Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Maude Gilchrist Miss Maude Gilchrist is a native of Iowa, being a graduate of the Iowa State Normal School of which her father was president. FOI' further education she went to W'ellesley College but returned to the Iowa State Normal School to act as instructor in science. This position she maintained for three years when she was called to Wellesley to teach botany. During vacation she took special work at Harvard University under Dr. Groodale, and also at the Iowa Agricultural College. In 1896 she went abroad, spending :1 year in Grijttingen University, and upon her re- turn, accepted a position as lady princii pal in the Illinois Womans College at Jacksonville. Her past work has given her wide experience in the manner of teaching, and especially so, Where a large number of young ladies are in attendance, and this has placed her at the head of the woman's department, which position she has proved herself capable to fill. ZOE HEVTON Addison M. Brown , Addison lilaiuapeuce Brown, the present Secretary of the State Board of Agricul- ture and 0f the Agricultural College, w: s both at Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county, Mlchigan, Feb. 15, 1859. His parents were both natives of Vermont. His father, E. Lakin Brown, settled in Michigan, in 1831 arid was identified to a considerable extent With the growth and development of the state. He was a member of the Senate 0f1.855, when the act establishing the Agricultural College was passed. i Thesuhject of this sketch was edua 03th In the public schools of his native Villageend in 1.883 was graduated from the University of Michigan in the classi 021.1 .cours-e. RFHPEd upon the farm and fa- miliar With all its operations, it was not :trange that Mr. Brown should have gone 4ng COHQIR 1.2101; to the farm, Which he . I Carries nu m absentito. For some ten yEaPs he served as Director of the School Board at Schoolcraft, during which time the school was put upon the University list, where it has ever since re? mained. .In 1898 Mr. Brown was elected to the State Senate to represent the Ninth Sena- torial District, comprising the counties of Kalamazoo and Calhoun. During this session as Chairman of Committee on the Agricultural College and member of the University Committee, he was active in securing a large appropriation for the former and in obtaining a large increase in the permanent appropriation for the latter. His interest has always been largely identified with educational affairs of his locality and the state. His present position dates from June L 1902, when he took up his residence at the College and entered upon the duties of his office.

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Walter B. Barrows Professor of Zoology and Physiology was born at Grantville, Mass. He gradu- ated train the high school in 1872, and from the Huston Instiinle nf 'Fei'hunlngzv in 1876. In 1879 he went to Buenm Ayres, where he was an Assistant Profes- sm- of Chemistry and Physics. Upon his return to the I'llited States he was ap- pointed Instructm- of Science at the State Normal School, Westfield7 Mass., which position was resigned the following year to accept one as an Instructor of Zoology at the Wesleyan University, where he re- Being appointed assistant ornithologist at, the United States Department of Agri- vlllture, he went to W'nshington, D. C. In 1894 he left Washington to assunm his present work :It the Michigan Agrit-ul- turn! College. Prof. Burrows was one ul' the ehzu'tel' members of the American Urnitlmlogist's VniOIL is 2111 active member of most of our leading scientific societies and 0f the Zoological Society of France. Miss FELDKAMP. nmined. until 1886'. Geo. A. Waterman Mr. George A. Waterman was born in Salem, Michigan, in the your 1866. As a boy he lived on his fatheris farm and attended district school. After several years in attendance at the country dis- trict school he went to Northville, Michi- gan, where he spent two years in the high school. Mr. XVatel-mzm mine to M. A. G. in 1888. Because of his being cmnpelled to help himself through college he remained away for one year and a half to work, He also taught country schools during the long winter vacation to help defray college expenses. After complet- ing the four years agricullu 'all course he obtained a B. S. degTee. From M. A. 0., he went to Chicago to study veterinary science in the Chicago Veterinary tiiollege. Here he finished his course and graduated in 1893. After graduating he took charge of the veterin- au-y department of the Connecticut JXg'l'i cultural College. Here he remained un- til September, 1897, when he was given his present position at the head of the depart- ment of veterinary science at the Agri- cultural College of Michigan. L. D. BUSHNELL.

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Major William H. Kell. U. S. A. Major W'illiam H. Kell, U. S. A., Who succeeded Maj. C. A. Vernon, U. 81. A.. as Commandant at M. A. 11.. 011 March 21. 1904, has a record of which he may well be proud. He enlisted as private in Com- pany itFCi First Ohio Infantry. April 17. 1861. He served later in Company 71,7 0f the Second and Company E. of the l'lighteenth Ohio Infantry, until June 10, 1865. 011 December 12, 1872, he. was ap' pointed. Second Lieutenant. TITVventywsec- 011d Infantry and While serving in this eapaeity was made Brevet First Lieuten- ant for gallantry in action against the Indians at Clear Creek, Mont, on the 15th and 16th of October, 1876. He was made First Lieutenant, June 25, 1879 and served as Regimental Adjutant, Twenty- seeond Infantry from February 1, 1887 to February 9, 1891. On May 19, 1891, he was made. Captain and served as Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the First Pirig'ade, second. Division, Fifth Army Um-ps during the Cuban campaign. A board of officers recommended him for Brevet Major for service at El Caney. Wiha. 011 July 1. IHDS. He connnanded the Third Hatalion, Twenty-semnd Infan- try during; the Philippine campaign of 1.119 and was retired with the rank at Major on December 15. 1899. It was with sincere regret that the eel- legxe 10st Major Vernon. whose etlit-ienl service here is I'estitierl by the marked im- provement 0f the drill under his iiianage- nient. We hope that Major Kell may find his work pleasant and we feel sure that he will mntinne to make the drill as pleasant, and profitable as it has been in the past. R. U. Fmtlilm. F rank S. Kedzie l'i-ofesor Kedzie, the youngest of three sons of Dr. Kedzie, all of Whom were teaehers of Chemistry, was horn at V er- nmntville, May 12, 1857. There. being no district or grammar school near the college in the ,60is, his earlier instrnrtion 0211119 from private in- struetors engaged from the senior and junior classes. He was a member of the first Class who received instruction in the present chemical laboratory, graduating with the class of 1877 at M. A. C. The succeeding two years were. spent under Dr. H. 15. Baker, in the utIii'e 0f the Slate Hoard of Health; he then returned to the laboratory for further work. 111 1880, he was given the degree of .VI. 9. and appointed assistant in ehemis try. Seven years later he was made as- sistant professor. 111 18310 he went to Berlin and spent: a time as a student with Prof. A. W'. Von llofinann. He was appointed adjunct professor in the next year and returned in Berlin for- t'nrithet study in 119118. 111 1902. mi the retirement of Dr. Ked- zie, he was made professor of chemistiw. His until'ing' efforts to give, the best of his knowledge to those under him has placed him among the, furmmst as an in- stI-Ilrtor. . U. FOWLER.