WSpN|SDAY, JULY 21, 1048 Soil Research Prof Retires with Honor After having completed more than 42 years of continuous serv ice on the College faculty, Jonathan W. White has retired with the rank of professor emeritus of soil technology. He has served longer than any other research man in the history of the College and only Milton S. McDowell, director emeritus of agricultural extension, and the late Dr. Erwin W. Runkle, profes sor emeritus of philosophy, who have served 45 years, have had more service on the College faculty. Professor White, a native of State on January 1, 1906, as as sistant chemist at the College Agricultural Experiment Station. A graduate of North Carolina State College, he had been em ployed as a research chemist with the Virglnia-Carolina Chemical Company. During his first five years on the faculty, Professor White serv ed as analytical chemist in ferti lizer control work. He also taught dairy chemistry and assisted Dr. William Frear and Professor Mc- Dowell in their classes in agricul tural chemistry. In 1907, he be gan his research studies in soils under the direction of Dr. Frear. After a year of graduate work at the University of Illinois, he received his master of science de gree in agricultural chemistry in 1912. Returning to Penn State, he was appointed head of the divi sion of soil research in the de partment of agronomy. Since that time he has been engaged in full time research in soil chemistry and biology. Professor White’s studies have included laboratory, greenhouse and field plot investigations of representative soils of the State. His major studies have dealt with the investigation of the progres sive chemical and biological changes in the plot soils of the Jordan Soil Fertility Plots, the oldest extensive field plot experi ments in the world today. He has published a large num ber of scientific papers, bulletins, and popular articles in trade journals and farm papers, dealing with the results of his research studies in soils and farm crops. His publications have been wide ly quoted in text books and sci entific journals, both in America and abroad. Again in 1930, Professor White was honored by being chosen one of three soil scientists to accom pany a group of college presidents and experiment station directors on a tour of western South America as guests of the Chilean Nitrate Co. Agriculture was studied in the countries visited. Professor White in 1934 was named by the College Senate as the outstanding research worker on the campus, the first time such an honor had been bestowed upon a faculty member; The late President Ralph Dorn Hetzel on this occasion wrote to Professor White: "This selection is in recogmtion of your scholarly achievements in research and if the scope and importance of your contributions to the development of science, as well as your ability and willingness to present to our faculty an account of some of your techniques and findings in such manner as to inspire its members t( \s reater zp . a l.*n creative work. Many societies and organiza- PICNIC SUPPLIES BAKED BEANS BAKED HAM FRESH POTATO SALAD Wednesdays - Saturdays - Sundays ONLY To Place Your Order Cat I THE NITTANY DELL M 47 322 E. College Avenue ’ THE Greenville, N. C., came to Penn tions have also recognized Pro fessor White’s research work. He holds membership in Phi Kappa Phi, scholastic, and Sigma Xi, sci entific, honor societies; Alpha Zeta and Gamma Sigma Delta, agricultural, and Phi Lambda Up silon, chemical recognition soci eities, and the American Society of Agronomy. He also is a mem ber of Acacia fraternity. In addition to these honors, Pro fessor White is extremely proud of his membership in the Tall Story Club of Lowell Thomas and displays a shingle to prove his election as an Exalted Ananias of the Tall Story Club. He says he is the only Penn State faculty member to hold the honbr. Although Professor White has retired, he expects to spend the next year or two at his desk, completing publications of data accumulated in his research pro jects of recent years. The publica tions will include three station bulletins and several scientific papers, among them a bulletin. “The History of the Jordan Soil Fertility Plots, 1881-1948, and Their Contributions to Agricul tural Science.” “After that,” Professor White said, “I may spend some time in North Carolina to regain the Southern accent I lost during my 42 years in Pennsylvania.” Adams Contributes To 1948 Britannica Prof. Clifford R. Adams, found er and director of the annual In stitute on Marriage and Home Ad justment at Pennsylvania State College, has contributed an ar ticle on marriage and divorce to the 1948 Britannica Book of the Year, the annual summary of the preceding year’s events which is published by the Encyclopedia Britannica. Visual Aid Expert Displays Collection "The Four Seasons in Rural Pennsylvania,” a collection of 40 color transparencies, is on display in the main exhibition gallery of Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science in Pittsburgh during July. The 8” by 10’’ pictures taken by Dr. George F. Johnson, visual aids specialist of the agriculture ex tension service, are displayed in illuminators which bring out the detail and coloring of the trans parencies. Last year a similar exhibit ol Dr. Johnson’s color transparencies was displayed in the same place. COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Alumni Writer RIDGE RILEY Riley Editorial . Receives Honor The Penn State Alumni News has been chosen by the American Alumni Council as one of the 10 best alumni publications in the country. Meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Council awarded second prize to the news for the editor ial on the Cotton Mowl Game. Titled “Review of A Game,” the article was written by Ridge Riley, executive secretary of the Alumni Association. The magazine also received an honorable mention for its use of club news and illustrations. Coed Housing °lans Revealed All women students attending the three-weeks Post Session will be housed in Grange Dor mitory, Mrs. Cordelia Hibbs, as sistant to the Dean of Women, announced today. Coeds attending the six-weeks Post Session will be assigned to Women’s Building or Irvin Hall. Mrs. Hibbs added that coeds should consult bulletin boards in their dormitories for the time and place to report for room as signments. Approximately two hundred women are expected for Post Session. The first scholarships for the College were established in 1881 for each of the 50 senatorial dis tricts in the State. Yeagley Traces Pigeon Routes Now that birds have taught men to fly, men are going to fly to learn the habits of birds. Dr. Henry L. Yeagley, associ ate professor of physics, yester day began a series of tests to study more closely the habits of homing pigeons. With the aid of an Army liaison plane from Fort Monmouth, N.J., Dr. Yeagley will release pi geons at various points around State College, then follow them as they return to their roosts. The first experiments, Dr. Yeagley explains, will be to orient the pigeons to the plane following their line of flight. After the birds have become ac customed to the plane, pigeons will be released and their habits will be observed from the plane. A pigeon in flight travels at a speed varying from 45 to 60 miles per hour. While conducting training flights in the State College area, the plane will be based at the State College Air Depot. Coed Wins Scholarship Peggy Hoffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hoffman, of 356 E. Fairmount avenue, State College, has been named winner of the 1948 Founders’ Scholarship) of Alpha Chi Omega, national sorority. Miss Hoffman was notified that national headquarters had awarded her $4OO for graduate study in recogntion of her out standing work as an undergrad uate at the College, and her first year of study in the medical art division of the Johns Hopkins Medical School at Baltimore. Md. Miss Hoffman, a member of the Penn State chapter of Alpha Chi Omega, was graduated from the College a year ago in the sci ence curriculum of the School of Chemistry and Phvsics and al ready has completed her first year of Study at Johns Hopkins. Her father is the Dean of Ad missions. Band- (Continued from page one) countries will conclude the pro gram. Representing America will be Shenandoah by Scott; tor England, Billy Boy by Singleton; Latvia, Tradi Nuka by Wihtol; Italy, Cicirinella by Krone. Ac companists for the chorus will be Ethel Pitman and Jane O’Hara. 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