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Small, John Baggett, Sr. (B.S., Agricultural Education, 1928)

John Baggett Small Sr.

John Baggett Small was born 24 Jun 1895 in Bertie, North Carolina, the son of Fred Small and Luvenia Williams Small. A WWI vet, Small earned a B.S. Degree in Agriculture from A&T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and served as a Vocational Teacher at Berry O’Kelly School in Method, North Carolina, before earning a second degree in Agriculture from Iowa State College in 1928. He also attended Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. Small taught horticulture and held many positions throughout his life, including: superintendent of The Greenhouse at A&T; Principal of Gibson High School  in Gibsonville, North Carolina; County Agricultural Agent of Chowan and Perquiman’s Counties, headquarters in Edenton; and County Agent for Chowan County. He was a Freemason, Shriner 32nd Degree and president of Small Enterprises, Inc., in Greensboro. He died on 29 April 1986 in Chowan, North Carolina, and was buried in the Bond Family Cemetery in Windsor, North Carolina.

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Smith, Holloway  (B.S., Agricultural Education, 1928)

Holloway Smith in full body shot in a crouched position with one hand in front

Holloway Smith was born in Kentucky in 1896. The second black ISC football player, three years after Jack Trice, Smith came to ISC from Michigan State to play football and earn his B.S. in Agriculture Education. He had a successful football career despite being barred from playing in the Missouri Valley Conference, as they had an agreement with Southern schools to not allow African American students to play. This same unfair treatment would bar him from playing against Oklahoma State as well, a detriment to ISC.

After graduating from ISC, Smith moved to Marianna, Arkansas, where he worked for 20 years, serving as a teacher, then master teacher, and then as principal. Later, he served as the state supervisor for the National Youth Association in Arkansas, a New Deal program that provided education, work, and housing for youth ages 16-24 during the Great Depression. Using that experience, Smith became a National Director for the U.S.O.

Later In life, Smith moved to Monterey, California, where he operated a restaurant, before moving to Reno, Nevada in the early 1960s. He died in Reno in 1970 at the age of 73 and was buried in the Mountain View Cemetery there.

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Photo Credit: The Bomb

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Lockett, John Leon (B.S., Agronomy, 1923; M.S., Agronomy, 1928)

Headshot of John Leon Lockett

In 1926, Lockett, a Professor of Farm Crops and Soils, was one of five Iowa State graduates among the seven professors in the Agriculture Department at Prairie View. The others were Iowa State graduates E. B. Evans, R. B. Atwood, L. A. Potts, and J. M. Alexander. After receiving his Ph.D. from Rutgers, Dr. Lockett went on to become a professor of Agronomy at Virginia State College for Negroes, where he later became Director of the School of Agriculture until1963, when he gave up the position (“John L. Lockett,” 2018)

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Some chemical and bacteriological relations of organic matter in the soil to crop yield, 1928 

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://iowa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/12tutg/01IASU_ALMA21221825150002756

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Photo Credit: Prairie View A&M University(1926)

1926 The Prairie(p.32)

 https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=yearbooks 

Biography available at  HBCU Connections at Iowa State University :  John L. Lockett  ( http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/John_L._Lockett )

John L. Lockett. (2018, May 17). HBCU Connections | Iowa State University, . Retrieved 5 February 2022. from  http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/index.php?title=John_L._Lockett&oldid=3

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Terrell, Evanel Elizabeth Renfrow (Attended ISC 1926-1929)

Evanel Elizabeth Renfrow was born in 1908 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, where she graduated from Grinnell High School in 1926. Renfrow started her Bachelor’s degree coursework in Home Economics at Iowa State that fall but left without completing coursework (Kaiser, 2020). She finished her B.S. degree at the University of Iowa before earning a Master’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from that school in 1935. Beyond her academic accomplishments in Iowa, she completed several fellowships at the University of Chicago and the Freedman’s Institute in Washington, D.C.

Renfrow taught at multiple HBCUs, including Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri; Tuskegee University; Florida A&M University; and Savannah State University. At both Lincoln University and Savannah State University she established chapters of the African American sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. The majority of her professional career was spent working at Savannah State University, where she served as chairperson of the Home Economics Department for two decades. Retiring in 1976, she moved to Chicago and later passed away in 1994. She and her husband, Carl C. Terrell, are buried in Beaufort National Cemetery in South Carolina.

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Photo Credit: Grinnell College. (1926). The Grinnellian.

Kaiser, Daniel H. (2020). Grinnell stories: African Americans of early Grinnell. Grinnell, IA: Grinnell History Museum.

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