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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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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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Bailey, Robert Lawson (M.S., Poultry Products, 1946; Ph.D., Poultry  Physiology, 1950)

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Iowa State College Thesis Title: Effects of implanting pituitary glands and injecting avian blood serum extract into chickens, 1950

Iowa State University Library Digital Repository Link: https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-14966 ; 

Iowa State College Dissertation Title:  Water absorption characteristics of dressed poultry carcasses, 1946

Iowa State University Catalog Record: https://iowa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/12tutg/01IASU_ALMA21232861230002756

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Crouch, Hubert Branch (M.S., Protozoology, 1930; Ph.D., Zoology, 1936)

Headshot of Hubert Branch Crouch

Hubert Crouch was born 7 December 1906 in Jacksonville, Texas, to George W. Crouch and Mary “Carrie” Crouch. His sister is Geneva Crouch, who also attended Iowa State University. He attended Iowa State for his Master of Science in Protozoology, which he received in 1930, and his Ph.D. in Zoology, with minors in Entomology and Botany, which he completed in 1936. He worked at Kentucky State college as a professor of biology during the time that Rufus B. Atwood, a fellow Iowa State alumnus, was President of the institution. After working at Kentucky State College, Crouch became a professor and Head of the Department of Biology and Director of the Division of Science at Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University at Nashville. By 1965 he was the Dean of the Graduate School there, and soon was serving with fellow Iowa State alumnus Walter H. Dabney, who was Dean of Engineering by 1969-70 (US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education and National Center for Educational Statistics, Education Directory 1969-70 Higher Education, US Government Printing Office, 1970). He founded the National Institute of Science and the Council of Science Teachers, in association with the Kentucky Negro Educational Association.

In 1935 Hubert married Mildred Shipp, whose parents, John and Nellie Shipp, housed Black ISC students at their home in the 1930s and 1940. Mildred’s mother was Nellie Emira Martin, whose parents, Archie and Nancy Chandler Martin, opened their home at 218 Lincoln Way to many Black ISC students. Hubert Crouch and his sister Geneva were two of those students. After living at the Martin House, Hubert moved to 118 Sherman, the home of his future wife’s parents, the Shipps. He and Mildred had multiple children. Hubert died 17 October 1980. After his death, Tennessee State University erected a building known as “Hubert Crouch Hall” in his honor.

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The animal parasites of the woodchuck (Marmota monax L.) with special reference to the protozoa, 1936 

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990007117870102756 

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Photo Credits Kentucky State

https://doi.org/10.2307/2717664

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717664

https://library3.tnstate.edu/library/bldgs/crouchbldg.htm

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Daniels, Walter Thomas (M.S., Civil Engineering, 1932; Ph.D., Engineering Science and Mechanics, 1941)

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Deflection of rigid frames stressed beyond the yield point; The effects of delayed curing on the compressive strength and permeability of cement mortars, 1941; 1932

Iowa State University Proquest Access: https://www.proquest.com/docview/301853901

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Biography available at  HBCU Connections at Iowa State University :  Walter T. Daniels  ( http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/Walter_T._Daniels )

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