Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-10-11
w. s. C. GRADUATES
TO DO WAR WORK

TO DO. WAR WORK
PULLMAN, WASH, Oct. 9.-The
state college regents met today and
disposed OF much routine business
as we'll as making numerous ap-
pointments, ratifying others that
had been made by President Hol-
land and accepting several resigna-
tons. Regents Pease, McCroskey
and Ritz were present.
Seven state college graduates were
named special home demonstration
agents in home economics for the
extension service. These were the
Misses Grace Coulter, Inez Arnquist,
Della Delvin, Lottie E. Jellum, AL
nina White, Myrtle M. Boone and
Olga Grizzle. Each will be in charge
of districts created by the extension
service for special home economies
war emergency work. All will be
responsible to the home economics
division of the extension service OF
which Miss Margaret Sutherland is
head.
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President Holland reported to the
regents that Lieutenant r.. w. Ash
brook, acting commandant of cadets,
has been reassigned to the active lis.
and read a telegram received today
from the war department stating
that Colonel Willis P. May is detail
ed as commandant and will arrive
soon to relieve Lieutenant Ashbrook.
Appointment of Dr.. L. O. Howard,
Salt Lake City, as dean of the
school of mines was ratified. Dr..
Howard succeeds Professor F. A.
Thomson, now at the University of
Idaho.
P. H. Dirstine, acting head of the
department of pharmacy since the
resignation of A. F. Maxwell, was
made head of the department. DR..
I. d. Eliot of the department of eco
nomic science and history, was grant
ed leave of absence to accept EN-
ployment with the government dur
ing the war. DR.. Eliot will be undel
the direction of the army surgeon
general.
George S. Wehrwein, formerly a
graduate of the University of Wis
consin, was employed, as assistant
market specialist to work in con-
nection with county agents on farm
market problems.
Extension Service Appointments
Appointments for the extension
service were made as follows:
0. V. Patton, formerly Walla Wal
la county agent, to be assistant
county agent leader; Bernard E.
Smead, state college graduate, to be
pig club specialist; w. X. Whitaker,
poultry club agent; Maize Wilson,
district club leader; Josephine Arm
quist, assistant club leader; H. H.
Boone, state college graduate, to sue
coed O. V. Patton as Walla Walla
county agent; Roy Larsen, graduate,
named Mason county agent; A. B.
Nystrom, of the dairy department
made Lewis county agent; ]. N.
Price, present field specialist in dali
rying, to succeed L. w. Fluharty as
Yakima county agent; H. E. Lattie
to succeed A. M. Richardson as Doug
las county agent; Mr.. Richardson,
resigning to engage in farming nea.
Pullman.
Roy Boiler was made assistant in
the department of physical education
to have charge of freshman football
coaching and varsity baseball.
Miss Ivy Lewellan Of Pullman was
elected secretary to President Hol-
land, succeeding ]. L. Ashlock who
becomes publicity secretary for the
college.
Among designations accepted were
those of DR.. C. A. Cornelson, pro-
fcssor of English, who becomes
mead of the English department a,
Wabash college, Wabash, Ind; Dean
F. A. Thomson of the school Of
mines; Francis G. Miller, head O.
the forestry department; NJ A. Yoth-
ars, assistant entomologist at the ex-
pertinent station, who enters the
government chronological service,
Martin H. Knutson, instr ctor in bot
any, who joined the national army,
and Professor A. B. Nystrom of the
dairy department, who becomes
county agent of Lewis county.
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