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

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Ag School Loses Dean To Assistance Project Dr. A. D. (Dad) Weber left his post as Dean of Agriculture this year to become head administrator of an important Ford Foundation project in India. To accept the assignment in India, which will last a minimum of 20 months, Weber was granted leave without pay. He will direct a $150 million five-year program which will carry out recommendations to assist India increase food production. The post he holds is one of the most important assignments in America ' s technical assistance program in the free world. The Ford Foundation is to be closely coordi- .t ' ' iM ' ' ll Ernest Mader, professor of agronomy, discusses quality of grain sorghums with several students on a field trip. On leave from K-State, former Dean of Agriculture A. D. Weber will direct a Ford Foundation project. i Promoted from director of Agriculture Extension, Glenn Beck moves up into the position of Dean of Agriculture. With the Am of delicate grain scales, feed technology students work to establish the federal grades of grain. 21

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Agriculture Council— Top Row. Don Calkins, David Wilson, Gary Harmon, Ralph Gillniore, Neil Dowlin, Marion Karr, Norman Werner, Larry Waite, James Hoiick. Second Row. Larry Ihrig, Ron McCune, Dan H Ijskmann, Jack Chairman, Steve Robb, Scott Hackett, Richard Rosenhagen, Lloyd Rooney, Leroy Lang. Bottom Row: Larry Bacon, Larry Larson, Robert Lewis, Richard Rees, Dell Allen, Wayne Grover. I nated with other assistance programs in India, in- cluding the one in which K-State is engaged. Weber Widely Recognized Weber had been Dean of Agriculture at K-State since 1952. He is recognized internationally as the top judge of beef cattle and has judged where no other American has ever done so. He was recently honored at the American Royal by the 1960 A. D. ( Dad ) Weber American Royal Cattle show. Beck Receives Deanship Glenn Beck, form er extension director, succeeded Weber as dean. Throughout the year, he directed the research which plays an important part in the school. Dr. William Chepil, recognized as a world- wide authority on erodability of soil, has done re- search in Africa and other nations plus the United States. The effect that gamma radiation has on the enzyme systems of wheat was studied by Dr. E. Pek- ka Linko, of flour and feed milling. His work cen- tered on the improvement of bread. Tliree professors, Charles Hall, Dorothy Harrison, and David Macintosh, discovered some startling new results on the effect at resting hogs before killing in relation to the quality of meat. The Poultry depart- ment stacked layers of chickens practicallv on top of Now SERVING his fifth year as dean of resident instruc- tion in the School of Agriculture is C. Peairs Wilson. Harold E. Jones, director of extension, helps to place foreign students in International Farm Youth Excliange.