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

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Hame Ecancwucl MISS EDNA L SKINNER Head of Division 1 loiil Row: Dr. Mitclnell, Miss Skinner, Miss Knowlton. Second Row: Miss Briggs, Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Cook. DIVISION OF HOME ECONOMICS EDNA L. SKINNER, M.A. Professor, Head of Division of Home Economics and Advisor of Women B.S., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1908. M.A., Teachers College, Columbia Univer- sity, 1928. Previously employed. Teachers College, Columbia University. James Millikin University. Professor, Head of Division of Home Kconomics and Advisor of Women, M. S. C, 1919- . Phi Kappa Phi. M.Ed., honorary, Michigan State Normal College, 1922. Single. HELEN S. MITCHELL, Ph.D. Research Professor of Home Economics B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1917. Ph.D., Yale, 1921. Director Nutrition Research, Battle Creek Sani- tarium, 1921-29. Professor Physiology and Nutri- tion, Battle Creek College, 1924-35. Research Professor of Home Economics, M. S. C, 1935- . Member of American Society of Biological Chemists, American Dietetic Association, Amer- ican Institute of Nutrition, Society of Experi- mental Biology and Medicine, American Home Economics Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Iota Sigma Pi. Publication: Co-author, Nutrition in Health and Disease. Single. HELEN KNOWLTON, M.A. Associate Professor of Home Economics A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 1903. Instructor Atlanta University, 1903-05. Teacher in High Schools, 1905-12. Graduate Student and In- structor, Cornell University, 1912-16. Head of Home Economics, Dean of Women, New Hamp- shire State College, 1916-18. Y. W. C. A., Secretary, 1919-24. M.A., Teachers College, 1924. Professor of Home Economics, M. S. C, 1934. Associate Professor, 1935. SARA M. COOLIDGE, M.S. Assistant Professor of Home Economics B.S., Michigan State College, 1924. M.S., Michigan State CoUege, 1927. Graduate work, Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, Iowa State College. Instructor Muskegon Hackey Manual Training School, 1915-22. Instructor, Michigan State College, 1927-31. Nutritionist, Detroit Dairy and Food Council, 1931-32. Head of Home Economics Institute, Detroit Free Press, 1932-33. Instructor, Chicago Teachers ' College, 1933-34. Assistant Professor of Home Economics, West Virginia, Wesleyan College, 1934-35. Assistant Professor of Home Economics, M. S. C, 1935- . Sigma Xi. MILDRED BRIGGS, M.S. Assistant Professor of Home Economics B.A., DePauw University, 1920. M.S., Iowa State College, 1923-25. University of Minnesota, 1930. Previously employed. University of Min- nesota. Assistant Professor of Home Economics, M. S. C, 1931. Kappa Alpha Theta. Single. GLADYS MAE COOK, M.Sc. Instructor in Home Economics B.Sc, Battle Creek College, 1934. Internship in Nutrition at Indiana University Hospitals and Medical Center, 1934-35. M.Sc, M. S. C, 1936. Research Fellow in Home Economics, M. S. C, 1935-36. Research Assistant in Home Economics, 1936-37. Instructor in Home Economics, 1937- . American Dietetics Association, National Home Economics Association, Connecticut Valley Home Economics Association. [26}

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L ' dudiuAje. DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE CLARENCE HOWARD PARSONS, M.S. Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry and Superintendent of Farm Born 1904. B.S., M. S. C, 1927. M.S., M. S. C, 1933. Instructor of Animal Husbandry, 1928-29. Synthetic Nitrogen Products Corporation, New York. Fieldman in New England, 1929-1930. Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry and Superintendent of Farm, 1931- . Phi Kappa Phi, Adelphia, Q. T. V. Married. WILLIAM HENRY TAGUE, B.S. Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering Born 1892. B.S. in Agricultural Engineering, Iowa State College, 1924. Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering, M. S. C, 1929- . Married. CHARLES HIRAM THAYER Assistant Professor of Agronomy Born 1884. Instructor in Agronomy, M. S. C, 1919-36. Assistant Professor of Agronomy, 1936- . American Society of Agronomy. Married. JOHN NELSON EVERSON, M.S. Instructor of Agronomy Born 1887. B.S., M. S. C, 1910. M.S., M. S. C, 1935. Chemist for Fertilizer Companies, 1910-18. Chemist Central of Georgia Railway, 1919-30. Assistant Director of Shell Petroleum Sales School, 1930-31. Institutional Fellow, M. S. C, 1934-35. Soil Specialist, M. S. C, 1934-36. Instructor of Agronomy, M. S. C, 1936- . American Chemical Society. American Institute of Chemists, 1923. Married. JOSEPH FREDERICK HAUCK, M.S. Instructor of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Born 1911. B.S., Rutgers University, 1936. M.S., Rutgers University, 1937. Graduate Assistant in Agricultural Economics, Rutgers University. Instructor Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, M. S. C, 1937- . Alpha Zeta. Varsity Tennis Coach at Rutgers Univer- sity. Married. BENJAMIN ISGUR, M.S. Instructor of Agronomy Born 1911. B.S., M. S. C, 1933. M.S., M. S. C, 1935. Instructor of Agronomy, 1934- . Phi Kappa Phi. Single. JOHN BAXTER NEWLON Instructor of Agricultural Engineering Bom 1884. Electrician, 1918. Special student M. I. T., 1921. Instructor of Agricultural En- gineering, M. S. C, 1919- . Married. GEORGE FREDERICK PUSHEE Instructor in Agricultural Engineering Born 1887. I. C. S. Contractors and Builders Course, 1906. Teachers Training Class, Spring- field, 1914-15. Summer School Teachers Train- ing, M. S. C, 1924. Special Courses, M. S. C, 1924-25. Instructor in Agricultural Eiigineering, M. S. C, 1916- . Married. JOHN HENRY VONDELL Instructor in Poultry Husbandry and Plant Superintendent Born 1898. U. S. Veterans Bureau, Baltimore, 1921-22. Poultry Plant Foreman, M. S. C, 1923-29. Instructor in Poultry Husbandry and Plant Superintendent, M. S. C, 1929- . Member Poultry Science Association. Member, Special Advisory Board on Hiking, National Park Ser- vice, Department of the Interior. Married. [25]

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UcfJiUcuiUUie RALPH A. VAN METER Head of Division Front Row: Hubbard, Blundell, Holdsworth, Snyder, Cole, Thayer, Chenoweth, Miss Hughes, Ross. Second Row: Turner, Maclinn, Curtis, Southwick, Clague, Arnold, Otto, Tramposch, Bailey, Tuttle DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE KALPH ALBERT VAN METER, Ph.D. Professor of Pomology Head of the Department of Pomology Head of Division of Horticulture Bom 1893. B.S., Ohio State University, 1917. M.S., M. S. C, 1923-1930. Ph.D., Cornell Univer- sity, 1930-35. Extension Specialist in Pomology, 1919. Extension Professor of Pomology, 1922. Professor of Pomology, 1923- . Delta Theta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi. Married. LYLE LINCOLN BLUNDELL, B.S. Professor of Horticulture Bom 1897. B.S., Iowa State College, 1924. Employed, Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Archi- tects, BrooklLne, Mass., 1924-31. Professor of Horticulture, M. S. C, 1931- . Gamma Sigma Delta. Married. WALTER WINFRED CHENOWETH B.S.Agr. Professor of Horticultural Manufactures; Head of Department of Horticultural Manufactures Bom 1871. A.B., Valparaiso University, 1899- 1909. B.S. Agr., Missouri University, 1910-12. Chillicothe Normal School, 1903-1910. Instructor and Associate Professor of Pomology, M. A. C. 1912-18. Professor of Pomology, M. A. C, 1918- . Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta. Author of Food Preservation , How to Make Candy . Married. ARTHUR KENYON HARRISON Professor of Landscape Architecture Bom 1872. Previously employed, Warren H. Manning, Landscape Architects, Boston, 1898- 1911. Instructor in Landscape Gardening, M. A. C, 1911. Assistant Professor of Landscape Gardening, M. A. C, 1913. Professor of Land- scape Architecture, M. S. C, 1933- . Faculty member Commons Club. Married. ROBERT POWELL HOLDSWORTH M.F. Professor of Forestry; Head of Department of Forestry Bom 1890. B.S., Michigan State College, 1911. M.F., Yale University, School of Forestry, 1928. Royal College of Forestry, Sweden, 1929. Pre- viously employed. United States Forest Service, University of Arkansas. Business. Professor of Forestry, M. A. C, 1930- . Senior Member, Society of American Foresters. Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Gamma Rho. Captain 74th Infantry, U. S. Army, World War. Married. GRANT BINGEMAN SNYDER, M.Sc. Professor of Olericulture; Head of Department Born 1899. B.S.A., Ontario Agricultural Col- lege (Toronto University), 1922. M.Sc, Michigan State College, Summer 1927 and 1928. Ontario Agricultural College, Horticultural Foreman and Plant Hybridist. Instructor of Vegetable Garden- ing, 1922-25. Assistant Professor of Vegetable Gardening, 1925-35. Professor of Olericulture and Head of Department, 1935- . American Society for Horticultural Science. American Society of Plant Physiologists. Vegetable Growers Associa- tion of America. Married. [27]