Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1913 — PROFESSOR SMITH MADE STATE AGENT [ARTICLE]

PROFESSOR SMITH MADE STATE AGENT

Purdue instructor Chosen to Carry Out Provisions of New Vocational Education Law.. ■' .--V \ ' -

The state organization for the new vocational education work in Indiana was completed Wednesday when President W. E. Stone, of Purdue University, announced the selection of Professor Z. M. Smith, of Purdue, as the agent in charge of agricultural education. The selection was approved by State Superintendent Charles Greathouse. Mr. Smith and W. F. Book, appointed last week as assistant state superintendent in charge of vocational Work, will'take offices in the statehouse the latter part of the week. Mr. Smith, however, will also have an office at Purdue, as the agricultural work is to be directed in part through him from that institution, which is to back him up in the work, both with literature and assistant workers. Z. M. Smith is at present a professor at Purdue and has been working in the agricultural extension department of the university during the last year. Be has been an assistant in charge of boys’ and girls’ club work and in that capacity has a good start in his new field. .a At this time he has more than six thousand public school boys and girls at work growing corn and tomatoes, and is directing them as much as possible under the present, or old, educational system, in agricultural work. It is said he has remarkable capacity in handling the boys and girls. Mr. Smith will not have anything to do with the appointment of county agents, as provided in the vocational education law. That falls directly on Purdue University, and appointments will be made through President Stone and Professor G. I. Christie. Mr. Smith’s salary is $4,250 a year. Mr. Smith is a native of Tipton county and was educated in the schools of that county. He took his collegiate course at DePauw university, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1901 and receiving the A. M. in 1905. He took post graduate work in Chicago and Purdue Universities.' .... .. .■■ ■, -