U. of I. PRESIDENT 



TO 



Address lAA Annual Meeting 



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PREPARING to face a new year 

 charged with numerous problems of 

 readjustment for agriculture, Illinois 

 Farm Bureau members will gather Nov. 

 18-21 at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago 

 for the 32nd annual meeting of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and 

 Associated Companies. 



Principal speaker during the four- 

 day session will be George Dinsmore 

 Stoddard, president of the University 

 of Illinois and one of the most promi- 

 nent educators in the Midwest. Dr. 

 Stoddard will address the Wednesday 

 night, Nov. 20, session on "Education 

 as a Basic Resource." 



Other speeches on the program in- 

 clude addresses by President Edward A. 

 O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, Earl C. Smith, former presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, and President Charles B. Shu- 

 man of the lAA, who will deliver the 

 president's annual report. 



Assembling for their second meeting 

 since the end of the war, Illinois farm- 

 ers are aware that the end of limitless 

 farm markets are in sight. Adjustments, 

 they know are to be expected in the 

 coming year. At the annual meeting, 

 Farm Bureau leaders will discuss thor- 

 oughy lAA policy for the coming year. 



Other questions which are expected 

 to be of unusual interest this year are 

 rural schools and rural roads. Dele- 

 gates are expected to decide the I A As 

 position on the federal flood control 

 plan for Illinois. 



For the first time in several years, 

 the Illinois Home Bureau Federation 

 will hold a conference in conjunction 

 with the lAA convention. Home Bu- 

 reau will open its meeting Tuesday 

 morning. 



As in past years, the associated com- 

 panies will hold their annual meetings 

 during the first two days of the conven- 

 tion, Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 18 

 and 19. A general program of enter- 

 tainment is being planned for Tuesday 

 night starting at 7:30. 



The Tuesday evening program of en- 

 tertainment will include a four-piece 

 orchestra; The Five Leonards, an ali- 



BULLETIN 



Shortly aftar THE RECORD went to 

 prau. It was learned that President 

 Stoddard will be unable to address 

 the lAA convention as he has been 

 appointed o member to the U. S. 

 Delegation to the First General Con- 

 ference of United Nations Education- 

 al, Scientific, and Cultural Organiza- 

 tions meeting to be held In Paris 

 during November, 



girl tumbling act ; Gregory and Cherie, 

 a comical musical act ; Al Dault and his 

 comedy table-rocking act; George Goe- 

 bel, guitar-playing singer and yodeler 

 and Master of Ceremonies Roy Davis, 

 who made quite a hit with Farm Bureau 

 folks two years ago with his comedy 

 and mimicking. 



George D. Stoddard 



Rural Youth will hold the state finals 

 of its annual Talk Fest starting Tuesday 

 morning. 



Former lAA President Earl C. Smith 

 will speak to the convention. And 

 President O'Neal of the AFBF will 

 speak Thursday morning. 



Dr. Stoddard was born in Carbon - 



dale. Pa., Oct. 8, 1897 and is married 



to the former Margaret Trautwein. 



They have five children, Philip. 



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