Cornell Memorial Statement for Professor John Parker Hertel, December 11, 1909 — November 18, 1986

"John Hertel, professor emeritus, died at his home, 130 Crest Lane, Ithaca, New York. He was born in 1909 in Trout Run, Pennsylvania, and was reared in the rural community of Ralston, Pennsylvania. He came to Ithaca in 1930 and received his B.S. degree from Cornell in 1934 and his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1938.
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His professional career centered in the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell. He served the college in farm management and personnel administration for three and a half decades. That service included major contributions as secretary of the college with responsibility for the records and registrar areas, as a member of the Admissions Committee, as secretary of the Petitions Committee, and as leader of the advising, scholarship, and foreign student-exchange programs."