UNIVERSITY RECORD VICTOR H. HENDERSON THE DEATH OF REGENT ROWELL Dr. Chester Rowell, Regent of the University of California since 1891, died in Los Angeles on May 23, 1912. As a Regent of the University, as a member of the California Senate, as Mayor of Fresno, as founder of the Fresno Republican, as physician and as man, Dr. Rowell had lived a life of rich usefulness and inspiration. For twenty-one years he had been most faithful in his duties as a Regent of the University and constantly active in his loyal service to the highest ideals of a university. The Regents, at a meeting on June 11, 1912, adopted the following resolutions: "Whereas, in the death of Dr. Chester Rowell the University of California has suffered an irreparable loss, now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Regents of the University of California hereby express their sorrow at the death of an honored and beloved friend and at the bereavement which has befallen the whole community. Wise in council, warm in heart, loyal to ideals that he strove to realize in the varied institutions of human society, active in all that makes for the common good, he was a fit exemplar to youth of a life well spent. He was a man whose rich and varied intellectual equipment and intellectual activity were always at the service of the community. In public life he was patriotic, courageous, and effective, leader of ideals and soundly constructive in accomplishment. In the practice of the healing art, his zeal for knowledge, his ripe wisdom of experience, and his skill of judgment and of use were lavished in a spirit of unselfish service. Unsparing of risk, weariness, and toil, his labors were characterized by self-denying zeal and by the generous and kindly affection of a father. Full of years and honors, rich in the love of his neighbors and his associates, free to shape his days as he might choose, he sought not ease, but only new opportunity for understanding of human ways and human needs, and new opportunity for self-forgetful service to his fellow men." President Wheeler was the representative of the University at the funeral services for Dr. Rowell, in Fresno, and spoke also at the memorial services which brought together in the public square in Fresno a great assemblage of Dr. Rowell's innumerable friends and mourners. COMMITTEES OF THE REGENTS Standing committees of the Regents for 1912-13 have been selected by the Regents and confirmed by the President of the Board, as follows: Finance Regents Earl, Foster, Britton, Moffitt, Taussig, and, as Member Emeritus, Regent Hellman. Grounds and Buildings-Regents Britton, Mrs. Hearst, Dohrmann, Bowles, and C. S. Wheeler. Agriculture-Regents Scott, Foster, Hewitt, and Wallace. Medical Instruction-Regents Crocker, Moffitt, Dohrmann, and Mrs. Hearst. Lick Observatory-Regents Beale, McEnerney, Ramm, Budd, and Crocker. Wilmerding School-Regents Taussig, Earl, and Moffitt. San Diego Marine Biological Laboratory-Regents McKinley, Wallace, and Hyatt. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR WICKSON Edward J. Wickson, Professor of Agriculture, and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, at a meeting of the Regents on June 11, 1912, was granted leave of absence to begin at the determination of the President. At the expiration of this leave Professor Wickson will be eligible for retirement on the basis of arrival at the age of sixty-five; but he will continue in the service of the University as Professor of Horticulture. Professor Wickson served as Lecturer on Dairying from 1880 to 1884; as Lecturer on Practical Agriculture in 1885-86; as Lecturer on Practical Agriculture and Assistant Superintendent of Experimental Grounds from 1886 to 1891; as Associate Professor of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Entomology from 1891 to 1896; as Professor of Agricultural Practice from 1897 to 1907, and in 1907 he succeeded Professor Eugene W. Hilgard as Professor of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station. In 1897 he had been placed in charge of the newly established Department of University Extension in Agriculture. Thus he organized the system of Farmers' Institutes which now has grown to such important dimensions. As teacher, counsellor, and friend, for recurring generations of students over a period of more than thirty years, as author of standard books on California fruits and California vegetables, as an authority on varied problems of California agriculture and horticulture, as an agricultural editor, as counsellor and advisor of the agricultural interests of California, and as executive head of the largest department of the University, which under his leadership has grown greatly in resources and importance, Professor Wickson has made a distinguished career in his long service in the University. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS F. R. Marshall has been appointed Professor of Animal Industries. He is now Professor of Animal Husbandry in the Ohio State University; prior to 1907 Professor Marshall represented the same subject in the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, and before that at the Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames. He holds the bachelor's degree from Toronto and from Iowa State College of Agriculture. Among other new appointments to the staff of the Department of Agriculture are: Walter W. Bonns, Assistant Professor of Pomology and Plant Pathologist (at the Riverside Experiment Station); William H. Arnold, Instructor in Chemistry and Botany (at the University Farm); James Korber, Instructor in Farm Mechanics (at the University Farm); Paul S. Burgess, Instructor in Soils; W. F. Gericke, Instructor in Soils; Meredith R. Miller, Assistant Chemist in the Insecticide Laboratory (where all commercial fertilizers sold in California are inspected, in accordance with the State law); R. C. D'Erlach, Assistant in the Fertilizer Control Laboratory, where a similar inspection of fertilizers is made, for the protection of the farmers; W. C. Perrine, Superintendent of Greenhouses and Gardens (particularly at the Berkeley campus); G. Barovetto, Viticultural Assistant, and A. C. Way, Field Assistant in Viticulture, who will help in the work undertaken by the University in the improvement of methods in grape growing, wine making, the raisin industry, etc.; J. D. Denny, Foreman of Cereal Work (at the University Farm), the work done by the University for the improvement of the wheat, barley, and other cereal crops grown in California; H. H. Warner, Student Assistant in Plant Breeding; and Walter M. Mertz, Assistant in Pomology (at the Riverside Citrus Experiment Station). AGRICULTURAL BUDGET The budget for the Department of Agriculture, as adopted by the Regents on June 11, 1912, is of a total of $358,957. Of this, $76,800 is derived from the sale of agricultural produce, butter, and cheese, made at the University Farm creamery, and sales of produce from the various agricultural experiment stations. The total provides for instruction at Berkeley for approximately a thousand students in different agricultural courses, the Farmers' Institutes, the agricultural demonstration train, the inspection of commercial fertilizers and insecticides, the making of a serum to immunize swine against hog cholera, the various activities of the University Farm, the investigations of agricultural problems supported by the United States, and the investigations in cereal improvement, plant diseases, viticultural practice, and in the problems of Southern California agriculture provided for by special grants of the Legislature. This agricultural budget includes $128,028 for salaries. Of this, $24,580 is for salaries at the University Farm, and $13,183 for salaries for the agricultural scientists of the Southern California Pathological Laboratory and Citrus Experiment Station. The budget for the University Farm, besides the $24,580 for salaries, includes $30,000 for building operations, $6,000 for equipment, $6,000 for the purchase of livestock, and $32,920 for general maintenance of the University Farm, the University Farm School, instruction for University students at Davis, etc. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT REORGANIZATION The reorganization of the Medical Department, under the deanship of Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt, of which an account is given in the University Chronicle for April, 1912 (pages 249 to 252, inclusive), was completed at the meeting of the Regents on June 11, 1912, by the following additional appointments: Samuel J. Hunkin, M.D., Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Sur gery. Jean V. Cooke, A.B., Virginia, '03, and Yale, '04, and M.D., Johns Hopkins, '08, now Instructor in Pathology in the University of Tulane, New Orleans, to be Assistant Professor of Pathology and Director of the Laboratory of Animal Experimentation. Hadyn M. Simmons, Ph.D., M.D., Instructor in Materia Medica. Harold Brunn, M.D., Instructor in Surgery. George E. Ebright, M.D., Instructor in Medicine. Herbert W. Allen, B.S., M.D., Instructor in Medicine. Albert J. Houston, B.L., M.D., Instructor in Laryngology, Otology, Rhinology. Milton B. Lennon, A.M., M.D., Instructor in Neurology. Wilfred F. Beerman, Ph.G., M.D., Assistant in Medicine. René Bine, M.D., Assistant in Medicine. James Lyman Whitney, M.D., Assistant in Medicine. Mary E. Botsford, M.D., Assistant in Surgery. Benjamin Thomas, M.D., Assistant in Laryngology, Otology, Rhinology. LeRoy H. Briggs, M.D., Assistant in Medicine. Louis P. Howe, M.D., Assistant in Surgery. Frederick C. Lewitt, B.S., M.D., Assistant in Laryngology, Otology, Rhinology. Anna K. Davenport, M.D., Assistant in Surgery. Saxton Pope, M.D., Assistant in Surgery. William L. Bell, Assistant in Dermatology. C. B. Bennett, Ph.D., Assistant in Physiological Chemistry. OTHER APPOINTMENTS At the meetings of the Regents on May 14 and June 11, 1912, appointments were made as follows: (unless otherwise stated, these appointments are from July 1, 1912) Professor of Military Science and Tactics, Major John T. Nance, U.S.A., (of the Second Cavalry), from September 2, 1912. Associate Professor of Railroad Engineering, Francis. Seeley Foote, Jr., a graduate of the School of Mines of Columbia University, '05, and now Instructor in Railway Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois. Associate Professor of Domestic Art (in the Department of Architecture), Mary Lois Kissell. |