Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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 7 =0 the man who has done most to shape a constructive course for higher education in Oregon an educator who is an ardent advocate of public education in all its ranges, while recognizing the peculiar merits of the land grant college as the bulwark of our American citizenship,-an executive who has built up, through his genius for organization, an institution that has made a distinctive contribution in each phase of educational and scientific activity in which it has engaged, and that has made available to the homes and industries of all the people the helpful leadership of these activities,- a statesman in education, who as an exponent of vocational and technical training has always claimed for every student the right to a liberal as well as practical education,and who now, within the scope of his new and broader field as Chancellor of Higher Education in Oregon, can amply fulfill, through the several institutions, all the varied and exalted functions of that democratic and far-reaching philosophy,- a just and faithful administrator, who weighs all things in the even balance of established facts, who has the poise to resist being prodigal in the midst of plenty, and the vision to look beyond the lean provisions of adversity,- a prophet who has the power to give reality to his prophecies,- a fair-minded and congenial counselor of his colleagues,-a true friend and fatherly adviser of his students-to Dr. William Jasper Kerr, for thirty-eight years a college president, and for twenty-five of those years president of Oregon State College, constructive public servant, creative builder and truly noble character, we dedicate this issue of the BEAVER in a spirit of trust, honor and love.

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(Alumni) Edgar M. DeSpain, '28 John H. Logan,'28 Clarence C. Dickson, 10 D. C. Howard,'14 Loretta Becker McBride,'21 Harold Merriman,'32 Helen McFadden Kocken 14 Dorothy Linklater Coveil,'24 Katherine Strome Gibson,'19 Gertrude Settergren Doheny,'32 Lucile Gilbert,'32 Ray A. Needham,'14 Bess Marie Payne,'27 Charles W. Morris,'04 Gladys Fawver,'28 Fred Rucker,'33 George B. Hovenden,'33 MEMOHIAM