WILFRED SHAW LEAVES 

 lAA TO HEAD AFBF 

 DAIRY DEPARTMENT 



TiTlLFRED SHAW, director of milk 

 If marketing for the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association since Aug. 1, 1935, has 

 been named director of the dairy de- 

 partment of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation. He started work in his 

 new position June 15. 



In addition to serving as milk market- 

 ing director for the lAA, Shaw also has 

 been secretary-treas- 

 urer of the Illinois 

 Milk Producers As- 

 sociation composed 

 of 23 member co- 

 operative milk mar- 

 keting associations 

 in Illinois. These 

 cooperatives mar- 

 keted more than 

 two billion pounds 

 Wilfred Shaw of milk in 1945. 

 Shaw is also secre- 

 tary-treasurer of the Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers Supply Company which was or- 

 ganized in 1944 for the purpose of pur- 

 chasing dairy supplies and equipment for 

 member milk cooperatives. 



At the time Shaw joined the lAA 

 staff in 1935, the statewide milk mar- 

 keting association then known as the 

 Mississippi Valley Milk Producers As- 

 sociation had been reorganized and re- 

 named the Illinois Milk Producers As- 

 sociation with 12 milk marketing coop- 

 eratives as members. The reorganiza- 

 tion was made in order to bring about a 

 better correlation between the member 

 cooperatives and to coordinate and ac- 

 tivate their program on price and leg- 

 islative fronts. 



Shaw has also worked with the legis- 

 lative committee of the lAA at each 

 session of the Illinois General Assembly 

 in studying and testifying upon legis- 

 lation affecting dairy farmers of the 

 state. 



A graduate of the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture in 1920, 

 Shaw has long been active in Farm 

 Bureau and cooperative milk and dairy 

 work. He served as assistant farm 

 adviser in Peoria county from June, 

 1920, to March, 1923, and then oper- 

 ated the Shaw home farm in Clark 

 county for one year before returning to 

 Peoria county as farm adviser in 1924. 

 He served four years as farm adviser 

 during which time in 1925 and 1926 

 he and the farm advisers in Tazewell 

 and Woodford counties helped to or- 

 ganize the Peoria Milk Producers Asso- 



ciation. In the fall of 1928 he resigned 

 to become manager of the Association 

 and in 1932 helped to organize the 

 Peoria Producers Creamery and in 1933 

 the Peoria Producers Dairy. He served 

 as manager of these three cooperatives 

 at Peoria until he joined the lAA staff 

 in 1935. 



Shaw was born in Marshall, Illinois, 

 Clark county, on May 23, 1897. The 

 Shaw family was one of the first farm 

 families to settle in what later became 

 Clark county, and the late Wilfred 

 Shaw, Sr., was one of the first Farm 

 Bureau members in the county. 



Shaw is a veteran of World War I, 

 having served as an ensign in the Navy 

 for one year in 1918-1919. He married 

 Gladys L. Paul in Peoria in 1921 and 

 they have two children, Wilfred, Jr., 

 17, and Eleanor Louise, 15. 



He owns and operates two farms in 

 Clark county comprising 443 acres. 



Shaw is president of the recently 

 organized Midwest Dairy Conference 

 composed of representatives from fluid 

 milk marketing cooperatives, state col- 

 leges of agriculture and state and feder- 

 al milk control agencies of the midwest 

 states. 



Shaw also serves on several dairy 

 committees and boards by appointment 

 of the board of directors of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. These include 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation 

 dairy committee. Dairy Products Pro- 

 motion of Illinois, and the Illinois 

 Nutrition Committee. He is also a 

 member of the American Dairy Associ- 

 ation board of directors, and during the 

 war served on the State Dairy Industry 

 Committee of Illinois. 



. . . AS FARMERS 

 FORWARD GO ' 



ORGANIZATION NOTES 

 By O. D. Brissenden 



THE lAA Record was no more than 

 in the hands of members with the news 

 that there were over 125,000 Farm Bu- 

 reau members in Illinois as of March 31, 

 1946, than further progress was regis- 

 tered. The April 30th count was 127,- 

 571, another all-time high, and on May 

 31, 128,220. CODs and volunteer or- 

 ganization workers are now enthused 

 with the prospect that membership may 

 reach the 130,000 mark by the close of 

 this fiscal year, September 30. 



Lienbach, Rock Island; and C. J. Campbell, 

 White, all approved on April 17; E. V. 

 Stadel, Winnebago; F. F. Fleming, Wayne; 

 C. D. Lewis, McDonough; R. H. Garrison, 

 Jefferson; and C. H. Mills, Cook, all ap- 

 proved on May 20. 



As of April 30, all but ten counties had 



made their new member quota for the year 

 and five more made their quotas in May. 

 Leading counties in total new members to 

 April 30 follow with the first figure the 

 quota and the second, the new members 

 reported: LaSalle, 174-543; Whiteside, 146- 

 747; Bureau, 142-405; Henry, 150-368; Cham- 

 paign, 199-367; Iroquois, 206-354; McLean, 

 195-342; Cook, 232-329; Lee, 154-298; Liv- 

 ingston, 162-269. 



The Midwest Farm Bureau Training 



School, suspended during the war, will meet 

 at Kansas City, Missouri, June 23 to 26, 

 inclusive. The Missouri Farm Bureau Feder- 

 ation will be host at a reception at 5:30 

 p.m., Sunday, June 23, followed at 7:30 

 p.m., by a Vesper Service. Group confer- 

 ences, including presidents and secretaries, 

 organization workers. Associated Women, 

 Rural Youth, and services will be on Mon- 

 day morning's program. Edward A. O'Neal, 

 AFBF president, will speak Monday eve- 

 ning. Dale Carnegie, author of "How to 

 Win Friends and Influence People," will 

 speak Tuesday evening. A breakfast pro- 

 gram Wednesday, followed by addresses by 

 O. D. Brissenden of Illinois, Mrs. Raymond 

 Sayre and Allen B. Kline will wind up the 

 session. 



L. R. Gulp, former Livingston County 

 COD, assumed his new position as COD 

 in Warren County April 15. Temple R. 

 Lovett, former Army major, is Livingston's 

 new COD. Carl C. Orr has returned from 

 service to resume the COD post in Union 

 County and Harry M. Randolph became 

 DeWitt's COD on May 13. 



Seventy-seven counties are planning to start 



programs of quarterly all-employee meetings 

 for discussions of an informational type 

 about Farm Bureau and its subsidiaries. 

 The Sales Service department is issuing a 

 leaflet called the GUIDE to assist advisers 

 and department heads in planning the dis- 

 cussions. 



Eighty counties took part in this year's 



Membership Maintenance Meetings, with em- 

 ployee and leadership participation of over 

 2,100. 



The National Farm Bureau Institute's 



name has been changed to American Farm 

 Bureau Institute. This six-day school is 

 for the purpose of training organization 

 workers from many states. It will be held 

 this year at the University of Illinois, Aug. 

 18-23. 



The BUILDER, mimeographed publication 



of the Organization Department since 1931, 

 will be published in printed form beginning 

 in August, and will go to an expanded list 

 of individuals, including employees of Farm 

 Bureaus and subsidiaries and Farm Bureau 

 Directors. , 



Ten county organization directors are rec- 

 ognized as the first to attain their 1945- 

 1946 105 per cent dues income quota. The 

 ten who were "under the wire" first are: 

 A. B. Gulp, McLean; D. E. Anderson, Iro- 

 quois ; C. C. Mashing, Tazewell ; Wayne 



The Cook County Farm Bureau Board of 



Directors, upon hearing that LaSalle County 

 had achieved a total of 3,500 members and 

 taken the lead among counties in the state 

 (a position held by Cook for some time) 

 took official action to send LaSalle a letter 

 of congratulation. Cook had 3,411 mem- 

 bers on the April 30 report. 



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