Faculty Biographical Sketches 1891-1966
1891 APPOINTMENTS
1. Wilbur O. Hedrick
English
7/l/1891-6/30/1938 (47 years)
B. 1868, Elkhart, Indiana. B.S. 1891, M.A.C.*; M.S., 1896 and Ph.D., 1909, University of
Michigan. Instructor in English, 1891-93. Asst. Prof. in History and Political Science, 13931906. Head, Dept. of History and Economics, 1906-1916. Head, Dept. of Economics, 1917-30.
Retired June 30, 1938. Died June 10, 1954.
Prof. Hedrick taught first course in agricultural economics-Econ. 2, "Agricultural Economics" 2
credits, to college degree students at M.A.C. in 1911. In 1913, he taught the first course in farmer
cooperatives, Econ. 3a, 3 credits, at M.A.C. and probably the second such course taught in the
United States. Dr. Hedrick also taught the first course in agricultural marketing, Econ. 12,
Marketing of Farm Products, in 1916. He was a humorous and effective teacher. The Hedrick
Cooperative House at Michigan State was named in his honor in 1933.
*Known as Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.) 1855 to May 13, 1925; Known as Michigan
State College (M.S.C.) May 13, 1925 to June 30, 1955; Known as Known as Michigan State
University (M.S.U.) July 1, 1955 to present.
1893 APPOINTMENTS
2. Clinton D. Smith
Director of Agricultural Experiment Station
7/10/1893-3/18/1909 (16 years)
B. 1854, Trumansburg, New York. B.S., 1873, Cornell University. Farmer, 1873-1880 on home
dairy farm, New York; practiced law, 1383-90; Assistant Agriculturalist, Cornell University
1890; Director of Experiment Station and Professor of Dairy Husbandry, Univ. of Minn., 139193; Agriculturalist of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station 1893-1900; and Director of
the Experiment Station 1900-08.
He wrote the first bulletin in the area of farm management at M.A.C. in Nov., 1898, Mich. Agr.
Exp. Sta. Spec. Bul. 9, "Suggestions on Farm Accounts." Taught course in "Farm Business
Methods" to short course students in agriculture, beginning in 1906. Resigned 3/18/09 to become
president of Brazil's first college of agriculture at Escola Agricola, Piraciaba, Sao Paulo where he
presided for four years.
1902 APPOINTMENT
3. Robert S. Shaw
Professor of Agriculture
1/l/02-6/30/41 (39 years)
B. on a farm near Woodburn, Ontario, Canada, July 24, 1871. B.S.A., 1393, Ontario Agricultural
College, Guelph. Farmer on home farm in Ontario, Canada, 1893-98.
Appointed Professor of Agriculture, 9/l/02; Dean of Agriculture, 9/6/03 and also Director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station 1909; Acting President of Michigan State, 1921; and again in
1923-24; President from 1928-41. Taught the first courses in farm management to degree
students in 1914 and continued to 1920; and then again in 1925 and 1926. Retired June 30, 1941.
1910 APPOINTMENT
4. R. J. Baldwin
Director of Cooperative Extension Service
9/l/10-6/30/49 (39 years)
B. on a farm near Brown City, Michigan (Sanilac County) Oct. 31, 1333. B.S., 1904, M.A.C.; 1
year graduate work, University of Michigan; I summer at Iowa State College.
First Director of the Cooperative Extension Service at Michigan State, a position he held from
July 1, 1914 to June 30, 1949, a period of 34 years. Asst. to Dean of Agriculture Jan. 1, 1911July 15, 1913. Superintendent, Agricultural Extension, July 16, 1913-June 30, 1914. Taught
"Business Arithmetic" and "Bookkeeping" to short course students in agriculture in 1910 and
1911. Currently, 1967, retired and living in East Lansing, Michigan.
1912 APPOINTMENTS
5. M. J. Thompson
Extension, Farm Management
4/l/12-3/15/13 (1 year)
B. Michigan. Field Agent, Farm Management field studies, northwestern Michigan. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis. Thompson was the first man to be appointed to
do farm management extension work in Michigan.
6. Harvey G. Smith
Extension, Farm Management
7/l/12-12/31/15 (3 ½ years)
B. Wisconsin. B.S., University of Wisconsin, about 1912. Field Agent, Farm management field
studies, northeastern Michigan. Major activity, farm records and farm business analysis.
Became in 1912, the first county agricultural agent in Michigan and assigned to Alpena,
Montmorency and Presque Isle counties in northeastern Michigan. Was Kent County Agr.
Agent, I/l/16-12/31/18. Currently, 1967, operating small farm in Wisconsin.
7. H. F. Williams
Extension, Farm Management
9/26/12-3/l/14 (1 ½ years)
B. Michigan. Field Agent, Farm Management Field studies, south central Michigan. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis. Williams was assistant to L. H. Goddard who
had charge of farm management extension work from the U.S.D.A. when federal-state
cooperation first started in that area. Later went with Equitable Life Assurance Co. in their field
appraisal work.
8. Eben Mumford
Extension, Farm Management
10/2/12-9/l/38 (26 years)
B. Miami County, Ohio. B.S., Bechtel (now Akron) College; Ph.D., in Sociology 1906,
University of Chicago. Also a year of graduate study at Clark University and later studied at the
New York School of Civics and Philanthropy.
Organizer and Leader of Farm Management Field Studies and Demonstrations, later known as
the County Agricultural Extension Service. State leader of County Agricultural Agents in
Michigan,, 1912-18. As state leader of County Agricultural Agents from 1912-21, he addressed
over 1,000 groups without the aid of the modern public address facilities, with a total attendance
of some 140,000. He was a powerful, effective speaker. He taught two subjects in agricultural
economics during 1922-23. Owned and operated a fruit farm in southwestern M:Lchigan for ten
years. Was active in the formation of the Michigan State Farm Bureau and was one of twelve
men who met in Ithaca, New York, in 1919 to form the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Organized the Dept. of Sociology at Michigan State in 1924 and was appointed Professor and
Head of Department. He also organized the Michigan Country Life Association, Ministers' Short
Courses and the Michigan Conference of Social Workers. Retired September 1, 1938. Died
October 17, 1942.
9. Charles P. Reed
Extension, Farm Management
11/l/12-5/15/17 (5 years)
B. Howell, Michigan. B.S., 1901, M.A.C. Supervisor, Farm Management Field Studies. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis. The first full-time extension leader in farm
management at Michigan State. Resigned 5/15/17 to become the first secretary-manager of the
newly organized Michigan Milk Producers' Association.
1913 APPOINTMENTS
10. Fred T. Zimmer
Extension, Farm Management
6/2/13-9/30/14 (1 ½ years)
B. Michigan. Field Agent, Farm Management Field Studies, northwestern Michigan. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis.
11. Fred T. Riddell
Dairy
9/l/13-6/30/31 (17 years)
B. Michigan. B.S., 1913, M.A.C. Appointed as a field investigator in the Dairy Department,
Sept. 1, 1913, to devote full time to cost of milk production studies. Transferred from Dairy
Department to Farm Management Department, March 1, 1921. Appointed extension specialist in
Farm Management 12/1/22. Asst. Prof. of Farm Management, teaching and research 7/l/237/l/213. Research assistant in Farm Management, 7/l/28.Resigned as of 3/1/31.
1915 APPOINTMENTS
12. James N. McBride
State Market Director
11/l/15-2/23/19 (3 ½ years)
B. in Pennsylvania and at age 16 moved with his parents to a farm near Owosso which is still
(1967) in the same family. B.S., 1391, from University of Michigan. First man appointed to do
marketing work in Michigan.
Taught economics in and was head of the Department of History and Political Economy at
M.A.C. in 1892-93. Editor of the Owosso Argus Press with Tom, Dewey's father, 1893-98.
Formerly County Superintendent of Schools, Shiawassee County. Very active in farm
organizations, particularly the Michigan State Grange. He was an effective speaker to farm
audiences.
State Market Director, 11/l/15-2/29/19, with headquarters at the Michigan Agricultural College
and under the direction of the M.A.C. governing board. He was instrumental in organizing many
farmer cooperative marketing organizations.
1916 APPOINTMENTS
13. Ralph H. Elsworth
Extension, Marketing
5/l/16-12/31/17 (1 ½ years)
B. Ludington, Michigan. B.S., 1902, M.S., 1904, University of Michigan.
Assistant to Director of Markets, James 14. McBride, and assisted in organizing many farmer
cooperatives. He resigned 12/31/17 to accept a position with the USDA Bureau of Markets. Later
he went with the Cooperative Division of the USDA and became Chief of the Historical and
Statistical Division of the Farmer Cooperative Services, USDA. The Elsworth Cooperative
Rouse at Michigan State was named in his honor in 1939.
14. Arthur C. Lytle
Dairy
3/l/16-4/l/18 (2 years)
B. Paw Paw, Michigan, B.S., 1915, M.A.C. Field accountant, dairy cost studies. Resigned 4/l/18
to enter military service, World War I.
15. Stanley J. Brownell
Dairy
8/l/16-9/30/23 (7 years)
B* St. Charles, Michigan. B.S., 1916, M.S., 1922, M.A.C. Field accountant, Dairy Cost Studies,
In military service World War I, 8/l/17-1/31/19. Reappointed 2/l/19 to study milk marketing in
Detroit area.
Resigned to go with Animal Husbandry Department, Dairy section, Cornell University as a dairy
specialist. Later he became extension leader and Professor of Dairy Husbandry, 1934-65. He
received the Superior Service Award from USDA for his excellent work with the dairy industry.
1917 APPOINTMENTS
16. Ashley Berridge
Short Course
3/28/17-6/30/22 (5 years)
B. Greenville, Michigan. B.S., 1912, M.A.C. Farmed on home farm at Greenville many years.
Director of Short Courses, part-time basis, 1917-22. Author of Coop. Ext. Ser. Bul. 12,
"Suggestions to Boys Who Wish to Prepare for Work on a Farm" 1917, issue of 30,000 copies.
Taught farm management to short course students during 1917-20.
17. Karl H. McDonel
Extension, Farm Management
10/l/16-7/l/61 (45 years)
B. 1893 on a farm in Delta Township in Eaton County, Michigan. B.S., 1916; M.S., 1931,
M.A.C. Farm Management Extension Specialist, 10/1/166/31/17. Superintendent of Extension
Schools, 7/l/17-6/30/20. Assistant to Director of Coop. Ext. Services, 7/l/20-10/14/27. Assistant
Extension Director, 10/15/27-6/30/41.
Secretary of the Board of Trustees and of Michigan State University 7/l/41-6/30/61.Retired July
1, 1961.
18. Charles H. Graves
Extension, Farm Management
9/1/17-3/30/20 (2 ½ years)
B. New fork. Farm management extension specialist. Major interest -farm records, enterprise
cost studies and farm business analysis.
1918 APPOINTMENTS
19. Hale Tenant
Extension, Marketing
5/l/18-5/21/24 (6 years)
B. Berrien County, Michigan. B.A., probably from University of Michigan. Director of
Agricultural Marketing, 5/l/18-9/29/21. Assistant Director of the Coop. Ext. Service and in
charge of county agricultural agents and marketing.
Hale Tenant was very active and effective in farm organization leadership. He was a forceful,
dynamic speaker. He was in the nature of a "king maker" in many ways. His appointment and
power came more or less directly from influential members of the State Board of Agriculture, the
governing board of M.A.C. He was a controversial character and had a somewhat turbulent
career at M.A.C., especially during his last two or three years. He was often in conflict with the
Dean and Director of Agriculture and with other administrative personnel. The terminal date of
his dismissal was May 21, 1924.
20. W. B. Sutherland
Extension, Farm Management
10/21/18-6/30/19 ( year)
B. Oxford, Michigan. Studied two terms at M.A.C. Appointed as a farm management extension
specialist. Major activity -- farm records and farm business analysis.
1919 APPOINTMENTS
21. George C. Raviler
Extension, Marketing
2/l/19-6/30/20 (1 years)
Appointed as extension field agent in agricultural marketing to assist cooperatives.
22. William J. Kurtz
Dairy
7/l/19-9/30/21 (2 years)
B. near Flint, Michigan. B.S., 1919, M.A.C. Assistant in dairy cost research. Transferred 3/1/21
to the Farm Management Department as route man, dairy cost studies (26 farmers).
23. Willard C. Cribbs
Extension, Marketing
10/1/19-5/19/26 (6 ½ years)
B. Bainbridge, Michigan. Education: Bryant and Straton Business College. Chicago, Sept. 1894 June 1895; Benton Harbor College, Sept. 1895 - June 1897. Known to his friends and associates
as "Bull Clover" Cribbs.
Fruit farmer, Berrien County, 1903-18. County agricultural agent, Antrim and Ionia Counties.
Appointed as Extension Specialist in Marketing, 10/1/19. Organized Michigan Potato Growers
Exchange, Cadillac, 1919. Reassigned as District Extension Agent, 7/l/26-7/15/34.
1920 APPOINTMENTS
24. Arthur J. Howland
Dairy
1/l/20-9/30/21 and l/l/27-6/30/57 (31 years)
B. Breckenridge, Michigan. April 29, 1892. B.S., 1925, M.A.C. Research assistant, Dairy
Department, dairy cost studies, 7/l/20-6/30/21. Transferred to Farm Management Department,
7/l/21-9/30/21 as a dairy cost route man. Resigned 9/30/21 to enroll as a student at M.A.C.
Marketing extension specialist, Economics Department, 1/l/27-6/30/57. Major interest in the
latter position was in helping organize and reorganize farm cooperatives, assisting in legal
questions, setting up accounting systems and helping in business analysis of farmer cooperative
organizations. Retired June 30, 1957.
25. Wayne Newton
Economics
2/18/20-10/31/29 (9 years)
B. Terre Haute, Indiana (Vigo County). Appointed as a Research Asst. Major interest was in the
area of rural taxation with particular reference to school taxes. Resigned 10/31/29 with the rank
of Research Associate. Later an employee of the Michigan Farm Bureau. Later went with the
National Association of Cooperatives to counteract the activities of the National Tax Equality
League with reference to additional taxing of agricultural co-ops. Newton was the first man
appointed in the Economics Department to do research in agricultural economics at Michigan
State*
26. Eliot, Howard H.
Extension Farm Mgt.
6/24/20-6/30/23 (3 yrs.)
B. Texas. Education at Texas A & M and at Univ. of Wisconsin. Appointed as extension
specialist in Farm Management, June 24, 1920. On January 1, 1921 he was appointed Head of
the newly established Farm Management Department at M.A.C. He conducted numerous mail
cost-study surveys of farm products. He also set up five cost account routes; dairy, potatoes,
general farming, feeder cattle farms and fruit farms. Routes had about 26 farmers in each. Farms
were visited by the route man once each month.
After serving as Head of the Department for a little over two years, Professor Eliot and all but
one of his 10-member staff were fired in May of 1923 by President David Friday. Eliot's
dismissal was the result of a difference of opinion between Prof. Eliot and President Friday on
the contents of a news release of a story dealing with agricultural economics. Eliot refused to
change the content of the news release. Eliot was fired on Tuesday and all furniture and files
were removed from his office on the next day, Wednesday. In addition, the Farm Management
Department was abolished on the same day. A big day's work for President Friday. Very little of
the information obtained through the five routes was ever summarized or published because of
the abolition of the Department in the second year of their operation.
Professor Eliot then bought a farm in the Holt area where he lived until his death many years
later. He became a township supervisor and also county chairman for the Democratic Party.
27. Elton B. Hill
Assistant to Dean of Agriculture
9/1/20 - 7/31/64 (44 years)
B. on a farm in Genesee Township, Genesee County near Davison, Michigan in 1894. B.S.,
1915, M. Agr., 1923, M.A.C.; M.S., 1927, Cornell University* Asst. to the Dean and Director of
Agr. Exp, Sta. at Michigan State, Sept. 1. 1920 to June 30, 1928. On July 1, 1928 was appointed
Professor and Head of the newly established Department of Farm Management, a position which
he held for about 21 years until April 31, 1949 when the agricultural economics section of the
Economics Department in College of Arts and Science was merged with the Farm Management
Department in the College of Agriculture. The new merger combination was then named the
Agricultural Economics Department.
Fields: Farm credit, farm management and land tenure with special emphasis in later years in the
areas of father-son farming agreements, farm and field rentals, estate management and taxes
related thereto. Director, Farm Credit Administration Board, Seventh District (St. Paul) 1951 and
1952. On leave to be Head, Department of Agricultural Economics (Res.) Univ. of Puerto Rico
Agricultural Exp. Station., 1938-39. Agriculturist to Menominee River Sugar Company,
Menominee, Michigan, 1918-20. County Agricultural Agent,, Menominee County, Michigan
1916-18. Instructor in agriculture, Menominee County Agricultural School, 1915-16.
Member: Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta., Kappa Delta Pi honor fraternities. Listed in Who's Who in
the Midwest; Who's Who in American Education and in American Men of Science. Member:
International Conference of Agricultural Economists; American Farm Economics Association,
Vice-President in 1942; Michigan Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Received., in
1967, from the Federal Land Bank System the Commemorative Medal for outstanding service to
American Agriculture. Language: Spanish, reading knowledge.
Co-author with John C. Doneth of Farm Management work Units, 1937 - 1) Teacher's Guide and
2) Students Guide. Mimeograph Dept, MSU and also co-author with John C. Doneth of Farm
Management Manual, 1941 - 1) Teachers Guide and 2) Students' Guide, pp. 160. Reprinted
1945, 1947 and 1953. Co-author with L, H, Brown of Principles of Farm Management 1947, pp.
201. Edwards Brother, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Professor of Agricultural Economics 5/l/497/31/64. Retired as of August 1, 1964.
28. Gifford (Dan) Patch
Extension Marketing
9/l/20-6/30/41 (21 years)
B. 1890 on a farm near Clark Lake, Jackson County, Michigan. B.S., 1916 M.A.C.; Univ. of
Penn. summer 1924; Univ. of Minn. summer 1925. Appointed as extension specialist in
marketing and later made Ext. Specialist in Agricultural Economics with major efforts directed
toward organizing and in rendering legal counsel to farmer co-ops. Gave significant service in
developing the legal and organization structure of Michigan Farm Bureau and affiliated
cooperatives. Formerly, County Agricultural Agent, Montcalm County. Died May 1, 1947.
1921 APPOINTMENTS
29. Howard N. Chapel
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. in Genesee County, Michigan. B.S., 1921, M.A.C. Route man on Feeder Cattle Cost Route
(26 farms).
30. O. E. Dunkel
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. Williamston, Michigan. B.S., 1921, M.A.C. Route man on General Farm Cost Route (26
farms). Later was Superintendent of Schools, Farmington, Michigan. Later was Lt. in United
States Naval Reserve and Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1943-45.
31. G. E. Culver
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. Benzonia, Michigan. B.S., 1921,, M.A.C, Route man on Potato Farm Cost Route (26 farms).
32. Dale I. Musselman
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. Cecil, Ohio, B.S., 1921, M.A.C. Route man on Fruit Farm Cost Route (26 farms).
33. R. E. Post
Farm Management
2/l/21-4/30/22 (1 year)
B. Minnesota, 1896, but at an early age moved to St. Joseph County, Michigan. B.S., 1920,
M.A.C.; M.S., 1923, Wisconsin. Route man, Dairy Farm Cost Route (26 farms). Air Corps,
World War I from 11/21/17-12/15/19. Resigned April 30, 1922 to go to South Dakota first as
Asst. Prof. and later became Acting Head, Dept. of Agricultural Economics where he remained
until June 30, 1934. Head, Food and Grains Section, ERS, USDA -- retiring Dec. 31, 1962.
34. Hugh B. Killough
Farm Management
7/l/21-6/30/22 (1 year)
B. Texas B.S., 1916, Texas A and M; M.S., 1920, Wisconsin; Ph.D., 1925, Columbia. Farm
management extension specialist; interested in farm product prices. Later, professor of
economics and chairman of Department of Economics at Brown University. Director of Men of
Science., III; in Who's Who in America; Director of American Scholars. Author of four books on
marketing and in international trade as follows: Raw Materials of Industrialization, Harper, 1929;
Economics of Marketing, Harper, 1933; International Trade, McGraw-Hill, 1938; and
International Economics Von Nostrand, 1960.
35. John T. Horner
Economics
9/l/21-2/15/28 (6 ½ years)
Teaching and research. Major work was in research and writing regarding marketing of farm
products. Author of the book, "Marketing Farm Products." Resigned, 1928, to become Research
Director, Michigan Milk Producers Association.
1925 APPOINTMENTS
36. George A. Nahstall
Extension Business Management
2/7/25-10/20/27 (2 years)
Appointed as extension specialist in business practices and accounting with farm cooperatives,
and housed in the Economics Department offices.
37. Claude F. Clayton
Economics
6/19/25-6/30/28 (3 years)
B. Minnesota. Ph.D. from Minnesota, Major interests: land economics and prices of farm
products.
1926 APPOINTMENTS
38. Fred M. Thrun
Economics
3/l/26-10/l/35 (10 ½ years)
B. Michigan. B.A., University of Michigan. Instructor, Asst. Prof. and Assoc. Prof. in
Economics. Major interests; land economics and tax studies, especially school taxes. On leave to
go-with U.S.,, Resettlement Administration, 10/l/35-12/31/38. Resigned I/l/38. Currently, 1967,
attorney in Lansing, Michigan.
1927 APPOINTMENTS
39. Reuben V. Gunn
Economics
1/l/27-6/2/43 (16 ½ years)
B. Aug. 5., 1837 Morgan County, Illinois. B.S., 1914, M.S.,, 1926 University of 'Wisconsin.
Extension specialist in agricultural economics with particular interest in agricultural outlook.
Died 6/2/43.
Formerly, instructor in farm management, University of Wisconsin, 1914-18; in farm
management department in Oregon State, 1918-23; agricultural director, Wisconsin Bankers'
Association,, 1923-26.
Prof. Gunn was the first man to be initially appointed as an extension specialist in agricultural
economics at Michigan State and assigned to the Economics Department.
40. Carl A. Scholl
Economics
11/l/27-8/31/30 (2 years)
B. Illinois. B.S., 1923, and M.S., 1924, University of Illinois; Ph.D., Harvard. Instructor in farm
mechanics before enrolling for graduate studies at Harvard University. Appointed as a research
assistant in economics. Major interest: production-consumption studies.
1928 APPOINTMENTS
41. Orion Ulrey
Economics
9/l/28 to
B. 1902, Martinsville, Illinois. B.S., 1923, University of Illinois; Ph.D., 1934, Cornell
University.
Currently, 1967, Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics. Assignment- Research and
teaching primarily in areas of cooperatives--the group approach, and rural development. Major
interests: Prices received and paid by farmers; cooperatives; the group approach; rural
development; and adult education.
On leave as Social Scientist with BAE, USDA, Washington, D.C., 1945-46; awarded Fulbright
Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Peshawar, W. Pakistan, 1954-55;
Agricultural advisor with University of Missouri, United States - AID (Agency for International
Development) team at Ranchi Agricultural College in Bihar State, India, 1958-62. Invited by the
Government of Mauritius to participate in celebrations of the "Fiftieth Anniversary of
Cooperatives on the Island" in 1963.
Professor Ulrey initiated the M.S.U. Employees' Credit Union in 1937, and served as its
president for the first 8 years. Students of Ulrey's with his assistance started the FarmHouse
Fraternity at the College in 1932; and the mens cooperative houses at the College beginning in
1938. Honors: Alpha Zeta and Sigma Xi honor fraternities.
42. Herbert K. Berg
Farm Management
10/l/28-6/30/65 (37 years)
B. May 9, 10099 12.riverside, Illinois. B.S., 1922 and M.S., 1925, University of Illinois;
additional graduate work at Cornell.
Farm management extension specialist, 10/l/28-10/30/37 (9 yrs.). He initiated the farm
management extension project in farm accounting and farm business analysis at Michigan State.
Land Use Planning, State Leader, 10/l/37-10/30/44 (7 yrs.).
Professor and Assistant Director, Coop. Extension Service, 11/l/44-6/30/65 (21 yrs.). In 1958,
received the USDA Superior Service Award, the highest award the USDA can bestow. With
Farm Management Dept., University of Illinois as farm management extension specialist, June
22, 1922 to Sept. 30, 1928. Retired June 30, 1955.
1929 APPOINTMENT
43. K. T. Wright
Farm Management
2/l/29 to
B. 1901., Walker, Illinois. B.S., 1924; M.S. 1929, University of Illinois; Ph.D., 1940, Cornell
University. Currently, 1967, Professor of Agricultural Economics, 25 percent teaching and 75
percent research in areas of farm management, enterprise cost studies and agricultural
development.
Formerly, Agricultural Economics consultant with Michigan State group in Formosa, MarchJune 1964. Director, Michigan State University Advisory Group, University of Ryukyus
(Okinawa) 1958-60; Consultant in agriculture and education, MSU, ICA Advisory Team in
Formosa in summer of 1959; Technical Advisor, ECA and British Ministry of Agriculture, 195152, Asst. Prof., Univ. of Illinois, 1924-29. Member, Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Zeta. Listed in
Who's Who in the Midwest and in American Men of Science. Also, National President, Farm
House Fraternity. Awarded honor of "Distinguished Teacher in Agriculture" at Michigan State,
1953.
1930 APPOINTMENTS
44. Paul G. Minneman
Farm Management
l/l/30-6/30/32 (2 ½ years)
B. in Ohio. B.S., 1926; M.S., 1927; Ph.D., 1929, Ohio State Univ.. Cooperative appointment
with the U.S. Dept. of Agr. to study the farm management aspects of the corn borer situation
which then threatened the corn crop in Southeastern Michigan. Later, Dr. Minneman joined the
U.S. Dept. of State and has served as Agricultural Attache in the major European countries.
45. Harold Patton
Economics
7/l/30-6/30/43 (13 years)
B. in Canada. education in Canada including Ph.D. at Harvard. Read of Department of
Economics, 7/l/30-6/30/46. Major interest: International trade in agricultural products.
On leave, military service, in Washington, D.C., 1943-46, and died in spring of 1946 after being
hit by a bus in a parking area for the Pentagon in Washington, D, C,
46. Donald H. Hootman
Economics
10/l/30-6/30/31 ( year)
B. in Michigan. Attended M.A.C., 1919. Extension specialist in fruit marketing. Transferred
back to Horticulture Departments M.S.C., 7/1/31.
47. John D. Martin
Economics
10/31/30-6/30/31 ( year)
B. Kingston, Michigan. B.S. 1917, M.A.C. Extension specialist in marketing and potatoes.
Transferred back to county agricultural agent's job, 7/l/31.
48. A. B. Love
Economics
10/18/30-6/30/52 (21 years)
B. 1896, O'Calla, Florida. B.S., 1917 and some graduate work, M.A.C. Extension specialist in
marketing beans and sugar beets. Head of Michigan Emergency Farm Labor Program, 1943-48.
Headed the program in consumer education, 1948-52. Retired, 1952. Died 1/4/53. County
Agricultural Agent, Saginaw County., 9/18/23-11/1/30. In charge of Soils Department, Mt.
Morris College, Mt. Morris, Illinois 1921-23.
49. Claude L. Nash
Economics
12/l/30-5/30-49 (19 years)
B. 1884 on a farm near Crotton,, Kent County, Michigan. B.S., 1909, M.A.C. Extension
specialist in marketing. Retired in 1949. Died 2/28/60. Much interested in farm credit, Formerly,
County Agricultural Agent, Branch County, Cass County and St. Clair County, Michigan.
Director of Organization of Michigan Farm Bureau, 1927-30.
50. Arthur I. Hauke
Farm Management
1/1/31-7/15/35 (4 ½ years)
B. on a farm in Nebraska. B.S. from University of Nebraska. Farm Management Extension
Specialist, farm records and farm business analysis.
51. George N. Motts
Economics
6/l/31-12/31/60 (29 years)
B. 1905, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. B.S., 1927, Ohio State; M.S., 1929. University of Florida;
Ph.D., 1931, M.S.U. Was in teaching and research at first and later in extension. Retired in 1960.
Fields: Agricultural marketing, particularly in fruit and vegetables.
A noted traveler. He has kept a record of all towns in the U.S.A. that he has been in since grade
school. He has been in 85 percent of all towns and cities in the United States with populations of
1,000 or more (1960 census) at least once. He has been in 55 foreign countries and "got by" with
only the use of the English language, except for the particular country's words for "where is the
men's room?"
Starting in summer of 1932, he has taken about 30 auto trips in U.S. and Canada of 2 to 5 wee-L's duration with 105 different M.S.U. students. Students helped to pay for the gas. Often times
George paid for some of students' meals. Faculty advisor for the Elsworth Cooperative House
since 1938.
52. Phillip F. Aylesworth
Farm Management
9/l/31-8/31/35 (4 years)
B. on a farm near Valparaiso (Porter County) Indiana in 1906. B.S. and M.S. from Purdue;
Doctor of Humane Letters, Wartburg College; additional graduate work at University of
Wisconsin. Research assistant in farm management with major effort on enterprise cost studies.
Resigned in 1935 to go with USDA where he served in various administrative capacities, He
served as Department-wide liaison officer between USDA agencies and national rural church
leaders from 1946. He also served as Program Leader for Rural Civil Defense. For eight years he
was attached to the Office of the Secretary, Department of Agriculture. He was in Sudan and
Turkey in 1966 where he assisted agricultural officials in conducting courses in Public
Administration in Agricultural Development.
Died of heart attack in Washington, D.C. August 6, 1967.
1934 APPOINTMENT
53. Clyde O. May
Farm Management
7/16/34-11/15/44 (10 years)
B. Central Indiana. B.S., 1933 and M.S., 1934 from Purdue. Farm management extension
specialist with the farm accounting and farm business analysis project. Resigned November 15,
1944 to go with Halderman Farm Management Service, Wabash, Indiana. Later, January 1,
1951, established the very effective May Farm Management Service with headquarters in East
Lansing.
1935 APPOINTMENTS
54. Archie Leonard
Farm Management
10/l/35-3/15/36 (½ year)
B. on a farm in Illinois. B.S. and M.S. from University of Illinois. Research assistant in farm
management.
55. Ralph E. Loomis
Farm Management
12/15/35-6/30/36 (½ year)
B. on a farm near Perry, Shiawassee County, Michigan. B.S., 1931, M.S.C. Extension Specialist
in farm management.
1936 APPOINTMENTS
56. John C. Doneth
Farm Management
7/15/36 to
B. on a farm near Copemish, Manistee County, Michigan, 1910. B.S., 1933, M.S.C.; M.S., 1939,
Cornell University. Prof. in Agricultural Economics (farm management) and currently (1967)
project leader in farm management extension. Originator and leader of the M.S.U. Telfarm
business analysis program.
A vigorous proponent of the greater use of business machines in agriculture. Serving on the Dean
of Agriculture's committee (1967) studying and planning greater application of computer science
to the field of agriculture. Instituted the District Farm Management Agent framework of
operation in the Michigan Cooperative Extension Service. Active in providing regional
committee leadership in areas of farm management extension work.
Joint recipient of the United States Department of Agriculture award for Superior Service (1964).
Tour leader for 59 Michigan agricultural leaders visiting Russia, Poland, and Europe - the first of
its kind to take women behind the Iron Curtain, (1964).
Co-author with E. B. Hill of Farm Management Work Units, 1937 - 1) Teacher's Guide and 2)
Students' Guide. Mimeograph Department, M.S.U. and also co-author with E. B. Hill of Farm
Management Manual-- 1) Teacher's Guide and 2) Students' Guide, 1941, pp. 160. Reprinted
1945, 1947 and 1953. Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Contributed numerous articles to national and state magazines and journals. Addressed many
national, regional and state conferences, seminars and symposiums. Made many appearances on
television and radio, Formerly Vo-Ag instructor at Woodland, Michigan, High School. Forty
months in World War II, U.S. Army Air Force, Airways Communications, 1942-45.
57. Harold B. Taylor
Farm Management
9/l/36-6/30/38 (1 ¾ years)
B. on a farm in central Indiana. B.S. and M.S. from Purdue. Research assistant in farm
management.
58. Lauren H. Brown
Farm Management
10/1/36 to
B. on a farm near Maple Rapids, Clinton County, Michigan, 1909. B.S. 1931 M.S.C.; M.S. 1932,
University of Illinois; Ph.D. 1948, Purdue.
Currently, 1967, professor of Agricultural Economics and full-time extension specialist in farm
management. Major interest in farm management and production economics, farm records and
farm business analysis. Formerly, fieldsman, Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Massachusetts,
1933-36. With Halderman Management Service 1948-49. On leave eight months in 1956 in
western European countries, with O.E.E.C., the Organization for European Economic
Cooperation.
Co-author with E. B. Hill of Principles of Farm Management, 1947, pp.201, Edwards Brothers,
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1937 APPOINTMENT
59. Donald Stark
Economics
9/l/37-11/30/63 (26 years)
B. 1901 on a farm near Grand Ledge, Eaton County Michigan. B.S., from M.S.C., 1925.
Extension specialist in livestock marketing.
Director of Membership Relations, Detroit Packing Co., 1948-49; Head of Community
Cooperative Services, Farm Security Administration in Michigan, 1935-37; Asst. Mgr. and
General Livestock Agent, St. Johns Stockyard Co. 1934-35; Public Relations and Salesman,
Michigan Livestock Exchange, Detroit 1933-34; General Livestock Agent, New York Central
RR Company, Buffalo, New York. Vo-Ag teacher, Marshall, Michigan 1925-28. Retired in
November 1963 to go into the real estate business.
1938 APPOINTMENTS
60. Frank M. Atchley
Farm Management
9/l/38-6/30/48 (10 years)
B. in Iowa 1910. B.S. 1933, Iowa State College; M.S., 1937, Illinois. Research assistant in farm
management with particular reference to land use studies; U.S., Army, World War 11, 1942-46.
Resigned in 1948 to do economic research for the Illinois Agricultural Association. Currently,
1967, agricultural consultants Grocery Manufacturers of Americas Inc. Fields: Economics of
food and nutrition.
61. Kenneth Ousterhout
Farm Management
9/l/38-12/31/39 (1 ½ years)
B. 1899 on a farm in Woodbridge Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan. B.S., 1923, M.A.C.
Research assistant in farm management. Formerly, County Agricultural Agent, Wexford and
Antrim Counties. 4-H Club Agent, Saginaw, 1940-46. Assistant State Club Leader, M.S.U.,
1946-49. Retired 7/l/59.
62. Henry E. Larzelere
Economics
9/15/38 to
B. 1911, Lakewood Ohio. B.A. 1933, Oberlin College; M.S. 1934, Ohio State Univ; Ph.D., 1933,
Univ. of Wisconsin. Currently Professor, 50 percent extension, 40 percent research, 10 percent
teaching. Fields: Egg and poultry marketing, consumer preference panel, and farmer cooperative
organizations.
In U.S. Navy., World War II 1944-46. Economist, Office of Price Administration, 1943-44.
Market Analyst, USDA, 3 months, 1948. Visiting lecturer, International Cooperative Training
Center, Univ. of Wisconsin, 3 months in 1963. Consultant to M.S.U. East Pakistan Project, 6
months, 1967. Gamma Sigma Delta.
1939 APPOINTMENT
63. Ross V. Baumann
Farm Management
7/l/39-6/30/41 (2 years)
B. Nebraska, 1911. Cooperative appointment, M.S.C. and U.S.D.A. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics. Major assignment: Inter-regional Competition of Dairy Farming. Currently, 1967,
Staff Specialist, ARS, USDA, Washington, D.C., Fields: Economics of food and nutrition.
1942 APPOINTMENTS
64. Arthur H. Haist
Farm Management
6/15/42-6/30/46 (4 years)
B. on a farm near Hersey, Osceola County, Michigan. B.S., 1940, M.S.C. Extension specialist in
farm management, Resigned to go with Halderman Farm Management Services Wabash Indiana
and is currently, 1967, with that organization.
65. Edward F. Rebman
Farm Management
6/15/42-8/31/45 (3 years)
B. 1920 on a farm near Copemish, Manistee County, Michigan. B.S., 1942, M.S.C. Research
assistant in farm management and worked on farm labor efficiency studies, Resigned 0/31/45 to
become County Agricultural Agent, Charlevoix County, Michigan a position he still holds, 1967.
1944 APPOINTMENTS
66. Byron R. Bookhout
Farm Management
10/23/44-6/30/48 (3 years)
B. 1914 on a dairy farm, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York. B.S., 1939, M.S., 1940,
Cornell; Ph.D., 1942, Purdue. Research assistant in farm management and worked on various
farm management research projects including Work Simplification. resigned to go with USDA
Crop Reporting Service and currently, 1967, is still in the same work. In U.S. Army Air Force,
World War 11, 1942-44.
67. Clifford Hardin
Economics
12/l/44-6/30/54 (9 ½ years)
B. October 9, 1915, on a farm near Kingston, Indiana. B.S., 1937; M.S. 1939; Ph.D., 1941;
D.Sc., (Hon.) Purdue. Teaching and research in agricultural economics 12/l/44-3/30/48. Assistant
Director Agricultural Experiment Station, M.S.U., 4/l/48-6/30/49. Director 1949-53. Dean of
Agriculture, M.S.U., 7/l/53-6/30/54. Resigned 6/30/54 to become Chancellor of University of
Nebraska. Member International Agricultural Conference. Listed in Who's Who in America.
1945 APPOINTMENTS
68. Harry S. Wilt
Farm Management
7/l/45-2/28/55 (7 years)
B. 1938 on a farm near Coleman, Isabella County, Michigan. B.S., 1937; M.S., 1950, Michigan
State, Farm management research, May 10 1949-Feb. 28, 1955, with special interest in young
men in farming, father-son farm partnerships, etc. Resigned 2/28/55 to go with the Cooperative
Extension Service as County Agricultural Agent at large. Currently, 1967, County Extension
Agricultura1 Agent, Shiawassee County, Michigan. Assistant Director of Short Courses at
M.S.U., 1939-48; Vo-Ag instructor at McBain, Michigan 1937-39.
69. Russell L. Berry
Farm Management
6/25/45-6/30/47 (2 years)
B. in Canada, BS., 1939, University of Illinois; M.S., 1948, Michigan State; graduate work at
Harvard Graduate School, 1953-54. Instructor, farm management research with major interest in
land tenure studies. Resigned to do graduate work. Currently, 1967, in Economics Department,
South Dakota State College.
70. Arthur Mauch
Economics
ll/l/45 to
B. Nebraska 1909. B.S., 1932; M.A., 1934,, University of Nebraska; Ph.D., 1939, Purdue. Field Public Policy. Currently, 1967, extension 70 percent, teaching 30 percent. Professor and leader in
public policy.
Chairman and contributing author for several national and regional task forces to prepare
educational pamphlets on farm programs, international trade, and human resource development.
Visiting professor at North Carolina State University with the Agricultural Policy Institute, 196162. BAE, Atlanta, Ga., 1942-45; Dairy Spec., Coop. Res. Serve, Farm Credit Administration,
Washington, D.C., 1942; Economist, BAE, Washington, D.C., 1941; Asst. State BAE Rep.,
Lafayette., Indiana, 1939-41; Instr. Purdue Univ. 1935-36; Instr, Univ, of Nebraska 1934-35.
Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta and Sigma Xi. Outstanding Extension Specialist Award 1967
(Michigan).
71. Robert F. Stone
Farm Management
8/20/45-5/31/46 ( ¾ year)
B. on a farm near Tecumseh, Michigan. B.S., 1940., M.S.C. Research assistant in farm
management. Served in U.S. Army, World War II and awarded Silver Star. Currently, 1967,
farming on home farm near Tecumseh.
1946 APPOINTMENTS
72. Norman L. Smith
Farm Management
2/15/46-6/30/48 (2 years)
B. on a farm in Illinois, B.S. and M.S.,. University of Illinois Farm Management, Extension
Specialist, Assistant Professor, Resigned to go with Allied Military Government as an
agriculturist in Germany. Has been in government foreign service ever since 9/7/46.
73. Clare A. Becker
Farm Management
3/l/46-3/31/47 (1 year)
B. in Illinois, B.S., 1937 M.S.U.; Ph.D. 1942, Cornell University. Farm Management Extension
Specialist, Associate Professor. Resigned to accept teaching-research position as Professor of
Agricultural Business Management at Penn State where he is now located. Field: Agricultural
marketing. Lieut. Commander, U.S., Navy in World War II, 1942-46.
74. Eugene H. Carter
Farm Management
4/22/46-3/19/48 (2 years)
B. on a farm in Indiana. B.S., 1944 and M.S., 1945 from Purdue. Farm Management Research,
Assistant Processor. Major area of work, dairy production costs Detroit Area. In Army
Veterinary Corps in World War II.
75. M. Eugene Cravens
Economics
6/15/46-2/28/58 (6 ½ years)
Be Kentucky, 1913. B.S. 1935, University of Kentucky; M.S., 1937, Ph.D., 1941, Cornell
University. Field: Agricultural Marketing. U.S. Army 1942-46. Resigned to become Professor,
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Socillogy, Ohio State University.
76. Everett Elwood
Farm Management
9/l/46-12/31/66 (20 years)
B. 1908 on a farm near Ida, Lenawee County, Michigan. B.S., 1934 M.S.C.; M.S., 1946,
University of Illinois, Extension Specialist and Asst. Prof. in Farm Management with special
interests in farm management, farm records, federal income taxes and social security for farmers.
Retired December 31, 1966. Operated family farm 1928. Ford Motor Co. (railroad fireman) 1929
and 1930; Farm Management Specialist, Farm Security Administration 1935-42. Army Air
Corps Service, World War 11, 1942-44.
77. Willys R. Knight
Economics
9/l/46-9/30/51 (5 years)
B. Wisconsin. B.S., 1938; M.A., 1939, Wisconsin; Ph.D., 1949, Maryland. Fields: Business
organization, commercial banking, and agricultural economics. Instructor in Economics and then
to Asst. Prof., Agricultural Economics. Resigned to become Professor and Department Head,
Economics, Georgia State College.
1947 APPOINTMENTS
78. Lawrence Witt
Economics
1/l/47 to
B. on a farm near Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1914. B.S., 1937, Wisconsin; M.S., 1938; Ph.D., 1941,
Iowa State University Fields: Low-income farmers, agricultural trade problems, agricultural
policy, and economic development. Currently, 1967, Professor: 50 percent teaching and 50
percent research.
President, American Farm Economic Association, 1966-67, and Vice-President 1955-56. Book
Review Editor, 1949-51 and Editor, 1952-54, of the Journal of Farm Economics. Associate in the
Institute of Current World Affairs, 1941-43. Senior agricultural economist in USDA, 1943-46
working and traveling in Latin America. Sabbatical leave of 1952-53 was spent with the
American Universities Field Staff lecturing in the United States on Brazil. His 1965 sabbatical
was spent in Arizona studying irrigation projects in Mexico and Southwestern United States.
During January-June 1961 he was a consultant with White House Offices of George McGovern,
Special Representative of President Kennedy for Food for Peace. He has served as consultant to
the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the Agricultural Colleges of
Colombia, the University of Ankara, Turkey, the Economic Research Service of the USDA,, the
Committee for Economic Development and the Inter-American Bank. In 1966, he was on
assignment in Brazil for the Midwestern Universities Consortium for International Activities
(MUCIA) to work with the National Research Council of Brazil. Languages: Portuguese,
Spanish, Italian, French, German.
79. Gerald Quackenbush
Economics
7/l/47-3/18/60 (13 years)
B. Wisconsin, 1916. B.S., 1941, Wisconsin; M.S. 1942, Ph.D. 1947, Purdue, Field: Agricultural
marketing and particularly dairy products. In U.S. Army Air Force, 1943-45. Currently, 1967,
Market Research Director, American Dairy Associations, Chicago.
80. Everett E. Peterson
Farm Management
8/l/47-9/30/53 (6 years)
B. South Dakota, B.S., 1939, M.S., 1940, Montana State College; M.A., 1950; Ph.D., 1952,
University of Chicago. Farm Management extension specialist. Resigned 9/30/53 to become
project leader in agricultural economics extension, University of Nebraska.
1948 APPOINTMENTS
81. Raleigh Barlowe
Economics
1/l/48-9/14/59 (11 years)
B. Lincoln, Idaho, 1914. B.S., 1936, Utah State University; N.A., 1939, American University;
Ph.D., 1946, University of Wisconsin. Fields: Land and water economics. Professor; teaching
and research.
Resigned from Agricultural Economics 9/14/59 to become Professor and Head of the new
department of Resource Development at Michigan State, Listed in Who's Who in America.
Author: Land Resource Economics, 1958; (with V. Webster Johnson) Land Problems and
Policies, 1954.
Formerly Agricultural Economics, BAE,, USDA, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C., 1943-47.
Agricultural Economics, ARS and BAE, USDA. at Michigan State.
82. C. Raymond Hoglund
Farm Management
5/15/48 to
B. McPherson, Kansas, 1906. B.S., 1940; M.S. 1941, University of Minnesota. Currently, 1967,
Professor, research particularly in the economics of dairy farming, forage production., storage
and utilization. Fields: Dairy farm management, dairy adjustments and forage economics.
Associate Professor, S. D. State College, 1943-48; Coop. Agent, Univ. of Wisconsin and Soil
Conservation Service, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 1941-43; Field Rep., Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.,
Minn., 1935-40.
Honors: American Grassland Council Merit Award 1963, AAAS Fellow Award 1964, National
Silo Assn. Z. W. Craine Award, 1965.
83. Warren H. Vincent
Farm Management
4/l/48 to
B. on a farm in Calhoun County, Michigan. B.S., 1947; M.S., 1949, Michigan State; Ph.D.,
1953, Iowa State University. Fields: Farm management, production economics, agricultural data
processing, agricultural economics.
Instructor to Professor, Michigan State University 1948-58. Currently, 1967, Head, Department
of Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria at Nsukka. M.S.U. University of Nigeria
Program, July 1966 to July 1968. Economist, Federal Extension Service, USDA, Washington,
D.C. 1965; Consultant, Doane Agricultural Service, St. Louis, Mo., 1956-57; Farm Management
Extension Specialist, Michigan State, 1949 to 1958. In U.S. Army 1943-46.
Editor of and contributor to Economics and Management in Agriculture, Prentice Hall, 1962.
Language: French. Member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta.
84. Karl A. Vary
Farm Management
4/17/48-5/21/54 (6 years)
B. Kent County, Michigan. B.S. 1944 and M.S., 1945 at M.S.C.; Ph.D., 1948, Purdue. Asst. Prof.
in farm management research, particularly in the area of forage crop studies. Resigned 5/31/54
first to go with the Ford Motor Co. and later to set up his own farm implement sales and service
business, The Farm and Industrial Center, Lansing, Michigan.
85. Lawrence L. Boger
Economics
6/15/48 to
B. Dekalb County Indiana, Sept. 26, 1923. B.S., 1947, Purdue; M.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1950
Michigan State. Additional graduate work taken at University of Chicago and at Harvard.
Appointed Professor and Chairman of Agricultural Economics, 7/l/54. Major areas of interest,
agricultural prices and international agricultural development. Vice President, American Farm
Economic Associations 1960-61. Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the Midwest
and American Men of Science. U.S. Army, World War II, 1943-45.
Consultant to government of Pakistan for the Ford Foundations 1957. Consultant to the
government of Colombia for the Kellogg Foundations 1959. Consultant for USDA Crop
Reporting Services, 1954-57. Director at Large of Central Bank for Cooperatives, Jan. 1, 1967 to
_ . Member of Advisory Committee of Pakistan Project; member of Joint University Advisory
Committee of University of Nigeria. Consultant to Bureau of Census, USDA, 1965 to _ .
Member, International Conference of Agricultural Economists, American Agricultural Economic
Association, American Statistical Associations and of the North Central Advisory Committee of
Department Heads of Agricultural Economics. Languages: French, German, Spanish.
86. Robert C. Kramer
Economics
7/l/48-611/60 (12 years)
B. 1920, Christneys Indiana on a farm. B.S., 1947, Purdue; M.S., 1948 and Ph.D. 1952,
Michigan State.
Director of Agricultural Marketing and Utilization Center and Assistant Director in charge of
Marketing for the Cooperative Extension Service of M.S.U. Formerly, Professor of Agricultural
Economics. Visiting Research Professor, Harvard University, 1956-57, Honored in 1965 as
"Farm Marketing Man of the Year" by the National Agricultural Advertising and Marketing
Association. Alpha Zeta and Sigma Xi. Languages: French,, German, Spanish. U.S. Navy in
World War II, Lt. Commander, 1941-46. Resigned from M.S.U. 10/1/65 to accept position as
Vice President, California State Poly Tech College at Pomona, California. Currently, 1967, he is
President of that institution.
87. Dale E. Hathaway
Economics
9/l/48 to
B. Michigan 1925. B.A. in Economics.. Michigan State University 1947; M.A. in Economics,
Michigan State University, 1948; Doctor of Public Administration. Harvard University, 1952.
Asst. Prof. 1952-53; Assoc. Prof. 1955-58 and Prof. since 1958 all at Michigan State University;
Ext. Spec. in Public Policy, Michigan State University 1948-50. Visiting Prof. of Econ.,
University of Chicago, 1961-62; Senior Staff Member, Council of Economic Advisors,
Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C., 1955-56; Federal Extension Service, 1951;
U.S. Navy, 1943-46.
Editorial Council, The Journal of Farm Economics, 1958, 1959, 1960; Chairman of the
Committee on the Future of the University, Michigan State University, 1959; Vice President of
the American Farm Economics Association,
1962-63; Consultant for the following: Commission of Money and Credit, 1959-60; Committee
for Economic Development, 1960-62; Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress,
1960; U.S., Department of Agriculture, 1961-66; Council of Economic Advisers, Executive
Office of the President, 1961-62; U.S., Department of Labor, 1965-66; Commission of Food and
Fibers 1967; and the National Advisory Commission of rural Poverty, 1966-67. Member of a
sub-panel for the President's Science Advisory Committee Report on the World Food Problem,
1966-67. Faculty Member, Salzburg Seminar on American Studies (session 103) 1966;
Chairman of the Faculty, Salzburg Seminar on American Studies (session 115), 1968.
Elected Phi Kappa Phi, 1946; Carnegie Fellow, Harvard University, 1950-51; Award for best
journal article in The Journal of Farm Economics, 1954 and honorable mention for the best
Article in 1952. Winner of the American Farm Economics Association Award for best published
Research in 1956, 1958, and in 1967 (with Brian B. Perkins). Winner of the Distinguished
Faculty Award, Michigan State University, 1964. Recipient of Rockefeller Study Grant on Food,
Economic Developments and International Relations 1964. Recipient of Agricultural
Development Council Travel Grant to study Socialist Agricultural Development, 1967.
Author of the following: Government and Agriculture, McMillan and Co., 1963; Problems of
Progress in the Agricultural Economy Scott, Foresman and Co. 1964. The People of Rural
America (with Beegle and Bryant), Government Printing Office Census Monograph, 1968.
Numerous research bulletins, journal articles and chapters in six books.
Member of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AFEA); Canadian Agricultural
Economics Association; Western Farm Economics Association; International Association of
Agricultural Economists; National Planning Association; and American Academy of Political
and Social Sciences.
88. Mary Bodwell
Economics
9/15/48-3/15/53 (4 ½ years)
From Flagler, Colorado. B.S., 1931 from Colorado State University; M.S. 1933, Colorado State
Teachers, R.N. 1935, Bethel General Hospitals Colorado Springs, Colorado. Extension
economist in consumer education. Served as Chief Nurse in the Army Nurse Corps in World
War II.
1949 APPOINTMENTS
89. Clarence Prentice
Economics
3/l/49-7/31/57 (8 years)
B. 1905 on a farm near Hastings, Barry County, Michigan. B.S., 1931, M.S.C.; M.S., 1957,
Kansas State College, Extension Specialist in Agricultural Marketing. Formerly, County
Agricultural Agent in Sanilac County. On leave, 1953-57, to serve as State Administrative
Officer of the Michigan Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. Resigned on
July 31, 1957 to become Executive Secretary and Manager, Michigan Farm Bureau. Resigned
this latter position in spring of 1966.
90. James D. Shaffer
Economics
4/9/49 to
B. 1925 Indiana, Pennsylvania. B.S. Political Science., Michigan State 1947; Ph.D., Agricultural
Economics, Michigan State, 1953. Appointed as Instructor in 1949. Currently, 1967, professor of
Agricultural Economics, 50 percent research and 50 percent teaching, with major interests in
market behavior, institutions and policies; applied social science; consumer analysis; and
marketing in economic development. On leave from June - December 1967 to serve as
consultant to the Administrator of the Economic Research Service, USDA. In U.S. Navy in
World War II, 1943-46. Member of the East Lansing School Board since 1962, president since
1965. Member of the USDA Human Nutrition and Consumer Use Advisory Committee since
1966.
Contributions to books: "Consumer Purchase Decision and Demand," Chapter 8, Economics and
Management in Agriculture, Warren Vincent (editor), Prentice-Hall, 1962. "Advertising in the
Marketing Process," Chapter 7, and "Marketing in Social Perspective," (co-author A. Allan
Schmid), Chapter 2, Agricultural Market Analysis, Vernon L, Sorenson (editor). Published by
the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Michigan State University, 1964.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT,
ESTABLISHED 5/l/49
All members of Farm Management Department and of the agricultural section of the Department
of Economics, then became members of the Agricultural Economics Department.
91. Thomas X. Cowden
5/l/49-6/30/54 (5 years)*
B. Hickory, Pa., Sept. 15, 1910. B.S., 1930; M.S., 1931, Ohio State University; Ph.D., 1937,
Cornell University.
First chairman of the new Agricultural Economics Department, M.S.U., 5/l/49, with major
interests in marketing and agricultural policy. Dean of the College of Agriculture, July 1, 1954 to
_. Professor, Agricultural Economics, Purdue, 1937-43; Director of Research, American Farm
Bureau Federation, 1943-49. President, American Farm Economics Association, 1953-54. Listed
in Who's Who in America. Served as a member of governmental and national committees for
economic development and agricultural policy.
*Currently, 1967, still on M.S.U. Staff as Dean of Agriculture.
92. Timothy L. Hodge
5/l/49-11/30/50 (1 ½ years)
B. Michigan, 1925. B.S., 1948, Michigan State, Research assistant in study of the cost of mill
production in the Detroit area of Michigan.
93 Durward Varner
5/16/49-1/15/59 (10 years)
From Texas, B.S., 1940, Texas A &M; M.S., 1949, University of Chicago.
Extension specialist in agricultural economics.
Appointed Ass't Dean of Agriculture and Director of Cooperative Extension Service, 9/10/52.
Appointed Vice-President for Off-Campus Education and Director of Continuing Education,
4/l/55.
Chancellor, M.S.U.-O. (later Oakland University), February 10, 1959.
94. Owen Glissendorf
7/l/49-5/31/51 (2 years)
B. Illinois. B.S., 1948; M.S., 1949, University of Illinois. Extension specialist in public policy.
1950 APPOINTMENTS
95. Richard F. Hartwig
1/1/50 to
B. on a farm near Hadley, Lapeer County, Mich., 1916. B.S., 1941, Michigan State; 1942-43,
Harvard School of Business; 1948, M.A., University of Chicago. Currently, 1967, extension
specialist, Assoc. Prof. in farm management and marketing and stationed full time in the M.S.U.
Marquette office.
1st Lt. in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps in World War II, 1944-47. Also served one year as
economic analyst with the Quartermaster Food and Container Institute for the Armed Forces in
Chicago.
96. Raymond A. Higgins
7/l/50-12/31/52 (2 ½ years)
B. Ohio. B.S., 1949; M.S., 1950, Ohio State. Assignment: retailer education.
97. Dale Butz
7/l/50-7/l/59 9 years
B. Indiana (Albion), 1921. B.S., 1943, Purdue; M.S., 1948, Cornell; Ph.D., 1950, Minnesota.
First appointment at M.S.U. was as an extension specialist in public policy. In 1952 he was
appointed project leader in agricultural marketing and retailer education. In 1954, chairman of
the educational advisory committee of the Chicago Board of Trade.
In U.S. Army in World War II, 1942-46. He resigned from Michigan State Univ. to accept the
position of Director of Economic Research for the Farm Supply Co. of Bloomington, Illinois.
1951 APPOINTMENTS
98. Francis Ferguson
1/16/51-9/30/51 ( year)
B. Michigan. B.S., 1947, Michigan State. Appointed as farm management extension specialist.
Resigned to go with agricultural loan division of the Northwestern Life Insurance Company.
Currently, 1967, President of Northwestern Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
99. James Nielson
1/22/51-6/30/65 (14 years)
B. Kansas, 1921. B.S., 1947, Kansas State University; M.A., 1951; Ph,D., 1953, Harvard. First
appointed as extension specialist in farm management. After a year or so, he transferred to
teaching and research in farm management and devoted major effort to the study and evaluation
of the experimental township extension project. Fields: Farm management and production
economics.
Resigned, 6/30/65, to become Head of Agricultural Economics Department, Washington State
University. Editor, Journal Farm Economics, 1962-65. In World War II in U.S. Army Air Force,
1942-46, private to captain.
Language: Spanish and French. Honors: Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta and Sigma Delta.
1952 APPOINTMENTS
100. Russell Mawby
7/l/52-6/30/56 (4 years)
B. 1928 on a fruit farm near Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. B.S., 1949; Ph.D., 1959,
Michigan State. First appointed as extension specialist in farm management. Appointed Assistant
Director Cooperative Extension for 4-H Club Program, 7/l/56. Ext. Specialist in Public Affairs
1955-56; Ext. Specialist in Marketing, 1952-53. Title changes: Ass't Prof. to Assoc. Prof, and in
1961 to Prof. Field: Agricultural Policy.
Resigned as Director, M.S.U. 4-H Club Program in 1962 to become Director of Agriculture of
the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan. In U.S. Army, 10/7/53-10/16/55.
101. Glenn L. Johnson
l/l/53 to
B. Redwood Falls, Minnesota, 1918. B.S., 1940, Illinois; M.A., 1942, Michigan State; Ph.D.,
1949, Chicago. Currently, 1967, professor of Agricultural Economics with major interest in the
application of production economics, wherever useful, including but not limited to farm
management, economic development and policy.
Appointed in December, 1965, Director of the Consortium for the Study of Nigerian Rural
Development (an M.S.U. project) on a part-time basis. Currently, 1967, Consultant to the
Rockefeller Foundation and to the Ford Foundation and has been a long-time Consultant to the
Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1963 and 1964 he was Director of the Economic Development
Institute, University of Nigeria as part of his M.S.U. responsibilities. In 1961, he served as a
member of the United States State Department Economic/Military advisory team to Thailand. In
1959, he was on sabbatical leave for study of philosophic value theory at Cambridge University,
England, and served as Simon visiting professor at the University of Manchester. In 1956, he
was on leave as a visiting professor at the University of California. In 1955, he was on leave as a
consultant in Norway for the Norwegian Institute of Agricultural Economics.
Formerly, 1948-1952, professor of Farm Economics at the University of Kentucky; and an
associate economic statistician in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, USDA, 1942-1946,
except for service as Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Supply Corps. Language: French
Honors: American Farm Economics Association outstanding research in 1952 and 1959; M.S.U.
Distinguished Professor Award, 1966; Vice-President American Farm Economic Association,
1962.
Publications: Co-author with L. A. Bradfield of Farm Management Analysis, John Wiley and
Sons, 1953. Co-editor of nine books. Contributor of chapters in twenty-four books. Author of
numerous bulletins and journal articles.
102. Burnell R. Held
7/l/53-12/31/54 (1 years)
B. Iowa., 1921. B.S., 1946; M.S., 1950; Ph.D., 1953, Iowa State University. Appointed as Ass't
Prof. in Agricultural Economics. Fields: Land and water economics. Formerly economist with
Resources for the Future, Inc. and with Penn. State and Iowa State. Budget and Agricultural
Economist, Hoover Commission on Reorganization Executive Branch of Government.
103. Harold M. Riley
711/53 to
B. Holton, Kansas, (Jackson County), 1922. B.S., 1947; M.S., 1948, Kansas State; Ph.D., 1954,
Michigan State.
Current, 1967, Professor; major fields: agricultural marketing and economic development; 20
percent teaching, 50 percent research, 30 percent administration.
Associate Director of Institute of International Agriculture, 1967 - ; Co-Director of USAID
contract research project on food marketing problems in Latin America, 1965 - ; served two
years, 1960-62, as M.S.U. advisor to College of Agriculture at Palmira, Colombia, South
America; Assistant Prof., Kansas State University, 1948-51.
Language: Spanish. Associate Editor of Journal of Farm Economics, 1962-65.
104. Vernon L. Sorenson
7/l/53 to
B. Minnesota, 1922. B.A., 1947; M.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1953, University of Minnesota. First
appointed as Ass't Prof. in Agricultural Economics and currently, 1967, Professor in Agricultural
Economics with major interests in international trade and policy and in marketing.
With St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives as Business Analyst, 1950. For two years, 1964 and 1965,
on leave, U.S. Dept. of State as consultant in Paris, France to the agricultural policy division of
OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Editor, Agricultural
Market Analysis, M.S.U. Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1964. Honors: American
Farm Economics Assoc. Thesis Award, 1953.
105. Edwin Jones
9/l/53-7/31/54 (1 year)
B. Hooper, Utah. B.S., 1948; M.S., 1954, Utah; Ph.D., 1953, Michigan State. Appointed as Ass't
Prof. in research. In World War II military service 1941-45.
106. Ben C. French
10/l/53-12/31/58 (5 years)
B. Hanford, California, 1923. B.S., 1948; M.S., 1949; Ph.D., 1954, University of California.
Appointed as Ass't Prof. and resigned 1958 as Assoc. Prof. (res.) to assume position as Assoc.
Prof. in market research at the University of California at Davis. Currently 1967, Prof. and Vice
Chairman of Dept. of Agr'l. Econ. at Davis.
1954 APPOINTMENTS
107. Daniel W. Sturt
2/l/54 to
B. Virginia. B.S., 1947, Virginia Poly Tech. Institute; M.S., 1949; Ph.D., 1954, Wisconsin.
Appointed as Ass't. Prof. in Agricultural Marketing and currently, 1967, Prof. and Director of the
Rural Manpower Center.
Formerly, Director of the M.S.U. Cooperative Extension Service and Continuing Education
Service in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 1957-61, and Advisor to the West Pakistan
government at Peshawar Academy for Rural Development, 1961-63, a Ford Foundation Project.
Chairman, Governor's Commission on Migrant Labor, 1965-66; Member, Michigan Commission
on Manpower Development and Training, 1966 to _.
102. Milton H. Steinmueller
7/5/54-8/15/60 (6 years)*
B. Vancouver, Washington, 1924. B.S., 1949; M.A., 1952, Washington State; Ph.D. 1958,
Michigan State. Appointed instructor (Research). Major interest, land economics. Transferred
8/10/60 to the new Department of Resource Development and is currently, 1967, Associate
Professor.
*Currently 1967, still on M.S.U . Staff in Department of Resource Development.
109. Thomas A. Creager
8/16/54-9/30/56 (2 years)
B. Three Rivers, Michigan. M.S., 1951, Michigan State, Extension specialist in retail education.
Resigned as Inst. (Ext.) in Agricultural Economics Dept. Sept. 30, 1956.
110. Kendall Adams
9/l/54-7/31/62 (8 years)
B. Oregon, 1926. B.S., 1951, Oregon State; M.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1962, Michigan State. Field,
agricultural marketing. Extension specialist in food retailer education. Resigned 1962 to go with
the Univ. of Arizona as Ass't Prof. in Agr'l Economics.
111. James T. Bonnen
8/l/54 to
B. South Dakota, 1926. B.A., 1948, Texas A & M; M.A., Duke, 1950; Ph.D., Harvard, 1964.
Appointed as Ass't Prof. and currently, 1967, Professor of Agricultural Economics, 90 percent
research and 10 percent teaching in areas of public policy, the economic development of
American agriculture and social organization change theory.
Consultant, President's Materials Policy Commission, Washington, D.C., 1951. On leave August
1963 to August 1965 to serve as Senior Staff Economist on the President's Council of Economic
Advisors. Consultant, President's Council of Economic Advisors, 1965-68, Bureau of the Budget
1966-67, and Member, President's National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, 1966-67.
Language: Spanish. Honors: American Farm Economic Assoc. Thesis Award, 1957 and
outstanding article published in The Journal of Farm Economics in 1965. Contributor of papers
or chapters to 17 books.
112. Leonard R. Kyle
9/l/54 to
B. 1918 on a farm near Louisville, Ohio. B.S., 1940, M.S.C; M.S., 1949; Ph.D., 1953, Purdue.
Appointed as Ass't Prof., extension specialist in farm management, with special interests in
cropping systems, cost studies, cattle feeding and extension program development. Currently,
1967, professor.
Assigned to M.S,U. Colombia project, 1957-59 as agricultural economic advisor at Palmira.
Member of survey team to Argentina for Feasibility Study at Balarce relative to the
establishment of a new land grant type of a college of agriculture (6 weeks) 1966. Ass't Prof. and
Ext. Spec., Univ. of Illinois, 1953-54. Instructor and Ext. Spec., Purdue Univ., 1949-53. Ass't
and Assoc. County Agr'l Agent, Sandusky, Ohio, 1946-48. In World War II, 1940-45, Army
Artillery Officer, final rank, Major. Language: Spanish.
113. Glynn McBride
9/l/54 to
B. Yell County, Arkansas 1914. B.S., University of Arkansas, 1942; Ph.D., 1955, University of
Wisconsin. Appointed as Ass't Prof. research; currently, 1967, Assoc. Prof., research, extension
and teaching with areas of interest in marketing, agricultural policy and agricultural
development.
Advisor to West Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, Peshawar in 1964 and 1965, a Ford
Foundation Project. Assistant and County Agricultural Agent, Fayetteville, Russellville, and
Clinton, Arkansas, 1942-44. U.S. Navy, World War II. Language: Spanish, French. Alpha Zeta,
Danforth Fellow.
1955 APPOINTMENTS
114. Richard G. Wheeler
4/1/55-3/26/65 (10 years)
B. Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1917. B.S., 1937; M.S., 1940, University of Connecticut; M.A.,
1949 and Ph.D., 1950, Harvard. Assoc. Prof. in Farm Management, 1955-65. Research associate,
Harvard University, 1946-51. Consultant, Scotland Department of Agriculture, Edinburgh, 195152. Research fellow at Harvard, 1952-55. Major area of interest: farm management research,
particularly in dairy farm management.
M.S.U. Colombia project during 1962-64 to provide technical assistance in the area of
agricultural economics with the faculties of agronomy at Universities of Medellin and Palmira.
He also conducted research under contract with the USDA. Resigned as Assoc. Prof., 3/26/65 to
go with AID (Agency for International Development) and currently, 1967, located in Rio De
Janeiro, Brazil.
115. Dean E. McKee
6/l/55-7/31/61 (6 years)
B. North Dakota, 1930. B.S., 1952, North Dakota State; M.S., 1953; Ph.D., 1955, Iowa State
University. Cooperative appointment M.S.U. and USDA, Production Economics Division. Major
interests: Dairy adjustment study with fields in farm management and production economics.
116. William A. Cromarty
6/16/55-6/30/60 (5 years)
B. Essex County, Canada. B.S., Ontario, 1951; M.S. and Ph.D., M.S.U., 1953 and 1957. Major
interest, research in agricultural economics. Resigned, 6/30/50, to be a price analyst with the
Connel Company, a grain firm in Westfield, New Jersey.
117. William H. Heneberry
7/l/55-6/30/66 (11 years)
B. Illinois, 1924. B.S., 1949; M.S., 1953, University of Illinois; Ph.D., 1961, M.S.U. Cooperative
appointment, M.S.U. and USDA Economic Research Service assignment at M.S.U. was on rural
taxation studies and national inventory of conservation needs.
Transferred to University of Illinois, 7/l/62-7/31/64. Returned to M.S.U. 8/l/64-6/30/66. Second
assignment at M.S.U., doing research with River Basin and Watershed Branch of Economic
Research Service, USDA Resource Development, Economics Division. Transferred to Wash.,
D.C., June 30, 1966.
118. Clifford G. Hildreth
7/l/55-6/30/65 (10 years)
B. McPherson, Kansas, Dec. 8, 1917. A.B., 1939, University of Kansas; M.S. and Ph.D., 1941
and 1947, Iowa State University. Taught at N. Carolina State, 1953-54; Iowa State University,
1946-48. Author of book, "Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation" (1951); Co-author
with Frank Jarrett of book, "A Statistical Study of Livestock Production and Marketing" (1955).
Teaching and research in agricultural economics (statistics). Transferred to become Head of
Department of Economics, M.S.U., 1956-60. Returned to Agricultural Economics Department,
1961. Resigned, July 1, 1965 to go with University of Minnesota as professor of economics,
statistics and agricultural economics. Listed in Who's Who in America.
119. W. Burton Sundquist
9/16/55-4/3/56 ( year)
B. North Dakota, 1927. B.S., 1952, North Dakota State; M.S., 1954, University of Kentucky;
Ph.D., 1957, M.S.U. Appointed as instructor in agricultural economics. Resigned to go with
USDA at Univ. of Minnesota.
1956 APPOINTMENTS
120. Lester V. Manderscheid
8/l/56 to
B. Iowa, 1930. B.S., 1951; M.S., 1952, Iowa State; Ph.D., 1961, Stanford Univ. Appointed as
Ass't Prof. and currently, 1967, Assoc. Prof. Currently, 1967, teaching 75 percent, research 25
percent. Major interests, price analysis and econometrics. Language: French.
Joint author of Economics and Management in Agriculture, Prentice-Hall, 1962; and of
Improving Undergraduate Education, Report of the Committee on Undergraduate Education,
Michigan State University, 1967. Listed in Who's Who in the Midwest and in American Men in
Science. Honors: Phi Kappa Phi.
121. Charles E. Beer
9/ 1/56-9/7/62 (6 years)
B. Minnesota, 1923. B.S., 1948, University of Minnesota; M.S., 1955; Ph.D., 1957, Michigan
State. Former county agricultural agent, Anoka County, Minnesota. Extension specialist in farm
management.
Resigned Sept. 7, 1962 to head up Agricultural Economics Extension, Missouri. Currently, 1967,
with Federal Extension Service, Washington, D.C. U.S. Army, 1943-46.
122. Eber Eldridge
9/23/56-6/30/57 (1 year)
B. Iowa, 1920. B.S., 1942, Iowa State University; M.S., 1957, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1960, Iowa
State University. Instructor in agricultural economics. Field: Agricultural Policy.
1957 APPOINTMENTS
123. John N. Ferris
l/l/57 to
B. Milton, Indiana, 1929. B.S., 1951, Purdue; M.S., 1952, Cornell; Ph.D., 1960, Michigan State.
Appointed as an instructor; currently, 1967, Assoc. Prof. with assignment, 50 percent extension,
30 percent research and 20 percent teaching. Major areas of interest: Agricultural outlook and
prices.
Market editor hor National Livestock Producer and Michigan Farmer magazines. Contributor to
Agricultural Market Analysis (Ed. Vernon L. Sorenson). Bureau of Business and Economic
Research, M.S.U., 1964; and Energy and the Michigan Economy: A Forecast, (Michigan Energy
Survey Committee) Bureau of Business Research, Univ. of Mich., 1967.
124.W. Smith Greig
l/l/57 to
B. Van Buren, Arkansas, 1925. B.S., 1948, University of Arkansas; M.S., 1951; Ph.D., 1959,
Cornell University. Extension and research in agricultural marketing. Currently, 1967, Associate
Professor with 50 percent extension and 50 percent research. Major interests: agricultural
marketing and business management.
Formerly with Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA. Consultant to Weitz-Hettelsater Engineers in Brazil in 1962 and in COLOMBIA in 1964.
Consultant to Stanford Research Institute in Argentina in 1967. Graduate work in Business
Management at University of California for 1967-68 school year.
124. Garland P. Wood
6/15/57 to
B. Johnson Station, Iowa, 1922. B.S., cum laude 1951; M.S., 1963; and Ph.D., 1958, University
of Wisconsin.
Project leader for M.S.U.'s project in Colombia, South America, 1960, 1961 and 1962.
Contributor to three books on Latin America. Served on national advisory committee to the Land
Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, 1964-67. Consultant to Land Tenure Center, Bogata,
Colombia, 1967. Ass't Prof., teaching and research, Univ. of Nevada, 1955-57.
Named Director of the newly created Latin American Studies Center at M.S.U., 7/l/63, on halftime basis. Currently, 1967, full professor, 50 percent extension and 50 percent as Director, Latin
American Studies Center at M.S.U. with major interests in public policy and Latin American
Studies. Language: Spanish.
126. Earl H. Brown
7/l/57-8/31/63 (6 years)
B. Indiana, 1931. B.S., 1956; M.S., 1957, University of Minnesota. Major interest: agricultural
marketing. Appointed as an instructor, resigned as an Ass't Prof. to go with Agr'l Econ. Dept.,
Cornell Univ.
127. Malcolm L. Wood
8/l/57-1/l/60 (2 years)
B. Bedford, Indiana. B.S., 1953, Purdue; M.A., 1957, University of Indiana. Appointed as
instructor in agricultural economics as a specialist in retailer education in Michigan State
marketing program.
123. Phillips W. Foster
10/ 1/57-6/30/61 (4 years)
B. New York State, 1931. B.S., 1953, Cornell; M.S., 1956, Ph.D., 1958, University of Illinois.
Ass't Prof. and Extension Specialist in agricultural policy. Resigned 6/30/61 to become Assoc.
Prof. Agricultural Economics, Univ. of Maryland.
1958 APPOINTMENTS
129. John R. Moore
8/l/58-11/16/62 (4 years)
B. Columbus, Ohio, 1929. B.S., 1951, Ohio State; M.S., 1955, Cornell; Ph.D., 1959, University
of Wisconsin. Served in U.S. Navy, 1951-53. Extension specialist in agricultural marketing.
Resigned as Ass't Prof. to become Assoc. Prof. Agricultural Economics, University of Maryland.
130. Mary S. Holmes
9/16/58-4/30/62 (4 years)
B. Escanaba, Michigan. B.S., 1953; M.S., 1958, M.S.U. Appointed as extension specialist as
Consumers Marketing Information Agent at large. Taught home economics in Farmington
Township Schools, Michigan, 1953-55.
131. Alan R. Bird
10/l/58-12/30/61 (3 years)
B. Australia, 1926. B.S., 1949, University of Queensland; M.S., 1957, University of Nottingham,
England; Ph.D., 1960, M.S.U. Appointed as Ass't Prof. in cooperation with FERD, ARS, USDA.
Field: General agricultural economics. Resigned as Ass't Prof, (Research) December 30, 1961.
132. Robert L. Gustafson
l/l/59 to
B. Norway, Michigan, 1920. B.S., 1941, University of Michigan; M.A. 1951; Ph.D., 1958,
University of Chicago. Currently, 1967, Prof. in Agricultural Economics and in Economics
Departments, M.S.U.; 70 percent research, 30 percent teaching. Field: Econometrics. Assoc.
Prof. Mich. State 1959-67; Ass't. Prof., University of Chicago, 1954-58; Instructor, Northwestern
University, 1953-54; Research Assistant, Univ. of Chicago, 1951-53; Engineer, Container
Corporation of America, 1947-48; U.S. Navy, 1944-46; Engineer, McDonald Aircraft
Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, 1941-44.
Books: Grain Yields and the American Food Supply (with D. Gale Johnson), Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1962; Agricultural Market Analysis (contributor), ed. Vernon L. Sorenson, Bureau of
Business and Economic Research, M.S.U., 1964.
Honor Societies: Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi. American Farm Economic
Association, Ph. D. Thesis Award, 1959.
1959 APPOINTMENTS
133. Myron P. Kelsey
2/l/59 to
B. Clyde, New York, 1931. B.S., 1953; M.S., 1956, Cornell University; Ph.D., 1959, Purdue
University. Extension specialist in farm management and currently, 1967, 20 percent of time
assigned to teaching.
Fields: Fruit and poultry management, farm credit, farm operating agreements and estate
planning. Currently, 1967, an Assoc. Prof. In U.S. Army, Germany, 1953-55. Language: French.
134. Myron E. Wirth
4/l/59-12/31/65 (6 years)
B. Corunna, Michigan, 1928. B.S., 1951; M.S., 1956; Ph.D., 1964, M.S.U. Cooperative
appointment with Farm Economics Division, ERS, USDA, with special interests in the area of
agricultural finance. Formerly, economic analyst with Tractor and Implement Division, Ford
Motor Company, Birmingham, Michigan. Resigned to go with Agricultural Economics Dept.,
Washington State University, Pullman.
135. Carlton C. Dennis
6/l/59-8/31/62 (3 years)
B. Adrian, Michigan, 1923. B.S., 1954; M.S., 1956, M.S.U.; Ph.D., 1959, University of
California. Appointed as an extension specialist in agricultural marketing, particularly fruits and
vegetables. Resigned as Ass't Prof. to go with University of California.
136. A. Allan Schmid
6/15/59 to
B. 1935 on a farm near Dawson, Nebraska. B.S., 1956, University of Nebraska; M.S., 1951;
Ph.D., 1959, University of Wisconsin. Currently, 1961, Assoc. Prof. and 90 percent research and
10 percent teaching, and part-time with Justin Morrill College. Fields: Land and water
economics; regional development; and public finance. Formerly, research assistant, Department
of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1956-59. Visiting scholar, Resources For
The Future, 1964-65. AFEA Travel Grant, Int'l Conf. Agr'l Econ., France, 1964. Member of
Alpha Zeta and Gamma Sigma Delta. Contributor to Economics and Management in Agriculture
and Agricultural Market Analysis.
137. John R. Brake
8/l/59 to
B. Stanton, Michigan, 1932. B.S., 1955; M.S., 1956, M.S.U.; Ph.D., 1959, North Carolina State
College. Fields: Farm management, production economics, agricultural finance. Reading
knowledge of German and French. Co-author of Farm and Personal Finance, a text for high
school students. Contributing author to Agricultural Market Analysis. His 1967 appointment was
teaching and research. 1967-68 Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
Honors: Highest National Science Foundation Fellow, 1957-56, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma
Delta and Phi Kappa Phi.
138. Melvin R. Cotner
8/l/59-6/30/66 (7 years)
B. Kansas, 1928. B.S., 1949; M.S., 1955, Kansas State. Fields: Land and water economics and
conservation. U.S. Army, 1951-53. Field inspector, Kansas Crop Improvement Association,
1948-49. Cooperative appointment with River Basin and Watershed Branch of Resource
Development, Economics Division of ERS, USDA., now Division Director.
139. Mrs. Willie Edwards
9/l/59-8/31/65 (6 years)
Reference room librarian. Resigned 3/31/65.
140. Ralph Loomis
9/l/59-7/l/66 (7 years)
B. Washinaton State, 1922. B.A., 1947, University of Washington; M.A., 1950, Washington
State University. Field: Agricultural policy. Cooperative appointment with USDA, Resource
Development, Economics Division. Transferred to Washington State University, same type of
work.
1960 APPOINTMENTS
141. Robert J. Bevins
1/1/60-6/30/61 (1 ½ years)
B. Tennessee, 1928. B.S., 1949; M.S., 1955, University of Tennessee; Ph.D., 1960, M.S.U.
Extension specialist in agricultural policy. Field: Agricultural policy. Resigned 6/30/61 to go
with agricultural economics department, Kansas State.
142. George K. Dike
1/15/60 to
B. Grafton, North Dakota, 1918. B.S., 1941, North Dakota State, M.S., 1946, Univ. of Minn.;
Ph.D., 1961, Michigan State Univ. Currently, 1967, Assoc. Prof. of Agricultural Economics with
a major interest in policy including agricultural marketing and rural development. Since April,
1965, Deputy Director of the Consortium for the Study of Nigerian Rural Development.
Education consultant to the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago; Trustee, Michigan 4-H
Foundation; listed in American Men of Science. Formerly, 1955-1960, District Marketing Agent,
Cooperative Extension Service, Mich. State Univ., 1948-50. County Agricultural Extension
Agent, North Dakota, 1947, teacher, Montevideo, Minnesota. Military Service: U.S. Marine
Corps Officer 1941-46 and 1950-54.
143. David L. Call
3/l/60-11/16/62 (2 years)
B. Batavia, New York (fruit farm), 1932. B.S., 1954; M.S., 1958 and Ph.D., 1960 Cornell
University. Extension specialist in agricultural marketing. Resigned as Ass't Prof. to return to
Agricultural Economics staff at Cornell University as the H. E. Babcock Prof. of Food
Economics, Graduate School of Nutrition, and Director, Agribusiness Exec. Program.
144. Carroll G. Brunhaver
9/l/60-8/31/61 (1 year)
B. Ohio, 1932. B.S., 1954; M.S., 1958, Ohio State. Appointed and resigned as Ass't Prof. Field:
Agricultural marketing.
1961 APPOINTMENTS
145. Mary D. Zehner
1/29/61 to
B. Lexington, Massachusetts, 1934. B.S., 1956, Cornell; M.S., 1961, Michigan State. Appointed
as instructor and extension specialist in the Consumer Marketing Program. Currently, 1967, 100
percent extension. Therapeutic Dietitian, Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New
York, 1957-59. Member, Omicron Nu Honor Society.
146. Carl K. Eicher
2/l/61 to
B. Newberry, Michigan, 1930. B.S., 1952, M.S., 1956, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1961, Harvard.
Economic Consultant "The Fund for the Republic, 1959." Economic Advisor, 1963 and 1964;
Director, 1964-66 of the Economic Development Institute, University of Nigeria, Enugu,
Nigeria,
Appointed as Ass't Prof. and currently, 1967, Assoc. Prof. of Agricultural Economics and
African Studies and 100 percent research in area of International Agricultural Development with
special emphasis on West Africa. Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 1967-68. Honors:
Fellow African Studies Association.
Co-editor with Lawrence Witt of Agriculture in Economic Development, McGraw-Hill, Inc.,
1964. Contributor of chapters in six books. Author of many articles and bulletins.
147. David E. Boyne
6/1/61 -11/1/67 (6 years)
B. Marlette, Michigan, 1934. B.S., 1957, M.S.U.; M.S., 1960; Ph.D., 1962, University of
Chicago. Appointed as Ass't Prof. and currently, 1967, Assoc. Prof. Special areas of interest are
agricultural prices and policy. He is currently Director of the Kellogg Leadership Training
Program, and 100 percent extension. Resigned Nov. 1, 1967 to accept position as Head of Dept.,
Agr'l Econ. at Ohio State University. Language: German
In 1953-54, he was national president of the Future Farmers of America. He has traveled
extensively throughout the United States and to some foreign lands. He received an award from
the American Farm Economic Association for his outstanding doctorate thesis.
148. Bernard R. Hoffnar
7/l/61-1/31/63 (1 ½ years)
B. Illinois, 1935. B.S., 1956, Southern Illinois University; M.S., 1958, Penn. State; Ph.D., 1962,
Mich. State. Appointed as Research Associate and resigned with same rank. Fields: Production
economics and world economic development. Language: Spanish
149. Dennis Oldenstadt
7/l/61-8/31/64 (3 years)
B. Oregon, 1928. B.S., 1956; M.S., 1958, Oregon State University; Ph.D., 1964, M.S.U.
Cooperative appointment with M.S.U. and Marketing Economics Division of USDA.
150. George D. Irwin
8/l/61-10/31/64 (3 years)
B. Illinois, 1935. B.S., 1957, University of Illinois; M.S., 1959, Iowa State. Fields: Farm
management and production economics.
Cooperative appointment, M.S.U. and FERD with special emphasis on the Lake States Dairy
Study. Programming work on five regions in Michigan aimed at estimating supply curves for
Michigan production and getting information on the competitive position of dairying in different
regions in Michigan.
151. Arley Waldo
10/1/61-9/30/62 (1 year)
B. Nebraska, 1934. B.S., 1957, Nebraska; M.S., 1960, Michigan State. Field: Agricultural policy.
1962 APPOINTMENTS
152. William L. Ruble
6/15/62 to
B. Illinois, 1933. B.S., 1954; M.S., 1955, University of Illinois; M.S., 1964 (Statistics), M.S.U.
Farm management field man, Doane Agricultural Service, 1957-59. U.S. Army, 1955-57. Fields:
Agricultural prices and econometrics.
Currently, 1967, Research Associate in Agricultural Economics Department and in Department
of Statistics and Probability. Primarily responsible for development of general computer routine
for use throughout the agricultural, experiment station and for consulting on particular projects
such as the TELFARM extension project in farm accounting.
153. Marion Anita McMillan
10/1/62 to
B. North Ireland, 1930. B.S., 1952, McGill University; M.S., 1957, Cornell University.
Appointed as Ass't Prof., Extension Specialist in consumer marketing information.
Currently, 1967, on leave and since March 1966 has been engaged in agricultural marketing
research at University of Nigeria, NSUKKA, Campus.
1963 APPOINTMENTS
154. Richard G. Heifner
l/l/63 to
B. Iowa, 1934. B.S., 1956 and Ph.D., 1963, Iowa State University. Ass't Prof. in research with
major interests in marketing, econometrics and operations research. Research associate at Iowa
State University 1961-62. Research assistant, Iowa State University 1958-61. U.S. Army 195658. Phi Kappa Phi.
155. W. Allan Tinsley
4/l/63 to
B. Illinois, 1933. B.S., 1956; M.S., 1960, University of Illinois, Ph.D., University of Minnesota,
1963. Appointed as Ass't Prof., Extension Specialist in farm management. Honors: AFEA
Master's Thesis Award, 1960.
156. Eldon A. Reiling
7/l/63-9/11/65 (2 years)
B. Illinois, 1935. B.S., 1959, Western Illinois University; M.S., 1962, Michigan State.
Appointment cooperative with Farm Production, Economics Division, USDA.
157. Alvin E. House
9/l/63 to
B. Kansas, 1926. B.S., 1951; M.S., 1958, Kansas State; Ph.D., 1963, Iowa State University.
Appointed as Ass't Prof. and Extension Specialist in Public Policy with special interest in local
government and taxation. In U.S. Navy, in Southern Pacific, 1944-46, World War II.
158. John E. Hostetler
12/1/63 to
B. Macomb County, Michigan, 1933. B.S., 1956, M.S., 1957 and Ph.D. (nearly completed,
1966), M.S.U. Appointed as agricultural economist, USDA, ERS, RDED, and RBM.
1964 APPOINTMENTS
159. Hoy Fred Carman
1/l/64-1/15/65 (1 year)
B. Oregon, 1938. B.S., 1960; M.S., 1962, Oregon State University; Ph.D., 1964, Mich. State.
Appointment Cooperative with USDA Marketing Economics Division.
160. Linley E. Juers
1/l/64-10/31/65 (1 years)
B. Minnesota, 1930. B.S., 1953; M.S., 1954; Ph.D., 1957, University of Minnesota. Appointed as
Associate Professor in extension and research. Resigned as Assoc. Prof. to become Deputy
Director, Economic Research Service, USDA.
161. John P. Kaechele
1/6/64 to
B. Middleville, Barry County, Michigan, 1927. B.A., 1961, M.S.U. Technical Supervisor, Farm
Management, assigned to TELFARM Extension, Computer Program. Language: Yoruba.
162. Robert Dale Stevens
5/l/64 to
B. Massachusetts, 1927. B.A., 1950, Princeton; M.S., 1955; Ph.D., 1959, Cornell University.
Appointed as Associate Professor, currently, 1967, Associate Professor and is 70 percent
research and 30 percent teaching in the economics of agricultural development with particular
reference to Asia.
International Agricultural Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA, 1961-64; Visiting
Professor, National College of Agriculture, South Vietnam, 1959-61 for the Agricultural
Development Council, Inc., New York, N.Y.; Ass't. Prof., Cornell University 1959; Fellow Ford
Foundation, Lebanon, 1956-57; Asst Prof. of Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture,
American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1956-57. Languages: French, Spanish, Arabic. Books:
Contributor to Food: One Tool in International Economic Development and America's Stake in
World Agriculture, 1964 Yearbook of Agriculture. Honors: Sigma Xi and Ford Foundation
Fellowship. Graduated B.A. with Honors.
163. Waldon T. Miller
7/1/64 to
Appointment cooperative with USDA, ERS, RDGD, and RBW.
164. David Boorman
7/15/64-12/31/65 (1 ½ years)
Appointed as project assistant, farm management extension. Resigned 12/31/65 to go with
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank at St. Paul to work on I.B.M. farm account records.
165. Maurice Perkins
9/1/64-2/12/65 ( ½ year)
Appointed as Professor of Agricultural Economics. Resigned to go with the World Bank in
Washington, D.C.
166. Robert F. Boxley
9/l/64 to
B. Virginia, 1934. B.S., 1956; M.S., 1963, Virginia Poly. Institute. Appointment cooperative
with USDA, Resource Development, Economics Division (Cotner's group). Fields: Land and
Water Economics, Conservation and Development.
167. Donald Jay Ricks
10/1/64
B. Michigan, 1936. B.S., 1958; M.S., 1960, Michigan State; Ph.D., 1965, Oregon State.
Appointed as Ass't Prof.; currently, 1967, 50 percent research and 50 percent extension in areas
of agricultural marketing and price analysis. Instructor in Dept. of Economics, Oregon State,
1963; Ass't in Ag. Economics, Oregon State, 1962, Ass't in Consumer Marketing, Michigan
State 1960. Member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta. Language: Spanish.
1965 APPOINTMENTS
168. Richard L. Feltner
l/l/65 to
B. Montgomery County, Indiana, 1938. B.S., 1960; M.S., 1961, Purdue; Ph.D., 1965, North
Carolina State University. Appointed as Ass't Prof., currently, 1967, 10 percent teaching, 60
percent research, and 30 percent extension in areas of agricultural marketing and public policy.
Research on general farm organizations and agricultural marketing organizations. In 1967,
named Director of the Kellogg Farmers Study Program. Book: Contemporary Agricultural
Marketing, 1968, contributor.
169. Ronald R. Rhoade
l/l/65 to
B. Indiana, 1928. B.S., 1950; M.S., 1959, Purdue Univ.; Ph.D., 1965, Michigan State.
Appointment cooperative with USDA, Resource Development Economics Division, River Basin
Study. Field: Farm Management.
170. James B. Hendry
9/l/65-4/l/66 ( ½ year)
Appointed as Director and Associate Professor in Economics and in Agricultural Development in
Economics. Resigned spring, 1966, to go with a Washington, D.C. Agency.
171. Marvin L. Hayenga
10/1/65 to
B. Ogle County, Illinois, 1940. B.S. (High honors), 1962, M.S., 1963, University of Illinois;
Ph.D., 1967, University of California at Berkeley. Ass't Prof., research and teaching in
agricultural marketing and policy, industrial organization. Grad. Res., Dept. of Agr. Econ., Univ.
of Calif., Berkeley, 1963-65; Univ. Fellow, Dept. of Agr. Econ., Univ. of Illinois, 1962-63.
172. Ralph Hepp
10/1/65 to
B. Wisconsin, 1936. B.S., 1960, M.S., 1962; Ph.D., 1966, Univ. of Wisconsin. Appointed as
Ass't Prof. Extension Specialist in farm management. Fields of interest: Swine management, and
financial management.
Research Ass't, half-time, July 1964-Sept. 1965; Teaching Ass't half-time, Sept. 1963-June 1964;
Extension Specialist in Farm danagement, July 1962-Aug. 1963; and Res. Ass't, half-time, Feb.
1961-June 1962 all at the University of Wisconsin.
Alpha Zeta. Limited reading knowledge of French and Spanish.
173. George E. Rossmiller
8/15/65 to
B. Dutton, Montana, 1935. B.S., 1956 and M.S., 1962, Montana State, Ph.D., 1965, Michigan
State. Appointed 8/15/65 as a Research Associate. Title changed to Ass't Prof. in January 1,
1967. In 1966, 100 percent research in agricultural policy and international trade. Currently,
1967, Rural Manpower, Michigan State University. Partner, Rossmiller Farms, Bootleg Trail,
Great Falls, Montana, 1959-62. Language: German.
174. David L. Cole
12/1/65 to
B. Lansing, Michigan, 1940. Bachelor of Agriculture and Business Administration with
distinction, 1962, Univ. of Minn.; M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, 1966, Univ. of
Wisconsin. Appointed as Ass't Prof. and currently, 1967, 40 percent Kellogg Farmers Study
Program, 10 percent research and 50 percent teaching. Areas of interest: Leadership
development, agricultural marketing, economic theory and public administration.
Danforth Fellowship Avard, and also the Continental Grain Scholarship at the Univ. of Minn.,
1961; N.D.E.A. Fellow, Univ. of Wisc., 1962-65; Res. Ass't, Univ. of Wisc., summers 1963 and
1964; teaching assistant, Univ. of Wisc., spring 1964; Y.M.C.A. Counselor, 1958; Ass't Track
Coach, Alexander Ramsey High School, springs of 1961 and 1962.
Member of American Farm Economics Association, Alpha Zeta, and Gamma Sigma Delta
Honorary. Past President, Taylor-Hibbard Club, Univ. of Wisc.
1966 APPOINTMENTS
175. Jack L. Hervey
l/l/66 to
B. Tecumseh, Nebraska, 1938. B.S., 1960, Univ. of Minn.; II.S., 1963, Nebraska; Ph.D., 1966,
Michigan State. First appointed as Research Associate, Rural Manpower Center. Currently,
1967, Ass't Prof. Rural Manpower Center. Research: Rural manpower labor productivity and
labor utilization problems with special reference to Michigan fruit and vegetable farms. Honors;
Idi"innesota SPAIN Foreign Study Award, 1959; Chicago and N.W. Railway Co. Nat. 4-H
Scholarship Award, 1962.
176. Larry J. Connor
8/1/66 to
B. North Platte, Nebraska, 1934. B.S., 1956, University of Nebraska; M.S., 1960, Ph.D., 1964.
Oklahoma State University. Appointed August 1, 1966, Ass't Prof., research in farm
management. Currently, 1967, involved in research and teaching in farm management and
production economics.
Agr. Economist, Economic Research Service, Farm Production Economics Division, USDA,
Stillwater, Okla., 1964-66 and 1956-61. Res. Ass't and Res. Assoc., Okla. State Univ., 1962-64.
Military service, Army, 6 months, 3/57-9/57. Alpha Zeta and Pi Gamma Mu. Language: Spanish.
177. Nicolaas G. M. Luykx II
2/1/66 to
B. Tenafly, New Jersey, October 1931. B.S., 1953; M.S. 1958 and Ph.D., 1962 all at Cornell
University. First appointed as Assoc. Prof. with assignments in research and teaching. Senior
advisor to the Pakistan project and assigned to the East Pakistan Academy for Rural
Development, Feb. 1966-May 1968.
Ass't Prof. of Agricultural Economics. Cornell University (teaching, research and extension)
1962-66. Member of American Farm Economics Association; International Association of
Agricultural Economists; the American Society for Public Administration; and the Association
for Asian Studies. Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honorary.
178. Kelly M. Harrison
11/1/66 to
B. 1939 in Texas. B.S., 1962, Texas Technological College; M.S., 1963, Kansas State Univ.;
Ph.D., 1967, Michigan State University. Appointed as Ass't Prof. in Agricultural Economics and
assigned to the position of Chief of Marketing Research Project (A.I.D.) in Recife, Brazil
working for Michigan State University Overseas Research Project with Sudene Government
Ministry of Brazil. One year of field research in Puerto Rico on M.S.U. project.