SPARTAN ALUM N I M A G A Z IN E ERI0D1CALS I MAY 241950 • CHIC* ygiQ- COLLEGE • 1950 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE E. B. More, '16, Member of State Michigan State Opens Summer School June 20 Board of Agriculture, Dies April 28 Summer academic and special work­ Ellsworth B. More, '16, who spent a shop courses in all major schools have lifetime in the service of Michigan, died been planned for two six-week summer April 28 in Olin Memorial Health Center sessions at Michigan State College, ac­ at Michigan State College. cording to Dean of Students Stanley E. More, stricken with a heart attack ten Crowe, director. days before as he and other members of Departments will offer a regular the State Board of Agriculture con­ course schedule for undergraduate and ferred on college matters, was taken to graduate work, 15 special workshops and the campus hospital. He remained in institutes, and a summer camp for stu­ critical condition until his death. dent artists at Leland, Mich. Board Member Since 1948 4,500 Enrollment Expected More, 59, prominent southern Michigan Enrollment for the two sessions is businessman and civic leader, became a expected to hit 4,500, the 1949 summer member of the board Jan. 1, 1948. figure, said Dean Crowe, summer school Active in civic and educational affairs director. Between 300 and 500 new stu­ since his graduation from Michigan State dents are expected, he said. College in 1916, More was president of Summer session highlights will include the Marshall, Mich., board of education the fourth annual Workshop in State and for the past 24 years. E. B. MORE: A life of service to Local Government July 5 to 25. Educa­ Was First Alumni Head the state of Michigan. tors and leading state and local politi­ cians will study the pattern of Michigan More was chairman of the Michigan governmental units before high school State College Alumni Advisory Council long period of years. civics teachers and MSC students. from its organization in 1945 until he "He brought a unique combination of was elected to the State Board of Agri­ experience and interest to the State Nutrition Workshop Set culture. Board of Agriculture, and its decisions Economists will gather from all over It was during his chairmanship that reflected his wide knowledge of the needs the nation for the second annual Michi­ the Memorial Center plan to honor 341 of the institution. gan State College Economic Workshop Michigan State College students and "It will be difficult to replace him; his to be conducted during the second six- alumni who died in World War II was counsel and support will always be weeks summer session. Scholarships will instituted. missed." be granted high school teachers of eco­ More was a member of the National nomics and social science. and State Retail Furniture Associations; Home economics staff members from the Marshall Rotary Club and its first Guerre, Ex-Grid Great, other American colleges will participate president in 1923; past commander of in the Workshop in Advanced Nutrition the Stanley Lamb Post, American Legion, Quits Alumni Position July 10-21. Top dietitians from out-of- Marshall; past commander of Knights George Guerre, '48, assistant director state hospitals, and MSC staff scientists Templar, Marshall; and vice-president of will conduct the course. the Michigan Buyer's Association. of alumni relations since Jan. 1, 1949, and ex-Spartan football great, resigned Dates for the two sessions are June He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary to enter the in­ 20 to July 25 and July 26 to Sept. 2. Merriman More, three brothers, four surance field. sisters, a daughter, Mrs. Paul Morgan, Detroit, and a son, Donald, a sophomore Guerre, a native MSC Gives Scholarships at MSC. of Flint, Mich., He was Calhoun County agricultural starred at left to High School Graduates agent in 1918 and later an extension spe­ halfback for Scholarships for the 1950-1951 school cialist before becoming a retail furniture Michigan State year have been awarded 375 high school merchant in Marshall. from 1946, when he ranked 13th in seniors in 67 Michigan counties, the sec­ Tribute Paid by Hannah the nation in of­ ond annual series under a plan inaugur­ Pres. John A. Hannah, of Michigan fense, until 1948, ated in 1948. State College, paid high tribute to More: when he played in Grants were awarded on the basis of "It was typical of E. B. More that he the North-South honor scholastic average, financial need was actively serving Michigan State Col­ game. and good citizenship characteristics dis­ lege when he was stricken by his last In the past year he has appeared at played in high school, according to Prof. illness, for he had devoted much of his countless alumni gatherings all over the A. J. Clark, chairman of the MSC schol­ time and energy to the college over a nation. arship committee. THE RECORD Vol. 55—No. 4 ALVIE L. SMITH, Editor June 1, 1950 JOHN C. LEONARD, '48, and DONALD J. HOENSHELL, '50, Associate Editors THOMAS H. KING, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, '27, Recorder; FRED W. STABLEY, Sports Editor; EDWARD M. ERICKSOX, '48, Assistant Sports Editor; MADISON KUHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; JOHN W. FITZGERALD, '47, Agricultural Editor; MRS. BARBARA CAHOON, Artist; W. LOWELL TREASTER, Director of Public Relations. Campus Photos this issue by EVERETT HUBY, BILL BURKE, '50, and RICHARD M. MYER, '53. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECORD is published seven times a year by THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under th« Act of Congress, August £4, 1918. Alben W. Barkley Is Commencement Speaker By DON J. HOENSHELL, '50 Vice-President Alben W. Barkley will MSC to Honor Five address the 92nd graduating class of Distinguished Alumni Michigan State College in Commence­ ment ceremonies in Jenison Fieldhouse Five prominent alumni of Michigan June 4. State College will be honored at Com­ mencement June 4 when they will receive Will Address Largest Class the 1950 Alumni Awards for Distin­ Barkley, the United States Senator guished Service, according to R. A. from Kentucky whom Pres. Truman Turner, '09. chose as his running mate in 1948, will Scheduled to receive the awards are: speak before the largest graduating Robert J. Baldwin, '04, East Lansing, class in the 95-year history of the college. retired director of the MSC Cooperative The vice-president, a graduate of Extension Service; Jay S. Hartt, '15, Kentucky's Marvin College in 1897, Pierson, Mich., consulting engineer; studied at Emory College, Oxford, Ga., Horace W. Norton, '03, Brattleboro, Vt., and the University of Virginia before executive secretary and treasurer of the joining the Kentucky bar in 1901. Holstein-Friesian Association of Amer­ ica; Dr. Thelma E. Porter, '21, chairman In Congress Since 1913 of the Department of Home Economics He was a county prosecuting attorney at the University of Chicago; and How­ and county judge before beginning in THE VEEP: Will address Michi­ ard C. Rather, '17, dean of the MSC 1913 his membership in the Congress of gan State's largest graduating class. Basic College. the United States. Majority leader of First Awards Made in 1946 the Senate since 1937, Barkley as vice- This plan of recognizing Michigan president took over the gavel as presid­ Pres. John A. Hannah will preside at State's most outstanding alumni and ing officer of the Senate in 1949. the annual dinner meeting of the Patri­ faculty members was instituted in 1946 More than 15,000 graduates, relatives archs' Club, composed of alumni who by the Washington, D. C, MSC Alumni and friends are expected to jam Jenison were graduated 50 or more years ago. Club. The club membership is expected to Fieldhouse for the ceremonies, officials Baldwin retired last year after 35 climb over 300 with the addition this predicted. Upwards of 70 percent of the years service as extension director at year of the class of 1900. Commencement class will be veterans, Michigan State College. First head of according to Registrar Robert S. Linton. Henry V. Clark, retired minister of the Service, he had directed its growth Clearwater, Kan., a graduate of 1878, Will Award 4,102 Degrees from three field agents in 1914 to nearly will be awarded the Kedzie Cane as the 280 in 1949. A total of 4,102 degrees will be oldest living graduate of Michigan State Hartt has been consulting engineer awarded, with 566 of these being ad­ College. vanced degrees. This compares with the for many of the nation's largest public previous record gaduation of 3,250 in Many Events Scheduled utilities and transportation companies. 1949. In addition to other important companies, Other classes which have scheduled he has served as president of the Mid­ Honorary degrees will be awarded reunions are 1895, 1925, 1905, 1910, 1915, land Utilities and Midland Realization three outstanding figures in their fields, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, and 1945. companies of Chicago since 1945. according to Dean Ralph C. Huston, of All class banquets will be in the second In addition to numerous positions held the School of Graduate Studies. floor dining rooms of the MSC Union in the Holstein-Friesian Association of Dr. Max W. Gardner, '12, professor of building, utilizing mainly the new west wing, completed last summer. America during the past 20 years, plant pathology at the University of Norton formerly headed the Bureau of California, Berkeley, will receive an High point of student activity will be Animal Industry of the Michigan De­ honorary doctor of science degree.