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Show I .Mimes duties I AS DIRECTOR. I PROF. P. V. CARDON WILL I HEAD B. A. C. A MAN OP v EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY. ' I Says College Is Better Equipped Than Many in Utah. Professor P. V. Cardon will as-, sumc his duties as director of the Branch Agricultural college at Cc-j dar City,. July 1' according to Dr. E. G. Peterson president of the Utah Agricultural college. Mr. J Cardon who resigned from the pro-, fessorship of agronomy at the Montana state college to accept the directorship, succeeds Prof. Roy F. Homer. Since his graduation from the Utah Agricultural college in 1909, Professor Cardon has held several j prominent positions. Immediately, following his graduation he accepted ac-cepted the superintendency of the, Nephi sub station located at Nephi, Utah, which position he held fori three years. He resigned to become, assistant in crop acclimatization and adaptation in United States 3e- j partment of agriculture. From 1913 to 1918 he traveled thruout, the cotton belt of the southern states investigating cotton pests and devising methods for their states investigating cotton pests and devising methods for their control con-trol and working with the cotton growers with the thought of increasing in-creasing the cotton yield. "The broad perspective and wide experience which I gained while in this position will be of inestimable value to me in my new position," said Director Cardon. Mr Cardon then became Superintendent Super-intendent of the Judith Basin substation sub-station in central Montana and from there he went to Montana State College where he was made professor profes-sor of agronomy and Director of the Montana Seed and Grain Inspection In-spection Laboratory. Mr. Cardon Car-don is a member of several organizations organi-zations and societies among which is the national honorary agricul-i agricul-i tural fraternity. lie has made a splendid record since his graduation gradua-tion from Utah Agricultural College Col-lege and is known, as one of the best trained agricultural experts in the West. Professor Cardon, while he was ' a student at the Agricultural Col- ;' cge of Utah, was one of the most ; active in student affairs and effi- -, - cicnt in scholarship in a class of ( h , students known for their excell ence. The class of 1909 with , which Mr. Cardon graduated, one of the most noted in the history of tl. a- tne Institution, claims among its f5h ' ,- sons E)r. R. J. Evans, Director of p ? the Extension Division of the Col-' Col-' " lege, Mr. E. H. Walters, deceased, who made an irreproachable record rec-ord as a chemist in the United States forces in France during the war, and Dr. W. E. Carroll, pro- fessor of animal husbandry in the Utah Agricultural College. He i was a prominent athlete, dramatist, editor of the College paper, and a member of several clubs, j Inoutlining the work of his new j position, Director Cardon says: i "Branchy Agricultural College is, in some of its departments, even better , i equipped than many larger iustitu-l i tions I have visited in other states.) j Some of the State Colleges, infact, arc not so well prepared to offer t freshman and sophomore instruc- Jj tion in certain subjects. This, of, 2 r,$irsc, means a great deal to the I -;?u:ig men and women of South- I ern Utah, as it enables them to sc- f If cure college training in their own I part of the state and thus reduce H by half the time that must be spent ' K elsewhere in order to obtain a de ll sree." ' If Director Cardon expresses satis- i faction of becoming so intimately (j associated in educational work in I southern Utah because he states It that he has profound boh'ef in the future of that region. B "My earlier experiences in that if ptrt of the state acquainted mc itli the wonderful possibilities exit ex-it isting there and now I hope that, under my direction, the B. A. C. will help to bring about a full realization real-ization of ever' one of them." i "The Branch Agricultural Col-! lege," continued Mr. Cardon, "is, as ' it should be, a real and vital part of the mother institution at Logan. In ' Southern Utah, the B. A. C. should, m so far as maintenance funds are equipment will permit, render ser-' vice of the character that has placed the main institution among the greatest agricultural colleges of the United States. And it shall be my aim so to conduct the affairs of the, Branch that it will, in every particular, particu-lar, fulfill the purpose for which it' was established." ' |