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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Faculty 145 medal. The formal presentation of the medals occurred at a special University convocation held in honor of the two retiring professors October 16, 1912. Professor Shattuck died at Urbana, February 13,1915. Dr. Burrill died at Urbana on the 14th of April, 1916. RETIREMENT OP PROFESSORS MCINTOSH, RICKKR, AND ROLFE September 1, 1915, marked the retirement of Professor Donald Mcintosh, for nearly thirty years Professor of Veterinary Science at the University of Illinois, and at the time of his withdrawal from active work, the oldest member of the College of Agriculture in point of service. He came to the institution in 1885 to give a course of lectures in Veterinary Science. During the following year he was promoted to the grade of Professor and thereafter served as the only instructor in Veterinary Science. His death occurred upon September 5, 1915, just five days after his retirement from active work, and the courses to which he had devoted himself so faithfully during the last thirty years were temporarily withdrawn. On September 1, 1916, Professor N. C. Rieker was elected professor emeritus and retired upon a Carnegie allowance. Professor Bicker came to the University as a student in 1870. Three years later he was appointed instructor in Architecture and given charge of the department. For the next thirty-seven years he served the University in a number of increasingly important offices; one year instructor in Architecture, one year assistant professor of Architecture, thirty-five years professor of Architecture, and beginning in 1878 for twenty-seven years Dean of the College of Engineering. To this pioneer the University of Illinois owes much, for it was his patient and persistent labor that developed here a Department of Architecture in which the State may take an honest pride. Entering the University two years earlier and retiring from active service one year later than Professor Bicker, Professor C. W. Rolfe became professor emeritus on September 1, 1917. "He was graduated from the University of Illinois with the degree of B.S. with the class of 1872, having entered in 1868. Beginning as instructor in Mathematics and Botany, he has been
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