Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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. . „ FACULTY HYGIENE DEPARTMENT A, -LTHOUGH care of the sick plays an important part in hospital work, an even greater one is that of prevention of illness and improvement of health among students. As the first step, all entering students are given a careful once over during the entrance examina- tions. All who show physical defects or health im- paiiTnents are followed up in further conferences, and advice and treatment are given with a view of correcting or improving the condition. Then once a year all students, graduates and undergraduates must be examined. Tuberculosis tests have been con- tinued this year, and every student who shows a positive test is given an X-ray examination. The plan of first aid instruction for all house mothers of and presi- dents of sororities and women ' s dormitories has been continued this year. This plan has shown remarkable results, for the number of students who foi-merly went to the hospital for minor cuts and bruises has greatly de- creased. The north wing of the hospital, built in 1915, has a capacity of 40 beds and includes the kitchen and dining room. The east wing, built in 1924, more than doubled the capacity and gives added dispensary and laboratory facilities so that now the college has ample facilities for caring for . ' unh of its students as need hospital or ambulatory care. No other institution, except perhaps those with medical schools, is better equipped in this respect and few hospitals are better provided with laboratory, X-ray and other equipment for diagnosis and treatment, both for curative and preventive purposes. Dr. J. F. Edwards Head of Hygiene Depnrtment Twenty-eight

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.FACULTY EXTENSION SERVICE R. K. Bliss Director of Agricultural Extension Y MAKING available the research work and other information that Iowa State Col- lege has to offer to the people of Iowa does the Ex- tension Service bring this institution to the million people who live on the 214,000 farms in the state. Through a trained staff of extension specialists, county agents, home demonstration agents and club agents, the Extension Service carries information concerning all phases of agriculture and homemak- ing to the rural people. Its work embraces some activities of all the five divisions of the college. Agricultural Adjustment Administration pro- grams, in addition, drew heavily upon the educa- tional facilities of the Extension Service during 1934 and 1935. Extension specialists and members of the State Corn-Hog Committee trained the 1934 county and township corn-hog workers. Education of farm homemakers, through the women ' s home project work in every county, and of rural girls and boys through 4-H club ac- tivities, naturally, was continued. Cooperation in maintaining and con- ducting Station WOI, the college broadcasting station, went forward as usual. There are, besides the administrative staff, specialists in agricultural economics as well as in every other department of Agriculture, Dairy, Home Economics and in club work. Twenty-seven

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Twenty-nine S C. H. Brown Librarian TUDENTS took increased interest in library books in 1934-1935, in the belief of Librarian C. H. Brown. In a recent summary it was found that over two thousand books are used daily, and over a million a year fall into the hands of Iowa State students. The new mural paintings, painted last year by Iowa CWA artists under the direction of Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, one of America ' s most noted painters, are now in position. One of the latest additions to the files is a collection of books on birds. In this collection of rare books, published many years ago, there are thirty volumes. The collection is a work of Mr. Clyde E. Ehinger of Keokuk, Iowa. Plans were made, also, to sound-proof the lower hall to reduce the echoes of clattering student feet on stone floors and stairs. The Library is the most used building on the campus. The new building, opened for the use of the public in the spring of 1925, is designed to meet adequately the needs of both graduate and under- graduate students. Yearly additions to the Library are 10,000 vol- umes. The collection has increased 550 percent since the new building was opened. COLLEGE LIBRARY FACULTY