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Memorial

Joseph C. Knott

ABSTRACT

Joseph C. Knott, former director of Washington State University's Institute of Agricultural Sciences, died November 19 at age 82. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Washington State University and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. He retired in 1958 after 3 8 years of professional service to Washington State University and to dairying and contributed an additional 17 post-retirement years of service to the Pullman community, to the state, and to the nation.

Knott enrolled at Washington State University as a dairy major in 1914. He served with the US army in France during World War I. En route to France, his troopship, the Tuscania, was sunk by torpedo. Upon graduation in 1920, Joe Knott served 6 years as herdsman, following which he became an instructor in the Dairy Husbandry Department and moved through the professorial positions to Professor in 1940. He was Director of the Washington State University Agricultural Extension Service for 4 years beginning in 1942 and was then Director of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences from 1946 until 1955.