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

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Administrators of the School of Agriculture and the agricul- tural experiment stations are Clyde W. Mullen and Harold E. Myers, assistant deans; Arthur D. Weber, dean; and C. Peairs Wilson, assistant director of the experiment stations. Dean Weber Heads Ag School Dr. Arthur D. Weber, noted internationally as a cattle show judge, was elevated to the post of ag school dean on July 1, 1952. Weber, the first animal hus- bandry man ever to hold the job, has been on the Kan- sas State staff for 23 years. He was head of the animal husbandry department from 1944 to 1950 and was asso- ciate dean from January 1950 to July 1952. Dr. Weber was recognized as an outstanding live- stock man by the Saddle and Sirloin club at the 1952 International Livestock Exposition. A banquet was given in his honor at which time his portrait was hung in the Saddle and Sirloin room to commemorate the occasion. Dr. Harold E. Myers, agronomy department head, was appointed assistant dean. He will supervise the experiment stations at Fort Hays, Mound Valley, Garden City, Colby, and Tribune. Prof. C. Peairs Wilson will serve as assistant director of the experiment stations. The Kansas State agricultural experiment stations work in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture in helping to develop and expand theories of agriculture which can be applied by Kansas farmers to solve their practical problems. 31

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East Waters hall, one of the few places in the world where students can obtain training in milling ad- ministration, milling chemistry, and milling technology is now connected to West Waters hall by the new wing. The office of the dean of agriculture and several ag school departmental offices have been moved from East Waters into the new wing. 30

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Ag Association Officers top row. Jay Zimmer- man, Richard Fleming, Harold Reed. Bottom row: Douglass Fell, George D. Wingert, and John Schovee. Ag Association Directs Ag Week President John Schovee headed the executive body of the Agricultural association which had 961 members this year. Sponsored by Dr. Milton Manuel, this group conducted the annual Ag Week activities, the Ag Barn- warmer, the publication of the Kansas Agricultural Student, and the monthly seminars of the ag school. Scholarships or fellowships available for students in agriculture include the Borden Fellowship which provides for two scholarships in dairy husbandry. The Carl Raymond Gray fund is given by the Union Pacific Railroad for 4-H and vocational agriculture winners. Kroger awards and the Sears Roebuck scholarships pro- vide awards for 15 freshmen and one sophomore an- nually. The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills company offers a scholarship to the outstanding freshman in milling each year. Richard Robertson received this year ' s School of Agriculture department heads F. W. Atkeson, dairy husbandry; Rufus F. Cox, animal husbandry; George Montgomery, agricultural economics; R. V. Olson, agronomy; scholarship as an outstanding student. Courses in agriculture have been taught at the Col- lege for 89 years. Along with the other departments and schools of KSC, the School of Agriculture was established by the Board of Regents in 1912. Dr. Raymond V. Olson was promoted on July 1, 1952, to the head of the department of agronomy, suc- ceeding Dr. Harold Myers, who moved to assistant dean of the school. Doctor Olson and the other department heads will serve in the administration of the School of Agriculture. The school is divided into seven de- partments representing almost every phase of agrarian operations. These departments include animal husban- dry; dairy husbandry; agriculture economics; agronomy; poultry husbandry; horticulture: and flour and feed milling industries. Loyal F. Payne, poultry husbandry; William F. Pickett, horti- culture; and John A. Shellenberger, flour and feed milling industries. -.1 32