Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-06-22
PROF. THaTCHER
Station DIRECTOR
Regents Place Popular College Man
at Head of the Experiment
Station Work.

regents who met in annual session this
week was the placing of r. w.
Thatcher, station chemist and associate
professor of chemistry, at the head of
the experimental farm work by elect
ing him as director of the experiment
station.
For ten years the work and respon-
sibilities of the station director have
been placed upon Pres. Bryan. al
though for several years past he has
felt that separation of the work was
advisable, but not till now has the
board agreed to the election of di-
rector other than the president. Prof.
Thatcher, who will assume his added
duties in September. is we'll qualified
in every way for the responsible po-
sition as head of the station staff, and
is warmly congratulated by his friends
upon this merited promotion in his
chosen work.
Other changes in the faculty are
announced as follows:
The resignation of r. P. Jarvis, as
professor of mining, was accepted,
Prof. F. A. Thomson, who has been
in charge of the department for the
past year during the absence of Mr..
Jarvis, being elected to the professor
ship.
The designations of Mr.. Jantzen, of
the German department, and of DR..
Glaisyer, house surgeon of the Veter-
mary department, were also accepted.
Miss Helen Hughes, of the Univer-
sity of Nebraksa, was elected physical
instructor of women. and Miss Lund,
of Wilson College, Pennsylvania, was
elected assistant preceptress.
DR.. Stangeland was granted years
leave of absence for study in Europe,
and Mr.. Bloor, assistant professor of
chemistry, was granted like absence
for study at Harvard. c.. C. Todd,
W.S.C. '06, was appointed to fill Mr..
Bloor's place during the year.
Chas. Isaacs, instructor in mathe-
matics, was give a years leave of alb
sence, and will go to Columbia Uni
versity, his place here during his alb
sence being taken by M. K. Snyder.
DR.. Ralston, instructor in veteri-
nary science, was elected assistant
professor in physiology and bacteriol-
ogy.
Other instructors who were promot-
ed were as follows:
c. M. Andrews, to be assistant
professor of French.
w. w. Johnston, assistant professor
of English.
F. F. Flanders, assistant professor
of chemistry.
H. H. Mckee and M. Martin, as
sistant professors of mechanical engin-
eering.
w. H. Lawrence. assistant pro-
fessor of botany.
Mr.. Collett, who has been an acting
instructor in botany, was elected to
the position.
H. B. Berry, an '06 graduate of the
college, who has been graduate stu
dent at the U. of Illinois the past
year, was elected to experiment sta
ton work in soil physics in connection
with dry land Investigations.
DIR. S. B. Nelson was made director
of the State College exhibit at the
Alaska Yukon exhibit to be held at
Seattle in 1909.
The board opened bids for the sale
and removal of the old college hall,
Wallace Moss bidding $500, and A.
Walk, $3.50. Both bids were re-
jected, and the college will remove the
building itself.
To provide more recitation room the
next year, or till the new recitation
building is constructed, the board ar
ranged for the use of the literary So
ciety rooms, half of the museum,
and the parlor of Ferry Hall for reci-
tation rooms. The chapel will also be
remodeled, recitation rooms to be built
where the stage now is, and stage
to be constructed in front. The third
floor of Stevens Hall will be fitted up
to provide ten new rooms.
Architect Dow met with the board,
and the plans for the new library anc
= recitation buildings were examined
and a number of proposed improve
ments suggested.
In good many cases salaries o
members of the faculty were increased
= from six to ten per cent. increase,
cost of living max ing the advance nee
essary.
Provision was made for the con
struction of cement walks in the plac
5 of the present wooden ones.