Were you able to name this past Moscow Elks member from last weeks’ hints?
Ernest O. Holland
Graduated from Indiana Univrsity — 1895
- Public school teacher in Rensselaer Indiana, Anderson Indiana & Louisville Kentucky — 1895-1905
- Professor at Indiana University — 1905-1911
- PHD from Columbia — 1912
- Superintendent of Schools in Louisville Kentucky — 1911-1915
- President of State College of Washington (now Washington State University) — longest serving president in the history of the university — 1915-1945
- Holland Library on the WSU campus named in his honor
- E. O. Holland Collection of art on WSU campus donated by him
- Phillip C Holland lecture series funded through an endowment by him in his father’s name.
- Lifetime member of BPOE #249 — on Moscow Elks “wall of remembrance”.
- click here for additional information from the WSU Office of the President
