Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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i Dean E. C. Johnson Director Agricultural Experiment Station of the College of Agriculture Dean Florence Harrison, College of Home Economics ure College of Hi ome Ec conomics T O HEAD the College of Agriculture for the State of Washington calls for a man to whom the entire state looks for leadership. Dean Johnson fills this dominant position with marked ability. Under his direction research fitted to the needs of Wash¬ ington farmers has been studied and many of the problems solved. As a boy in Minnesota, Johnson grew up on a farm, proud of his Swe¬ dish ancestry. Besides getting a bache¬ lor ' s and master ' s degree from the Uni¬ versity of Minnesota, he did extensive research work under the U. S. D. A. in Washington D. C., during the war period. U NDER the able leadership of a woman so vitally interested in her field of work as Dean Harrison, the College of Home Economics is now listed among the finest of its kind. Following her undergraduate work at the University of Illinois, Miss Harrison received her master’s degree at Columbia University in 1918. She assumed her position as Dean of Home Economics at Washington State in 1919. Since that time national atten¬ tion has been turned to the College of Home Economics, particularly toward the extensive research in Household — 19 —

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4 Dean A. A. Cleveland School of Education Dean H. V. Carpenter, College of Mechanical Arts and Engineering Sclr ool of Education D ean Alfred A. Cleveland came to the State College of Washington in 1907 when the depart¬ ment of education was created and was elected Dean of the School when it was established in 1917. The purpose of the School of Education is to train teachers of the various high school sub¬ jects, supervisors of special subjects, principals, and superintendents. Es¬ pecially valuable to the student is the opportunity offered to do cadet teach¬ ing, either in the local high school or in one of the senior or junior high schools of Spokane. College O fMech ante and Engineering I N HIS thirty-three years here with the College of Mechanic Arts and Engineering, Dean Carpenter has been instrumental in establishing the high reputation of the State College Engi¬ neering School which claims nation¬ wide recognition. Dean Carpenter is vitally interested in communication—the radio, tele¬ phone, and power transmission, and in Electrical Engineering, his special field. The Engineering Department, civil, mechanical, electrical, and archi¬ tectural, together with physics and mathematics are under the direction of Dean Carpenter. — 18 —

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School of Pk armacy P H. Dirstine has known Wash- • ington State from three distinct angles: that of undergraduate, gradu¬ ate student, and Dean. Supplementing a Pharmacy degree from Valparaiso University, he received his bachelor’s and doctor’s degrees under Cougar colors. In his third capacity, that of Dean of the School of Pharmacy, he has served with thorough understand¬ ing and efficiency. The complete suc¬ cess of all graduates in state examina¬ tions has established a national record for the school and for the sound direc¬ tion of its dean. College of Ceterinary Mecli icine D ean Earl E. Wegner received his D.V.S. and B.S. degrees from the State College of Washington. He has done a great amount of writing and research work in his field and today he is recognized throughout the country as an authority on veterinary medicine. The State College is the only insti¬ tution west of the Rocky Mountains that gives a course in Veterinary Medi¬ cine and it is one of the leading schools in this line in the United States. — 20