Charles Lauritzen 



r AITHFUL, unrelenting years of long 

 * service dating from the early days of 

 the Farm Bureau movement in their 

 local counties mark the careers of the 

 four men who retired from the board 

 of directors of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association during the 32nd annual 

 meeting in Chicago. 



CHARLES LAU- 

 RITZEN, Reddick, 

 Livingston county, 

 who retired as di- 

 rector representing 

 the 22nd congres- 

 sional district, has 

 been active in Farm 

 Bureau work since 

 it was first started 

 in his county. 



Joining the Farm 



Bureau in 1920, 



Lauritzen served as 



director, vice-president and president 



for 17 years. His term as president 



extended from 1935 to 1938. 



Lauritzen acted as member of the 

 finance committee during the four 

 years he served on the lAA board of 

 directors. 



Active in the civic affairs of his 

 home community, he has served as 

 president of the Danish Lutheran 

 Church of Dwight for the past 10 

 years and is on the finance board of his 

 synod. 



He lives on a 240-acre dairy and 

 grain farm near Reddick but is no 

 longer active in farming. Married to 

 the former Emelie Vasgaard, he has 

 five daughters and three sons. 



HARVEY W. ADAIR, Chicago 

 Heights, Cook county, representing the 1 st 

 to 11th districts, also retires as a mem- 

 ber of the board 

 of directors. 



During the four 

 years he served on 

 the state board of 

 directors, Adair has 

 been active on the 

 marketing commit- 

 tee and has given 

 freely of his time 

 and advice in shap- 

 ing the new live- 

 stock marketing 

 plan presented at 

 the annual meeting. 



Adair operates a 200-acre farm in 

 Bloom township. Cook county, and is a 

 charter member of the Cook County 

 Farm Bureau on which he served for 

 nine years as president and 22 years 

 as director before being elected as di- 

 rector of the state board. 



Long interested and active in civic 

 affairs, Adair served 12 years as mem- 

 ber of the board of Cottage Grove 



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A. G. Eggerding 



school and for 14 years as a member 

 of Bloom township high school board 

 prior to his service as director on the 

 lAA board. 



Adair has been active in the work 

 of the State School Board Association 

 and for five years was a member of 

 the executive committee of the Tri- 

 County School Board Association. 



AUGUST G. EGGERDING of Red 



Bud, Randolph county, resigns as director 

 from the 25th congressional district, 

 after representing 

 farmers from south- 

 western Illinois for 

 a period of 10 

 years. 



A respected and 

 veteran member of 

 the lAA committee 

 on organization and 

 information, Egger- 

 ding was elected to 

 the board of direc- 

 tors of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation in 1937. 



He is a charter member of the Ran- 

 dolph County Farm Bureau and was 

 on the organizing board of the Ran- 

 dolph County Service Company, acting 

 as president of the board for five 

 years. 



Eggerding lives on his farm but has 

 passed on the management to his son, 

 Wilber. 



A deeply religious man, he has been 

 active in support of his rural Lutheran 

 church as a voting member since 1904, 

 an elder for 3 years, and congregation 

 president. He also has served on the 

 national board of support and pensions 

 of the Lutheran church. 



The Eggerdings were married in 

 1904 and are parents of three sons and 

 two daughters. 



He has served as president of the 

 First National Bank of Red Bud for 

 36 years, has held office since 1918 

 in the Horse Prairie Mutual Insurance 

 Company, is secretary of the Horse 

 Prairie Township District Mutual Tor- 

 nado Insurance Company. 



Eggerding headed his town board 

 for the past 25 years, was president of 

 the Red Bud quarry for 18 years, chair- 



Ronald Holt 



man of rural resettlement in Randolph 

 county for four years, and served four 

 years as chairman of the local soil 

 conservation board. 



RONALD A. HOLT, 48, of Galva 

 in Henry county, retires as director 

 after representing farmers of the 15th 

 congressional dis- 

 trict for a period 

 of six years. He was 

 elected at the 25th 

 aniversary meeting 

 at St. Louis in 1941. 

 A hardworking 

 Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber for more than 

 25 years, Holt owns 

 and operates a 220 

 grain and livestock 

 farm and feeds out 

 about two carloads 

 of steers and 300 hogs each year. 



Holt first served as director of the 

 Henry County Farm Bureau in 1927 

 and again in 1940. He has continued 

 as director of his county Farm Bureau 

 during the years he has been on the 

 board of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation. He was president of his local 

 Farm Bureau in 1932-34. 



Because it is impossible to get suffi- 

 cient help in his farming operations, 

 Holt felt obligated to resign as director 

 on the state board. This year. Holt 

 said, he missed several board meetings 

 and felt that as a director he should be 

 present at every gathering. 



As a member of the lAA marketing 

 committee for six year. Holt has helped 

 develop the marketing program and 

 long range plans described more fully 

 elsewhere in this issue of the lAA 

 Record. 



Long interested in local civic affairs 

 in his local community. Holt now 

 serves as a trustee of the Galva Con- 

 gregational church, director of the Pro- 

 duction Credit Association, and presi- 

 dent of the Galva Farmers Cooperaftve 

 Elevator. 



Holt moved to the farm he now 

 owns when he was four years old and 

 attended Galva high school. He left 

 school at the age of 15, before gradu- 

 ating, because his help was needed at 

 home. 



He is married and has one daughter. 

 Sheila, 8 years old. 



DECEMBER, 1946 



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