Contributed to ACDC by Warren Clark, October 2019., Features the first president of the American Association of Agriculture College Editors organization. Among other related achievements, he was chairman of the executive committee on extension organization and policy of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations.
India: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: C20957
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Burton Swanson Collection, 9 pages, Session A, from "1999 conference proceedings -- Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education", 15th Annual Conference, 21-24 March 1999, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 25-26, Tobago
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10733
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Item 73 located in ACDC Document D10726, Directory of written summaries of 80 items deposited in the Claude W. Gifford Papers, University of Illinois Archives. 3 pages., Author's experience with an advocate for improved rural-urban understanding and a supporting force for formation of Farm-City Week by Kiwanis International.
Recalls when three midwest editors (Clifford Gregory, Iowa State; Charles Dillon, Kansas; Clyde Marquis, Wisconsin) got together and called themselves "Ye College Editors." In 1909 or 1910. Met twice in succeeding years, author believes.
