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
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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
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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
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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.
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Dr. Hood has held his current University Research Foundation,
position since 1983. He is respon- Inc., and the Board of Directors of
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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.
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Sire Power president Gary Rickard talks about the
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Lamartine F. Hood