** 'Lji-dea Mteft A*r% Coffeg ~£ ^ I P3 i « * r » s^ -SHsBri/fc. .-iwJ-^iS! Michigan Agricultural College Association Publishers ffl East Lansing No. 1 Vol. XXVII. Sept. 30, 1921 THE M. A. C. RECORD R E C O RD E S T A B L I S H ED IN 1896 M. A. C. C a n n ot Love on H er P a s t — W h at W i ll You Do for H er F u t u r e? Entered as second-class matter October 30, 1916, at the post office at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published every Friday during the College Year by the Michigan Agricultural College Association. E. W. Ranney H. C. Pratt '09, Lansing W. K. Prudden C. W. McKibbin, '00, Greenville . .. . .. '78, Lansing *.':••" '11, East Lansing - Pres. Vice Pres. " Treas. Sec'y and Editor Members of Executive Committee. Elected at Large: C. S. Langdon, '11. liubbardston. A. C. Anderson, '06, Flint. Mrs. Helen Esselstyn Wood, '09, Lansing. MEMBERSHIP IN THE M. A. C. ASSOCIATION which Make Remittances includes subscription- to Record, $2.50 PER YEAR. payable Association. Unless members request a discontinuance it will be that a renewal of membership is desired. assumed the M. A. C. the to M. A. C. ASSOCIATIONS. Pres.—Leslie H. Belknap '09, Highway Dept., Central Michigan. Lansing. Sec'y—Merritt Reeves, '20, East Lansing. Detroit Club. Pres.—G. A*. Branch '12, 9184 Livernois Avenue. Sec.-Treas.—S. B. Lee '17 8230 Lawton Avenue. Grand Rapids. President—Roswell G. Carr '08, Association of Commerce Building. Sec'y-Treas.—Luie Ball '13, 100 Madison Ave. S. E. Flint Club. President—H. L. Froelich, '18, 139 W. Dayton St. Secretary—Mrs. P. B. Pierce '05, 200 Josehine St. Treasurer—A. C. Anderson, '06, 1640 Euclid Ave. Owosso. President—R. S. Linton, Secretary—H. E. Dennison, '16, 329 W. Oliver St. '11, 305 Miner Bldg. Jackson County. Pres.—G. A. Sanford Secretary—Harry E. Williamson '11, 109 Third St., Jackson. '04, 108 Winthrop Ave., Jackson. Pres.—O. H. Frederick Sec'y—Treas.—Daniel H. Ellis '16, 551 S. Weadock Ave. '07, 616 Owen St. Bay City Ass'n. Pres.—A. C. MacKinnon, Sec'y-Treas.—J. Harry Nelson, South Haven. '95, 1214 Center Ave. '10, 1302 Webster. Pres.—Lloyd A. Spencer Sec'y—Virginia Flory '20, Kibbie. '20, South Haven. Upper Peninsula Association. Pres.—P. G. Lundin '20, 520 Oak St., Manistique, Secretary—Helen Pratt, '16, Sault Ste. Marie, Livingston County. President—G. P. Burkhart, Secretary—P. S. Dunks, '05, .Court House, Howell. Barry County '10, Fowlerville. Pres.—R. M. Bates Sec'y—Leta Hyde Keller Treas.—Milton Townsend '85, Hastings. '09, Hastings. '20, Hastings. Mich. Berrien County. President—Charles Richards, '16, Benton Harbor, R. R. Fair Plains. Secretary—Kittie Handy, Sodus. Treasurer—Willard Sanborn, w '13, Sodus. Pres.—Harold King '19, 47 Elizabeth St., Battle Calhoun County. Creek. Sec'y—Nenna Dunlap Creek, Treas.—Don Stillson Creek. 'ig, 58 Grant St., Battle '11, 75 Central St., Battle Clinton County Ass'n Pres.— H. V. Kittle Sec'y-Treas.—Glenn Osgood •'17, St. Johns. '16, St. Johns. Ionia County. • Pres.—C. S. Langdon '11, Hubbardston, Mich. Sec'y-Treas.—H. J. Wheater '13, Belding, Mich. Lenawee County. Pres.—Oliver Cleveland Sec'y-Treas.—Mrs. Maude Bennett Steger '10, Adrian '11, Hudson. . President—H. A. Danville, '83, Manistee. Northwest Michigan. St. Joseph County. Pres.—Leslie R. Slote Sec'y—S. C. Hagenbuch '09, Three Rivers, Mich. '10, Elm Terrace Farm, Three Rivers, "Mich. Pres.—Harold A. Furlong '18, 300 N. Ingalls St., Washtenaw Club Ann Arbor. Sec'y-Treas—Dr. Geo. A. Waterman '91, Meadow- land Farm, Ann Arbor. President—Clem Ford, '05, 2 So. Catherine Ave., Chicago. LaGrange, 111. Chicago. Sec.-Treas.—H. P. Henry, '15, 4916 Glenwood Ave., President—John J. Bush, '84, 616 W. 137th St., New York City. New. York City, N. Y. Brooklyn, N. Y. Secretary—O. S. Shields, '16, 719 Hancock St., President—L. L. Appleyard, '00, 14529 Lake Ave., Northern Ohio. Lakewood, Ohio. Bldg., Cleveland. Secretary—H. G. Smith, '17, 625 National City Treasurer—Helen Canfield, '05, 5808 Clinton Ave., Cleveland. Mason St. burg, Pa. Pres.—Wm. L. Davidson, '13, Scout Executive, 84 Milwaukee, Wis. S*ec'y—Geo. B. Wells, '00, Schroeder Lumber Co. Western Pennsylvania Ass'n Pres.—B. F. Bain '93, 1212 Western Ave. Pitts Sec'y-Treas.—W. M. Hallock w'15, 436 Oliver Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. Portland, Oregon, Association. Pres.—Roy G. Scofield, w'07, 1061 E. 6th St. N. Sec.-Treas.—A. F. Douglass, w'08 896 E. Yamhili Minneapolis Club. Secretary—C. C. Cavanagh, '09, Hopkins, Minn. Washington, D. C. Pres— R. C. Potts Sec.-Treas—Mrs. H. S. Skeels, 210 Holly Ave., '06, 3106 19th St. N. W. Western New York. Pres.—D. J. Crosby Secretary-Treasurer—D. A. Brice '93, Ithaca, 303 Cornell St. '13, Rochester 301 Laburnum Crescent. Pres.—II. E. Truax '12, 129 N. Mariposa St., Los Angeles. * Southern California. Sec'y-Treas.—Eric E. Nies '08, 5215 DeLonepr-e Ave., Los Angeles. Northern California. Vice-President— E. C. Bank, Berkeley, Calif. Secretary—G. H. Freear, '84, 1972 Marin Ave '' '10, 120 Jessie St. San Francisco. Seattle. Vice-President—Capt. Wm. D. Frazer, 17th N. E-, Seattle. '00 AT™ ,/<5 Sec'y-Treas.—Emma B. Barrett, '03, 4001 Whitman New England. Secretary-Glenn X. Sevey, '03, 57 Worthingim, St., Springfield. Mass. President—Jason Woodman, '81, Taw Paw. Takoma Park. Kalamazoo Club. Saginaw Ass'n. THE M. A. C. RECORD 3 IF YOU WOULD HAVE REAL SERVICE • •LET M. A. C. MEN SERVE VOU EDWARD N. PAGELSEN, '89 Patents, Patent Law, Trademarks 1108-9 Detroit Savings Bank Bldg. Detroit, Michigan. A. M. EMERY, '83 223 Washington Ave. N. H. C. Pratt, '09, in charge of Office Supply Department. Books, Pine Stationery, Engraved Calling Cards, Fountain Pens, Pictures, Frames, Filing Cabinets and General Office Supplies. SMITH POULTRY & EGG CO. Commission Merchants in Solicit consignments Poultry Veal Guy H. Smith, '11 Eggs Western Market, Detroit. DR. E. D. BROOKS, '76 Diseases of the EYE, EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT Glasses Fitted Suite 704, Hanselman Building, Kalamazoo, Mich. Office hours 9 to 12, 1 to 5. THE CORYELL NURSERY R. J. Coryell, Ralph I. Coryell, '14 Growers and Planters of Shade and Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens and Vines. '84; , Landscape Beautification • Service, Birmingham, Mich. THE EDWARDS LABORATORY Lansing, Michigan '99 S. F. Edwards, Anti-Hog Cholera Serum and Other Biological Products. Legume Bacteria Cultures for Seed Inoculation. LANDSCAPES WITHOUT WAITING Plans by Graduate Landscape Architects F. A. Carlson, '16 5u8 Mathews Bldg., Milwaukee, Wisconsin GOODELL, ZELIN C. (Forestry, M. A. C, '11) Insurance and Bonds of Every Kind. ft you haven't insured your • salary, better see or write Goodell about a good proposition. Lansing Insurance Agency, Inc. 208-212 Capital National Bank Bldg. AMERICAN EXTENSION UNIVERSITY. Correspondent Courses—20,000 Students (M. A. C, A. C. Burnham, B. S., LL. B. '93), Pres., 433 Stimson Bldg., Los Angeles: Suite 507, 30 N. Michigan A»e., Chicago. Suite 17, 729 6th Ave., New York. Unusual opportunities for M. A. C. Men as Specialty Salesmen. WALDO ROHNERT, '89 Wholesale Seed Grower, Gilroy, Calif. J. H. LARRABEE 325 S. Washington Ave. j p o rt Shop—Athletic Goods of all Kinds. The Readers of the Record Own It. VIRGIL T. BOGUE, '11 Landscape Architect and Nurseryman Your grounds planted with our extra grown shrubs and specimen trees and evergreens will give you immediate results. Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. "MAPLEHOME SHORTHORNS" Herd Sire, Wedding Goods 742959, A Scotch-topped Whitehall descedent; herd of 20 females, estab lished 1899; young rea sires sonable; one white, one red, and one roan on hand now. terms sale, for J. H. READ & SON, L. W. READ, '14. Proprietors, Copemish, Mich. MAYER & VALENTINE Consulting Engineers Power Plants Heating Ventilation Electric Wiring Plumbing Refrigeration Plans, specifications, supervision F. H. VALENTINE, '03 621 Bangor Bldg. Cleveland, Ohio. LOUIS BECK COi 112 Wash. Ave. N. Sam Beck, with '12, Sec'y and Treas. Best in Clothes for Men, Young Men and Boys. Royal Tailored Garments to order. FRY BROKERAGE CO., INC. Shipper's Agents Car-lot Distributors of Fruits and Vegetables 192 N. Clark St. M. Fry, President; H. P. Henry, '15, Vice President and Treasurer; V. C. Taggart, '16, Secretary. Oldest Brokerage House in Chicago. O. C. Howe, '83, Manager LANSING INVESTMENT CO. Stocks—Bonds Capital National Bank Bldg., Lansing, Mich. BREEDER OF HOLSTEIN CATTLE AND HAMPSHIRE SHEEP C. I. Brunger, '02 Grand Ledge, Michigan. SHERIDAN CREAMERY CO. Sheridan, Wyoming. CHAS. J. OVIATT, '09 ice cream and eggs in this neck The best butter, of the woods—we admit this freely KEITH BROS. NURSERY, B. W. Keith, '11 Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Orna mental Shrubs, etc. Everyone should have a fruit garden and attractive home grounds. Special Offers to M. A. C. People. Address Box 11, Sawyer, Mich. FARGO ENGINEERING CO. Consulting Engineers, Jackson Michigan Hydro-Electric and Steam Power Plants, Difficult Dam Foundations. Horace S. Hunt, 'OS. FRED M. WILSON, '17 310 Rogers Bldg., Jackson, Michigan District Manager The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Life Insurance Group Insurance Non Cancellable Health and Accident. That's Why They Patronize Its Advertisers ^5564 4 THE M. A. C. RECORD IF YOU WOULD HAVE REAL SERVICE-LET M. A. C. MEN SERVE Y O U— CLUNY STOCK FARM Registered Holstein Friesian Cattle Can. furnish young sires of splendid and breeding backed by yearly records. Correspondence solicited. short large individuality and time R. BRUCE McPHERSON '90, Howell, Mich. CHARLES H. ROUSE, '17 Telephone Main 3783. Pardee & Rouse, State Manager, Continental Assurance Co. 605 Lincoln Building, Detroit, Mich. EDMUND H. GIBSON, '12 Consulting Entomologist and Agricultural Engineer and Staff of Sanitary and Civil Engineers. 508 Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C. Fred M. Wilson, '17; Einar A. Johnson, '18 602 Lansing State Savings Bank Bldg., Lansing, Mich. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States. Life Insurance, Health, Accident Insurance. the Citz. 3S56. Bell 2646. Trees, Shrubs, and Hardy Plants. Landscape Plans and Plantings. WILLIAM J. ATCHISON '16 Landscape Gardener »and Nurseryman Opposite Baker's Switch, East Michigan Ave., Box 525, East Lansing, Mich. Citz. Phone 9733 302 Helen St., Flint, Michigan. Tel. 2109 HILCREST FRUIT FARMS Fennville Michigan. H. Blakeslee Crane '14—Muriel Smith Crane, '14 We are members of the Fennville F m it Exchange— the largest in Michig-m. THE GRAND RAPIDS SAVINGS BANK, Grand Rapids, Michigan. "The Bank Where You Feel at Home." M. A.: C. People Given a Glad Hand. Chajs. W. Garfield, '70, Chairman of the Board. Gilbert L. Daane, '09, Vice President and Cashier. DR. C. A. GRIFFIN, '18 Osteopath 360 Capital National Bank Building. Citz. Phone: Office 8341. House 4950. I CE C R E AM W. A. McDonald, '13-F, M3r. The College Book Store was established in 1896. For 25 years it has been helping Mich igan Aggies get the book end of their college education at cost. We are still at it. M. A. C. BOOK-BUYING ASS'N Bank Block Norma L. Ensign, Mgr. TEN FOR FIVE CENTS B130 The Flavor Lasts! The Record is Owned by Its Readers. That's Why They Patronize Its Advertisers THE M. A. C. RECORD VOL. X X V I I. No. r. FAST LAMSINO SEPTEMBER 30, 1921 4G3 T HE NEW AUDITORIUM of the People's Church has been completed and the first ser vices will be held there Sunday, October 9th, first week of the opening of college. Formal dedicatory services will be held October 16. The auditorium joins the Church on the east side, being conneced with a passage way from the basement and is intended as a temporary makeshift to care for the growing Congrega tion until the new church can be built. T he entrance is out on the street line and the walls are permanent so that the building can later be converted into a store building. FORECASTS OK T HE ENROLLMENT, as the Record goes to press, and almost a week be fore the opening of college, show an increase of 100 over the applications of the same time last year. An incoming class well over 600 is predicted. With the upper classes holding their own on registration day, the total en rollment may reach between 1600 and 1700. M i ss M AY E. FOLEY '18 ASSISTANT ALUMNI SECRETARY has left her work in the Alumni Office this fall to enter Columbia University for special work in journalism, dietetics and one or two other home economics subjects. In New York she She left early this week. will live with Miss Faust and Miss Van Steenberg, both of the home economics depart ment who are also entering Columbia for special work this fall. COACH BARRON AND THE FOOTBALL SQUAD returned to the campus from the Clear Lake training quarters last week and have been putting in a steady round of morning and afternoon drills, with an occasional scrim mage. The new mentor dots not demand such a strenuous grind nor as frenzied action of his men as did Potsy Clark during the early season stages, but his cool methodical handling of the squad has inspired confidence both in the players and the eager early sea son sport followers who thronged the side lines at the open scrimmages. The Clear Lake camp south of Stockbridge, which was teams built by Lansing clubmen for Lansing is an excellent pre-season training quarters, however as their work progressed the shower baths and the better field conditions called the squad back to the campus. T HE STUDENT JUDGING TEAM won first place in the Holstein class and third in the total team ranking for all teams at the Dairy Cattle Congress in session at Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 26 to October 2. The M. A. C. team which Was coached by Prof. H. E. 'Dennison '11 was in competition with the teams of all the in the middle leading agricultural colleges west, including Missouri, iowa, Kansas, Min nesota, and Nebraska. Frank Thomas '22, East Lansing, one of the team .members tied fourth place in the individual for judging. Other members of the team are L. E. Harper '22 of Middleville, and W. J. Sweetman '22 of East Lansing. T he success of the team at the Waterloo congress assures their en trance in the judging ring at the National Dairy Show October 8 to 15 at Minneapolis. GRADUATION EXERCISES for sixteen students from the preparatory section of the Federal Vocational Guidance School of the College were held in the Agricultural Building Thurs day afternoon this week. Clarence E. Holmes 93, Superintendent of the School for the Blind at Lansing, delivered the commencement ad dress. T he graduates are army students who have been sent to M. A. C. by the Army Edu cational Board and who have been given pre paratory work so that they might enter reg ular college courses. T he work has been under the direction of B. J. Ford '20 until September 1 when he joined the staff of the Instruction. C. G. State Board of Public Card, his assistant, takes his place as director of the work. M r. H. B. McCoy arrived on the campus September 1 to take charge of the Government phases of the work in connection with the men's education at M. A. C. He is known as the "coordinator" and takes up the work which Mr. Faunce, the President's secretary, has been handling during the past year. Mr. McCoy is a graduate of the Uni versity of Illinois and has had both army and educational experience. Mr. Faunce still continues in the work as a counselor for the federal students, acting as a point of contact between them and the college departments. AMONG T HE PROMINENT VISITORS on the campus this summer were Dr. E. J. Butler head of the Plant Pathology for the British Empire, located in London; Professor A. Jac- zewski, head of the Pathological and Microb- ological work of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia at Petrograd. Both are Pathologists of international repute. Also N. I. Vavilov, head of the Bureau of Applied Pathology of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia. ANOTHER LARGE APARTMENT HOUSE is prom ised the college community in glowing an nouncements featured in the Lansing papers In the proposed structure Mrs. this week. Mary E. Champe, long a resident of East" Lansing, hopes to realize a lifetime ambition. The apartment house as planned is to be located on the Champe property immediately south of the East Lansing High School fac ing Lewis street and will have ninety-three apartments. T he plans which have been on display at the East Lansing Bank during the week show a spacious building, ultra modern in apartment house construction. Reserva tions are already being made for apartments. 6 THE M. A. C. RECORD VIEWS AND COMMENT than rather to quality can aspire to greatness rather zve need not despise numerical than "We quantity, bigness, or though financial grozvth. We can retain and enlarge the spirit of service to the zvorld. And we can keep faith with, our to the mul ancient custom titude—we must the zvith best that zve have." to fulfill a mission the people to nation, to state, reach —K. L. Butterfield '91 Pres. Mass. Agric. College. Agriculture brought WELCOMING MR . DOELLE The September meeting of the Board of into active membership John Doelle of Marquette as one of the directors of the destiny of M. A. C. A farm boy, the youngest of thirteen children, his story can not be any other than that of a man who has hewn his own way. In speaking of his struggle and final success in establishing the Ottor Lake Agricultural School a piece of work, by the way, of which Mr. Doelle is possibly more proud than any other that he has accomplished for the Upper Peninsula, one of his co-workers says, "Raised on a farm where the eight hour law applied from sunrise until dark, he knew the hard-, the average country boy and girl ships of and the short-comings of rural school. He has applied the best years of his life, in constructive efforts toward raising the standard of rural education and of rural life, hoping that the state as well as his community may profit by it." the common As one of the directors of the Agricultural Development Bureau of the State Department of Agriculture, he will bring to the Board a point of contact with the State Department that'should be most helpful and of great value in correlating institu the work of tions. More than that, Mr. Doelle is a rep the. resentative fo Upper Peninsula has long been in need of a closer knowledge and relationship with M. A. C the Upper Peninsula and two the experience, a An educator of live-wire, aggressive figure in advancing the agricultural those of interests , of Michigan, particularly the Upper Peninsula where advancement is most needed, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and with a reputation for fairness and untiring energy, alumni welcome Mr. Doelle's membership to the Board of Agricul that he will be a ture and are confident things power for accomplishing worth while for M. A. C. A college or university COMMUNITY WORK training should fit men for leadership and we have often spoken, some- sometimes modestly, times boastingly, of our own graduates as leaders in their the communities. Sometimes young men or women leaving college fail to recognize an obligation to the state for what they have received. They are not mindful- them the commonwealth has furnished that with the major helping of those things that go to make up a college in return the state expects them to give of their service, not only in the particular line of their training but in the forefront of the "activities for a higher life and better living in the com munities is about one of those.who was. they go. This training, and into which that in teaching Indirectly we came across this information of one of our recent graduates, whose activi ties in his community outside his regular job the high school of agricultural show to what extent even a 'young fellar' can take hold and employ himself for the upbuild ing of his community. Here is his outside program in. brief ; secretary and promoter of, the farm bureau lyceum course, superintendent of the community exhibit at the county fair, superintendent of the boys live stock judging at the fair, Sunday School teacher, sponsor of the agricultural club, secretary of the county rural track association, publicity man for the high school with a daily column in. the com munity paper, weekly agricultural demonstra tions in the rural schools, football coach, fac ulty advisor for the high school paper, etc. Doubtless' there are many graduates doing as much or even more for-their own localities. This is cited because it came to attention and it is. good work for a man not admittedly more than two years out of college. His Alma Mater should have a good name in his town. This number marking the beginning of Volume 27 and the opening of another college year furnishes an opportunity for us to thank members of the Association, our readers, for their help and cooperation in making the Record a better messenger to the M. A. C. family. BEGINNING THE YEAR May we wish them-the same measure of success during the coming year that we feel confident will be ours if they continue the loyal support that has already been given and again renew their interest in Alma Mater and her work. THE M. A. C. RECORD 7 Campaign This Winter That the campaign for the Union Memorial Building, a social and community center on the Michigan Agricultural College campus, will be resumed during the winter was de cided by the Executive Committee of ' the M. A. C. Association in a meeting held Sep tember 20th in the Secretarys office on the campus. Representatives from the Grand Rapids, De troit, Cleveland, Bay City, and Central Michi gan local associations met with the general committee. The Association also extended ings of the alumni body the greet to President-elect Friday who is to take the presidents chair on January i. to The Union Memorial Building, which is to be a structure similar the Michigan Union at Aim Arbor and intended to fill the needs of a campus social and community cen ter, completed its first campaign for $150,000 at Commencement last year. Since that time, it was found that a building adequate to the needs of the college campus and one which would be worthy of the efforts of the entire alumni body must be larger and more replete than the in detail and architectural beauty building the this Pond Brothers, who are specialists type of building, were engaged as archiects and it was decided to raise a half million dollars from alumni, former students, faculty, and friends of the institution for. such a build ing.. One hundred and fifty thousand dollar., has already been raised. proposed. Accordingly, in first The Pond Brothers have completed their sketch plans of the proposed building and are beginning the detailed drawings of the struc ture. T HE DEATH RATE in vegetarian took a rodents, cockroaches and "varmin" 'decided jump last Sunday when the Beal Laboratory was closed and boarded tight and given a fumigation of cyanide, lock stock and barrel. The destroyers had gained a headway that radical could not be halted except measures and had become a serious menace to books, specimens, and costly botanic equip ment. through Detroit Alumnae Work for Practice House. The Alumnae of Detroit put in a very strenuous and successful ten days during the Michigan State Fair, Sept. 2-11. They con ducted a Dairy Lunch in the Dairy Bldg. and sold milk and buttermilk, sandwiches, pie and ice-cream. At present writing, with all bills paid, they have eleven hundred dollars in the treasury for the senior girls practice house, three hun dred for capital for future undertakings. To illusrate the volume of business done— on Labor Day the ladies sold 360 gallons of milk. This means handing 4500 cups of milk over the counter. To Mrs. Clarissa Pike Lee '18, Mrs. Gladys '18, and Mrs, Violet Miller- Gruner Miller Dixon '07, should go the credit for the suc cess of the undertaking. A large number of Aggies assisted in putting it across, however. is again illustrated twenty-five years Schneider, '85, Given Tribute. "America as the land of progress and op portunities in the case of Charles Fred Schneider '85," says the Grand Rapids News (Aug. 15) speaking editorially. "After in the service of the United States weather bureau, during which time his name has become as well known to the people of Grand Rapids and of Western Michigan as that of our governors and men most prominent in public life, Mr. Schneider leaves the government's employ to enter the banking business. He will be the manager of the Division-Franklin branch of the Grand Rapids Savings bank. "A banker these days is not a mere book keeper and a lender of money. He' must be an active member of the community, inter ested in all that makes for its advancement, alive to its future, to its financial and busi its ness needs, men of affairs, of unquestioned integrity and one in whom the whole public .has implicit confidence. Mr. Schneider possesses all these essentials, and no doubt that was the reason he was chosen for the important position he is to occupy as the manager of a branch bank. intimately acquainted with "No man in Grand Rapids has been more keenly alive and active in all that pertains to the community's best interests. Busy as any of us, he has yet found, or rather taken, time to devote to charity organizations, the to fraternal movements, to sports and to every patriotic enterprise undertaken in this section of figure "in the national weather service. He will be a success as a banker, for he will take into his new work all the energy and all the en thusiasm that he has manifested in his service to the federal government and in his public activities." this state. He was an outstanding THE M. A. C. RECORD WITH THE A UMNI CLUBS St. Joe County Picnic. About sixty M. A. C. people and friends of the College gathered at Sand Lake on August 12 for the annual picnic of the St. Joe County Association. representative There was no from the College but the pep and enthusiasm of the old boys,more than made up for the lack of a college speaker. A number of pictures of campus activities during the past year brought back memories of old college days. The new officers elected were Lester Slote '08 President, and Aron Hagenbuch '10, Sec retary, both of Three Rivers. ing plates reserved notify Mrs. Sheldon B. Lee, 8230 Lawton, before Tuesday, Oct. 4th. Gladys Gruner '18 disappeared from Detroit two days before the State Fair started and (George came back as Mrs. George Miller Miller '17) and she and George spent their honeymoon handing out milk and sandwiches at the Alumnae Dairy Lunch. That's what we call school spirit! —S, B. Lee, Secy. Barry County Summer Meeting. The Barry County M. A. C. Association Picnic was held at Clear Lake on Friday, Aug. 26. Detroiters' Column Jerry DePrato's business addres is now care of John Hancock Insurance Co., Majestic Bldg. He also plays football with Bill Marshall's Tigers. We don't know which he considers his side-line. Blake Miller is also in Detroit playing with the Tigers. Pete Bancroft isn't city broke yet. He drove down from Lansing for the Park Superin tendents' Convention and parked his car right across the street from the hotel. When he came out he had to walk six blocks to find it. Alvin Hock is now selling Fords with the Dalrymple-Morley Co. on Mack Ave. Gerald Allen raises chickens at his place on Waterford Road. The other day he went out to kill a couple roosters and couldn't do it. He says, "You know, I just couldn't kill those roosters, into man hood." just budding they were Jim Fisk has left Detroit temporarily and is on a Christman & Co. job in Mishawaka, Ind. M r s. Fisk and the children are still in Detroit. Jim may be addressed care of H. G. Christman Co., Union Trust Bldg., South Bend, Indiana. Verne Branch, while at Crystal Lake this summer, pulled out a small mouthed black bass that proved to be the record catch of the season at Crystal. three pounds and nine ounces. While the big boy struck on one line a two-pounder struck on another. It weighed Note—We assume no responsibility for the veracity of items appearing in this column. The Alumnae of Detroit are having a din ner at the Women's City Club, in Bagley St., Friday, Oc. 7, at 6:00 p. m. sharp. At this dinner the treasurer will give a complete financial report on the booth at the Fair and election of new members of the council will take place. Price $1.50 per plate. Those wish- M. A. C.-ites began to arrive at about 3:00 o'clock and about 5 :oo o'clock was spent in getting acquainted and talking over "the old days." then until from Someone suggested a ball game, so sides were chosen and everyone had a hand. About 6 :oo o'clock, the well filled baskets together and the contents table, where all were gathered spread upon a long picnic enjoyed the eats and jokes. Gecrge Gilespie called upon Clyde Wilcox who acted as toastmaster and several alumni responded willingly with a few words regard ing M. A. C. past, present and future. -, After supper a short business meeting was held and then all went to the pavilion where the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing. We were sorry to learn the' next day that Norm Weil, through some trick of fate, was unable to reach Hastings in time to, be with us, although he did arrive in time to tell us of his bad luck. We hope to have him here some time in the future. . T he following were present: Dorr N. and Mrs. Stowell '92, Woodland; W. A. Quick '97, and Mrs. Quick, Nashville; Greta Quick; Walter E. and Mrs. Stanton '06, Dowling; Clyde Wilcox '07 and Mrs. Wilcox, Hastings; Leta Hyde Keller '09, Hastings; George H. , Gillispie '17, Woodland; Loyal K. Flower '19, Augusta; Milton Townsend '20, Hastings; Rutherford N. Bryant '20 a nd Mrs. Bryant, Hastings; Russell B. Thorpe, Milo; Lloyd Tasker, Assyria; Mrs Lloyd Tasker, Assyria; Marguerite Hall, Hastings.; Winifred John ston, Hastings; Lois Leonard, Delton; Ma bel Leonard, Delton; Lucille Hunt, Lansing; H, E. Rising and Mrs. Rising, Woodland; Cora Durkee, Woodland; Kiddo Power, Car ol McGuffin, Greta James, Raymond- Wind- cknecht, Donald Doyle all of Hastings ; Vesta Van Houten, Woodland; Doris Sprague, Woodland; and Wallace Matthews, Hastings. —Leta Hyde Keller '09, Sec'y. THE M, A. C. RECORD 9 John Doelle, New Board Member. Meeting with the State Board of Agriculture in Grand Rapids, at its September meeting was John A. Doelle newly elected member from the Upper Peninsula. Mr. Doelle took his position on in September through an appointment by Governor Gros- beck to fill the vacancy occurring by reason of the resignation of Mr. Robert Wallace of Bay City, whose term was to have expired December 30 this year. the Board Mr. Doelle has had a training and exper ience that will be of great value to the State Board and with this he brings a reputation for push and energy that is bound to advance the college and the agricultural interests of Michigan. He was born February 10, 1878, on a farm John Doelle in 1800 where he attended in St. Clair County,. Michigan, the youngest of to thirteen children. His family moved the grade Yale school and the first two years of high school. In 1896 he attended Albion College and com pleted two years preparatory work and one year of college work. The following three years were spent at the University of Michi gan where he graduated with the degree of A. B. in- 1902. His work since leaving the University has been both along educational and agricultural lines. He was principal of the Benton Har bor High School in 1902 and 1003 and prin from cipal of 1903 to 1906. So successful was his work in Houghton that he was made Superintendent of Schools at Houghton and held that posi the Houghton High School tion until 1918. During Secretary-Manager of Committee for the upper peninsula. cember 1918, he assumed present position, Secretary-Manager of Upper Peninsula Development Bureau. the war, he was the W ar Resources In De the duties of his the Under the new State Department of Agri culture, Mr. Doelle was made Director of the and as Agricultural Development Bureau such, he will have charge of the Upper Pen insula Development Bureau which has been made a branch of the State Department. He is also Secretary of the Deep Waterway Com mission which proposes an ocean boat outlet from the Great Lakes down the St. Lawrence. The piece of work of which Mr. Doelle is most proud and which bespoke his energy and aggressiveness the Upper Peninsula was the founding and the piloting of the Otter Lake Agricultural School while he was Superintendent of Schools at Hough is said to be ton. The Otter Lake School the first agricultural school of in its kind Michigan, and so successful as to be held as a glowing example to the many others similar institutions about that have been. the state brought into being since. the people of to California News. Hartless Truax 12 and Mrs. T r u ax drove in the yard, one day last summer. Much to ' my surprise he was smoking a big, fat cigar. I believe he even carries matches, now. Had the pleasure of having my two "ex- wives" with me for a few days last August— '12. We Sam Fields '13 and Deacon Fisher took a little swing around the state together with Prof. Eustace. Fisher wore a natty froze Palm Beach outfit and we alternately and roasted him as we went from the coast, to the interior and return. Don't believe he has fully recovered yet as I haven't heard from him since. In Sacramento, we called up one I. J. Woodin '13. The conversation was something as resi dence?" "Well, can I talk to the Rabbi of Wells H a i l ?" is this Woodin's follows: "Hello, To which came a roar which fairly rattled that Say the whole instrument, that you Fields, •again, you sonofagun; where are you? l'-l be right down." The rest of the evening was spent talking over old times at M. A. C. with "I. J." and his wife (Fern Liverance '13). "What? Is to know why A few days later H a r ry Schuyler dropped in. H a r ry is interested in apricots and want ed the ding-ding university couldn't find some way to stop the Brown Rot in his apricots. H a r ry is also engaged in selling lemons and trying to make us all be lieve we ought to use more lemons. Arthur Hendrickson, '13. Deciduous Fruit Station, U. of Calif., Mountain View. THE M. A. C. RECORD The Outlook on the Gridiron. On the eve of the opening game with Alma October i, Michigan Aggies are taking stock of their football team and are finding that the 'prospects for a good showing during the com It is not ing season are very bright indeed. to be a probable championship one, equaling sensational performances of a half dozen years ago, but this years varsity will be it team,—one which will a strong, hard-fighting make a name for football circles. the eleven will prove in western is certain itself that that the efficient the same living up the future, and at to expectations. Barron leader who knows Albert Barron, the new head coach, is more is a than clean-cut, the game, is able to teach it effectively, and has the absolute confidence of his men. Bert, as he is already known on the campus, is laying plans for time building a winner for this year. Lyman Frim- odig '17, is serving as varsity line coach, and is rapidly whipping together a powerful for ward wall. the nucleus form A dozen the the coaches are molding around which last year and team. from reserves Strong the 1920 freshmen players round out one of largest squads the call for early season work. While there are but in the list, the squad few outstanding stars strong, dependable players. is made up of All are capable of great development. Inex perience may weigh against them in the early games, but it would not be surprising to see the team take rank as one of M. A. C.s best before the season closes. that ever answered letter men these injuries, in college football the game. Barring Captain John Bos and Parks seem to have the edge over a number of candidates for the tackles. Both are rangy men, who com bine weight and fight with a fine knowledge of two the strongest pairs of should make one of tackles this year. Ging rich, Schuligen, Crane and Temple are lead ing prospects for the ends, with the first two standing out as probable selections, for the early games at least. These men are a trifle light but have developed into valuable players. Three veterans have been holding down the center of the early scrimmages. Morrison at center, and Swanson and Matson at guards make up a trio capable of plugging the line against almost any opposition. in practically all of the middle of line the for Aggie offensive work. The backfield will present a new combina Several of tion the men have won in former years, but they have not worked together as a unit. H a r ry Graves, star fullback on the S. A. T. C. to win in 1918, is back and bids fair team letters back his ol.d place. Graves is heavy and fast, and has real football ability, although inclined to be somewhat erratic. teams. former Noblet, Wilcox, Johnson and Brady are four shifty backs who have all seen service on developed greatly this year and are expected to take care of the open field work nicely. H. K. Arch- bold, a back on last years freshman eleven, the backfield will share the "heavy' duty of with; Graves. Archbold is a big boy who has They have kf% .)V 'Bert' Barron, former Penn State s t ar a nd coach, who guides M. A. C.'s in football and track, under a three year con tract. future THE M. A. C. RECORD n one of the squad. the best instinctive football heads on The question of a field leader for the team is apparently still unsettled. Wilcox, Brady, and Archbold have all taken turns at calling signals, and it is not certain yet as to which will get the call from Coach Barron the big games. Wilcox and Brady have had more is showing splendid experience, but Archbold judgment in handling plays. in Other men who are making a strong bid for places in the varsity lineup a r e: Thorpe, Robson and Prescott in the line; and Weckler, Miller, - and Kidman in the backfield. Fortunately the injuries sustained up to date have all been of a minor nature. Five or six of temporarily laid up, but all are expected back in a few days. the men are directly Michigan Game Sects. The entire north stand at Ferry Field has been set aside for Michigan Aggie supporters at this the Michigan game, on October 15 year. The seat sale in this section is being through Director C. L. handled reservations Brewer's office, and requests for should be addressed to him at East Lansing. in the stadium are to be the reserved entire block at East Lansing until the day of the game, when the remainder will be sent final sale. Tickets are to Ann" Arbor $1.50 each. this year, Mr. Brewer holding No other seats for Better get in your reservation early. Freshmen Look Good. freshmen in many a day has as promising a Not squid of in an appearance at M. A. C. as is working out on College Field now. Picked men from all over the state have reported, and more are coming in daily. football material put Prospects for a winning first-year team are im consequently bright, and, which portant, a lot of mighty fine varsity material will be coming up next fall. is more The half doxen leading players from last years- state championship Lansing High School eleven are all with the squad. Neller and De- '"Stub" Merrill, backfield men; Richards and Kipke, ends; and Brown and Thayer, line men ; make up the Lansing contingent. Rich ards, Brown, and Neller look especially good in the early scrimmages, while all the boys are strong possibilities for varsity places next year. ' 'Grand Rapids, Eckerman of Muskegon, Schroth of Char lotte, Hart of Midland, Stopher of Addison, Goode the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, and several others stand out as un usually good men. All of them are likely to in future varsity competition. be heard from Goode, by the way, is a protege of Gideon Smith, famous Aggie tackle irn 1913-15, and recommendation. comes with "Gid's" strong and Hultman of Eckert from • The Gridiron Menu. October 1—Alma at East Lansing. October 8—Albion College at East Lansing. October 15—Michigan at Ann Arbor. October 22—Western State Normal at East Lansing. October 29—Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin. at November 5—South Dakota University (Home Coming). November 12—Butler College at Indi anapolis, Indiana. November 24—Notre Dame at South' Bend, Indiana. Floyd Roive to Coach Cross Country. list of veterans on The cross country varsity starts work next week with a strong the squad. Thurston, Brendel, Adolph and Nes- man are all left In addition Huston, a good miler on last spring's track the 1920 freshman and Bagjly, team, will be available. last year's squad, team. from from the state meet An unusually strong five-man combination this material. The boys should result from won last year and made a clean sweep of the first five places in the an nual dual meet with Notre Dame. Their chances to repeat are considered strong. Floyd Rowe, State Physical Training Di rector, will coach the team this fall. Rowe, is an old Michigan distance star, has who the had a lot of experience and should get best out of his men. He in East Lansing at present. is living The schedule lined up for the cross coun try men is a strong one. A novice race for non-varsity men will be run on October 22. Other meets include All-college meet October (to which all 2Q, State Meet November 5 state colleges including Michigan will be in vited), Western Conference Meet November i) the Notre Dame dual meet November 24. at Northwestern, and '13, and R. S. Hudson T HE E A ST LANSING HARDWARE STORE in the Bank Block has. been purchased by Stanley foreman Filkins of the college farm. The business will con tinue along enlarged lines with Mr. Filkins actively in charge. '07, 12 THE M. A. C. RECORD Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting. in The meeting of the alumni office. the general committee, A. D. Wolf the Executive Committee was called to order at 2 130 Tuesday afternoon, September 20, Those present were Pres. Ranney, C. S. Langdon of rep resenting the Grand Rapids Association, G. V. Branch the Bay City Association, Frank Rog ers representing the Central Michigan Asso ciation, and W. O. Hedrick of the Plans Com mittee. Because of the fact that the minutes of the previous meeting were printed in the Record, their reading was dispensed with. the Pres. Ranney outlined a program of subjects to be considered in the meeting. that Motion was made and seconded the Secretary be authorized to communicate with President-elect Friday the let him know M. A. C. Association and that its Execuive the Association Committee are behind him and that- he has their backing in his new position as President of the Michigan Agricultural College. Car ried. the greetings of to through The President was authorized to appoint a committee in such numbers as he should see fit to cooperate with the State Board of Ag riculture and other college committees to man age the part that the alumni will have in the inauguration ceremonies of President Friday. The motion was carried. that Motion was made and seconded the constitution be amended so that the Executive Committee officers now elected at large by the general association three years; the ex-presidents of the Association to remain as ex-officio members of the Execu tive Committee. The motion was carried. for a period of' Discussion followed of the resumption of the Memorial Building campaign and of plans for carrying on the campaign and proceeding with construction of the building. After a liberal discussion, it was mutually agreed that immediately the campaign should be resumed after Christmas and that the preliminary cam paign work should be begun at once and preparations made for a complete organiza tion for personal solicitation of each grad uate and former student, in all the campaign It was also decided that a quota divisions. be allotted each division and each section of territory. Adjournment. M A R R I AG E S BAIEEY-CANFIELD Karl Deanor Bailey '21 and Eva Gertrude Canfield were married at Reading, Michigan, June 22, 1921. They will make their home in Reading. GOSS-WALKER Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Campbell Walker an- rounce the marriage of their daughter Betty to Mr. Robert Whitmore Goss '14 on Wed nesday, the seventh of September, at Douglas, Nebraska. Their at-home cards read, Lincoln, Nebraska, where Mr. Goss will take up his work as plant pathologist at the College of Agriculture there. WILSON-DE I'REF.X 'ii, Lyle M. Wilson for two years agricul tural teacher in the Adrian High School and Miss Martha DeFreen of Owosso were mar ried on August 7. They are both • enrolled as three-year students at the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. NEEEIST-LOVEEAND R..R. Nellist '21 and Audie Loveland w'19 were married June 3. They will make their home in Dowagiac where Mr. Nellist will teach. "'_ • S M I T H - S C H N E I D ER Raymond C. Smith '17 and Ella L. Schnei der of Saranac were married June 11 at the home of the bride's parents. They are living at Lake Odessa where Mr. Smith the grain business. is in NACXER-TRUAX Floyd A. Nagler '14 and Marion Truax of Mbany, New York, were married September first at Albany. Mr. Nagler is on the faculty of the Engineering College in State University of Iowa, in charge of hydraulic engineering- work. They are at home at 628 N. Linn St., Iowa City, Iowa. TOEAND-ANDERSON Don P. Toland '14, principal of the Fair- view Public School of Grand Rapids, and Mary E. Anderson w'21 were married Octo ber 29, 1920. They are now located at 843 Scribner Ave. N. W., Grand Rapids, Mich. HIEE-RYAN Marguerite H. Ryan '17 and Lyman L. Hill of Dayton, Ohio, were married in Lansing, August 30. They are at home to their M: A. C. friends at 414 Arnold Apartments, Dayton, Ohio. NOWEEN-EENNOX Stanley Nowlen w'16 and Marjory Lennox is engaged in recently married. Nowlen lumber business with his father were in Benton Harbor. the A NUMBER OF IMPROVEMENTS that will make life much more livable for college folk have been under construction during the summer. West Grand River Avenue has been paved from Michigan Avenue to Oak Hill Avenue and will be opened up with the newly graveled sections westward to North Lansing. Con crete curbing has been placed on Abbot Road for several blocks and the first block north of Grand River Avenue will be paved and the rest graveled. Ingress and egress to Lansing will be greatly facilitated with the new East Michigan Avenue pavement which has been to Regent Street. completed From the is process. Last but not least comes a blue- coated patrolman who has been permanently placed in the East Lansing business district by the city council, to uphold law and order. the city to the Split Rock there from in it THE M. A. C. RECORD MEETING OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. President's Office. 3:30 P. M., August 17, 1921. Present—President Kedzie, Mrs. Stockman, Messrs. Woodman, Watkins and Waterbury. The minutes of the previous meeting having been in the hands of the members, were approved with out reading. Instructor in Soils, were Leave of absence was granted The resignation of Miss Florence Stoll, Instructor in Home Economics, and the resignation of C. W. Simpson, accepted—the former effective August 30, and the latter August 15. to Miss Hilda Faust, Professor of Home Economics, for a half year without pay for the purpose of studying at Columbia University, and authority was given Dean Sweeny to fill vacancies in the Home Economics Division. Miss Irma Gross was appointed Instructor residence in in the practice Home Economics with house. An amount not in excess of $40 was authorized the expenses of Prof. to be expended Ewing of the Chemical Department in visiting the laboratories of the Universities of Minnesota, Wis consin and Montana. in paying The President was authorized to confer the degree of Master of Science upon Mr. Hohei Funyama. following appointments were made The in the Extension Division: Mr., T. R. Shane, County Agricultural Agent for Chippewa County, effective July 15. Mr. George H. Kimball, County Club Leader for Oakland County, effective August 1 and terminating March 31. Miss Jennie Williams, Home Demonstration Agent for Gogebic County, effective August 1. Mr. Hubert M- Brown was appointed half time in Farm Crops beginning Sep Graduate Assistant tember 1. Mr. Douglas V. Steere was granted a teacher's . the provisions of Act 165,, P. A. certificate under 1909. A letter from Mr. T. A. Farrand, Secretary of the Michigan State Horticultural Society, suggested that a joint meeting of the State Board of Agricul ture and a committee of this Society be held at the Graham -Horticultural Experiment Station. It was voted that the September meeting of the Board be held at the Graham Horticultural Experi ment Station suggestion in accordance with of Mr. Farrand. the The matter of Mr. Bibbin's salary was referred to, the President, Dean Shaw and Prof. Cox with power to act. The matter of repairs on the house used by the Flower Pot Cafe was referred to Mr. Watkins with power to act. The resignation of President Kedzie was taken from the table and accepted at his request, to take effect Sept. 1. The special committee upon the selction *of a President reported, by its chairman Mr. Watkins, that Prof. Friday had consented the position January -i. to accept The report and recommendation of the committee were unanimously adopted. Mrs. Stockman and Mr. Woodman were appointed a committee to present suitable resolutions in ap preciation of President Kedzie's service.' The committee presented the following resolution which was adopted: RESOLVED, That we express our appre ciation of the six years' splendid leadership of President Kedzie through the years when through agriculture was passing fires of war experience and the more difficult months of reconstruction when our Michigan Agricultural College has met the needs in agriculture. We are glad he is to head our new Applied Science course; as an eminent scientist.he will help place M. A. C. in the first ranks. the Dean Shaw was elected Acting President for the period from September 1 to January 1 at the same salary President Kedzie receiving. is now In the place of the present Division of Science and Letters, there are to be created a Division of Applied Science and a Division of Letters. Dr., Kedzie was elected Dean of the Division of Applied Science, effective September 1. that the It was directed suit the Bessey house be re requirements of President to modeled Friday. Mr. Bowl was continued upon the College payroll at his present salary until further action by the Board. The campus houses except those of the Deans and the President, are to be vacated as it becomes necessary. The matter of furnishing, w o r k ' to needy students was referred to the President and the Deans. On motion adjourned. MEETING OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE Hotel Pantlind, Grand Rapids 9 o'clock A. M., September 21, 1921. Present—Acting President Shaw, Mrs. Stockman, Messrs. Watkins, Doelle, and Woodman. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The Secretary presented the following letter of resignation from Mr. Beaumont: "Sept. 16, 1921. To the Honorable State Board of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan. Gentlemen: Please accept my to take your Board resignation as a member of immediate effect.. Very truly yours, (Signed) John W. Beaumont." The Secretary was directed to advise Mr. Beau that in the opinion of the Board his resig the Governor of should be presented to mont nation the State. Mr. R. E. Hammond was appointed Instructor in Farm Mechanics effective Oct. 1, to succeed Mr. B. E. Sangster. Mr. Hale Tennant was made Assistant Extension in charge of County Agent Work, and responsi Director Dr. Mumford was relieved bilities after September 30. from active The matter of the appointment of, two assistants to Mr. Tennant was referred to the President with power to act. following appointments were approved and The resignations accepted: effective Sept. 1st. A. J. Patch, County Agent for apeer County, to for E. E. Twing to be transferred from Kalkaska Huron County October 1st. Mrs. Wanda Brunni, County Club Leader Gladwin County beginning September 1st. Dwight Cavanaugh, County Club Leader for San ilac Count}' effective Sept. 1st. Miss Muriel Dundas, Home Demonstration Agent for Gladwin County, effective Sept. 15. Miss Sylvia VVixom, Home Demonstration Agent for Marquette County effective Sept. 15. - Miss Aurelia Potts, whose resignation was pre sented to be effective Sept. 15th, was reappointed to continue under the same terms until June 30th. The resignation of Stanley F. Wellman, County for Lapeer County, effective August 31st. The resignation of J. R. Campbell, County Agent Agent for Huron County effective Sept. 30th. The following traveling expense accounts were authorized: Prof. Pettit in attending a conference on Europ ean Corn Borer at Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 15th. Prof. Reed in attending the Waterloo Dairy Cat tle Congress at Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, and the National Dairy Show the following week at Minneapolis: and Mrs. H. E. Dennison in at tending the same meeting. The recommendations contained in a letter Prof. Halligan relative to extending the work from in THE M. A. C. RECORD tree fruit breeding and small fruit at the South Haven Station were approved. investigations T h e. matter of establishing soil projects about the State as outlined in a letter from Dr. McCool, to was referred present the the matter next meeting of the Board. to the President and Dr. McCool in some further detail at Special teachers' certificates under the provisions to Herdis L. '16, and Alfred B. Muir of of Act 165, P. S. 1909, were granted Lewis of the Class of the Class of '17. The resignation of W. J. Kurtz as Assistant in Farm Management, was accepted effective Sept. 30. the departments in the Division of Applied Science and the Division of Letters, was adopted: classification temporary following The of Applied Science--Botany, Bacteriology, Chemis try, Entomology, Physics and Zoology." as Letters—English, Mathematics, History Econom ics, Music, Physical Training and Military Science. the Division of by Dean in recommended following appointments The Home Sweeny, were approved: Economics Miss Marion Tucker, Associate Professor. Miss Rebekah Gibbons, Associate Professor. Miss Erma P. Garrison, Assistant Professor. Miss Jule Nelson, Instructor, from Club C funds with room and meals as part of her compensation. to be paid The President was authorized to arrange a con ference with Prof. Burgess with reference to ad justing the business affairs of the Poultry Depart ment while under his management. to consider The President was requested to confer with him regarding to appoint a ' c o m mittee of three the adjustment of salaries where contracts have not been signed or where appeals have been made, the matter of extension of and also time re port in the case of certain employes, formal to the Secretary. to be made The President appointed as such a committee, Mr. Watkins, Mrs. Stockman and Mr. Waterbury. The matter of housing girl students not already the question of vacating to the President with power provided houses, was. referred to act . including for, President-elect Friday was appointed to represent the College at inauguration of Livingston Farrand as President of Cornell University, Oct. 20. the The matters contained in a letter from Dr. Beal to Mr. Watkins under date of Aug. 18, were re ferred the President with power to act. to The proposed budget of the Dean of Women was to President-elect Friday and President referred Shaw. On motion adjourned. C L A SS N O T ES '69 Mrs. E. H. Bradner, 1423 O St., Sacramento, Calif., writes that the health of Mr. Bradner is very much improved, and that he has been visiting his sister at Folsom, Calif. '79 Charles E. Ingerson, 616 W. Main St., Battle Creek, is in the real estate and insurance business. 88 issue of A recent the Portland, Oregon, Daily Journal gives some interesting notes on the work of A. B. Cordley. "A. B. Cordley," it states, "dean of agriculture, Oregon Agricultural College, knows every kind of bug and worm by its first name, and he knows their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. He also knows the family tree, with all its branches, of every variety of apple and other kind of fruit 'In other words, he has made in Oregon. horticulture and entomology life studies." '91 An article by Prof. W. O. Hedrick entitled "A in Michi Sketch of Some Institutional Beginnings gan" was recently published in a current number of the official state publication, the Michigan His tory Magazine. H. K. Butterfield, President of of M a s s a c h u s e t ts in The to outline a plan of to Agricultural College, is leaving for six months China with China Educational Commission. the Commission work of education for China, with particular restitutions under religious auspices. reference is L. C. Brooks asks to have his address changed from care of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, to care of Bethlehem Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Corporation,. Quincy, Massachusetts. '9G D. T. Randall, 1113 Penniman Ave., Plymouth, formerly with the Lincoln Motor Company of De-. troit, sales engineer with office at 400 Penobscot Building, Detroit. is now '92 '03 Mark G. Crosby (with) who is running the old home farm near Hart, announces the arrival - on May 25 of Raymond and Redmond who will be ready for the class of '43. Daniel Sears, age 11; Matt A., age 6, and Francis May, age 3, will be ready for earlier classes. J. A. Cooper is connected with the firm Aldrich lives and Cooper, 1111, Griswold St., Detroit. He at 2956 Lothrop Ave. '04 Mrs. W. K. Rexford (Hannah Bach) lives at 848 Pingree Avenue, Detroit. '05 Mrs. Ethel Adams Hedges lives at Piochee, Ne vada. C. E. Johnson may be addressed at 228 Glen- dale Avenue, Highland Park. Charles A. Hach, 905 Hill Street, Saginaw, W. S. is an engineer in the city engineer's office. '06 Circular Bulletin No. 47, issued by the Experi ment Station at M. A. C. entitled "Poisoning from Bacillus Botulinus. Cause: Prevention: Treat m e n t :" was prepared by Zae Northrup Wyant. J. Ward Carpenter (with) lives at .Brownsville, Texas. to have 400 acres in alfalfa three months' old baby, a girl, '07 Alfonzo Palacio^ Aldama 415, C. Lerdo, Djo, Mex ico, writes, "General farming, running my father's 'Hacienda' and starting out on a new farming prop osition on a ranch or rather 'Hacienda' of an uncle of mine which will be put mostly in alfalfa, wheat, some cotton (not much as I lost a good deal' on another cotton plantation), corn, hogs and later on, this a dairy. Expect fall. Have this makes three boys and one girl and it surely keeps me on the run the world's crisis If my new losses on account of venture I guess I'll have to run to M. A. C. and apply for a job; life is getting at times here'almost unbear able and if bolshevism gets a start here with so illiterate people, the best thing one can do many then things are going is today with agitators all around and a complacent I government rather not fails by some other disturbance here is a real danger of the family alive, as run away, and as is upon us after so rnany years of . the revolution. to keep it and there to it. "Kind regards to my old think about 'Profs' and the sleepy class of '07 of whom very little is seen in the class notes of the Record. Altho I have not seen an M. A. C. students or alumnus since 1910. when I saw Garcinava Alfonso in Mexico City,' but never theless I enjoy the knowledge of what the College is doing, and some of the people I knew there." for the fifteenth Scott B. Lilly is already making plans to come back '07 next year. He is Sales Engineer for Overland and Locomotive cranes, and may be addressed at 30 Church St., New York City. He has One daughter, Mary Alice, aged 10. reunion of "Earle Towrte, 514 N. Division St., Albion, is Pro duction Engineer for the Union Steel Products Co. He has three daughters, Mildred ten, Ruth eight, and Martha '08 A letter from William Ryder to Ray Turner says in part, "I surely read with interest in the Record three. • . THE M. A. C. RECORD 15 than to know interested of the fine times that were had at Commencement. Each year seems to be better the preceding one, and possibly when another year rolls around, I will find myself back on the campus again. You will be that I am continuing in Dairy Extension Work, and have organized an "International Dairy Extension Service" which will to commercialize what I have been doing for aim the Holstein Association and make to do similar work for the advancement of all of our dairy breeds." - '09 C. PI. Spurway recently prepared a bulletin en the Reactions Between Soils is the Experi titled and Various Chemical Compounds." This was sued as Technical Bulletin No. 51 by ment Station at M. A. C. "Studies on it possible George 'Bernard Knapp, 4651 Hazel Avenue, Chi cago, is an eng'neer with the Carnation Milk Prod ucts Company. . From Gerald H. Allen, Waterford Road East, to miss Redford, Michigan, we have, "Very sorry to seeing be fall. Business address at present, 29 Watson Street, Detroit." 'gang' at Commencement. Will try the ''Home-Coming' game there this the for A. H. Perrine, Rives Junction, is keeping busy weeding Hubam Clover. '10 '11 Elizabeth Palm, Librarian at Oregon Agricultural College, lives at 105 N. 21st St., Corvallis, Oregon. Ollie. Johnson has been at Columbia this summer working on a Master's degree. L- B. Scott, 7303 Alaska' Ave. N. W, Washington, in charge of Nursery Stock D. C.,. is Pomologist Investigations, U. -S. Department of Agriculture. T. C. Whyte and Mrs. Whyte (Ann I. Carter w'12). live at 12330 Northlawn Boulevard—"the healthiest section of Detroit." '12 Fred Crysler is still farming at Holt, R. R. No. 1. some to be known as an agriculturist He hopes day. is Earl C. Sanford, Montpelier, "Forest fur Supervisor of Caribou National Forest, which than does any other nishes range for more sheep national two years have been last lean ones - for farmers and stockmen out this way, but things are picking up and the. outlook is en couraging." • Idaho, forest. . The B. P. Pattison, for several years county agent in Delta County, is now manager of the local Farm Bureau there. Russell Warner has changed his Schenectady, N. Y., address to 109 Avon Road. the time comes Lieut. Commander. James H. Hawkins, "Hallie," of the • Air Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, writes: "The Record tends to keep the old ties from making a complete crash,, and when to- the old place again, one won't feel so out visit this spring in of place and old. Have been busy the sinking the much-talked of German, ships off their's Virginia capes. And too. I have command of flying boat di vision with the Fleet Air Force and when the day- to be a the German battleship comes along for target we have hooks under our wings to carry two tons of TNT on each pla. ",. We may not need it but if it is necessary—imagine they are getting the NC type the splash." "Speed" Garvey has changed his headquarters from Indianapolis to Chicago and lives at 622 Briar Place, Phone Wellington 762. He is still connected w'.th the Sawyer Goodwin Company. '13 room the predominating colors of Gray and blue arft tea recently the charming homelike little in her home, 420 opened by Miss Mary Shafer tea shop W. Allegan Street, Lansing. That the is easily is the result of a long cherished dream thought the care and realized when one notes "Mary's its making. which have been put afternoon luncheon, Tearoom" will be open tea, and dinner each day, beginning at n o'clock. the degree of Bachelor of Art 1'rom Ypsilanti Xormal College on August 4. Chrystal G. Colvin (with) received into for Wisconsin, is District Representative Blanchard Company of Aurora, Illinois. for the '14 Roy Kenney and Mrs. Kenney '15) located at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where he are is Educational and Vocational Supervisor at that army post, with a big agricultural project. They have one child, Francis Vincent, age 5. (Hazel Cook Ove E. Jensen of the Soil Improvement of National residence Fertilizer Association has changed his from Chicago to 943 Spruce St., Winnetka, 111. F. C. Gilbert will teach agriculture in the high school at Croswell next year. From Ralph Coryell we have, "This is to announce the arrival of Margaret Alice at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph I. Coryell. Preparations are now tinder way to send our M. A. C. to the original M. A. C. several years hence." Norman M. Spencer the Salvage Department, Saginaw Products Company, Division of General Motors Corporation, Saginaw, Michigan. George T. Smith lives at 619 West Street, Wilkins- is now with htirg, Pennsylvania. '15 D. A. Riker, Chelsea, Michigan announces the birth of a daughter, Mary Jane on June 24. He is developing a large apple orchard and expects to have one of the best in a few years. M. C. Hengst is County Road Engineer, of Barry County and lives at 647 West Grand Street, Has tings, Michigan. August M. Engel has moved from Big Creek, California to 928 Fifth Avenue, Los Angeles.. E. G. Amos is now Assistant Secretary of the State Farm Bureau, with headquarters at Escanaba. '16 Royce W. Wyant and Mrs. Wy'ant (Zae North- living at 221 Washington Avenue, rup '06) are Greenville, Ohio. Alice E. Smallegan, Missionary is at "Tamil" Language School at Ranipettai, for South India, one year. A. C. Benjamin and Mrs. Benjamin (Elizabeth Wesseler w'16) announce the birth of a baby girl, Bethany Louise, on May 6, 1921. The Benjamin's home is at Maple Valley Farm, Grand Ledge, Mich. J. Van -Buren, Bacteriologist at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio, spends his time "as suring other people that a hypodermic needle can't, hurt and proving the futility of the classic ques tion." . Carol Davis will teach household arts Highland Park High School next year. in the to have his Lexington, to 321 Grosvenor Ave., F. Glen Hacker asks Kentucky address changed Lexington, Kentucky. Anna Rutherford, in Home Economics instructor at Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tennessee has been doing graduate work this summer at Wisconsin University. Jack Russel, 415 Madison Street, Lansing is Sec retary and Treasurer of the Michigan Bridge and Pipe Company and Manager of the Way Products Company of Lansing. The in the same plant at present. two are carried on George Frost and Mrs. Frost announce the arrival hTe of a daughter, Marjorie May, on July 25. Frosts live at Williamston, R. R. No. 1. the Record Carl W a t e rs writes, "I note in your mid-summer to send a that you ask us issue of I've got one for you but I don't believe Freshman. he can be persuaded the old folks - till about 1940. His name is Robert Frederick Waters and he was born August 1." '17 leave to Nellie Fredeen, who has been teaching the past year, expects perior, Wisconsin at her home in Norway for some time to come. H. V. Abel has opened a branch office for the American Fruit Growers Exchange at 239 Wood bine St., Harrisburg, Pa. . in Su to be is with the Mayo Oil Service Ralph J. Morgan Co. at Ashland, Ky. B. W. Straight is with the General Electric Co., the the Accounting department of of Chicago, in 16 THE M. A. C. RECORD Chief of Engineering. He Street. lives at 6434 Sangoman Victor R: Cooledge is now employed in the Bridge Department of the State Highway. S. Wiilard Harman gives his 840 South Main St., Geneva, X. Y. latest address as 18 D. E. Sweeney (with) travels for the Hart Parr Tractor Co. and may be addressed care of general delivery, Charles City, Iowa. Howard V. Jordan will be located at Savanah, the summer, where he the University of for Mo., for the remainder of is. making a soil survey Missouri. the Upper Peninsula Experi Ernie Kotila ment Station the summer, working on scab and rhizactonia of potatoes. He may be addressed at Chatham. is at for Paul C, Jamieson, for several years county agent latter part of resigned in Calhoun County, July to become Poultry Specialist at Colorado Ag ricultural College, Ft. Collins, Colo. They will be glad to welcome M. A. C. people in their home. Eldred H. Walker, Structural Engineer the Eastman Kodak Co., lives at 572 Flower City Park, Rochester,. N. Y. He has a son a year old. the for John. A. Chisholm the Growing the D. M. Ferry & Co., Seedsmen Department of of Detroit, with headquarters at Park Hotel, Liv ingston, Montana. is employed by Mr. and Mrs. William G. Brownrigg (Grace An the derson w'18) of Ottawa, Canada, birth of a daughter, Mary Margaret on July 15. is still Helen Pierce Bice in Marquette announce living but has a new address at Hargrave Flat "C" H. Curtis Howard is still with the Federal Board for Vocational Education, as training officer at the Chaffcy Junior College of Agriculture. He now has his headquarters at V. M. C. A., San Bernardino, Calif. 719 Lee Tucker (with) now connected with the Kala mazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. called at the Rec ord office recently. His territory is the east half of the United States. This company makes parchment and waxed papers. Einar Ungreen has for some time been Director of Publicity for the Michigan State Farm Bureau, with headquarters at Lansing. He was previously Assistant Director. From G. W. Trubey, 528 P. O. Building, Portland, Oregon, we have, "Veterinarian, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Working on sheep scabies for bo vine tuberculosis eradication in the three west coast states the west coast. Must have the Record." leaving M. A. C. Enjoy since Raymond Baxter may be located at 190 McLean Ave.", Detroit. Ruth Hodgeman, 6 Gregory Blvd., E.- Norwalk, Conn., writes, "Have moved to E. Norwalk. to be with my brother, C. D. Hodgeman w'14 and 'his wife in N'orwalk schools next year. ("Pug") is City Bacteriologist the Waterbury State Department, of Health, (Blanche MacGregor W'IS). Will Donald S. Lyon teach with Waterbury, Conn. Irene Smith attended summer school at Colum this summer and will teach sewing this the high school at Winona, Minn, again bia University in year. '20 Dr. and Mrs. Donald J. Pillou (Ada Woddard) of Elmira, N. Y., have a daughter, Jean, born May ir. in Home Eco Fern Loomis will be supervisor nomics in Owosso this year. Peter von .Sprecken the Bridge Department of- the State Highway, with headquarters at Port Huron, Box 198. is on construction with Rhea East will teach Household Science in Holland High School again this coming year. the Tickets for the Michigan Game Should be ordered now, direct from C. L. Brewer —except for Detroiters, who may get theirs in the Detroit Club section from Sec'y S. B. Lee, 8230 Lawton Avenue An Alumni block of 2000 seats has been reserved in the center of the M. A. C. stands (north side, wooden), and with the exception of 500 for the Detroit Club,, now in the hands of Sec'y Lee, these are on sale October 1. The price is $1.50 and all seats are reserved. You pay the same price for standing room. Send checks or money orders direct to C. L. Brewer, East Lansing. The Home-Coming Game is November 5, with South Dakota. Mark the date and figure "that little business trip" to the Capital City so you can take it in.