~raduate ~chool
Dean Hungerford
The University's Graduate School, which offers advanced degrees to graduate students, is administered by a Graduate Counci l composed of the dean of the school and six members appointed by the president from various divisions of the Uni versity. Every possible facility is offered the student for promotion of his initiative and sel f-di rection in study. Charles Willi am Hungerford, dean of the Graduate School, is also professor of Pl ant Pathology, Plant P athologist with and vice-director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and assistant dean of the College of Agriculture. Hi s B.S. is from Upper Iowa University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. H e taught in Minnesota public schools, and during the war was engaged in food conservation work for t he United States D epartment of Agriculture. One of the special investigations he carried ou t for the department was research demonstrating that grain rust could not be carried by seed wheat. D ean Hungerford joined the university faculty in 1919. H e is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of Sigma X i and Alpha Zeta.
dfunior eollege Th e U niversity Junior College was organized to afford special facilities for advice to the beginning student and to assist him in ori enting himself after bridging the gap between high school and university. Its two-year cou rse qualifies students for entrance to the College of Letters and cience, the College of Law, or the School of Business Administration, at the same time equipping them with a cultural foundation. Thomas Stoner Kerr, dean of the college and professor of Political Science, received an A.B. degree from I ndiana niversity and an LL.B. from the University of ~ l ichigan. His teaching experience before he came to the niversity in 1924 included six years as city superintendent of schools at Bonners F erry. H e also had experience as director of a chautauqua circuit and as field secretary fo r the Washington State Retail Association. In 1931 he was one of a half dozen men in t he countr y, and the onl y one west of the R ockies, to be selected by t he American P olitical Science Association to attend, as their guest, their meetings at W ashington, D.C. D ean Kerr is the present president of the M oscow Chamber of Commerce.
Dean Kerr