Evening journal., 1914-06-17
NAME faculty Of
WONAN'S COLLEGE
DR.. Harter to be Professor
at Delaware College at
Old Salary
LEVI H. COOCH TO BE
COUNTY FARM AGENT
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEWARK, Del, June l7.-At the
meeting Of the Board of Trustees OF
Delaware College yesterday afternoon
former Governor Preston Lea was re-
elected president; Samuel II. Messick OF
Bridgeville was elected vice president
succeeding John Z. .StoclSly Of Smyrna
and Charles b. Evans of Newark was re-
elected secretary and treasurer.
The board also made additional ap-
pointments of members of the faculty
for the new Women's College, as fol-
lows; Miss Alfredo Mosscrop of Roches-
ter, n. Y, assistant chemist and in
structor in athletics, at $500 a year;
Miss Gertrude Brady of Lowell, Mass,
instructor in French and English at
$500 a year; Miss Sarah Churchman of
Newport, assistant in home economies
and matron, 5000 a year; Miss Edwina
Long of Wilmington, secretary to Dean
Robinson, at a salary not to exceed
$500 a year. This with the professors
at Delaware College, who will teach at
the Women's College, completes the fac
ulty of the latter institution. Miss
Myrtle Viola Caudel was named in
Mary l.. Rich, instructor in education
several weeks ago. As the instructors
will stay at the college the trustees CON
slider their board is equivalent to 5000 a
year.
Under the Lever bill, passed recently
by Congress the Delaware College Ex-
pertinent Station is one of a number of
stations that will receive a fat apprO.
ssF fsr
extension work Under the bill how
ever, starting with July /, 1915, the APP
preparation gradually increases each
year until 1929, when the total amount
viii be about $4,000. This increase
the station can get only with the pro
vision that the State appropriates an
equal amount. The bill becomes opera
tive July I OF this year.
Under the bill a county agent
is to be appointed for each county
at a salary of $4,000 a year, and the
trustees at their meeting yesterday
appointed Levi II. Cooch, of Newark
to this position for New Castle coun-
". Mr.. CcOch, who lives at Cooch's
Bridge is a son Of ]. Wilkens Cooch.
nresident Of the Farmers Trust Com
Dany. He has been connected with
farm publication as editor for sew
eral years The duty of the agent
is largely one of keeping In touch
with the farmer on the farm. He
will be under the direction Of the
Experiment Station.
Pomona Grange recently, hearing
4 that Mr.. Cooch was to be named, took
action favoring the appointment of "a
practical farmer to the position.
The board refused to pay half the
cost of construction of a tunnel from
the new heating plant to the Wo-
mems College, a distance of about
half a mile. The total cost for the
work would be about $4,000 The
trustees felt they did not have the
funds to pay half the expense but
the Women's College Commission can
90 ahead with the work If they want
to Day for II entirely out of their
/ funds.
w. A. Lintner, assistant agronomist,
was made an assistant professor and
his salary increased from $1,000 to
400 DR.. ]. ]. Taubenhaus, assist
ant plant pathologist. had his salary
: increased from $1,000 TO $1,400. and
/ the salaries Of Instructors Pailthorpe
and Hills, in the agricultural depart
ment, we're increased from $1,000 to
/ $1,000.
After the election Of DR.. Samuel c.
Mitchell. of Richmond. as president
of the college yesterday afternoon
the board made DR.. George A. Harter
the retiring president, professor OF
mathematics at the same salary, S3,-
600 a year, that he has been receiv-
ing.
DR.. Mitchell, as was stated in this
paper yesterday, will come here June
90. but will not likely stay in Newark
all summer. He comes at that time
to get in touch with matters at the
college and to assist with the Sum
mer School, which opens Monday
June %. It is reported that DR.
Mitchell will make the address to thu
graduates at the Wilmington Higl
School commencement or Alumni re
union next week.
The board of trustees is now max
ing arrangements for the inaugura
tion of the new president. The presi
dent Of the board was authorized L
appoint committee Of four to ac
with a committee of three from thI
Alumni Association and two member
Of the faculty in making these ar
rangements. While the exact dat
has not been set for the inauguration