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ROY BAINER
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WRITTEN BY ROBERT A. KEENER AND HENRY E. STUDER
SUBMITTED BY THE NAE HOME SECRETARY
RoY8A~NER was born on a farm near Ottawa, Kansas, in 1902.
For several years after graduation from high school he operated
a wheat farm in partnership with his father and served as a
summertime field service representative for a tractor company.
He entered Kansas State University in the fall of 1921, obtaining
his B.S. in agricultural engineering in 1926 and an M.S. in 1929.
He was instructor en cl junior agricultural engineer cluring his
last two years at Kansas State. He and Lena Cook were marries!
in 1926.
Roy joined the Agricultural Engineering Department at the
University of California (UC), Davis, as assistant professor and
assistant agricultural engineer in the experiment station in ~ 929,
and advanced to full professor and agricultural engineer in
1943. Hewas chairman ofthe clepartmentfrom 1947 to 1961. His
primary interest in teaching and in his research was agricultural
mechanization. Among his research accomplishments was the
development of a process for segmentation and clecortication of
sugar beet seed that substantially reclucec3 the need for hand
thinning, thereby saving an estimated ten man-hours of labor
per acre.
During the years Roy was chairman of the Agricultural Engi-
neering Department, it grew substantially in size and stature and
became one of the foremost departments of agricultural engi-
neering in the nation. He, himself, became internationally
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
recognized as a leader in agricultural mechanization. He was a
coauthor of two widely used engineering textbooks on farm
machinery and tractors, and was author or coauthor of more
than one hundred technical papers and reports.
For many years the agricultural engineering undergraduate
program at Davis was an option under mechanical engineering
in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, with only a six-
week summer field course and the senior year being taken at
Davis. In 1962 when the Regents approved the establishment of
a College of Engineering on the Davis campus, separate from the
college at Berkeley, Roy Bainer became the founding dean of the
new college. He served in that capacity until his retirement in
1969. His responsibilities as dean included recruiting of new
faculty and seeing that curricula for the programs in the new
areas of engineering were developed—duties that required a
great deal of time, travel, judgment, patience, and the ability to
evaluate and attract potential faculty personnel. During his
seven years as clean, sixty-five new engineering facultywere hired
and the College of Engineering total enrollment increased from
265 to 1,030. When he retired, the new engineering building,
completed in 1966, was named Roy Bainer Hall in his honor.
Roy was a member of the American Society of Agricultural
Engineers for sixty-three years. He was advanced to the honorary
grade offellow in ~ 946. In addition to numerous committee and
division responsibilities, he served as president of the national
organization in 1956-] 957. He was also a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected to
the National Academy of Engineering in 1965, served as a
member of the National Research Council representing the
Division of Engineering from 1961 to 1969, and was a life
member of the American Society for Engineering Education. He
received numerous honorary awards, including honorary doc-
torates from the University of California in 1969 and from
Kansas State University in 1983. He was one of four engineers
inducted into Kansas State University's first Hall of Fame in 19~39.
Roy's international stature led to his service as a consultant in
at least ten countries, beginning in 1945 with a three-month visit
to England to help in the mechanization of sugar beet procluc-
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ROY BAINER
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tion, followed by visits to Japan in 1948 and Chile in 1958
regarding various aspects of agricultural mechanization. Includ-
ed among subsequent consulting assignments were involvement
in developing a five-year professional program for agricultural
engineering at the Agrarian University of Peru, planning a
complete College of Engineering for the Kasetsart University in
Thailand, and planning six commodity-oriented research cen-
ters in Spain.
Roy cried in Davis on January IS, 1990. He is survived by his
wife, Lena, and his slaughter, LaNelle gainer. He will be remem-
bered as a man who, characteristically, was enthusiastic about
whatever he and his colleagues were doing. He enjoyed people
and he encouraged inclivicluals to perform to the best of their
capabilities.
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