Life and career of the third president of NAFB and "one of NAFB's legends who contributed much to farm broadcasting as a network broadcaster." His career also involved service as Chief of Radio and Television for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
USA: National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12078
Notes:
2 pgs., Online from the publisher. 2 pages., Obituary involving a former farm broadcaster who served as NAFB president in 1984 and as NAFB Historian for nine years.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D11543
Notes:
2 pages., Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., Announcement of change in leadership of one of the nation's pioneer agricultural periodicals/media firms.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: D11348
Notes:
Onlina via Conservapedia. 2 pages., Biography of Cully A. Cobb, a pioneer agricultural journalist, printer, publisher, educator and philanthropist in the American South.
Online from publication. 2 pages., Features agricultural broadcaster Gale Cunningham, president-elect of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB), and his wife Beth at the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11964
Notes:
Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 3 pages., Report of Orion Samuelson's decision to retire December 31 from WGN, Chicago, Illinois, with some 60 years of farm reporting experience and leadership.
1 page., Online from March 6, 2020, issue of the periodical., Tribute to a long-time agricultural journalist, written by an editorial associate at the Delta Farm Press magazine.
Perdue, Sonny (author / Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Proclamation
Publication Date:
2020-12
Published:
USA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12034
Notes:
Via online. 1 page., A proclamation by USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue honoring agricultural broadcaster Orion Samuelson at the occasion of his retirement after a 60-year career at WGN Radio applying journalistic integrity, persistence, and support for American farmers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10905
Notes:
Online via the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri. 2 pages., Summarizes the career of a long-time, honored farm broadcaster, WHO Radio, Des Moines, Iowa. Inducted into the NAFB Hall of Fame in 2003.
