 Newsom was initially recruited to the College as a student in 1900. Following graduation in 1904, he accepted a position in veterinary medicine at the College, left on two occasions to pursue advanced veterinary training, and in 1909 returned permanently for a career at Fort Collins that spanned more than forty years. Newsom's abilities and the increasing specialization of veterinary medicine as a profession received recognition when in 1918 a distinct pathology department was established, of which he took charge. During the last decade of Charles Lory's presidency he was a leading faculty advocate of improved academic standards, and in 1941, he became the first dean of the Graduate School. On occasions when physical infirmities prevented President Green from performing his duties, Newsom ably filled in as acting president, and after Green's death in 1948, the governing board appointment him president while it searched for a permanent replacement. He provided a reassuring sense of continuity during a time of uncertainty and flux, and established himself as a gifted administrator.
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