Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Improve- ments the outstand- ing additions to the phy- sical property of the col- lege for the past school year, has been the in- stallation of a much needed basket locker sys- tem utilized by nearly 1,500 men at the college. Though laying no claims to being directly responsible for the in- stallation of the lockers, certainly it is that a crusade carried on in the Kansas State Collegian, aided in bringing to light the insanitary condi- tions existing formerly, in which approximately 1,500 men used 500 lockers. Further landscaping of the campus has been another quite noticeable development with the removal of the large bushes along the walk in front of Calvin Hall, and the construction of a pleasing entrance at the south of Nichols Gymnasium. At the March opening of the 1935 Engi- neer ' s Open House, a monument was unveiled at the triangular strip southwest of Engineer- ing Hall by Sigma Tau, honorary engineering organization. In the college 20-year program under cam- pus development, are listed numerous sug- gestions and recommendations for the next decade. Working on Landscaping Project . Page 17 The New Gym Lockers, Needed fur Years Rigid adherence to the present policy of constructing all college buildings of native limestone has been urged. Among the build- ings which it is hoped may be provided as rapidly as possible, are a physical science building to replace Denison Hall; a student infirmary; completion of Waters Hall; a new and greatly enlarged group of greenhouses to be situated off the campus; an extension service building; a biological science hall; a new gymnasium and armory for men; re- modeling of Nichols Gymnasium as a gym- nasium for women; a field house; additions to the engineering unit; conversion of the present auditorium into a music hall; enlargement of Anderson Hall to include more administrative offices and a greatly enlarged student center; a campanile; completion of the library; addi- tions to the veterinary unit; two new residence halls for women; four new residence halls for men; improved quarters for the social studies group; and a new building for labora- tories and offices for scien- tists stationed at the col- lege by the Federal Gov- ernment. These were only a few of the recommendations made by the special com- mittee on Campus De- velopment.

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Learning to do what you don ' t want to do when you don ' t want to do it, has been the philosophy of education of Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones, honored as a pioneer leader in the field of home economics at the University of Wisconsin. Kedzie Hall on our campus, is a constant reminder to Kansas State students of this alumna. ' 91, became professor of landscape architecture at Massachusetts State College, where he has gained wide recognition in his field. Another Kansas State alumnus at the same eastern school is Fred C. Sears, ' 92, pro- fessor of pomology. Each summer he teaches at the Grenfel Missions in Labrador. In Hawaii, John Milton Westgate, ' 97, was Office of the Alumni Secretary Kansas State alumni have their George Washington. He is George Washington Wil- don, consulting engineer for the Westinghouse Airbrake Company. When awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1935, he said naively, A tornado wouldn ' t have surprised me more. Seems like they ' d forget a fellow after 43 years. Samuel Pickard, now vice-president of the Columbia Broadcasting system must have been an amusing disturbance while at Kansas State. As publicity director of the extension division and in charge of KSAC radio pro- grams, he nearly succeeded one year in kid- napping the queen of some kind of wheat festival here, as a publicity stunt. Head of the division of domestic science at the University of California at Los Angeles, is the position occupied by Helen Bishop Thompson, ' 03, though she counts mathe- matics and chemistry as her most decided interests while in school here. After two years of newspaper work, and after serving as professor of horticulture for a time at Oklahoma A and M, Frank A. Waugh, until recently director of the Hawaiian agri- cultural experiment station and is now pro- fessor of tropical agriculture at the University of Hawaii. One of Kansas ' outstanding farmers and cattlemen, is Henry Rogler, ' 98, who during his undergraduate career was dubbed Soy Beans because of his enthusiasm in agricul- tural sciences. Concerning William Arthur Hogan, ' 15, now dean of the New York Veterinary College at Cornell University, Dean R. R. Dykstra of the Division of Veterinary Medicine has stated, I feel that no graduate in veterinary medicine has progressed higher in his chosen profession than he. No record of outstanding Kansas State alumni is complete without including Dr. J. T. Willard, ' 83. His record of service for the college has few parallels. One of the cleverist administrative minds in Washington today, is credited to another alumnus, Milton S. Eisenhower, ' 24, who is director of information for the United States Department of Agriculture. Pate 16

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