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'The 'Tower, Looking ?Y..,orth October 19, 1929 School Directory. When I was working for Extracts from Other Letters and Notes. Dear Editor: the Summer School and the Alumni Associa- I was 90 miles from civilization on a land tion I used to run across a number of our A graduate of the class of 1905, referring to the introduction of the word "State" into survey for the Great Northern R.R. proposed graduates who were lacking addresses on our the name of the College, calls it "an absurd extension in east central Montana when I records. The U. E. A. State office would superfluity; the ill egitimate progeny of child received word of the Aggie victory over send you one of these directories free of ishness." A 1907 alumnus, in a personal Bobcats, 9 to 0, October 5. Yea, Aggies! charge or the President's office would loan letter to one of the officers of the Alumni you their copy. Irving Jensen, '18 J, I hope the pledges to the Library Endow Association, says: "I think your suggestion Experiment Station ment Fund continue to roll in. My next ten regarding life memberships an excellent one Moccasin, Montana. dollars will stroll in sometime before next . .... For some reason I am never able to • • • * • March. remember, with confidence, the cost of a life October 19, 1929 V ery truly yours, membership in the Alumni Association. If Friend Editor: you will send me a bill for the full amount Verena Adams My compliments on the new Quarterly. of a life membership I will undertake to send Nephi, Utah A big improvement. a check in payment for the bill sometime If I have paid my current dues credit me • • • between now and January l. I have only one objection to being a life member and in advance for next year. By the way. it November 2, 1929 that is that life membership deprives one of might be that some of us don't know when Dear Mr. Barber: the pleasure of paying annual dues." W. your fiscal year starts. Just as soon as I can spare the $2 I will J. "Bill" Merrill, '22, in a letter to the secre Enthusiastically yours, send it to you for my alumni dues. Will tary written November 9, says: "Enclosed you please consider me as active member Sid Nebeker, '22 in my scrap of paper", together with the even if my dues are late? The College to Laketown, Rich County, information form. Don't think I'm trying me is one of the biggest events in my life, Utah. to be facetious in listing my "occupation" c.nd I thank it with all my heart for all it because I'm really struggling to hold down • * • * * has done for me. all three jobs at once. (Bill is vice president Editor's note-The fiscal year ends June Thanking you for your kindness and con of the Royal Baking Powder Co.; vice 30 of each year and the new year begins sideration, I am president and treasurer of The Great Island July I. Membership dues for this year were Sincerely yours, due and payable July 1 and anytime there Corporation, and vice president of The Park after. Ethelyn Burns, '28 Avenue Operating Co., Inc., all of New Kiz, Carbon Co., Utah York City.) I could perfectly honestly add * * ••• * • * • * five boards of directors and about a dozen October 21, 1929 committees. all of which require time and Dear Secretary: November 8, 1929 attention at intervals. I am sorry to have delayed in making my My dear Mr. Barber: "I really must get something off my chest. remittance for the Library Fund, but here Thanks for the copy of "The Utah State so here and now I raise a loud wail of pro It is, $10. along with a check for $2.00 for Quarterly". I am sending a check to pay test at the new name for the old school. I membership in the Alumni Association. for this year's alumni dues. When one is just couldn't put into print what I think about Sincerely, away from the home state nothing is so it, so to say it is perfectly terrible is putting Evelyn Palmer, '29 thrilling as to see the picture which appears it mildly. You may know that I have a Route 1 on the cover page of the "Quarterly" for very deep affection for the old school, and September. Midvale, Utah this new name seems like blasphemy to me. As you know we came over to do research Of course there must have been reasons, * * * * * work in marketing for the B. F . Goodrich October 22. 1929 political and otherwise, but if a change had Rubber Company. This has been and is Dear Secretary: to be made, why not just Utah State Col a wonderful experience for us. On August Inclosed please find $2.00 which will lege? 15th I was made manager of research for the make me a member of the association for "Have been noting with much interest Goodrich Silvertown, Inc. This is the the first time since graduation. the progress of our football team. Hope we company which is now operating all the Success to the incoming officers and may mop up on Colorado Aggies. I'm still retail stores of the Goodrich company in this year be the best ever for the old school smarting from the B. Y. U. defeat. the United States. We recently completed on the hill. "Would certainly like to duck out of a survey of a group of rural shopping centers Yours truly. this jam and spend a few quiet days on the in this country. This was a very interesting campus. However, working under pressure experience. Our present company produces James Sterling Reece, '27 doesn't seem to crash me down much be 644 Cass St. more than $175,000,000 worth of rubber goods each year. We have over 23,000 cause I've only wasted away to 195 pounds Chicago, Ill. on the hoof." Bill's address is Royal • * • • • retail distributors of tires alone. When you want to ride with comfort and safety-ride Baking Powder Co., 100 East 42nd St .. New October 31. I 929 on "Silvertowns". York City. Dear Mr. Barber: We want to assure you that we will look I was glad to hear about your plans for the --0-- forward with interest to the receipt of the new Library. The College and State surely Merrill M . Darley. '26, received his mast "Quarterly". need this building. er's degree in entomology from Ohi.o State Very truly yours, I will be glad to assist you in obtaining College during the summer. He has been proper addresses for any of our alumni. E. C. Lorentzen, '21 doing field work on the alfalfa weevil for Perhaps some of the members who are lack 919 Bloomfield Ave. the United States Department of Agricul ing an address can be found in the Utah Akron, Ohio ture. ... 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Volume VI. NOVEMBER, 1929 Number 2. History Reveals College's Rapid Growth
(Editor's Note- Much of the information contained in Cornick, Salt Lake City ; William N. Brown, Provo; this article was taken from the articles, "Beginnings," Christian F. Olsen, Hyrum : Robert W . Cross, Ogden; and " Substantial Growth of the School" in the 1928 Melvin B. Sowles, Salt Lake City ; John E. Hills, Buzzer. Reprinted with the permission of the editor. ) Provo ; an
shop enjoyed a successful business but Mr. spent several years teaching art in educa uring the past twenty-three years, a Rose finally closed it out to go into the field tional institutions in Utah and North Dakota, number of graduates and former stud D of window trimming. At the present time holding the position of assistant professor of ents of the College have been steadily ad he is rated as one of the best men in this art at the College for one year. During his vancing to the front in the field of art. line of work in central Cali fornia. His last year as professor of art at the North Among those who have, perhaps, become window displays have attracted wide atten Da kota State Normal School he received a most prominent may be listed Herbert M . tion and have been given publicity by San flattering offer from a large dee.orating firm Stoops, Guy B. Rose, H erman Palmer, Fra~cisco and Los Angeles newspapers. in Honolulu, which he accepted. After being Frederick C. Braithewaite, John Huppi with this company for six months he was and Darwin Robison. At least two of these Herman Palmer offered the position of manager, which he 01en are at the present time national figures in erman Palmer, one of the foremost holds at the present time. art circles. Practically all of them took animal draughtmen in America, regis H John Huppi their major work in art while at the College tered at the College September 20, 1910 and under Professor Calvin Fletcher, head of the studied art under Professors Fletcher and ohn Hupp!, a free lance in the commercial art department, who has been connected Powell for two years. He was interested in art field in New York City, was a student with the art department since 1906. J design, but was particularly fond of copying at the College in 1917- J8 . He was born in Herbert M. Stoops the work of Charles Livingston Bull. The Switzerland, and when he came to the Col vital quality of his design and his sureness lege he couldn't speak English. He gradually erbert M . Stoo~s, a noted illustrator .of of drawing made the art professors at the learned the language, but he was somewhat H national magazines, was a familiar College predict unusual success for him. In handicapped in his early work in sign paint figure to early students of the College. Many 1912 he accompanied Professor Fletcher to ing on account of his limited English voca of his sketches may be found in copies of New York where he entered the Art Stud bulary. He was especially clever in flower Student Life and the Buzzer that appeared ents' League as a student. He also did painting and design work. Later he took up just prior to the year 1906. He was a regular work in drawing from animals at landscape painting and became the most student at the College in 1903 , J904 , and the Bronx. He was soon given commissions popular landscape painter at the College. In 1906. In 1906 he went to San Francisco to illustrate books for animal stories. While 1920 he went to San Francisco and became and joined a newspaper syndicate. doing in New York he received several scholar engaged in commercial art service work. layout work and cartooning. Later, he be ships from the Art Students' League, and at After a short stay in California he decided came a member of the staff of the San this time he did some work with Blashfield opportunities in the field of art were more Francisco Examiner and continued to study in mural decorating, but he soon gave it up promising in New York, so he came back to at a night school in the city. He stayed for further animal study. He continued this Logan and spent the summer painting pre with the San Francisco Examiner until the type of work until he had drawn every anim paratory to leaving for the East. His friends outbreak of the War, when he joined the al in all of the zoos in New York. After com arranged an exhibit for him and from the United States army and went to France to pleting this assignment, he went to Europe sales of his paintings he was able to go to engage in camouflage work. While there to continue his drawing of animals in the New York and get started in commercial he met several artists and illustrators who zoos there. About this time, Vanity Fair art. He worked nights at the National had been working in New York, and after reported that he had gone the complete Academy of Design and in the daytime b:> ing released from the arm y, these men rounds of European zoos and had made a worked for different art concerns. At the persuaded him to go to New Yark. Soon sketch of every single inhabitant. In the present time he is doing free lance work in after arriving in the metropolis he was taken department, "We Nominate for the Ha ll of the commercial art field , which is one of the up by the Cosmopolitan magazine and Fame" in V anity Fair, Palmer's work has most exacting things that any artist can be featured. At the present time he has a appeared on numerous occasions. With the confronted with. However, Huppi is doing retainer from the N ew York C entral R.R. exception of Young and Held, he is the only well, despite the fact that he is competing drawing posters, which are recognized as Utah artist who has received this honor. He with the foremost men in free lance com being some of the finest single-sheet posters is rated as one of the greatest, if not the mercial art in America. in the country. He is also doing work for grea test, animal draughtsman in America. a number of magazines. His illustrations M. Dorwin Robison Frederick C. Braithewaite may be seen regularly in the Ladies' Home Darwin Robison, who was graduated Journal, Saturday Evening Post, Good rederick C. Braithewaite, at the present M from the College in 1923, is a success Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan. Ftime manager of a large decorating con ful designer of posters in San Francisco. cern in Honolulu. was graduated from the While at the College, Robison was keenly Guy B. Rose College in 191 8. While at the College he interested in the commercial side of art and uy B. Rose, a prominent window trim majored in art and was especially strong in in teaching. After graduation he became G mer in California, was a student at the the fi eld of design. He was skilled in all head of the art department at Logan high College from J9 08 to 1911. As a student types of commercial art, but was especially school, and developed one of the finest he was particularly interested in newspa per adept as a decorator. He worked hi s way secondary school a rt departments in the illustrating and show card work. Like through College operating a decorating State. He was assistant in the U. S. A . C. Stoops, he contributed many sketches to establishment down town. After being art department for one summer. He attended Student Life. After leaving the College he graduated from the College he enlisted in the California School of Fine Arts in San went to San F rancisco to work for the same the Intelligence Division of the Army as a Francisco for one year, where he received a newspaper syndicate Stoops had formerly sign painter. After the Armistice was signed scholarship from the Art Students' League in been connected with. He severed his con he returned to Uta h and accepted a position New York City where he continued his nection with the syndicate to set up a card as head of the art department at the Branch studies. He later returned to San Francisco and sign-painting ~h0p of his own. The Agricultural College at Cedar City. He to engage in poster work. November, 1929 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY 3 Brigadier General Frank T. Hines AN ALUMNUS WHO IS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES VETERANS' BUREAU
hirty-one years ago, Frank T . Allied Maritime Transport Council at T Hines, a young student at the London in September, 191 8. Again Utah State Agricultural College, inter in January. 1919, he represented the rupted his studies to enlist in the W ar D epartment in adjustment of United States Army. That was in transport matters with allied nations 1898- the year the United States de and negotiated what is known as the clared war against Spain. Today, Reading-Hines Agreement covering that same Frank T . Hines. but with complete settlement for the transporta the title of Brigadier General affixed tion of troops and supplies on British to his name, is director of the United vessels. States V eterans' Bureau. He was appointed brigadier general Interspersed between these twc in the Regular Army, January 7, 1920, dates are a multitude of thrilling in which rank he held until he resigned cidents-and accomplishments as truly on August 31, 1920, to accept an im remarkable as can be found in the portant position in civil life. He was life of any renowned American citizen. appointed Director of the U. S. Enlisting as a private in the Army, Veterans' Bureau, March I. 1923. Brigadier General Hines has literally Brigadier General Hines is a memb risen from the ranks, becoming suc er of the Order of the Bath (British) ; cessively sergeant, first sergeant, sec Order de Leopold (Belgian); an of ond lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, ficer of the Legion of Honor (French); major, lieutenant colonel, colonel and Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan brigadier general in the United States ese) ; and of the War Cross ( Czecho Army. He was appointed brigadier slovakian). He is a brigadier general general in the National Army April in the Officers' Reserve Corps and has 18, 1918, and in the General Army been placed on the initial General January 7, 1920, just twenty-two years Staff Eligible List. after his enlistment. Brigadier General Hines received the It is possible to list here only the L.L.D. degree from U . S. A . C. in most significant honors won by this 1920, and the same degree from Lin veteran soldier during his career in coln Memorial University, Harrogate. FRANK T . HINES. '20 the service of his country. He was Tennessee, in 1927. He is an honor nineteen years old when he left the College was carried out for the American ambassador graduate of the Coast Artillery School. 1904. to enlist in Battery "B'', !st Utah Volunteer at Rome, and in a period of two months and was graduated in the advanced course Artillery. He served in every important Brigadier General Hines succeeded in re of that school in 1911, specializnig in the engagement on the Island of Luzon, and was turning, on ships chartered and fitted out study of Coast Artillery material and forti recommended for the Medal of Honor for at Naples, over 3100 American citizens. He fications. He has become a recognized distinguished services in action against the was then promoted to major, lieutenant authority on these subjects. He is a member Spaniards on the night of July 31-August I. colonel and colonel in the National Army, of the Bonneville Club, Salt Lake City; 1898. He was promoted to the rank of and on August 5. 1917, was detailed on American Society of Mechanical Engineers; sergeant, first sergeant, and was commis duty with the War Departm ent General The Engineer's Club of New York City; sioned a second lieutenant, Utah Light Staff in the office of the Chief of Staff, as Military Order of the World War; The Artillery, March 23, 1899. He was honar Assistant and later as Chief of Embarkation American Legion; Congressional Country ably mustered out of the Federal Service, Service, January 26, 191 8. While Chief of Club of Washington, D. C ., and Temple August 16, 1899. July I , 1901, he was ap Embarkation, he was largely responsible for Noyes Lodge No. 32, F . A . A . M . pointed second lieutenant in the Artillery the development of an organization that Brigadier General Hines was born April Corps, United States Army, and first lieut carried 2.082.000 soldiers safely to Europe I I, 1879, in Salt Lake City. In 1920 he enant December 17, 1904. He was promoted in eighteen months and after the war reutrn married Miss Nellie Vier. The Hines have to the rank of captain in the Coast Artillery ed them in eight months. He was gi en the two children. Mrs. Viera Hines Kennedy and Corps, December 4, 1908. Distinguished Service Medal, War and Navy Frank T . Hines, Jr. In June, 1914, Brigadier General Hines, Departments. for especially meritorious In a letter received by the Alumni Associ then Captain Hines, on a furlough from the service as Chief of Embarkation Service in ation from Brigadier General Hines recently, Army, went abroad for the Bethlehem Steel organizing and administering that service he said: "I am always glad to keep track Corporation as technical adviser on coast during the World War. of all members of the Alumni Association. defenses to the Greek Government. After On April 9, 191 8, Brigadier General Hines Many of them are particular friends and co war was decared in Europe and while re was appointed Chief of the Transportation workers. It is rather significant that the turning to the United States, he was placed Service, U . S. A .. and was appointed briga graduates of U. S. A. C. are found in practi on duty in Southern Italy for the purpose of dier general in the National Army, April cally all walks of life and that many of them returning refugees, montly women and child 18, 191 8. With Secretary of War Baker are outstanding in the vocations they have ren, from that section of Europe. This work he represented the United States at the taken up." THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY November, 1929
enable themselves to attain thei r rightful heritage as college men. This alumnus may well afford to ask himself this question: (ffe Utah c$'tateQuarterlg "What kind of an association ·would ours be If all its members were just like me?"
A PHOTOGRAPH IS RECEIVED
hen Frank T . Hines, '20, was asked to send his photograph Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the Utah W to be used with the article, "Brigader General Frank T. State Agricultural College, Logan, Utah. Entered as second-class Hines" in this number of the Quarterly, General Hines responded matter at the Postoffice, Logan, Utah, under the act of March 3, with a large, well-printed photograph, with the following inscrip 1879. tion in one corner: 'To the Alumni Association, with Best Wishes. Subscription: One dollar a year. Annual dues in the Utah Frank T . Hines, Director, U. S. V eterans' Bureau. 10-29-29." State Agricultural College Alumni Association, $2.00 a year, $1.00 The Alumni Association values this photograph highly. It of which is for a year·s subscription to THE UTAH STATE will be framed and hung in the Alumni office. And while we are QUARTERLY. Life membership, $25.00. Change of address having this done, we are reminded that it is just about the only should be reported promptly to the executive secretary. creditable photograph we have of any of our members. Brigadier General Hines has set a worthy precedent. It is to be hoped that G. P. Barber, '21 ...... Editor and Manager other alumni will follow his example and send their photographs, Ray B. West Jr., '32 ···············-······-··········· Advertising Manager to be carefully preserved for the inspiration of this and future P. V. Cardon, '09 ...... Member Publications Committee generations of Aggie alumni.
OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION A . H. Saxer, ' JO •.•.••..•.•.••.••....•...... President U. S. A. C. GRADUATES G. P. Barber, '21 ...... Executive Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ust at this time, wmle the Alumni Association is engaged iv A . H. Saxer, '10 Vere L. Martineau, ' 12 Jcompiling a directory of its members. and hundreds of infor George R. Hill, Jr., '08 W . D . Porter, '22 mation blanks are being received from alumni, those in charge of Caroline B. Hendricks. '27 the work have come to realize for the first time the extent of the contribution the Utah State Agricultural College has made to Vol. VI NOVEMBER, 1929 No. 2 America. The College will be forty-two years old March 8, 1930. As WHY ? colleges go, it is still a mere infant. Its graduates number only "Letters asking for money are all that I ever receive from the slightly more than 2,000. And yet, in spite of its comparative College," writes an alumnus. youthfulness and the very conserva tive number of its graduates, While this may largely be true, what reason has this alumnus the College has made an enviable record through its alumni. for complaining? It seems to us that he has entirely the wrong The statement, "a college is known by its graduates," is not slant on the work of the Alumni Association and that he forgets a new one. It is probable that the majority of the colleges and that he owes something to his College. universities in America have, at some time or other, used this The Alumni A!'Sociation exists only for the purpose of serv expression. However, this should not deter us from using an ef ing the College and the alumni. These are absolutely its only fective phrase in stating a significant truth. reasons for existence. How can the association be an effective We still have, even in this enlightened day, a few people who instrument for service if it isn't first of all a successful business scoff at the efficacy of education, and pooh pooh the idea that a organization? man can spend four years in college and emerge from the schol A misunderstanding alumnus may think more of money than astic halls any better for the experiment. It is becoming fashion he does of the precious years spent in College; of the friendships able among some rather prominent people to minimize the benefits he made that will stay with him through life, and upon which of higher education. As an object lesson to such people, it would no value can be placed; of the contribution his College made to be interesting to take the records of these 2,000 graduates of the his social, intellectual and financial welfare. College, and compare them with the records of 2,000 average Is there anything illogical or preposterous in the assertion people who never attended college. Even discounting that fact that every graduate of a college should return to the institution that the person who attends college is naturally a superior type what he received from it? And has our alumnus done this? It and would, perhaps, make better use of his time irrespective of cost the state fully four times as much to give him his training as whether or not he went to college, the cause of education would he spent in tuition and fees. Has he returned any appreciable part be vindicated. of this? U . S. A . C. graduates have made good; there is no denying The College is what the alumni make it. Unselfish alumni that fact. The records prove it. In a few cases, they have risen desire for their College whatever may be necessary to make the to positions of national prominence. But it is not of these few College of the greatest service to the State. Happily, the great that we are speaking. We refer to the entire number, taken from majority of our alumni do not regard an organization that exists the slant of the average. Dame Fortune may be expected to smile for the purpose of helping the College as unworthy of their sup on a few. But it is when the mass is considered-when each in port. They do not regard their Alumni Association in the light dividual case is analyzed- that it becomes evident that the Col of a beggar when it reminds them of their obligations. They sup lege. by reason of its faculty, its traditions, its spirit, its physical port the alumni program because they believe that by doing so facilities. or some peculiar undefined asset, or a combination of they can contribute to the development of the College and thus all of these, is producing an unusually high percentage of leaders. November, 1929 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY s A Little Tour In France By Frank R. Arnold
work in animal hunbandry, horticulture and is also held the yearly competition for the ras~us Peterson, ·JO, Winifred Pa~ry, best of the new roses. Sometimes the prize Eex- 25, Blanche Mendenhall Condie, 21, agronomy at ali three but for genuine pro goes to Los Angeles, sometimes to England, Elma Bennion, '24, and Karl Young, '24, all fessional work you will have to visit the sometimes to France. This year it went to have spent more or less time this year in Agronomical Institute at Paris. Paris will Holland. France. Ellen Agren almost went. Many prubably be your headquarters and the first graduates or students of the College have morning you should get up at four and visit A half hour out of Paris to the southwest been offering new spiritual light to the per the market, a roofed in building covering you will find the Ville-Morin seed farm with plexed Parisians. Professor Wanlass, dur several acres, and the streets around it, its acres of blooming flowers, its collection ing his sabbatical year in Europe and Africa which until 8 A. M . are full of merchandise, ot trees, its museum, its 2000 varieties of looked up every College missionary and salesmen and customers. liere is where the wheat as well as experimental plots of every College relative he could run across, early bird gets the worm in the shape of sugar beets, barley and oats. This is only from George Nelson's niece to Aaron bed-rock prices. Hotel keepers, grocers and one of four seed farms belonging to the Newey's brother. President Peterson never housewives are all on the spvt so as not to same firm, for they have one in central meets a certain member of the faculty with be obligec.l to pay the prices demanded by rrance tor seeds of forest trees and one on out expressing the longing wish that Heaven the push-cart salesmen. You will be surprised tne Riviera tor semicropical plants. Further may guide his feet to D enmark. Here at to find ever yone happy and good-natured, on in the same direction you will come upon home the Modern Language department re especially if you have a buying glint in your the famous Rambouillet Hock and a school ports more advanced students in French than eye. All have plenty of time to gossip with for sheep herders and a famous wool mus ever; German classes are almost back to you, for going to market is a social event eum, all under the direction of the most where they were before the War, and the iu thrifty F ranee. courteous man in Europe. An hour beyond Cosmopolitan Club, by means of dinners w bile in Paris you will want to spend l • • • CAMPUS NEw·s Dairy Requests U. S. A. C. Fraternities Exceed Supply Pledge Seventy-six Men. rofessor George B. Caine, head of the dairy department at the even of the eight College fraternities pledged seventy-six men College, reports that more requests are made for men trained P on the fi rst pledge day this year. Sigma Chi. because of infrac in dairy manufacturing than the department is able to fill . Accord S tion of Pan-Hellenic council rules, was not allowed to pledge until ing to Professor Caine, the manufacture of dairy products is in the next pledge day, November 15. creasing so rapidly throughout the country that all schools are having difficulty in supplying the necessary trained men. The de Men pledged by the various fraternities were as follows: Pi partment has been unable to fill eight requests for men that have Kappa Alpha- Herbert Stevens, Joe Rich, Blaine Thatcher, El been made since school closed in June. wood Drysdale, Richard Evans, James McCune, Bruce Whittaker, * • * • • Conrad Harrison, Wyne Sheffield, Gordon Van Buren, Owen Mc Sorority Matron Thinks Donald and Dee Hawkins. Phi Kappa Iota- Uno Engstrom, William Moore, John Anderson, Rulon Sorenson, Ted Bagley, College Girls All Right John Resenberg, Vean Bair and Arthur Welch. Delta Nu-Ole rs. Burton, Sorosis house-mother, is well satisfied with the Hervilla, Euart Swinyard, Sylvan Needham, Warren Starr, Mpresent generation of college girls. In a recent interview, Reuben Hill, Ralph V/anlass, Wesley Williams, Howard Baugh, in which she was asked her opinion of U . S. A. C. girls, Mrs. Russell Hendricks and Frank Fonnesbeck. Omega Tau-Joseph Burton said; "The girls as I know them have very high ideals and Shelton, David Evans, Kenneth Higgens, Leon Cardon, Leo good, clean habits. They are tidy with their rooms as well as their Hawkes, Kenneth Crockett, Olean Hulck, Elmer Vimmes, Stanley persons. They are hard workers, all united and willing to help Jones, Arthur Stevens, John Williams and Davis McEntire. Delta each other. I have not known them to be quarrelsome or dis Kappa Phi-William Anderson, Howard Farnsworth, Frank Cazier, agreeable at all. They seem to sense responsibility and have a John Barnard, George Anderson, John Larsen, Lemar Larsen, high opinion for a "real good sport." Gardner Egbert, Kenneth Fowler, James Mordy, Merlin Stock, ..... Jack Winn, Joseph Harris, Conrad Schaub, Percy Burrup, Edward Graduates Hold Experiment Hakkinen, Lynden Laird, Ned Marksheffel, James W allentine and Station Awards Clarence Thatcher. Alpha Delta Epsilon- Delores Harris, Claude Pratt, Emrald Moody, Miles Bowen, Don Nebeker, Gardner hree 1929 graduates of the College and one 1927 graduate are Kimball, Taft Paxton and Evan Christiansen. Alpha Gamma Phi Tholding research fellowships in the Utah Agricultural Experi - Fred Phillips, Rodney Kimball, Owen D espain, Parker Hall, ment Station program for this year. They are W . W. Stuart, '29, Asel Strong and Dean Johnson. in plant pathology; George- Henderson, '29, in animal husbandry; and Alden Lillywhite, '28, in rural sociology. These fellowships ••••• of $500 each are awarded annually to qualified students in different research departments of the Experiment Station. Professor Vickers Collaborates Clarence Burnham, '29, ls holding the Barrett company fel in Writing Book on Bible lowship in the Experiment Station, which provides $1000 a year for three years to cover research with commercial fertilizers, allace J. Vickers, ' 12, associate professor of English at the particularly ammonium sulphate. W College, is author with Dr. Henry David Gray, professor ••••• of English at Stanford University, of a new book on Bible liter Animal Disease Laboratory ature, which is being published by McMillan Co. and will be off Added to College Campus the press in a short time. The book, entitled, "Selections from Old Testament Literature," is a compilation of choice selections he Utah Building Commission let the contract early in October of Bible literature. Tfor the construction of an addition to the V eterinary Clinic • • • * • to house an animal disease laboratory. This will provide the Col lege with facilities for studying and aiding in the control of dis eases that annually cause losses to stockmen totalling hundreds of Fathers and Mothers thousands of dollars. Visit Campus The last Legislature appropriated $25,000 for this building, of which $10,000 was to cover the cost of construction, $5 ,000 athers' and Mothers' Day at the College was November I. On the cost of equipment, and $10,000 the cost of operation during Fthat day a bout 350 parents of students visited the campus, at the biennium ending July l, 1931. tended classes and inspected laboratories, buildings and points of * •••• interest about the campus. College Professor is The visitors registered from 8 to 11 A. M . From 10:30 to 12 Authority on Aphids o'clock they visited the horticultural show in the Smart gymnasium and at I :00 P . M . attended a general assembly for parents and eorge F. Knowlton, '23, assistant entomologist at the College, students in the College chapel. A reception for the parents in the Gr ecently released a paper on aphids. Mr. Knowlton is a re library occupied the hours from 3:30 to 5:00, and the play, "Nowa cognized authority on Utah aphids, this being the fifteenth paper days," under the direction of Prof. Chester J. Myers, and present he has published on the subject. He has one of the three largest ed in the Capitol theatre, concluded the day's program. Dr. James collections of aphids in the West. There are seven thousand H. Linford was chairman of the committee that had charge of the slides in his collection. program. .November, 1929 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY 7 BRIEFLY TOLD • • • Horticultural Show Science Academy Attracts Much Attention Meets at College tudents in horticulture at the College, under the direction of he Utah Academy of Science met November 8 and 9 at the SProf. F. M. Coe, professor of horticulture, held their second T College. Dr. Willard Gardner, professor of physics at the annual horticultural show in the Smart gymnasium October 31 College, and the president of the Academy, was in charge of the to November 2. An apple display was the feature of the show. meetings, which began the evening of the 8th and continued to Every use and care of apples was treated during the course of the the afternoon and evening of the 9th. The Academy was organiz.. exhibit. Packing and judging contests were conducted and prizes eel in April 3, 1903, to promote investigation and diffuse knowledge awarded. An exhibit of canned fruits and vegetables attracted in all branches of science. Its work is carried on by correspond much favorable comment. The committee in charge of this exhibit ence, addresses and discussions, and by the publication of sum included Roma Hansen, Brigham City, chairman; Blanche Larsen, maries of papers and discussions. Members of the College faculty Mt. Pleasant, and Frances V ernon, Logan. The Spurs, College who gave papers during the session included Dr. W. L. Wanlass, pep club, sold cider, pie and apples during the show. dean of the School of Commerce; Dr. 0 . W. Israelson, professor * * * * * of irrigation and drainage; Dr. D. S. Jennings, in charge, soils in Younger Generation have Cavalier vestigations, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station; Dr. F. B. Spirit, Says Vachel Lindsay Wann, associate professor of plant physiology; Prof. George F . Knowlton, assistant entomologist, Utah Agricultural Experiment "Down with Babittry," is the battle cry of the students and Station; Dr. H. J. Pack, professor of entomology; Dr. B. L. younger professors in American colleges, says Student Life, Richards, professor of botany and plant pathology; Dr. R. L. Hill, College weekly, quoting Vahel Lindsay in the November College professor of chemistry, Prof. A . C. Merrill, assistant professor of Humor. "They believe in freedom in choice of religion more than dairy manufacturing and Prof. Reed Bailey, assistant professor any other group of citizens in the United States," continues the of geology. article. "And they hate above all the caste system, temporarily ••• * * created by Babitt, which puts the business man above the artist in every field of life . . . . They are not Cavaliers in the sense in Senior Has Article in which Cavaliers of old England fought Cromwell and Milton. Japanese Magazine Quite the contrary. If a Cromwell or a Milton should appear, rthur Marble, a senior at the College, recently received a they would follow him and sing with him to the death. They hate Japanese magazine from Tokio in which a reprint of one of the little cowards and will follow the bold and gallant spirits A his articles taken from the "Movie Makers Magazine" was printed wherever they find them. And they are brilliant, dashing, decora in native Japanese language. This is probably the first time that tive, always on horseback in imagination, and in that sense they are Cavaliers." a U. S. A. C. student has been thus honored. Mr. Marble is a regular contributor to "Movie Makers'', and at the present time * .. * * * is editing a department in "The Photo-Era Magazine," Salt Lake Tribune .. * • * * Gives A. C. Scoreboard College Artists Win he Salt Lake Tribune presented the College with a scoreboard State Prizes Tsimilar to the one given the University of Utah and Brigham Young University at the game with Colorado College, November owell Rosenbaum and Hugh Tippetts, student artists at the 2. It was operated for the first time during that game, and enabled H Utah State Agricultural College, won prizes for their paintings spectators to follow the plays with ease and certainty. Four men at the Utah State Fair. Rosenbaum won a first prize for the most are required to operate it. The scoreboard has been placed at the advanced painting of the modern school and Tippetts for his north end of the stadium, the best vantage position from the stand painting exemplifying the most artistic composition. point of those watching the game. • * * * * * * • • * College Officials Utah Station Making Attend Chicago Meeting Poultry Survey resident E. G. Peterson, Directors William Peterson and P. V . n economic study of the poultry industry in Utah is being PCardon and Prof. Ray B. W est left Ogden November 9th for A conducted by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, co Chicago, where they will attend the annual convention of the operating with the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Land Grant College Association. The convention Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Marketing Association and is held each year to discuss problems and conditions of all Land the poultry prcducers of the state. Professor W. P. Thomas, Grant colleges in the United States. agricultural economist at the College, has general charge of the * • • * • survey. Cooperating with him are J. J. Scanlan of the division of cooperative marketing of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econo Denver University Students mics, Nephtune Fogelberg, '27, and Marion Clawson. Mr. Fogel Engage in "Beard Race" berg has spent a year in graduate study in the graduate school of ometime ago, men of Denver University voted a strike against business administration at Harvard and is now employed by the Sshavmg until the D . U. team wins a football game. The girls United States D epartment of Agriculture. According to Professor placed a ban on using cosmetics. A charge of professionalism Thomas, the study wilJ cover the entire range of the poultry was lodged against Ed. Haynes, winner in the whisker-raising industry in the state, from the econmy of Bock management to the race by a freshman, who claimed he used hair tonic to spur his marketing of poultry products. beard on to greater growth. 8 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY November, 1929 AGGIES WIN FROM BOBCATS, WYOMING AND COLORADO COLLEGE Colorado Aggies Jinx Persists and B. Y. U. Takes Close Game-Hard Schedule and Injuries Hurt Team's Chances-Denver U. Game Nov. 16. team's only touchdown in the third quarter SALT LAKE ALUMNI ROCKY M OUNTAIN CONFERENCE and the Aggies scored their points on a CHAPTER ANNOUNCES Team Standing series of line bucks by Gillespie in the first Pts. w. L. T . quarter and a sixty-yard run by Co-captain TURKEY DAY RALLY Utah University ...... 4 0 0 1.000 Jensen for a touchdown in the third period . Colorado Aggies ...... 4 2 0 .667 Earl "Dutch" Clark, the brilliant All John A. Alder, ·I 2, president of the Salt .667 Denver University ---· 2 1 American Colorado College hafback, was Lake Chapter of the Alumni Association, .667 Montana State ...... 2 0 unable to stop a fighting Aggie team on announces that the Salt Lake grads are ar Colorado University .... 2 1 .667 November 2, and the Aggie surprised a muti ranging for a meeting of Salt Lake Aggies Utah Aggies ------···· 3 2 0 .600 tude of football fans by winning, 10 to 0. Monday night, November 25, and a rally Brigham Young U ..... 3 2 0 .600 Clark gave a large crowd in the Aggie for all Aggie football fans the day of the .600 Colorado Teachers .... 3 2 0 Stadium numerous thrills by his sensational game with the University of Utah, which. Colorado College ...... 2 2 0 .500 end runs, his kicking and passing, and his as even the most chronically absent-minded Montana Mines ------I 4 0 .200 cool generalship, but he lacked the necessary remember, is on Thanksgiving Day. For Western States ------0 4 0 .000 support from his team mates. Eleven re several years these rallies of the Salt Lake Wyoming University .... 0 5 0 .000 juvenated Aggies, smarting under a defeat Chapter have been a unique feature of at the hands of Brigham Young the week Alumni activity and it is safe to say that he 1929 Utah Aggies football team, before, were not to be denied and team they have been an important factor in send T concerning whose chances pre-season work won. ing the team into the game with the fight forecasts were gloomy, has, despite the stif B. Y. U. Wins for First Time and determination that have accounted for fest schedule in years and a long string ot For the first time in Aggie-Cougar football a number of glorious Aggie victories over injuries to regular players, won three games history, Brigham Young won a football game the Utes. · by healthy margins, lost one by the merest from the Aggies, October 16, at Lorin Farr This year the Salt Lake bunch has plan chance and dropped another by a 6 to 7 score Park in Ogden. Dick Romney's men played ned a number of features that have never to one of the strongest teams in the con a brand of football that was clearly superior been included in previous events of the ference. This record demonstrates the come to the Y's game, but were unable to ward kind. These include an Aggie frolic over back qualities of Romney-coached teams. off a fast overhead attack in the final quart KSL Wednesday night, November 27, be An operation late in the summer kept Call, er and lost a heart-breaking battle to the ginning at 11 o'clock, and a "breakfast" Aggie quarterback, passer, punter and scoring Provo team by a 7 to 6 score. Though the rall y at the Newhouse Hotel that will start ace, from hitting his accustomed stride in Aggies had numerous chances to score, and promptly at 11 :00 A . M . the day of the the early games. Joe Day, a regular tackle, it appeared almost miraculous that they game. It is planned to have the students of suffered an injury to his knee in the B. Y. didn't, a lack of punch at opportune times the College and the U. S. A . C. band on U . game that kept him out of the Colorado cost them the ga me hand to participate in a short, snappy rally. College and Colorado Aggie games. To top Colorado Aggies Win, 7 to 6. The members of the Salt Lake Chapter will this off, Gardner, veteran center, who had The Aggies lost to their traditional rival. be there with decorations for all cars, and never been out of a game since becoming Colorado Aggies, November 1. The game these cars, bedecked in blue and white, will a member of the varsity team, also fell heir was played in the Stadium , and drew a crowd parade to the Ute Stadium. Transportation to a knee injury that put him on the bench estimated at 6500 people. Coach Romney's will be arranged for students who haven't during part of the C. C. struggle and the team was unable to break the jinx that has automobiles. entire game with Colorado Aggies. Berge pursued the Aggies for three years, and the son, co-captain and guard, has also had a Coloradoans won by the same score as last · In previous years, the rally has been held very poor season due to an operation. year, 7 to 6. History repeated itself. also. a t the Newhouse Hotel the night before the Montana State, Wyoming, C. C., Fall when the Aggies missed the goal after touch ga me. This plan has been discarded in. The first game of the season was with down that would have given them a tie. A favor of the rally the day of the game, and Montana State College at Bozeman, Oct. 5. similar fai lu re accounted for their defeat the meeting of Salt Lake Aggies several This game the Aggies won handily by a last year. days before, which. as has already been 9 to 0 score. This was the first time the Two Games Left on Schedule stated, is on Monday, November 25. This Romney charges had held the Bobcats score The Aggies have two games to play be meeting will be held at the Marion-Lois less in three years. The Aggies scored their fore the 1929 season closes. The first is Party House, 875 East I st South, Salt Lake points on a safety and touchdown in the with Denver University on the 16th and the City. There will be a program and re third quarter. ' second is the big Thanksgiving Day classic freshments in charge of Mildred Forgeon The Farmers played Wyoming at Larami e with the University. of Utah. The Ministers Rich, '06. Vincent A. Sadler, ' 10. who is October 26 and took a close game from the stand higher in the percentage column than chairman of the committee on decorations Cowboys, 12 to 7. The Wyoming team, the Aggies. and are ra\ed a formidable eleven. for the rally, will be at the meeting with a fighting to win in order to save footba ll from The game will be played in Denver. Con block of tickets in a choice section of the being dropped from the athletic roster at the cerning the annual fray with the Utes, the stadium for Salt Lake alumni. An effort institution, played a desperate, determined following page is given over to a discussion will be made to notify all alumni living in game. Thompson of Wyoming scored his of the respective teams' chances. Salt Lake county of this meeting. November, 1929 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY 9 Utah Has Edge In Thanksgiving Fray But Romney's Team May Spring Surprise By Milt Merrill, '25 THE GAME OF GAMES ow comes that day- the day of days-when N every single Aggie prays for Lady Luck to camp, upon the trail of the Blue and give the Ags a goal or two more than the last year's champs. From Fillmore and from Ephraim, from Ogden and from Farmington the Aggie cohorts come; from Idaho, Virginia, D el. and several other states as well they're coming on the run. They'll bring their pen nants and their horns, and streamers every Liz adorns as Aggie forces swell; they've got a yellbook in their grips, they've got an axe upon their hips to give old Utah h--. There's naught can keep an Aggie tied to any family fireside when Turkey Day rolls ·round; for when his gridders meet the Lites he must be there to utter whoops and war-like paeans sound. He'll whack spectators on the back, alas, alas and yea, alack, he'll ruin his noble voice; what matter if he's getting old, what matter if the weather's cold, he'll make a lot of noise. For neither luck's adversity, nor fickle weather's perversity can daunt the Aggie grad; he'll stand behind the Big Blue Team in pro sperous times as well as lean and give it all he has. And if the crimson-sweatered Ute should hap to make ~ the pigskin coup he'll take it standing up1 he'll say. .=::~ u(~:::: : .;;'•'•'\ 'Though Utah swept the deck, we surely made 'em play, by heck. next year we'll win the cup."-From .n:,;i~Vif.J ···::······· 0 -:::,. ~"~~ Reuben's Rimes. Co-captains Bergeson and Jensen ootball devotees are already picking the touchdowns ahead of every other conference jury has turned up at crucial moments. Fwinner of the annual Thanksgiving Day eleven. Fortunately the substitutes who have had frolic between Utah State A11gies and the Coach Armstrong also has an abundance their chance after regulars went out of the University of Utah. And this year the of reserve material. An injury doesn't mean game, have come through in brilliant fash chorus is unanimous and the only important a thing as far as the team play is concerned. ion. Never before have second and third question seems to be the size of the score. The backfield is so good that big "Pete" Dow team men had such an opportunity, and According to all reports, and this includes a form.er all-conference halfback. spends most they have handled the chance beautifully. several eye witnesses, Utah University has of his time gazing at his team mates from The Utah Aggie backfield is one of the a wonder team. No less an authority than the bench. Utah has speed, power, versati best quartets to play for the Aggies in many C. L. Parsons of the Denver Post has said lity, individual greatness, and abundant years. The five leading men, Joe Call. that no team in this conference can hold the reserve material and combined with good Dan Gillespie, Clive Remund, Odell Thomp rampaging Lites to a score of less than three coaching there is little left to ask for. son and Golden Welch have worked togeth touchdowns. And very few Utah Aggie There have been years in the pq,st, how er very well and they will cause Utah followers are likely to question his judgment ever, when the annual game was handed trouble. Remund and Gillespie can crack right now at least. over to Utah by the dopesters only to be the line and Call and Welch are very ver Certainly all the proverbial dope points taken back by Coach Dick Romney and satile and extremely agile runners in the toward a Utah victory. Coach Ike Arm eleven or more desperately-fighting Farmers. open fiield. Both of them can pass or kick. strong has practically the same team back Even though it appears impossible, some Thompson is a good blocker, interference this season that won the conference cham such thing might happen again. At any rate man and tackler. This backfield should give pionship last year. He lost Alton Carmen. the prediction is ventured that Coach Dick a fine performance on Thanksgiving. tackle, Pete Couch, back, and one end, but Romney's Aggies will make a football game The principal question about the Aggies' the men who are filling the places left vacant out of the annual classic. chances concerns the line. Should all the look just as good or better, and the entire The Farmer coach has built one of his regulars be in condition. Coach Romney team seems to be responding in splendid fash best teams this season regardless of what will be able to put a forward wall of ordin ion. Unquestionably Utah is one of the best happens from now on. He has to do it ary strength on the field against Utah. He teams ever to play in the conference. At very largely with green material. and to will be handicapped by lack of capable the start of the season they were several make the situation even more difficult. in- (Cont.iuned on Page H.) 10 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY November, 1929 Moses F. Cowley, '19 , SECRETARY'S REPORT Emil Hansen, College LISTS RECOMMEND ATIO NS Landscape Gardener, Dies Dies in Washington, D.C. During the summer, the executive secretary of the Alumni Association visited a number Emil Hansen, landscape gardening speci Mose Foss Cowley, '19, a prominent of colleges and universities in the W est and a list at the College since 1913, di ed October alumnus of the College and son of Mr. and made a rather careful investigation of 24th at his home in Logan, following a Mrs. Mathias F. Cowley of Salt Lake, died alumni activities in these schools. After prolonged illness. November 7 in a Washington, D. C.. hospi returning from the trip, he issued a report, Mr. Hansen, in addition to superv1smg tal of acute nephritis. At the time of his which among other things, contained a landscape work at the College, which has death he was a member of the fed eral trade number of recommendations for future made the campus one of the most beautiful commission and was also attending George alumni work at the College. The recom of western college campuses, was instru Washington University. mendations that it is thought will be of mental as extension landscape specialist, greatest interest to alumni are: Mr. Cowley was a brother-in-law of E . in planning and carrying out beautification B. Brossard and a brother of Leona Cowley That the Library Fund campaign be con programs in practically all of Cache county's O lsen, Laura Cowley Brossard, Samuel P. ducted in the future substantially as it is communities as well as other cities in Utah. Cowley, Elna Cowley Austin and C. Gloyd being conducted at present, with the fo l Among his principal achievements in Cache Cowley, all graduates of the Utah State lowing two modifica tions: county were the improvement of the taber A gricultural College. Joseph F . Cowley, 1. That a committee of say twenty-fi ve nacle grounds and parkings in both Smithfield another brother, is a senior student at the members be appointed to constitute the and Wellsville; Logan tabernacle square. College. Utah State Agricultural College Library and the beautification of the Lewiston ce~e Endow ment Fund Committee, and that these tery. Mr. Cowley was born O ctober 12, 1892, members be prominent alumni and citizens His work received national recognition in Preston, Idaho. He attended the Utah of the State and the United States, and that when Russell Lord, editor of Farm and State Agricultural College for four years, the present members of the Library Fund Fireside, w rote an article in the magazine graduating in 1919. He was a member of Executive Committee be members of the describing M r. Hansen as "'The Mormon Sigma Chi, Scabbard and Blade, and committee in their present capacity of an landscape a rtist who uses the state of Utah numerous clubs. He was also a member of Executive Committee. for his canvas."' the College debating team for two years, 2. That from three to fi ve members be Mr. Hansen was born in Nestved, Den and won the Hendricks and the Sons of the added to the Executive Committee and that mark, February 9, 1876. He married American Revolution medals, and was also the committee be then incorporated to re Johanna Knudsen, March 17 , 190 I. and im active in student body affairs, serving as ceive funds paid into the Fund, and that the migrated to the United States in June of vice president of the student body and new members be alunmi or friends of the 1904. He worked in Salt Lake and Portland, member of the executive committee. College who have an intimate knowledge of Oregon until 1913 when he received a posi After leaving school, Mr. Cowley enlisted investment procedure. tion at the College. with the officers training camp at the Presi That a special effort be made to secure Surviving him are hi s widow and a dio, where he rose to the rank of captain. the fu ll $100,000 in pledges by Commence brother, William Hansen, of Evanston, Ill. He was with the Army of Occupation at ment. 1930. Funeral services were held in the Fourth Coblenz, Germany, and a fter returning to That the Alumni Association make an ward chapel O ctober 26th. the United States became instructor in mili effort to become self-supporting as soon as -0--- tary science and tactics at Pennsylvania possible. State College, remaining for two years. He That the name of the alumni magazine be that a constant effort be made to educate then went to Fort Benning, Ga .. and later changed from THE U. A . C. ALUMNI our alumni in the importance and necessity to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. He left the QUARTERLY to the UTAH STATE of supporting and developing the College in Army last May . H e at one time served QUARTERLY; that the magazine be en financial and other ways. the L. D . S. church for four years as a larged and several pages of advertising be That, beginning in the fall of 1930, a missionary in Hawaii. added, and that the magazine be published Homecoming of alumni be held at the time monthly as soon as possible. of some important home football game, and In addition to his parents, Mr. Cowley That local alumni clubs be established at that the Student Body be asked to cooperate is survived by the following brothers and logical points in the State and the United in an active way with the Alumni Associa sisters: Mrs. A . E . Harker, Salt Lake; Mrs. States as rapidly as possible. tion in putting on the program. J. W. Olsen, Richfield; Mrs. E. B. Brossard, That alumni be encouraged to become li fe That after the Library Fund campaign is Washington, D . C; Dr. W. H yde Cowley members of the Alumni Association by pay completed, members of the senior class be and Matthew Cowley, Salt Lake; Samuel ing the life membership fee of $25 in a lump urged to pay their membership dues before P . Cowley, Los Angeles; Mrs. John Dame, sum, or by paying $5 a year for fi ve years: leaving the College. or to sign pledges Salt Lake; Mrs. Elna P. Austin, Los Angeles; and that the funds paid in as life memberships promising payment at a later date in the C . Gloyd Cowley and Mrs. Lois Gilchrist, be either used as a students' loan fund or year, and that the class effect a permanent Salt Lake; Joseph F . Cowley, Logan, and invested by some reliable trust company, the organization before leaving the ca mpus, Loujs J>ll. Cowley, Salt Lake. The body interest to be used in meeting the current with a president and secretary as class of expenses of the association. ficers. was brought to Salt Lake for interment by That feelings of love, gratitude, loyalty That the Alumni Association become a Mr. Cowley's brother-in-law, E. B. Brossard, and enthusiasm for the College be constant more active social body, and that it make a member of the United States T ariff Com- ly fostered among our alumni by means of service to its members one of its paramount mission. frequent literature and personal contacts, and objects. November, 1929 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY 11 +-. ·· - ·· - ··-··-·· - ·· - ·· - ·· -·-·· - ·· - ·· - ··- ··-··-··- ·· -·· -·· - ~ +I + - ·· - ·· - · -··- · - ·· -·-·-·-"-·-·-·-·---· ~·-·- --·•+ I CLASS NEWS i I ! I 11th Annual + · - · · - ·· - ·· -· · - ·· -··- ·· - · -··- ·· -··-·· - · -· · -··- ~ · -··-·· -·· - + i i 1896 i Ogden Livestock Show Dr. Amos N. Merrill, professor of secondary education at the i Brigham Young University at Provo, was elected president of the Coliseum, Ogden , Utah. Utah Education Association at the general session of the associa i tion October 18. JANUARY 11. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 1930 1899 William Peterson, director of the Extension Service of the I I $20,000 offered in Premiums Utah State Agricultural College, was recently appointed by i I President Hoover a member of his commission for conservation iFAT AND FEEDER PUREBRED and administra tion of the public domain. CATTLE SALES CATTLE SALES I 1903 l Fred D . Pyle is engineer for the Bureau of W ater Develop i I ment, City of San Diego, Calif. His addres:s is 212 Pacific Blvd., j Poultry and Seed Exhibit in Connection San Diego. i JwHERE THE CHAMPI O N S MEE T 1910 0 . G. Lloyd's present address is 1306 Vilas avenue. Madison, I Wisconsin. Professor Lloyd is head of the farm management de ! Write Secretary pi:lrtment at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. i i For Premium List or Information. 1911 i A. C. Cooley, senior agriculturist of the United States Depart l ment of Agriculture, in charge of the Salt Lake office on reclama +·- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ·--··--- .. -··-·--·--,- - - - ... tion demonstration, left October 11 for Washington, D . C ., to serve +. - · · · - · · - · · - ·· - i: " -··- ·-·-··-··- ~· - ·· - ·· -·-··-·-··-·----+t on a committee appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to investigate special reports on western reclamation projects. U S L Sparton Radio 1 B~t:er;es J 1913 Miss Mary L. Bastow has charge of the art department at the Branch A . C . at Cedar City. l C. Y. Cannon, professor of animal husbandry at Brigham i Young University, has been appointed head of the dairy husb i andry section at Iowa State College at Ames, according to an announcement in the November 10 issue of Hoard's Dairyman. Professor Cannon was granted a doctor's deg ree at Ames last year. He will take up his new duties at Iowa State College January I. I J. J. Edwards i Elmer E. Jonsson is lighting specialist for the General Electric i Supply Corporation, Salt Lake City. His address is 73 H street. I Harold J. Stearns has held the position of principal of the ! AUTOMOTIVE ~ RADIO Roosevelt Junior high school, Salt Lake City. for a number of years. His home address is 1203 East 17th South. I ELECTRICIANS 1914 I O swald Christensen is head of the physics department at I Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho. He received his M. S. degree in i physics from the College last commencement. I John S. Christensen is general manager of the Cedar Finance I Co.. Cedar City, Utah. l i Charles F. Martineau, Jr. is a forest ranger, Helena Nationa l Phone 330 1st West and Center Forest. His address is Canton. Montana. I Ernest T. Young is practicing law in Logan. '+ --.-..·-··-·-··-··-··-·-··-··-·-..-.,-..--.....-- - - 12 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY November, 1929 ------,---·-----·-·-·-··-·+ 1916 Mrs. Anna Taylor Caine's address is 2218 Donald street, Ames, Iowa. Her husband is Allred B. Caine, ' 14, who is associate professor and chief in horse investigations, department of animal I husbandry, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Mrs. Mirl Anderson Dahlstrom is li ving in Parma, Idaho. H er Special Rates on husband is Frank Dahlstrom. Ward R. McAlister is manager of the National Service Cor poration, with headquarters in the Mcintyre Building, Salt Lake. His home address is 1072 Yale avenue. U. I. C Ij Edward N . Morris has changed his address. He is now located in Bakersfield, California. He is office manager and credit man for the Western States Grocery Co. Railroad 1917 I Ezra F. Richards, Jr. is principal of the Grantsville schools at For the Thanksgiving i Grantsville, Utah. 1918 Mrs. Emma B. Sorenson is teaching home economics at Snow College, Ephraim. Game 'j 'j 1919 David A. Burgoyne is secretary to the director, Utah Agricul tural Experiment Station. His wife, formerly Allie Peterson, '26, I i is secretary to the registrar of the College. E . Stanley L. Prescott was a visitor on the Campus in +--·-·- ··-··-··-··--·-··- ··-··-·- ··-··- ··- ··-··-·-···-··-+ September. He is a supervisor for Haskins and Sells, one of the ' I largest accounting firms in the world. He plans to go to Europe +-··- ··- ··- ··- ··-··-··-J-··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··- ··-·+ in March to establish some new agencies for the company. I b ; D. W. HESS & SONS f 1920 Wholesale and Retail i Laura Cowley Brossard, whose address is 2633 15 St., N . W., W ashington, D. C., is an economist in the Bureau of Home Eco TOBACCOS. CIGARS, GUM ~ CANDY nomics, U. S. D . A ., as well as a home-maker. Last year she was a graduate student at the American University, Washington, D. C., and at Chicago University. l CAPITOL GROCERY 1921 i j FOODS OF QUALITY AND TASTE Emma K. Laub is secretary-treasurer of the C ache Valley E lectric Co., Logan. Her home address is 179 East 5th North St. i Phone 148 31 North Main i : R. Leo Rallison is salesmen supervisor with the Utah Woolen T ! + • - •• -• • -•- •• - •• - •• - •• - •• - •• - •• - •1 - J1 - 1 c - 11 - 1 :t - ~• - •• - •• -•• - + Mills, Salt Lake City. His address is Coalville, Utah. 1923 +-1r - 11-111- 11- 1N- 11- 11- 1P- 11- 11- 111 - 11- 11- 11- 11- 11- 11- 111- 11- 1 + I Mrs. Edna Crowther Ririe finds time to teach voice and piano as well as play the roles of wife and mother. She is living I J. P. Smith & Son a t 2670 Monroe avenue, Ogden, Utah. i OUR CHRISTMAS CARDS Dr. Thomas G. Sutherland opened medical offices in Seattle i in July. He was formerl y practicing in C enteralia, Washington. J Priced as low as 24 for $ J .00 printed His present address is 2313-24 A ve. No .. Seattle, Washington. l 1924 i SEE THEM-EVERY CARD A I WORK OF ART Kimball J. Cranney is assistant credit manager for Bishop & I Co., Los Angeles, California. His address is 409 South Alvarado St., Los Angeles. i Sou th Side Federal Ave 0. Cyril Hammond is assistant cashier of the First National +J1 -•-··-··-··-·-··-·--1-111-e•-·-·-··-··-··-·--·-·--·-.+ Bank, Ogden, Utah. November, 1929 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY 13 Ira N . Hayward, who is head of the department of public Maude McClellan is assistant to the head of the nursery at i;peaking and dramatic art at the Branch Agricultural College at Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan. Cedar City. had an interesting article co.1cerning "Strindberg's In Alton H. Saxer is stuc!ying medicine at the University of fluence on Eugene O 'Neill" in a recent number of "Poet Lore," a Utah. His address is 447 Pugsley avenue. Boston magazine devoted to world literature and the drama. Ivy L. Smith may be found at Richmond, Utah. She is Mr. Hayward was the author of the prize-winning play in te<1ching domestic science at the North Cache high school. the last M. I. A. contest. Theron Smart, Vosco Call, Glen Worthington, Ellis Wade, and Nathan Greene, all members of last year's football team, are 1925 coaching this year. Smart is assistant coach at U. S. A . C., Call is coaching in Nevada, Worthington is athletic mentor at Cyprus Harvey A. Kirk is district salesman for the Ralston Purina high school in Salt Lake, W ade is coach at Monroe high school, company. He li ves at 79 South Third West in Logan. and Greene has a coaching position in the state of Washington. Byron J. Smith is superintendent of scliools, Whitney, Idaho. t-··-I ··- ··- ·- ··- ··- ·-··-··-··-·-·-··- ·--·-·--·-·+. Henry H. Webster is farming at Cedar City, Utah. Let George Do It! Do What? 1926 I Your Myron T. Hansen is farming at Collinston, Utah. I CLEANING - PRESSING - REPAIRING 1927 and HEMSTITCHING Asael T. Hansen is instructor in sociology, University of Wis consin, Madison, Wisconsin. What For? Fred De Bois Hogan may be addressed at 409 So. Alvarado street, Los Angeles, California. He is credit manager for the I YOUR APPEARANCE SAKE Weber Showcase and Fixture Co., Inc. His wife was formerly Alida Clayton, a graduate of 1926. I David G. Hurren and Cyril Monson have registered in the ! Squires Cleaners & Tailors graduate scliool of business administration at Stanford University. ! ii' 126 North Main LOGAN Phone 171 Ernest R. Lee is state cashier for the Mountain States Tele I phone and Telegraph company, Salt Lake City. His address is i DID GEORGE DO IT? 56 South State street. +·- ·-·-··-·-·-·-·-·-·-··-·-·-·-··--·------+ Miss Arla B. McKinnon's address is Evanston, Wyoming. T-••- ••- u- •- c•- ••- ••-•-•-•-1•-•-·-·-·-·- ·-·---+ She is home demonstration agent, University of Wyoming Exten sion Service, in Uinta County, Wyoming. Miss Elizabeth D. Shaw is secretary of Weber College. Her You will find address is 1447 Washington avenue, Ogden. Ii Claude E. Zobell, M. S., 29, instructor in bacteriology and NEXT YEAR'S RADIO-NOW! physiological chemistry at the College last year, who is doing i advanced work toward the Ph. D . degree in the Hooper Foundation i for Experinlental Medicine of the University of California, was i m the elected a member of the Pasteur Society of California recently. The organization is strictly honorary, membership being limited to I workers in the medical sciences. I i New Spartan 1928 I L. Dean Christenson holds the position of entomologist with ! Equasonne the Tropical Researcli Foundation of Cuba. His address is Central Baraguay, Cameguey, Cuba. I Henry H. Rampton is deputy agricultural inspector in Salt i Lake County. His address is Bountiful, Utah. I 1929 Berdean W. Balls is coaching at Piute high school, Circle I ville, Utah. i Company 1 Cyrus W. Greaves left for England in October to serve as a l missionary for the L. D . S. church for two years. t I LOGAN, UTAH I Miss Rita Hill is teaching at North Sevier high scliool, Salina. Miss Marjorie Lamm is a student of voice in Denver. Her ~l ______l address is 2215 Jackson street, Golden, Colo. 14 THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY November, 1929 years. The physical equipment has been A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE. increased many times by the judicious ap (Continued from Page 5.) MARRIAGES plication of the funds at hand. There are yard so that Utah will equal France in back- now eight imposing major buildings on the 1 ard domesticity and perhaps you too will campus. These include the Main Building. Benson-Lee-Miss Donna Benson and have the same feeling if you visit the vine the Animal Industry Building, the Plant Lawrence Lee were married October 2 in yards around Bordeaux or Dijon. You Industry Building, the Engineering Building, the Logan temple. Miss Benson is a gradu surely will if you call on any Frenchman Widtsoe Hall , the Home Economics Build ate of U. S. A. C. Mr. and Mrs. Lee are and he takes you into his holy of holies, ing, the Mechanic Arts Building and the living in Los Angeles. his back yard, and lets you see the ancient Gymnasium. In addition there are the grapevine is as respected as a grandfather. Durrant-Sorenson-Miss Donna Durrant, small er buildings. such as the Home Eco Roses, sheep, horses, wheat, the French daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Durrant of nomics Cottage, the Veterinary Clinic man will tell you any fool can produce. but Provo and Wesley J. Sorenson of Logan Building, the greenhouses, the Extension it takes a wise man to sell them. You will were married early in October. Mr. Soren Division Building, heating plant, the stadium surely want to get the business side of farm son is a graduate of the College and is a field house, machine and truck sheds, and ing and to do this you must plan to visit member of Sigma Chi. Miss Durrant is a the numerous barns. The last legislature, some large estate where the owner will ex graduate of Brigham Young University. recognizing the need of more building space, plain to you how his tenant farmer pays him Ballard-Hawley-The marriage of Miss appropriated money for the erection of a four per cent on the investment, but makes Maurine Ballard, daughter of Mrs. W. R. beautiful and commodious library building. himself about fifteen. So the turnover in Ballard of Logan, and J. Warren Hawley, Work on this structure will begin very soon. son of Mrs. A. R. Hawley of Salt Lake, tenant farmers and the buying of farms is took place October 17 in the Salt Lake Beginning with a mere handful of students, pretty constant in France. The problem of temple. Mr. Hawley is a graduate of the the Utah State Agricultural College has how the tenant farmers make so much is College and a member of Sigma Chi and steadily advanced its enrollment until today, one to fascinate any A. C. alumnus who Miss Ballard is a former student and Sorosis. in total attendance, the institution out-ranks invades France. All American tourists Bown-Williams-Miss Ovila Bown of comparable schools in adjoining states. In maintain that the pleasant land of France, the Gunnison, and Howard Williams of Kays 1916, when President Peterson became the pleasing land, Is no idle expression, but the ville were married October 24 in Los administrative head of the institution, there Erastus Petersons and the Ellen Agrens can Angeles. Both are members of last year's were 914 students registered in the College, get to the root of the matter and tell you the graduating class. Miss Bown is a member 75 per cent of w hom were of collegiate financial and the domestic reason for its of Beta Delta sorority and Mr. Williams of grade. In 1929, there were 1294 students, pleasantness. Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. They are living less than four per cent of whom were of --0--- in Los Angeles where Mr. Williams is a sub-collegiate grade. In addition to the UTAH HAS EDGE IN ANNUAL chemist. notable increase in the undergraduate regis FRAY BUT ROMNEY'S TEAM tration, the number of graduate students is MAY SPRING SURPRISE. --0--- rapidly increasing. The Summer Session (Continued from Page 9.) HISTORY REVEALS COLLEGE'S has also shown substantial growth. The reserves, and if injuries continue to pile up, RAPID GROWTH. registration during the summer of 1929 was his line problem will be even more serious. 420 students, most of whom were of The only man on the Farmer line who seems (Continued from Page I.) graduate ranking. to be of . all-conference caliber is Captain placing specialists at the head of the various Accompanying this steady increase in Ed Jensen, while Utah has several prospects departments. Dr. W. J. Kerr, President enrollment has been a consistent improve for the mythical honor. The youngster Tanner's successor, served through seven ment in scholastic standards. In recognition Wilkins of the Aggies is another comer but years, during which time much improvement of the high standards of scholarship now he lacks experience. Illness has kept Co was made in the physical plant, forward obtaining at the Utah State Agricultural Col captain Doug Bergeson from his best form. strides were taken toward higher scholar lege, the institution was in 1926 placed on Altogether the Aggies have a fin e foot ship and enrollment, and more land was the accredited list of the Association of ball tea m. If the team rises to its highest bought for agricultural purposes. The American Universities, which gives it the possibilities the great Crimson machine will tower and the north wing of the Main highest attainable scholastic rank and means find that it has to defeat the toughest op Buildmg were erected during his adminis that graduates of the College are freely ad ponent of the year. A severe schedule may istration, and through his initiative, the mitted to advanced standing in the leading keep the Romneyites from their best form. boulevard was constructed and many im educational institutions in the United States. For the last four weeks of the season the provements made in Logan. Beginning with a teaching force of five Aggies have met or have to meet the John A. Widtsoe carried on the policies people in 1890, the College faculty has grown strongest teams of the conference, and on of his predecessors for nine years. The until the last College catalog lists 105 each occasion the opposing team has a work be did for the College paralleled that members of the College faculty proper. The week of rest intervening. This may make of all the previous presidents and at the Experiment Station Staff comprises 46 Coach Romney's task of building his team end of his administration the institution was for Thanksgiving somewhat more difficult, members and there are 44 members listed on widely recognized as a superior school of but he will probably be able to do it. the Extension Service Staff. learning. The Extension Division was On the basis of present records Utah created by President Widtsoe in the first It is interesting to contrast the first grad should win by a rather healthy margin. years of his management. His close at uating class of 1894 with its six members Coach Dick Romney's Aggies are develop tention to the study of dry farming gave the with the Class of 1929. which numbered 255 ing faster than any other team in the con College a reputation for scientific learning. ference, however, and if they should be graduates, including those who received Under the direction of President E . G. going at top speed on Thanksgiving, Utah Peterson, the College has made amost normal diplomas and the sixteen students fans will see the best football they have phenomenal progress during the past thirteen who received the master's degree. looked upon for many seasons past. ft··-·---...---· .. .. - --·--·- ·---·-·-·-·-·-·- ·+ I I I I I l I I Every Modern Banking Service is at T I your con1mand I at I l I Thatcher·Bros. Banking Co. i i Logan, .. .. Utah J' ! :11 ! Member of First Security Corporation Sys tem I i I Resources over $4 9. 000,000.00 f'. I 1 i ! l I ' i + ~ -· · - ... ·- ·- ··- \- •--t•- ··- ·- ··-··-·-·-,·- ·-·-··- ·- ·- ·- ·- •- 111-1•- ·-··- ·- ··- ..· --··-·-·- ..· - ,·-··-··-··-·-··-·,·- ·-·· + +-·-·-·-·- ·- ·-·-----·- ·-·-·-··-·--·+ I i I I ! I I T I I 1 Becker l f l ! 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