University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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im - zzjW ' V- s Harold F. Tompson, B.Sc, Professor of Vegetable Gardening a7id Head of the De- partment. Born 1885. B.Sc, M. A. C, 1905. Teacher of Horticulture, Mt. Hermon Scliool, 1906-07. In- structor of Vegetable Gardening and Superintendent of Gardens and Orchards, 1907-10. Market Gardener, Seekonk, Mass., since 1910. Professor of Market Gardening and Head of the Department, M. A. C, 1915-. State Extension Specialist, M. A. C., 1918-. In charge of Market Garden Field Station at Lexington. Elected to Vegetable Growers ' Association of America, 1922-. Ray E. Torrey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Botany. Born 1887. B.Sc, M. A. C, 1912. A.M., Harvard University, 1916. » Ph.D., Harvard University, 1918. Grove City College, 1912-15. Sheldon Travelling Fellow, Harvard, 1915-18. Instructor in Botany, M. A. C, 1919-21. Instructor in Botany, Harvard Summer School, 1919-. Assistant Professor of Botany, M. A. C, 1921-. Paul W. Viets, Supervisor of Placement Training. Special Course, Massachusetts Institute of Technologj ' . Director of Mechanic Arts, Lancaster. Mass., 1915-16. Industrial Superintendent, Grenfel Association, Labrador, 1917. U. S. A., 1917-20- Student Advisor, Federal Board Staff, M. A. C, 1920. Supervisor of Farm Placement Training, M. A- C, 1921-. Frank A. Waugh, M.Sc, Professor of Landscape Gardening and Head of the De- partment. Born 1869. Kansas Agricultural College, 1891. Editor Agricultural Department, Topeka Capital, 1891-92. Editor of Montana Farm and Stock Journal, 1892. Editor, Demer Field and Farm, 1892-93. M.Sc, Kansas Agricultural College, 1893. Professor of Horticulture, Oklahoma A. and M. College, and Horticulturalist of the Experiment Station, 1893-95. Graduate Student, Cornell LTniversity, 1898-99. Professor of Horticulture, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, and Hor- ticulturalist of the Experiment Station, 1895-02. Horticultural Editor of The Country Gentleman, 1898-11. Hospitant in the Koenigliche Gaertner-Lehranstalt, Dahlera, Berlin, Germany, 1910. Pro- fessor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening and Head of the Department, M. A. C, and Horti- culturalist of the Hatch Experiment Station, 1902-. Captain, Sanitary Corps, Surgeon General ' s Office, 1918-19. K S, K . Winthrop S. Welles, B.Sc, Professor of Agricultural Education. Born 1875. Illinois State Normal University, 1897. B.Sc, University of Illinois, 1901. Public School Teacher and City Superintendent, 1897-07. Graduate Work, University of Illinois, 1901, and Harvard, 1905. Teacher of Biology and Agriculture. State Normal School, River Falls, Wisconsin, 1907-1912. Director, School of Educational Agriculture, State Normal School, Rivers Falls, Wise, 1912-19. State Supervisor, Vocational Agricultural Education for Wisconsin, 1917-19. Professor of Agricultural Education, M. A. C, 1919-. S $ E. Charles Wellington, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry. Born 1853. B.Sc, M. A. C, 1873. Graduate Student in Chemistry, M. A. C, 1873-76. Assistant Chemist, U. S. D. A., 1876. Student, University of Virginia, 1876-77. First Assistant Chemist, U. S. D. A., 1877-82. Ph.D., University of Gottingen, 1885. Associate Professor of Chemistry, M. A. C, 1885-1907. Professor of Chemistry, M. A. C, 1907-. K S, K i . Themistocles G. Yaxis, B.Sc, Assistant Profes.sor of Dairying. B.Sc, New Hampshire State College, 1914. M.Sc, Cornell University, 1917. Inspector of Butter, U. S. N., 1917. Instructor of Animal Husbandry, University of Kentucky, 1917-18. Junior Professor in charge of Dairying, Georgia State College, 1918-19. Assistant Professor of Dairying, M. A. C, 1920-. K S. 27

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Edna L. Skinner, B. Sc. Profefisor of Home Economics, Head of Department, Adviser of Women. Michigan Agricultural College, 1901. B.Sc, Columbia University, 1908. Instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1908-12. Milliken University, 1912-18. Professor of Home Economics and Head of the Department, M. A. C, 1919-. Richard W. Smith, Jr., B.Sc, Instructor in Dairying. Born 1898. B.Sc, M. A. C, 1921. Instructor in Dairying, M. A. C, 1921-. Q. T. V., K . Grant B. Snyder, B.Sc. Agr., Instructor in Vegetable Gardening. B.S.A., Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Out., 1922. Toronto University. Assistant Plant Hyludist at Ontario Agricultural College, 1919-21. Graduate Student, M. A. C, 1921-23. James L. Strahan, M.Sc, Assistant Professor of Rural Engineering. Born 1889. B.Sc, Cornell, 1912. M.Sc, Cornell, 1913. Instructor in Rural Engineering, Cornell, 1912-17. Assistant Professor of Rural Engineering, Cornell, 1917-19. Assistant Professor of Rural Engineering, M. A. C, 1920-. Acacia. Lewis W. Taylor, B.Sc, In.ifructor in Poultry Hu. ' bandry. Born 1900. B.Sc, University of Wisconsin, 1922. Instructor in Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C, 1922-. A Z. Charles H. Thayer, Instructor in Agronomy. Born 1884. Assistant in Short Courses, M. A. C, 1910-18. Instructor in Agronomy, M. A. C, 1991-. Clark L. Thayer, B.Sc, Professor of Floriculture and Head of the Departm.ent. Born 1890. B.Sc, M. A. C, 1913. Graduate Work in Floriculture and Plant Breeding, Cornel ' University, 1913-14. Instructor in Floriculture, Cornell University, 1914-19. Instructor in Flori culture, M. A. C, Spring Term, 1917. Associate Professor of Floriculture, M. A. C, 1919-20. Pro- fessor of Floriculture and Head of the Department, M. A. C, 1920-. ATP, K I . Weston C. Thayer, B.Sc, Instructor in Animal Husbandry. B.Sc, M. A. C, 1920. Instructor in Animal Husbandry, M. A. C, 1920-. K U . Guy A. Thelin, B.Sc, Instructor in Agronomy. B.Sc, South Dakota Agricultural College, 1920. Instructor in Agronomy, M. A. C, 1920-. Paul E. Thissell, A.B., Instructor in French. A.B., Tufts College, 1921. Instructor in French, M. A. C, 1921-. A. Charles H. Thompson, M.Sc, As.nstant Profes- or of Horticulture. Born 1870. B.Sc, Kansas Agricultural College, 1893. M.Sc, Kansas Agricultural College, 1898- Field Agent, U. S. D. A., Division of Botany, 1893. Instructor in Botany, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 189.5-99. Forestry Service, United States Department of the Interior, 1900. Grad- uate Student, Leiand Stanford, Jr., University of California, 1902-04. In charge of the Department of Succulent Plants and Botanical Assistant, Missouri Botanical Garden, 1904-15. Collaborator, U. S. D. A., studying Succulent Plants of arid regions of America and Mexico, 1909-11. Assistant Professor of Horticulture, M. A. C, 1915-. K U .

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i3 ■ in|i:i;:B! a. Jamesi iirecfeenribge j aige 186M922 JAMES BRECKENRIDGE PAIGE was born in Prescott, December 28, 1861, the youngest of a family of ten. On his father ' s side his great-grand- father was one of the Minute- men at Lexington, on his mother ' s his great- great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary army for seven years and died at Valley Forge. When the boy was five years old, the family moved to Amherst and remained seven years. Here he got his elementary schooling. Returning to the farm at Prescott, he attended the district school, and there prepared for college. He entered M. A. C. with the class of 1882, and from that time till his death he was intimately connected with the life of the college. As a student he entered into the life of the campus with zest. He was a member of the Q. T. V. fraternity. In all the years since he has been a moving spirit in the fraternity, and in later years its most influential member. The life of the campus was then much closer-knit than now. The majority of the students lived in the dormitories, the number of teachers was small, and relations between students and teachers were very intimate. Boyish pranks were much in evidence, and Jim was never the hindermost in them. College athletics were strong though in their infancy. In junior and senior years Dr. Paige played in the class baseball and the varsity football teams. After graduation he returned to the farm where, with his father, he continued farming for two years. He married Ada Russell. They had one daughter. Beryl. While on the farm he was continually called in by neighbors to care for sick or in- jured animals, and he decided to seek training along that line at Montreal School of Veterinary Science, the school with the highest reputation in America at that time. He graduated in 1888. Subsequently the Montreal School was amalgamated with McGill University, and the graduates of the earlier school received degrees from both institutions. He practiced two years in Northampton and came to the college as a teacher in July, 1890. In the summer of 1891 he again went to Montreal where he studied Bacteriology under Wyatt Johnson, through whom he became acquainted with the work of Teodor Kitt of Munich. In 1895-6 he studied under the latter and also visited the great veterinary schools of Germany, Austria and France. Returning to the college, his life thereafter is a very active one. He built up an important department. He personally superintended the building of the Vet- erinary Laboratory and Hospital, and also that of the next large building. Draper Hall, so that with his efforts and those of President Goodell, begins the building development of the college and has continued to the present. He served two