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Service. Director E. P. Taylor resigned to accept an important 

 commercial position in Chicago, his service ending with the close 

 of the fiscal year, June 30, 1920. Mr. W. M. Cook, who had been 

 County Agent Leader for about three years, was chosen to succeed 

 Director Taylor July 1. Mr. Leland S. Parke, who had served 

 as Club Leader since 1915, resigned at the close of the year, as did 

 Miss Agnes A. Hunt, who had been Assistant Club Leader since 

 1917. Other resignations were effective as follows: August 31, 

 1919, H. W. Estill, Assistant Agricultural Chemist; October 31, 

 1919, W. W. Pickrell, County Agricultural Agent, Pima and Santa 

 Cruz counties; February 1, 1920, N. L. Harris, Extension Poultry 

 Husbandman; March 15, 1920, C. K. Wildermuth, County Agricul- 

 tural Agent, Pinal County, and C. U. Pickrell, Extension Specialist 

 in Animal Husbandry ; June 30, 1920, Mrs. Louise Sporleder Shel- 

 ley, Home Demonstration Agent, Cochise County. 



appointments 



On January 1, 1920, Mr. Heber H. Gibson was appointed 

 Professor of Agricultural Education to succeed Professor Homer 

 Derr, who had been employed jointly with the State Department 

 of Vocational Education. During the year, the Regents estab- 

 lished a Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricul- 

 ture and appointed Professor J. G. Brown of the Department of 

 Biology of the University to take charge of the new department on 

 July 1. Professor Brown will devote most of his time to Experi- 

 ment Station investigations of plant diseases, particularly those of 

 cotton and dates. Other appointments were as follows: July 1, 

 1919, E. H. Pressley, Assistant Plant Breeder; September 1, 1919, 

 S. W. Grifftn, Assistant Agricultural Chemist ; October 1, 1919, S. P. 

 Clark, Extension Agronomist; January 1, 1920, R. N. Davis, Assist 

 ant Dairy Husbandman; January 15, 1920, D. W. Albert, Assistant 

 in Horticulture; June 15, 1920, E. B. Stanley, Instructor in Animal 

 Husbandry. 



In addition, Mr. M. H. Woody was appointed foreman of the 

 Cochise Dry-Farm to succeed Mr. F. H. Simmons, who was trans- 

 ferred to Yuma; and Mr. Leslie Beaty was oppointed foreman of 

 the Prescott Dry-Farm on March 15, 1920, to succeed Mr. T. F. 

 Willcox, whose resignation took effect on that date. On July 1, 

 1919, Mr. F. H. Simmons assumed the foremanship of the Yuma 

 Date Orchard and Horticultural Station to succeed Mr. D. C. AepM, 

 who had resigned as of June 30, 1919. 



On May 1, 1920, Mr. J. R. Reed became foreman of th-.; 



