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

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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.

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KEKTOJsi L. EUTTERFIELD

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IN MEMORIAM Miss Lorian P. Jefferson, who passed away in the C ristyna s season of 1935. She had served since 1917 in the Department of Economics, History, and Sociology. Wayne J. Lowry, who passed away in the springtime of 1935. He was horn in 1906, and had served since 1929 as Instructor in Horticulture. Out of the harhor gone, and far across the sea. Unto the world ' s last hourne, where day is breaking.