Banks, Victoria Allen (M.S., Home Economics Education, 1946)Â
Victoria Allen Banks was born on 23 December 1917 in Huntsville, Texas, to Memphis Allen and Carrie Jame Allen. Victoria received her bachelor’s of science degree from Prairie View Normal and Industrial College (now Prairie View A & M University)…
Romm, Harry J. (B.S., Zoology, 1930; M.S., Entomology, 1934; Ph.D. Plant Morphology, 1946)
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…
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…
Madison, Walter G. Sr. (B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1914; M.S., Engineering)
Evidence suggests that Walter Garfield Madison, member of the Cosmopolitan Club, 1914 graduate of Iowa State College, and head of an early Black family in Ames, was the first Black Iowa State student to put down roots in Ames after…
Williams, James Estel (M.S., Animal Production, 1948)
James Estel Williams was the fourth child of seven born to Lizzie Smith a cook at a local hotel, in Maysville, Kentucky, on 15 September 1921. He graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio with an undergraduate degree. Following graduation, he…
