New Mexico State University - Swastika Yearbook (Las Cruces, NM)

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Personal data :- Born in Rockwall, Texas, on September 14, 1890. Previous education in Las Cruces public and private schools. Entered N. M. A. C. in 1903. Course-Agricultural. Thesis-The Improvement of the New Mexico Horse. Future plans-Going east so that be can say that he has been somewhere Aspirations-To clomesticate the local house Hy. A K College aciivities:- GEORGE ROBINSON QUESENBERRY, FO0tbal1 Team-1909-10 Lag Cruces, New Mexico. Agf1CU1tUfal Page Twenty-fi Lincoln Literary Society. Class President-1909. Major of the Battalion-1911. Minerva Literary Society. Son Of Rest.

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1 SEWALL EGBERT MERRILL, Los Tanos, New Mexico. Personal data :- Born in Davenport, Iowa, on August 27, l89l. Previous education obtained in the public schools of Colorado Springs, and Del Norte, Colorado, and Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Also l-ligh School of the latter town. Entered N. M. A. C. in l907. Cc-urse pursued-Agricultural. Thesis-The Effect of Soil Texture on the Wilting Point of Plants. Plans for the future-To get an M. S. in Agriculture at Cornell and then to follow Experiment Station work. Aspirations-To fulfill the qualification that mal-ies a man worth 52000.00 in the Foreign field instead of fBl0O0.00. College activities :- Main diversion is to daily count the ties on that section of the Santa Fe tracks just west of the College. Minor pursuits have been: Minerva Literary Society-l907-09. Mutual Improvement Association-l9lO. Phi Alpha Tau-l9lO. Orchestra-l 907-I 0. Football Team Manager-l909-l 0. Track Team-l909. Agricultural Club-i907-l Ig Vice-President-l908g Secretary-l909. Band-l908-l0g Chief Musician-l909-IO. Indian Club-l908-09. Assistant Editor of the Round-Up-l908-09. St. James Morning Choir-l9l 0. Literary Editor of the Swastika-l909. K. Cu. O.-l9l l. Editor of the Swastika-l9l0. Athletic Association Board-191 I. The Y. M. C. A.-l907-l l 5 Cabinet-l908g Treasurer-l9lO. A Son of Rest -l9l0. Student Body Representative to the Round-Up-l9l0. K. K. K.-l9l0. Member Coonville I-loboesi' Company-l909. Current Topics Club-l9l0-l l. P T t f

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CLARENCE PENDLETON WILSON, M. S. Mesilla Park, New Mexico. Mr. Wilson is an active local alumnus from the class of '08. Since graclu- ating C, P. has clivicled his time about equally between stenographic work and farming. This school year he has been connected with the College as Station Stenographer, ancl with his excellent business ability ancl systematic methods he has founcl time to carry along the work of an M. S. degree in agriculture. Mr. Wilson says little but dc-es much, and this is the type of man needed today in the western country. The subject of his M. S. thesis is: Pecan Culture as Aclaptecl to Mesilla Valley Conditions. Page Twehtj'-SiX