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Caption: Dedication - ACES Library
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JEWEL OF THE ACES C A M P U S DONORS GROUP STUDY ROOM, FbURTH LEVEL Ralph Allen Family Ralph Allen Sr. graduated in 1876 from the University of Illinois (then called the Illinois Industrial University). He achieved distinction in many agricultural endeavors, but is most remembered for his progressive farming methods on land near Delavan- Illinois. Allen was president of the Illinois Farmers Institute and director of the Illinois Farm Grain Dealers Association. Ralph Allen not only developed a lifelong interest in agriculture and education at the University of Illinois, it is also where he met his future wife, Ada Mary Eaton. Ralph and Ada Mary Allen had 10 children, who all attended the University of Illinois. Ralph and Ada's commitment to education explains why descendants of Ralph Allen Sr., who died in 1927, continue to call the University of Illinois their college home and alma.mater to this day. NEW JOURNALS, SECOND LEVEL Ruth Margaret Burwash Ruth Margaret Burwash, who graduated from the university in 1919, before her death in 1994 made a generous gift for the new journals area in loving memory of her sister, Mary G. Burwash, a 1916 graduate. Mary was the agriculture librarian at the University of Illinois from 1918 to 1948. In a May 1921 article in the Illinois Agriculturist* she wrote, "The fibrary contains a number of books which have an important place in the history of agriculture. It is interesting to examine these books and see how some principle of agricultural practice familiar to us was used many years ago." Mary was affectionately remembered by hundreds of College of Agriculture alumni for always being friendly, .helpful, and encouraging while they were studying at the university. Ruth and Mary Burwash were members of a pioneer farm family in Champaign County. 9
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