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COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY NEWS
P. S. Lucas Retires at M.S.U.
P. S. Lucas, Professor of Dairy at Michigan State University, has retired after nearly 40 years of service at the Michigan school. He has served the dairy industry in a distinguished and practical way for more than half a century. He will remain in the East Lansing community and will he available as a consultant in the dairy and food industry. Born in Aurora, Ill., Prof. Lucas graduated from Purdue University in dairy manufactures in 1914. Following graduation he worked as a chemist for the Alamito Dairy Co., Omaha., Neb., 1914–15, and returned to the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station during 1915–16. He received his M.S. from M.S.U. in 1926.
In 1916 he became an instructor in dairy manufactures at Oregon Agricultural College, was promoted to assistant professor in 1917, and during World War I developed cheese making methods using pepsin as a substitute for Danish rennet which was not available.
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