To HELP handle the increasing vol- 

 ume of business of its three insur- 

 ance companies, the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association has appointed a treas- 

 urer and a comptroller for Country Life 

 Insurance Company, Country Mutual 

 Fire Company, and Country Mutual 

 Casualty Company. 



Treasurer of the three companies is 

 William J. Nevermann, 35, a member 

 of the accountancy staff of Country Cas- 

 ualty since December, 1945. Comptrol- 

 ler is T. D. Karnes, 44, formerly of the 

 Bankers Life and Casualty Company of 

 Chicago. , ^; 



T. D. Kamat 



W. J. Navermann 



Nevermann was born and reared in 

 Tripoli, la., and was graduated from 

 Drake University at Des Moines in 

 1932 where he majored in finance. He 

 continued his education at Northwest- 

 ern University night school and the 

 American Institute of Banking. 



After a year with an investment bank 

 in Des Moines, Nevermann came to the 

 Lake Shore National Bank in Chicago 

 where he was employed as assistant 

 auditor and note teller for several years 

 until he joined the navy in March 1943. 

 He served in the Pacific as a communi- 

 cations officer and was discharged in 

 December, 1945 as a lieutenant. 



Nevermann resides in Lombard with 

 his wife, the former Palma Lima of 

 Chicago. They have no children. 



Karnes was born in Fairbury, Livings- 

 ton county, son of the late T. D. Karnes, 

 who served as manager of the Farmers 

 Grain Company at Fairbury from 1912 

 to 1945. 



After attending Fairbury schools, 

 Karnes graduated from the University 

 of Illinois School of Athletic' Coaching 

 in 1925. He studied business for one 

 year in the College of Commerce. 



He was a member of the Illinois 

 basketball team in 1923-24-25 and his 

 honorary and social affiliations included 

 Tribe of Illini, Skull and Crescent, 

 Sigma Pi fraternity, and commerce and 

 coaching societies. 



After graduation, Karnes coached at 

 Illinois State Normal University until 

 1927 when he joined a Bloomington in- 

 vestment firm. During the next six 

 years he also coached at Illinois Wes- 



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leyan University and Trinity High 

 School in Bloomington and officiated 

 at games. 



In 1933, he was employed by the in- 

 surance department of the State of Illi- 

 nois, working first in securities and 

 later as an insurance examiner. 



He enlisted in the navy in 1942 and 

 served until the end of the war at Great 

 Lakes, Pearl Harbor and aboard a 

 destroyer. He was discharged with the 

 rank of lieutenant commander. 



Karnes returned to the state insur- 

 ance department for 10 weeks then 

 worked for a year with the Bankers 

 Life and Casualty Company before com- 

 ing to the lAA. He is married to the 

 former Leta Stucker of Palestine and 

 Kankakee. They have no children. 



PRESIDENT SHUMAN 

 NAMES 1947 lAA 

 STANDING COMMITTEES 



STANDING committees of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association for 

 1947 have been announced by President 

 Charles B. Shuman of Sullivan. Farm 

 adviser members to each committee ex- 

 cept the finance group were to be 

 named later. 



The new committees as announced 

 by President Shuman are as follows : 



Finance — F. E. Morris, Buffalo, 

 chairman; Russell V. McKee, Varna; 

 and Milton W. Warren, Mansfield. 



Marketing — Homer Curtiss, Stock- 

 ton, chairman; J. King Eaton, Edwards- 

 ville; C. J. Elliot, Streator; Edwin 

 Gumm, Galesburg; and E. T. Culnan, 

 Lincoln. 



Organization-Information — Otto 

 Steffey, Stronghurst, chairman; John T. 

 Evans, Hoopeston; and Albert Webb, 

 Ewing. 



Public Relations — K. T. Smith, 

 Greenfield, chairman; Earl M. Hughes, 

 Woodstock; and F. E. Morris, Buffalo. 



Business Service — Lyman Bunting, 

 Ellery, chairman; Dan Clarke, New 

 Berlin; and Chester McCord, Newton. 



APPOINTMENT of a comptroUer 

 and acting treasurer for the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company has been an- 

 nounced by Manager C. H. Becker. 



Comptroller is A. M. Ault, 43, assist- 

 ant treasurer of the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company since last February. 



The new assistant treasurer, also des- 

 ignated acting treasurer, is Ralph O. 

 Almgreen, 45, Illinois Farm Supply di- 

 rector of accounting and statistics. 



The new office of comptroller will 

 not only handle the accounting and 

 budgetary functions of the company, 

 but will be accountable for all analysis 



R. O. Almgreen 



A. M. AuH 



work and the developing and interpret- 

 ing of information and facts that have 

 bearing on the future policies of the 

 company. 



Ault was born and reared in Kanka- 

 kee county, and was graduated in 1932 

 from the University of Illinois College 

 of Commerce. 



Before joining the Jo Daviess Service 

 Company in 1933, he did public ac- 

 counting in Chicago. He transferred to 

 the Marshall-Putnam Oil Company in 

 1935 and three years later became an 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company south- 

 ern district fieldman. He was called 

 to the Chicago office in 1941 to head 

 the company's petroleum division. 



Ault also has the job of managing 

 the new building purchased last spring 

 to house the lAA's Chicago offices. 



He is married to the former Sibyl St. 

 John of Kankakee county. The Aults 

 have two sons, Roger, 17, and Stanley, 

 8. 



Almgreen was born and reared at 

 Rio in Knox County, graduated from 

 Galesburg high school, studied a busi- 

 ness college course, and was employed 

 by the Rio State Bank for 15 years. 



He became a dealer for the Knox 

 County Service Company, assistant to 

 the manager of the Peoria County Ser- 

 vice Company, manager of the Schuyler- 

 Brown Service Company, and manager 

 of the Ford County Service Company 

 before going to the Chicago office in 

 June, 1943 as office manager. 



Almgreen is married to the former 

 Lillian Mortensen of Knox county. 

 They have one child, Robert, 18 monttu. 



FEBRUARY. 1947 



