North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Dr. F. L. STEVKNS. 2941

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To Doctor Frank Lincoln Stevens The Students ' Preceptor and Friend This, the nineteen and eight volume, is affectionately dedicated

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Frank Lincoln Stevens PROFESSOR FRANK LIXCOLX STE KXS bci;an his work at this College in lyoi. From the first his splendid ability as a teacher was recognized, and liis department has become one of the best in the College. Xo one in the faculty is held in higher esteem by the students than is Dr. Stevens. The students find in him a friend to whom they may go at any time. with an assurance that he will be interested in any of their plans or ambitions. To come in touch with him is to gain ins])iration for a life of work and usefulness. Dr. Stevens was born April i. 1871, on a farm near Syracuse, X. Y., and is the only son of H. 15. Stevens and Helen C. Lincoln. His father, a successful and prosperous farmer, is a descendant of New England colonial stock ; his mother is of one of the oldest and most prominent colonial families of Massachusetts. Dr. Stevens ' s ancestors came to Central Xew York from Massachusetts about the year 1800, and located upon the farm which is still occu]ried by the family and known as the Lincoln Homestead. Dr. Stevens was educated at ( )nondaga . catlemy. Syracuse L ' niversily, and Hobart College, receiving the degree of H.L. from the latter institution in i8yi. After two years at Rutgers College he received the degree of B.S. ; and in 1897 the same institution conferred on him the degree of ALS. for post-graduate work done in ( )lii(i State Universitx in iS()4- ' 96. He attended the University of Chicago as Fellow in Botany in 1898-99, receiving the degree of Ph.D., Manila cum huidc, in 1900. As Traveling Fellow from the University of Chicago, in 1900-01, he studied in the German Universities of Bonn and Halle, and by an appointment to the table of the Smithsonian Institution he pursued his biological studies in Italy at the Xaples Zoological Laboratories, lie studied es])eciall ' the c|uestion?. ot ater Supply and Sewage Disposal at Glasgow. I ' .diiiDurgli ami London. While at Syracuse University, Dr. Stevens was Reporter (jii the Syiacitsc Univcrsity A ' cics; and was for two years Editor-in-Chief ot the Jlohart Monthly. He is a member of the I ' hi Kappa I ' si F ' raternity; ot the ' I ' heta Xii ICpsilon, ISeta Delta Beta, and Iwn other class societies. ile has held the following positions: Student Assistant at Rutgers College and X. J. Agricultural Experiment Station 1891-93; I ' eacher of Science, Racine College, 1893-94; Teacher of Chemistry and llotany. High School, Columbus, Ohio, 1894-97; Fellow, University of Chicago, 1898-99; Analyst in Chicago Drainage Canal Investigation, 1899-00; Instructor in Biology, X. C. College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1901-02; Professor of Botany and egetable Pathology since iyo2; for some years Biologist and head of the 1 )ei)artnKnt of Plant Diseases at the N. C. Agricultural lixperiment Station. Dr. Stevens being a student, investigator, and teacher, is a member of many scientific and educational societies, among them t he Wisconsin Academy of Science ; Ohio Academy of Science; Charter member of X. C. Academy of Science; Presi- dent of the same in 1905; Member of the . iiiericaii ISreeders Association; mori hARY