ROUND-UP 



AHENDED BY 



500 lAA AGENTS 



More than 500 insurance agents, 

 representing every county in the state, 

 attended the annual Round-up conven- 

 tion of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion insurance companies at the Stevens 

 Hotel, Chicago, in February. 



The agents listened to reports from the 

 managers of the three companies — 

 Country Life Insurance, Country Mutual 

 Casualty, and Country Mutual Fire — 

 which indicated a record growth in Farm 

 Bureau insurance service in the past year. 

 Some speakers injected a note of humor 

 by barkening back to the days of the 

 vety beginnings of the Farm Bureau 

 insurance program, when critics claimed 

 that "farmers are incapable of running 

 their own insurance companies". 



A. E. Richardson, manager of the Life 

 company, pointed out that Couritry Life, 

 born on the brink of the '29 depression, 

 now has a total of nearly 300 million 

 dollars worth of life insurance in force • — 

 a national record for any similar company 

 operating in a state-wide only field. The 

 totals of the three companies show a 

 coverage on the lives and property of 

 Illinois farmers valued at more than 

 three-quarters of a billion dollars. 



Agents and their wives attended a 

 banquet at the Stevens and heard Nellis 

 P. h'arkmson, director of the Illinois 

 State Department of Insurance, compli- 

 ment the lAA • leaders on their record 

 of service to farm families of the state. 



Other convention speakers included 

 Floyd Morris, vice-president of the lAA, 

 O. D. Brissenden, lAA organization di- 

 rector, and Gene Flack, chairman of the 

 board of the Sales Executives Club, New 

 York. 



Harvey W. Adair, right, receives award as 

 outstanding liiineis Scliool Board Member. 



FORMER lAA 



DIRECTOR ADAIR 



WINS SCHOOL AWARD 



Harvey W. Adair, Chicago Heights, 

 former lAA board member representing 

 the 1st to 11th districts, recently received 

 a high honor in recognition of his service 

 as a school board member. 



At the annual meeting in Springfield 

 of the Illinois Education Association, Mr. 

 Adair was presented with a distinguished 

 service as the most outstanding school 

 board member of the year. He has served 

 as a member of the board of Bloom 

 Township High School for 14 years. 

 The award received by Mr. Adair is 

 made jointly by the Illinois Education 

 Association and two national educational 

 associations. 



The citation is in recognition of the 

 work of an individual board member 

 who has made a contribution during the 

 year that will point to the betterment of- 

 America. 



During 1945, Mr. Adair appeared 

 before the education committee of the 

 state senate in support of legislation in 

 the interests of junior colleges in Illinois. 



HOWLEH NAMED HEAD 

 OF 3RD DISTRICT CO.D.'S. 



John C. Howlett, 35, of Edgar county, 

 Illinois Agricultural Association organi- 

 zation field man for the past year, has 

 been promoted to 

 District 3 organiza- 

 tion director. His 

 territory comprises 

 29 southern liinois 

 counties. 



Howlett succeeds 

 John C. Moore of 

 Scott county who has 

 retired to his farm 

 after 23 years of 

 Farm Bureau organi- 

 zation work. 



Howlett attended 

 Indiana University and started his asso- 

 ciation with Farm Bureau in 1933 when 

 he worked for the Edgar County Supply 

 Company. Later he served as lAA in- 

 surance company agent in Edgar, Fayette, 

 and Christian counties and as organization 

 director in Fayette and Iroquois counties. 

 He entered the army air forces in 

 1942 and spent 21 months in the Pacific 

 from New Caledonia to Tokyo. He is 

 married and has a three-year-old son. 



John HowieH 



CARROLL TO DIRECT 

 AG COLLEGE RESEARCH 



DR. WILLIAM E. CARROLL a pio- 

 neer in the field of animal nutrition 

 and since 1939 head of the animal hus- 

 bandty department 

 at the University of 

 Illinois, has been 

 named associate di- 

 rector of the agricul- 

 tural experiment sta- 

 tion at Urbana. 



Carroll will be re- 

 sponsible for the co- 

 ordination and rou- 

 tine administration 

 of. several hundred 

 research projects in 

 the agricultural ex- 

 periment station. 



Two other administrative assistants to 

 Dean H. P. Rusk were named previous- 

 ly. J. C. Spitler will act as associate di- 

 rector of extension and R. R. Hudelson 

 will serve as associate dean of the col- 

 lege. 



Born and reared in Utah, Carroll grad- 

 uated from Utah State College at Logan 

 and in 1914 received his doctor's degree 

 in 1914 from the University of Illinois 

 in what was then the new field of ani- 

 mal nutrition. , 



W. E. Carroll 



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