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

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FRANK JOHNSON GOODNOW IJr. Frank j. (ioodnow was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his A.B. degree, 1879, and his A.M., 1887. from Amherst, and his LL.B., 1882. from Cokmibia. He stuched at tlie licole Libre des .Sciences F )hti(jues, Paris, and at the University of Berhn. He received liis LL.D. degree, Amherst, 1898; Columljia., 1904; Harvard, 1908; Brown, 1914. In 1911-12 he was a member of President Taft ' s Commission on Economy and Efficiency. In 1913-14 he was Legal Adviser to the Government of tlie Republic of China. Since 1914 he has been F ' resident of Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a number of Ixioks on legal and i:)olitical subjects. CARL RAYMOND GRAY Hon. Carl Gra} ' was born in Princeton, Ark., September 28, 1867. He began his long railway service, .March 20, 1883. Ever since that date he has been ir. the service of some railway company. He began his career as telegraph operator and station agent, and has been, in turn, general Western agent, district freight agent, commercial agent, general manager and ])resident of two railways before he was made president of the Western Maryland Railway in 1914. He was ap])ointed a trustee of the Maryland State College in 1916. ALBERT W. SISK Col. Albert W. .Sisk has been ])rominent in educational and financial circles in the State for a number of years. He has served in the State Legislature, was apj)onted Colonel on the staff of former Cioxernor John ' alter Smith, was foi- .i number of years Chairman of the Caroline County School Board, and was named by former (iovernor CJoldsborough as a member of the I ' -ducational .Survev Board which framed the new School Laxv of Maryland. In 1912 he was elected a trustee of the Maryland .Agricultural College, and was appointed bv Governor Harringtton as one of the Charter Trustees of the Marvland State College when it was reorganized in i»;H). L ' olonel .Sisk has large interests in the canning and t)rchard industries on both the Eastern and Western Shores. He has been one of the i)rominent residents of Preston, Caroline County, for a number of years. 11

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Board of Trustees SAMUEL MOOR SHOEMAKER Hon. Samuel M. Slioemaker was born in lialtiniore. December 7. i8()T. He received liis early education at ])rivate schools in Baltimore and at the Military School in New Haven. Conn. He graduated from Princeton with the Class of ' 83. He has been furnishing milk for the Walker-Cordon Laboratories since 1896. He has been, at different times, a member of the ] Iarvland State Roads Commission, Secretary of Committee that drafted the State Aid to Roads Law, member l xecutive Committee American Guernsey Cattle Club, member Mary- land State ] .oad Commission, and member of the F.xecutive Committee Certi- fied Milk Producers ' Association of America. For several years he has been President of the Maryland .Agricultural Society, and in 191 () he was made Presi- dent of the ]5oard of l.ducation of Baltimore County. ROBERT GRAIN Hon. Robert Crain was born in Charles Count}-, Maryland, November 12, 1865. He received his education from the local district school, Charlotte Hali Academy and St. Johns College, and studied law at the University of Maryland, graduating in 1886. He engaged in practice of law in Baltimore until October, 1916, when he moved his law office to Washington, D. C. Mr. Crain has been deeply interested in farming since his childhood, and around the home of his ancestors he has gathered together an estate of ten thous- and acres, one of the largest farm properties in the East. He was appointed by Governor Harrington for the eight-year term as a member of the Board of Trustees of the State College of .Agriculture. JOHN M. DENNIS Hon. John AL Dennis was born in Frederick City in the vear 1866. He came to Baltimore in 1891 and entered the employ of Tate, Muller Co., of which company he was made President in 1910. He was made President of the Union Trust Co. in 1914. For years Mr. Dennis has been known as one of the strong financial figures among the Baltimore financiers. Besides being a banker, Mr. Dennis is a practical farmer. He is President of the Maryland State Dairy- men ' s Association. In 1916 he was made a member of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State College. 10

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WILLIAM W SKINNER Dr. ' illiani W. Skinner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1874. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools of Dorchester County and at Cam- bridge High School. He graduated from the Maryland Agricultural College in 1895, and received the degree of Master of Science from George Washington University. He has been assistant chemist at M. A. C. and at the University of Arizona and Experiment Station; Food Inspection Chemist, U. S. De])artment of Agriculture ; and Chief of ' ater Laboratory, Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, which position he holds at present. He is the author of many bulletins on chemical subjects. He is a past President of the Washington Chem- ical Society and a member of Washington Academy of Sciences. B. JOHN BLACK Mr. B. John Black was born and reared 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 movements for the uplift of agriculture in his county and State. He is now serving his second term as Master of the Mary- land 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 Agri- culture. HENRY HOLZAPFEL. JR. Hon. Henry Holzapfel, Jr., was born in Hagerstown, Md., in 1869. He was educated in private schools in Washington County. In 1889 he entered the Mary- land Agriculture College, and received his degree in 1893. Since graduation he has Ijeen located at Hagerstown, laryland. of which town he was Mayor. He i also President of the Hagerstown Railroad, and is a most j rogressive farmer. He was ajjpointed a Trustee of the Maryland State College in 1916. 12