• Robert Early Buchanan, an Iowa State bacteriologist and administrator, received his degree in 1906 from ISU. He became the first head of the bacteriology department in 1910, the first dean of Industrial Science in 1914 and the first dean of the Graduate College in 1919.

• William E. Drips became a journalism instructor at ISU in 1920. In 1923, he used the WOI Radio facilities to broadcast a cornhusking contest, becoming the first to remote broadcast a farm event from a field. In 1934, he became director of agriculture for NBC.

• In 1918, Ada Hayden became the first woman to receive a doctorate degree from ISU. Hayden became an assistant professor in botany in 1920 and taught until 1933.

• S.A. Beach, a noted pomologist, led the ISU horticulture department into a new era of modernization.

—Information from this report came from HortScience and ISU library agricultural archives and was complied by Daily reporter .