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FOUR new members were elected to 

 the lAA Board of Directors at the 

 32nd annual meeting in Chicago. The 

 following are thumb-nail sketches of the 

 new men: 



EARL M. HUGHES, 39, Woodstock, 

 McHenry county, was elected to repre- 

 sent the 1st to 11th congressional districts 

 succeeding Harvey 

 W. Adair, Chicago 

 Heights. Districts 1 

 to 11 include the 

 counties of Cook, 

 Lake, McHenry, 

 Kane, DuPage, and 

 Will. 



Hughes operates 

 a farm four miles 

 northwest of Wood- 

 stock. He was born 

 and reared in that 

 ug es ^^^^ ^^j graduated 



in general agriculture from the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois in 1929. 



Following his graduation he operated 

 a dairy farm for four years then attended 

 Cornell University graduate school where 

 he received his degree as Doctor of 

 Philosophy in agricultural economics in 

 1938. 



He served as an assistant professor of 

 agricultural economics at the University 

 of Illinois until 1941 when he became 

 first field man with the Northeastern Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau Farm Management 

 Service. 



He resigned in 1943 to devote full 

 time to his farm . . . specializing in live- 

 stock and in general dairying. 



Hughes has served as secretary of the 

 McHenry County Farm Bureau and secre- 

 tary of the Service Company. He is a 

 member of the Woodstock Chamber of 

 Commerce and the McHenry School 

 Survey Committee. 



The new director was married in 1932 

 and has three children: Helen, 9, Rob- 

 ert, 7, and Earl, Jr., age 4. He is a 

 member of the Woodstock Methodist 

 Church. 



ALBERT W. WEBB, 42, Ewing, 

 Franklin county, was elected to repre- 

 sent the 25th congressional district suc- 

 ceeding August G. 

 Eggerding, Red 

 Bud. Webb is a 

 charter member of 

 the Franklin Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau 

 and served as its 

 president from 

 1934 to 1937. 



He was born on 

 a farm homesteaded 

 by his great-great- 

 grandfather in 

 1818. He was grad- 

 High School, took 

 a two-year course at Southern Illinois 

 Normal University at Carbondale and 



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graduated from the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Commerce in 1927. 

 Following his graduation he taught 

 school until 1930. In 1934 he was ac- 

 tive in 4-H Club development and in 

 1935 to 1944 worked in various ca- 

 pacities in rural rehabilitation and farm 

 security. 



Since 1944 he has been farming full 

 time with his father, operating about 

 600 acres. Major farm operations in- 

 clude the maintenance of a herd of 50 

 registered polled Hereford breeding 

 cattle, a flock of 200 ewes, and feed- 

 ing out 500 weathers. The farm pro- 

 duces a large acreage of wheat. Some 

 of the Webb farm land is terraced. 



Webb was elected chairman of the 

 recently organized Franklin County 

 Conservation District. He is a mem- 

 ber of the Benton Lions Club, Industry 

 and Agricultural Committee of Ben- 

 ton, is a board member of the recently 

 consolidated Ewing School System, and 

 a 32nd degree Mason. 



The Webbs have two daughters, 

 Anne, 6, and Sue, 4. 



EDWARD T. CULNAN, 49, Lin- 

 coln, Logan county, was elected to repre- 

 sent the 17th congressional district suc- 

 ceeding Charles 

 Lauritzen, Reddick. 

 The 17th district in- 

 cludes Livingston, 

 Woodstock, Logan, 

 McLean, and Ford 

 counties. 



Culnan has been 

 a director of the 

 Logan County Farm 

 Bureau since 1946. 

 His father was a 

 charter member with 

 whom he held a 

 joint membership. 

 Except for one year he has liveci on 

 the same 200 acre farm all his life. He 

 attended rural school and the Lincoln 

 Business College. He is engaged in gen- 

 eral grain farming and feeds some live- 

 stock. 



One of his proudest achievements with 

 the help of another farmer was in arous- 

 ing the interest of his neighbors to seek 

 rural school consolidation. This oc- 

 curred before any of the recent school 



E. T. Culnan 



survey committees had been set up. 



The new director served as secretary 

 of Logan County Farm Bureau for the 

 past year and has worked on a number 

 of Farm Bureau committees. He has 

 been president of Logan County Pro- 

 ducers Supply since its organization in 

 1939, director of the Illinois Hybrid Seed 

 Producers Company for two years and is 

 the township school treasurer. 



He is married to the former Marie F. 

 Plut of Logan county and is a member at 

 Lincoln of St. Mary's Catholic Church, 

 Knights of Columbus, and the Elks 

 lodge. 



The Culnans are the parents of three 

 children: Jane, 8, Anita, 6, and Thomas 

 Edward, age 4. 



EDWIN J. GUMM, 54, Galesburg, 

 Knox county, was elected to represent 

 the 15th congressional district succeeding 

 Ronald A. Holt of Galva. The 15th 

 congressional district includes Adams, 

 Schuyler, Fulton, Knox, and Henry coun- 

 ties. 



Gumm has been president of the Illi- 

 nois Milk Producers Association for two 

 years. He was born 

 on a farm four miles 

 south of Galesburg, 

 the farm which he 

 now operates, was 

 graduated from 

 mi i Brown's Business 



-^ m College at Gales- 



_jJ|L^ burg and studied 

 ^■^=^*^^ law at the John B. 

 ^ ^^H Stetson College, De- 

 ^Hl land, Florida. 



His studies were 

 interrupted when he 

 served in World War I. After his dis- 

 charge he returned to the home farm and 

 was married to the former Janet Chap- 

 man of Galesburg. 



The new director is engaged in gen- 

 eral farming and has a dairy herd of 60 

 head, he owns 250 acres but generally 

 operates considerably more. Normally 

 he feeds 100 cattle and 75 hogs. 



He has been a member of Knox 

 County Farm Bureau for 25 years, has 

 been on the board 15 years and has 

 served as vice-president for five years. 

 Gumm has been president of the Gales- 

 burg Pure Milk Association since its or- 

 ganization 12 years ago. He is president 

 of the Knox-Warren Livestock Shipping 

 Association, vice-president of the Gales- 

 burg Chamber of Commerce and is a 

 member of the Galesburg Exchange 

 Club. On his county board of super- 

 visors he serves as chairman of the 

 finance committee. 



He is also a member of the Board of 

 Trustees of the local Universalist Church. 

 Mr. -and Mrs. Gumm have two children: 

 Dorothy, 19, a junior at MacMurray Col- 

 lege, Jacksonville, and Jack, 18, serving 

 in the army in Texas. 



E. J. Gumm 







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