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

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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

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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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terms as representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1911 he was acting Dean during a protracted illness of Dean Mills. While he did not publish a great deal, he did most important scientific work along several lines. He was the pioneer in tliis state in the use of tuberculin. Be- tween 1892 and 1895 he published articles on tuberculosis and its eradication. He was also a pioneer in the treatment of black-leg in cattle and of hog-cholera. Per- haps his most important piece of scientific investigation was done in collaboration with C. G. Paige and L. Frothingham on a disease in horses — epizootic lymphagi- tis — in which he was successful in isolating and propagating the specific germ of the disease. He was an authority on Animal Hygiene, particularly on Stable Sanitation. As a lecturer for Farmers ' Institutes he was greatly in demand. His shrewd knowledge of human nature, his dry Yankee humor, and his faculty for drawing illustrations from his wide experience made even his technical lectures a delight to his hearers. In addition to his lectures on Horses and Cattle, he frequently lectured on Poultry and Bees. When the first Bee Courses were given at the college in 1903 by his great friend, Jim Wood of Prescott, it was in his apiary in his back- yard that the students got their practice. He was Secretary of the Alumni Association for twelve years. Probably no teacher on the campus knew the alumni body as well as he. He initiated the College and Alumni News in 1903, and edited the first three niunbers. As student, alumnus, teacher, investigator, administrator, he spent his life for M. A. C. We knew him best as a teacher. In this he made his best and finest contribution to his Alma Mater. In the class-room he was a great deal more than an authority in the subject of which he was teaching. He had a great many talents but the greatest was his ability to read human character. A great asset to him in his technical work was his mechanical ability. He was very skilful with his hands. In the basement of his laboratory and in his home, he had workshops where he turned out all sorts of articles in wood and metal. He was especially fond in these later years of collecting and restoring anticiue furniture. In his last illness he learned the art of modelling in clay and produced some pieces exquisite in form and color. He died October 5, 1922. We miss most his great heart. He made friends, men, women, children, ani- mals, even the plants. Only his intimates realized how keenly he felt. He was always self-restrained, and presented a calm front. In his work he seemed leis- urely, but few men accomplished so much. He loved to see this same self-control in his students. Every student of his has his story of some principle driven home so that he can never forget it. The college has lost a great teacher who taught by precept and example. A. ANDERSON M. CKIMMIE