University of Minnesota School of Agriculture - Agrarian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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aK Y x6'5'lf 51 geayzfesiz fm w Principal D. D. Mayne ANY times during the past year we have heard X graduates of the School say, Things do not seem natural at University Farm with Professor Mayne gone. This simple statement is a wonderful tribute to his memory, for it shows how thoroughly he had become a part of an institution which our graduates dearly love. For them, he was really an indispensable part. The mainspring of Professor Mayne's life was to help the students of the School to live wisely, constructively, honorably and happily. No man could have a higher or a nobler purpose. And this purpose Professor Mayne fol- lowed unfalteringly even when the student was unrespon- sive and unappreciative, or when conditions were otherwise dark and discouraging. Professor Mayne always kept a young mind and heart and hence to the end, life was a glorious adventure for him. He spent no time in regretting that the manner of living in the good old days could not be reestablished. Rather, he rejoiced over each new invention, each new step in progress with all the enthusiasm and gusto of hope- ful and self-reliant youth. ' In sum, his was a young heart and mind dedicated to helping others live. No wonder that he was a great teacher ever to be honored and held dear in memory. No wonder that, Things do not seem natural at University Farm with Professor Mayne gone. -WALTER C. COFFEY, Dean and Director, Department of Agriculture, University of Minnesota. X 'W' .2374 r',,.ff1Jsrz2:'w Xf V J ft .1 X -sk Page Fi ftemi

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PRINCIPAL D. D. MAYNE Principal D. D. Mayne in his office, where, through his wise counsel, his .vympafhetic iuiclersfafnlirrg of lheir problems and his optimistic 0111'- look on life, the boysbund girls of fhe School of Agriculture learned fo know mul love him. Page Fozzrieeu

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.A 1' ff'ii-1,:f+ i:-.--T53 ff- Eff xiii:-SLS' iii -f -5- 1 S i og: --5, 43 ' A .gf ,mt tx- WC? iw: 1 M1 Dexter D. Mayne N? l ish? ARY TRELOAR was born at Pen ' A Ponds, Cornwall, England, September :'Q 24, 1825. Her father was a miller V425 who carried on a business of feed and flour grind- ing as in the days of Shakespeare. Mary Tre- lfl loar's mother was a woman of strong character who took her full share of responsibility in man- aging the mill as well as taking care of a large family of children of which Mary was the iff! youngest. In the neighboring community lived 1 the Mayne family. Here Nicholas Mayne was ill' born April 29, 1825. As a youth he was very lQ' serious minded, was converted when 14 years old and went out as a local preacher when 22 years of age. Mary Treloar and the boy preacher, Rev. Mg Nicholas Mayne, were married in 1848 when both were 23 years of age, and the next year, 1849, they sailed for America, the trip across the ocean ,'Q. D. D' MAYNE3 GRADUATION PICTURE, taking three months. They landed at New 1883 Orleans and then took a steamboat up the river for Galena, Illinois-afterwards going overland to Dodgeville where Mary Mayne's brothers and sisters had already settled. So began 'N the Mayne family in America, in 1849, the year gold was discovered in California, right in the midst of the slavery controversy, five years before the Civil strife in Kansas and Nebraska. Reverend Nicholas Mayne in trying to locate a community in which to lf? build up a church was sent by the Wisconsin conference of the Methodist church to Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. He was the first minister of these places. The fol- I. lowing excerpt from The History of Chippewa Valley by T. E. Randall is interesting: V The M. E. church sent a preacher into this valley in the summer of 1852 by the name 7 of Mayne, a young man from England, quiet, humble, and zealous. This was Rever- N 1:5 end Nicholas Mayne, the husband of Mary Treloar and the father of Dexter Dwight Mayne. N 2 In 1854 Reverend Mayne was sent to Black River Falls circuit. Here he had four appointments, two on the Black River and two on the Trempealeau, the Hrst year. The next year Sparta was added. Sparta was the first place where Reverend Mayne had a Q meeting house in which he could hold services. From 1854 to 1859 Reverend Mayne had new and varied charges, largely pioneering and establishing circuits. In 1859 Reverend Mayne was sent to Beetown, Wisconsin-still as a member of the M. E. Con- ' iff-T-S-'l1'i-Tiff 1 L-7i,i i.lg'.pi:m:,4Lf-ir' g ' t--.4 ' ' 17 I-' : .4 -'1f ' 'ig Page Sixteen