University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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wu LUjO Cf. N Vie e i ji Hon. Henry Horner Governor of lUinois Board of Trustees Hon. Louis I.. Emmebson Formpr Governor of Illinois Governor of Illinois Hon. Henry H. Horner Springfield Superinlendenl of Public Instruction Hon. Francis G. Blair Springfield OFFICERS OF THE BOARD Edward E. Barrett, LaGrange .... President Frank M. Gordon, Chicago ... Treasurer Harrison E. Cunningham, Urbana .... Secretary Lloyd Morey, Urbana Comptroller ELECTED MEMBERS James W. Armstrong Rock Island Orville M. Kakraker Harrisburg George A. Barr Joliet K.ARL A. Meyer Chicago Edward E. Barrett La Grange Merle J. Trees Chicago Nellie V. Freeman Mattoon Walter W. Williams Benton El V k ' . 1 Cunningham Mo rey Armstrong Gordon Page 21

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imy MJlo c£ Hcneiezruju: Edward E. Barrett President, Board of Trustees To the Students of Illinois: PROBABLY no other stiulents in the history of the University have met with quite the same conditions econoniioally tliat have occurred durino; your college career. You entered the University at the beginning of a great era of economic recession and unless all signs fail, ou will be leaving the University at the beginning of a new era of progress. There will be a great opportunity for you to assist in so shaping the era of progress that the mistakes which have brought about the era of recession may never occur again. You have had to give more thought to the serious things of life than those who preceded you. Your characters have been strengthened thereby and ou will therefore be better prepared to meet the prob- lems of the future. As representing the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, I greet you as a body of students with great opportunities for distinction and one that, profiting by its four years of unusual experience, will accept the challenge and press on to greater accomplishments. I ' residciit. Board of Trustees W Bla Pagi- 20

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im I LLuo of. WurvsiejmJjuL MiLO Smith Ketchum, 95, Dean of the College of Engineering, was born in Kewanee, Illinois, on January 26, 1872. Since finish- ing his undergraduate work he has been constantly connected with universities, except for two brief periods. In 1897-99 he served as bridge and structural engineer for the Gillell-Herzog Manu- facturing Company, and in 1903-04 he was with the American Bridge Company in Kansas City. During the war he was Assistant Director of the LI. S. Government Explosives Plant in adminis- trative charge of the construction of the Smokeless Powder Plant at Nitro, West Virginia. Before assuming his present position in 1922, he served in similar capacities at the University of Colorado from 1905 to 1919, and at the Universitv of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1922. Dean Milo S. KETrnuM The CoUeg-e of Engineering THE history of the College of Engineering is as old as that of anv of the Colleges in the University, for in May, 1867, at its second meeting, the Board of Trustees adopted the report of its Committee on Courses of Sttidy and Faculty which provided for the establishment of courses in Mechanical Science and Art. Civil En- gineering, Mining Engineering and Metallllrg , and Architecttire and Fine Arts. Instruction in Engineering began January 1, 1870. but announcements of the curricula in Engineering were not ptib- lished until 1871-72. when four curricula were offered: nanielv. Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Architecture. Toda the College of Engineering offers twelve curricula and has a splendidK equipped Experiment Station which does research work, in all branches of Engineering. Graduate work in engineering has been increasing markedK in the last lew years, and the several en- gineering departments are developing their graduate courses as rapidh as iheir resources will permit. The work of the Engineering Experiment Station, which dates from 190.3, is probably imequalled anywhere in the United States. Engineering Building Pag,-