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

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jeEVESTiL 15 DR. HARRY J. PATTERSON (iur S tirtng J r aib nt OR. PATTERSON is a native of Pennsylvania, and a graduate of tlic Pennsylvania College, from which institution he received his degree before he was twenty years old. After graduation he came to Maryland, where he accepted a position as chemist at the Experiment Station, which position he held for ten years. Since then ne has been Director of the Experiment Station, and has always shown a lively interest in all matters pertaining to the advancenwnt of agriculture in Maryland. In December, 1913, he assumed the duties of President of the Maryland Agricultural College. He found conditions none too favorable when he took the helm, but in 1917, as he turns over to another the leadership which he assumed only at the repeated requests of his many friends, he leaves the . gricultural College of Maryland on the highway of success. Besides his duties as President of the College and as Director of the Experiment Station, Dr. Patterson has always taken an active part in scientific matters and especially m those concerning the development of agriculture in the State. He is a member of the leading Chemical Societies, of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Society of Chemical Industries of London. For the last four years Dr. Patterson has lal)ored under an unusually heavy burden and under many difficulties, but despite these handicaps he has accomplished much. He nas seen clearly the agricultural possibilities of Maryland, and realized that they could be best developed through the building up of her Agricultural College to the highest point of efficiency. If he has not realized his greatest ambitions for Maryland ' s advancement, it is due to no fault of his own. We understand that he intends to devote his entire time to the work of the Experiment Station, and he deserves the confidence and good wishes of the people of the State. 26

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jeEvieTCz: o DR. ALBERT F. WOODS R. ALBERT F. WOODS was born in Illinois, December 25, 1866, bis father being a well-known stock specialist. After being gradnated from the University of Nebraska he became an instrnctor in the Botanical Department of the University, and at the same time took np post-graduate work leading to a Masters degree. In 1893 he was appointed to the position of Assistant Chief of the Division of Plant Pathology of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1905 Dr. Woods was selected by the President to represent the United States in the founding of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. He was, the same year, designated by the President to represent the United States at the International Botanical Congress at Vienna, Austria. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Botanical Society of America, of the Washington Academy of Sciences, and of the American Society of Agronomy. He is also a life member of the National Farmers Congress and, tho last, to Marylanders not the least, a member of the Eureka Chapter of the State Grange of Alaryland. Since 1910 Dr. Woods has been at the head of the Agricultural Department of the University of Minnesota, and acting president in the absence of the Executive. On July I, 1917, Dr. Woods will become President of the Maryland State College, and Maryland is extremely fortunate in securing such a man as Dr. Woods as the executive head of her Agricultural College. He is a man of untiring energy, and his efforts in the past have met with no small measure of success. It seems that dreams are coming true ; our hopes are at last to be realized. With Dr. Woods at the head of the State College, supported by a loyal alumni, and by die people of the entire State, we expect to see the Maryland S ate College, carrying with lier the best interests of the people, advancing by leaps and bounds, until she is second to no land-grant college in the country. 27