Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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JVATIDHAL DEFEJVSE Dr. J. G. Grant, head of the College Hospital, examines an X-ray as a part of the National Defense health program. Animal husbandry researchist H. L. WILCKE compares powdered eoos with fresh eggs as to food content. G. E. Professor F. C. DANA examins films to be shown engineering students. Professor D. L. HOLL of the Mathematics Department prepares for the course in navigation offered spring quarter. Physics and math Professor J. V. Atanasoff lectures this time on physics. ood J- roduction Throughout the Agricultural Division attention has been focused on the demands of the huge expansion in food production called for by the government. A good share of the responsibility of educating Iowa, the great- est agricultural state, is carried on by the Extension Service. Avoiding the mistakes of World War I, the emphasis has been placed on conservation methods as a means of increased production. Better methods of feeding livestock are emphasized on the experimental farms. The economics department studied the farm labor shortage problem. 27

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FACULTY M £ M B E H S I IV Civil Engineering Head L. 0. STEWART malces computations. Engineering Dean T. R. AGG examines worli done by defense training course students. Heating Engineer E. 0. OLSON of the Engi- neering Extension Service figures fuel savings. Religious Education Head JACK FINEGAN prepares for Matins, broadcast daily over WOI. PMS T, COL H. R. ODELL directs ROTC activities. Home Economics Dean GENEVIEVE FISHER conducts research in foods and textiles. s, CI e nee csDefende i ourAed C nlaraed The Science Division is providing addi- tional scientific training for warfare by add- ing coures on navigation ballistics, elec- tronics ballistics and other war materials. About a thousand students have taken ad- vantage of the all college lecture series, the Citizen and the World Crisis, sponsored by the Science Division. Wendel Willkie, 1 940 presidential candidate, started the series by urging that students remain at their studies until called for other duties. He said it was the duty of every citizen to remain at his job and do it better than ever before. Today, he went on, people of this nation realize that defeating another nation and then demand- ing reparations and indemnity are a sure road to further wars. Only by free exchange of ideas and goods can we hope for peace. With 80 percent of the instructors in the Science Division, tlie burden of the new de- fense courses shifted to the departments of the division. 26

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G SF R jj MoberU J4a6 erued 52 Uje ear 5 Maria M. Roberts— Chairman of the Alumni Fund— has been abroad five times and visited Mexico . . . has served 52 years at Iowa State as Dean of the Junior College, and mathematics pro- fessor ... is responsible for the $100,000 that ahmini have donated for student aid . . . has been Chairman of Student Loans for twenty years. Jovial George W. Godfrey— Director of Agri- cultural Relations— claims he is just an Iowa farmer . . . manages the 15 college farms scat- tered over Iowa as well as the 3,000 acres of land in the immediate vicinity . . . takes great pride in his gladiola bed . . . says he is about as much Yankee as you can get. GEORGE W. GODFREY MISS MARIA M. ROBERTS CHARLES H. BROWN Charles H. Brown— Iowa Stale Librarian— is ])rcsident of the American Library Association ... is Chairman of the A. L. A. Committee for National Defense . . . has been at Iowa State since 1922, during which time the size of the library has been increased from 90,000 to 315,000 volumes, and the use by students ten times. Amiable Dr. John Gray Grant supervises the Student Health Service and the Dei)artment of Hygiene . . . has a trained staff of 17 which haiulles oxer 40,(K)0 visits made annually to the hos- |)iial . . . physical examinations have Ix ' en an added duty since the Selective Service Act. UK. J. tj. liHANI 28