F E B R U A RY 19 3 8 I ^ 1 I L e t 's Learn More About M. S. C. * ^ $500,000 Private Grant Given M. S. C. For Research I K K L i ke Father. Like S o n' s a l i ew Building Named Mason Hall 52 « >portscripts Let's Learn More About M. S. C. now in in active development, covering every conceivable problem agriculture. These researches range from the highly technical to the highly practical. They have resulted in great economic benefits not only to Michigan farmers but to the agriculture of the world. The single example of the perfection by plant breeding of Red Rock Wheat and Rosen Rye, both Michigan State college developments, has benefitted agriculture more in dollar returns than the entire cost of the college since it became a Land Grant institution in 1855. While in the early days the teachings in agriculture were confined to students who came to the campus, today there are more than 180 Exten sion specialists and County agents who now carry the teachings and results of the experimental work to every farmer and every corner of the state. This last year over one million people attended 56,000 farm meetings. These Extension specialists made over 45,000 farm visits, answered over 125,000 letters and tele phone calls and distributed over 265,000 farm bulletins on agricultural subjects. In 1855 the college farms and campus were picked out of the wilderness, which consisted of 670 acres of swamp and timber land. Today the college farms, in a high state of fertility and live development, embrace more than 2,000 acres, carry stock valued at over $100,000 and have barns and equipment In addition, through the Experiment worth over $250,000. (Please turn to page v) station, five substations embracing . he directs the varied activities of the Division of Agriculture. By E. L. Anthony Dean, Division of Agriculture Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles dealing with the six divisions of study at Michigan State college. The Division of Agricul ture is described in the following story. In the next issue of the Record an article on the Division of Engineering will be published. the other day to review IT was necessary the first few annual reports of the State Board of Agriculture. The reports covered the first, few years of the organization and struggles of the college from 1855 to 1862. In reviewing the report of those early days, I could not help but compare the situation in those days with the present. The Michigan Agricultural college began in 1857 with less than one hundred students and did not attain as many as one hundred students for nearly ten years after opening. Today this same campus is covered with more than 5,200 regular students of which 790 are enrolled in the regular four year courses in agriculture and forestry and in addition more than 300 are carrying short courses in agriculture. In the early days there were fewer than a half dozen professors and instructors, while today in the Division of Agri culture alone there are more than 100 on the teaching staff with over 400 instructors for the whole col lege. # the In the early reports of college, Dr. R. C. Kedzie and Dr. Manley Miles, in addi tion to their teaching duties, conducted simple research in applied agricul work ture. They may be con sidered the founders of the Experiment Station by the advocations of Dr. Kedzie, in soil fertility problems, and Dr. Miles, in Animal Improvement. Today about 100 sepa rate research projects are Page 2 Not all study in the agricultural division is obtained from books and Students spend a large percentage of their time in laboratories where they by doing. lectures. learn Photos on this page by Swingle. M I C H I G AN S T A TE t wo T HE C O V E R: Son a nd daughter of a former alumni s e c r e t a r y, fancy t he skaters are Cliff McKibbin Jr., '36, and Elsie McKibbin. father, Clifford '39. Their W. McKibbin, '11, who was alumni secretary of the col lege, 1917-21, is now a re altor T h e ir mother. Ruth Mead McKib from bin, w as g r a d u a t ed State in 1912. Another son. Jack, g r a d u a t es in June. Photo by Granger. in L a n s i n g. T HE S T A TE M I C H I G A N C O L L E GE R E C O RD LLOYD H. GEIL Glen O. Stewart '17 . .. Gladys M. Franks '27 . .. Editor , Alumni Secretary . Alumni Recorder Contributors: Guelda Pike Kenyon '38 '38; Norman F E B R U A RY 19 3 8 In This Issue • . . . FEATURES - - - Let's Learn More About M. S. C Above Average Cost . . . Location Speelman 'Like Father, Like Son' Farmers Are Entertained . . . Reputation ARTICLES - - - Alumni Attend Botany Meetings Geology Students Plan Tour 45,000 People Visit College For Farmers' Week Radio Attracts Grads ADMINISTRATION - - - $500,000 Grant Given M. S. C. For Research New Building Named Mason Hall Please Make Room For Us SPORTS - - - Spartan Five Trims U. of M., 41-35 Sportscripts Girls Active In Bowling, Swimming DEPARTMENTS - - - Breezing Here and There Close Beside The Winding Cedar Following Alumni Clubs Mirroring The Alumni World I'aK« . 2 4 G 6 7 10 4 6 10 14 4 9 19 12 13 13 5 8 14 15 Top: After the blizzard. Center: Students at work. Bottom: Child in the H. E. Nursery S c h o ol Labora tory. for publication Published quarterly by the Publications Depart ment of Michigan State College. Address all communi cations to Michigan State College Record, Publications Department, East Lansing, Michigan. Changes of address should be sent to Glen O. Stewart, alumni secretary. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, East Lansing, Michigan. Member of the American Alumni Council. C O L L E GE R E C O RD Page 3 $500,000 Private Grant Given M. S. C. For Research A TRUST endowment of $500,000 has been established for Michigan State college to be used for conducting re search in the general agricultural field finding with special emphasis industrial uses, other for farm produce. toward than food, The largest private grant the college has ever received, the endowment comes from the Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham fund and is to be known as the Horace H. Rackham Research Endowment of the Michigan State col lege. The Board of Trustees to administer the endowment con the income from sists of President R. S. Shaw; V. R. Gardner, director of the experiment station, Michigan State college; Hudson McCarroll, head of chemical and metal lurgical laboratory of the Ford Motor company, Dearborn; Michael A. Gor man, editor of the Flint Journal, Flint; and Dexter Hcrton, Ann Arbor. "Tentative plans," President Shaw explains, "call for a study of the devel opment and manufacture out of ordi nary waste materials, such as straw or that can be cornstalks, of a material the soil, permanent incorporated with cr semi-permanent in crease soil porosity, give a more spongy texture and increase water absorbing Flood, and water holding capacity. drouth, and soil erosion are involved— the three greatest land problems." in nature, to Work is expected to start in the near future. No statement has been made as to details of personnel or methods of approach. "It may prove too ambitious an un dertaking," President Shaw commented, the the resources available, but "for objective the greatest effort and it is hoped that the fund provided, perhaps supplemented by others, will result in success. is worth "It seems particularly fitting that re search work of this general type is to be started at the Agricultural Experi ment Station of a state in which indus try itself is so diversified and so highly developed. "There are a number of problems in the general field of the industrial utili zation of agricultural products that are as unexplored today as were those of the internal combustion engine, the Page 4 College To Conduct Studies To Discover Ways Of Using Farm Waste Materials pneumatic tire or the radio a half cen tury ago. The solution of a single one of these problems," President Shaw de clared, "may affect agriculture pro foundly." "Farmers' problems are so complex that all of the energies, attention and resources of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment station and of the Federal Experiment stations and those in other states have been devoted to the pressing problems of the development of crops varieties, fertilizer uses, insect and dis ease control, livestock feeding, storage of farm produce and the many problems of processing and marketing food pro ducts. Neither money nor facilities have been available for research into unex plored fields." It is generally recognized the permanent future welfare of agricul ture depends upon industrial utilization that Above Average Michigan State freshmen have their chests. the in general achievement, reason to puff out Collectively, they are above average tests conducted by the college re veal. than Scores made by M. S. C. first- y e ar m en w e re c o n s i d e r a b ly higher those achieved by 19,600 "frosh" in 133 other univer sities and colleges. Their percent age dropped, however, in vocabu it was lary examinations, while much higher in reading and Eng lish tests. The examinations were to determine con the social, ducted economic, and educational back grounds of all freshmen, as well as to uncover whatever deficien cies in "tool" subjects. they might have of some of its products other than for human food. "It is our hope," said President Shaw, "that the income from the Horace H. Rackham Research Endowment will provide for the beginning of a research program that eventually may utilize some of the best trained men in science for finding entirely new and construc- tice uses for products of the farm. The farmer should be provided with new outlets for his crops that will in turn provide new work for labor, new activi ties for requisites industry and new and satisfactions for the consumer." Alumni Attend Botany Meetings GRADUATES of the Michigan State College Department of Botany may now be found in nearly every section of the United States. This fact was demonstrated at the botanical meetings held at last Indianapolis during week of December. the Among the M. S. C. alumni who at the meetings were Dr. T. G. tended Yuncker, '14, head of the department of botany at DePauw university; Dr. Ed gar Anderson, '18, Missouri Botanical garden, St. Louis, Missouri; J. A. Mc- '13, associate professor of Clintock, horticulture, Purdue university; Dr. Max W. Gardner, '12, professor of plant pathology, University of California; John S. Bailey, '22, pomologist, Massachusetts Experiment station; Dr. S. H. Yarnell, '22, chief of the horticultural division, Texas Agricultural Experiment station, and Cecil Ogden, '31, a graduate assist ant at Harvard university, who will re ceive his Ph.D. degree in botany there next summer. Others present who have taken at least part of their graduate work at Michigan State were Dr. E. C. Tullis, who obtained his Ph.D. degree here in 1929, and who is now a pathologist in charge of rice disease investigations for the U. S. Department of Agricul ture, with headquarters at Fayetteville, Arkansas; Dr. Delbert Swartz, asso ciate professor of botany at the Univer sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkan sas, who received his M.S. degree in botany in 1925; Dr. W. S. Beach, pro (Turn to page 14) fessor of plant path- M I C H I G AN S T A TE BREEZING HERE THERE board," which brings the receiver into court to pay a fine. "After they know we're on the job," stated Haun, "we won't have to be so strict. But right now all infractions of the law bring down a fine on the head of the offender." Prof. James G. Moore ' 03 WAUKESHA, Wisconsin—Recognition as an outstanding orchardist and con tributor to the development of horticul ture was the honor recently conferred by the Wisconsin State Horticultural society upon James G. Moore, '03, chief of the department of horticulture at the college of agriculture, University of Wisconsin. Professor Moore, a native of Shep- . Chief Haun "damps down' on violators. herd, Michigan, has been for 32 years a counsellor of students and others in terested in orcharding and gardening. He now heads the educational activities of the state of Wisconsin in the field of horticulture. In 1905 he received his M.S. degree from Michigan State college. Before assuming his duties at the University of Wisconsin he was for a time a mem ber of the editorial staff of the Michi gan Farmer. Dr. Charles E. Black ' 30 MADISON, Wisconsin—Instructor in pathology at the University of Wis consin is the new position recently ac cepted by Dr. Charles E. Black, Spartan graduate of the Applied Science divi sion in microscopic diagnosis of tumors. in 1930. He will specialize For the past year Dr. Black has been the a teaching fellow in pathology at University of Michigan medical school. In addition to work on a master's de gree in pathology, he has served as assistant to Dr. Carl V. Weller, director labora of tories. the U. of M. pathological the Sparrow hospital Following a year's study at the Uni versity of Georgia, Dr. Black returned to Michigan State college to receive his In 1931 he studied bachelor's degree. medicine at in Lansing. He then attended the Univer sity of North Dakota, from which he obtained a bachelor of science degree In 1936 he was graduated in 1932. from the University of Chicago. the Rush medical school of Parnell G. McKenna ' 10 Y P S I L A N T I, Michigan—Following the promotion of Parnell G. McKenna, class of '10, to the position of assistant maintenance engineer for the Michigan state highway department, 120 of his Southeastern fellow Michigan gave him a testimonial ban quet at the Huron hotel in Ypsilanti on December 9, 1937. At the banquet he was presented with a wrist watch. engineers from (Please turn to page 12) Page 5 Howard Weed ' 89 the Oregon PORTLAND, Oregon — Imagine re ceiving a gift of 15,000 bugs! Such was the experience of state board of higher education which ac cepted the insects from Howard Weed, class of '89, former entomologist at the University of Mississippi who is now a Portland iris grower. The insects, mounted in 36 cases, rep resented 55 years of collection in Mich igan and Mississippi, Weed the board. The presentation took place at a meeting of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Dr. George W. Peavy, president of Oregon State college, said to the gift will be a valued addition the college's 120,000 specimen collection. told Harold B. Haim ' 30 EAST LANSING, Michigan—In a re organization of the East Lansing police last fall, Harold B. Haun department the Michigan '30, former member of State police, was selected to become chief of the combined East Lansing and the campus police system. Formerly college was under a separate jurisdic tion. Chief Haun the position took over from Don Bremer, who is now in charge administration of course. the college police in Enrolled the physical education department while in college, Mr. Haun won letters for basketball and football. Since graduation he has served as a trooper in the Michigan State police, with the exception of 1936-37, when he took courses in police administration and traffic work at Harvard university. Soon after assuming his new duties, Chief Haun served notice that he would "clamp down" on all East Lansing and campus traffic rule violators. The white "warning" ticket, used in the past, was red "paste the familiar replaced by CO L I E G E - R E C O RD Cost c c. Location .. Reputation in geography are making interested the trek to observe certain phases of physical geography. These Are The Chief Reasons Why Students Enroll At State, Say Interviewers to Michigan " T V T H AT brought you W State college?" This was a frequently repeated ques tion on the M. S. C. campus recently, as 80 journalism students questioned class mates on reasons back of their enroll ing. Reasonable cost, location and reputa tion of courses—these reasons domin ated the answers of about 400 students, representing all classes and divisions of the college. Other reasons—influence of family or friends, reputation of ath letic teams, visits to the campus for Farmers' Week or athletic contests, favorable impressions created by speak ers representing the college—these and other factors were mentioned, but usu ally after cost, location and reputation had been cited. The survey, representing eight per cent of the 5,427 different students en rolled terms, emphasizes State's reputation as a rea sonably priced, democratic institution. the fall and winter in The importance of location is reflected not only in the student survey, but by enrollment figures. Of the entire fall term enrollment of 5,427 and winter students, 4,604 (or 84.9 per cent) are Michigan residents. Two counties alone, Ingham and Wayne, are represented by 1,612 students, 953 living in Ingham and 659 in Wayne. Officials point out, however, that reputation of State's courses extends far the boundaries of Michigan. beyond students twenty-three Eight hundred from 39 states, the District of Columbia, and eight foreign countries are enrolled. "I wanted to study agriculture, so it's not surprising that I came to Michigan told State," a student from California an interviewer. c i t ed Another s t u d e nt J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as his reason for coming to East Lansing. Wanting training in police administration, he wrote to Mr. Hoover and found that Michigan State was on the list of approved schools. "Dad came to State, so naturally I wanted to." "When I asked about home economics sug gested." "I wanted to go to State since I first visited the campus many years ago"—these are typical answers given training, State was Page 6 the 80 interviewers as they asked their questions. Few students named State's nation wide athletic reputation as a reason for their choice of schools, although several said they wanted to have training un der certain coaches, and others men tioned visits to the campus for athletic contests as an influencing factor. With its enrollment of 5,427 different students in the fall and winter terms, State's student body is the largest in its history. The winter term enrollment of 5,012 represents a decrease of 3.8 per cent from last term, which is considered very small in comparison to the figures of previous years. Geology Students Plan T o ur FORTY geology and geography stu dents of Michigan State college will take an eleven-day, 2,300-mile trip into the east and south during spring vaca tion. They will be under the direction of Prof. S. G. Bergquist, head of the geology department, and E. C. Prophet, assistant professor of geography. This trip is one of a series sponsored every other year by the geology depart ment as a supplement to class room lectures. Geology students will devote the greater part of the journey to study of rock formations and conditions pecu liar to the Appalachian region. Students Speelman To the list of Michigan State's the football greats was added name of Harry Speelman, left tackle from Lansing, when he re ceived the Croix de Guerre award, a Gruen wrist watch, for being the most valuable senior on the 1937 eleven. the team, The award was presented at the eighteenth annual grid banquet, December 11, at which the varsity the the freshman squad, cross country leading team, sport reporters, the State Board of Agriculture, and 200 outstand ing high school football players were present. A half-day's pro gram, including boxing, wrestling, rifle shooting, and military re views, preceded the banquet. Chartered busses will take the group east through Sarnia, Canada, to Hamil the ton, special study being made of glacial and lake features found on the way. Then they will travel along a limestone escarpment to Niagara Falls, stopping to study the various units of the gorge. From Niagara the students will go to Geneva, New York, and down the west side of Lake Seneca to Watkins Glen. They will spend a half day studying rock materials at Montour Falls, before journeying to the zigzag, folded region of the Appa lachians north of Harrisburg. through Elmira south Entering the eastern coastal plain the party will trips take sightseeing through Baltimore and Washington, D. C. Then they go west into the Pied mont plateau of crystalline rocks near Winchester, Virginia. Motoring south on the Skyline drive along the famous Blue Ridge mountains, they will stop briefly at Luray Caverns. A quick look at the Shenandoah valley will be fol lowed by a visit to the Natural Bridge, Clifton Forge and folded Appa lachian district. From there the itiner ary the river and wind gaps near Bristol, and on to the Great Smokies of Tennessee and North Carolina. includes Roanoke, the Near Knoxville the group will take a side trip to the Norris dam and T.V.A. project. Continuing on to the coal de posits of southern Kentucky, they will visit the Blue Grass region of Lexing ton before heading north through Cin cinnati and home. The students will pay their own ex penses, spending the nights at tourist camps. Two years ago Professor Berg quist took a group composed entirely of geology students through the Ozarks. Department majors make the trip along with others who are interested in the study of geological formations. Photographer Laycock Retires Coming to Michigan State as official at Reo photographer after 18 years Motor Works, Everett N. Huby replaces W. E. Laycock who is retiring because of ill health. Mr. Laycock was associated with the college for 30 years. Mr. Huby has been connected with the college for a number of years taking motion pictures of the football games. Two years ago he produced a colored motion picture of the campus. M I C H I G AN S T A TE 'like Father, Like Son' Theodore O. Williams, '85, Retires; Gives Work To Son, '21 that a man It's still more It's not very often is elected to the same public office for 50 years in a row. rare when this man retires in favor of his son who steps into the yoke to main tain an unbroken family succession. But such is the case of Theodore O. Wil liams, with the class of '85, former Kent surveyor and his (Michigan) county son, Willfred B. Williams, '21. In 1892 Theodore Williams was a suc cessful candidate for the Kent county surveyor's position. Since then he has been re-elected 21 times consecutively. Desiring to retire in December, 1937, he appealed to the county officials to per mit his son, who had been associated with him for 17 years, to take over his office and request was records. The granted. Mr. Williams was congratulat ed by the officials for having given the longest continuous service to Kent coun ty of any elected official in its history. The elder Williams was born in Al legan county, 76 years ago. After leav ing Michigan State in 1883 he pioneered for awhile in the "southwestern wilds" of Kansas, until a severe drouth forced him to return to Michigan. He became surveyor of Allegan county, being re elected to the position twice before as suming his surveying duties in Kent county. Many of the Kent improvements have been made with T. O. Williams handl ing the surveying requirements. Among his major activities was a wide program of surveying in connection with the in stallation of electric railway lines, about 1900. His office carried no prescribed salary, but, in addition to being on call for county work, Williams was engaged by individuals and firms requiring civil engineering. He headed the surveying firm known as Williams and Works. the state highway At one time he was district engineer department, for where he became intimately acquaint ed with Frank F. Rogers, '83, former state highway commissioner. For his work in the early development of the Michigan highway system, Mr. Williams was named president of the Michigan Engineering society in 1917. In 1931 he was granted an honorary science degree by M. S. C. . . . Son steps into the yoke to maintain an unbroken Photo—Courtesy Grand Rapids Press succession. family His son, Willfred, received his bach elor of science degree in civil engineer ing at Michigan State in 1921, having interrupted his studies previously to en list in the World war. His war record shows that he entered the service on August 27, 1917, at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He was later commissioned a second lieutenant, receiving his training in Texas. On May 30, 1918, he em barked for France with the 20th F. A., serving, among other campaigns, in the great St. Mihiel offensive of that year. After graduation in 1921, Willfred be came associated with his father with whom he has worked continuously. "Bill" is married to the former Emily Castle '17, whom he met during their college days at State. They have three children. On December 31 T. O. Williams held an open house in his Grand Rapids offices to introduce his son officially to the public. The son will be a candidate for election next fall. Father and son are very active in alumni club work in the Grand Rapids region, according to Glen O. Stewart, alumni secretary. Mr. Stewart states that the Williamses come to East Lan sing nearly every year to renew alumni friendships. Those who know him say that the elder Williams is a "great jol lier." Extension Silver Anniversary Both Director R. J. Baldwin and the Michigan State College extension serv ice celebrated their silver anniversary of service to the state of Michigan at a three-day conference held in December. Appointed to head the extension divi sion in 1912, Director Baldwin has seen the organization grow from a personnel of five to 180. C O L L E GE R E C O RD Page 7 . . . Scholars Sixteen Michigan State students came through with a spotless record 01 all A's for fall term, while nine others received A's in all their academic subjects. There were 28 on the list as having only one B to mar their otherwise all A record. The all A students were: Graydon L. Blank, '38, Reed City; Glenn C. Breiten- wischer, '38, Manchester; Gertrude D. '39, Grand Rapids; Murry Brummelhoff, H. Cohen, '39, Englewood, N. J.; William G. Collinge, '40, East Lansing; Norma Ford, '38, Lansing; Arthur Howland, '41, East Lansing; Lloyd Hulbert, '40, East Lansing; Herman L. King, '39, Grand Ledge; Marvin Larson, '40, Norway; Franklin Longwcod, '38, Grant; George R. Moore, '38, East Lansing; Peter Monroe, '40, Lansing; Dika Newlin, '40, '39, Bronx, East Lansing; Jack Sabo, N. Y., and Barbara Tranter, '38, East Lansing. . . . Drama Albert Timreck, freshman from De troit, stepped into the limelight in State's this winter. He will dramatic circles have the leading male role in Ibsen's play, "Wild Duck," to be presented on the Union stage, March 9 and 10. in Others the cast are: Margaret Killeen, East Lansing; John Rischman, Grand Rapids; Jere Kimball, East Lan sing; Jean Wyatt, Alma; Marston Busch, Rockford, 111.; Patricia Simpson, Jack sonville, Fla.; Peter Genther, Allentown, Pa.; Harold Helwig, Mendon; Laurence Hamilton, Holly, and Raymond Moshier, Battle Creek. Also in the cast are: Joseph Meagher, Port Austin; Edwin Atkins, Royal Oak; John Scales, East Lansing; Thornton Meek, Dundee; John McEvoy, and Detroit. . . . "Swingster" Eddie Osborn, Chicago senior, was Intercol from chosen legiate Varsity Show broadcast Chicago on Christmas Eve. to play on Pontiac's Eddie, who swung into national prom inence with his red-hot organ rendition of "Hell's Bells" on the NBC Michigan State Varsity Show broadcast November 12, was one of the performers selected by a poll of 40 radio editors from talent in Western colleges. Eddie, who plays entirely by ear, is not a newcomer to the from radio business, having played Chicago and Detroit stations. Also an accomplished pianist, he is heard regu larly over WKAR on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:30 p. m. and on Wednes days at 8:30 a. m. Page 8 . . . Blue Key Twenty-nine junior men, the largest number in recent years, were initiated into Blue Key, national junior service honorary this year. The junior men who met the scholastic and service requirements were: Harold Hoffmeyer, Sparta; Gerald Winter, East Lansing; William Carpenter, Lansing; James Davis, Fremont; Raymond Turner, Mansfield, Ohio; John Pingel, Mt. Clemens; Raymond Osborn, Cory, 111.; Louis Randall, Birmingham; David Boyd, Albion; Victor Spaniolo, Charlotte; Joseph Ruhe, Allentown, Pa.; Bradley Gilbert, Chicago, 111.; Emil Eschenburg, Mt. Clemens. Robert Buzenberg, Detroit; Bryan Ball, Howell; Preston Bell, Lansing; Clarence Dennis, Ludington; John Wilson, Birm ingham; Keith Clement, Shingleton; Steve Slezak, Amsterdam, N. Y.; Charles Gibbs, Washington, D. O; Clifton Ailing- ham, Detroit; William Hasselback, Corunna; Eugene Ciolek, Michigan City, Ind.; Darwin Dudley, Lansing; Robert Hicks, Lansing; Paul Parsons, Lyndon- ville, N. Y.; Rudolph Savio, Woodside, L. I., N. Y., and Martin Buckner, Flint. . . . Rushing A new rushing plan to do away with early pledging has been approved by the Panhellenic council to go into effect next fall. The revised rushing calendar elimin ates rushing during the first week of school and gives freshmen women and transfers a week of orientation before parties. The rushing events, under the spread over a new system, will be three-week period with the first affair, the Open Tea, held on Sunday, Sep tember 25, 1938. . to . . Italian With the addition of Italian the language curriculum for next year, Michigan State steps out with six for eign languages on the schedule. The languages now available for study are: French, German, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Italian. Next year students will be able to take Latin as a major course. . . . Initiated Exceeding last year's quota by 28, 242 harassed neophytes completed fraternity initiation on January 7. The Hesperian pledges won the plaque for the highest grades on the examinations given to the men taking initiation. The examination was a part of the new fraternity week prcgram inaugurated by Interfraternity council this year to take the '•hell" out of "Hell Week." . . . Engaged At a dinner given at their home on January 31, President and Mrs. Robert S. Shaw announced the engagement of their daughter, Sarah, to John Hannah, secretary of Michigan State college. Miss Shaw was graduated from Mich igan State in 1932 with a bachelor of science degree. The following year she received the master's degree. She holds memberships in the honor societies of Tau Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma and Sigma Xi. She is also a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. During her undergraduate days Miss the Tau Sigma the Kedzie prize Shaw was awarded scholarship cup and for outstanding work in science. John Hannah was graduated from State in 1923. The following year he college became poultry department, this in capacity until 1933 when he accepted a position with the Agricultural Ad justment Administration. On January 1, 1934, he assumed his present duties as secretary of the college. the serving affiliated with Miss Sarah Shaw '32, whose engage '23 was an to John Hannah ment nounced recently. M I C H I G AN S T A TE I 11 Architect's drawing of new men's dormitory. It will be ready for occupancy next fall. . . . Streamlined Another of the "new things" on campus is the "streamlining" of the Michigan State News headlines. The change was made January 18 when the News came out with the heads "flush left," to use the jargon of the press room. The trend towards streamlining has been followed by many college papers throughout the country and by several large dailies. . . . Artists The "flower of the Orient," Miss Soo Yong, popular Chinese artist, entertained students with her humorous and dra matic monologues in the Peoples church, January 19. Miss Yong, recently noted for her act ing in the motion picture, "Good Earth," in which two parts—the took Ancient One and the Aunt, appeared on the student lecture series. she Also on the lecture series was the presentation of "Dr. Faustus," a play written by Christopher Marlowe, by the Detroit Federal Theatre actors. The play was offered in the Peoples church on January 13, to two capacity audiences. Other speakers will be Bradford Wash burn, explorer and photographer, and and Rockwell Kent, explorer. author artist, . . . Feted More than twenty five former mem bers of the dairy judging teams gave a farewell dinner to Prof. George Taylor, their former coach, in the main dining room of the Union, Saturday evening, January 22. These loyal alumni traveled 1,200 miles to pay tribute to the man whose teams have brought many honors to the college. judging Mr. Taylor was presented with a fine brief case as a token of the fel lows' appreciation friendship. Professor Taylor assumed a new posi tion in the dairy field at Rutgers uni versity, February 1. for his C O L L E GE R E C O RD i New Building Named Mason Hall Visioned as the first unit of a big quadrangle of men's dormitories, a new men's dormitory is now being con structed on the east end of the campus at the corner of Grand River and Orchard. The new dorm will be named in honor of Michigan's first governor, Stevens T. Mason, who, 23 years old, was known as the "boy governor." To be ready for occupancy in Septem ber, 1938, the dorm will house 446 men. There will be three stories as well as a ground floor. The latter is to serve as recreation center with game the rooms and lounges. The first floor will contain a large reception the sleeping kitchen, dining rooms. On the second and third stories will be to accommodate two men. the sleeping rooms, built rooms and lounge, self-supporting Construction of the men's dormitory, financed by a self-liquidating bond is sue, will bring the total value of the three con structed by Michigan State college since 1930 to $1,402,000. The income from each of the three dormitories will be sufficient interest charges and liquidate the bonds on each of the buildings in 15 years. to pay all buildings . . . Corsages tried on This year's J-Hop committee offered the a feature never before ticket campus. The purchaser of each was entitled that harmonized with the style and color of the girl's gown, as well as a program and a favor. to a corsage, one . . . Birdhouses Michigan State college is getting ready about 300 homes for the feathered visit ors that will soon be swarming to the campus. The woodlots on the campus have been so neatly trimmed of dead wood that the natural nesting places of the birds have disappeared. Forestry students are busy constructing the 300 birdhouses out of hollow boughs. More About M. S. C.— (Continued from page 2) over 3,000 acres are operated in differ the state. The gross ent sections of income last year of these farms and laboratories exceeded $46,000 for prod ucts produced and sold. This past year more than 41,000 boys and girls were enrolled in 4-H Club projects throughout the state and spon sored by the Extension department of re the Division of Agriculture. A cent survey shows the influence of this work on the present enrollment of the college. More than 10 per cent of last year's freshman class had been previous club members. In the Division of Agri culture and Home Economics, this was over 20 per cent. The fond hopes of the founders of this college, the first in the world to be de voted to the study of agriculture, have been realized. It has been a great serv ice institution to agricultural education and agricultural betterment. Farmers of Michigan value its services. This is borne out by the fact that over 100,000 attended educational meetings held on the campus this last year. Farmers' Week alone brought in over 40,000 with seldom a week passing that from 1,000 to 2,000 farmers visit the campus for various functions. The little acorn so modestly planted in 1855 has become a sturdy oak. Page 9 1,-isie. JasPeV Ermers' * ** Fa 9nteT jy[T. onu- — ivricHig0-11 99 years • • evetit for 22 V H o l T lC . IvO E l s xc Is Economics- u STRIKING a hopeful note for the fu- ture with his statement that "agri- culture is fast becoming modernized due to the fact that during the last eight years more young men have stayed on the farm than have gone into the cities for permanent positions," Lloyd Bur- lingham, secretary of the National Dairy association, opened annual Farmers' Week at Michigan State col lege with his address before Michigan dairymen. the 23rd Approximately 45,000 people, equal to last year's record-smashing mark, at tended the five day festivities, January 31 to February 4. On Thursday evening, February 3, about 12,000 visitors jam med and packed their way into Dem onstration hall, making largest crowd in history ever to witness a single Farmers' Week event. Police officials in charge of handling the campus traffic estimated that from 6000 to 8000 per sons were turned away from the Thurs day evening show. the to Governor Frank Murphy, unable attend because of illness, sent a message to the farmers complimenting them on the show and calling it "outstanding evidence of the cultural quality of Michigan's country life." in The governor also referred to the rur al electrification program now under way to our the state. "According Michigan public utilities commission, on January 1, 1935, Michigan had but 22 per cent of her farms electrified and was 18th in the nation in percentage of farms electrified," he said. "On Jan uary 1 of the present year, more than 45 per cent of the farms in Michigan were electrified. On June 30, 1937, for which the last figures including the en- t i re n at i on are available, Michigan had in advanced from 18th to 14th place the percentage of farms served." Speaking before the Tuesday after noon session in the gymnasium, Dusty Miller, Wilmington, Ohio, humorist- farmer, offered the idea that "the great est benefit we receive from America is the ability to laugh at anything and anyone we want. The world either laughs at you or with you—and a grouch is excess baggage," he said. He urged Michigan to establish definite constructive policies within their groups to "work for" rather than "fight against." farmers that the Philippine Prof. F. B. Morrison, of Cornell uni versity, told a throng of livestock farm ers islands come close to raising the world's best cattle. Professor Morrison made a government survey of the island's herds last spring. Notice of the political situation did not escape him, as he told of the Philip- pine's deep concern over its expected independence in 1945. "At present there are only 18 millions on the islands and examination has shown that 80 or 100 millions could be taken care of," the speaker disclosed. "Japan undoubtedly the has designs on the islands within next 10 years for there would suit her excess masses very well." A criticism of a lethargic farm build ing program was directed at Michigan farmers by Prof. R. C. Miller of the agricultural eng'neering department of Ohio State university. Professor Miller Esserted that only 1 per cent of farm toward construction of income goes the climate holds record in ?mon pro- CrtHoned Michigan Oman 1937 .^tort 45,000 People For Farntei farm buildings although "buildings make the income and not income the build ings." In this line with The theme of the 1938 Farmers' Week was "Specialties in Michigan Agricul ture." idea, Carl McGuffey of Shelbyville was named as onion king of Michigan. McGuffey, the Michigan Vegetable president of Growers' association, averaged 1,147 bushels of onions per acre, a mark just short of the world's record. The title of Potato king went to Alphonse Verschure of Manistique. A patch he cleared produced an average of 524 bushels of potatoes, of which 485 bushels were U. S. No. 1 grade Russet Rurals. Verschure also won the sweep stakes award for showmanship of pota toes selected for uniformity of shape, size, and color. Mrs. Walter Hammond of Hastings won the grand championship in the male turkey class with her exhibit of a yearling bronze turkey. Farmers Are Entertained Asserting the primary that one of functions of Farmers' Week was to pro vide entertainment the visiting guests, R. W. Tenny, this year's pro gram director for the 1938 M. S. C. agricultural shew, planned a series of for •*V Page 10 M I C H I G AN S T A TE 1937 pie Visit College Tiiers' Week that had the huge events 45,000 people busily dawn until dusk during period, January 31 to February 4. interested the throng of from five-day Headlining in Demonstration hall was the Wednesday evening show the light-weight horse pulling contest be tween a team of world champions, own ed by John Day of Springport, Indiana, and a Michigan entry, owned by August Hoffman of Montague. The Indiana horses, which last year set a world re cord with a pull of 3,225 pounds, hauled the weight machine 27 feet with a weight of 3,000 pounds. The Hoffman team had to retire at the 2,700 pound mark. The evening following the world team of Bel champion heavy-weight gian geldings, owned by the Cedardell farms, Piano, Illinois, barely nosed out a pair of geldings owned by Clair McLean of St. Louis, Michigan, at the 3,500 pound mark. The Cedardell horses hauled the machine 18 feet 3 inches, while the Michigan pair could only go 13 feet 1 inch. Letting go with ear-splitting "Errr-neee," Mrs. Nellie Curtis of Ionia overwhelmed her competitors to win the husband-calling contest in a breeze. an ( T William Hale, farm lad from Charlotte, nearly broke the sound volume meas uring device set up by Dr. Donald Hayworth, head of the speech depart ment, when he threw back his head and roared "soo-eeeee" in the hog-call ing contest. C O L L E GE R E C O RD Loetoem mein • Bel*cn th ^ ^ ^ < ^ g ^l f f i TT ^ p n C ^ *' °*>*ed by Ha%e "inning 9rand hoZti0nml , * • , - • •. ^B ^ ^ ^^ tie for Other acts of interest at the evening included a musical chair stunt shows by the M. S. C. cavalry students, in which the riders dismounted from their the band music racing steeds when stopped and competed for seats in an insufficient number of chairs. A drum major's contest for high school students found Margie Titus of Jackson win the senior girls' honors; George Walbridge of Benton Harbor and Donald Crane of Saginaw the senior boys; Maxine Higsby of Grand Ledge twirl her way to victory in the junior girl class and Teddy Smirniotis of Sodus, young brother of Michigan State's well-know baton-spinner, walk off with the junior boys' trophy. A rifle shooting contest for farmers produced a tie between H. Jackson, Lyle Jackson and J. W. Street, all of the bull's-eye 99 Bancroft. Each hit from out of 100 shots. In the shoot-off a standing position H. Jackson copped the honors with a score of 90. The three men are members of a Bancroft rifle club. Something new in the line of enter tainment was introduced by R. J. Cole man, director of radio station WKAR, when he anounced a daily amateur con test for ruralites. The broadcasts, which emanated from the Little Theater in the home economics building, brought forth a variety of willing amateurs. On Thursday evening college students under the direction of Donald Buell of the speech department staged a series of the Little Theater. The same evening the varsity wrestling team won a closely contested meet from the freshman mat squad. five one-act plays in . . . Lowenstein Nine years old, but comparatively a to Michigan State College, newcomer is Loewenstein, Belgian stallion, which in early December won the King Albert trophy at the International Livestock exposition in Chicago. With the trophy is the title, "Finest Belgian in the United States." The the animal a year ago from the University immediately began of Minnesota and winning prizes. Ralph Hudson, farm superintendent, and Jack Carter, horse man, have been showing him at state fairs and livestock expositions. college purchased S u m m er Session J u ne 20 To July 29 The 1938 Summer School session at Michgian State college will open on June 20 and extend until July 29. From August 1 to 29 the regular post Summer school session will be held. Dr. Walter C. Reckless, professor of sociology at Vanderbilt university, will conduct a new course in "Juvenile De linquency," a study in which he has done much teach research. He will also "Principles of Sociology." A special session for teachers of voca tional agriculture will be held June 20 to July 8, which will be conducted in cooperation with the state department of public instruction. Technical courses include "Farm Manage to be offered ment," "Conservation," "Animal Hus bandry" and "Visual Education." A special the methods and technique of teaching com munity projects. line of study will stress Page I I mores—Marty Hutt, Frank Shidler, and George Falkowski— in the front line. Falkowski and Hutt are the leading scorers with 159 and 145 points, respectively. The average game score was 41 points, the highest in State's history. The Michigan game was a see-saw affair the crowd cheer vociferously at all stages. State avenged a previous 43-40 defeat by keeping the lead a margin of from one to four points during most of the game. Hutt bagged 17 points in the game. The season's record: that had State State State State State State State State State State State State State State State.. State State 51, Hope 40, Michigan 52, Iowa 43, Missouri 48, Case 29, California 43, Kentucky 55, Hawaii 65, Buffalo 46, Syracuse 23, Marquette 21, Butler 27, Wisconsin 27, Kentucky 41, Michigan 26, Marquette 32, Notre Dame 27 43 37 33 34 31 38 31 35 53 41 15 30 44 35 40 48 Varsity records are falling before the swimming team again this year. Victories over Purdue and Cincinnati helped the splashers forget the Michigan defeat. The wrestling team won its first major victory in two sea sons in handing out a decisive defeat to Northwestern, 23 to 5. Coach Collins promises better reports from now on. Coach Young has a strong track squad in the offing. A 73-22 victory over Michigan Normal in the first dual meet of the indoor season cheered everybody up. Wilbur Greer, junior from Flint, is regarded as a star who may shine nation ally this year. Freshman basketball, wrestling and swimming squads are reported to be the strongest here in years. 1 9 38 Grid Schedule September 24—Wayne University, at East Lansing. October October October October October November November 12—Marquette University, at Milwaukee. November 19—Temple University, at Philadelphia. 1—Michigan, at Ann Arbor. 8—Illinois Wesleyan Univ., at East Lansing. 15—West Virginia, at Morgantown. 22—Syracuse University, at East Lansing. 29—Santa Clara, at East Lansing. 5—Missouri at Columbia. Breezing— (Continued from page 5) ZURICH, Switzerland—Close friends during their college days at Michigan State, Harlan Clark and Gray Palm, Jr., parted upon graduation in 1935, to meet again this fall in far-off Zurich, Switzerland. Life during the period between graduating and their recent meeting has been eventful for these two young men. For Clark went on to Harvard from Michigan State, where he studied in preparation for the diplomatic service. Late last summer he was appointed United States consul to Switzer land. The American consulate is located in Zurich. Palm did graduate work in mathematics at M. S. C. upon graduation. Last October he enrolled in the University of Zurich school of mathematics. George Falkowski . . .. Photo by Granger leading cage scorer. He's a sophomore from Flint, Michigan. Spartan Five Trims U. of M., 41-35 By George Alderton MICHIGAN State's basketball revival which has been under way this year may not have been the roaring it success the more enthusiastic followers had hoped, but has served to account for some appreciated victories over major opponents and provided the spectators with the most exciting article of the sport they have looked upon here in several years. At the tail end of the campaign, those close to the team are celebrating the thrilling 41-36 victory scored over the University of Michigan here Feb. 12. It was the first victory in five starts against the Wolverines and served to put the Spartans back on the track. It was the ninth triumph of the season, insuring Coach Ben Van Alstyne and his hearties of better than an even split for the season. As was anticipated early in the season, the team lacked the reserve strength to make it a power in every game. Lack ing replacements capable of carrying on the good work of the starting five, Coach Van Alstyne had to pick his stops to apply the power. That he was successful in this is indi in the Michigan game. The pre cated by the comeback ceding week-end State had dropped games to Kentucky and Wisconsin, the former by a sizable margin. Inexperience was a handicap that Coach Van Alstyne faced from the start but he stuck to his guns and kept three sopho Page 12 M I C H I G AN S T A TE » » » Sportscripts « « « Football players will be all "bowled" up next year. The Spartans, themselves principals in the Orange Bowl game at Miami, Fla., last New Year's day, will meet two other bowl teams during the regular schedule. They engage Santa Clara, a team that won the Sugar Bowl game from L. S. U., and also West Vir ginia, winner of the Sun Bowl game against Texas Tech at El Paso, Texas. Ralph Bennett, sophomore end en the Michigan State college football squad, is the champion angler of the Spartan campus. Bennett caught a six-foot-six sail fish weighing 48 pounds while fish the ing off Miami Beach, Fla., during Spartan's Orange Bowl visit. The prize will be mounted and placed among the trophies in the student Union building. Bennett spent half an hour landing his prize. The national cross-country running championship will be decided over the Michigan State college course next November 21. Athletic Director Ralph H. Young, also coach of the Spartan track team, has been notified that the National Collegiate Athletic association has approved State's request for the meet. Coach Young originated the idea of this meet and made the bid at the recent meeting of the association at New Orleans. Major John L. Griffith, Big Ten athletic commissioner and also president of the N.C.A.A., notified Coach Young of the favorable action. Next year's football team at Michigan State college will be just a bunch of stay-at-homes. The Spartans will play four games away from Macklin Field but the combined total of their travels will be only 3,000 miles or so. This year the State team did close to 15,000. However, in 1939, the Spartans will return to their nomadic ways. They are billed for games at Philadelphia against Temple and at San Francisco with Santa Clara. Manuel Arteaga, Cuban member of the State college fencing team, has an international background in his sport. The lithe Cuban has wielded the foil in Spain and Italy as well as his home land. He is also an accomplished horse man and during the season competes as a regular member of the Spartan polo team. Michigan State basketball has torn a page out of the football and baseball book this year. All home games are preceded by the raising of the flag and the playing of the national anthem. Big Demonstration hall is darkened, a spot light is turned on the flag and the R. O. T. C. band swings into the music. The ceremony has won favorable comment. A one-day baseball clinic, to be super vised by men attached to major league baseball, will be an innovation offered at State next spring. Coach John Kobs, producer of many successful Spartan nines, is busy lining up a program. He has been assured major league support. Coaches of high school teams will be invited the one-day school. Demonstrations of all branches of the game will be given. to attend Basketball rates high with these girls. It's part of the physical edu cation program at State. Anybody say wrestlers were dumb? It isn't so at Michigan State college. Sam Aldrich, the 126-pounder on Coach Fendley S. Collins' squad, is the smart est athlete in college. Aldrich, who hails from Fairgrove, Mich., headed the scholastic honor roll last quarter. He came up with a straight "A" grade. G i r ls A c t i ve in B o w l i n g, S w i m m i ng Spartan coeds, realizing that partici pation in athletics is a means to health and graceful carriage, are competing this winter in a variety of sports rang ing from badminton to fencing. Closest in bowling and competition is found the swimming, the sports selected by intramural board as the basis for judg ing intramural girls' teams for points to ward the intramural sports cup, award ed annually by the Women's Athletic association. Sororities and independent girls' or ganizations participate in these sports. Points are awarded on skill and form. Two major sports are selected as the basis for competition each term. The or ganization winning the most points in the six sports during the school year is presented with a cup. Points are awarded in competition as follows: 15 for a first place, 14 for second, 13 for third and so on down the list. These points are also accumulative towards is awarded 100 points for being on a team finishing first. When she has collected 500 points she is given a small "S"; 1000 points gets a large " S" and 1500 points places her name on a Women's Athletic association honor roll. letters. A girl individual Bowling matches have produced some individual this winter which would make many leading men bowlers sit up and take notice. scores free include Swimming events which will soon find the girls churning the waters of the style, pool the 30-yard 30-yard breast side stroke, 60-yard free and the free style the coeds are relay. Events in which judged solely on form are the crawl, breast stroke, back and side strokes and diving. stroke, 30-yard in to their skill at Besides competing these major sports the Michigan State coeds also find rifle time improve marksmanship, badminton, f e n c i n g, skating and hiking. Despite limited fac ilities they try to scare up a round of basketball games daily. Invitation bas ketball games and swimming meets are held with other schools, among them Battle Creek college and the University of Michigan. C O L L E GE R E C O RD Page 13 Radio Attracts Grads GEORGE K. ROLLINS, w'28, now in the Holey and Rollins at Atlanta, Radio Engineering Georgia, to Secretary Stewart a letter in which he described the activities of many Michigan State graduates in the radio business. recently partner firm sent The letter followed the Varsity Show broadcast about which Mr. Rollins said: "Somewhere, scattered about the country, there is a handful of people who that broadcast with more than just the interest of alumni. I refer those people who staffed WKAR back in the old days." listened to to is now with Those men were the following: Jim Hasselman, who was professor of jour nalism and director of WKAR when it was first organized, the Agriculture Adjustment Administration in Washington, D. C; Keith Himebaugh, '28, who was program director of WKAR, is also with the A.A.A. as pub licity director; James D. Gamble, w'23, is now publicity director for the Detroit Community Fund. Ralph C. Hodgkinson, '27, is now en gineer with the Consumers Power Co., Kalamazoo; Donald "Olie" Olesen, '27, is chief testman for the Michigan Bell at Grand Rapids. The following men were members of the technical staff of old WKAR and, as their present Mr. Rollins says, "from connections you may rightly draw the conclusion that their ground-school at M. S. C. and WKAR equipped them well." Forrest I. Phippeny, '26, is con nected with the U. S. Bureau of Light houses, Department Washington, D. C, as lighthouse en gineer. Roy C. Wenning, is a physics teacher at Cass Technical high school in Detroit. of Commerce, '26, Irl D. Ball, '29, is a radio inspector for the Federal Communications Com mission at Great Lakes, 111. Robert D. Martin, '28, is a partner of Edwards and Martin Radio Engineering firm in Detroit. Ralph Clark, '30, is an en gineer with the Federal Communica tions Commission in Washington, D. C, and holds the title of Technical Inter Jay E. Parkhurst, '29, is lost. rogator. Could some one inform the Record of his whereabouts? Clinton Fitch, the Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in '26, is a Lansing, and William Fitch, member of the Radio Engineering De partment, N.B.C., New York. His home is in Hollis, Long Island. '26, is now with Others who became associated with Page 14 the WKAR crowd were John A. Russ, '29, who is now a Radio Inspector for the Federal Communications Commis sion in Detroit, and O. B. Slocum, w'29, in charge of Forest Fire Radio for the State of Michigan. He lives in Okemos, one of the few men who have stayed on the very edge of the campus. Alumni Attend Botany Meetings (Continued from, page 4) ology, Pennsylvania State college, who received his M.S. in botany in 1915. Other former members of the gradu ate school who attended the Indianapolis meetings were Dr. Erston V. Miller, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, who obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1926; Dr. E. S. McDonough, a graduate assistant at M. S. C. in 1930, who completed his work at Iowa State college and who is now assistant professor of botany at Marquette university; Dr. A. M. Porter of Connecticut Agricultural college, and Dr. W. W. Smith of the University of New Hampshire, both connected with these the horticultural departments of institutions, and who their received Ph.D. degrees in horticulture here. Dr. James Merritt, now with the Ken tucky Tobacco Products company at Louisville, Kentucky, who received his Ph.D. degree in 1936, attended, as did Dr. A. B. Groves, as sistant plant pathologist at the Vir ginia Experiment station, who was a graduate student here in 1930. in entomology Members of the M. S. C. botany staff who attended the scientific meetings were Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, head of the department, Dr. H. T. Darlington, Dr. R. P. Hibbard, Dr. J. H. Muncie, Don ald Cation, Dr. Ray Nelson, Dr. E. F. Woodcock, H. C. Beeskow, Glen Ken- Knight, John Routien, C. W. Robertson, Dr. B. H. Grigsby and Dr. H. L. Barnett. the staff who attended was Dr. G. H. Coons, with the Michigan State botanical de partment for 18 years, but who for the last nine years has been connected with the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Among the former members of Following Alumni Clubs . '16, and James Hayden, . . Chicago The Chicago alumni club expects to go "Sky High" for its annual meeting on Saturday evening, April 2. The committee, under the direction of Van Taggart, '30, has reserved the Sky High Penthouse, on the tower floor of the Stevens hotel, for an informal dinner-dance, starting at 6:30. Since April 2 is the last day of spring vacation many undergraduates will attend the party as guests of Chi cago alumni. Among the speakers will be Alumni Secretary Stewart and Coach Charlie Bachman. Any M. S. C. gradu ate or former student passing through Chicago on that night is invited to at tend. . . . Alumni Day Members of the various five-year classes will soon be making plans for their quinquennial reunions on the cam pus this coming June. Alumni Day was officially designated as Saturday, June 11, by the executive committee of the Alumni association, at its mid-winter meeting held at the alumni office, Janu ary 22. The this year are those groups whose class numerals end with a "3' or an "8." The oldest quin quennial class is still that of 1878 and the youngest, 1933. five-year classes Robert E. Loree, permanent secretary for the 1913 group, expects a record- breaking crowd for his 25th anniversary Individual classes will hold reunion. their reunion dinners Saturday noon while all classes will join for the Sun in the Union at 6 o'clock. set Supper Plan the campus ALUMNI to be on DAY, JUNE 11. . . . Muskegon Approximately 60 Michigan Staters and their guests met at the Muskegon Y. M. C. A. dining rooms on February 14 for the annual meeting of the alumni of district 23. Following t he b a n q u e t, G a r f i e ld Thatcher, class of 1932, opened the eve ning's program with community sing ing. Professor Applegate gave a talk the college and Coach Bachman, on making his first official visit before the grads of informally de scribed the football season. The pro gram closed with the showing of movies. that district, . . . Jackson Seventy-five Michigan State gradu ates and friends of Jackson and Hills dale counties gathered at the Congrega tional church in Jackson on February 8 to hear Secretary Stewart and Mrs. Merle Byers of the Home Economics education staff. Jay Prescott, '28, super intendent of schools at Vandercook Lake, governor of district 10, presided. Mrs. Byers discussed the new expan sion program of the employment problems of placing home economics graduates. the college and M I C H I G AN S T A TE Patriarchs From William Caldwell, '76, comes word of the death of his classmate Gates L. Stannard, which occurred on December 17 at the home of his son in Huntington Park, California. Mr. Stannard had just passed his 81st birthday on December 4. Dr. E. D. Brooks writes that John E. Taylor, '76, died December 7 at his farm home near Belding, Michigan, and adds: "John was a suc cessful farmer and a more than usually fine pen man and maker of exquisite pen drawings of birds which he sent with his copies of the class for letters which made many years. The world is richer for his having lived in it more than 83 years." the rounds periodically Mirroring The Alumni World By Gladys M. Franks 927 Alumni Recorder Word has been received from L. A. Buell, '83, of the death of Herbert Bamber, '81, at his home in Highland, Michigan, on December 14. For many years Mr. Bamber was employed as an engineer light house depart ment. the government in the Henry Ford hospital William R. Caldwell, of Pontiac, died on Janu in Detroit. ary 31 in in Milford, Mr. Cald For many years a farmer well has lived in Pontiac since he retired in 1926. Dr. Ervin Brooks, of Kalamazoo, is now the only living graduate of the class. 1890 the state Dr. J. W. Toan, for many years superintendent of tuberculosis sanatorium at Howell, died October 23 1937. on the campus while on his way to the Marquette-State game. His daugh ter, Derua Toan McPherson, resides in Howell. 1902 Bridge engineer for the city of Seattle, Wash ington, is J. A. Dunford, whose offices are at the corner of Third avenue and James street. 1904 Dorr Skeels, who received his degree in 1915, is the U. S. department of agricul in Bozeman. Montana, where he and Mrs. (Blanche Covell, w'05) reside at 516 W. employed by ture Skeels Main. 1907 G. E. Hines is Churchill street, and cist. located in Detroit at 7422 is employed as a pharma is Judge of Probate it for F. E. N. Thatcher is that he Muskegon county and in the probat making quite a name for himself in ing of estates without delay and particularly the handling of Judge Thatcher juvenile cases. lives in Muskegon Heights at 700 Sanford street. is reported 1910 Julius W. Chapin, formerly of St. Paul, Min nesota, called at just before Christmas and gave his new address as 1707V2 S. Cedar street, Lansing. the Alumni Office 1911 Frank E. Barlow in the U. S. In dian Service, may be reached at Window Rock, Arizona, Box 26. employed Louise Kelley Pratt is now Mrs. H. L. Culver, of 1803 S. Sycamore avenue, Los Angeles. lesrn of and other the death of classmates to friends will be Her grieved Iva Wilson Chamberlin which occurred at her home in Mil ill waukee on December 31, following a short '13, ness. Her husband. Ralph G. Chamberlin, and a daughter, Joan, survive. 1912 George C. Sheffield has been Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as district C O L L E GE R E C O RD transferred to service supervisor for His local address is 2134 Hazeldell street. the Hudson Motor Car company. Word has been received of the death of Charles Bradley Baker in Chicago on October 22. 1913 From the November 13 issue of the State News (the Holcad to some of you) comes the follow ing item: "Executive ability seems to run in the Simpson family. Nate Simpson, who was gradu ated from Michigan State in 1913, was president of his class as a junior. His daughter, Patricia, junior class, is chair a member of the 1938 J- man of the reception committee for in Jacksonville, Fla." Hop. The Simpsons the present live Virginia Langworthy is a practicing physician in Scarodale. New York, where she resides at the Northgate Apartment on Garth road. 1914 J. Harry Hill and Flora T. Roberts were mar ried on November 8 in Saginaw, Michigan, where they are at home at 221 Fitzhugh street. Lessifer C. Milburn the St. Louis Airplane division of the Curtiss-Wright corporation, and in Webster Groves, Mis souri, at 344 Planthurst road. is works manager of lives G. A. Somerville is located in Ottawa, Illinois, the Illinois Division of as district engineer for Highways. George E. Weir owns and operates Branch Lumber and Supply company Branch, Michigan. the West in West 1915 Major D. A. Stroh was from Plattsburg, New York, School at Fort Benning, Georgia. recently to transferred Infantry the 1916 Marshall H. Shearer, superintendent of schools at Stevensville, Michigan, is also engaged in fruit farming. Mr. Shearer lives in St. Joseph, Michi gan, at 204 Hollywood road. Paul and Frieda Meisel Tower are living at 917 W. Cross street, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mr. Tower is engaged in landscape work in Pontiac. 1917 H. V. Abel is passing out business cards which relate that he is traveling representative for the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange of Weslaco. Texas. While his headquarters are in Chicago, Mr. Abel is making his home in Kalamazoo, Mich igan, at 506 Wheaton avenue. John Bregger is located in Williamsport, Penn in twelve north sylvania, as field representative western states for the Soil Conservation Service's division of research. On January 15 the follow ing Michigan State alumni, and wives, gathered the Bregger home at 815 Market street at for dessert bridge and get-to-gether: an Cecile Gebhart, '20, and her brother, Willard, of evening Hart, Michigan ; Arthur C. Mclntyre, '24, and Mrs. Mclntyre ; Arnold Baur, '29, and Mrs. Baur : '30, and Marion Holley Ralhs, Herbert Raths, '31 ; Henry Adams, '21, and Mrs. Adams : Cecil '35 and Marjorie Joyce Brown Frutchey, Ph.D. Frutchey, Isle, Maine; Grover Brown, Ph.D. '34, and Mrs. Brown ; and Mr. and Mrs. Bregger. '35, of Presque C. L. Burton is secretary-treasurer of the Na tional Farm Loan office in Lapeer, Michigan. Major Harry L. Campbell, of the U. S. Army from the Charleston Ordnance Depot. Ordnance department, has been transferred New Jersey North Charleston, South Carolina. to Mr. and Mrs. Henni LaFayette. of Detroit, Michigan, announce the marriage of their daugh ter, Marie Madolon, to Lloyd K. Cleveland, at St. Patricks, Miami Beach, Florida, December 9. 1937. They are living in New York City whe e Lieutenant Cleveland may be in care of the Inspector of Naval Material. Christopher and Washington. reached is located in Chicago as Daniel E. Gower in in charge of the Bureau of Entomology the U. S. Department spector and Plant Quarantine for of agriculture. He lives at 5254 George street. Howard Kittle covers the state of Ohio in the interests of Philip R. Park Inc. of Chicago, and lives at 1362 Hillcrest avenue, Toledo. Edwin H. Pate, who recently began his term as president of Detroit No. 1 Kiwanis club, re ceived his Prance, known as the "first Kiwanian." Joseph G. former Kiwanis district governor and insignia of office from 1918 William and Alta Snow DeYoung are making their home in Des Moines, Iowa, at 710 West 45 street place. Mr. DeYoung is a soil scientist for the Soil Conservation Service. Holmes L. Froelich is a tool and die designer for in the Lyons Machine and Tool company Muskegon, Michigan, where he and Mrs. Froelich (Bernita Weese, w'20) live at 1259 Sanford street. Welland Gay, civil engineer for the U. S. Coast Guard, lives in Rocky River, Ohio, at 19451 Bat- tersea boulevard. Cleo Gledhill Beck (Mrs. Ivan T.) writes: "We are now living in South Salem, which is located in Ross county, Ohio. My husband is vocational to get agriculture teacher here there back for commencement . . .. this year I expect . .. if Page 15 are any M. S. C. alumni located in this vicinity I would be glad to know ol them." Harry K. Wrench has moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is connected with the Min neapolis Gas Light company. 1920 Lawrence G. Fritz in Kansas City Missouri, as region superintendent for Trans and Western Air Inc. is located Harry R. Saxton has a mink ranch at Bemus Point, New York. 1921 Rev. Thomas J. Miller, formerly of Niles, Mich igan, is now located in Hillsboro, Kansas. Word has been received of the death of Eugene in Milwaukee, Wis J. Mueller, which occurred consin, on October 15. Thelma Porter is located in Washington, D. C, as associate home economics specialist the U. S. D. A.'s bureau of home economics. Her local address is 1860 Clydesdale place, N. W. in 1922 (Randall, Cyril and Bernice '241 Hough have moved from Grand Rapids, Michigan to James town, New York, where Mr. Hough has recently been made general manager of Weber-Knapp company. 1923 Willard Cutler has been transferred by the Soil Conservation Service to Cambridge, Ohio, where he and Mrs. Cutler (Helen McDowell, w'26) are living at 1507 Stewart avenue. Neil B. Morrish treasurer of the International Conveyor and Washer Corpora tion of 640 E. Fort street, Detroit. is secretary and in which he has been engaged is now Lansing agent for Howard Root has broken away from highway for engineering the many years and reports Reliance Life that he immensely. His local address remains 903 Verlinden avenue. Insurance company. He the new work is enjoying Colonel F. Snyder for the Chevrolet Flint division of General Motors, and lives in Flint at 1210 Mason street. is electrical instructor Ralph P. Turner is in charge of engineering records for the Reo Motor Car company in Lan sing where he lives at 527 N. Chestnut street. John and Dorothy Stuart Watson are living at 2640 Peachtree road, Atlanta, Georgia, where Mr. Watson for Libbey- is district Owens-Ford Glass company. sales manager M. K. Wrench is general superintendent of the Savannah Gas company, Savannah, Georgia. 1927 Alfred Dorrance is an agronomist for the Soil in Howell, (Natalie Conservation service, and Michigan where he and Mrs. Dorrance Wiedoeft, '28), make their home. located is Theodore Oldenburg Steel Fabricating company he lives at 1608 John street. is an engineer the in Muskegon, where for Helen E. Wooster is a dietitian for the Hotel Statler in Detroit. 1928 Bernhard T. Aim is physician for the Fisher Body corporation, 601 Piquette, Detroit. Charles Black may be reached at the State in Madison, Wisconsin, Laboratory of Hygiene where he is in in clinical pathology instructor the medical school of the University of Wisconsin. Warren H. Bliss, in a year's leave of absence the University of Maine, is engaged in re in (Eloise in Brooklyn at 500 St. Johns from search engineering New York City. He and Mrs. Bliss Kapp, place. for RCA communications '31) live Dorothy M. Clement is medical technologist for in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad Chicago, with offices at 547 W. Jackson. Ward M. Estes the Redford Union schools in Detroit where he lives at 8929 Dailey court. is principal of 1929 Wheeler Grey is associated with the law firm of Wright, Jones & Bronson in Seattle, Washing ton, where he lives at 1906 East Lynn street. Frank A. Hill is assistant manager of Newark, New Jersey, offices of Credit company. He lives Jersey, at 61 Ernst avenue. the the Universal in Bloomfield, New is Forrest B. Leedy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a geo-physicist with the Seismograph Service corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma. temporarily located J. Tracy Maynard manages the Goodrich Sil- vertown store at 35 South Cass, Pontiac. Robert G. Scott is an in design at lives at 30 Shepard, Cambridge, instructor Harvard, and Massachusetts. Dr. Walter W. Thompson, formerly on the col lege staff, has accepted a position in the depart ment of pathology at Kansas State college, Man hattan. 1924 ducts company 1285 Fourth. Stanley Weed manages in Muskegon where he the Arctic Dairy Pro lives at the U. S. Forest service but Don E. Clark gives his new address as 1042 Rosedale road, Atlanta, Georgia. He continues with is now at tached to the southern regional office in Atlanta. to the U. S. Forest service, and is now range examiner at Springfield Missouri, where he and Mrs. Horn kohl (Helen Doris Taylor, w'27) make their home. Leon W. Hornkohl has returned 1925 Lloyd J. Conkel Berkeley, California, and engineer for in Emeryville. lives at 1951 Hopkins street, is engaged as a sales the Westinghouse Electric company 1926 Nella Kathryn Boonstra is teaching home eco nomics in Lake Orion, Michigan. Larry Skellinger in cereal grains and poultry farming at the Squire Hall farm at Danboro, Pennsylvania. is engaged Page 16 Edwin C. Welden is plant suuperintendent of the U. S. Gypsum company in Forth Dodge, Iowa. 1930 Robert and Audrey '33) Dodge are living at 739 Morris avenue, Grand Rapids, where Mr. Dodge for the Michigan Tree Expert company. landscape architect (Fernamberg, is a Leo B. Faiver is employed in the electrical test ing laboratory at the Reo Motor Car company in Lansing where he lives at 820 Grove street. Faiver is married and has three children. Walter A. Herbert is safety engineer for the Bituminous Casualty corporation in Indianapolis, where he and Mrs. Herbert (Ernestine Cameron, live at 3761 N. Meridian street. Apartment '29) 305. friends His many classmates will be in St. grieved Petersburg, Florida, on December 22, following an operation. While in college, Val was varsity that Val Anderson died to learn and basketball manager, a member of the Varsity club, Union Literary society, and Scabbard and Blade. At the time of his death he was a first lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps. Following gradua tion he was employed by the Cities Service Oil company in Detroit. He is survived by his mother and a brother, Clyde Anderson, '17. Walter and Eleanor (Nash, w'34) Histed live at 1710 E. Rudisill boulevard, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Mr. Nash is engaged as process engineer for General Electric. I n n" the "Trail William H. Kroll writes from 2507 West 7th street, Joplin, Missouri, that he owns and oper tourist camp, and adds: ates "Our camp is on U. S. highway No. 66, on the west side of Joplin limits. Anyone going to or from California on U. S. 66 will pass by our door. We will be glad to have any Michigan Staters drop the city inside just in." Frances W. Lamb the Bohn Aluminum and Brass corporation in Detroit, where she lives at 17575 Oak drive. is a spectroscopist for Dorothy E. Thompson gives her new name and address as Mrs. William B. Landis of 3655 Mapleway drive, Toledo. A new name and address has also been re corded for Marian Wells — she is Mrs. Robert C. Thomas of Apartment 514, 230 Rhode Island avenue N. E., Washington, D. C. 1931 Shortly before Christmas, one of the contest in the the battle of wits with "the one, ants the original" Professor Quiz was an en only, the name of gineer it you ? Atkinson. How about It was nice work anyhow, for he received prize money. by it Warren, was from Newark, Ohio Howard E. Balbach for Delco Products of Dayton. Ohio, where he lives at 939 Five Oaks. is process engineer Cecil C. Fogg owns and operates a wholesale and retail market on the Telegraph road in Flat Rock, Michigan. Robert Guthrie is a metallurgist for and '32) the Ford he and Mrs. Guthrie Motor company, live at 986 Winchester (Allouez Ridley, avenue, Lincoln, Park, Michigan. son, Bobby, will celebrate his third birthday on Feb ruary 8. Their Harley F. Lawhead is assistant engineer at the U. S. Lake Survey office, 649 Federal building. Detroit. Edward M. Powers is control supervisor in the cel-o-seal department of in Buffalo where he lives at 1010 Kenmore avenue. Robert K. Russell is located in Pontiac, Mich igan as a cost accountant for the General Motors Truck company. the duPont plant Katharine Schrtiber teaches Latin and English in the Hastings (Michigan) high school. William A. Simanton is an entomologist the Gulf Research and Development company Pittsburgh. for in Ruth M. Stockel and Stuart M. Rutter were the chapel of Peoples married September 18 in church, and are making their home at 816 S. Pennsylvania avenue, Lansing. Mrs. Rutter has been employed in the underwriting department of the Auto Owners Insurance company for the past three and a half years. Stuart and Geraldine Crandall Wilsey are liv ing in West Branch, Michigan. Mr. Wilsey is the editor of the Ogemaw County Herald. 1932 Announcement has been made of the marriage of Norma Barr to Howard Welton. of Townsend. Montana, which in Baltimore, Mary land, on August 28. They will make their home in Missoula, Montana. took place M I C H I G AN S T A TE is engineer for Webster Bowler the Michigan Inspection bureau of Detroit, and he and Mrs. Bowler (Christine Connor, '33) make their home at 268 Belanger road, Grosse Pointe Farms. W. H. Brigham tary of the Peoples Rapid Transit corporation Kalamazoo, where he and Mrs. Brigham Jackson) live at 2112 Fairfield avenue, R. 2. is traffic manager and secre in (Doras Grady and Marjorie '30) Calvert and their two sons Grady Jr. and Thomas, are liv ing at 807 Fouraker, Dallas, Texas. Mr. Calvert is employed by the city gas company. (Zemke, Mabel Dunn Pyles (Mrs. Ronald) teaching lives at 616M> West Fifth is in Flint, where she street. It has been "Grendpa" Emmons the campus since November 26, when a daughter was born and Anna Emmons Green, of to Detroit. John on Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. MacKinnon, *95, have announced daughter. Charlotte, to John H. Zuber. on January 15, in Saginaw, Michigan. the marriage their of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rohlfs, of Charlotte, Mich igan, announce the birth of Wilford Herman J r. on December 8. Howard T. Ziel is deputy clerk for the United at 228 Federal located court States district building. Grand Rapids. 1933 Edwin G. Barratt manages the Lansing branch is lo of the G. M. Peet Packing company, and cated at 703 E. Kalamazoo street. I.ura Black is an instructor and supervisor of medical nursing in the Stanford University hos pital in San Francisco. Charles E. Blakeslee and Daisy Lavender were married August 25 in Newberry, Michigan. They are making their home at 610 W. Broad street, teaches voca Chesaning, where Mr. Blakeslee tional agriculture. Lyle Buxton and Lucille E. Smith, w'34, were married June 11, and are at home in Fowlerville at 429 South avenue. son, Morgan and Maurine James, are their avenue, Manistique, Michigan, where "Nick" stationed with the U. S. Forest service. (King, '34) Carter and living at 514 Garden is Gaylord F. Dreger is assistant manager of the •I. C. Penney store in New Kensington, Pennsyl vania. Leslie C. Fenske is assistant sales manager of the Fenske Business Equipment company of 818*4 Saginaw street, Bay City, where he and Mrs. Fenske '35) are making their home. (Priscilla Usherwood, William Hall recently resigned as educational adviser in the CCC to work for the Shell Petro leum corporation in Des Moines, Iowa, where he lives at 3712 Forest avenue. Harold G. Harrison the Pet Milk company lives at 419 Providence street. is field superintendent for in Delta, Ohio, where he Richard H. Heitsmith instructor tion Springs, Colorado, and lives at 308 East Yampa. is boys physical educa the public school of Colorado in Marjorie Knight is occupational therapist at the City hospital in Indianapolis. Gordon Merchant at partment Creek where he lives at 21 Spring street. the Kellogg company is foreman of the food de in Battle His classmates and many friends will be griev ed to learn that Frank Noble, a former business manager of the State News, died in a local hos pital on January 18, following a illness. long the AeTheon society, Frank was a member of is now Delta Chi, and also of Blue Key. He two sisters, Louise survived by his mother, '35 and Marian two brothers, Chester and Glen '34. '39, and C O L L E GE R E C O RD More News Class of 1907 this picture of the class of in Members of intarest '07 should have a special famous the "Teddy" Roosevelt, snapped on the occasion of the former president's visit to East Lansing to deliver the commencement address on May 31 of that year. The photo was submitted by Keats Vining, '13, Kent county agricultural agent, from Grand Rapids. Mr. Roosevelt's visit came as the highlight to a three-day celebration on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Michigan State college. He arrived in Lansing about 10 o'clock in the morn that beautiful May day. After being ing of the governor, greeted by a committee U. S. senators from Michigan, members of the legislature and college officials, the president and his party boarded a convoy of 10 automobiles furnished by R. E. Olds, Lansing automobile manufacturer. including of Vassar, Michigan, announce son, Robert Bliss, on September 15. the birth of a Carl J. Sander, plant superintendent of the Wyles Lockport Dairy in Lockport, New York, and Bessie M. Damude were married October 20. Ammon E. Schreur is located in Gaylord, Mich igan, as an engineer for Pickitt & Goodwin, a road contracting firm of Allegan. Gordon C. Snyder, R. 1, Box 579, Benning, in the U. S. is assistant naval architect D. C, department of commerce. Amy-Jean Veneklasen and David J. Vail were in Mus married October 2, and are at home kegon at 1670 Peck street. 1934 Ralph W. Becker, civil engineer the Bu reau of Air Commerce, has offices in the Federal building in Salt Lake City, where he and Mrs. Becker (Elaine Wagar, '35) are living. for Jay A. Bolt, instructor in mechanical engineer ing at the University of Michigan, lives in Ann Arbor at 1914 Scottwood. Esther Garthe is a dietitian at St. Luke's hos pital in Saginaw. in Norrine Grover was named one of the prom ising stylists the Sears, Roebuck, and com pany when she placed fourth in a national fash ion scholarship contest held recently by the com pany. Miss Grover has been working in the Lan sing store since May, 1935. Ralph Lillig is a branch manager Calavo Sub-Tropic Fruit company where he lives at 5475 Centre avenue. for the in Pittsburgh, Richard and Rodetta '35) Macomber living at 1221 Cambridge drive, Kalamazoo is treasurer of are Michigan, where Mr. Macomber the Kalamazoo Paraffin company. (Martin, Jerry and Lucille (Wasserman, w'381 Mandigo are locted at 1141 N. Pine street, Lansing. Mr. Mandigo teaches at the School for the Blind. Milton B. Peasley the Greening Nursery company at 23900 Woodward avenue, Pleasant Ridge, Michigan. is an architect with Kenneth and Sarah (Thurston, 'w'35l Priestley, the birth of a of Vassar, Michigan, anounce daughter, Ann Elizabeth, on November 14. E. A. Runkel is pastor of the Haven Method in Jackson, Michigan, and may be ist church reached at 127 Seymour avenue. Henry and Virginia Allen Winnicki are liv ing at 25 Leroy, Potsdam, New York, where in Mr. Winnicki the Clarkson College of Technology. teaches chemical enginering 1935 Albert Baker is assistant coach at Wilberforce university at Wilberforce. Ohio. He has a year- old son, Albert J r. Keneth and Norma Newark Butterfield are liv ing at 1300 Cass avenuue S. E., Grand Rapids, where he is a tool and die draftsman at Gen eral Motors. Louise Collins is secretary to Senator James in lives J. Barbour of Evanston, Illinois. She Chicago at 4330 N. Hermitage avenue. Paul Kindig and Helen Anthony, '36, were married in Peoples church on October 9. and are making their home at 606 State street, Schenec tady, New York. Mr. Kindig is an accountant for General Electric. Allan J. Kronbach sewage where he lives at 426 Sackett avenue. treatment plant for is superintendent of the the city of Monroe, William N. Witheridge is a sanitary engineer the Detroit Department of Health, and he live in for and Mrs. Witheridge Detroit at 361 Covington drive. (Lucile Allen, '28) 1936 Martin D. Bates and Barbara Hutchinson were last June 30, and are living in Jackson married Page 17 toward In the picture, which was taken as the parade moved the college city, President Roose velt is seated in the rear seat with Jonathan Sny der, former president of Michigan State college. the front seat with a secret Mr. Olds occupies service man. The second auto contains secret service agents, stretching their necks to see that the procession. nothing reports The donor of that a tire blew out on one of it neared East Lansing, causing the hair of several of the special agents to turn prematurely gray. the picture, Mr. Vining, impedes the progress of the cars as Among the 22,000 people who heard the presi the commencement address was C. dent deliver '12, now state county agricultural V. Ballard, leader. He had come from to his home in Ithaca with John T. Mathews, '83, who at time had a son, Stanley Mathews, that with '12, in college. the celebration Mr. Ballard's main impression of President Roosevelt was a "dynamic spot in the midst of a huge crowd." The speaker, he states, had an unmistakable flair for attracting attention. "Mr. Roosevelt certainly put to a good use his flash ing smile and vigorous gestures of the head," Mr. Ballard concludes. address, Concluding his to Lansing where his the president was whisked away train was waiting. But he left behind him a class of new grads that can claim the distinction of being the only group of M. S. C. seniors ever to have had a president of the United States as commence ment speaker. John T. Norgaard and Marva Dawn Andersen '36, were married August 1, and are making their home is sup in Escanaba where Mr. Norgaard erintendent of the sewage treatment plant. T. Berwyn and Eleanor (Bliss, '32) Pemberton, Heights New York, at 35-45 81st street. Apart ment B-3. Mr. Bates is a salesman for Mojonnier Brothers company of New York City. Ruth Crossman, assistant in the library school at the University of Illinois, lives in Urbana at 1118 W. California. John B. Engelbreit, of 738 Academy street, Kala for Lawrence Scudder is an accountant mazoo, & company of that city. Harld K. Engle is teaching vocational agricul ture in the high school at Northport. Marianna Halbert ward W. Sparrow hospital is a dietitian at in Lansing. the Ed Evelyn Heuvelhorst C. A. cafeteria 7105 Saginaw street. is in charge of the Y. W. lives at in Flint, where she As staff assistant on the Cherokee National is in charge of acquisition forest. Roger D. Huff and buying of land for national purposes in the state of Tennessee. His headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee. Lawrence Johnson Rutgers university and Jersey experiment station is doing graduate work at the New in Sussex. located at are is James A. Lewis, graduate assistant in the div ision of finance at Wayne uni versity, lives in Detroit at 4120 Commonwealth. research and Roy A. Nay is professor of biological science at Connors State Agricultural college at Warner, Oklahoma. Gerhard H. Wacker is employed at Nazareth college, near Kalamazoo, as superintendent of grounds. 1937 June Nelson and Myron C. McDonald, w'38, in Grand Rapids on November in Detroit at the adver were married 13 and are making 6f>5 W. Warren avenue. Mac is with tising firm of Evans-Winter-Hebb. their home Ruth Greenwood and Alice Vivian have ac quired new names and addresses—the former is Mrs. E. L. Markey of 820 S. Porter, Saginaw, and the latter is Mrs. Don S. Creyts Jr. of 925 W. Washtenaw, Lansing. Among those of the class who are teaching a r e: Hope Carr at Belding: Vivian L. Dersnah at Palo: Ruth Frank in Sand Creek ; Elizabeth Johnston in Port Huron where she lives at 2132 Military ; Rosemary G. Kesl also in Port Huron, living at 1311 Scott avenue; Laura Kincade in in Flint where he Pinconning: George Lincoln lives at 3805 N. Saginaw; William H. Lynch in Olivet; Phyllis Meyer in Greenville: Mary Mich el, who lives at 118 Sutton S. W., Grand Rapids; in Amsterdam, New York, Kazimer E. Nevulis I. Phillips where he lives in Albion .Doris Rose at 1618 Elwood avenue ;Howard L. Tremblay in Flushing ; Anton Venier in Bay P o r t; Fred Wood- teaching by in Stanton ; and Dorian Wilkinson, and coaching at St. Viator college in Bour- bonnais, lives at 16 Storrie ;Lydia in Flint, where she Illinois. work: Elizabeth G. Hatch, of 167 Normandy avenue, Rochester, New York, works for the Dav enport Machine Tool company in Rochester; Mar garet Hotchin to Dean Conrad and lives at home; Johanna Sar.dham is employed in the office of the Michigan State Fair in Detroit wh?re he lives at 17177 Prairie avenue; and Norma Mull is employed on the campus and lives In East Lansing at 319 Albert street. is secretary William Cogsdill and Arthur E. LaRocque are is with the Detroit student engineers. Cogsdill in Detroit at 3239 lives Edison company and the General Electric is with Pingree. LaRocque company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lives at 226 E. Washington. in in Grand Rapids Frances Metcalf, Ruth Griffith, and Martha food service work. Miss Green are engaged is dietitian in the employees cafeteria at Metcalf the Herpolsheimer's same city Miss Griffith is apprentice to the res taurant manager of the F. W. Woolworth store the at 125 Monroe avenue. Miss Green manages food service at in the F. W. Woolworth store Kalamazozo, where she lives at 431 W. Walnut street. and in Barbara Baldwin and Georgene Walker are employed as visitors by the Old Age Assistance bureau, Miss Baldwin in Grand Rapids where she lives at 301 Morris avenue S. E., and Miss Walk er in Lapeer where she may be reached at 210 Madison street. John C. Achenbach. electrical for in Camden, gives his address as 26 W. RCA Maple avenue, Merchantville, New Jersey. engineer Maxwell Atkinson is a chemist with a Jackson that city at 603 Harwood lives in concern and street. Edna Bach is a switchboard operator at the School for the Blind in Lansing, where she lives at 426 W. Saginaw. Barbara Bemis is doing social work at the in Grand Rapids, and Blodgett Children's home lives at 241 Henry S. E. Roland Bird the Am erican Fork and Hoe company, and may be reached at Stockbridge, Michigan. timber buyer for is a John T. Blakeslee is on the WKAR staff and lives at 229 Division street, East Lansing. P. Y. Bombenek is employed by the American Surety company in New York City, and lives at 133 Henry street, Brooklyn. Fred Brenner, of 8576 Quincy avenue Detroit, the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet salesman for is a company. Paul F. Brinen Radiator company he lives at 1911 Washington avenue. is associated with the Young in Racine, Wisconsin, where Stanley Brower representative field pany. is located in Lansing as a for Universal Credit com Rex C. Burdorfer Carpet Sweeper company lives at 1732 Horton avenue. is employed by the Bissell in Grand Rapids, and this and other Several members of studies, at the class are continuing their institutions. Louise S. Doherty and Howard H. Angell are en rolled in Wayne university. Miss Doherty in the graduate school and Mr. Angell the medical in school. The former lives at 5564 South Claren the Wyandotte don, Detroit, and General hospital. Dee Lee WTeaver and Stanley Seligman are continuing at Michigan State. Mar garet Hand and Mary Belle Wiekersham are stu dent dietitians. Miss Hand at the University hos pital in Ann Arbor and Miss Wiekersham at the Miami Valley hospital in Dayton, Ohio. latter at the Walter Hough, Donald Smith, Merle Stemm, and Gordon Willmeng are farming. Hough is at Almont, Smith at Addison, Stemm at Berrien Springs, and Willmeng at Watervliet. The following quartette are doing secretarial Paqe 18 Altha J. Butzer gives her address at 5148 Dor the the University of chester, Chicago, and she is connected with school of business office at Chicago. Richard Chapman is employed in the engineer the Chrysler corporation, and ing division of lives in Detroit at 2149 Garland avenue. John Davidson is an assistant in the horticul tural department of the Dow Chemical company in Midland. John H. Dudley the John Henry company, a florist supply house, in Lan sing, where he lives at 525 South Capitol. is associated with Brian DuMond lives at 49 N. Howard, Cros- well, Michigan, and is a landscape architect. is a research chemist for the American Cyanamid & Chemical company of Newton Foster Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, and at 723 Washington avenue. lives in that city James Gallagher is assistant catering manager at the Hotel Fort Shelby in Detroit. Ronald Garlock is vice president of the Garlock Kelvinator company, 121 W. Washtenaw street, Lansing. Betty Harris is registrar in the high school in lives at 104 East Illinois, where she Pontiac, Water street. Robert P. Hickey is doing engineering work at the Oliver Farm Equipment company in Battle Creek, where he lives at 520 N. E. Capitol ave nue. William Hopkins is a salesman for the McKay Press, 115 W. Main street. Midland. Cecil Hunter fining company, of Grand Rapids, as a tion engineer. is employed by the National Re lubrica George Jennings is a computer for the United Geophysical company, 168 N. Hill avenue, Pasa dena, California. Dorothy Jentsch is employed at Steketee's de partment store in Grand Rapids, where she lives at 2445 Sinclair N. E. Ture Johnson is a timber cruiser for the Cleve in Negaunee, where land Cliff Land department his home is at 957 Baldwin avenue. Walter B. Laetz, assistant personnel director for the Auto Specialties Manufacturing company, lives in St. Joseph, Michigan, at 113 Main street. Lieutenant Lawrence Larsen is stationed at Fort the second bat Brady, Sault Ste. Marie, with talion of second infantry of the regular army. Don Laurent is married and living in Lansing, where he is junior bacteriologist in the biological products division of the state health department. Carl Mueller, junior metallurgist for the Car negie-Illinois Steel corporation, may be reached in Gary, at 729 Buchanan. William Paeplow assists the manager in charge of production at the Niagara Machine and Tool Works in Buffalo. His address there is 78 Nia gara Falls boulevard. Carleton Palmer is employed at the State Sav ings bank in Caro, Michigan. Lucile Powrie is home economist for the Con sumers Power company in Saginaw. Chester Quinlan works in the consignment de partment of the Burroughs Adding Machine com pany, and lives in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, at 48 Fairwood boulevard. Frederick Riser the Universal Credit company, and lives at 9373 East Jefferson. in Detroit with is located Irvin Schaible the metallurgy is employed department at the National Tube company in Lo rain, Ohio. in Jule W. Shaw is located in Flint as a junior interviewer for the state employment service. His local address is 608 West Fifth street. Adolph G. Smith, editor of The Boyne Citi zen, lives at 235 W. Cedar street. Boyne City, Michigan. Raymond O. Snyder is connected with the EKS Equipment company, of 18 Grand ville avenue, Grand Rapids, as manufacturer's distributor for road machinery and contractor's equipment. Arthur C. Stephan, a inspector for the department of agriculture, may be reached at R. 1, Box 379, Traverse City. federal-state Herman J. VanZyl is employed by the Keeler Brass company, 947 Godfrey S. W.. Grand Rap ids. Harry C. Wills, civil engineer for the Wayne County Road commission, lives in Detroit at 5932 Wabash avenue. Alvin R. Wingerter is located in Owosso, Mich igan, as a veterinarian for the Bureau of Animal Industry. Kathleen Woodlock is employed by the Butterick company of 58 E. Washington street. Chicago. M I C H I G AN S T A TE a *. 4-P J1 • f\ <^L Please — Make Room For Us . . . IV/TORE than 2,000 sons and daughters J.YX Q£ pa r en ts States and foreign countries will be saying the United living in "Please Make Room For Us At Michigan State College" during the next four or five months. And next fall in greater numbers than ever they'll be on the campus to take ad vantage of State's cultural and educational opportunities — foundations for future security. To provide this basic program Michi gan State College must continue to fur its expanding educa nish facilities for tional program. Here is where you can make your con through tribution the State Board of Agriculture, the governing body. By sup plying the funds for the construction of an auditorium, a hospital, or a classroom building, or by giving endowments for re search and student aid, you will greatly assist your Alma Mater in providing facilities for its ever increasing student enrollment and program. its ever expanding For detailed information concern ing building needs or endowments at Michigan State write to College Secretary, John A. Hannah. the *%p0 i n *; C O L L E GE R E C O RD Page 19 -. ft Beaumont Memorial Tower