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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



February, 1933 



J Smith and Wrisht Re-elected 



Five New Directors Chosen, Bannborough, Sorrells And Cope Re-eiecfed In 1 3th, 



2 1 st, And 23rd Districts 



EARL C. SMITH of Detroit was 

 re-elected to serve his eighth 

 term as president of the Associa- 

 tion and A. R. Wright, Varna, was 

 re-elected for the fourth time as 

 vice-president following the speak- 

 ing program at the banquet on 

 Thursday night. 



Mr. Smith's name was placed in 

 nomination by Albert Hayes, presi- 

 dent of the Peoria County Farm 

 Bureau who paid a glowing tribute 

 to his leadership during the As- 

 sociation's period of greatest de- 

 velopment beginning in 1926. The 

 nomination was seconded by M. A. 

 Goodmiller of JoDaviess county 

 and Chas. H. Snyder of Brown 

 county. A. R. Wright was nomi- 

 nated by A. L, Goodenough, presi- 

 dent of the Whiteside County Farm 

 Bureau. Mr. Goodenough wittily 

 made a play on the name "Wright" 

 in his nominat- 

 ing speech. 



"W hen you 

 have the right 

 man in the right 

 place, let's keep 

 him there," he 

 said. "It's well to 

 have someone 

 who is 'Wright' 

 all the time." 

 The nomination 

 was seconded by 

 R. B. Endicott of 

 PulEuski county. 



In the ab- 

 sence of other 

 nominations the 

 secretary was in- 

 structed in each 

 case to cast a 

 unanimous ballot for the nominee. 



Five New Directors 



Five changes were made in the 

 board of directors. Ebb Harris, 

 Grayslake, was elected to suc- 

 ceed H. C. Vial in the 11th district, 

 M. Ray Ihrig of Golden succeeds 

 Charles Bates in the 15th district, 

 E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington, re- 

 places A. B. Schofield in the 17th 

 district, Eugene Curtis, Champaign, 

 succeeds C. J. Gross in the 19th dis- 

 trict, and Robert B. Endicott, Villa 

 Ridge, succeeds Fred Dietz in the 

 25th district. 



C. E. Bamborough of Ogle county 

 was re-elected in the 13th district, 

 Sam Sorrells of Montgomery county 

 in the 21st district, and W. L. Cope 

 of Marion county in the 23rd dis- 

 trict. Directors are elected for two 

 year terms, thus the terms of half 

 the board members expire annually. 



Mr. Harris, age 58, is a charter 

 member of the Lake County Farm 

 Bureau, one of the oldest county 

 organizations in the state. He 

 served as president of the Farm 

 Bureau for three years and at pres- 

 ent is serving as vice-president. 

 Harris operates a 245 acre dairy 

 farm, is an officer in the Lake- 

 Cook County Supply Company, and 

 a member of the Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion. 



Ihris: Youngest Member 



Mr. Ihrig, age 30, is the youngest 

 member of the board. He is sec- 

 retary of the Adams County Farm 

 Bureau, is married and has two 

 children. He and his father are 

 partners in the operation of a 320 

 acre farm. 



Ed Lawrence has been active in 



EABL C. SMITH 



A. B. WBIOHT 



the McLean County Farm Bureau 

 for many years. A University of 

 Illinois man, Mr. Lawrence man- 

 ages a large estate where he has 

 put into practice the best known 

 methods of soil and crop improve- 

 ment and livestock production. 

 Lawrence served ably as president 

 of the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany several years ago. He has been 

 closely associated with the develop- 

 ment of Farm Bureau work in Mc- 

 Lean county. 



Gene Curtis, age 37, has been an 

 aggressive leader in the Champaign 

 County Farm Bureau for a number 

 of years. He served two years as 

 president of the county organiza- 

 tion and is still a member of the 

 board. He is now serving as presi- 

 dent of the Champaign County 

 Livestock Marketing Association. 

 Curtis operates a 240 acre livestock 



and grain farm, is married and has 

 three daughters. 



Endicott From "Dixie" 



R. B. Endicott, age 51, is known 

 throughout southern Illinois where 

 he has been active among organ- 

 ized fruit growers. He had a promi- 

 nent part in organizing the Farm 

 Bureau in Pulaski county in 1920 

 which he served as president for 

 the first five years of its existence. 

 He has been on the board con- 

 tinuously since that time. He served 

 for many years as president of the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange. 



Bob Endicott attended the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois in 1898 and 1899 

 shortly after the Agricultural Col- 

 lege was established. His son grad- 

 uated from the College of Agricul- 

 ture at Urbana last June. He op- 

 erates a 273 acre 

 farm devoted to 

 fruit and gen- 

 eral farming. In 

 addition to tree 

 fruits including 

 apples, peaches, 

 and pears, he 

 grows rasp- 

 berries, straw- 

 berries, and 

 other small 

 fruits, nuts, as- 

 p a r a g u s, and 

 general grain 

 crops. 



Mr. Endicott 



will travel the 



most miles to I. 



A. A. meetings. 



Villa Ridge is 



close to Dixie, only 12 miles from 



Cairo, and nearly 400 miles south of 



Illinois' northern boundary. 



All of the five conferences on 

 Thursday afternoon were well at- 

 tended, the crowds ranging up to 

 800 or more in each. 



The Rialto Theater seating near- 

 ly 1,800 was filled for the opening 

 session of the I. A. A. meeting 

 Thursday morning. Attendance at 

 the Friday session was somewhat 

 smaller but still heavy. 



The Master Farmer Club of Illi- 

 nois held a luncheon sponsored by 

 Prairie Farmer Thursday noon. Ap- 

 proximately 30 members, most of 

 them delegates to the convention, 

 were there. C. V. Gregory, editor, 

 and Floyd Keepers of the Prairie 

 Farmer staff attended. 



