' ~ . ·~te..C9._i..;v....._..........-.-......_..........-.-....-....._...._.......-......................................-....-.--.._....._ ...._.._..---..__..._­ Was\lingt(i\ t ! tibalY THE ALUMNUS I ! ~ i + ! THE STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON : i + i............................................................................................-..............................................................................................................................................................; ..................................................................................- .........................................................................................~...................-.......................................................-: ; ! i• +, ; Volume XX November, 1930, Pullman, Washington Num,bgr 8 t t i f t J Published Monthly by the Alumni of the State College of Washington f it !, '.................................................... I .................................................... .............-...._ ......-......•••••••••••••••••••••• STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers for 1930-1931 W. J. Rusch, ,15, Breslin Apts., Spokane ________ _____ __ ____ __ ___ ___ _______ President Catherine Mathews Friel, '23, Pullman First Vice President John Goddard, '21 , Centralia__________ _____ _____ ___ _________ _Second Vice President Board of Directors Miss Jimmie Williams, '2L___ ___ ______ ___ ______ ___ ___ ________ ___ _______ ____ _____ ___ Pullman L. B. Vincent, ,15_____ ______ ___ ____ ____ ________ ___ ___ ______ __ ___ ______ ___ __ _____ ______ _____ __ _Yakima Joe Hungate, '02 ____ ____ ___ ___ ______ ____ _________ ______ ___ ____ __________ ___ _________ _____ __Cheney Eleanor Hyslop, '28 ___ ______ ___ _____ ___ ____ _______ __ ___ __ ____ _____ ___ _______ _Lewiston, Idaho Benton M. Bangs, , 17 _____ .__._______ _____ __ _____ ___ ___ _____ _______ ____ ___ ___ ____ __Wenatchee Athletic Council R. C. McCroskey, '06 _____ .__ ____ __ ____ _________ __ ____ _______ _____ ___ __ ____ ____ _____ _____Garfield Lloyd Gillis, '21 ____ _ ___ __ ___ ____ __._______ ___ ______ _____ ___ __ ___ __ ______Washtucna E. V. Foster, '23______ ___. __ ___ _.___ ____ .. __. __ . _______ _.. .. _____ ______.. __ _____ ______ .___ .. _.. Pullman Official Publication The Alumnus _____ ___ __ ____ ___ __ ______ ____ ___ ________ ______Pullman (Subscription price, including dues, $3.00 per year.) E ntered as second-class matter, J une 13, 1919, at t he post office at P ull man, \tVa shi ngton, under the A ct of March 3, 1879 THE ALUMNUS A Digest of the News for the Alumni VOLUME XX PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER, 1930 No.8 State College Regents Give Loyal Service W . A. Ritz J. H. Hulbert F. J. Wilmer E. O. Holland Walter Rowe A. W . Davis The five men composing the board sions. W. A. Ritz, Walla Walla, has grower in close touch with both pro­ of regents at Washington State Col­ been on the board for 16 years. He is duction and marketing of fruit. lege represent nearly SO years of serv­ one of the early members of the Wash­ F. J. Wilmer has been on the board ice to the citizens of the state. Dur­ ington Horticultural association. When for e:ght years. As president of the ing th:s time, their work has made the not attending to his affairs as regent, North Pacific Grain Growers, Inc., he college one of the leading land grant Mr. R:tz operates a combined truck is rated as one of the best informed universities of the. United States. and poultry farm near Walla Walla. men in the United States on agricul­ The State College first opened its As agricultural commissioner of this tural problems. Besides being presi­ doors on January 12, 1892, with but state, he attended the San Francisco dent of the Vv'hitman County National few students. After a stormy period world's exposition. bank at Rosalia he owns and operates of adjustment, the college has grown }. H. Hulbert, Mount Vernon, has several farms. to a prominent place among the educa­ varied interests in addition to the \'. el­ His advice is sought by fanners tional institut:ons of the west. The fare of the college. He is concerned throughout the Palouse region and he regents of the school have played no with da:ry husbandry, live stock and has given his time generously to the small part in its substantial physical general crops. Mr. Hulbert is also :1:­ upbuilding of agriculture and of rural development, its worthy scholastic f.ormed as to northwest poultry trends life. He has been a member of the standards and its courses of study. and operations. He has been on the state senate for many years and is These men, serving the citizens board for nine years and has been most recognized as one of the best informed without pay, and the college officials in generous of his time and thoug-ht :n men in the legislature on taxation and studying the economic needs of the advancing the interests and efiicielH':y state expenses. state in order that the school may of­ of the institut:on. Arthur W. Davis, Spokane attorney, fer sound in struction. Through Gov­ Walter Rowe, Naches, on the bua rd for eight years a member of the board. ernor Roland H. Hartley's choice in for two years, represents the fnl1t­ is now serving his turn as president. appointing and retaining these men, he growing districts of the state. H e S(:r:­ Mr. Davis was grand master of the has assured the board of an uninter­ ceeded Duncan Dunn, a Washif!gt.) 11 Masonic order of Washington and rupted program of progress. State College alumnus, when the lat­ Alaska last year. He is a keen student The State College board of regents ter Io'st his life in an automob:1e ac­ of educational problems and as an at­ represents nearly every district of the cident. Mr. Rowe, a former student torney he has been helpful to the board state ant! also a share of its profes­ at Washington State College, is a fruit of regents and the coIlege. He has 2 THE ALUMNUS given un stintedly of h is time to the Dr. Holland knows. to put it blunt­ institution. ly, that freshmen do no call on the Governor Roland H. Hartley has for president. If they are courageous six years served as advisory member enough to caJl, he wants to see them. ex officio of the board. I t is to these few valorous individuals Dr. E . O. HoJland, president of the that he wishes to speak. Their queries college, is ex officio secretary of the indicate to h:m the type of student board. H e :s now at the helm of the school for his 15th year. coming in characteristic of the institution; from 1916 from the superintendency of their questions, he realizes what they schools in LouisviJle, Ky. will make of their careers. The board of regents meets about N or are the questions of the fresh­ every six or eight \\'eeks and concerns men the only ones which confront the itself with the major problems of ad­ pres:dent. In addition to the myriads ministration. All faculty and staff ap­ of problems of administration which po:ntments at the State College must be approved by the board. are his to solve, there come countless personal knots for him to untangle. All questions of building contracts and construction are settled by this There :s the girl. for instance, whose group of men. The policies of the fiance's undergraduate record was State CoJlege are determined upon rather shady, and who considered she their authority. To render the most ef­ President E. O. Holland had a right to know of his offenses. ficient service, the board must be well With her, Dr. Holland used the same informed concern:ng argiculutral and sol:citous air which so endears him to industrial needs throughout the state. ty to the \Vash:ngton State head, who the freshmen. Together they studied Because of their thorough training in treats every incoming student as if he the young man's record. Some time handling problems and because of were a king. Many frosh hearts have later President HoJland met the father their keen insight into administrat:ve heat high in the office of Dr. E. O. of the girl who introduced her, saying, questions, the group of men who make Holland, and many have been the "This is my daughter, Dr. Holland. up the State College board of regents tales of " how nice he was and how She attended Washington State, but has met with unbounded Sl ccess and he asked all about my work." then you probably never met her, as has inspired the cooperation of under­ The solicitousness for frosh IS a you have so many students with which standing citizens of the state. to deal." part of the nature of the State CoJlege I: rex. He was a freshman once, too. Dr. Holland smiled and acknowl­ COLLEGE PRANKS FAIL TO IR­ He remembers with awe the austerity edged the introduction. The job of be­ RITATE PRESIDENT of deans and presidents. And so he ing a college president is indeed a says, "If the freshman has been con­ human one. "D:d you want to see me, Dr. HoI­ v:nced, no matter by what means, that The State College executive has had land ? One of the fellows at the house I have a personal message for him, he experience handling young people, not said that you had something to discuss is correct. My message to every State at the college alone. For several years with me immediately?" College freshman is to express him­ prior to his coming west, he was su­ "Your name." self, to give free play to his talents, perintendent of schools at Louisville, and to make the most of his college Kentucky. It was there that he insti­ "Wilkins is the name." career. Submerged personalities are a tuted a school known as the "Bad "Oh yes, Mr. ·Wi lkins. You are a thing of the past. 'vVe are endeavor­ Boys' School," where the incorrigible freshman, are you not.
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