Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Utah State Magazine Publications 11-1929 The Utah State Quarterly, Vol. 6 No. 2, November 1929 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utahstatemagazine Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah State Quarterly, Vol. 6 No. 2, November 1929" (1929). Utah State Magazine. 19. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utahstatemagazine/19 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]. November, 1929 e Volume 6.: Number 2 '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. ... I I / I I , I I .~ .. -­ .,, I I I ' I ' .I I I// .,,, ! ,' / ...,. '• I . ,i/ ' , ,' , , ~· {./,.l 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<l James T . Hammond, Logan. H. E. Hatch of Logan was treasurer. he Utah State Agricultural College was founded T March 8, 1888, not quit <> forty-two years ago. The original buildings on the old College Hill Anthon H . Lund was the wise father of the Act of were the Main Building ( without the "A" tower and Establishmen t. H e introduced the bill creating rbe the north wing), the president's residence, the barn, Agricultural College of Utah into the legislature and farm and superintendents' cottages, and the Experiment watched it carefully until it was passed and signed by Station. Caleb West, governor of the territory. The unsympathetic attitude of the people in the Utah had been settled only forty-one yea rs and was Utah territory toward the College had to be faced during still eight years from statehood when the Lund bill was President Sanborn's administration. The farmers, who passed. Under this bill. S25,000 was appropriated for harbored contempt for an institution that would dare the erection of a "suitable school building" and for the to presume that farming could be lea rned in school, had purchasing of land on which to conduct agricultural to be converted by concrete demonstration. The ex­ experiments. The objects of the College, according to periment farm successfully met this difficulty. During the bill, were, "to teach such branches of learning as are his administration, President Sanborn thoroughly related to agriculture an.d the mec hanic arts, and such practiced principles of service, and the College gradually other scientific and classical studies as shall promote the became popular.