University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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jeEVES:X5 WILLIAM W. SKINNER Dr. William W, Skinner was born in Baltimore, larj ' land, in 1874. He received his early edncation m the public schools of Dorchester County, and at Cambridge High School. He graduated from the Maryland Agricultural College in 1895. and received the degree of Master of Science from George Wash- ington Univers ity. . He has been assistant chemist at M. A. C. and at the University of Arizona and Experiment Station, Food Inspection Chemist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Chief of Water Laboratory, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, which position he holds at present. He is the author of many bulletins on chemical sub- jects. He is a past President of the Washington Chemical Society and a member of Washington Academy of Sciences. B. JOHN BLACK Mr. John Black was born and raised in Baltimore County, where he is now operating one of the largest farms in his district. He has always lived on the farm, and has taken an active interest in all move- ments for the uplift of agriculture in his county and state. He is now serving his second term as blaster of the Maryland State Grange. In 1916 he was appointed by Governor Harrington, a trustee of the Maryland State College, and also a member of the State Board of Agriculture. HENRY HOLZAPFEL, Jr. Mr. Henry Holzapfel was born in Hagerstovvu, Md., in 1869. He was educated in private schools in Washington County. In 1889 he entered the Mary- land Agricultural College and received his degree in 1893. Since graduation he has been located at Hagerstown, Maryland, of which town he is Mayor. He is also President of the Hagerstown Railroad, and a most progressive farmer. He was appointed a Trustee of the Maryland State College in 1916. 23

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