learning, and home of oratory, Camden, Ark.

Five of the people mentioned had been part of that wonderful banquet at the Hotel Midland in Kansas City where the dear departed, old-time actor, Roland Reed, had been the guest of honor; and at which banquet it had been discovered that Charles McCarer was not ALTOGETHER bald-headed, and for a whole month the word Hoo-Hoo had been bandied about, and applied to many things.

Charles McCarer at the great retail lumbermen's gathering in Kansas City - had appeared there in a smoking jacket decorated front and back and round about with several score of association badges, and it was called Hoo-Hoo jacket; and somewhere else, someone invented a new drink, and IT was called a Hoo-Hoo highball; and in a game of cards at Camden, someone thought he held an utterly invincible, never before known, HAND, and announced to all the fellows about the board: Everybody stand aside. My hand cannot be beaten. I have a Hoo-Hoo hand.