Gifford, Claude W. (author / Director, Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1973-06-25
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10722
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/, Speech presented at the 1973 American Farm Bureau Federation Information Conference, Rochester, New York. 17 pages., Author describes six concerns about where farmers are going to get their information during the years ahead. Also, he notes that he "can't imagine anything, including religion and politics, that is so fraught with misunderstanding, danger and distrust as farmers' public relations." Suggests two points that might gain general acceptance: (1) farm organizations aren't going to get together in the name of public relations or anything else and (2) public relations is extremely hard, difficult work. Offers suggestions.
Reiman, Roy (author / President, Reiman Publications, Milwaukee, WI)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
USA: Office of Agricultural Communications, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: B01911
Notes:
377; See also C02027, Harold Swanson Collection. Claude W. Gifford Collection., Pages 5-18 in Robert G. Hays and James F. Evans, The Agricultural Communicator Today and Tomorrow. 1983. 53 pages. Lecture delivered as Agricultural Communicator in Residence at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture, Urbana, Illinois, October 26, 1977, Focused on the publisher's view of farm magazines.
