Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 17 No. 2, December 1939
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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Utah State Magazine Publications 12-1939 Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 17 No. 2, December 1939 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utahstatemagazine Recommended Citation Utah State University, "Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 17 No. 2, December 1939" (1939). Utah State Magazine. 78. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utahstatemagazine/78 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Utah State Magazine by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. n11 DECEMBER- DIRECTORY No.2 A CANDIDATE FOR HELL By D ETA PETERSEN NEELEY, B.S., M.S., P h.D. :l87 Pages CLOTH BINDI NG $2.00 HIS is a capital tale, fraught with deeper meanings and mo re careJul analysis and tmderstanding of life and people t han the thoughtful reader would expect to find in a murder mystery. Dr. N eeley has b·eated the psychological factors determining human behavior with accuracy and precision. It is a r ich and colorful story of action, j ealousy, villainy, murder, clever sleuthing, deep and abiding love and loyalty. Doctor Neeley is a native of Utah, long connected with education in t hat state. She is a g raduate of Utah State Agri cultural College. L eave ;t;ou1· oTde1· at the book st01·e o1· send it to the publishe'rs. 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When you patron ize home industry you help pay taxes, you increase pur-chasing power by increasing pay rolls, and stimulate all western businesses. 3b Richards Street Salt Lake City, Utah Y E A R B 0 0 K H E A D Q U A R T E R S 0 F T H E WE S T Two UTAH STATE QUARTERLY Message to the Alumni Published quarterly by the Utah State Agricultural College Alumni Association. Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Logan, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1897. Vol. XVII December, 1939 No.2 Officers of the Association ERWIN CLEMENT, '37 . Editor and Manager AsA BuLLEN, '10 President Executive Committee AsA BuLLEN L. R. HUMPHERYS BYRON ALDER ORVILLE L. LEE D. A. SKEEN ERWIN CLEMENT Executive Secretary Alumni Council Members From within the State, throughout the states and from DAVID G. HURREN, '27 DAVID H. CALDER, '30 many foreign countries there comes to the office of the v. D. GARDNER, '22 J. W. THORNTON, '17 Alumni Association a steady stream of letters. Since HAROLD M. PETERSO , '27 }UNE WHITE, '32 1899, when the Association was founded, this means of J. KARL WooD, '15 ANGUS M. MAUGHAN, '21 ORVILLE L. LEE, '10 keeping in touch with the Alumni has been a key to the BYRON ALDER, '12 AsA BuLLEN, '10 success the Association has enjoyed. It is a direct mean LLOYD R. HUNSAKER, '35 L. R. HUMPHERYS, '12 of getting many personal reactions from loyal Alumni D. A. SKEEN, '09 c. ORVAL STOTT, '16 who think of undergraduate days on the campus, but who are now unable to make many appearances to the haunts Have You Sent in Your of their college days. Important too, these letter have been in inspiring Alumni Dues? new as well as old graduates to become Alumni minded. Use this blank or write a letter addressed This consciousness is becoming more prevalent among to the Executive Secretary, Alumni Associa the students each year, a thing to rejoice over. In it is tion, Logan, Utah, enclosing your annual dues annually created new life to our graduate body; from it or Life Membership remittance. come the leaders of tomorrow. Many of these letters are in anxious tones concerning I enclose $1.00 for annual membership. 0 the welfare of the Institution and its progress. Others 0 I enclose $25.00 for Life Membership. are hopeful inquiries asking about certain professors, (May be paid in five yearly installments.) traditions, buildings, departments and the Library. Some, although critical in text, are helpful and constructive. Name. ............................................... Class ___ ___ ___ _ Out of these letter come one certain fact: Utah State Streel---- -- -------·---- ------------ -------- -- ------ ---- ----- ----·---- - students of bygone year are till interested in their Alma Mater; they are loyal and the College i not a clo ed CitY------- -- ------------ ------------ -----State _________ ____ _____ _____ _ book or a forgotten thing in their lives. With the Alumni chapters taking an ever more active part in College and Alumni affairs, and with the enthu siastic spirit that is being manifested among the graduate group generally, the Association is bound to be of con CLOTHES FOR ALL OCCASIONS tinuing greater service to our Alma Mater and to each of us individually. The Christmas season will soon be upon us, and I LEVE~·s should like to take this opportunity to wish each and r ... S rol'\ 1 ofC~EATl"- 'IIA .l:£ 5 every one of you and yours a very Merry Christmas and • years of Happiness ahead. Very truly yours, Distinctive College Styles Asa Bullen, '10 President, Alumni Association Three Sons and Daughters of Utah State Alumni JANET WASDEN age 3 years. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Newel F. Wasden, Cedar City. Newel graduated in 1937. LESLIE LYNN KELLER age 2 years. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Floyd Keller, Glacier National Park, Montana. Floyd graduated in 1934. MICHAEL R. FRY age eighteen months. Son of Beth Nelson Fry, '36, and Burke Fry, '34, Washing ton, D. C. DIANA ILEENE RENCHER age one year. Daughter of Merle Frasier Rencher, '38, and Ray Rencher, '36, 1803 Longwood Avenue, Los Angeles, California. BRUCE SILVERS age 3 years. Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Silvers, Tulare, California. Mr. Silvers graduated in 1921. WILLIAM LEWIS TORMEY age 2 years. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Henry Tormey Jr., Anderson, California. Henry graduated in 1937. Beginning with the October 1939 issue of the Alumni Quar terly, a series of photographs of sons and daughters of Utah State Alumni and Alumnae, under five years of age, was started. Additional photographs will be welcomed and published as soon as possible. Four SCIENCE AIDS IN PLANT DISEASE CONTROL In plant life as in human and ani mal life, disease provides one of the greatest sources of waste. Of these plant diseases, Utah already has it's share. Each agricultural crop in the state and many of our ornamentals suffer from a great number of such diseases and insect pests. Other dis eases frequently of foreign origin lurk on the outside ready to enter and to get foothold within our bor ders and although precautions are maintained, these destroyers of plant life break through our front line de fenses- our inspection and survey forces - and establish themselves, ready to exact their annual toll of human effort and to add greatly to our already heavy burden of loss from disease. Only this year, Dr. B. L. Richards, Head of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at the College, reports that two such dis eases have appeared on our agricul Peach Leaves 2, 4 and 5 Affected with "X" Disease. Leaves I and 3 Normal. ture horizon- one a virus ("X" dis ease of the peach and chokecherry) , canyon, less than one-half mile from orchards in the Bountiful district are and the other a bacterial disease of the infected chokecherries, the disease being pulled out. the potato. Both diseases, because was picked up on a number of peach In the East, a survey during the of their destructive nature, are des trees all of which exhibited typical past summer showed that in an or tined to play an important role in "X" disease symptoms. The same chard that was planted in 1936, 65 Utah agriculture and may even threat symptom expressions were found in percent of the trees were infected. en profitable production of the two six other orchards visited the same The disease attacks young as well as crops on which they develop. day. old orchards. One six year old or Although no control methods are Early in August, the characteristic chard was found in Utah which show known at present for either of these symptoms were discovered on nursery ed 63 percent of the trees diseased. diseases, Dr. Richards informs us stock trees in Davis County. Further In the East, experimental work has that already research forces are mo studies disclosed the fact that the or shown that this virus disease can be bilized and ready to attack the prob chard from which buds had been ob transmitted by budding from peach lem. Science will find a way out al tained in 1938 to bud this nursery to peach, peach to chokecherry, though final achievement may be stock, showed 50 percent of the trees chokecherry to chokecherry, and costly both in time and in money. diseased. Subsequent survey, author chokecherry to peach. It is particu Virus or "X" Disease ized and supported jointly by the larly significant that the diseased As early as 1937, upon returning Experiment Station and the State chokecherries have been found on the to Utah after a year's leave of absence Department of Agriculture and con· foothills parall eling the peach or in the East, Dr.