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

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1ANY people believe that the College ' s greatest service to the State is its program of research which started at Kansas State as field work on the College farm, but has expanded rapidly in the last 50 years. In 1950, for example, 85 per cent of the corn acreage in Kansas was in hybrid varieties developed largely by agricultural researchers at the College. These strains have increased income from corn by $21 million annually. Victoria blight has been conquered by Chero- kee and Nemaha oat varieties developed at K-State, a victory which adds $5 million annually to farm income. Developed in the last decade, have been Pawnee, Wichita, and Comanche wheat varieties, whose resistance to disease and drouth have added $60 mil- lion yearly to farm income. Kansas cattlemen, for another example, have increased beef production by 26 mil- lion pounds a year through feeding methods developed at Kansas State. Blackleg, which once decimated Kansas herds, has been all but eliminated by a vaccine developed by College researchers. Although the research is carried on through the Agricultural Experiment Station, it entails cooperation with the departments of physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, zo- ology, entomology, and the schools of home economics and veterinary medicine. The Engineering Experiment Station has also contributed to the State by means of longer life for highways through testing and improving highway materials. New uses for Kansas agricultural waste products and natural resources have been developed. Time and motion studies conducted at the College have increased efficiency in institutions, in industrial processes, and in the homes of thousands of Kansas housewives. Research at Kansas State College has meant a happier, healthier people in a better, more prosperous State.

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Dr. J. A. McCain Succeeds Eisenhower inaugurated as tenth KSC president Dr. James A. McCain succeeded Milton S. Eisen- hower as President of Kansas State on July 1, bringing to the task of presidency an abundance of energy and years of exper- ience as an edu- cator and ad- ministrator. The new president, a na- tive of York, S. C, was gradu- ated i n 1926 from Wofford College, Spar- tanburg, N. C, with an AB. He earned his mas- ter ' s a t Duke University, Dur- ham, N. C, in 1929, and his doctor ' s at Stanford in 1947. Dr. McCain believes that two of the more important agencies in adult education are the newspaper and the land grant college. His convictions about the role of the newspaper were formed partly when he served as a reporter for t he Daily Piedmont in Greenville, S. C, and as chief editorial writer for the Fort Collins, ( Colo. ) Express-Courier. He also taught journalism and English at Colorado A M, beginning in 1929- In 1934 he became assis- tant to the president there, and in 1939, Dean of Per- sonnel. In 1942 he was made Dean of the Division of Vocational Education and Director of the Summer Session. His career as an educator was interrupted in 1942 by the war, but his abilities were used by the Navy to streamline its selection and classification of enlisted personnel. He was cited by the late James Forrestal. then secretary of the Navy, and was later called to the C. 0. PRICE has completed 30 years as assist- ant to the President under four administra- tions, beginning with President W. Jardine. U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis to lecture on mili- tary personnel administration. His naval experience included sea duty aboard a destroyer. After release from active duty in 1945, he was named president of Montana State, remaining there until last summer when he became the tenth president of Kansas State. He was officially inauguarated as President in the Fieldhouse, February 16. As a state institution, but a non-political one, the College must have a link with the government of the State. This link is provided by the nine-man State Board of Regents, which exercises general governing power over eight State institutions. The Board holds regular meetings on the third Friday of each month in the State House at Topeka. It appoints the President of the College, and acts on his recommendations in appointing personnel and fixing salaries. Membership of the Board changed during the school A. L. PUGSLEYas Dean of Administration is responsible for the general academic administration, the Veterans Service Office, and general administration of the Library. He is also Director of Summer School. 21