Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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' iHi.l: W . ' i: ,l ' rrtidi-nt of Oregon State CoUege (JjIpllK Forestry tlieme for tlii vcilumc JIL XXX Beaver coordinates silli the jKist and present work of George W. Peavy, sixlli president of ()repf)n State collcpe. Dean I ' caw was appointed pre i(lrnl nl the institnliun dn |iiil If). VX.W. altn li,i iiig lircn In, 1(1 ot tlie sclincil III lorestrv for nearlv a ipiailiT i)f a cenlmy. lie ploiiccied a new pliase of edncation, wliii h .it the |)resent time attracts to this institution students from all over tlie United States. Since assuming Iiis present duties, the jjres- idcnt lias taken a definite stand on student affairs. His statement that honor societies must justify llieir existence echoed througii many ol the ( ' (liiratimiai centers of liic ii.ilinn and resulted in definite action by honor groups nil tlii I aiii|iii . (inuntless social events call for the presence of President Peavy. lie mu t icpresent the college before statesmen, the business world. tax|)avers and sliidents, as well as before educati iiial leader- nl otlier schools. 1 ' ricudiiness and (lciii(icrac arc cliaiaclcr- i-lir- wliicli lie cxcnipliiics in all his personal anil -neial rclalii)n . I ' OrcslrN students work- ing al llie lVa y Arboretum know him as a Iriciiil anil Icllnw wmkci ' . The inlininal. vet sincere, spontanietx nl lii- greeting to every student and frienil of the college |iro ides impcliis for mastery and solution of iudi idnal problems. I ' rcsidcnl Peavy has been retained also a- ilean nj lurestry. [21 l iH iili iil l isivv

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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]

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Wil T a Ml.il pari .il Oir-oii aic li.T forests! How likf they art» to « I( ' iiiciils ol liuinaii cliaractn! Tlicst- towi ' iiiig lici-s atroiil protci ' tioii to wild life. o alxindaiit in our Stalt ' . Ilu ' v sink tlit ' ir roots (lfi ' |i into llic soil, protecting it from erosion. Tliey tn t-r tin- gromiil willi alisorlicnt nmld. in- ' iirin niii ' water supply, iiiey fnrnisli materials so nec- essary to our modern ti ili ation. Hnndred of years were reipiired to producf- llioe for- ests. Yet a moment of carelessness may donm them to flaming destruction. Unthless harvest- ing may destroy all llieii ' hcnclils. Neglect ma ravage their beauty. How like our material resources are our spiritual assets. They are as sensitive to injury and damage. As we strive to cotiserve the one, can we fail Id cIkm i li ttic other? M -O. -- - Mrs. K. V. Jameson. Dean of W ' omen U. Ci. Uulm.ll. bi-ai. ..f Men WIIKN Ihe ]9.% edition of tli comes from the press, il w i the Beaver press, Il will 111- llic ihirlielh compilation of its kind which students of the campus liaxc compiled for themsidves and their friends. To the casual observer, this thirtieth year- IxKik lias much in common with every edition that preceded il. All conlain jiholographs of young persons who look w itli coiilideiue to suc- cess in their life work for which the years in college lia c prepared them. We wi-li llicni success, but we also hope that during these college years, they have caught a vision f f something belter than material success alone; a love of the beautiful, a desire for service, and an appreciation of tho.se spiritual values wliirli camidl be ln | or destroyed. e r feX .v Doaii of 3leii 25] Dean of Woiiicii