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The DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Conyo honors
ag scholars
today at 10
Alpha Zeta, Omicron
Nu present awards
to high ranking frosh
Ag students gaining scholastic
recognition will be honored today
at 10 a. rru when the high ranking
boy and girl of last year s fresh
man class will be awarded the
Alpha Zeta medal and the Omi
cron Nu scholarship cup respec
tively, and other high ranking in
dividuals of that class will be pre
sented, along with new members
of Alpha Zeta, honorary agricul
. tural fraternity, and Omicron Nu
and Phi Upsikm Omicron, hon
orary home economics sororities.
Along with the Alpha Zeta
medal to be awarded to the high
est ranking boy of the class of
1H2 will go a special 1200 schol
arship offered by Sears, Roebuck
& Co, Prof. Miateer said.
Dean W. W. Burr will preside
over the annual honors convoca
tion. to be held in the student
activities building. All ag classes
will be excused from 10 to 11,
according to Prof. C. C. Minteer
and Dr. Ruth Staples, faculty
members m charge.
Viss Margaret Fedde, chairman
of the home economics depart
merit, will be the speaker at the
event. Prof. C. C. Wiggans will
present the special scholarship,
Dr. H. C Filley the Alpha Zeta
medal, and Miss Bess Steele the
Omicron Nu Scholarship cup.
Will Pitner. chancellor of Alpha
Zeta, will present new members
of that organization, and Gladys
Swift and Arooue Svoboda, presi
dents of Omicron Nu and Phi
Upsilon Omicron respectively, will
present new members of these
honoraries.
Ag profs attend
Chicago meetings
D. U. Gross, and E. F. Frolik.
extension agronomists, are attend
ing the annual meetings of the In
ternational Crop Improvement As
sociation In Chicago this week. The
gatherings are held In connection
with the International Livestock
Exposition.
Gross is chairman of the legisla
tive committee of the association.
He also speaks on the general pro
gram about methods of procuring
certified seed samples.
Bradford attends
Michigan meeting
Dr. H. E. Bradford, chairman of
the department of vocational edu
cation, is attending the meeting
of the, national association of vo
cational teacher trainers and su
pervisors in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
today, Friday and Saturday of this
week.
This association is composed of
vocational teacher trainers and
state supervisors from the United
States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
The educational fields represented
are agriculture, home economics,
trades and industries, and rehabili
tation of persons disabled in industry.
Huskers fake
essay prizes
Three students place
in livestock contest
Nebraska students made an ex
cellent showing in the 1939 Saddle
and Sirloin club essay contest in
Chicago, results of that competi
tion announced today indicated.
In a field of 117 entries from
all parts of the nation, Wilfred
Becker placed fifth; Charles O
Gardner ranked eighth, and Le-
Roy K rarer was twentieth, accord
ing to information received by
Prof. Wm J. Loeffel. acting chair
man of the animal husbandry de
partment at the college of agricul
ture.
This is believed to be the first
time Nebraska has placed three
men within the top twenty, since
the ccntest was begun in 1912.
The contest is open to all under
graduates in agricultural colleges
in the United States and Canada,
and is regarded as one of the
"stiff est" essay competitions in
the nation.
Wisconsin wins.
By placing five men well up
within the high twenty, the Uni
versity of Wisconsin made the
best showing m this year's con
test, giving that institution per
manent possession of a sterling
silver cup which it bad won in
similar competition last year and
the year before. A new cup will be
offered next year. The Ruth gold
medal for first place in the event
was awarded to John H. Thomas
of Michigan State college.
Students competing In this
year's contest wrote on the sub
ject. "Live Stock as a Factor in
the Solution of the Farmer's New
labor Problem."
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Organized Ag
lists speaker
Roy Green
Administrator will
discuss effect of war
on U.S. agriculture
Roy M. Green, general agent for
the farm credit administration in
Wichita, will be a leading speaker
of the annual Organized Agricul
ture meetings to be held on the ag
campus Dec. 11-15. He will speak
at a general session on Dec. 14.
Green, former bead of the fed
era! crop insurance program will
speak on The Effect of the Euro
pean Situation on American Agri
culture."
The arrangements for the meet
ings are nearly completed with the
naming of Green. Other speakers
for the general meetings to be held
m the student activtiea building on
ag campus are Dr. C. B. Smith,
Francis Flood, and John Ise.
Tentative programs for the
meetings may now be obtained
from the coBege of agriculture.
Every organized agricultural group
in Nebraska will meet sometime
during the week.
Banquets which have been ar
ranged are the school of agricul
ture banquet Monday evening in
the student activities building, the
Uaster Farmer dinner Tuesday
evening, the Fun Feed Wednesday
evening, and the dairy banquet
Thursday night.
Fidler second
at Chicago
Senior tops NU entry
in national exposition
Altho the university meats judg
ing team was dethroned from the
national championship title it
claimed at Chicago in 1937 and
1938, during competition Tuesday
at the International Livestock Ex
position, one of the team members
was second high individual in the
entire contest.
Paul Fidler, Melrose. Montana,
senior placed second among 45 in
dividuals representing 15 colleges
and universities in the contest. The
Nebraska team as a whole placed
eighth. Other members of the
team were Man-in Kruse of Lo
retto and Eric Thor of Stanton.
The team was coached by Prof.
Ross H. Miller of the animal hus
bandry department at the agricul
tural college. First place, in the
contest went to the University of
Wisconsin, with Kansas State col
lege placing second. In competi
tion at Kansas City earlier this
fall, the Nebraska team placed
fourth.
Achievement hall
pays Hopt tribute
The late Prof.
be honored at
Nebraska Hall
Achievement at
Erwin Hopt will
session of the
of Agricultural
Organized Agri
culture next week. A leader in
agriculture in the state for many
years. Prof. Hopt was professor
of agronomy at the college of agri
culture from 1909 to 1918.
Prof. H. a Filley, secretary of
the Hall, announced plans for the
annual honoring of some Nebraa-
kan who has contributed much to
the betterment of the state's basic
industry agriculture. Dr. F. D".
Keim. now head of the agronmy
department, will present a paper
honoring Prof. Hopt.
Tesar vins
nat'l office
Crops judge elected
junior agronomy head
Milo Tesar, the nation's top col
legiate crops judge in Chicago
this week, has been elected presi
dent of the junior section of the
American Society of Agronomy, it
became known today as the ag
college crops team returned home
from the Windy city. Tesar comes
from Tobias and competed on the
team which placed second, just
one point behind the national
champion, in Chicago.
Muo lives on a iarm and is a
junior at the college of agricul
ture. A major in agronomy, he is
Tri-K club
initiates
seven men
Agronomy honorary
hears C. B. Schultx
at ceremony banquet
Seven men were initiated last
night into Tri-K, agronomy hon
orary. James Allen, Montee
Baker, Rex Brown, Clyde Gilna,
Charles Huenefeld, Weston Tiel
stick, Laird Wolfe were the men
who, because of their high scho
lastic averages and special inter
est in agronomy, were initiated.
The ceremony for the new
members was held in crops lab
oratory, with Ralph Schobert in
charge and Marion Pedersen and
John Beckwith assisting:
After the initiation, the hon
orary held a banquet at the lab
oratory in honor of the new mem
bers, and the crops judging team
which won first in the Interna
tional Livestock Exposition con
test at Chicago last week. Harold
SchudeL president, presided at the
banquet.
Guest' speaker at the banquet
was C. B. Schultx, ti! the geology
department, who discussed geo
logical formations in the state and
showed films of the work of ex
peditions which have been cover
ing Nebraska the past few years.
a member of the Tri-K agronomy
club on the campus. Alpha Zeta
I honorary fraternity and other organizations.
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