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The division is now busily engaged considering changes in courses 

 and the addition of new ones in order to meet the demands and the great 

 social and economic changes resulting from the war. An endeavor has 

 been made to meet the educational needs of those returning from military 

 service with physical disabilities as well as those desiring further education 

 along agricultural lines resulting from changed methods of living and 

 environmental conditions. 



The members of the division are looking forward with expectancy and 

 renewed ambitions toward the beginning of another college year when 

 many of the disturbing factors of the horrible war shall have been left 

 behind. 



Respectfully submitted, 



R. S. SHAW, 



East Lansing, June 30, 1919. 



Dean of Agriculture. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE. 



To the President: 



Sir — I herewith submit the following report for the Department of 

 Horticulture and Landscape Gardening for the year ending June 30, 1919. 



From August 26, 1917, until October 3, 1918, my services were con- 

 tributed by the State Board of Agriculture to the Food Administration at 

 Washington, D. C, upon the request of Mr. Herbert C. Hoover. It 

 was Mr. Hoover's policy of administration to ask colleges, universities, 

 and business organizations to contribute the services of some of their 

 men during the war period. My duties were as Associate in Charge of 

 the Perishable Food Division. 



A statement of each member of the department should be a matter of 

 pride and record. 



Mr. H. C. Moore, Extension Specialist entered the service on August 

 26, 1917, only a month after he entered upon his duties. He was commis- 

 sioned 2nd Lieut. F. A., November 27, 1917. He was honorably discharged 

 from the service on December 20, 1918 and at once took up his duties here. 



Mr. J. H. Carmody, Extension Specialist, entered the service as a 

 private, September 1917; was appointed Sergeant, 1st Class, June 11, 

 1918, and commissioned as Lieutenant, November 14, 1918, but declined 

 the honor. He served several inonths in France and was honorably dis- 

 charged and began his duties soon afterward. 



Mr. R. W. Peterson, Assistant in the Experiment Station resigned to 

 enter the service and has spent several months in France. At present he 

 is stationed at Cambridge, England. 



Mr. A. T. Hootman, Foreman, entered the service as a private in the 

 Eighty-Fifth Division and has been appointed Sergeant and is now in 

 Archangel, Russia. 



It has not been the policy of the department to ask for a deferred 

 classification for any members. 



So far as possible an accurate record has been kept of every student 

 of the department who was in the military service. Their names and 

 class have been placed on a service roll. It contains 141 names, the only 

 gold star name being Lieutenant Herbert J. Sheldon, of the class of 1914, 

 who was killed in action. 



