KCVC Graduates 1915-1918

Dr. Clyde E. Ackerman (1915)

Dr. Clyde E. Ackerman was born in Brainard, Nebraska, January 19 or 20, 1881 (Lemonds 1982). He taught school in Nebraska for several years, one year in a soddy (sod hut); he also lived in a soddy that winter. They burned hay and cow chips to keep warm. Clyde Ackerman later moved to Kansas City with his family. He was one of 112 students in the class of 1915 (Lee 1956). The list of graduates notes that he already had a B.Pd. degree which stands for Bachelor of Pedagogy. Pedagogy is the art or profession of teaching. There were graduates with B.Sc. degrees, M.S. degrees and even some with M.D. degrees in the class of 1915. He practiced veterinary medicine in Rosedale, Missouri, southeast of Kansas City, for about two years. He then taught in the St Joseph Veterinary College in Missouri. He later moved back to Nebraska to practice veterinary medicine, first in Wilber, then Crete, and possibly Stapleton. From Nebraska, he went to Windsor, Colorado, then to Fort Collins where he was on the faculty at Colorado State University. He later moved to New Mexico and then to California where he died. The name Ackerman became one of Nebraska's three generation veterinary families (Lemonds 1982). Dr. Clyde Ackerman's son, Grant Albert Ackerman, was born in Brainard, Nebraska, January 12, 1902. In the St. Joseph alumni records, there is a Grant Ackerman with the year 1923 and the note that he left St. Joseph and graduated from Colorado State University in 1928 where his father was teaching. He was probably midway through his veterinary education when the school closed. Grant Ackerman's son, Ed Ackerman, was a 1955 graduate from Kansas State College; he practiced veterinary medicine in Lincoln, Nebraska, and also worked for the USDA.

Dr. Ashe Lockhart (1915)

Dr. Ashe Lockhart was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina, in 1891. He received his B.S. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg and then entered the Kansas City Veterinary College, graduating in 1915. After serving on the faculty of the KCVC from 1916-18 where he taught hygiene, microscopy, and bacteriology, he became associated with Dr. A.T. Kinsley of Kinsley Laboratories. Dr. Lockhart established his own firm, Ashe Lockhart, Inc., in 1927 which manufactured biological products. The firm was sold in 1955 to Cutter Laboratories. Dr. Lockhart made many contributions to veterinary science; he was especially interested and successful in developing and improving a number of biological products, including a canine distemper vaccine on which Laidlaw and Dunkin later based some of their well-known work. Dr. Lockhart was an active member and loyal supporter of veterinary medical associations, local, state, and national. He was a member of the AVMA Executive Board (District VIII) in 1935-36 and later was elected for a five-year term, 1941-46. He was a member of the Society of American Bacteriologists and an associate member of the Jackson County Medical Association. Dr. Lockhart died at his home, 610 West 57th Street Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri. He was married to Marguerite Mayo, daughter of Dr. N.S. Mayo (Chicago Veterinary College 1889).

Warren Mines Roth (1915)

Warren Mines Roth was born on July 24, 1882, in Plymouth, Lyon County, Kansas. He worked as a farmhand, farmer, and barber in Lyon, Chase, and Montgomery counties until entering the KCVC in 1912. He married Miranda Cornelius Phillips from Howard, Elk County, Kansas, on July 28, 1909. A daughter, Thayal Flora Roth, was born on October 16, 1915, in Conway Springs, Sumner County, Kansas, the year he graduated from the KCVC. During World War I, Roth was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and discharged on December 20, 1918. In 1920, he was residing in Lincolnville, Marion County, Kansas. A son, Jack Wilford Roth, was born on October 15, 1921, in Lincolnville. Another son, Dick David Roth was born on October 15, 1926, in Lincolnville. Roth moved to Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, in 1940. He served various counties of South Dakota, working for the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), specializing in the eradication of tuberculosis. He died on Saturday, January 2, 1943, in Miller, Hand County, South Dakota, from a stroke sustained at a hotel in Miller on Christmas Day. His wife and son, Dick, were with him, having gone to that place to spend the holidays. Roth was a member of the George A. Fitzgerald Post of the American Legion and also a 32nd degree Mason. He was survived by his widow, the former Miranda C. Phillips; one daughter, Mrs. Thayal Hall, Wilmette, Illinois; and two sons, Staff Sgt. Jack Roth on duty in India and Dick David at home; and his aged mother, Mrs. Gabriel Roth, Lincolnville, Kansas. Last rites were held on Wednesday afternoon, with a service at Hermanson Chapel at 1:30 p.m., followed by a service in the Methodist Church with the Rev. A. L. Walter, officiating. Interment was January 6, 1943, in Dell Rapids Cemetery Plot P11. Full military honors were conducted at the grave by members of the George A. Fitzgerald Post (From Dell Rapids Tribune, January 7, 1943, and his grandson, Bruce Roth, 11 Kathy Circle, Conway, Arkansas 72032).

Fred L. Seevers (1915)

Fred L. Seevers The obituary of Dr. Seevers is in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (Dec. 15, 1973). He was a 1915 graduate of the Kansas City Veterinary College. The obituary states among other things that he was a past president of the Kansas City Veterinary Medical Association, President of the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association (1946-47), and State Veterinarian in 1946-47. He also played a role in helping establish the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri. He was also honored by the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association at the 73rd annual convention in 1965. (His picture appears in the 1965 issue of the Show Me Veterinarian.)

John Lysle Wells (1915)

According to the 1946 Norden News, John was born in Paris, Texas, in 1891 and graduated from the KCVC in 1915. Wells was a veteran of World War I; he entered the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant with a cavalry regiment on the Mexican border and rose to the rank of Major, was assigned as Corps Veterinarian to the I Corps of the First Army, which engaged in many of the decisive European battles. Dr. Wells was a member of the American Legion, War Dads, and the Kansas City Area Council of the Boy Scouts. He was engaged in general practice in Southwestern Missouri and the Kansas City milk shed area until beginning his association with Haver-Glover Laboratories in 1937. He was an active member of the AVMA, a charter member and first president of the Southwestern Missouri Veterinary Medical Association, president of the Kansas City and Missouri associations, and Secretary of the Missouri VMA from 1941-46 (Norden News 20(5): 7, November-December, 1946).

Albert Wempe (1915)

Albert Wempe spent most of his career operating the Wempe Animal Clinic in Marysville, Kansas, which specialized in the care of large animals, especially horses. It was Albert's passion for horses that led him to raise and show American Saddle horses. Albert served on the Kansas State Board of Veterinary Examiners during the early 1930s. Albert died in January 1984. An astounding fourteen members of the Wempe family became veterinarians. Nine graduated from the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Floyd Eugene Carroll (1916)

Floyd Eugene Carroll was born on June 20, 1893, in La Grange, Wyoming. His father was a pioneer Wyoming cattleman. He graduated from the KCVC in 1916 in a class of more than 140 students. In 1914, while still a student at the KCVC, he won the title of "World's Champion Bronco Buster." He was the youngest contestant ever to enter the championship event. The Examiner, Big Piney, Wyoming, reported on September 10, 1914, "Wyoming Lad Wins – Gets $1,000 in Gold in Bronco Busting Contest – Floyd Carroll, a youth of Wheatland, Wyoming, won the world's rough riding championship in the ride off of the Frontier Days' contest, receiving $1,000 in gold, a $500 saddle, and $500 in other prizes." The Kansas City Veterinary College Quarterly Bulletin (No. 51, March, 1916, page 1293) reported that "Floyd E. Carroll, 1916, is spending the summer investigating Dourine for the State of Wyoming. Worland is his present headquarters." The American Journal of Veterinary Medicine (Vol 11, No. 4, April, 1916, page 329) reported "The Kansas City Veterinary College Senior Class of this year claims the distinction of having among its number the champion saddle rider of the world. He is Floyd E. Carroll of Wheatland, Wyoming. Carroll won his title in a contest against a big field of expert horsemen at the 1914 Frontier Day celebration in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He is 24 years old, and following his graduation from college will enter the employ of the State of Wyoming as a veterinary inspector."

Carroll was a cavalry officer during WWI. According to Merillat and Campbell (page 1001) he was commissioned a second lieutenant on August 29, 1917, and promoted to first lieutenant on May 3, 1918; his first duty station was the Remount Depot, Front Royal, Virginia, and in February 1918 he was assigned to Camp Johnston, Florida, with the A.E.F. Carroll won a riding trophy at an event for Allied Officers in Tulles, France. He was discharged on October 31, 1919. Carroll was also a stunt rider in western movies. According to Carroll's grandson, Mike Palmer, Carroll had six children and was a stunt rider in California after WWI in silent western movies. Palmer said Dr. Carroll moved his family to Remount Ranch, Wyoming, about 1930. Dr. Carroll had met a Swede, Helge Sture-Vasa, who had experience working horses in the U.S. Army's Remount Service. Vasa's wife went by the pen name Mary O'Hara, a Hollywood screen writer in the 1920's. The couple bought Remount Ranch in 1930 and stocked it with sheep and Dr. Carroll moved his family there to run the ranch. They went broke during the depression and Carroll moved to Cheyenne with his family. Mary O'Hara wrote My Friend Flicka in 1941, Thunderhead in 1943, The Green Grass of Wyoming in 1946, and Wyoming Summer, based on her experiences at the Ranch. Carroll's children were schooled by a teacher sent by the state to live on the Ranch.

He maintained a practice in Albany County and Laramie, Wyoming, for many years and he also practiced in Pinedale, Wyoming, for several years. The North American Veterinarian, Volume 37, No. 8, page 716, August, 1956, reported "Dr. Floyd E. Carroll (KCVC 1916), of Laramie, Wyoming, has been appointed a deputy state veterinarian for the southwestern district of Wyoming." In 1956, he was living in Green River, Wyoming, and serving as deputy state veterinarian (Pinedale Roundup, Pinedale, Wyoming, Sep 27, 1956). He gave up his practice in the 1950's in Laramie and entered the employment of the Wyoming Livestock and Sanitary Board, from which he retired in 1963. At a meeting of the Wyoming Veterinary Medical Association in Cheyenne on June 24-25, 1963, Dr. Floyd E. Carroll (KCVC 1916) was made a life member of the Wyoming Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA 143: 778, 1963). He was the first county commissioner to be appointed to Platte County, Wyoming. He was heavily involved in Cheyenne Frontier Days.

On April 4, 1998, Carroll was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame at the 37th Annual Western Heritage Awards Ceremony in the National Cowboy and Great Western Museum in Oklahoma City as reported in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on April 20, 1998. Carroll was honored with the Great Westerner's Award, the highest honor bestowed during the ceremony. Carroll's eldest daughter, Isabel Christoffersen, of Chicago, accepted the award, a handsome bronze statue "The Wrangler." Masters of ceremonies for the evening were Bruce Boxleitner and Melissa Gilbert. Musical host was Larry Gatlin, and co-host presenters included Charlton Heston, Harry Carey Jr., Wilford Brimley, and Brad Johnson. In all, there were 20 bronzes awarded in the categories of outstanding Western books, music, art work, and three individuals were awarded the Great Westerners Award. "Doc" Carroll's part of the program began with a short film of Carroll's life beginning with winning the World's Bucking Horse Championship in 1914; he had the distinction of being the youngest cowboy to win. Then on to his days as a Cavalry Officer in World War I when he won a riding trophy at an officers' meet for all Allied Officers in Tulles, France. Hollywood was the next career where Carroll was a stunt rider for the famous cowboys of the early movies. The film presentation concluded with his 40 years of being a veterinarian and covering hundreds of miles weekly to attend to his large animal practice. A highlight of the event was the unveiling of a magnificent bronze of President Ronald Reagan sculpted by Glenna Goodacre and acknowledged at the ceremony by Reagan's daughter, Maureen Reagan. Attending the event were Carroll's daughter, Colleen Schoeder with her two sons, Scott and Steve of Las Vegas. Also Colleen's three sisters, Isabel and husband Chris Christofferson of Chicago, Colonel (Retired) Bruce and Mary Palmer of Washington, DC; Colonel (Retired) Tom and Beverly Ball of El Paso, Texas; and Carroll's son, Thomas J. and Vanda Carroll of Cheyenne, Wyoming. He died January 15, 1969 (JAVMA 154:864, 1969).

Willie C. Dillard (1916)

Willie C. Dillard was in practice in Farmington, Missouri (Norden News 20(5): 13, November-December, 1946).

Marshall Harvey Gandy (1916)

According to Hornsby (1993), Marshall Gandy was born on December 6, 1886, in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. He grew up on a farm in north Louisiana and liked to recall he had traveled out of the state only once before he entered Louisiana State University (LSU). On this occasion, he swam across the Sabine River to Texas. He entered LSU as a sub-freshman (individuals who were admitted to the university without the qualification of a high school background) in 1906 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1911. When he entered LSU, someone suggested he go out for football. When he asked "What is football?" they showed him a football and told him to tackle the man with the ball, i.e., to ground him. So he threw the man like he had learned to throw cattle. The surprised player that was tackled became very angry and Gandy, who became concerned about the response to his football activity, began packing up to leave school when someone intervened. He played football for LSU and captained the famed 1908 team that was undefeated. As a result of his football fame, he became known to many people as "Cap" Gandy and this name stuck for the rest of his life. Dr. Gandy was employed by the Louisiana Hog Cholera Serum Plant from 1916 to 1926, with military leave from the plant to serve as a lieutenant in the United States Army Cavalry from 1917 to 1918. In 1926, Dr. Gandy established a general practice of veterinary medicine in Baton Rouge and continued to practice until 1956 when illness forced his retirement. Dr. Charles M. Heflin (KCVC 1917) joined him in practice and together they formed the corporation known as the Louisiana Laboratory and Supply of Baton Rouge. This company was the first to offer pet and livestock veterinary supplies to veterinarians practicing in a wide area surrounding Baton Rouge.

Harold J. Rollins (1916)

Harold J. Rollins, Rockingham, North Carolina, newly appointed State Veterinarian of North Carolina, will have supervision over enforcement of state laws regarding the control and eradication of livestock and poultry diseases. He was formerly in practice in Rockingham and served in the army during World War I (Jen-Sal Journal, Page 28, October, 1949)

Ward R. Lee (1916)

Ward R. Lee was granted Arizona License # 55 in 1939. He was a Federal Veterinarian and Inspector-in-Charge for Arizona for a time around 1948 (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).

Edward P. Anderson (1917)

Edward P. Anderson was born in 1890 in a sod house near Akron, Colorado. His parents emigrated from Sweden and his father was recruited from Sweden to work for the Great Northern Railroad. He was later employed by the Burlington Railroad and located near Akron, Colorado. The father became a track maintenance foreman for the railroad and the family was moved to Nebraska. During his younger years, Edward Anderson lived in Lincoln and Kearney and eventually moved with his parents to Mason City, Nebraska. When he was a young man, he purchased, owned, and operated a meat market. He was encouraged to become a veterinarian and was tutored until he qualified for admission to the KCVC. Following graduation in 1917, he was admitted to practice veterinary medicine in Nebraska and returned to Mason City. In September 1917, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps; he was responsible for the purchase of horses and mules for the Army. After WWI ended, he returned to Mason City to practice veterinary medicine; he later moved to Ansley and then to Loup City. In 1933, while living in Loup City, he became a Federal Veterinarian and was responsible for testing cattle for tuberculosis and brucellosis. In 1939, Anderson moved to North Dakota and continued his work of disease eradication in livestock. During WWII, he returned to Lincoln, Nebraska, and became a member of the staff of the Nebraska State Veterinarian. After WWII, Governor Val Peterson appointed Anderson State Veterinarian. He received certificates of commendation for his work from Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He died November 28, 1973 (Lemonds 1982).

Fred Barta (1917)

Fred Barta was born in Czechoslovakia to Joseph and Louise Barta on September 15, 1893, the first of four boys (Lemonds 1982). The family immigrated to the United States when Fred was a young boy. They settled in a Czech neighborhood in Omaha, a factor which reinforced his strong ethnic character. Barta was an active gymnast and a regular patron of polka dances at the Sokal Hall. He graduated from Central High School in Omaha and subsequently the KCVC in 1917. He worked his way through college, but also found time to play on the KCVC football team. During his senior year in college, he met and later married Miss Frances Shestak, a nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Omaha. After graduation from the KCVC, the Bartas moved to Wilber, Nebraska; however, he was soon called into military service and served in the U.S. Army Cavalry in San Antonio, Texas. Following honorable discharge from the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps, he returned to Wilber where he opened a pharmacy. After about five years, he moved to Denison, Iowa, where he practiced veterinary medicine for about three years. They moved back to Omaha where Dr. Barta was a federal meat inspector at the Swift Packing House. Four years later, the Bartas moved to DeWitt, Nebraska, where Dr. Barta practiced veterinary medicine for many years. The Bartas retired to California; however, Mrs. Barta was not happy, so they moved back to Wilber, the Czech capital of the USA. Dr. Barta worked for the state of Nebraska in the Division of Animal Disease Control; he helped establish a state-wide program to eradicate brucellosis in cattle. Dr. Barta died at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Omaha in August of 1973 (Lemonds 1982).

Claude Dudley Crawford (1917)

Claude Dudley Crawford was born in Ashland, Benton County, Mississippi, on April 20, 1892. His great-grandfather, Evan Crawford, was a raftsman on the Mississippi River in pioneer times and two of his brothers died with David Crockett in the Alamo. Dr. Crawford attended the public schools in Benton County and continued his education in Mississippi State College. Following graduation from the KCVC in 1917, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps in August 1917. Following the War, he was discharged at Camp Lee, Virginia (Lindley 1973).

Frank M Lee (1917)

Frank M Lee was born on August 31, 1893 in Williamsburg, Iowa. Following graduation from the KCVC in 1917, he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps, July 7, 1917. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant, July 3, 1918 and captain on November 22, 1918. He was discharged on May 21, 1919. His first duty station was Chicago, Illinois, for a course in meat inspection, then with the 31st Division, Camp Wheeler, Georgia, on October 1917 and then the Army Expedition Force. Lee was reappointed a 2nd lieutenant in the Regular Army on February 11, 1922 (Merillat and Campbell, 1935). Lee was an outstanding equestrian who served in the Army Cavalry. In the 1920s, he was stationed in Wyoming where he purchased horses from the Plains Native American Indians. In 1934, he won a silver cup for 1st Prize in Pairs Jumping at the Royal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines. In 1939, at the National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden, he was one of two veterinarians taking care of all the horses from around the world. His grand-daughter, Nancy Lee Hutchin, provided the cover for the magazine, and the page identifying him, Major Frank M. Lee, V.C., Plattsburgh Barracks, N.Y. During WWII, Col. Lee was a servicecommand veterinarian, with the Fifth Army, stationed in Chicago, Illinois. A large group of Chinese medical officers, including the surgeon general of the Chinese Army visited Col. Lee in Chicago at the Fifth Army Headquarters. Following military service, Lee became the Public Health Veterinarian for the State Board of Health in South Carolina. He developed a rabies control program for South Carolina that was later adopted by the World Health Organization. In 1954, Dr. Humberto Ceballo, a veterinarian from Venezuela, spent six weeks with Lee at the request of the World Health Organization for field training in the veterinary programs and activities of the Board of Health. In 1956, Colonel Frank M. Lee compiled the Official History and Directory of the KCVC. In the late 1950s, Mao Tse-tung sent six of his best veterinarians to study horse composition with Lee. Lee was a Diplomate in the American Board of Veterinary Public Health. Col. Lee died on July 27, 1980 in Alexandria, Virginia and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Charles Marshall Heflin (1917)

According to Hornsby (1993), Charles Heflin was born in Yellow Pine, Louisiana, on August 6, 1895, but grew up in Winnfield where his father, W.T. Heflin, was sheriff for 16 years. Dr. Heflin graduated from Winnfield High School in 1914 and three years later graduated with the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the KCVC. After establishing his practice, World War I began and Dr. Heflin served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Veterinary Corps and was stationed at Greenleaf, Georgia. Shortly after his discharge, he was appointed as assistant to Dr. E.P. Flower, State Veterinarian, moving to Baton Rouge. After almost a decade of state service, Dr. Heflin became associated with Dr. M.H. Gandy (KCVC 1916). They formed a partnership and established the Louisiana Laboratory and Supply Company in Baton Rouge. He served as president of the Louisiana Board of Veterinary Medicine, as secretary-treasurer of the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association for 13 years, and as its president from 1950 to 1951. In 1967, the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association named Dr. Heflin as the "Louisiana Veterinarian of the Year."

Rosser Lane (1917)

Rosser Lane was born in North Carolina in 1892 to Benjamin Franklin Lane and Clara Faircloth. Rosser married Martha Aveline Poindexter and had a child. He passed away in 1961 in Wilson, North Carolina.

Dr. James Kellogg Northway (1917)

Dr. James Kellogg Northway was born in San Antonio, Texas, on April 3, 1894. His family lived in Texas since before the Battle of San Jacinto where his grandfather fought with General Sam Houston in 1836. Northway worked for a short time on the King Ranch in Texas before attending the KCVC. After graduation from the KCVC in 1917, he returned to the King Ranch, but was called to active duty in 1918 and served as an officer in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps in France during World War I. Dr. Northway returned to the King Ranch in January 1919 and focused much of his time on the breeding programs to improve the quality of cattle and horses. He is credited with the success of the Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle and the King Ranch Quarter Horse. Dr. Northway was an active supporter of local livestock shows, 4-H, and the agriculture program at Texas A&M University – Kingsville. He served as president of the Texas Veterinary Medical Association and the Veterinary Board of Examiners. He received many accolades during his career, including nomination for the Hoblitzelle award for his contribution to agriculture and rural living in South Texas in 1953. The Exposition Center at Dick Kleberg Park, Kingsville, Texas, was named in his honor in 1971. Dr. Northway died on April 20, 1973, at the age of 79.

Walter G. Port (1917)

Walter G. Port, formerly Assistant State Veterinarian of Iowa, became Veterinary Inspector with the Department of Agriculture, Olympia, Washington (Norden News 20(5):13, November-December, 1946).

Heber Holbrook Carter, Sr. (1918)

Heber Holbrook Carter Sr. was born in Cherry Creek, Mississippi, September 22, 1893, the son of Professor and Mrs. John Thomas Carter. He earned a B.S. degree from Mississippi State Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1915 and a D.V.M. degree from the KCVC in 1918. He served as city veterinarian for Memphis in 1918, a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps during World War I and was associated with the Dixie Stockyards and South Memphis Stockyards. He was in general practice in Memphis and Chairman of the Board of Burnette-Carter Commission Company, South Memphis Stockyards. In 1938, Dr. Carter bought the Fullilove Place, a worn out cotton farm that consisted of 1800 acres. It was completely redone and became a show place for soil conservation practices and proper animal management. He was also director of the National Livestock Exchange and a director of the Memphis Union Mission. In 1958, Dr. Carter was honored by Mississippi State University "as an outstanding graduate of Mississippi State University because of his contribution to agriculture." His picture hangs in the Husbandry Service Building at the University (Kirkeminde 1976).

James E. Coberly (1918)

James E. Coberly was granted Arizona License # 5. He died in 1957 in Mesa, Arizona (Gillespie and Ellsworth 2007).

Benjamin Glenn Darling (1918)

Benjamin Glenn Darling was born May 14, 1889, at Bradshaw, Nebraska, a community in southeastern Nebraska of some 330 people today. He enrolled in the KCVC in 1915 and graduated in 1918. His entire class joined the new U.S. Army Veterinary Corps to serve in the U.S. Cavalry. After he was called to active duty, he was trained at Camp Greenleaf, Oglethorpe, Georgia; however, the war was over before he was sent overseas. Prior to service in WWI, Darling had worked for Dr. Peter Simonson, Hooper, Nebraska, in his serum plant and in private practice. After WWI, Darling returned to Hooper to work in the serum plant and to practice veterinary medicine until 1948. While in Hooper, Darling was very active in the community Commercial Club and he served as Mayor. He was also active in the American Legion Club Post #18, the Lions Club, and served on the Hooper School Board. In 1948, he became employed by the federal government as a meat inspector in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Darling was married to Charlotte Monnich on June 30, 1920. There were four children: Bernard B. of Mill Valley, California; Mary Ann (Watchorn) who married a veterinarian, Dr. Merle Watchorn; Jane who married Dr. M.B. Delk, an oral surgeon; and Dean who followed in his father's footsteps and became a veterinarian, graduating from Kansas State College in 1954. Dr. Darling died unexpectedly at his home in Huntington Park, California, on February 9, 1950. His burial was at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood Park, California (From Lemonds and Mary Ann Watchorn).

Dr. Dean Darling (1918)

Dr. Dean Darling, KSC 1954, married Edith Payne, the daughter of Professor Loyal and Mary Payne at K-State; Loyal Payne was a Professor of Poultry Science at K-State. The Paynes lived in the Goodnow House on Claflin Road until 1971. Isaac Goodnow was one of the founders of Bluemont Central College which became Kansas State Agricultural College in 1863. The Goodnows had no children, but they adopted his niece, Hattie Parkerson, when her mother died. Except for six years spent in Neosho Falls, the Goodnows lived in this house until their deaths at the end of the century. Hattie never married. She adopted one of her sister Etta's sons, Louis. When Hattie died in 1940, the house passed to Mary Payne, a friend of Hattie's, who later donated it and many of the Goodnows' belongings to the Kansas Historical Society. The house was approved for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and today operates as Goodnow House Historic Site.

William Nolan Hall (1918)

Dr. Hall graduated from the Kansas City Veterinary College in 1918. He practiced veterinary medicine in the Millington, Tennessee, area for 53 years. Dr. Hall was a native of Shelby County. He retired in 1973 (From History of Veterinary Medicine in Tennessee with picture on page 320).

Forrest L. Hart (1918)

Forrest Hart was born in Great Bend, Kansas, and received his degree in Veterinary Medicine from the KCVC in 1918. He served in the Veterinary Corps of the United States Army during World War I, seeing most of his duty at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, where his primary task was care of the cavalry horses used by the U.S. Army. After the war, Dr. Hart was a community leader in the City of Hiawatha for many years. He maintained an active practice from the early 1920's until the late 1970's. Dr. Hart was named Kansas Veterinarian of the Year in 1958. He served as vice president of the AVMA in 1958-59; president of the Kansas Veterinary Medical Association; delegate from the KVMA to the AVMA; and a member of the Kansas City Veterinary Medical Association (The Hiawatha Daily 1981).

Donald Munn Walker (1918)

Donald Munn Walker was born December 3, 1896, at Dunbar, Nebraska, a small town south of Omaha. According to Lemonds (1982), he grew up on a farm near Dunbar. He quit school year during his junior year because he did not like Latin. His parents were well educated and tried to persuade him to finish high school, but it was to no avail. He was very interested in veterinary medicine so his parents consented to let him go to Kansas City in 1915 to take the entrance exam for admission to the KCVC. He passed the exam with excellent grades and graduated in 1918. After graduation, Walker was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and assigned to a Cavalry Division at Fort Greenleaf, Georgia. Following his discharge from the Army, he went to work for the Grain Belt Serum and Supply Company in Omaha. He worked for the company for over 45 year until it was sold to Rohm and Haas in 1965. He died June 12, 1974. According to Gentry (2005), Walker inspired Helen S. Richt to study veterinary medicine at Kansas State College. Walker was a good friend of the Richt family and a partner with Helen's father in a feedlot operation on the Richt farm. Helen Richt Irwin was the first woman to graduate in veterinary medicine from Kansas State in 1932.

Ralph Leland West (1918)

Ralph Leland West was the fourth of 14 children of Willis Mason West, an educator and Head of the Department of History at the University of Minnesota and also a prolific author of history textbooks. His son, Dr. R. Leland West (Iowa State College 1936) was three years old on the day his father graduated from the KCVC. He entered the KCVC with a B.S. degree in Agriculture from the University of Minnesota, so he graduated from the KCVC after two years of study. Following the graduation ceremony at the KCVC, Dr. West and essentially all of his classmates went down town to the recruiting office to volunteer for the newly formed U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. He enlisted on September 21, 1917, and reported for duty on October 27, 1918. Most were assigned to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and were trained there until Armistice Day, November 11, 1918. Camp Greenleaf was designated as a training school for veterinary officers and on May 2, 1918, Veterinary Company No. 1 was organized. To this Company were sent those men of the 1918 class who enlisted in the Medical Reserve and other veterinarians that for various and sufficient reasons had not been commissioned officers in the Medical Reserve. Following WWI, Dr. West established a practice in Waseca, Minnesota, and built a hospital in 1923 which consisted of three box stalls and three tie-stalls. His son sold the building in 1951 and built a hospital better suited to his practice. Dr. West was a leader in the American Legion, City Council, and the local school board. He was a noted speaker at veterinary meetings across the country and a member of a team appointed by President Harry Truman to investigate an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Mexico that was very near the U.S. border. Dr. West also developed the Minnesota system to eradicate tuberculosis and brucellosis.