Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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DK. Kni:i)i:i(i(.K Mm hk.k ill mku. ' li ' (tt ' l as llif new i-liaiiccllor of liiglxT ( ' (liuation in ( i -gon last sum- mer to sucoeecl Di. W . .!. Kerr, oamc fidrn Di ' iiMM ' . Ctdorailn, wiicrc lie liail Ih ' cii (iliatiri ' llor of tlic I iil crsity ol Denver sinee 1928. Cradiiating in 1905 from the Uni- versity of eliraska, liere lie was a I ' lii Meta Kajipa, an intercolle ;iale ileluiler, and all-western guard on llir football team, (ilianeellor Hunter sul)- secjuently took liis master ' s degree from Columbia and liis doctor ' s degree from Caliloruia. Superintendent of sehools in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Oakland, California, president of the .E. A. in 1920-21. and lecturer at (Columbia and California. Dr. Hunter has had wide experience in education. Since coming to Oregon, Dr. Hunter has manifested enthusiastic faith in tlie State System of Higher Education. I shall strive for an intimate relation- ship with the entire state, he an- nounced, and my desire is that the institutions may be of service to every grouj), every section, every industry of Oregon. OMKCiO.N lia iic-(iflh of all the virgin timber remaining in the I niled Slates, llic most valuable forest a set of any comnionweallh. Many states lormerly great in forest wealth arc now dcnudid of limber. If our citizens are alert, Oregon need m-ver ullcr such a fate. A total of twenty-two million acres in Oii-gon — more than half the area of New England - i pcrnianciitK classified as forest land. Scientific rManagcinciit will conserve these Oregon forests — a iMagnibccnl a ct from the standpoint not onlv of ccuMomics, but of recreation, health, and spiritual welfare. - •fct « . i«-- 7 -c Dr. FnrDCRicK Mai ' mice Hl ' ?iti Ckanceltor of Stair Syilrm of Highrr tducatio Cliaiieolhir lliiiiior 21]

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9t FIKK . )() years as an .(■(linalidiial ailininistia- tor, I ' t. . J. Ken rclircil as ( liaiKclloi ol llii ' ()icn in Stale Sv-tcrii (if liiglici Kdiication on Sr|itriiili« ' r I, I ' Xi. ), and be- came (Chancellor Emerilii-. A college president wlicti lie was .{1. lie d -voled II years to tlie administration of higher edii- tation, 25 as head of Oregon Oreson Sute college in 1906 State CollctTe. During his presidency of Oregon State, student enrollment increased from 833 to 5,500; the tea liiiig faculty from 10 to more than 300: gradnalo from 67 to an annual average of 503 for the last ten vears of his administration; college lands from 21 1 a res to 5.000: and the value of [iroperty from less than hall a mil- lion to seven and a li.ill million dollars. For his great senices to higher education he won not i mI the loy- alty and love of students, alumni. and citizens of Oregon. Imt the |)raisc of leading edncatfiis. For ex- ample, he is credited with having done an outstanding piece of work in higher education in this country liv President Ray Lyman Willmr of .Stanford university. He is charac- terized as statesman in education by President Charles A. Lory of Colorado State college; as one of the small company of great administratoi- in higher education President R. D. Hetzel of Pennsylvania State college; as a dominant member of a groii]) of far-seeing educational statesmen by I ' re ident Alfred Atkinson of Montana State col- (i,rB.,n si.ir coiirge. m: lege; as among the foremost - as an American Executive by President E. G. Peterson of Utah State Agricultural col- lege, and as having that fine sense of honor characteristic of the scholastic gentleman by the late Dr. W. 0. Thompson of Ohio State university. lc.. Krrr in IWi. 1 |. Krff in 1V3::. Twoiitv-five Yoars I iitlor llr.Korr 23]