Dwight Sanderson, Rural Social Builder.

According to the author, his first personal contact with sociologist Dwight Sanderson took place sixteen years ago when he came to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York to complete work for the Doctorate under his direction. The author has been an intimate associate of his for each of the succeeding years until his death. In the first year the author gained an impression that deepened with the years of companionship. He came to know him then, as he knows him now, a man with a dominant passion for the building of a better rural life through the development of the science of rural sociology. According to the author, one of the most interesting things to him about Dr. Sanderson's career is that it arrived at its final goal through a process of long time development. The "Chief" did not begin his career of work for others in the broad human field where he finally completed his work. To the author, Sanderson was a true social builder who possessed what the Chinese teacher said the true social builder must have, the head of the scientist, the hand of the farmer, and the heart of the religious devotee.