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MAC to Millennium, University of Maryland Archives
Ice cream-the University of Maryland dairy is famous for its ice cream, which is made daily on campus and has been recognized as the Washington metropolitan area's best. The Dairy introduced five new flavors in the spring of 2004: Fridge Fever, Exam Cram, Midnight Madness, Spring Break, and Fear the Turtle.
International students, first-the Maryland
Agricultural College quickly attracted students from around the world;
early international students included Pastor A. Cooke of Panama (1871-72),
A. P. Menocal of Cuba (1875-76), Min Chow Ho of Korea (1887-88), and Pyon
Su of Korea (1887-88).
Pyon Su (or Penn Su), who received his B.S. degree in 1891, was the first Korean student to graduate from any American college or university. He was born in Korea in 1861 and entered the Maryland Agricultural College in the fall of 1887. He was killed in College Park in a tragic train accident on October 22, 1891. He is buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery at Ammendale in Beltsville, MD.
The first Chinese student at the Maryland Agricultural College was Chunjen Constant Chen from Shanghai. He entered in 1915 and completed three years of study in College Park before transferring to Cornell where he received his B.A. degree. He returned to College Park where he received his M.S. in Agriculture in 1920. After a hiatus of more than 40 years, he came back to the University of Maryland where he taught Chinese from 1956 to 1967. He died in 1978. All four of his sons attended the University of Maryland.
The first Japanese student at the Maryland State College was Masanori Yoshikawa from Yamada, Hyuga Province. He matriculated in 1919 as a sophmore General Chemistry major but withdrew during his junior year due to illness. The first Japanese student to graduate from the University of Maryland was Toshio Keta from Tokyo. He graduated in 1956 with a B. S. in Accounting.
Some of the first documented students from Europe were Salvador Oliver (Spain; attended one year in 1908); L. D. Andriopoulos and A. B. Xerocostas (Issari, Greece, Class of 1915); Heinrich Wilhelm Heerman (Westfalen, Germany, 2-year degree in Agriculture, 1915); and Vaso Trivanovitch (Yugoslavia, Class of 1922).
Institute of Technology, Glenn L. Martin-named in 1955 for Glenn L. Martin, aircraft pioneer; a bust of Martin decorates the lobby of the Engineering Building
