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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Junior Vegetable Growers Association Elects June Simpson President, 1952

From the October 1952 issue of Extension Farm-News, published by the Agricultural Extension Service, State College of Agriculture and Engineering, Raleigh

Twenty-five persons attended a meeting in Charlotte late in August to organize a local unit of the National Junior Vegetable Growers Associations. Officers elected with June Simpson, president; Deloria McCorkle, vice-president; Millie Morris, secretary; and Barbara Davis, treasurer.

The adult advisory committee, headed by Home Agent Helen John Wright of Mecklenburg County, includes Anna Lee Waddell, assistant Union County home agent; Ray Kiser, assistant Mecklenburg County farm agent; Conrad Furr, owner of Furr’s Seed Store; and Zeb Strawn, president of Citizens Bank.


H.M. Covington, Extension horticultural specialist, attended the session and spoke to the group on the NJVGA program.

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