Sumner High School - Sumnerian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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cherrustry have enabled h1m to form a new theory of the brownmg reacnon whtch occurs ln sugar amme systems found lfl common foods Brownmg 1S a form of deterloratlon and sertous loss of quahty that many concentrated and dehydrated foods undergo when stored John has been clted by the government for tus work m thts f1e1d and h1s ass1stance xn developmg dextran a blood plasma extender The K U chemxst has rece1ved mternatlonal recogmtxon for h1s research and he st1ll fondly remembers chem1stry Professors Cady Brewster Davtdson Dams Taft and Weeks whose lIlSD1l'3Il0l'la1 teachmg IS the cause and the backbone of all my present work The f1rst recognmon of John s research ab111ty was glven when the Northern Regtonal Lab oratory had the opportumty of sendmg one of tts research chemxsts to the Umverslty of Mm nesota to study the method of producmg dextrans Hodge was chosen from several hundreds of chemlsts to represent the Lab ln th1s proyect He has been granted one patent by the Uruted States Patent OfflC6 m Washmgton and has three others pendmg on chem1cal processes The young chemlst has addressed meet1ngs 1n the followxng C1Il6S Kansas C1ty M1ssour1 forma S1nce he recexved the Washmgton Award he has been on a ten day v1s1t1ng tr1p at the request of the government to mspect educauonal mstltuttons and prtvate laboratorxes from Washmgton to New York C1ty and through Buffalo and Detroxt John attended Stowe Elementary School Northeast J umor Hlgh School and Sumner H1gh School m Kansas C1ty Kansas h1s place of btrth H1s parents are John A Hodge former pr1nc1pal of Sumner Htgh School for 35 years and Anna B Hodge He recetved h1s bachelor of arts degree from the Un1vers1ty of Kansas m 1936 ma1or1ng m mathemat1cs and h1s master s degree m 1938 mayormg ln chermstry John was elected to the Ph1 Beta Kappa Fratermty at the end of the f1rst semester of h1s semor year at the Umverstty of Kansas Durmg the summer of 1938 he was employed as gasohne tester 111 Topeka Kansas Hodge taught cherrnstry and mathemaucs at Western Umverslty from September 1937 to March 1941 He was marr1ed to M1ss Bulah Payne fnow deceasedj of St LOUIS MISSOUFI a cherrustry major at the Un1vers1ty of Kansas March 4 1939 from whxch umon John L Hodge now lll the mnth grade at Northeast J uruor Hlgh was born In 1951 John marrled M1ss Justme M1tchell of Kewanee 111111015 and now hves tn Peorta Ill1no1s. Milwaukee, Wisconsing Grand Rapids, Michigan: Lake Park, Wisconsing and Los Angeles, Cali-

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,ata tandmg aeumnuas JOHN EDWARD HODGE Class of 32 'Yam In May 1953 as a result of his research success in the browning of food John Edward Hodge, research chemist in the Umted States Agricultural Department Peoria Illinois was called to Waslungton by the Secretary of Agnculture Benson to recelve special award and gold medal for successful researdl. His researches in browning have been pubhshed ll'l thelournal of the American Chemical Society and have attracted the attention of chemists and manufacturers lnpractically all the European countries Reprmts of these articles have been in greater demand than any other re prints cn the Northern Regional Laboratory A prinnng of 500 copies was soon exhausted According to the University of Kansas Alumni Magazine of November 1953 JohnE Hodge class of 36 to 40 has contributed some original and SlQ11fiC3.l'lI finds to the chemistry of foods His studies for the Northernlleglonal Research Laboratory of the bureau of agricultural c 1 4 . V en, , A , . ' , i ' va At f, 74v',, ,f 7 3, f . 5' 1 lazy'-V ,,,'3f f A49 'ad ,A f 'A ' I , ' A ' y j ffff EY ,V .V Q I ' I Y I I . - . . , u , . . I U I I .

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Uie Dicfcena, .Seaman ap,p,wn,tice Allie Mae Dickens, graduate of the U. S. Naval Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes, Illinois, is now sea man apprentice. Miss Dickens was graduated from the school on March 12, 1953. ' flldbfusw ,' I. I 4-4uAA -4-Q 1, - 7 I'-.