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

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? r T 1 3n itlemorp of rofesiiSor Cfjarleg ?|enrj tKfjompsion CHARLES HENRY THOMPSON, late Professor of Horticulture at Massa- chusetts Agricultural College, was born in Turlock, California, in 1870, and died at his home in Amherst, January 23, 1031. He graduated at Kansas State Agricultural College in 1803, took graduate work at Leland Stanford University, and was connected at one time or another with the work of Missouri University, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Missouri Botanic Garden and the United States Forest Service. He came to this college in iqiy. Before that time he had had extended experience as a teacher, a horticulturist and a plant collector. His work here was principally in the teaching of plant materials. Shortly before his death he published, in collaboration with Pro- fessor Waugh, a bulletin on the trees, shrubs and vines growing on the campus. Professor Thompson was the ideal student of plants. He had studied them widely, not only in the herbarium, but in their native surroundings. He was familiar with their habits and characteristics. This knowledge was minute, exact and comprehensive. He had an unending enthusiasm for plants, an enthu- siasm which was felt and respected, even if not always shared, by the students who, note books in hand, followed him about the campus from tree to tree. Professor Thompson was a teacher, communicating his enthusiasm for plants to those who were ready to receive it and infinitely patient with those who were not. Always kindly, sympathetic and human, he sometimes fell short of being a stern disciplinarian; and more than one student could testify that it was the teacher ' s generosity more than the pupil ' s work that passed the course. His kindly personality appealed to all. He was inexhaustibly good natured, even against provocation, and this warm friendly quality endeared him to all his associates. It is the one thing above all others which will be remembered life- long by his students. He had that fine sense of humor which makes men congenial. He not only relished a joke or a good story, but he had the deeper perception which sees the contradictions and absurdities of life in all its comic and tragic aspects. Such qualities made him a jolly companion, but gave also the solid foundation to his broad human sympathy. This same well-balanced sense of humor expressed itself in his unusual histrionic talent. Just because he could easily enter into the feelings of another person, he was an amateur actor of marked ability. Many persons will always remember with del ight his acting and especially his impersonation of Irish characters. ' With all his other qualities Professor Thompson had a rough and rugged honesty which was most reassuring, a simplicity and a sincerity of daily contact which above all gave confidence in his integrity and testimony to his fundamental worth. There was no hypocrisy nor pretense about him. His genial, happy, homely ways were founded on a solid bedrock of character. ' We who knew him best knew him to be every inch a man. FRANK A. WAUGH 23

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Jfacultp Cjeorge W. Alderman, A.B., Assistant Professor of Physics Born i8q8. A. B., Williams College, iqzi. Instructor in Physics, M. A. C, iqi 1-26. Assist- ant Professor of Physics, igib. American Physical Society. Charles P. Alexander, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology Born i88q. B.Sc, Cornell University. iqi3. Ph.D., Cornell University, iqi8. Assistant in Biology and Limnology, Cornell iqii-13. Instructor in Natural History, Cornell. iqi3-i7. Curator, The Snow Entomological Collections, University of Kansas, iqij-iq. Systematic Entomologist of the Illinois State Natural History Survey and Instructor at the University of Illinois, iqiq-23. Fellow Entomological Societies of America and London. Member of the Entomological Society of France. Assistant Professor of Entomology M.A.C., iq22-3o. Pro- fessor of Entomology M.A.C., iq30-. Sigma Xi, Alpha Gamma Rho, Phi Kappa Phi. William H. Armstrong, M.L..A., Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Superintendent of Grounds Born 1876. B.S., M. A. C, i8qq. S.B., Harvard iqoo. M.L.A. Harvard 1927. Super- intendent of Public Schools, iqoo-02. U. S, Army officer iqo2-i8. Associate Engineer, Wash- ington, D. C., iqi8-iq. Superintendent and Engineer Ruatan Cocoanut Oil Co., New Orleans. La. iq20. Staff officer, U. S. Veterans Bureau iq20-25. Research work on parks and recreation areas of Mass., iq25-i6. Boston City Planning Board as City Planning Engineer, iq27-2q. Landscape Architect, Long Island State Park Commission, iq2q-30. Assistant Professor of L-andscape Architecture and Superintendent of Grounds, M. A. C, iq30-. Phi Sigma Kappa. Lorin E. Ball, B.Sc., Instructor in Physical Education Born i8q8. B.Sc, M. A. C iq2i. Coach of Freshman Basketball, iq2i-25. Coach of Freshman Baseball, iq22-24. Attended Superior, Wisconsin Coaching School, iq24. Senior Leader, Camp Enajerog for Boys, iq2 5-. Treasurer, Western Massachusetts Board of Approved Basketball Officials, iq24-25. Director of Two Year Athletics and Coach of Two Year Football and Basketball, iq25-26. Coach of Varsity Baseball and Hockey, 1925-. Attended University of Wisconsin Summer School iq26. Varsity Club, Q. T. V. Luther Banta, B.Sc, Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry B.Sc, Cornell University, iqi5. Head of the Department of Poultry Husbandry, New York State School of Agriculture, 1915-18, at Alfred University. Instructor of Poultry Hus- bandry M A C iqi8-20. Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandrv, M. A. C iq20-. Sigma Pi. Ellsworth Barnard , M.A., Instructor in English Born iqo7. B.S., M. A. C, iq28. M.A., University of tvlinnesota, iq2q. Graduate Assistant in English, University of Minnesota, iq2q-30. Instructor in English, M A. C, iq30-. Rollin H. Barrett, M.S., Assistant Professor of Farm Management Born i8qi. B.Sc, Connecticut Agricultural College, iqi8. Assistant County Agricultural Agent, Hartford County, Connecticut, iqi8-iq. Instructor, Vermont State School of Agri- culture, iqiq-20. Principal, iq20-25. M.S., Cornell University, iq26. Central Officers ' Training School, Camp Lee, Va., October iqi8 to January iqiq. Assistant Professor Farm Management, M. A. C, iq26-. Phi Mu Delta. Arthur B. Beaumont, Ph.D., Professor of Agronomy and Head of the Department of Agronomy B.Sc, University of Kentucky, iqo8. Ph.D., Cornell University. iqi8. Teacher of Science, North Bend High School, North Bend, Oregon, iqoq-ii. Teacher of Science and Agriculture and Head of the Department, Oregon Normal School, iqi 1-13. Graduate Student and Assistant in the Department of Soil Technology, Cornell, 1913-17. Associate Professor of Agronomy and Acting Head of the Department, M. A. C, iqi 7-iq. Professor and Head of the Department of Agronomy, iqiq-. Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Acacia, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi. 24