Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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- 1934 BEAVER-------------------- President Peavy • Member of the faculty since 1910, dean of the school of forestry since 1913, builder of one of the outstanding schools of forestry in the United States—with a building specially constructed and equipped, with an arboretum and a forest laboratory of 5,292 acres owned by the college and 75,000 acres of State forest land under the scientific management of the school,—George W. Peavy, senior dean of the college, comrade of all its staff members, and friend of all its students and alumni, was elected acting president of the college January 14,1934. Hail to the new chief, seasoned in the love and loyalty for Oregon State that he expects, and will receive, from all of us!

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FACULTY ADMINISTRATION

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1934 BEAVER - CK»oc llof Chancellor Kerr Chancellor of Oregon Higher Education since September 6, 1932, and chief executive of Oregon State college since 1907, Dr. William Jasper Kerr has been characterized by his fellow presidents of state colleges and universities as one of the very ablest college presidents in America, a statesman in education, a prophet who has had the power to give reality to his own prophecies. In the words of one of the ablest and most revered of these university presidents. Dr. W. O. Thompson, President Emeritus of Ohio State University, we can bear witness to Dr. Kerr's fine sense of honor characteristic of the scholastic gentleman and repeat with him, in all sincerity, We have trusted him, we have honored him, we have loved him. 23. o s c