Lincoln College Honours Former Staff Members

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 1

Lincoln College Honours Former Staff Members

The Lincoln College Council has decided to honour three former staff members by naming new buildings or sections of new buildings at the college after them.

The council has approved recommendations to this effect from its eponymy committee—a committee which is concerned with the recognition of outstanding service to New Zealand agriculture and Lincoln College by former staff members or persons closely associated with the college in this way.

To be so honoured are the late Dr. F. W. Hilgendorf, the late Associate Professor H. E. Garrett, and the late Mr A. W. Riddolls. A wing of the new teaching block complex at the college—that is the wing now under construction—will be known as Hilgendorf Wing. One of the laboratories in the Agricultural Engineering Institute building at the college will be called Riddolls Laboratory. Memorial Appeal It is also proposed to build at the college motel-type residential accommodation for

about 20 students to enable a comparison of this type of accommodation to be made with the larger type of residential hall. The Old Students’ Association of the college has been conducting an appeal for a memorial to Professor Garrett, and it is proposed to use these funds, with a Government subsidy, to erect this type of accommodation. It will be known as Garrett House.

Dr. Hilgendorf was a distinguished early member of the staff of the college, serving from 1899 to the mid--1930s with one short break. He held one of the two chairs of agriculture established at the college in 1930, and before his retirement was acting director of the college. He was a wheat and plant breeder of note, and took a leading part in the establishment of the Wheat Research Institute, of which he was first director. Advocated Institute

Mr Riddolls was reader and head of the agricultural engineering department at the college when he died in 1963. He was a keen advocate of the formation of an agricultural engineering institute,

which was established after his death largely along the lines he had recommended. An old student of the college and a former Rhodes Scholar, Professor Garrett was well known as a member of the college’s farm management and rural valuation department. He was closely associated with the college's rural valuation and farin management course and became associate professor and head of the department shortly before his death in 1964.

The registrar at the college (Mr 11. G. Hunt) said yesterday that the college council was concerned that only outstanding service to agriculture and Lincoln College, should be recognised by associating the names of persons with buildings.