Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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L. N. Duncan Dir ret or Extension Service The Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is ranked by national authorities as among the very best. Through this service the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is reaching out and serving the people of Alabama by helping farmers, farm women, farm boys and girls to improve their practices, to get a better vision of agriculture and life, and to improve agriculture bv co-operative methods. The Alabama plan of extension work has become known nationally and leaders in other states are following the example set by Alabama. The outstanding leader in this Alabama plan, which has meant so much to Auburn, and to the State of Alabama, is Prof. L. X. Duncan, who is director of the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. As a student, Mr. Duncan came to Auburn from Franklin County in the Fall of 1896. He entered the Freshman class and pursued his work until he graduated in i9 x). With the exception of a few years spent in teaching in district agricultural schools, he has been connected with the Alabama Polytechnic Institute since graduation. In 1907 he received his M.S. degree from Auburn. He was a summer school student one Summer at the University of Tennessee and another at the University of Illinois. From 1905 to 1909 he was instructor in research work in agriculture at Auburn. In the Fall of 1909 he entered extension work in Alabama. That year he was placed in charge of boys’ club work when it was introduced into Alabama. As the work grew his field of service extended. In 1911 club work for farm women and girls was started by him. He continued in charge of club work for girls and boys and farm women until July, 1920, when he was promoted to his present position as director of all extension work in agriculture and home economics in Alabama. The Extension Service workers are listed on page 215. 31 1 9 2

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 Marion Jacob Funchess Director and Dean The Experiment Station an d The College of Agriculture Agr nomy I) epartmexT F. W. Parker W. H. Pierre II. B. Tisdale W. W. Pate D. G. Sturkie J. T. Williamson Animal Industry Department II. A. Gardner M. V. Louder W. E. Sewell J. E. Ivey W. I). Salmon G. A. Trollope Agricultural Engineering Department E. C. Easter L. C. LeBron J. W. Randolph Botany W. L. Blain G. L. Pick L. E. Miles Etomology Departm ent F. E. Guyton H. G. Goode F. S. Arant Rural Organization and Farm Management J. F. Duggar J. D. Pope I IoRTICU LTURE DEPARTM ENT C. I.. Isbell W. D. Kimbrough R. W. Taylor I.. M. Ware The College of Agriculture is divided into two phases, Research and Educational. These are represented by the departments of Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Husbandry, Botany, Etomology, Farm Management, and Horticulture. The success of Agriculture depends primarily on the Research Department. The particular duty of this department is to discover new facts and principles that will aid in the success of the farm and to put these in a form that they will be of use to the average farmer. The Educational Department, though secondary, is none the less important. It is secondary only in that it teaches the information discovered by the Research Department. Thus, both combine to make more efficient farmers of the South and to make agriculture a greater success. 30 ssCBDEI W. II. Appleton J. F. Fudge J. C. Grimes F. W. Burns W. H. Eaton M. I.. Nichols Arvey Carnes W. A. Gardner J. M. Robinson

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B. L. Shi Acting Dean Academic Department English Dkpartm fnt Professor J. R. Rutland Assistan t Professors J. A. Kirkley H. L. Hamilton Instructors Kenneth Daughrity J. II. Hutchins Mathematics Department Professors B. II. Crenshaw B. L. Shi C. I). Killebrew Assistant Professors R. S. Underwood J. E. Pitts Auburn began her history as the East Alabama Male College in 1859. Thirteen years after this date this College was taken over from the Methodists by the State and around this as a nucleus, the present institution was built. Other technical schools have been added, but a general course still remains which offers the fundamentals of education. It gives instructions in courses leading to its own degree as well as instructions co-ordinating with the work of the technical schools. New subjects have been added as need was seen and the old classical curriculum emphasized less. In this way the student in the General Course is to choose his work to cover the phases in which his interest lies. Because of this more liberal offering, interest in academic work reawakened and the enrollment of this department increases each year. Instructors W. P. Champion A. J. Robinson Foreign Languages Professor T. P. Atkinson A ssistan t Professor J. W. Roe Departments of Economics Professor J. B. Clark