Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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Philippine Service Lumbering Irrigation

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The Alumni E N tin Agricultural College of I'tah clubs. societies, fraternities, and sororities abound. Some of these are exclusive, and the more exclusive they are tlie more eagerly do the students strive for admittance. Some make scholarship the standard of admission. others depend upon some common 1 ie or interest e. g., science, history, checkers or home economies, to hind them into a unified whole. There is one society, however, of which every student of the Agricultural College may become a member, and that is the Alumni Association. It consists of all tin degree graduates of the College. Already it is by far tlie largest of all the societies connected with the School, numbering 175 living members. The addition of the class of 1!) 11 will increase the membership to 237. The association is hut young, having been organized in 1SJM) with a membership of 44. The aim of the organization is two-fold: to further tlie interests of the College and to promote friendship and sociability among the members. The C. A. C. Alumni have distinguished themselves as well by their devotion to scholarship as by their success in practical affairs. Nearly one-third of the entire membership have studied or are now-studying at other institutions of higher learning, taking post-graduate work in law. medicine, agriculture, forestry, physics, mathematics, and various other branches. Seventeen of tin? foremost colleges and universities in the Cnited States have been attended Iry C. A. C. Alumni. An astonishing percentage of the Alumni members engage in teaching. At present there are 65 members of the association connected with the educational instil lit ions of Clah and neighboring states, and over GO other members, now engaged in other pursuits, have taught for periods of varying lengths in schools, high schools and colleges. The class of 11 11 is keeping up the reputation of the Alumni, as far —25

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as teaching is concerned; near 50 per cent of the members expect to teach next year. In government work, both in tin Department of Agriculture and in the Department of the Interior, the members of our association have an enviable record. A number of our best men have been and are associated with the bureaus of Soils. Plant Industry, Forest Service, Entomology. Dairy Investigations. Indian Service. Reclamation Service. Irrigation and Drainage Investigations, and the Philippine Service. Several have been promoted from these positions to others of greater responsibility or financial value, such as professorships in colleges or directorships of experiment stations. The I rtah Agricultural College offered courses in Engineering until 1905, and a small but notable body of men completed these courses. Their work lias been uniformly successful. In various Western States they have been employed on huge reclamation projects, private and government, on irrigation and drainage plans, on railroad construction. and all the various forms of civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering. Finally, in all the different branches of agriculture, in fruit-growing. dairying, stock-breeding, poultry craft, general miscellaneous farming, or highly specialized farming, as managers of their own property, or as farm superintendents, the graduates of the Utah Agricultural College have been eminently successful. Each year sees an increasing number of tin Alumni returning to the soil, founding for themselves country estates that shall prove models of farming to all beholders. The high schools of the State, and many colleges and experiment stations in the West have been supplied with instructors and investigators from the ranks of the 1 . A. C. Alumni. —27—