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

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;r7 AHERSf i:! ' 1U 19 3 SEVENTY-FOURTH EDITION OF THE COLLEGE YEARBOOK

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On jbedicatUxn In 1897 North College was modernized by the introduction of run- ning water and a quiet young Goessmann chemist by the name of Peters was graduated by the Massachusetts Agricultural College. There is no sinister connection between these two historical data, but it might be said that since his graduation a good deal of water has run over the test tubes. For example: a Ph.D. from Yale: eight years of teaching at the University of Idaho; two years of further study, in Goessmann tradition, at Berlin. Eventually, in 1911, his Alma Mater recalled him to fill the chair of Inorganic and Soil Chemistry and for thirty-two years he has done so with industry, exactitude, patience and loyalty. There is in Dr. Peters a deep and abiding faith in people and institutions and ideals. His research is still in the field of agricultural chemistry to which he was first called. For fifteen years he has been treasurer of the Grace Episcopal Church; for about half as many he was secretary-treasurer of the Associate Alumni. His family life is intimate and rich and deep. Even for the casual observances of the Metawampe Outing Club he is punctiliously on hand. Unassuming but not timorous in judgment, contemplative but with a clear and happy mind, scholarly but not pedantic, aspiring but never aggressive. Dr. Peters is one whom men of this college have cherished, for exactly fifty years, as teacher, as colleague, as friend.