Announces the beginning of NPAC "the day after Labor Day" at Michigan State University, with Stanley Andrews as executive director. Provides biographies of Andrews and new associate director, Frank Byrnes.
Raises eight questions for ACE members: " 1) Are we glorified clerks or are we scientists? 2) What are desirable forms of publication and information materials? Scientists are demanding longer bulletins. The public is calling for shorter. 3) What should be the professional training of men and women to become agricultural and home editors? One school suggests that all that is needed in our fields is a certain facility -- we are engaged in a science -- home scientists measure success by acceptance in AP and UP. 4) Is there opportunity for research in the field of farm and home editing? 5) What is to be the future of agriculture and what leadership will the college of agriculture, the experiment stations, and the USDA be called upon to give? Together with our institutions, we must begin long-time planning. 6) What place has and will the radio have in carrying to the people the results of research? 7) How shall we measure results in our field? 8) What are we going to do about it?"
Report to members by Frank Byrnes, chairman of the Professional Improvement Committee, about a proposal to be submitted to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12020
Notes:
Obituary online from the Ames Tribune via legacy.com. 4 pages., Described the career and life of this 31-year communications faculty member at Iowa State University.
Retrieved online via LexisNexis Academic, 2 pages., Obituary of former director, Division of Information Programs, Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington,D.C. Helped form the Association of Agricultural College Editors (ACE).
