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

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KEKTOJsi L. EUTTERFIELD

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hie of producing in the way of vegetables and small fruits, and also to teach our fishermen how to cultivate little gardens of their own, we hailed him as just the colleague we needed. Since then. Professor Sears has been of great service to our cause. One of the early discoverers of Labrador reported it as a lande fitte only for wild beastes, with not a carteload of earth on it. Yet today, thanks largely to the impetus and teaching of Professor Sears, all along the coast little gardens are ' ' flourish ing liXe the green bay tree. Horticulture, however, is only one of the talents of this beloved physician to the plants. He has the true flair for photography; and our north country has furnished him fields fertile not only for potatoes, but for photography as well. His camera has been quite as useful to our wor as his spade. TTirougH the medium, of his beautiful pictures, many friends on both sides of the Atlantic have been given a true idea of the country and the people, and not a few have come to visit us as a result. On the Labrador, a person who has attained the dignity of gray hair, and who is beloved and respected, is promoted to the title of Uncle. Since Professor Sears answers to all of those qualifications, he is universally nown amongst us as Uncle Freddie. As one of our volunteers has phrased it: ' Oh, would some power the giftie gi ' e us. To see ourselves as iihers see us, ' iluoth Robert Burns. But on the Coast We have a system that we boast will do the tricl{ — Just hold it steady — Be photographed by Uncle Freddie. So it is with the greatest pleasure that we, from, the humblest fisherman to the Chairman of our Board of Directors, add our sincere testimony of gratitude and affection to Professor Sears — of Amherst and Labrador. — Sir Wilfred Gr en fell.

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IA[ MEMORIAM In 1906 the youthful president of Rhode Island State was appointed president of our college. In 1925 he resigned to become president of Michigan State College — his alma mater. These eighteen years — the best of his life — he spent with us and for us. Under Goodell the college had begun its renaissance. Butter field ' s young energy and enthusiasm were immediately turned to the organization of the new forces. The entrance requirements and courses of study were thoroughly revised, the teaching force reorganized and augmented, the extension service initiated, the short courses much improved and an extensive building program projected. Mem,oranda flew from the president to the wor er on the campus in unbelievable volume. He was ambitious for the college and everyone connected with it. Often he quoted Clar e ' s farewell admonition to the Japanese students at Sapporo — Boys, be ambitious Before he cam.e to us he was an authority on rural life in America. Later he was to study at first hand the rural life of peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa. Finally he was to come bacl{ to Amherst — his real home — to round out his life wor writing his last boo on country life. He was not destined to complete it. 7 iovember 25, 1935, he passed on to his long rest ' Li e one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. — A. Anderson ' MacKim,mie.