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

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ROLAND H. VERBECK, B.S., Director of Short Courses Born 1886. B. S, M. S. C, 1908. Principal Petersham (Mass.) Agricultural High School, 1908- 1910. Headmaster Parsonfield (Maine) Seminary, 1910-1916. First Lieutenant, Air Service, Com- manding 281st Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919. Service in France, 1918- 1919. Director, New York State School of Agriculture at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., 1919- 1924 . Director of Short Courses, M. S. C, 1924- Notional Education Association, Harvard Teacher ' s Association, Phi Sigma Kappa. WILLARD A. MUNSON, B.S., Director of Extension Service Born 1881. B. S., M. S. C, 1905. Partner, Munson-Whitaker Company, 1905-1907. Farmer, 1908-1915. County Agricultural Agent, 1915-1920. Director, Division Morkets, Massachusetts Depart- ment of Agriculture, 1920-1926. Director, Massachusetts Extension Service, M. S. C, 1926- . President, Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association, 1919-1921. President, National Association of State Market- ing Officials, 1926. President, New England Research Council on Marketing and Food Supplies, 1923- 1928. Member, Association of Land Grant Colleges. Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma Kappa. ROBERT D. HAWLEY, B.S., Secretary of the College Born- 1895. B. S., M. S. C, 1920 as of 1918. Supervisor of Extension Courses, M. S. C, 1920-1921, 1922-1924. Extension Editor, 1925-1926. Secretary of the College, 1926- . U. S. Army, 1917-1919. Second Lieutenant Infantry, A. E. F., 1918-1919. Adelphia, Phi Sigma Koppo. Member, Eastern College Business Officers ' Association. BASIL B. WOOD, A.B., Libranan Born 1881. A. B., Brown, 1905. Assistont in John Crerar Science Library, Chicago; Reference Librarian, Pittsfield and Springfield Libraries, Moss. Assistant in three camp libraries during the war. Librarian, Public Library, Westerly, R. I. Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa. GEORGE E. EMERY, B.S., Field Secretary Bor n 1904. B. S., M. S. C, 1924. Assistant Alumni Secretary, 1929- . Sigma Phi Epsilon. FRANCIS C. PRAY, M.S., Assistant College Editor Born 1909. B. S., M. S. C, 1931 . M. S., M. S. C, 1932. Assistant College Editor, 1934- . C20J

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THE ADMINISTRATION HUGH POTTER BAKER, D.Oec, LL.D., President Bom 1878. B. S., Michigan State College, 1901, M. F., Yale University, 1904,0. Oec, University of Munich, 1910, LL. D., Syracuse University, 1933. Spent several years with U. S. Forest Service examining public lands in Central Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska; field studies in New Mexico, Washington, Oregon. Assistant Professor of Forestry, Iowa State College, 1904-07. Professor of Forestry, Pennsyl- vania State College, 1907-12. Dean and Professor of Silviculture, New York State College of Forestry, 1912-20. Executive Secretary, American Paper and Pulp Association, 1920-28. Manager Trade Asso- ciotion Department, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1928-30. Dsan, New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, 1930-33. Fellow, A. A. A. S., F. R. G. S. (London). Member, 2nd R. 0. T. C, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, August — November, 1917. With 46th Infantry and member of General Staff, 1917-19 Major, O. R. C. President of M. S. C, 1933- . WILLIAM L. MACHMER, A.M., Dean, Member of the Faculty FRED C. KENNEY, Treasurer Born 1869. Kappa Epsilon. FRED J. SILVERS, M.S., Director of the Experiment Station and Director of the Graduate School Born 1880. B. Sc , University of Wisconsin, 1910. M. S., University of Wisconsin, 1924. In- structor in Soils, University of Wisconsin, 1909-1912. Agronomist, Milwaukee County School of Agri- culture and Domestic Science, 1912-1913. Superintendent, 1912-1917. Professor of Soils, State College of Washington, 1917-1928. Member of the American Society of Agronomy, American Association of University Professors, Irrigation Institute, International Farm Congress. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Director of Herman Frasch Foundation for Research in Agricultural Chem- istry. Theta Chi, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi. MARSHALL 0. LANPHEAR, M.Sc, Assistant Dean and Professor of Freshman Orientation Born 1894. B.Sc, M S. C. 1918. M.Sc, M. S. C, 1926. U. S. Army, 1918. Instructor in Agri- culture, Mount Hermon, 1919 Salesman with American Agricultural Chemicol Co, 1919-21. Instructor in Agronomy, M. S. C, 1921-24. Member of Massachusetts Soil Survey Party, 1922-25. Assistant Professor of Agronomy, M. S. C, 1925-26. Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor in Charge of Fresh- man Orientation, 1927-36. Professor, 1936- . Phi Kappo Phi. Kappa Sigmo, [19]

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PROFESSORS EMERITI WILLIAM P. BROOKS, Ph.D., D.Agr., Professor of Agriculture, Emeritus B. S., M. S. C, 1875. Graduate Student in Botany and Chemistry, M. S. C, 1876. Ph. D., Halle, 1897. Honorary Degree, Nogoku Hokushi, Japanese Department of Education, 1919, Professor of Agriculture, 1877-88. Professor of Botany, 1880-83 and 1886-87, Imperial College of Agriculture, Japan. Professor of Agriculture, M, S. C, 1889-1908. Lecturer on Agriculture, 1908-18. President and ad interim, M. S. C, 1903 and 1905-06. Agnculturist, M. S, C. Experiment Station, 1889-1921. Director, M. S. C, Experiment Station, 1906-18. Decorated 4 ' th Order of the Rising Sun, Japan, 1888. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member, Association of Agriculture Colleges and Experiment Stations. Consulting Agriculturist, M, S, C. Experiment Station, 1918-21. Member, Society for the Promotion of Agriculture. Member, National Health League. Member, Massachusetts Forestry Association. Honorary Member, Educational Society of Hokkaido, Japan. Contributed to 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and Editor of 5th and 6th Annual Reports, Imperial College of Agriculture, Japan. Con- tributed to Massachusetts Horticultural Society and to Agricultural Reports of U. S. and Massachusetts. Author, Agriculture , General Agriculture, Dairying, and Poultry Farming. HENERY T. FERNALD, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology, Emeritus Born 1866. B. Sc, University of Maine, 1885. M. S., University of Maine, 1888. Graduate Student at Wesleyan University, 1885-86. Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University, 1887-90. Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, 1890. Professor of Zoology, Penn. State College, 1890-99. Stote Zoologist of Penn., 1898-99. Assistant Professor of Entomology, M. S. C. Experiment Station, 1910-30. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Massachusetts Nursery Inspector, 1902-18. Director of Graduate School, M. S. C, 1927-30. Professor Emeritus of Entomology, 1930. Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa. JOSEPH B. LINDSEY, Ph.D., Goessmon Professor of- Agricultural Chemistry, Emeritus Born 1862. B. S., M. S. C, 1883. Chemist, Massachusetts State Experiment Station, 1883-85. Chemist, L. B. Darling Fertilizer Co., Powtucket, R. I., 1885-89, Student at University of Gottingen, Germany, 1892-95. M. A., Ph. D., University of Gottingen, 1891. Student at Polytechnic Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, 1892, Associate Chemist, M, S, C. Experiment Station, 1892-95, In charge of the Department of Feeds and Feeding, Gotch Experiment Station, 1895-1907, Chemist, M, S, C, Experiment Station, 1907, Vice-Director of M, S, C, Experiment Station, 1911-28, Goessmon Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, 1911- , Member of the American Chemical Society, Fellow in American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member of the Americon Society of Animal Production, Member of the American Dairy Association, Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Kappa Phi, JOHN E, OSTRANDER, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus Born 1865, A, B. and C, E,, Union College, 1886, Assistant in Sewer construction, West Troy, N, Y,, 1886, Assistant on Construction, Chicago, St, Paul, and Kansas City Railway, 1887, A, M,, Union College, 1889, Instructor in Civil Engineering and Mechanic Arts, University of Idaho, 1892-97, Professor of Mathematics and Meterologist at Experiment Station, M, S, C, 1897-1928, Member of International Commission of Teaching Mathematics, 1900-11, Phi Kappa Phi, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE LUTHER BANTA, B,S., Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry B, S, C, Cornell University, 1915. Heed of Department of Poultry Husbandry, New York State School of Agriculture, 1915-18, at Alfred University. Instructor of Poultry Husbandry, M, S, C, 1918-20, Assistont Professor of Poultry Husbondry, M, S, C, 1920- . Summer School, University of Wisconsin, 1930, Poultry Science Association, Sigma Pi. ROLLIN H, BARRETT, M,S,, Assistant Professor of Farm Management Born 1891, B, Sc, Connecticut State College, 1918, Assistant County Agricultural Agent, Hartford County, Connecticut, 1918-19, Instructor, Vermont School of Agriculture, 1919-20; Principal, 1920-25, M. S,, Cornell University, 1926, Assistant Professor of Farm Management, M, S, C, 1926- , Phi Mu Delta, LAWRENCE S, DICKINSON, B,S,, Assistant Professor of Agronomy Born 1888, B, Sc, M, S, C, 1910, Superintendent of Grounds, M, S, C, 1911-30, Leave of Absence, 1919. Instructor in Horticulture and Superintendent of Greenhouses, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D, C, 1919-20, Assistant Professor of Horticulture, M S, C, 1923-31, Business Manager Academic Activities, Assistant Professor of Agronomy, M, S, C, 1931- , Phi Sigma Koppo, [21]