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Potts, Lawrence Alexander  (B.S., Agricultural Education, 1925)

Headshot of Alexander Lawrence Potts

Lawrence Alexander Potts earned his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Education from ISC in 1925. While attending ISC, he was a member of the Alpha-Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha in 1923, belonging alongside Iowa State brothers J. G. Trice, J. R. Otis, F. D. Patterson, A.C. Aldridge, J. L. Lockett, J. W. Fraser, and R. B. Atwood (Aldridge, 1923). After graduation, he worked as an itinerant teacher trainer for the Agricultural Department at Prairie View Normal & Industrial College (now Prairie View A & M University) before later becoming the Director of Agriculture there.

Sources

Aldridge, A. C. (1923, June). “Alpha Nu Chapter State College of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.” The Sphinx, 9.3, p. 17.

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Owens, Ana Elnora (M.S., Home Economics, 1932)

Elnora Ana E. Owens earned a master’s degree in Home Economics from Iowa State College in 1932. After graduating from Iowa State, in 1935 she was listed as the Supervisor of Directed Teaching in the Division of Home Economics at the Virginia State College for Negroes  (presently Virginia State University). Like other Iowa Staters, she was listed as an attendee at the banquet held by the Iowa State Alumni Association for Frederick D. Patterson’s inauguration as President of Tuskegee, in 1935. In the early 1940s Owens became an Assistant Professor of Home Economics. Her family has several ties to the university; the Owens building at Virginia State University was named after her father.

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Home activities and housing conditions of Negro girls in the rural secondary schools of Virginia as an index to their curricular needs, 1932

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990006522850102756 

Sources

Biography available at  HBCU Connections at Iowa State University :  Anna E. Owens http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/Anna_E._Owens )

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Madison, Walter G. Jr.  (B.S., Engineering, 1940)

Walter Garfield Madison, Jr., was born in Ames, Iowa, on 3 November 1918, the first-born son of parents Walter Garfield Madison (ISC class of 1914), the first licensed Black plumber in the state, and his wife, Gussie Irene Askew Madison. Walter, Jr., graduated from Ames High School in 1936 and enrolled in the Engineering program at Iowa State College. During his time at ISC, he was a member of the Iowa State Players.

He lived at home with his family at 1204 Third Street. His parents housed many Black ISC students there until they moved to live year round in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1942. When he registered for the draft in 1940, Walter, Jr., was listed as self-employed by the W. G. Madison Company of Nashville, Tennessee, where he married Anita Smith. He died 22 August 1985, in Washington, D.C., after a career as an mechanical engineer.

Sources

Photo Credit: Iowa State University. (1938). The Bomb 1938. p. 118. Retrieved from  https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/islandora/object/isu:TheBomb_36547#page/192/mode/2up

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Stewart, Katherine Glass (B.S., 1934, M.S., Child Development, 1948)

Headshot of Katherine Glass Stewart

Ms. Stewart completed her thesis, Differences between Fathers and Mothers in Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Child Behavior, in 1948 to earn her Master’s of Science degree at Iowa State in Child Development.

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Differences between fathers and mothers in knowledge of and attitudes toward child behavior, 1948

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990009337230102756 

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