Portrait of Arlon Hazen |
Arlon G. Hazen was born on February 20, 1920 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He received his bachelor's from Oklahoma State in 1940 and his master's from Iowa State in 1941. He was an Instructor at the University of Arkansas from 1941-1942. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, European Theatre, from 1942-1946.
He first joined NDAC in 1946 as an irrigation engineer at the Williston Branch Station. He served as Superintendent of the Williston Branch Station from January 1946 to November 1951. He became the Assistant to the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in November of 1951. He then served as Acting Dean of the School of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station from October 1956 to May 1957 when he was named Dean and Director.
From June of 1961 to January 1962, he served as Acting President of NDSU. In 1966 he received Blue Key's Doctor of Service Award.
Resigning from NDSU in October 1978, he assumed the role of Regional Director of the North Central Association of Agricultural Experiment Stations in November 1978. He died in January 1979 at his lake home on Viking Bay of Big Cormorant Lake.
He married Betty Mae Sewell, of Perkins, Oklahoma on June 3, 1940 and they had two sons.
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