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Professor Lauman was a Cornell graduate in 1897 and remained with the institution
until his retirement in 1942. He had served as assistant and instructor in horticulture
from 1897 to 1903 and subsequently as instructor, assistant professor, and
professor of rural economics, becoming the first to hold the chair of rural economy
at Cornell. He had also given much attention to the history of agriculture.
Dr. Bizzell was a native of North Carolina, received from the North Carolina
College the B. S. degree in 1895 and the M. E. degree in 1900, and served there as
instructor in chemistry and assistant chemist from 1895 to 1901. Coming to Cornell
as a fellow, he received the Ph. D. degree in 1903, and had served as assistant chemist
in the station, 1903-8, assistant professor of soil technology, 1908-12, and professor
from 1912 to his retirement on July 1, 1944. He had made many contributions to
the literature of soil technology and fertility.
Dr. Whetzel was a native of Indiana, graduated from Wabash College in 1902,
and came to Cornell the same year as assistant in botany. Named professor and
head of the department in 1907, he served as its administrator until 1922 and subsequently
as professor of plant pathology. He had been active in teaching, extension,
and research, inaugurating a system of university teaching and a series of industrial
plant pathology fellowships. Among other books, he was the author of Outlines
of the History of Phytopathology, and since 1932 had been manager of the Phytopathological
Classics. He was given the honorary D. Sc. degree by the University
of Puerto Rico in 1926 and by Wabash College in 1931.
North Carolina College.-A farm and industry conference with a registered
attendance of 93 farmers, 115 businessmen, and 39 from the faculty of the College
of Agriculture was held at the college October 5 and 6, 1944. A series of about 100
local follow-up meetings in 1945 is contemplated,
Pennsylvania College and Station.-Capt. T. B. Keith, on leave from the
department of animal husbandry, has been commended for exceptionally meritorious
service in connection with the collection and movement for the armed forces of
indigenous food reserves of the Paris region. Conrad B. Link has returned from
the Army and resumed his duties as assistant professor of horticulture. Dr. H.
Arthur Meyer, assistant professor of forestry, has returned from an assignment with
the Foreign Economic Administration on cinchona procurement in Venezuela.
Dr. Arthur J. G. Maw, acting head of the poultry husbandry subsection of the Iowa
College, has been appointed professor of poultry husbandry. Dr. Donald E. H. Frear,
professor of agricultural and biological chemistry, has been appointed civilian consultant
on the chemistry of insecticides and fungicides by the Committee on Medical
Sciences of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
South Dakota College and Station.-Thomas M. Qlson, associated with the
department of dairy husbandry since 1920 and head of the department since 1924,
died October 25, 1944, aged 60 years. A native of Wisconsin, he was graduated
from the University of Wisconsin in 1915 and received the M. S. degree from the
Iowa College in 1920. He had also been a teacher and superintendent of schools
from 1906 to 1912 and a county agent in Minnesota from 1915 to 1919.
Texas College.-Horatio L. Van Volkenberg, head of the department of
parasitology since 1937, died October 13, 1944, at the age of 51 years. He had
received the D. V. M., B. S., and M. S. degrees from Cornell University, and his
service had included periods at the New York State Veterinary College, 1918-21,
the U. S. D. A. Biological Survey, 1922-23, and the Bureau of Fisheries, 1924-25,
and as parasitologist from 1926 to 1937 at the Puerto Rico Federal Station.
Utah College and Station.-Dr . W. W. Henderson, since 1926 head of the
department of zoology and entomology, died October 31, 1944, at the age of 65
years. A native of Utah and a graduate of Brigham Young University in 1903,
he received the M. S. degree from Cornell University in 1905 and the Ph. D. degree
from the University of California in 1924. He had also served as professor of
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U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Research Administration. Office of Experiment Stations. Experiment Station Record, Volume 92, January-June, 1945, book, 1947; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5064/m1/332/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.