FACULTYDepartment ChairWilbur F. Stewart entered his second decade as chair of the department. In 1934, Stewart was President of the Ten Year Teacher Trainers in 1934, a section of the American Vocational Association and the only National organization of Teacher Educators at the time.

DEPARTMENT LOCATIONS 1927 - 1937

In 1927 the department moved to room 323 Campbell Hall. The space in Campbell Hall provided two classrooms for the Department of Agricultural Education. One included a storage room - a private office for the chairman and a sizeable area for the secretary and the other members of the staff.

STUDENTS

Faculty from the second ten years: Herschel Nisonger, Harold Kenestrick, Lyman Jackson and John McClelland.

1927 to 1937

Department Faculty: 1927-1937Stewart began his second decade with two assistant professors: Harold Kenestrick and Herschel Nisonger. Nisonger left the department to become the Junior Dean of the College in 1928 and Lyman Jackson was added in 1929. Jackson, Kenestrick, and Stewart remained steady as the three faculty members in the department until Lyman Jackson left the department to become a Junior Dean in the College. His position was filled by John McClelland (BS ‘21, MS ‘27) in 1937.

CurriculumThe department became one of the majors offered by the College of Agriculture in the early 1930s. Students would take general courses the first two years followed by the professional curriculum in their junior and senior year of college. The professional courses continued to include an introductory course in agricultural education (401), a course in the methods of teaching vocational agriculture (601), and practice teaching in the nearby training schools (402,403). In addition to the courses established in the previous decade, other courses created by other departments for teachers of agricultural education.

Agricultural Engineering 504 Principles and Practices in Farm Shop

Added in 1933, this course was for students preparing to teach farm shop in high school.

Animal Husbandry617 Dairy Production for Teachers of Voc Agriculture

Added in 1931, this course was focused on selection and breeding of the dairy cattle for the teacher of high school agriculture.

Graduate CourseworkThe department added eight graduate courses during this time period:

605. Project Records and Analysis 607. The Conference Method Applied to

Instruction in Agriculture 705 Supervised Practice Program Building 803: The Problem Method Applied to Secondary

and College Teaching in Agriculture804: State Administration and Supervision of

Vocational Agriculture806. Organization and Administration of Teacher

Training for Vocational Agriculture 808 Organization and Methods of Conducting Part-

Time and Evening Schools in Voc Agriculture 810 Seminar in Agricultural Education

Training Center Locations 1927 - 1937The second decade started with five training centers: Worthington, Canal Winchester, Hilliard, Grove City, and Westerville. Four of these training centers had been established the first year of the program, the exception being Westerville which had been added in 1924. Worthington was discontinued as a training center in 1930 and a new center was established at Reynoldsburg. Reynoldsburg would last as a training station until 1937 when it would be replaced by West Jefferson. The department closed the decade with five training centers.

While students could rely on the inter-urban trains to get them to and from these training centers in the first decade, students had to find other modes of transportation as these trains were slowly being phased out and many of these lines stopped operating after the stock market crash of 1929. During this time, a car allowance of $400 per year was added for the faculty member in charge of evaluating the student teachers. Professor Kenestrick devoted full time to working with the new teachers in the field during 1924-25 and made 125 school visits.

The training teachers for the second decade include:

Worthington and Reynoldsburg: Arthur Kennedy

Canal Winchester: Robert McMurray and L.B. Fidler

Hilliard: E. O. Bolender and Charles Flickinger

Grove City: Floyd Ruble

Westerville: Ted Merriam and Howard McClarren

In addition to regular duties, the agricultural educator also gave instruction to the adults of the community through part-time and evening instruction. The photo above is taken from an evening

instruction at West Liberty in 1934. The photo top right is also taken from that same class. Top right is a picture of Farmer’s Week instruction given by the college in January.

Campbell Hall

Staff 1927-1937:Beatrice (Babb) Geiler served from 1926-29 and she was followed by Hellen Killworth in September, 1929. The department has been especially fortunate to have several high-caliber staff members through the years. In his history of the department written in 1969, Willard Wolf said of Killworth that she “had the unusual ability to attract quality people for secretarial positions and to establish high standards for conduct and work…few members on the staff are received with higher regard by either undergraduate or graduate students than that received by Mrs. Killworth.” Killworth would stay in the department for 39 years before retiring in 1967. During the 1927-1937 time period, Killworth also worked with Mr. Robert Barb who joined the staff in 1936.

An early agricultural education class at the training center in Grove City

R1: Gale Bachelder, Wilfred Balo, John Bilek, Francis Bowne, Clifford Hoover, Homer KileR2: Roy Lovett, Kermit Morse, James Penrod, Donald Rinehart, Walter E. Swope, Wallace Wiseman, George WoodNot Pictured: Jesse Amsbaugh, Harold C. Hodson, Shippley McIntosh, Hallie P. Rinks, Robert Straszheim, Joseph Timmons, Paul R. Tuttle

1928

R1: Everett Brelsford, Ralph Burdick, Lester Cronin, Cloyce Donnel, Charles Eberhard, George EikenberryR2: Sidney Hilty, George Pulliam, Ralph Reece, Hanson Rhodes, Laurance Stafford, Harold Wilber, Elmer YutziNot Pictured: Thomas M. Janes, James H. Warner

1929

R1: Clyde Beougher, Stanley Bingham, Clarence Bowen, William Brug, Glenn Carpenter, Virgil DileyR2: Ralph Dush, Russel Fairall, Harold Faylor, Charles Flickinger, Carl Frische, Galen Groves, William Haines, Delmar Hoover R3: Robert Knedler, Clyde Lyle, Richard McFerren, Carl Pickering, Glenn Poe, Leroy Roudebush, Milford Schmidt, Dale ScottR4: John W. Thomas, Menford J. YohNot Pictured: Stephen Molnar, George Sickafoose

1930

1931

R1: Frederick Bates, Alonzo Burdge, Warren Cooper, Roy Detrich, Paul Eyestone, Edward FeckR2: Harold Gibboney, Lee Glass, Franklin Greeneisen, Ralph Grimshaw, Claude Hoff, Edward Smith, John Strausbaugh, Clifford VarneyR3: Donald Wasem, Ralph Woodin, Ralph YoungNot Pictured: Robert Blosser, Jack Devitt, James Kennard, John Leonard, Sterling Smith, Ralph Van Buren

R1: Robert Barre, Ralph Crooks, Stanley Diefenbacher, Elmer Felton, Lawrence Holtkamp, Raymond KingR2: Julius Odegard, Percy Rider, Kenneth Samuels, Paul Schlotterbeck, Bernard Snider, Charles Spitler, Hildred Warner, Wayne Wilson Not Picutured: Truman Arnold, Alvan Aughsburger, William Balliet, Dale T. Friday, Joe S. Kersey, Frank Leeper, Howard Lillich, Charles Murphy, Raymond Richmond, Raymond Rickly, Clarence Snyder

1932

R1: Norman Arnold, Ralph Bender, Kenneth Burris, Clifford Clary, Donald Dodd, Paul EshlerR2: Clarence Fridline, Mortin Hamilton, John Henderson, Gaylord Jones, Robert Kirkbride, Randall Liming, Claude Rhoad, LayelRidenourR3: Carleton Smith, Hobart Sockman, Dalton Stoneburner, Wilbur Stuckey, Kenneth Throckmorton, William Tudor, Charles Weaver, Herschel ZehnerNot Pictured: Harry Anderson, David Carr, Leo Gaffin, Elmer Henry, Dayton Kennedy, Harland Martin, Thomas Porter, DorrisPurkey, Victor Snyder, Wendell Tolbert

1933

R1: Ronald Beard, Harold Bernhard, Howard Bohl, Roy Clay, Joseph Colville, Herschel DrakeR2: Leland Hoover, Burdette Hunter, Russel Kline, Robert Lane, Clarence McKnight, John Moody, Carl Norris, Raymond PiferR3: Guy Springer, Robert Warren Not Pictured: Forrest Brown, Hillis Hall, Jay Harner, Ernest Renner, Guy Springer

1934

1935

R1: Emerson Ball, David Beard, Ralph Bergman, Glen Boling, Robert Campbell, Glen DaflerR2: Donald Foster, Ralph Fuller, Merrit Monson, Howard Nowels, Ranson Oetzel, Alvin Reuwee, Chalres SchlotterbeckNot Pictured: Lawrence Best, Edgar Borst, Ralph Brooks, Robert Peoples

R1: John L. Borton, Karle Lucal, Paul Hartsook, Franklin MillerNot Pictured: Harold Banta, Ralph Kunze, Daniel McInturf, William Renner, Olean Swallen

1936

R1: Oscar Augenstein, Lester Bailey, Edward Converse, Carl Culler, William Dayhuff, Ralph LemonR2: Perry Rawn, Ralph Sawyer, Dale Snavely, Herman Stebbins, Eldon Studebaker, Francis Throckmorton, Glenn Whetstone Not Pictured: Lorain Basinger, Roscoe Daniell, Elias Lewis, Harold Moorehead, Clarence Newsom, Daryl Sharp, Edward Strickling, John Wagenhals

1937

235Total Degrees

209Bachelors

26Masters

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Degrees 1928 - 1937

Undergrad MS PhD

This photo taken in 1935 shows the Waldo FFA testing and providing seed to the local community after a shortage of tested seed corn was identified in the community. The “Waldo High School Seed Company”

earned enough profit to construct a seed-corn duster to offer further services.

In addition to classroom duties, above left, Agricultural Educators were also FFA advisors. The FFA was organized in Ohio at a meeting in Campbell Hall on February 7-9, 1929. The photo above right shows the State Officers from second year with president Ralph Bender in the first row. Other staples of agricultural

instruction include livestock judging, bottom left, and soil judging bottom right.

Although the Agricultural Education courses were taught in Campbell Hall, students would also need to take other courses across the river. Plumb Hall had been constructed in 1926 and was surrounded by five livestock barns. Transportation to the other side of campus consisted of a World War I truck with hard rubber tires and chain drive. The bus would leave from Neil Ave near Townsend Hall. Students who missed the bus would run to catch up and jump on the back of it.

Of the 26 Master’s students from this decade, three were African American: Clarence S. Woodard MS ’30 (left), Norwood R. Shields MS ’31 (middle), and George W. Conoly (right) MS ’36. Norwood Shields taught at Wilberforce University, Clarence S. Woodard returned to his native Arkansas, and George Conoly returned to his native Florida where he taught for over 40 years at Florida A & M University.

Graduate Degrees Earned 1927-19371928: Eldon Adams, Fred Davis, William Ferguson 1930: Raymond L. Dennison, Floyd J. Ruble,

Clarence S. Woodard1931: Ralph A. Howard, Oscar R. LeBeau,

Howard McClarren, Norwood R. Shields, Orville L. Young

1933: Lester Newton Geiger, Chester J. George, Adam W. Tenney

1934: Robert Leo Albright, Lloyd B. Fidler1936: George Whitfield Conoly, Ralph M. Foltz,

Ashlie Reid Hocking, Paul F. Pulse, Robert L. Reynolds, Roy Roller, Wilbur B Wood

1937: Walter A. Alexander, Claude E. Rhoad

Graduate StudiesThe department graduated 26 Master’s students during this time period. Wilbur F. Stewart completed his PhD at Columbia in 1930 and served as advisor for 19 of these students. Lyman Jackson served as advisor for four students and the others were advised by other faculty in the College of Agriculture.