The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-09
NewAgricultureSchooI Opening at U. of Conn.
Funds From Radcliffe Hicks Estate Make Establish
 ment Possible w. B. Young Director


 storrs, August g = Opning this fall of the new School of Agrictil- ture at the University of Connecti- cut made possible by gift of funds from the estate of Radcliffe Hicks of Holland, is announced in a spe- cial bulletin from the university, now on the press. Professor Wilfred B. Young has been appointed di- rector of the school, which will ad- init it's first 25 students in the fall semester, starting 8 two-year course.
 Funds from the Hicks estate will. be used during the coming year to construct classroom and labora- tory building for the school, and a elf-hquidating dornaitory will. be built with the proceeds of 8 spe- Cial bond issue authorized by the General Assembly. Until these quarters are ready the students will be housed in one of the exist ing dormitories.
 The prospectus from the univer- sity describes the school as strictly vocational in nature, and it will be operated as separate division. The director will be responsible to the deasA of the College of Agriculture.
 For the first year a fee of SIS per student has been fixed. Board and room rates will be the same as for other students. Entrance re- quirements are CD graduation from high school, CD farm experience, 4-H Club experience. or vocation al-agricultulre training acceptable to the director and the dean. In- structors will be men now on the regular staff of the College of Ag- riculture.
 Professor Young, who has already taken over the duties of director, was formerly associate professor of animal husbandry and extension animal husbandman. He will give up his teaching program, but will continue his extension work for the time being.
 MT. Young is 3S years old, a na- tive of Indiana, where be was born and brought up on 8 general live stock farm in Clinton county. As a boy he took part in junior club work, the forerurlner of the All Clubs, and studied vocational agri- culture in high school. At Purdue University, where he was gradu- ated with a bachelor of science de- gree in 1925, he majored in animal husbandry. He was 8 member of the intercollegiate livestock judg- ing team, member of the track team, member of the track team, and took part in other athletic sports.
 After graduation, he worked for the Thomas E. Wilson Meat Pack ing company at the Union Stock yards in Chicago, for the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, and then for the Fairbanks Morse company, selling farm scales and engines at Beloit, Wise, and Springfield, III.
 In the fall of 1927 he went to the University of Illinois as 8 teacher and research worked in animal husbandry, and was awarded 8 master of science degree there in 1929. He has partially completed the requirements for doctors degree at Illinois.
 MT. Young came to Connecticut in 1881 as assistant professor in animal huSbandry and was pro- noted to aSsociatel professor in January of this year. He has car- ried all of the extension work in animal husbandry, both with adult groups and All Clubs, and has taught residence courses in live stock production, meat, animal breeding and livestock judging. He has also coached the intercollegiate livestock and meat judging teams.
 MT. Young is president of the Connecticut Horse Show Associa- ton, vice-presidenh of the Eastern Aberdeen Angus Association, chair man of the Fat Lamb and Pig Show and director of the Baby Beef Show at the Eastern States Exposition, and chairman of the horse section of the northeastern branch of the Society of Animal Production. He is member of the National Block and Bride Club, the Lambda Cana Delta judging fraternity and the Scabbard and Blade military fraternity. He is an honorary member of the Connecti- cut Chapter, Future Farmers of America.