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Munday, Reuben Abraham (M.S., 1935)

Headshot of Reuben Abraham Munday

Reuben Abraham Munday (Mundy) was born in Berea, Kentucky on  10 February 1900, to Reuben H. and Sallie Ann Simms Munday. He married Gustine Elizabeth “Bettye” Alexander.

Munday earned a Bachelor of Science from Hampton Institute in 1927, a Master of Science from ISC in 1935, and a Ph.D. in Poultry Genetics from Massachusetts University in 1947. Between 1928 and 1937, he was listed as an instructor of Poultry Husbandry at the Tuskegee Institute.  In 1935, when attending the banquet held by the Iowa State Alumni Association for Frederick D. Patterson’s inauguration as President of Tuskegee,  he was listed as the head of the Poultry Husbandry Division at the same university. 

Shortly after, he became the Director of Agriculture for Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College from 1937-40. While at the school, he also served as the Head Football Coach in the 1937 and 1938 seasons. He was later drawn back to Tuskegee to serve as the Head of the Division of Animal Science and full Professor in the 1940s. He died in Tuskegee, Alabama on 18 July 1972.

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The effect of selection on egg production in single comb white leghorn fowl, 1935

Iowa State University Catalog Record: https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990008351010102756 

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Mark, Jesse Jarue (M.S., Agriculture, 1931; Ph.D., Botany, 1935) 

Jesse Jarue Mark, Jr., was born 24 September 1905, in Apple Springs, Trinity County, Texas, to Jesse James Mark, Sr., a farmer, and his wife Lula V. Mark. Mark graduated from Prairie View State Normal & Industrial College (now Prairie View A & M University) in Prairie View, Texas, in 1929 and moved quickly on to Master’s Degree work in Agriculture at ISC, which he completed in 1931. While at ISC, Mark lived with Archie and Nancy Martin at 218 Lincoln Way

As early as 1931, Mark was teaching agriculture at Kentucky State Industrial College (now Kentucky State University), where fellow Iowa Stater Rufus B. Atwood was president. While working at Kentucky State, Mark pursued his Ph.D. in Botany, receiving it in 1935. That same year Mark’s work was recognized nationally when he was named a Rockefeller Fellow in Agriculture for 1935-36.

While at Iowa State, Mark had been employed at the Agricultural Experiment Station. He continued his ties to that organization while teaching and researching at Kentucky State, later becoming the Head of the Agriculture Department there. Following his teaching there, Mark also taught at Tennessee State College, Texas College, and Southern University of New Orleans. Mark He ended his career teaching biology there (“Dr. Mark Rites”).

Jesse Jarue Mark died at age 65 on 20 February 1971 and is buried in the Nigton Memorial Park Cemetery in Nigton, Texas.

Iowa State College Thesis Title: The relation of root reserves to cold resistance in alfalfa, 1935

Iowa State University Library Digital Repository Link:https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-14899; 

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The response of winter grains to late fall seeding, 1931 

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://iowa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/12tutg/01IASU_ALMA21210594870002756

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Hopkins, Glee Jane Willoughby (M.S., Home Economics Education, 1935)

Glee J. Willoughby was born in 1906. Earning her master’s of science degree in Home Economics Education from Iowa State College in 1935, she became an Instructor of Home Economics at Winston-Salem State University, an HBU in North Carolina. She married Thomas B. Hopkins and later worked as a Home Economics teacher at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Kansas. She died in 1997 and was buried in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The utilization of time by pupils in certain high school foods classes taught by student teachers, 1935

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990009835930102756 

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Steele, Corinne Aniece Perdue (Graduate Study, Summer Course, 1935)

Corinne Aniece Perdue was born 7 August 1910 in Tuskegee, Alabama, the third child of Jailous Perdue, a carpenter, and his wife Corinne Martin Perdue. Corinne completed her B.S. in Home Economics at Tuskegee in 1931. She taught homecrafts at that school until 1936 as she pursued her graduate degree at Iowa State College (“Corinne Perdue Marries Doctor, ” 1936), along with her younger sister Naomi, completing summer graduate work there. Like many African American former ISC students, she attended a banquet sponsored by ISC alumni for Frederick D. Patterson’s inauguration as President of Tuskegee.

On 5 November 1936, in the Tuskegee Institute Chapel, Corinne married Dr. Frank Evelyne Steele, a family medicine doctor, who practiced in New York City. The account of their marriage credited Corrine’s popularity, saying, “The bride will always be remembered as one of Tuskegee’s most popular girls” (“Corinne Perdue Marries Doctor, 1936, p. 8). The couple moved to New York City immediately after their wedding. By 1950, the couple and their daughter Florence were living in Opelika, AL, where Frank became a prominent physician. The 1950 Census shows Corinne employed as a homemaker. At some point, she received her doctorate. Her husband passed away in 1977.  Corrine Perdue Steele died 30 March 2001 in Nashville, TN, and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Tuskegee, AL (Steele, Mrs. Corrine P., 2001).

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