North Dakota State University - Bison Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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n .- Q,-pf' 1 '--Q-at .,..- +- V . rw.- -S ,-- gh . is-?'7'l Dean H. L. Walster The dean of agriculture since 1924, Dr. H. L. Walster was farm born and raised in southern Wis- consin. He came to North Dakota in 1919 after serving 11 years as assistant professor of soils at the University of Wisconsin. During his period at the University of Wisconsin he spent one year as a Sumner scholarship student at Harvard, where he received his master's degree in botany and chemistry. He received his doc- torate after a year's study at the University of Chicago where he majored in botany. On the basis of a summa cum laude on his doctorate thesis he was elected to the Illinois Beta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The collection of books on the livestock i Agriculture World events continue to beat upon American agriculture. North Dakota agri- culture and North Dakota's agricultural students and faculty feel the impact of those events every day. Seniors who had ex- pected to return to the farm or to become teachers of vocational agriculture or assist- ant county agents find themselves called to the armed services of the nation. Toward the end of last year your Dean had an op- portunity to study the world-wide impacts of changing events in a ten-weeks' tour of South America. That experience taught him that the whole hemisphere is feeling the shock of war and that agriculture in particular suffers the loss of normal mar- kets. Returning to the NDAC, your Dean came back more convinced than ever that a modern agricultural education must be something more than learning about crops and livestock, about markets and prices, and about horse power and engine power. Agri- cultural education must include the broad sweep of world geography, an understand- ing of peoples, and a much wider under- standing of changing technology. h story of the northern great plains and travel are his hobbies. A recent trip to South America only served to increase his interest in our neighbors to the south. Orville Stanley and Del Col- well look over a top while Joe Schiele holds the subject in a class in livestock judging.