Prof.Dr.Dr. Tolgay ODABAŞI, tlıe former head of tlıe Silviculture Department of İstanbul University Faculty of Forestry, retired in 12.04.2002 because of age limit. Dr. ODABAŞI, vvho vvas born in 1935, had begun Iıis academic life in 1961 and gave exceptionaI coııtributioııs to Turkish Silviculture Science and practice duıing the 41 years of this academic life. He ahvays helped his colleagues and co-workers and had always been a model scientist for theııı because of his studious, modest and veracious personality.