Author describes the role of John Clay, head of a livestock commission firm in Chicago, in stimulating the inauguration in the fall of 1905 of an agricultural writing class at Iowa State College, "perhaps the first formal course in technical journalism in the United States."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10905
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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.
See article in page 6 of the 75th Anniversary Issue (Doc. No. D09286), Article in special 75th Anniversary issue of Delta Farm Press. Author is a long-time columnist of the magazine.
Online from publisher. 1 page., Memories of a 32-year member of AAEA, including eight years as executive secretary-treasurer and recipient of the 2010 AAEA Meritorious Service Award.
USA: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10782
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Also available via the Hathi Trust Digital Library. 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/, Booklet prepared by the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, 89th Congress, Second Session. 59 pages., Brief biographies of 27 persons recognized for exceptional influence on agriculture. The group involves three publishers of agricultural periodicals.
Online from the publication., Tribute to a founder member of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists and winner of the first all-Ireland agricultural journalism award.
UI Library subscription., Introduction of Gary Truitt and Joe Cornely as new inductees into the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB).
USA: National Association of Agricultural Journalists (formerly Newspaper Farm Editors of America), Columbia, Missouri.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: D06672
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Two-fold folder., Describes the history, mission and programming of this professional organization of agricultural writers and editors with membership throughout North America. Includes a listing of NFEA/NAAJ presidents from 1953-1992.
