Albert B. Storms

1862-1933; president 1903-10

A Michigan farm boy and University of Michigan graduate, Storms had served pastorates in Detroit, Mich., and Madison, Wis., and was pastor of the First Methodist Church of Des Moines when he was appointed president of Iowa State in1903.

He took a liberal view of land-grant education and proved admirably suited to the task of continuing the advancement of the college along the lines laid down by President William Beardshear.

His administration witnessed a strengthening of the college's divisional structure, establishment of the Agricultural Extension Service, development of a plan for campus landscaping and modernization of the physical plant, a lifting of the ban Beardshear had imposed on fraternities, a general liberalization of policy in student affairs, organization of the Missouri Valley Athletic Association, and the founding of the Iowa State Alumni Association.

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