to maintain and preserve water. Later years, death, and legacy At age 65, in 1949, Harris attempted to retire as president of USAC, however, the board asked him to stay one more year. By the end of the next year Harris had agreed to return to Iran in order to implement the Point Four program. He was 68 when he officially retired. Board of trustee members and BYU presidents sought Harris' advice in his later years. Harris had a mild stroke the day after Christmas 1954 and in January 1956 experienced another. This ended his public career after which he kept mostly to himself and family. He suffered another stroke in 1960 and died seven days later on April 18th. Legacy In his third year as BYU president he was awarded the "Supreme Honor Man of the Student Body" by the student body president. As a gift, the graduating class of 1935 commissioned his portrait to be painted by Lee Greene Richards. In 1964 the Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center was inaugurated and named after Harris because of his support for the Fine Arts while president of BYU. After his twenty-four years as president of BYU, Harris also became known as "Mr. BYU." During BYU's 1998 Homecoming week on Founders Day, October 6th, Harris was honored as the "right man." Publications Some of the publications of Franklin S. Harris from the BYU library catalogue. Effects of variations of moisture content on certain properties of soil and on the growth of wheat, 1914 The Principles of Agronomy, 1915 The Young Man and His Vocation, 1916 The Sugar Beet in America, 1918 Soil Alkali, 1920 Scientific Research and Human Welfare, 1924 Heroes of science, 1926 A Book of Mormon bibliography, 1936 A critical study of the apparatus used by Beniams in his study of the emission of positive ions from heated filaments coated with metallic salts, 1936 College values in retrospect, 1953 The farmers of Iran, 1954. Others kept records on metal plates too, 1957 He also wrote articles for scientific journals and contributed bulletins to the Agricultural Experiment Station. References External links Franklin S. Harris presidential papers, UA 1089 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University Franklin S. Harris correspondence, UA 96 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University Pamphlets and articles mentioning or by Franklin S. Harris, UA 1106 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections,