Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Dr. A. D. Weber ( above left ) , Associate Dean of the School of Agri- culture and Associate Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, in internationally famous as a livestock judge, and assumed his present position this year. Members of the Ag Council, student-faculty liaison body (above right), are — Buck roir: Thomas Morris, John Schlender, Robert Kuhn, Gerald Lawrence, John Holden. Front row: Eugene Foltz, Don Jacobson, Don Buster, George Smith, Jimmie Dixson. East Waters Hall (below) with its West Ag is home to ag students. pansion program for pasture utilization and manage- ment projects. One of the first buildings completed toward the Campus of Tomorrow, the Small Animals Research Laboratory, has aided slightly in the space utilization problems faced by the school. While the new laboratory is under the administration of the Agriculture Experi- ment Station, space in it has been assigned to depart- ments from other schools for research problems. Some of the departments utilizing the laboratory ' s facilities are the Department of Bacteriology, chemistry depart- ment, animal pathology department. Departments of Zoology and the animal husbandry department. Offer 12 Courses During the academic year the School of Agriculture offered 12 curriculums, 1 1 of them four year courses leading to a Bachelor of Science degree. Bachelor ' s de- grees were granted in general agriculture, agricultural administration, agricultural education, agricultural jour- nalism, dairy manufacturing, floriculture and orna- mental horticulture, landscape design, milling adminis- tration, milling chemistry, milling technology and soil conservation. A two-year curriculum in agriculture was also offered. The two-year course did not lead to a de- gree, however. Chief expediter of problems of students in the School

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G eate6. A eui Paddila t Some of the myriad problems faced by R. I. Throck- morton, Dean of the School of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station were solved this year when Dr. A. D. Dad Weber was promoted from head of the Department of Animal Husbandry to the post of Associate Dean of the School and Associate Di- rector of the Experiment Station. Dr. Weber became the college ' s first associate dean. Wing To Go Up Other problems which face the School of Agriculture will be almost eliminated next year by the construction of a connecting wing between East and West Waters Halls. Even before postwar swollen enrollments overtaxed col- lege facilities, the Ag school was almost bursting at the seams. A g e n e r a 1 reshuffling of the Dean ' s offi- ces and others Assistant Dean C. W. Mullen is chief expediter of problems in the School of Agriculture. His position makes Dean Mullen one of the popu- lar men in the Ag school from student ' s view. R. I. T hrockmorton, Dean of the School of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural fixperiment Station, has a job which has become so complex in recent years that an Associate Dean and Director were appointed this year to aid in the administration of the School. Dean Throckmorton has been head of the Ag school since 1946. of the Ag school departments is scheduled to take place as soon as the south wing to Waters hall is finished. The Department of Horticulture will be moved from Dickens hall to Waters hall. Offices of the Dean and Associate Dean of agriculture will be moved into the new wing, as will several other agriculture administra- tive offices and departmental offices. An agricultural laboratory will also be established in the new section. Another phase in the expansion of the school ' s exten- sive program has been marked by an increase of 70 per cent in college-owned pasturelands in Riley County. 1,134 acres has been acquired during the college ' s ex- Heads of departments in the School of Agriculture: F. W. Atkeson, Department of Dairy Husbandry; George Montgomery, Department of Economics and Sociology; Dr. H. E. Myers, Dcp.irtmcnt jf .Ag- ronomy; Loyal F. Payne, Department of Poultry Husbandry; William F. Pickett. Department of Horticulture; Dr. J. A. Shellenberger. Depart- ment of Millin ; Dr. Rufus F. Cny. .Department of Animal Husbandry. I 22

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■T- ■ of Agriculture is Assistant Dean C. W. Mul- len. Because of the wide scope of the fields in the school, administrative problems are usually more complex than in some of the other schools of the college. Dean Mullen, handles, among other things, problems of class conflicts, students ' desire to get a day off occasionally and the inevitable swapping of courses each semester. A quick inspection of the School of Agriculture ' s two buildings. East and West Waters Halls, leaves a visitor wondering for months how so many func- tions can be going on in one school at one time. Milling students not only learn all of the know-how of the milling ilustry, but also get a liberal education in care of machinery (above and bottom right). Judging teams spend many hours studying seed specimens (left center ) . Classes go on all of the time, too. One prof finds rolling up his sleeves helps the cause (below left). Soil analysis, probably one of the most important of all agricultural subjects ( top left, opposite page ) is demon- strated for two students. Poultry major log many hous in the poultry laboratory (top right). Business machines are an integral part of modern large scale farm account- ing practices (bottom center). 24