Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-05-02
REGISTRAR BARNARD
TELLS OF DR.. NADER
was Editor of The Everaraep.
Worked Way Through
College

When | was in college ! used To
lire the furnaces, My Instructions
were to keep my eye on the indicator
Since l have been registrar | have
had considerable to do with the alum
nj and have been interested in their
success. Keep your eye on the indi-
Gator, applies in this case, and this
article has to do with one of The
indicators of the alumni. | knew
Dr. Nader while ! was a student
in the institution. He was then reg
istrar. l became acquainted with his
past life and watched his work from
then on. DR.. Nader grew up on n
Washington farm in the Walla WaIa
valley. As he used to say, he has
done every job on a ranch, from cur
rying the mules and milking the cows
TO running the header and thresher.
laying lit the farm lands and mar
kedng the crops.
He entered the State College of
Washington with very little money.
The fact of the matter is, he had
| just $50 in his pocket and the de-
termination to earn his way. He
earned this by the following method
swept and scrubbed the college build
ings, waited on table in the dormi-
| tory, worked in the harvest fields in
the summer, carried brick and mortar
on Ferry hall and Science hall when
those buildings were erected, and in
summer managed wheat warehouse
near Walla Walla.
DR.. Nader took promine part
| in student activities, especially in de-
batting and oratory, and in organizing
the Associated Students. He was
editor-in-chief of The Evergreen dur
ing his senior year. He graduated
from the State College with high hon
ors in 1901. For work done on his
| graduation thesis, Columbia Uni
versity offered him a university
scholarship. After one years study
at Columbia, he was advanced to
the degree of master of arts, when he
worked in New York city for a year
and gained valuable business exper-
fence. -.
While registrar at the State College
he also acted as accountant. many
times as secretary of the faculty, and
instructor in history in the depart
ment of economics. In 1908 he was
superintendent of schools in Tekoa;
In 1909 deputy state superintendent
of public instruction; in 1912 director
of education in the state Teformatory
at Monroe. He then went to Cali
fornia to pursue graduate studies at
the university. His work on his
Doctors thesis won him the award
of the Flood fellowship, one OF the
uniVersity's most valuable prizes for
scholarship. AS a Flood Fellow he
toured the United States in 1914, he
was appointed on the staff of she
university extension division of the
University of California. He has
been promoted each year since then.
He is now assistant director, in charge
of all organizations of the university
extension work in California. DR..
Nader has probably published more
articles on the university extension
work than any one else in this coun-
try. He has been asked by the d.
rector of educational extension OF
the u. S. bureau of education, Wash
ington, D. c., to prepare bulletin on
correspondence instruction In this
country. He has series OF articles
now running in American Education
published in Albany, New York.
DR.. Nader will lecture at the col
lege auditorium at 1920 a. m. May
6. The public is invited
FRANK T. BARNARD.