Top Agricultural Agent [Prof. Fred B. Morris] to End 36-year Service in September 1958
The Ithaca Journal, Jun 28 1958, P. 3
"A man who has had a hand in educating thousands of rural people through agricultural Extension work in New York State will retire Sept. 1 from the Cornell University faculty after 36 years of service.
Prof. Fred B. Morris of 1405 Hanshaw Rd., state leader of county agricultural agents, joined the Extension Service in its infancy in 1922 and helped to extend its educational influence to nearly all of the State's farms.
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A native of Shelbyville, Ind., Morris studied two years at Purdue University and served in the Army before coming to New York State.
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He worked as a cow tester in Erie County and in Tompkins County on the farm of the late Cornell professor, George F. Warren, one of the nation's leading agricultural economists.
Active in community affairs, Morris has been a director of the Rural Church Institute, the Ithaca Westminster Foundation, and president of the Co-op Food Store of Ithaca.
He is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, president of the Cayuga Student Lodge, chairman of the Acacia Fraternity Corp., a trustee of the Cornell Federal Credit Union and chairman of its educational committee.
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Morris and his wife, Lillian, live at Whiffletree Farm. They have 2 daughters, Mrs. Paul Kelsey of Dryden, and Mrs. George Fletcher of Waterville, Me.; 4 grandsons and a granddaughter.
The Morrises say their immediate retirement plans call for a trip to Mexico and Southwestern U.S."