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Romm, Harry J. (B.S., Zoology, 1930; M.S., Entomology, 1934; Ph.D. Plant Morphology, 1946)

Headshot of Harry J Romm

Harry J. Romm was born 4 Sept 1899 in Navasota, TX, to Benno Romm, born in Schwarzenau, Germany, and a mother from Tennessee.

Romm was still enrolled in public school at age 19 when he registered for the WWI draft in 1918, later graduating from Galveston Central High School, Galveston, Texas. In 1920, according to the Federal Census, Romm was employed as a porter in a dry goods store in Galveston. He married Fannie B. Dunlap in Dallas, Texas, on 11 June 1927 and was listed in 1928 Dallas City Directory as a teacher.

Moving to Ames in 1923, Romm earned his B.S. in Zoology in 1930, M.S. in Entomology in 1934. In 1935, Romm was an attendee at the banquet held by the Iowa State Alumni Association for Frederick D. Patterson’s inauguration as President of Tuskegee where he was listed as the Head of Department of Biology at Tuskegee Institute. While at Tuskegee, he served as a Volunteer Weather Collector for NOAA, a position that was held prior by George Washington Carver. During WWII, he served as a Principal Correspondent for the Army Specialist Corps.

Romm went on to earn his Ph.D. in Plant Morphology in 1946 and was later listed as teaching Biology at Southern University, Louisiana, in 1952. He died on 15 November 1955 and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. His headstone suggests he was a Catholic.

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The development and structure of the vegetative and reproductive organs of kudzu, Pueraria thunbergiana (Sieb and Zucc) Benth; The insect depredators of purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.), 1946 

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/q0r84t/cdi_proquest_journals_301851928 

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

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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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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)

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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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