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Show as tetrademia or big head of sheep. While a student of USAC, Dr-Harris Dr-Harris was prominent in student affairs, holding offices in the Ag club, college 4-H club and being a member of the Livestock Judging, Judg-ing, team, which participated in the Ogden and Portland Livestock shows. Throughout his studies, he re-1 tained an excellent scholastic re- cord being elected to Phi Kappa ! Phi, National Honorary Scholastic Scholast-ic fraternity, and affiliating with Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Honorary Agriculture fraternity; and Sigma Xi, National Honorary Research fraternity. After receiving his PhD, Dr. Harris accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, Ha-waii, where he carried on experimental ex-perimental work in Animal Nutrition. Nu-trition. He also spent a' year at the University of Arkansas and during the past three years has been at 'Cornell University where he has conducted Research r-work in Animal Nutrition. College Names Animal Expert Dr. Lorin E. Harris has been appointed Associate Professor of Animal Husbandry at Utah State Agricultural college to succeed Dr. R. A. Rasmussen, who resigned to accept a position at Michigan State college, Dr. R. H. Walker, dean of the school of Agriculture at the college, reported today. A native of Marysvale, Utah, Dr. Harris worked on his father's farm and during high school was active in agriculture affairs and athletics. In high school he was a member of the Stock Judging team, which took first place in Cedar City on high school day, and represented the school in judging poultry. Taking, an outstanding part in the state 4-H work, Dr- Harris was awarded the Thomas E. Wilson Wil-son watch for being the outstanding out-standing club member of the state in 1931. His club projects included sheep, hogs and dairy calves and he . vkept, farm and. crop 'records on his father's farm, receiving a prize at the International Interna-tional Harvester company at Chicago, Chi-cago, Illinois. He was awarded a scholarship from the Marysvale high school to attend USAC. He entered the college in 1933 and was graduated gradu-ated with a BS degree in Animal Husbandry in 1937. Later, he received re-ceived a scholarship to the University Uni-versity of Illinois, where he obtained ob-tained an MS degree in 1938, in Animal Husbandry and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Animal Nutrition, in 1940. He wrote his thesis on the Nutrition and Feeding Feed-ing of Sheep. For three summers, he was employed in the Poison Plant Research Re-search laboratory, in Salina studying study-ing the relationship of poisonous range plants for cattle and sheep On the Utah desert, he conducted special studies of a disease known |