DR. HILGENDORF HONOURED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21967, 16 December 1936, Page 15

DR. HILGENDORF HONOURED

STAFF AND STUDENTS' PRESENTATIONS

i During the ceremony of presenting e diplomas and prizes at Lincoln allege yesterday Professor Hudson pressed the appreciation of the staff Dr. F. . yr.. Hilgendorf for the help *had;been to them and to students Wcollege during his long term third of a century on e staff. The speaker said he had 1 need. to.stress .the value of. the «tors;work in the cause of agriculre. as it was Universally known and predated. When he (the speaker) " went to the college 16 years ago a student Dr. Hilgendorf was one "ie first 'to meet him. Personally •was very indebted to the doctor. l<j tae generations of students who w Passed through the college during « .doctor's term felt the same apsciation. The staff had decided to Ke on record the doctor's services Placing in the laboratory an en*Bea Photograph, bearing a suitable where it would be seen by •2 students to come to remind them une work done by him during the *£ Period of 36 years. 5J G. Osborne, on behalf of the Old ™aents' Association, said that in the y of the old students the most nunating figure of the college was 2of Dr. Hilgendorf. All the mem- ~? <* the staff of the doctor's early n were now gone with the excepmof one. The Old Students' AssoJ"°n had been puzzled as to the "" in which they could show their n°! ation of the doctor, and had de- »♦ i ? Present him with an album gaining old photographs of the col"Y old boys as could be secured. j a .;jja#Wgendorf was warmly apjs&n?n risin & to respond. Ho had BkT2mi Coll ege staff just near the C 3T si century. Ho had been very C *£? rking tnere - but after such a ) l<&T loci of activity he was happy lem^ Ve with the very pleasant M«s that ho could look back on. brflf opmenls in agricultural in\v*s} had been tremendous in the nnuiP' He came to the college xTm very little about agriculture et i#L ght sav practically nothing—ijj W r j>nkly thought that when he (jJL Hpototed he wag the most suit!t>W'^£tiCant - How diff erent it was !UaliM?W ea coul d bei obtained better. ►as inn J ' He th ought the teaching *a tw pe £ cent - bet i ter now than it ttosa*"' Both gifts Represented very Cgnt thoughts on the part of the \i 2ui he certeinJy would prize *wSSk£s£ °, ld Photographs and Wr 6?l He f eelingly thanked Pro,SP n * the teaching staff, and fetfonSiPß for their 6 ener ous appre- ' £**«! fts services. 'kit ki * Morris - on behalf of First Dr j,* aenls ' Association, presented 'tiiiMwS*' who had been their ' iWffi33F° ? mo J§l£i;he year, with mp ! a him lor distance given them all,