The father of cooperative extension

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

During our Fall Conference of the University of Missouri Extension last week, I had an opportunity to visit with one of my former campus mentors. When I joined extension in August of 1990, our campus leader for soil fertility extension was Dr. Daryl Bucholtz .He was well liked by the entire extension faculty and we were disappointed when he left in 1992 to accept a position with Kansas State University. Since that time, he has advanced to be the Director of Cooperative Extension. He was our keynote speaker for the opening session. His topic was "Extension's Future: Relevant, Reliable, Responsive, and Remarkable. One aspect of his presentation was the history of the Cooperative Extension Service, and the person generally regarding as being the father of the movement. His name is Dr. Seaman Knapp. I was very familiar with his name because of Knapp Hall on the LSU campus. This building houses the leaders of the extension service for the LSU system.

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