1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

The Alumni
Firing Line
Penn State Phi Honored for Work as County Agent
For CHARLES K. HALLOWELL, Penn State '17, of
Philadelphia, honors come in threes. Nearly a lyear
ago he was made general chairman of the 1953
convention of the National Association of County
Agricultural Agents, held Oct. 11-15 in Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, he was honored by the people in Philadelphia
county with whom he works for thirty years
of service as county agent. At the county agent
convention he was named to the 1953 Honor RoU
and received a distinguished service certificate for
long and meritorious work in his field.
Farm born and reared at Ivyland, Bucks County,
Pa., interest in agriculture came naturally, and ever
since his graduation from the Penn State educational
work in that field has been his vocation.
Through the' years he has always maintained an
active interest in A 9 and his Penn Theta chapter.
Leadership in Bucks County agriculture where
he managed a farm for six years following graduation,
won for him appointment to the Penn State
staff and assignment to Philadelphia county as its
first county agent. There his work has been conspicuous
for improved farm-city relations and for ably
discharging the many highly specialized responsibilities
inherent in a city and suburban agriculture.
Well versed in the problems of producers and distributors,
his counsel has been sought as much in
the Philadelphia market as among his farmers,
among whom are some of the largest vegetable pro-
ducers in the East. Home gardens, and fine turf
for lawns, golf courses; and public parks also have
benefited from a blending of "know how" and
"show how" that have characterized all of his work
as county agent.
Despite constant day-by-day demands from his
work, he has found time to serve comunity and
related interests, and with equal zeal and devotion.
George School, where he prepped for college,
claimed him as trustee for 24 years—ten as board
chairman. He also.has been active in charities and
welfare work, including several that are sponsored
by the Society of Friends of which he is a member.
He and Mrs. Hallowell, the former Helen Rowland,
of Germantown, Philadelphia, have one son, Ralph
P. Hallowell.
A military science building, under construction on
the Bronx campus of New York University, was
dedicated November 4 to the memory of the late
ROBERT P. PATTERSON, Union '12. The main building'
will be known as the Robert P. Patterson Military
Science Building and will be a center for training
members of the university's R.O.T.C. and for use by
Army Reserve components, serving principles to
which the former secretary of War was devoted.
LOTHAIR TEETOR, Wisconsin '21, Hagerstown, Ind.,
industrialist, has been appointed by President Eisenhower
to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
WARREN LEE PIERSON, California '17, chairman of
the board and chairman of the executive committee
of Trans World Airline, has been elected a member
of the board of directors of the Fruehauf Trailer
Company.
JUDGE FREDERICK F. HOUSER' U.C.L.A, '26, former
Lieutenant Governor of California, has said that he
will announce his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for U. S. Senator in the next election.
At its annual meeting in San Francisco in November,
the Investment Bankers Association of America,
California group, elected J. EARLE JARDINE, JR.,
California '23, chairman.
CHARLES K. HALLOWELL, Penn State
For him, honors come in threes.
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Two management changes at Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company involve two
Phis. LOWELL F. WINGERT, Minnesota '28, vice-president
for personnel succeeds RALPH L. HELMREICH,