Hood named new dean at PSU college of Ag UNIVERSITY HARK - Dr. Lamartine F. Hood, director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, a part of Cornell University, will be the dean of the College of Agriculture at Penn State effective March 1. His appointment, which was approved Jan. 18 by the Univer sity’s Board of Trustees, includes the additional posts of director of Agricultural Experiment Station and director of the Cooperative Extension Service. “I am pleased that Dr. Hood has agreed to accept this challenging and important position,” Dr. Bryce Jordan, president of the University, told the Board of Trustees. “He brings a strong background in research, ad ministration and public service. We believe that Dr. Hood will continue to strengthen the essential support that Penn State has provided Pennsylvania’s No. 1 industry of agriculture,” Dr. Jordan added. Dr. Hood succeeds Dr. Samuel H. Smith, who left Penn State June 30, to assume the presidency of Washington State University. Dr. W. W. Hinish has been serving as Com Clinic slated in Franklin County CHAMBERSBURG - Over 250 Franklin County corn growers are expected to attend the annual Franklin County Corn Clinic January 28 at Kauffman’s Com munity Centei'! County Extension Director, John Shearer, says that this has become one of the larger one-day agricultural “schools” in the county, with attendance sometimes reaching 300. Twenty-seven agri-business firms will be co-sponsoring the event, along with the County Extension Service. Their colorful exhibits will open at 9:00 a.m. Awards will be presented to county winners in the Pennsylvania Five- Acre Corn Club. Educational presentations on com insect control, weed control ft®*" 1 * * /finyv AUGERS ff/fiT WINTER DISCOUNTS M n AVAILABLE IT'S YOUR BEST BUY aFs iffii -3V / acting dean of the College of Agriculture since Dr. Smith’s departure. In accepting Dr. Jordan’s in vitation, Dr. Hood said, “I am looking forward to working with the excellent faculty and staff at Penn State. It will be great to come back home to Pennsylvania and Penn State.” Dr. Hood was reared in Bucks County, where his father, who graduated from Penn State in 1924 with a degree in dairy husbandry, was manager of the George School Farm. Dr. Hood was active in 4-H and after high school enrolled in the dairy science program at Penn State. Dr. Hood received his Ph.D in food science and biochemistry from Penn State in 1968, his M.S. from the University of Minnesota in dairy science in 1963, and his B.S. in dairy science from Penn State in 1959. A member of the Cornell University faculty since 1968, Dr. Hood is well known as a food scientist and has published more than 80 scholarly articles. His major research interest is cereal chemistry. and herbicide effectiveness, manure usage, and com- drying and- handling will be made by Penn State University specialists. A local grower panel, consisting of George Christman, Jr., Dennis Brechbill, Eugene Hege, Donald Martin, John R. Stoner, and William Swailes will review their com weed control programs for 1985. The meeting will serve, under Pennsylvania law, as an “update training meeting” for pesticide applicators’ license-renewal purposes. Shearer urges private applicators whose licenses expire 9/30/85 or 9/30/86 to attend to become recertified. The “clinic” is free, includes lunch, and is open to the public. GRAIN STORAGE automatic farm systems 608 Evergreen Rd., Lebanon, PA 17042 (717) 274-5333 Cheek Our Low Prices Before You Buy Dr. Hood has held his current University Research Foundation, position since 1983. He is respon- Inc., and the Board of Directors of sible for the research and ex- JJ 16 State Wine and tension program involving the Gra Pf Federation, production and processing of fruits A Fellow of the Institute of Food and vegetables Technologists, Dr. Hood is active Prior to that he was associate * n association, chairing director, Office for Research, symposia and, until recently, Cornell University Agricultural semng on the editorial board of Experiment Station at Ithaca, and °?e Jouraal of Food Science. He is a professor of food science. In 1976- r^ 80 active in the American 77, Dr. Hood was visiting scientist Association of Cereal Chemists, at the Station de Biochimie et American Chemical Physicochimie des Cereales, In- . ... ~ , stitut National de la Recherche Dr. Hood and his wife, the for- Agronomique, Massy, France. mar Fmelme Harpster of Penn- Dr. Hood currently serves as sylvania the parents chairman of the Northeastern °f three children, Thomas, a senior Regional Association of State at *J? e United States Military Agricultural Experiment Station Academy at West Point, Directors, and is a member of the Christopher, who resides in Board of Directors of the Cornell Boston, and Sandra, a junior in high school. HARRISBURG The annual Sire Power meeting was held on January 21, 1986. President Gary Rickard reported that this past year saw record prof itablity with a record patronage dividend being paid. This past year Sire Power created Sire Power International, a wholly owned subsidiary, which will be handling non member business. Another development this past year was the formation of Allied Genes, a marketing agreement between NOBA, Sire Power, and KABSU. This year’s guest speaker was Mr. Steve Kerr, agricultural aide to Congressman Jeffords of Vermont. Mr. Kerr outlined and explained the 1986 Dairy Bill. Sire Power holds annual meeting ""K in f. Sire Power president Gary Rickard talks about the organization's financial status and plans for the coming year. Lamartine F. Hood
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