LONG years of selfless devotion to 

 the cause of Farm Bureau in their 

 counties and at the state level mark 

 the careers of the three men who 

 retired in November from the board 

 of directors of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. 



DAN L. CLARKE, 60, of New Berlin 

 in Sangamon county, retires as lAA di- 

 rector from the 21st lAA district after 

 serving the farmers of that area since 

 November, 1945. With his retirement 

 from the board, Clarke leaves the Illinois 

 Grain Terminals board and the business 

 service committee of the lAA board. 



Clarke succeeded Floyd E. Morris from 

 the 21st district when Morris was elected 

 lAA vice president. Qarke owns and 

 operates 350 acres midway between New 

 Berlin and Pleasant Plains, and he oper- 

 ates another 100 acres owned by his sis- 

 ter. He is chiefly a cash grain farmer 

 planting heavily in corn and soybeans. 

 He also has raised an average 400 hogs 

 each year. 



During the war he was active in Red 

 Cross, Community Fund and Savings 

 Bonds campaigns. He has been active 

 in the move to improve the schools of 

 his area even though the Oarkes have 

 no children. ^ 



A member of the Sangamon County 

 Farm Bureau for more than a quarter of 

 a century, Clarke served for several years 

 as director, then two years as vice presi- 

 dent, then four years as president before 

 going to the lAA board. 



MILTON W. WARREN, 51, of 

 Mansfield in Piatt county, retires as lAA 

 director from the 19th lAA district after 

 three years of service on the state board. 

 Warren also retires as a member of the 

 finance committee of the lAA board. In 

 recent months he had been unable to de- 

 vote his full energies to his work because 

 of ill health. 



Warren succeeded Charles B. Shuman 

 in November 1945 when Shuman be- 

 came president of the lAA. He operates 

 a 450-acre farm devoted to general farm- 



Dan L. Clarke 



Edward T. Culnan /Mi/fon W. Warren 



RETIRING DIRECTORS 



Three Farmers Give Much Time and Effort 

 For The Betterment of Illinois Agriculture 



ing. He owns a small milking herd, a 

 purebred Aberdeen-Angus herd, and 

 feeds out a number of cattle. 



Warren cirried a joint Farm Bureau 

 membership with his father after his 

 graduation from the University of Illi- 

 nois from 1921 to 1923. Since then he 

 has taken a deep interest in Farm Bureau 

 activities. He served eight years as di- 

 rector of the Piatt County Farm Bureau 

 and 12 years as its president. He was 

 on the Production Credit Association 

 Board at Champaign for six years, on the 

 AAA coinmittee for seven years, and for 

 several years on the board of the Mans- 

 field Co-op Locker board. For more than 

 a decade he served as a member of the 

 Mansfield high school board of directors. 



EDWARD T. CULNAN, 51, of Lin- 

 coln in Logan county, retires as lAA 

 director from the 17th lAA district after 

 two years of service on the state board. 

 He also leaves the marketing committee 

 of the lAA board and the board of di- 



rectors of the Illinois Cooperative Lock- 

 er Service. 



Culnan succeeded Charles Lauritzen of 

 Livingston county in November 1946. 

 He owns and operates a 200-acre cash 

 grain farm but is turning to more feed- 

 ing and grazing. 



His father was a charter member of 

 the Logan County Farm Bureau. Retir- 

 ing Director Culnan took a joint member- 

 ship with his father in 1927 and a live- 

 ly interest in Farm Bureau in the early 

 30's. He has been a member of the 

 county Farm Bureau board since 1934 

 and board secretary since 1945. Since 

 1938 he has been president of Logan 

 Producers' Supplies. He also was a mem- 

 ber of his county cold storage locker board 

 for eight years, has been township school 

 treasurer since 1937, and is treasurer of 

 his consolidated school district. Culnan 

 is also a director of the Producers Hybrid 

 Seed Company of Piper City and a mem- 

 ber of the Sangamon Valley Farm Bu- 

 reau-Farm Management Service. 



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The eight operating farmtrt below w»r» e/ecteif to the lAA board of directors during the onnwai meeting In Chicago, left to ri^bf; 

 the nrtt five were ratirnad to the board the kiMt three were elected tor the first tlm»: Curtlu, Hughes, Webb, Ovmm, McCord, Simpson, 



Oavlson, and Lloyd. 



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