Background
Call, Leland Everett was born on February 9, 1881 in Kent, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Augustus and Olive (Prior) Call.
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Leland Everett Call
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Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Ohio State University, 1906, Master of Science in Agriculture, 1912.
Career
Married second, to Mary Eck Holland, March 2, 1946. Teaching fellow in agricultural chemistry, Ohio State University, 1906. Assistant in agronomy, Kansas State College, 1907-1908, assistant professor soils, 1908-1911, associate professor, 1911-1913, professor agronomy and in charge department, 1913-1925, dean agriculture and director Agricultural Experiment Station, 1925-1946, dean and director emeritus and professor of rural investigations since 1946.
Agricultural research advisor Mutual Security Agency, Manilla, since 1952.
Director of Federal Land Bank, Wichita, 1930-1942, president, 1934.
Achievements
Membership
Served in France, World War, in Young Men's Christian Association, and Army Ednl. Corps, in charge farm crop instructional work, and at American Expeditionary Force University, Beaune, France, 1919. Fellow American Society Agronomy (president 1922), American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member Kansas Crippled Children’s Commission since 1945, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, Gamma Sigma Delta and Delta Tau Delta.
Congregationalist.; Rotarian.
Connections
Married Clara Willis, 1910 (died July 17, 1944j. Married second, to Mary Eck Holland, March 2, 1946.
