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The Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 24 No. 3, May 1947
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Alumni Association Members Elec + Five Councilors To Take Office July I For Three Year Term
Ray L. Lillywhite . . . Secretary He be1· Bennion Jr.... Recently ap Erwin (Scotty) Clement • • • of Utah 'Teacher retirement plan. pointed Utah Secretary of State. Employed by Vets A(lministration.
Pictured above are five alumni who will serve on the Alumni Council beginning July 1, 194 7 for a three year term. They were selected from a field of 15 candidates and ballots were mailed into the Alumni Associ ation office in Logan. Ray L. Lillywhite '35 has been t.x ecutive sec1 etary of the Utah State Teachers' Retirement System since its organization in 1927. He is also on the executive committee of the National Council on Teacher Retire ment. H e is active in scouting, Inter mountain Radio Council, Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Am erican Legion. H e makes his home in Salt La.ke City. H eber B (! nnion Jr. '12 was recently appointed by Gov. Herbert B. Maw as Secretary of State to 1ep1ace E . E. Monson, deceased. H e is acting governor when Maw is out of the .::ltate. Upon graduation from Utah State he became principal of Lehi Mrs. Lucile Owen Petty . . . Was Vern B. Muir ... Former Logan high school and held the position dean of women at \IVeber college. city commissioner and grocer. for five years. He then went into the livestock business in Dagget county and still operates his ranch tion in the European theater. city commissioner and at the present and stock business there. He repre 1\'lrs. Lucile Owen Petty '26 is a 1 time is serving on a short-term sented Dagget county in five regular member of the Ogden city board of mission for the LDS church in north sessions of the state legislature and education from the fifth municipal was speaker of the house in 1939. ern California. He has operated district, being the first woman elect Envin "Scotty" Clement '37 is em stores and ranches in Utah, Idaho, ployed by the Veterans Administra ed to that position. She is a former Nevada, Wyoming and Nebraska. tion in Twin Falls, Idaho. He is a dean of women at Weber college and The nominating committee consist former Alumni Secretary holding the is the mother of eight children. She ed of Leonard McDonald '39, Parley position from 1937 until 1941 when is married to Dr. Russell B. Petty, h e entered the army. He was award l{ilburn '31, Jack Qroft '24, Allau ed the bronze star and the French prominent dentist of Ogden. West '32, Gronway Parry '14 and croix de guerre for gallantry in ac- Vern B. Muir '22 is a former Logan Mrs. Bernice Gray, acting secretary. Page 2 UTAH STATE ALUMNI QUARTERLY . Outstanding Speakers Published Quarterly by the Utah State Agricultural College Alumni .Asao Coming to USAC For ciation. Entered as second-class matter at the poet office in Logan, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1897. 194 7 Commencement Rt. Rev. Arthur W. Moulton, past Vol.. XXIV May, 1947 Number 3. bishop of the Episcopal Church of Utah, and now retired, has been Mrs. Bernice Gray, Editor- chosen speaker for the Class of 1947's gradua tion exercises June 7. CONTENTS Rev. Moulton is well known in the state and is recognized for his Five Council Members Elected ...... Page 2 excellent understanding of Utah's Commen<;:ement ...... Page 3 history. President Franklin S. Harris announced the selection. Life Member Elected Student Body President ...... Page 3 At the same time President Harris Know Your Aggies ...... ' ...... Page 4 announced Dr. Joseph F . Smith, past patriarch of the LDS church, as Leonard McDonald Appointed Executive Secretary ...... Page 5 the baccalaureate speaker. Baccalau Joe Whitesides, Marvin Bell To Coach ...... Page 5 r eate services on Sunday June 1 and commencement exercises the fol " Utah State-Crossroads of the World" ...... Page 6 lowing Saturday will be h eld in the Society of 50 Year Graduates To Meet ...... Page 7 field house on the campus. Degrees will be conferred on 385. Life Memberships ...... Page 7 Dr. Smith is r eturning from the Loan Fund Established ...... Page 7 University of Hawaii where he has Plans For Union Building ...... Page 7 been teaching, and will stop off in Logan to deliver the address on his 21st Annual Coaching School ...... Page 8 way to the University of Wisconsin 1926 Basketball Team Honored ...... Page 9 where he will teach speech this summer. For a number of years, he Denver Chapter Elects Officers ...... Page 10 was head of the speech department College Nursery ...... Page 11 a t the University of Utah and re signed to become patriarch of the Aggies Here And There ...... Page 12 LDS church. With The Class of '69 ...... Page 13 The commencem ent committee con- sists of Dr. Daryl Chase, Dean E. A. Aggie Marriages ...... Page 14 Jacobsen, Dean M. R. Merrill, Dean Annual Music Camp In June ...... Page 14 Ca rlton Culmsee, Dr. N . W. Chris tiansen, Dr. Chester Myers, Mr. /.)"'!<~ News of the Armed Forces ...... Page 14 Ralph J . Richards and Miss Vera Carlson. GRADUATES AND EX-AGGIES Life memberships at $25.00 or annual membership of $2.00 may now be Aggie Life Member procured by any interested person who has ever attended the USAC. Joint annual dues for husband and wife are also available at $2.50 per year and Student Body President joint life memberships at $35.00. Husbands or wives of graduates or ex Desmond Anderson C'48 and a life Aggies may also affiliate on an annual or life · basis. member of the Alumni Association, It is now possible for all former students who have attended the Utah was elected student body president State Agricultural College for one quarter or more to become full fledged mem for Utah S'ta te for the 1947-48 school bers of the Alumni Association upon payment of the dues as outlined above. year a t election held in April. Des is a na tive of Logan a nd is prominent in school affairs. This spring he Join the Alumni Association Now! was chairman of th e Junior Prom.
~anne ------Address ------Class 'rear ------Amount Enclosed $------ALUMNI OFFICERS· 1946-47 D. A. Skeen, •og ______Presldent A I l ll\fNJ COUN<;IL J. Morris Christensen '21 A. Russell Croft, '20 • •• Past Presi_dent Seth T. Shaw '31 Leonard W. McDonald '39 Cantril Neilsen '28 Executive Secret a ry H oward Calder '37 Frank Stevens '37 Lloyd N. Johnson '35 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE W. Adrian Wright '32 Ruby Stringham Garrett '28 Ma ry Leone Haight '44 Ray D. Garner '24 W. W. Gardner '21 Ralph S. Blackham '31' Allan M. West '32 C . .J . Sorenson '14 THE COVE-R The faculty on Commencement Day, taken by Prof. H . Reuben Reynolds. Desmond Anderson Page 3 ~ 1: 91))f. .. *""ii!iii KNOW YOUR AGGIES DR: CLAUDE E. ZOBELL Dr. Claude E. Zobell '27, director of the American Petroleum Institute and assistant director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Calif., bas be come one of the foremost men in the nation in bacteriol ogy. He recently was granted a U. S. patent describing a bacteriological process for in creasing the secondary re covery of oil. Concerning this and allied developmen ts, Mr. W. R. Boyd, Jr., president of the American Petroleum Institute recorded on the editoria l page of the current API Qua rterly: "In that spirit and dedicated to th11.t cause, the American Petroleum Institute is happy to pre sent to the world the results of the work of Dr. Claude E . ZoBel! in discovering the use of certain types of bacteria to increase the recovery of oil from undergcound deposits. Just what Dr. ZoBell's discovery may mean in the future, no man knows; but it is a n important one. Man has learned something new. My sincere congratula tions to Dr. ZoBel! a nd his associates for their work a nd constant willingness to assist in adding to the store of man's knowledge without hope of di rect or immediate benefit for themselves." Dr. ZoBell's paten t was assigned to the use of the public. Another publication to hail the discovery was Time Magazine in their issue of J a nuary 20, 1947. Dr. ZoBcll's activities nre ma ny. He continues to serve as chairman of the committee for the application of microbiology data and methods to pearology under the auspices of the National R esearch Council. He is editor of the University of Ca lifornia publications in microbiology and associate editor of the SIO technical bulletin. He was recently nomina ted delegate and elected vice-presi dent of the Fourth International Congt·ess of Microbiology in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 20-26, 1947. Dr. ZoBell graduated from Utah State in 1927 and is a life member of the Alumni Association. He is married lo Aggie graduate Margaret Harding '30.
MRS. VERNA CARLISLE Mrs. Verna Carlisle, '33, na tionally known child de velopment specialist, has been appointed to the profes sional staff of the National Society for Crippled Children a nd Adults, Chicago, lll. Mrs. Carlisle has just completed an intensive training course in tQ,e care and treatment of cerebral palsied chil dren at the Michael Reese nursery school under the dir.Jc tion of Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein. An authority on cerebral palsy, Dr. Perlstein is a member of the Medical Advisory Council on Cerebral Palsy to the National Society. With a background in nursery school education and nation-wide experience, Mrs. Carlisle is well qualified tor her work of assisting state a nd local treatment centers for pre-school cerebral palsied children who desperately need such care. Mrs. Carlisle received her B.S. degree and M.S. degree in child development at Utah State. She also has done graduate study at Merrill Palmer Institute, Detroit, Mich. Her former positions include: state supervisor, lllinois Child Protection Program; assistant professor and head of the department of child development, Utah State Agri cultura l college; and state supervisor of the nurset·y school program in Utah. During the war Mrs. Carlisle was the regional field rep resentative \for six states, setting up wartime child care centers for the Burea u of Community Facilities, Federal Works Agency. Her most recent assignment was field representative for the United Nations' National Emer gency Food Drive. Professional groups in which she holds membership include: National Association of N ursery Education, As sociation of Childhood Education, Nationa l Education As sociation, Progressive Education Association, National Parent Teachers Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the American Associa tion of Home Economists. Page 4
I Leonard McDonald Appointed Secretary of Alumni Association; Heads Division of College Development and Alumni Relations
Leonard W. McDonald '39, former was on the editorial staff of Student Executive Secretary of the Alumni Life for four years, was editor of Association, a.;•d more recently busi Scribble magazine for two years, did ness manager of the Utah State In considerable journalistic work for dustrial school at Ogden, was ap the college, and studied as a post pointed Aggie Alumni Association graduate for four quarters. He was Executive Secretary and assistant subsequently assistant to the director editor of college bulletins. of correspondence study for threJ D. A. Skeen of Sa lt Lake City, yea1·s. president of the Alumni Association In 1941. Mr. McDonald was ap a nnounced the appointment April 19. pointed Alumni Executive Secretary which was a pproved by the college a nd editor of the Alumni Qua1·terly. board of trustees at their meeting He served until June 1944 when he that day. accepted the editorship of the Utah A new division has been created, Farmer in Salt Lake City. known as the College Development In November 1945 he was appoint a nd Alumni Rlelations- which Mr. ed business manager at the industrial McDonald will head. He · will begin school. his new duties May 15, following Active in civic affairs, he has been resignation of his position at the in a n officer of the Logan Lions club, dustrial school. . cieputy district governor of Lion3 The Alumni executive post haS been International, and is now a member \'acant since July of 1946 when Jacl~ of Ogden Lions club. Croft resigned. Since then, Mrs. His wife is the former Arola Bott, Bernice Gray has been acting secre a USAC graduate of 1937, and also a tary. Leonard W. McDonald '89 member of Phi Kappa Phi. She has Mr. McDonald graduated from the done graduate work in dietetics in Wasatch high school in Heber City the east, and was on the staff of in 1932, after being valedictorian and with a major in economics and was Mt. Sinai hospital in New York. The most active senior class .member. He named to Phi Ka ppa Phi, national couple have two children, Jimmy graduated from Utah State in '1939 honorary scholastic fraternity. H e and Mary Ann. TWO AGGIE ALUMNI W IN POSTS ON COACHING STAFF
Joe Whitesides '36 was named March 3, 1941. He served overseas In addition to football, he played basketball coach at Utah State to from August, 1942, until December. basketball and participated in track. replace H. B. (Bebe) Lee, resigned. 1945, after which be came back to "Joe has the support of all mem and Marvin B ell '42, coach a t Logan the college. bers of the coaching staff, the athletic senior high school, was appointed Bell completed post graduate work council, and officials of the A-men's assistant coach for the frosh by the at the college in 1946, and then tool< organization", stated one college board of trustees at a meeting in his position with the Loga n high. official. "Many of Joe's supporters April. Coach Lee resigned at the end "Dingle," as he is ca lled, served with a re elated with the appointment be of the basketball season to accept the navy recreation service during cause of their faith in his ability, an offer in private business in Cali the war. While at college he was an and also because they subscribe to fornia. all-a round athlete and was captain of the practice of giving recognition to Whitesides, who was assistant to Aggie fo otball tea ms for two years. (Continued on Page 14} Lee during the current year, has been on the coaching staff of the col - · lege since 1937, with the exception o' five years he spent in the armed forces. He came to th collge from Davis high school and participated in football, basketball and baseball. Marvin Bell, former backfield star for the Farmer grid squad, anrl h e:> '' football and track coach at Logan high school during the past ye9r, wi pay particular attention t o the fre h · man program. The versatile Bell, recllgnized as one o: the best stu d e n ~;; of Romney's T-formation system ever to play with the Aggies will resign his Logan high school position at tb" end of the current year. Whitesides entered the college in 1032, and during his career was captain of the Aggie football team. Follow'ng his graduation he coached a t Bear River high s chool 1936-37 coming to the college the following year as frosh coach. This position he r etained until called into active· service with the Utah N ationa l Guanl Joe Whitesides '36 Marvin Bell '42 Pa.ge5 Utah State- ~~crossroads of the World'' By Noel Benson "Utah State, Crossroads of the World," might well be the title ap plied to the Utah State Agricultural college today. Students from every section of the globe are attending the college, having been brought here by its ever increasing fame. Iran furnishes the major portion of the non-English speaking foreign students attending the college. To date, 16 of these students are attend ing classes at the college. Colombia from our Latin American relative, South America, furnishes three stu dents. India and Lebanon both have two students representing their coun try at the college while one student comes from each of the following: Burma, Peru, Greece, Belgium, Ice land and Slovenia. Fifteen students from the neighboring provinces of Canada are also in attendance at the college. The engineering department of the college is evidently the most widely known of the branches of the col lege. Nineteen students of the total of 45 foreign students registered at the college have signed up for en gineering courses. The agricultural department of the college runs a not-too-close second with 12 stu dents. Forestry and home economics each have attracted five from this group. Three students are majoring in the arts and sciences while the school of commerce, which boasts of being the oldest west of the Mississippi, has one student majoring in that department. Graduate Students Not all of the students are under graduates. Many of them have at tended other universities and schools and many hold degrees. No l~ss than nine of the 45 are graduates of some other university or college and hold degrees from them. They are here £or post graduate work along special ized lines. A further breakdown of the relative class standings show Looking over the college catalog are thr e of the foreign students, left to that six of them are seniors, six are right: Than Myint, Burma; Ashmod Amer, Lebanon; and Muna. Kharly, juniors and seven are sophomores. Lebanon. 1 1 As may be expected, t he freshman perplexing problems which confront- country is quite similar to that in class has the largest enrollment with ed me upon my arrival in the United my homeland. The dress for the 17 of the foreign group holding that States," Mr. Ghaffari stated. "My women in this country allows more rank. Most of the foreign students, five months attendance at the Am- freedom than does that of my home- Canadian students excluded, are ericanization institute in Michigan la nd. However, western civilization quite young. The average age of this aided me greatly." Mr. Ghaffari has has done much toward modernizing group is close to that of a pre-war made rapid adjustments to American the dress of the Iranian people. It college student, being 21 years of college life. He, together with several has also influenced greatly the trend age. of his countrymen, have joined fra- of thought. Most Iranians can t alk The foreign students attending the ternities on the campus and are tak- as ably on current world affairs as college had little or no trouble ad ing an active part in the coll~ge can the average American citizen," justing themselves to their new sur functions. she stated. roundings and the American way of Women Join Sororities The .educationa l set-up of Iran is doing things. A typical student is quite similar to that of the United Abbas Ghaffari, a freshman arts and The two Iranian women on the States. At the time a child is five sciences major from Iran. When he campus also have joined sororities. years of age, he is entered in an ele first landed in the United States, he One of these, Miss Vida Khasi, who mentary or preparatory school. This was enrolled at an Americanization resides at the campus residence hall, he attends for six years. At the end institute in Michigan which familiar speaks flawless English. - He can of six years, he is granted a certifi ized him with the English language carry on a conversation . with an cate of attainment. He then enters and which was designed as an orien case which is the envy of many of the Iranian equivalent of our high tation g uide. "While dress is quite the coeds who have been raised in similar in Iran, there were man.y this country. "The dress in this (Continued on Page 10) Page 6 Society of 50 Year LOAN FUND ESTABLISHED Graduates Plan Reuf1ion Second annual reunion of' the "50 year club" is scheduled for June 7 when members of the Class of 1894 and , 1896 will welcome membe1·s of the Class of 1897 into the organiza tion to celebrate the fiftieth anniver sary of their graduation from Utah State Agricultural college. Inauguration of the "50 year club" was held during commencement 1946. Annual reunions for the club are planned and each year the club in ducts those alumni meeting for the gol::: en anniversary of their gradua tion. Walter W. McLaughlin '96, Berke ley, Cal., chairman of the "50 year club" stated that of the 15 graduates of the Class of 1837, the seven surviv ing members are expected to attend. Following the graduation exercise on June 7, the 50-yea,.- graduates will meet in the Commons· Building for lunch and a business session. Activity of the club is primarily. interested in Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Judd promoting the college. A new loan fund to honor the the college in 1943. The class of 1897 consists of: memory of Rdbert L. Judd '09, for Mr. Judd graduated from Utah Clara Louisa Foster Bacon many years a member of the USAC State in 1909 and was a life member 1724 B en Lomond Drive ,: board of trustees and past-president Glendale 2, Cal. of the Alumni Association, has been of the Alumni Association. He was Alfred August Hart founded at the college by his widow. president of the Alumni Association Bloomington, Idaho Mrs. Judd established the fund to in 1938 and served for many years Thomas H. Humpherys help undergraduate men who have on the board of trustees and was an 281 South 1st East ability and who need financial aid active supporter of the college. He Logan, Utah to carry on their studies at USAC. was a prominent Salt Lake City at Charles A. Jensen Administering the fund will be a torney and the son of Thomas Judd, 1331 Woodland Drive committee consisting of R. E. Bernt outstanding pioneer leader in scien Santa Paula, Cal. • son, executive secretary-treasurer; tific agriculture in Utah. Rachel N. Maughan Wadsworth Dr. Daryl Chase, dean of students; Mrs. Judd, who lives in Salt Lake 783 East 7th North and Mrs. Phillip A. Bullen, Logan. City, is a daughter of the late Heber Logan, Utah Mrs. Bullen is a daugi].ter of Mr. J. Grant, former president of the Victoria Lundberg Anderson and Mrs. Judd and a 1937 graduate LDS church. She is a member of the Box 244, 625 South 4th Avenue of USAC. She also received the grad general board of the National Wom Pocatello, Idaho uate certificate in social work from en's Relief Society of the church. Charles Pond Island Park, Idaho Plans Progress For Union Building . ~ohn Bankhead • Ollie Barker Thomas * "It's something that's way over due the Executive Council met with the Sabina Hermoin~Hart Roberts • on tc1e Aggie campus and we mustn't Board of Trustees to get the student M11.mie Smith Larsen • Let anything stop our efforts this building fund all earmarked for a Anna Spanberg • time to see the Union Buildmg Union Building and were definitely John Stewart • through,'' stated Pres. Franklin S. pledged that all student building !ees Osborne J. P. Widtsoe * Harris to members of the newly ap exclusive of that which is being paid Preston Geddes Peterson * pointed Union Building committe
WALlACE BUTTS FOOTIIALL COACH, E.L. '1JICI("fi.OMNEY. C/. OF 6EOR61A DIRECTOR, UTAHtfTATE By Lyn Larson machine averaged 37 points a game olis, 57-55. Patton went to West Vtr T he 21st annual Utah State sum in sweeping a 10-game slate, and ginia from Iona, N. Y., prep, where mer school for coaches will be held fi nished second to Notre Dame in he served as coach in 1944, afte;: H June 9 to 13, inclusive, on the Aggie total offense, with an average of years as coach of Pinceton, W. Va., camnus, with Coach Wally Butts, h ead 394.6 yards a game. The 1946 Bull high school. At Iona, Patton's ::oJt man of Georgia's undefeated, untied dogs a lso were the nation's most ball team was u~efeated , aJ< ' his Bul'dog-, and L ee Patton, West Vir air-minded team, leading all m a jor basketball team reached the .•nals gi nia university basketball coach, as elevens in passes completed and tvtfl.i of the metropolitan Catholic tourna guest instructors. pass yardage. The closest rival was ment. He consistently turned out Plans for the Loga n grid-and-court Oklahoma A. & M., which Georgia strong footbalJ and basketball teams clinic, which during a score of years defeated, 33-13. at Princeton. has achieved national prominence, Georgia scored in every conceivable The genial Mountaineer coach is a were a nnounced recently by E . L . fashion. One writer described them native of Texas, and a gra duate of (Dick) Romney, director of athletics as being a team like the New Yerk Arizona State and Springfield, Mass., a nd head coach at Utah State. Yankees of the Babe Ruth era-a colleges. He favors the fast brea!t L ast year, Romney presen ted to home run or nothing. Trippi ra n a nd man-to-man defense, stressinJ western America mentors. the fabu 68 yards against Kentucky to score, s peed and moving the ball- which lous Frank Leahy of Notre Dame, 66 against Georgia T ech, and 4~ might account for the fact that in a nd H enry P. Iba, basketball coach against Alabama. its first 12 games this season, West a t Ol{lahoma A. & M. In selectit 17. Patton of West Virginia knows Virginia averaged 74 points. Butts and Patton for the school this the sweetness of success, also. In his In college, Patton won letters in summer, he picked off two of the fit·st season last year, Patton's tP.am feotball. basketball and baseba ll. His country's most popular athletic fig won 22 in 24 regular games, !~sin g l'inceton high school teams won 12 ures. only to Temple a nd Navy, and placing :• ctiona l hoop championships and The University of Georgia football third in the national invitation tour seven regiona l titles. His Iona court team of 1946, powered by all-Amer na ment at Madison Square Garden. lub went to finals of Metropolitan ican Charley Trippi, was one of the West Virginia lost to Kentucky, Catholic school tournamen t in New greatest in that institution's history. eventual champion, by a 59-51 score York City. It was spectacular offensively, and in the semifinals. In the annual A. P . Coach Butts of the Georgia football as Georgia's first unbeaten and un poll, West Virginia ranked fifth best champs has a kewpie's build and a tied team since 1896, it was unde in the nation. face as naive and innocent as a choir niably the most successful. This y ar, the Mountaineers were boy's. Although he may look tender With Trippi speat·heading the of undefeated in 12 straight games until he has tamed more rugged indivi- f nsive, Coach Butts' high-scoring being nosed out by Navy at Annup- (Continued on Page 10) Page 8 Members o:~ 1926 Championship Baske~bc;tlt~ Team ·.Hd.ifored af Dinner Given by "A" ~, ~~ -n · The glory that was theirs 20 years · Men to win the official letter for Center and forward in 1926. In trans ago .was relived by members of the basketball that year were: portation business, he was an officer 1926 Utah Aggie basketball team w.hen Newell ''Hod" Sanders '27, a three in Wottd War II. they met for dinner February 14 at letter man, football, basketball and CantHI Nielsen '28, two-letter man, the Eccles Hotel in Logan. track. Played guard in 1926. Won all football and basketball. Forward In The "A" Men's organization gave conference honors. Since leavmg 1926. One national syndicate pro the banquet in honor of this team school has been ranching and also claimed him one of the outstanding which two deca des ago became connected with the Clover L elif forwards of the year and nicknamea champions of the Rocky Mountain Potato Chip Company in Kaysville, him "Flash". He saw play when Conference. In charge of arrange Utah. the Aggies beat University of South ments was Herma.n Nelson '26, secre· Ellis "Red" Wade '29, a three-letter ern California. After college he was t ary of the "A" Men. man, football, basketball and track. postmaster, politician, farmer, coach, Dr. E. G. Peterson, president emeri· Guard in 1926. Now successful high and salesman in several lines. tus of Utah State, was master of school coach. Was National Guard Harold Williams '29, letter in bas ceremonies for the program, which officer in World War II. ketball. Forward in 1936. featured E. L. "Dick ROmney, Newell Addington Martindale '28, two-let Squad members who didn't win "Hod" !Sanders '27 of Kaysville and a ter man, football and basketball. letters that year, but did later on member of the honored team, and •Guard in 1926. After college was ~ere Neal Bennion '28, Philllp Hors H. B. Lee, basketball coach at USAC, coach, teacher and principal. ley '27, Vernal Harris '28, Vernon as speakers. , Glen WOrthington '29, three-letter Love '27 Howard "Tuff" Linford About forty attended the dinner. man, football basketball and truck. '28, and Edward Gills '27: Following dinner, the group attended Center in 1926. Participated on fou ~· Records show that during the years the USAC-U of U game at the field conference championship track teams, these fellows competed on the foot bouse. Members of the "Team of 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927. AU-confer ball team they were successful in 1926" were introduced to the crowd ence center in basketba ll and record ·winning a majority of the games. at the half time period. holder in hurdles. Received big league '!'hey won from the University of Representing the college during the baseball team offers. Became coach Utah in 1923, 1925 and tied with 1925-26 year, the honored team won and outstanding recreation leader. Utah 1924 and 1927. They dropped from the University of Southern Cali Robert Gibbons '28, two-letter man, the 1926 encounter. fornia 53-17. They won the Western football and basketball. Guard in 1925. Officers of the "A" Men's Organ Division of the Rocky Mountain Con All-conference football guard. Becam.? ization, in charge of arrangements ference and played Colorado State teacher, insurance salesman, and are: President, Cantril Nielsen '28; Teachers, representative of the EaEt chaplain in the army. vice-president, Marvin Bell '42; and ern Division, for the championshil'· Warren Hawley '28, three-letter ~:~ecretary-treasurer, Herma:n Nelson Utah State won 39-23, 48-22, and 40-26. man, football, basketball and track. '26.
l'llembers of the 1926 Utah State basketball team were Seated are George "Doc" ·Nelson, veteran trainer at feted February 14 at a dinner. Standing, left to right, Utah State; E. L. Romney, athletic director and coach of Howard "Tuff" Linford '28; Newell "Hod" Sanders '27; this 1926 team; Dr. E ~ G. Peterson and Theron Smart. This was one of the greatest athletic aggregations in the Cantril "Flash" Nielson .'28; Ellis "Red" Wade '2!); Glen state's sports history and heralded Aggles' "golden era" Worthington '29; Vernon Love '27; and Bob Gibbons '28. in intermountain athletics. Page 9 Utah State's 20th Annual CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD--- Coaching School Slated (Continued from Page 6) in nature. If corrections in English (Continued from Page 8) are made they are taken in a good school where he studies for five humored fashion. dualists than Clyde Beatty. years. Upon completion of these five Dr. S. M. Ahi is president of the It is perhaps fitting that James :years of study, he is granted a dip club. He holds a degree from several Wallace Butts has produced the Bull· loma attesting to the fact that he American Universities as well as one dogs' most successful football team. has completed eleven years of school from the University of the Sun and For he, himself, is an all-Georgia ing. For those who wish to go on the Lion in Iran. He is at the present product. Born at Mil~dgeville 42 and gain further knowledge, an ad time studying the relationship of yea rs ago, he was educated at Mercer ditional year of study is required be the organism which causes mastitis university, and learned most of his fore entrance into a university can in cows to certain diseases produced early coaching technique tutoring be effected. This additional year of in man. His inoculations of various Georgia prep schools. study is divided into three sections. animals have proved to be highly His over-all coaching record for Upon completion of this year of interesting and informative. eight seasons at Georgia is 59 wins, instruction, the student is eligible Wife Studies Home Ec 21 losses and two ties. This does not to enter any university. Most of them Dr. Ahi's charming :young wife is include the three bowl victories his elect to attend the University of the studying home economics while they teams have scored. Sun and the Lion, the most out are living in Logan. Dr. Ahi is also Affable and easy to approach. standing Iranian University. Many acting as advisor and supervisor for Butts is as southern as sassafras. of them decided to go to universities the students from Iran. He is well and has a droll sense of humor. Once, and colleges in other lands. The liked and has the admiration and a girl reporter asked him to explain majority come to the United States. respect of all the students and pro his coaching system in a few well Because of the technicality of the fessors with whom he comes in con chosen words. Never one to de!udo studies which they pursued and the tact. a representative of the press, Wally scope of the subjects, many of them are granted sophomore standing Vice president of the club is Mo drawled : "Why, honey-chile, we use hammed Kamaly, who comes from the plain ole color system. We just upon entrance into American uni versities. Teheran, Iran, and do most of the knock down everything not wearing Iranian students He is a freshman our kind." Cosmopolitan Club majoring in the school of agriculture. An extremely popular activity He is well educated and can speak among the foreign students enrolled intelligently on any number of sub Fourth President Of at the college is the Cosmopolitan jects. Although only in his early Utah State Succumbs Club. This club claims for its mem twenties, he is the master of five bership the foreign students who are foreign languages. Dr. William Jasper Kerr, 83, fourth attending the college and any foreign Secretary of the group is Edith president of Utah State Agricultural student attending the college is Shepherd who comes to Utah from college died April 15 in his home in eligible and invited to join. The club Canada. She is a sophomore in the Portland, Ore. He had been ill for meets twice monthly in the LDS school of home economics. She is several months. Institute on college hill. It is both employed in Dean Carlton Culmsee's At the time of his death, Dr. Kerr a social and a cultural organization. office. Faculty advisors to the group was chancellor emeritus of the Ore According to its constitution, the are lone Bennion, dean of women, gon state system of higher education. club is designed to ••promote better and Dr. Daryl Chase, dean of men. He participated in the formation of understanding among the students Dr. Chase is also acting as registra Utah's constitution and was one of and the seYeral countries they repre tion advisor to the non-English six surviving delegates to the Utah sent." At a recent meeting of the speaking students who register at constitutional convention of 1887 and club, Dr. Jose Alvarez Gonzales, the college. 1895. Jose Luis Prato, and Dr. Arenjo, With almost daily inquiries pour . Dr. Kerr left Utah in 1907 when he three of the members of the club, ing into Dean Chase's office from was appointed president of Oregon gave a discussion on customs and foreign countries requesting inform State college, a position he held for practices of their native land of Col ation about the school, it appears 25 years. He was named first chan ombia. Each night a particular sub that the number of foreign students cellor of Oregon's unified system of ject is to be . discussed, the meeting · attending school here next year will education in 1932 and chancellor em is turned over to the group in be greatly increased. Truly, Utah eritus in 1938. charge. All the meetings are informal State is a crossroads of the world. Dr. Kerr was born in Richmond, Cache county. He received his A. B. degree from the University of Utah and later his doctor's degree from Denver Alumni Chapter Elmer H. Ward Advanced Cornell university. He became an in Elects 1947-48 Officers To Colonel In March structor at Brigham Young college Promotion of Elmer H. Ward '35, for one year and later served as pro Ellis L. Armstrong '36 was elected president of the Denver Aggie Alumni director of operations, quartermaster fessor at the University of Utah. supply section, Utah general depot, Before moving to Oregon, Dr. Kerr chapter succeeding E . James Carlson '38. Elections were held at a dinner O~den , to rank of colonel was an was president of Brigham Young nounced in March. college from 1894 to 1900 and of Utah meeting at the LaRay Hotel in Golden, Colorado on April 5. At the same time Col. Ward an State Agricultural college from 1900 nounced he has been placed on an to 1907. Dinner was served to 29 members in the new dining room of the hotel inactive status by the army. A native Besides his widow he is survived by of Willard, Utah, Col. Ward will con two sons and five daughters: Robert beginning at 7:30 p.m. •ro add more life to the party, partne1·s were tinu as operations director as a Marion Kerr, former chief prosecutor ivilian. for Japanese war crimes, and Mrs. · parat d and introducation were Vesta Reynolds, Portland; Mrs. Leona made around the room. Highlights Skeinn, Salem, Ore. ; Mrs. Laynette of the program were short talks by ien ces while with the army. McGinnis and Mrs. Genieve Henry, the oldest and youngest Aggies pre After dinner time was spent sing Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Coral Aldous, sent. The oldest Aggie was represent ing Aggie songs and elections were Manhattan, Kan., and Gerald M. Kerr, ed by Mr. John T. Caine ill '03 who held. Assisting Mr. Armstrong will Salt Lake City; three sisters: Mrs. A. discussed the topic, "Leadership, the be John Stewart '40, Lorrin Hawkes F . Johnson, Logan; Mrs. A. L. Harris, reatest Commodity Utah Produces." and Cleo Copen on the Executive Richmond, and Mrs.D. A. Skeen, Salt Lorrin Hawkes, the youngest Aggie, Council. They will hold office for the Lake City; also several grandchildren. described some of his recent exper- year 1947-48. Page 10 Maiers In Child Development And Guidance Receive Practical Training At College Nu.rsery The department of child develop By Barbara Faire Jones nishes the childr.en with about half ment in the school of home econo· of their daily food. requirements. mics a t the Utah State Agricultural the testing room in which I.Q. teats E ach morning and afternoon when college operates the college nursery a re given the children, and a cloak the children arrive, they are checket'l 'school. This serves as a demonstn room a re also upstairs. Downstairs over by the nurse. If any child has tion center for students enrolled in there are three sunny play rooms. a temperature, signs of a sore throat, it he courses in child development and These rooms are filled with books, or a ny disease he is sent home. The guidance and as a practice center paints, dress-up clothes, dolls, doll test ing room upstairs ·is furnished f or child development majors who buggies, blocks, a carpenter's table, vith cots to be used to isolate an i1l a re prepa ring for t eaching. There. and many other toys. There is an child until his parents come for him. college girls are given an opportunity other cloa k room downstairs. The or for children who are tired or who to observe young children in action, younger children identify their com have been hurt. and senior majors in child develop partments by means of little pictures Plenty of Free Play ment a re given a n opportunity to pasted to the walls. The four-years The progra m arranged each day for a pply their previous training. old children seem to recognize their the children allows them long periods The nursery school is under tl::e names which are written on cards of free play in which they may choose direction of Miss Helen Porter, he'l d a nd placed over their lockers. There wha t they wish to do. These periods of the department of child develop is a bathroom with low fixtures, ·are broken by intervals in which the ment, and Miss Oral Pugmire, head where the children identify their be teachers direct their play or activity teacher at the nursery. These two longings by the same methods as toward story telling, singing, or teachers are always in attendance t:s 3d in the cloak room. marching. Often outside talent ls a t the school during the day. Play Equipment Used brought in for the enjoyment of both Miss Porter and Miss Pugmire are The grounds surrounding the nurs children a nd teachers. Once a week assisted by a staff of four to six ery school are filled with children's the children a·re taken on an excur practice teachers who, after a period play equipment. There is much climb- sion to some part of the campus such of observation, take their places a t; actual instructors of the children. each girl spends fifteen hours a we e l ~ doing nursery work. Only two or t hree girls are with the children at one time. School Is Laboratory A lower division class uses the nursery school for a laboratory, observing the children in play and routine situations. Inasmuch as thf: indoor play space is small and stu dents need to see children in natural situations, only five students are permitted to observe each hour. The children taken into the nursery school range between the ages of two and five. At present there are 14, children two or three years old at tending in the morning from 8:45 unti ~ 12:30 and 14, four-year-old.'l attending in the afternoon from 1:45 until 4:00. The school is open five days a week. Children are taken in order of their application. Many children have had their applications in almost since birth. At times the application Jist has contained as many as a hundred names. An effort is made to balance t he groups according to ages. As need for a three-year-old arises in the Left to right : Bille Bake>r, Shohrokh Ahi and Craig Yeates school the first child of the desirec age on the waiting list is given an ing, jumping, and balancing equip as the barns or one of the museums. opportunity to enter the nursery. A ment, for it is at nursery school age E ach group of children also is given tuition is charged which covers only t hat children become interested in a free play period outside. The after the cost of the food served at the these skills. There are a rabbit hutch noon children's routine in play differs school. and a play house. The playhouse is from that of the morning group only The nursery school itself is a child romplete even to a tiny fireplace. in tha t the children indulge in more ren's world. The rooms are planned The kitchen in which meals are cooperative group play. Teachers al for them and all furniture and equip prepared is downstairs in the nurs ways a re assigned to certain play ment is scaled to children's size. e7. Mrs. May Hugie, nursery dieti rooms or play areas to avoid ·having There are very few things, except tian, plans and prepares the children's any child play unobserved. Toward those in the office, which the child meals. Each morning fruit juice and the end of each quarter the practice ren may not touch. cod-liver oil are given the children teachers take turns in planning the The building, a large frame house Twins run in the agronomy department--or so it seems the right are JOAN STOKER and JEAN STOKER, 5l6 from the above pictures. To the left are JUDD C. WIL years old, and twins of Golden L. Stoker '32 and Armenia <;;.ON a nd JAMES C. WILSON, 2% year old twins of \Villey Stoker '34. l\lr. Stoker majored in agronomy Pruf. and Mr~. Le~loyne Wilson '27 (M'32). Prof. Wilson graduated from Utah State majoring in agronomy and while a studt•nt and is now seed certification spt·t·.htlist i~ now teaching in that dejlartment at the college. To f'or the agronomy department. P age 13 AGGIE MARRIAGES Lola Jean Gaddie and Edward T . Murdock parents in Logan. Utah. married March 17 in the Salt Lake LOS tem· married january 25 in Las Vegas. Nevada. Faye Roberts and Wayne j. Meier ''II were pie. 1..1111• l!.lizabeth Cardon · 41 and Roy C. Barnson married Ja nuary 25 in the Harvard LOS ward Verdene Ellsworth and Lynn E. Page '{l were married january 3 at the home of the chapel. were married March 12 in the Salt LaKe the bride's parents. Susan Ann Catlin and Clyde P . Maycock LDS temple. 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