University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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ALLAN REGINALD CULLIMORE Prof. Cullimore was born at Jacksonville, 111., in March, 1884. He attended the Belmont School, Belmont, Cal.. and took his scientific training at the Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1907 with the B. S. degree. The next year he was Assistant in Civil E ngineering there. Afterward he did practical work with the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey on the Columbia River, Washington; was engaged by the American Bridge Co., at their New York office; was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Construction for the city of St. Louis, serving for two years ; and he was designing Engineer for the Spuck Iron Foundry Co. of St. Louis. He has been Dean of the College of Industrial Science at Toledo University, in Ohio, and for the past three summers taught railroad and topographical fieldwork at the summer Engineering Camps of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in eastern Maine. He was elected Dean of Engineering at Delaware this year. Prof. Cullimore is a member of the Beta Theta Phi Fraternity, the Ohio Society of Steam, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He has brought to the engineers here a genuine interest in their work, and a spirit of animation which grows as time passes. With his wide experience and well deserved popularity among the students, he is forming a technical school of the first order at Delaware College.

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HARRY HAYWARD Dean Hayward was born near Lewistown, N. Y., in 1869. After preparing at the Mount Hermon School, in Massachusetts, he entered the College of Ag- riculture at Cornell in 1890. After graduating he was a land agent in northern Delaware, and later went to State College, Pa., where he acted as head of the Department of Dairying. He then accepted a position as Professor of Dairying and Animal Husbandry at New Hampshire College. From there he went to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and was chief of the Dairy Division. He was engaged in organizing and managing the agricul- tural work at the Mount Hermon School for three years, and came to Delaware in 1906 as Director of the Experiment Station, and professor of Agriculture. He has done special work at Harvard, the University of Minnesota, and some of the agricultural institutions of England and Germany. He is a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and the honorary Fraternities of Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi. Dean Hayward is a man of great energy and constructive ability, a leader in every sense of the word. His social spirit and the splendid character of his work at Delaware are appreciated by all.

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Since the Last Blue Hen Being a Chronology of Happenings at Delaware College Since the Publication of the Last Blue Hen in Nineteen Hundred and t t j» j» Fifteen jt jt j» j» j» Gifts to the College O N November 30, 1915, at a meeting of the board of trustees, Mr. Rodney Sharp announced a gift to Dela- ware College of five hundred thousand dollars. The donor preferred that his name should not be mentioned. This meeting of the board on Tuesday, November 30th, 1915, is the most notable that has occurred in the history of the college since its found- ing. This gift was the first of many which were to fol- low. And subsequent gifts from the same source have brought the total amount to more than a million dollars. That was a great moment, when by a brief announce- ment, in an instant was made possible the realization of the dreams and ideals of those who for years have worked patiently on in behalf of Delaware College. From that instant the college was on a new plane of existence. Her possibilities for usefulness were placed on an almost limitless scale. Material Growth For the first term of this year one might easily have mistaken the campus of Delaware College for a European battlefield. The new campus was plowed and the top soil piled in four rows, each one a quarter of a mile long. The students had almost literally taken to tents. And those buildings which still