Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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- :i-?———: - EDWARD MARTIN RANCK Honora ry President. In choosing Dr. E. M. Ranck as Honorary President, the Senior Class associated with itself a man who has gained notable recognition in his profession, who has rendered large services to the state and the nation in extra-vocational activities, and who has, through his personality, befriended and ennobled generation after generation of the A. M. students. Dr. Ranck was graduated in 1897 from one of the world ' s most distinguished schools in the line of his specialization, the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Promotion came rapidly to him, because he not only mastered with sur- passing thoroughness the details of the course, but with resourcefulness of mind, and con- fidence of practical grasp, he has met all new situations: and he has. from time to time, made conspicuous contributions to veterinary knowledge. Today, though still a young man. Dr. Ranck wears many of the most enviable distinctions of his craft. He is Pro- fessor of Veterinary Medicine at A. M., State Veterinarian for Mississippi, Member of the Mississippi Live Stock Sanitary Hoard, and moving spirit of the State Veterinary Association, and has also been four times Vice-President of the American Association of Veterinary Medicine, and Chairman, from time to time, of the most constructive commit- tees of that organization, including those on Pharmacopeia, Diseases, and Education. Dr. Ranck ' s usefulness cannot be confined to his merely professional activities. It is not, in fact, an easy matter to make catalog of his manifold enterprises. He has been singularly devoted to the progress of Mississippi agriculture and has written bulletins to stimulate interest and clarify understanding along the lines of agricultural problems. He has been prominent in the fraternal circles, having been signally honored in the large brotherhoods of the Masons and of the Shriners. Perhaps Dr. Ranck ' s greatest service has been rendered as a member of the War Department ' s great committee on Education and Special Training, in which capacity he shared with many leading educators the duty of working out the educational program for the mighty army of our country. But as friend and counselor Dr. Ranck is best known to the A. M. boy. No one has given himself more unstintedly, more sincerely to promoting the welfare of the stu- dent life collectively, and to ministering to the boys individually than has Dr. Ranck. He is borne in grateful remembrance by a multitude of former A. M. boys who have known the depths of his friendship and who bear in their loftier character and nobler ideals the perpetuation of his influence. Page Twenty

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