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Show College President Will Be Selected Saturday A successor to Dr. E. G. Peterson as president of Utah State Agricultural college will be named Saturday Satur-day at a special meeting of the college board of trustees trus-tees to be held in Salt Lake city, according to C. G. Adney of Corinne, president of the board. The group met Saturday in Logan. During the morning session they accepted a bid for refinancing of fieldhouse bonds, appointed as new assistant professor of animal husbandry, and approved three resignations res-ignations and several travel authorizations. au-thorizations. In the afternoon they held an executive meeting to discuss the appointment of a president. The new president will assume duties July 1, 1945 when Dr. Peterson, Pe-terson, who has served for 28 years, becomes president emeritus, The action follows a move taken last March when the board granted grant-ed Dr. Peterson a new contract to July 1, 1945 and then in a surprise sur-prise move asked for his resignation- After several meetings, however they changed the decision deci-sion and named Dr. Peterson as president emeditus. Twenty-three candidates, from whom a president will be selected, were discussed at the meeting. They were listed by President Adney as follows: Dr. William Vincent Lambert. nit school of agriculture; Dr. Henry Aldour Dixon president of Weber college; Dr. Von T. Ellsworth, president of California State Tax conference. Dr. E. Milton Anderson, graduate gradu-ate of USAC who is now teaching teach-ing in New Hampshire; Dr. Nathan Nath-an L. Whitten, instructor in sociology so-ciology in Connecticut; Dr. Edgar B. Brossard, chairman national tariff board, Washington D- C; Dr. Floyd Cross, professor of soils at Colorada State Agricultural college; col-lege; Ezra T. Benson, director of National Farm Cooperatives organization. or-ganization. Dr. R. H. Walker, dean of the school of agriculture at USAC and director of Utah Experiment station; sta-tion; Milton R. Merrill, professor of political science and directod of USAC summer session; Dr. W. L. Wanlass, dean of the USAC school of commerce; Dr- George Albert Smith Jr., assistant dean of Harvard graduate school of H. Sorensen, emergency food preservation assistants and Elizabeth Eliza-beth Price, assistant in the col. lege library. Travel authorizations were granted to Dr. B. L. Richards, professor of botany and plant pathology, to attend meetings of the Amcyican Phytopathological society, Cincinnati, Ohio, early in December; to Professor E- C. Jeppsen and Professor L. R. Humpherys, to attend meetings of the American Vocational association, associa-tion, Philadelphia, Pa., in December. Decem-ber. To Professor Aaron F. Bracken Brack-en extension agronomist, to attend at-tend meetings of the National Crop Improvement association in Chicago, 111, during December; to Fern Shipley, assistant state 4-H club leader, to attend national assistant directod of Purdue Experiment Ex-periment station; W. A. Albrecht, professor of soils at University of Missouri; Dr. Leonard D- Baver, director North, Carolina State college col-lege experiment station; Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of . Brigham Young University; Dr-Albert Dr-Albert Ray Olpin, director of re-! search engineering experiment station sta-tion and University research foundation, foun-dation, Ohio State University. Reed W. Bailey, director of the intermountain forestry and range experiment station, Ogden; Dr. Lowry Nelson, professor of sociology soci-ology at the University of Min. nesota, former director of the Utah Experiment station; P. V. Cardon, assistant administration agricultural research administration, administra-tion, U. S. department of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Washington D. C; Claw-son Claw-son Y. Cannon professor and chief of dairy husbandry, Iowa State college; Professor R- Wilcox, assistant as-sistant general manager Califor. business administration, Harvard; and Dr. Adam S. Bennion, prominent promin-ent educator and former assistant to the president, Utah Power and Light company. The board accepted a joint bid of the First Security Trust company, com-pany, Lincoln Ure company, and Edward L. Burton, Salt Lake city, and the Cache Valley Banking company, Logan, for refinancing of $89,000 worth of outstanding fieldhouse bonds. The new issues will be at 1, iy2 and 1 per cent, according to R. E. Bernt-ton, Bernt-ton, executive secretary-James secretary-James A. Bennett, who has received re-ceived two degrees from USAC, will return from Sackatchewan, Canada where he is assistant of the Swift Current Livestock station, sta-tion, to become assistant professor pro-fessor of animal husbandry- He succeeds Dr. I. F. Edwards, re-j re-j signed, on January 1, 1945. I Resignations were accepted from Doris Hughes and Blanche 4-H club congress in Chicago, I m., December 3-6; to county agents Clyde R. Richards, Lazone Bagley and L. Darrell Stokes, to attend meetings of the national county agents association, Chicago, Chi-cago, 111., December 6-8- |