ISi • 113?HlB I illJ KTE C©ILILICI Miipo mm The January Visitor Swings Around the Campus AMILIAR SCENES around the old Campus. The Library at top, left, with the interesting illuminated F natural Christmas tree in front of the Home Economics building. At left center is the Gymnasium Annex, where the wc?nen cavort in their physical education classes; right center, the new Horticultural layout. Below, the Botany and Bacteriology buildings carefully guarded by Dr. Bessey and Dr. Giltner, et al. January, 1932 THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD 3 Listening In POSITIVE assurance that The MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE T Alma Mater has progressed in almost faultless fashion during the past year is quite ap­ RECORD parent in a short re­ Established 1896 view of the year 1931. Member of the American Alumni Council Published for the alumni and former students of the Michigan State College by the Following Presi dent M. S. C. Association. Shaw's conservative program three new Published monthly throughout the year. structures were completed and occu­ Membership in the M. S. C. Association, including subscription to THE RECORD, $2.50 per year. pied and two more started. Unless members request a discontinuance before expiration of their memberships, it will be assumed a renewal is desired. The anatomy building, constructed at Checks, drafts and money orders should be made payable to the M. S. C. Association. a cost of $100,000, put into use at the Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at East Lansing, Michigan. beginning of the past year provides GLEN O. STEWART, '17, Editor GLADYS FRANKS, w'27, Alumni Recorder the College with a modern laboratory and classroom building for the study THE M. S. C. ASSOCIATION of veterinary medicine. • Union Memorial Building Mary Mayo hall, new dormitory fox- OFFICERS—1931-32 girls, was opened at the beginning of Charles W. Garfield, '70, Honorary President the fall term. It was constructed and R. Bruce McPherson, '90, President A. S. Armstrong, '06, Vice-President furnished at a cost of $412,000 and L. T. Clark, '04, Treasurer Glen O. Stewart, '17, Secretary houses 247 women students. The com­ pletion of this building makes it pos­ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE sible for more co-eds to live on the L. O. Gordon. '06, Muskegon, term expires 1932: S. Fred Edwards, '99, Lansing, term Campus than was possible when only expires 1933 ; W. O Hedrick, '91, East Lansing, term expires 1934 ; Harris E. the Woman's building was used. Thomas, '85, Lansing, ex-officio; E. W, Ranney, '00, Greenville, ex-officio ; Frank F. Rogers, '83, Lansing, ex-officio; A. C. MacKinnon, '95, Bay City, ex-officio: Lucile Harris Johnson, w'25, HHHE construction of another new President of Alumnae League •*• dormitory for co-eds has been ap­ proved and work will possibly start this Entered at the East Lansing Postoffice as Second Class Matter winter. It is planned to locate this Vo. XXXVII. No. 5 East Lansing, Michigan January, 1932 building west of the weather bureau building and will cost about $350,000. The entire cost of Mary Mayo hall was handled on a financing plan whereby, In This Issue except for the site, all costs of building Page and furnishings are covered by a bond Review of Past Year ••'.,'. 3 issue. The building will be self- Who's Who Among the Alumni -.• 4 supporting on this basis. Football Banquet Thrills Hundreds : 5 After completion of the second dor­ Results from Placement Examinations 6 mitory the administration officials plan "Russian Conditions" 7 to use the Woman's building as an European Travel Stresses Educational Aspect 8 administrative and classroom building Spartan Clubs; Michigan Millers Banquet 9 for the arts and science divisions. This "Close Beside the Winding Cedar" 10 will relieve much congestion on the "State Cagers Start Season".. , 12 Campus. Keen Competition In Winter Sports 13 In Memoriam; Marriages 14 ORK is now under way on two new Alumni Affairs 15 W engineering units to cost $80,000. These will enlarge the mechanical en­ gineering power laboratory on one nance of all drives taken over by the QEVERAL more of the older buildings floor and highway materials labora­ state as a part of the highway system. ^ were razed bringing the total down tories on the other. The present forge In connection with campus beauti- since 1922 to 40. The old veterinary and foundry building is to have a third fication, much grading and tree plant­ building near the power house, many bay. the east end of which will provide ing was done during the past year. of the old barns and the old brick added room for the foundry, and the Much of the lawn was re-seeded and practice house near the Union were west end a laboratory for the heat the appearance of the Campus greatly among those removed or torn down. treatment of steel. improved. Enrollment went to 3,299 students, The addition of new buildings has A new botanical greenhouse was an all-time high mark. The athletic necessitated an enlarged heating plant. built last year at a cost of $45,000. program was the best ever with 68 A new boiler, stokers and other equip- One of the outstanding improvements victories out of 97 contests, bringing are being installed in the power house noted last fall was the modernization more prestige to the College and larger at an expense of about $45,000. of Well hall, men's dormitory. A cash receipts. The administration and The most outstanding campus im­ $25,000 improvement program was com­ alumni groups survey the results of provement in recent years, the paving pleted and included the installation of the past year, in view of the economic of the most frequently used drives; was bathrooms and complete renovation conditions, as most remarkable and completed last summer and the mainte- and redecoration. encouraging. THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD January, 1932 Who's Who Among the Alumni '93. Ag.. secretary-treasurer of the Michigan Luther H. Baker, Millers Mutual Fire Insurance company and secretary-treasurer of the Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance company, has risen through two. decades of meritorious loork, in the insurance field. He was born in Lansing. September 8. 1872 and after attending the public schools, graduated from Michigan State with a B. S. degree in agriculture. After leaving M. S. C. he attended the University of Chicago for a short time. He later ivas principal at Albion. Michigan, high school and also principal of the Kalamazoo. Michigan, high school, In 1907 he became assistant secretary of the Michigan Millers and in 1906 ivas made secretary. The following year he also assumed the duties of treasurer, holding the combined duties to date. Mr. Baker is a director of the East Lansing State bank and Capital Savings and Loan association. Lansing. He is a former mayor of East Lansing and for years has had his home at, 205 Delta -street. Always active in alumni affairs of the College he icas for several years treasurer of the M. S. C. Association and still holds the position of class secretary for the 1893 group. In college he icas a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. (To the right/ A-n+Jn/y, T) TKnlcor* 89, Ag" has had 42 vears of C0ntinu0UJ **' LiLLLl ±J. LjCLi\.eP} service with the Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance company. He was born in Lansing July 28, 1869, educated in the public schools and received his B. S. degree from the agricultural division in 1889. Upon graduation he entered the employ of the Michigan Millers and ivas elected secretary in 1898. secretary-treasurer in 1928. He organized the Michigan Commercial Insurance company of Lansing in 1904 and was its leading force until the company reinsured and retired in 1918. Besides repre­ senting several large eastern insurance companies Mr. Baker has served as a member of the Conference Committee and Western Insurance Bureau, both of Chicago. He is president of the Association of Mill and Elevator Mutual Fire Insurance companies, Mutual Fire Prevention Bureau. Chicago, Improved Risk Mutuals, New York City, Mill Mutuals Agency, Lansing, Industrial Bank of Lansing and F. B. McKibbin company, Lansing. Mr. Baker is chairman of the board, Union Building and Loan association, member of the board of directors of the Capital National bank and Central Trust company, Lansing. Mr. Baker married Edith Cooley of Lansing, October 8, 1895. They have two children, Katherine mow wife of Paul Yull '20/ and Stannard L. Baker, w'22. In college Mr. Baker was a member of the Olympic fraternity. (To the left) ~\/T ' /~* TT' ' '95, Ag., had exceptional garden opportu- Maurice u. r^ains, nities as a boy in the orchards of his father and grandfather. For years while still a boy he had his own vegetable garden, grew fruits and flowers and became friendly with nature—plants, insects, birds and the smaller animals. It was natural for him to enter and complete the horticultural course with botany and entomology as his minors. After two years at Cornell under L. H. Bailey, '82, and J. H. Comstock the noted entomolo­ gist, he received his master's degree a?id started government work at Washington as special crops culturist. After some teaching in a new agricultural school Mr. Kains became one of the editors of the New International Encyclopedia (1902-1904), and later chief horticultural contributor to the Cyclopedia Americana. For ten years he edited the American Agriculturist and then headed the horti­ cultural department of Penn State. The past 15 years he has spent mainly in consultant practice, lecturing and writing on horticultural subjects.