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1930, 1934, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Engineering, Melvin, Melvin Wall, Nigeria, Professor, Thoreson, Thorvald, Thorvald Thoreson, University, Wall
Two faculty members as they appeared when students at River Falls in 1934. Melvin Wall on the left, Professor of Agronomy, was killed in a plane crash while on an educational mission to Vietnam in 1967 and Thorvald Thoreson, Professor of Agricultural Engineering, was on leave and teaching at the University of Ife in Nigeria when he suffered a serious head injury in a road accident. He went on to live a long happy life, but was unable to return to his teaching career.