George M. Petersen

Petersen worked in the Iowa State College Ceramic Engineering Department, joining the faculty in 1932 and working under Paul Cox.

"The faculty had two changes, George M. Petersen replacing Mary Lanier Yancey

as professor of Pottery Decoration and Design. Professor Petersen has two degrees,

one in Landscape Architecture and the other in Ceramic Engineering, and in addition,

he has done a considerable amount of extra work in drawing and design. On Professor

Petersen will fall the burden of the major instruction in the new four-year course in

Ornamented Ceramics."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1930.tb16230.x