Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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Wm tAM M. Peterson lh jJ of (Ik Extension Service THK Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. established in 1889. is a major division of the college, supported by State and Federal funds. The State funds apply largely to maintenance and operation, the respective Federal funds to specific fields of research. Through this cooperative relationship the state secures many benefits not otherwise attainable. The Experiment Station seeks by research and experiment to solve both farm and home problems, especially those which farmers and farm women individually arc in no position to attack successfully. The problems being studied by the Experiment Station include those pertaining to the maintenance of soil fertility, conservation and efficient utilization of irrigation water, improvement of plants and animals, control of insect pests and diseases, development of cultural methods, marketing of farm products, costs of production, livestock feeding, human nutrition, rural living standards and community relationships. THROUGH the Extension Service the federal and state governments cooperate to help further the interests of Utah farms and rural homes. Findings of experimental agencies in all parts of America are carried directly to the farmsteads by the staff of agricultural and home demonstration 3gcnts and by the specialists in charge of various phases of Extension Service work. It is the means whereby the recommendations of the Experiment Station and the Agricultural College are broadly applied to the practical problems of farm and home. Improved practices in farming and home-making arc taught through demonstrations conducted by local leaders. Extension Service work develops rural leadership among Utah men, women, boys, and girls. It aims to help make the Utah farm profitable and the Utah rural home attractive, convenient, healthful, and desirable. The Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture gives liberal assistance to further the work of the Utah Extension Service. The federal department not only administers funds provided by the national congress for extension work, but it supplies also many field specialists who pay regular visits to Utah in the interest of building a well balanced program in this state. i'. V. Cakuon Director of the Experiment Station

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j EAN WEST in m general charge of the Division of Interior Instruction which includes the work of the College other than Extension and Research. He is Chairman of the Budget Committee and of the Graduate Division. In his dealings with faculty and students, he is clear cut, fair, and tirni, and yet essentially kind. His greatest satisfaction comes from his teaching for which he has a natural gift. Scholarly and thorough, a master of his subject, he is a most inspiring teacher. Franklin L. West Dean of the Facility TO be a friend of girls one must has-c a keen interest in girls, must be able to inspire a feeling of confidence in girls, must understand the problems confronting girls, must have faith in the ability of girls to solve their own problems and must be cogni .ant of the social and economic conditions under which girls arc living. According to this criteria, Mrs. Hendricks qualities as a friend of girls, and she truly occupies such a place in the life of the women of the Utah State Agricultural College. In her classroom as teacher of sociology, as well as in her service as Women’s Advisor, she has a marked influence in the development of personality among the students on our campus. Mrs. Hendricks thinks the typical women of today must possess a combination of characteristics that has not been found in any other women in past history. One of the great needs of the present is for the womanly woman. That type of woman who possesses all the niceties and charms, the grace and beauty, of the truly feminine woman who has been most admired throughout the ages. In addition the woman of today must possess the virtues of strength, of integrity, of initiative, of courage, to face honestly the problems of life, and of willingness to assume her responsibility as a member of society. Carolim M. Hendricks Dean of Women

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Byron Alder Acting Dean of School of Agriculture THE graduating class of the School of Commerce for 1931. is one of the largest and one of the very best in the history of the college. Several things have been accomplished during the year that are worthy of special mention. The exhibit sponsored by Alpha Kappa Psi and arranged to show the importance of art in modern business was highly commended by students, faculty, and business men. The Department of Business Administration added a sjK-ci.il course in Speed writing which proved very jsopular. This dejsartment has also made much more effective and continuous use of the office machinery and equijsmcnt used for the training of students. The School of Commerce faculty coojxrrated with tlie other collegiate business schools of the state in bringing to Utah the annual convention of the Pacific Coast Economic Conference. Twenty-four colleges and universities were represented, making this the largest meeting of the kind ever held in Utah. Increasingly the graduates of the School of Commerce are rising to jsositions of executive responsibility, thereby not only reflecting credit upon the school but furnishing valuable points of contact in placing the graduates from year to year. This continued loyalty to the school and the college is greatly appreciated. PROGRESS in agriculture as in solving the many problems of rural life rests largely on trained leadership. The School of Agriculture aims not only to train young men to become leaders in solving the problems of production in Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture. Forestry and such, but also to instill into the lives of these same students the fact that success means leadership in the development of a fuller rural community life. One's advancement should not be measured solely by the quantity or value of plant and animal products produced and marketed, but to a great extent by one's ability to work with others to develop for the group a richer and fuller enjoyment of the deeper human qualities. It is a great satisfaction to the faculty of this school to watch the graduates in agriculture enter the activities of life in their chosen profession, win promotions and eventually assume civic, religious, and cultural leadership in their communities. It is to meet just this situation that students in agriculture. in addition to their technical instruction, get some training in literature, social sciences, fine arts, and those other sciences which lead to an essentially finer standard of living. V. L Van lass Dean of the School of Commerce