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

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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]

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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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Uah.tlcu£hiAe DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE CLARK LEONARD THAYER, B.S. Professor of Floriculture; Head of Department Born 1890, B.S., M. S. C, 1913. Cornell University, 1914. Assistant in Floriculture, Cornell University. Instructor in Floriculture, Cornell University. Graduate Assistant in Flori- culture, 1913-14. Instructor in Floriculture, M. S. C, Spring Term 1917. Associate Professor and Head of Department of Floriculture, 1919- 1920. Professor and Head of Department of Floriculture, 1920- . Alpha Gamma Rho, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Alpha Xi, Adelphia. U. S. Army, 1918. Author of Spring Flowering Bulbs. Married. REUBEN EDWIN TRIPPENSEE, Ph.D. Professor of Wildlife Management Born 1894. B.S., Michigan State College, 1920. M.S., University of Michigan, 1933. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1934. Previously em- ployed, United States Forest Service — Region 9, Milwaukee, Wis. School of Forestry, University of Michigan. School System, City of Saginaw, Michigan. Professor of Wild-life Management, 1936- . Alpha Zeta, Seminar Botanicus, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma, Sigma Xi. Married. FRANK A. WAUGH, M.S. Professor of Landscape Architecture; Head of Department Born 1869. B.Sc, Kansas State College, 1891. M.Sc, Kansas State College. Cornell University, 1898. Koenigliche Gaertner-Lehranstalt, Dahlem, Germany, 1910. Ecole de Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau, France, 1937. Previously em- ployed, University of Vei-mont. Dartmouth College. Oklahoma A. M. College. Head of Division of Horticulture, 1907-1932. Professor of Landscape Architecture. M. S. C, 1932- . Kappa Sigm a, Phi Kappa Phi. Married. JOHN ALBERT CLAGUE, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Horticultural Manufactures Born 1905. B.S., University of Washington, 1929. M.S., M. S. C, 1931. Ph.D., M. S. C, 1935. Research Fellow, Experiment Station, 1929-1930. Research Assistant, Experiment Station, 1930-1936. Assistant Professor, M. S. C, 1936- . Pi Kappa Phi. Married. SAMUEL CHURCH HUBBARD Assistant Professor of Floriculture Born 1890. Cornell University, Department of Floriculture, 1916-21. Vice-President and Manager, F. W. Fletcher, Inc., 1915-16. C. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn., 1909-15. Green- house Foreman and Instructor, M. S. C, 1921-28. Assistant Professor of Floriculture, 1928- . Married. J. HARRY RICH, M.F. Assistant Professor of Forestry Born 1888. B.S., New York State College of Forestry, 1913. New York State College of Forestry, 1914. M.F., New York State College of Forestry, 1936. Assistant Professor of Forestry, 1933- . Sigma Xi. Society of American Foresters (S. A. F.). Pi Kappa Alpha. Married. OLIVER COUSENS ROBERTS, B.Sc. Assistant Professor of Pomology Bom 1895. B.Sc, M. A. C, 1919. Teacher of Agriculture, West Lebanon Academy, Maine, 1920-22. Foreman of Pomology Department, M. S. C, 1922-26. Instructor in Pomology, 1926- 35. Assistant Professor of Pomology, 1935- . Theta Chi. Married. ALDEN PARKER TUTTLE, M.S. Assistant Professor of Vegetable Gardening Bom 1906. B.S., M. A. C, 1928. M.S., Penn- sylvania State College, 1930. Instructor in Vegetable Gardening, M. S. C, 1930-36. Assistant Professor of Vegetable Gardening, 1936- . Gamma Sigma Delta. Married. JAMES DILLON CURTIS, M.F. Instructor in Forestry Bom 1905, B.A., University of British Columbia, 1929. B,A,Sc., University of British Columbia, 1930. M.F., Harvard University, 1934. Previously employed, British Columbia Forest Service. Instructor in Forestry, 1935- . Alpha Delta Phi. Canadian Society Forest Engineers. Society American Foresters. Single. WILLIAM HENRY LACHMAN, M.S. Instructor in Olericulture Bom 1912. B.S., Pennsylvania State College, 1934. M.S., Pennsylvania State College, 1936. Instructor in Olericulture, 1936- . Gamma Sigma Delta, Pi Alpha Zi. Single. WALTER ARNOLD MACLINN, M.S. Instructor in Horticultural Manufactures Bom 1911. Research Fellow, M. S. C, 1934. Research Fellow, M. S. C, 1936. B.S., M. S. C, 1933. Oregon State College, 1935. M.S., Massa- chusetts State College, 1935. M. S. C, 1936. Chemist, Murray Co., Boston, Mass. Instructor in Horticultural Manufactures, M. S. C, 1936- . Theta Chi. Single. JAMES J. ROBERTSON, B.A. Instructor in Landscape Architecture Bom 1906. B.A., Carnegie Institute of Tech- nology, 1930. Instructor in Landscape Archi- tecture, M. S. C, 1930- . Married. DONALD ERNEST ROSS, B.S. Greenhouse Foreman and Instructor in Floriculture Department Bom 1896. B.S., M. S. C, 1925. Previously employed, A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn. The Rose Fann, White Plains, New York. Greenhouse Foreman and Instructor in Flori- culture Department, M. S. C, 1928- . Alpha Gamma Rho. Married. EMIL JOHN TRAMPOSCH, B.S. Instructor in Horticulture Born 1913. B.S., M. S. C, 1935. Commercial Horticulture. Instructor in Horticulture, M. S. C, 1937. Adelphia. Married. [28}