Extract from Cornell Memorial Statement for C. Arthur Bratton
 November 3, 1914 — January 25, 2000 

 "Art began his long and effective career in farm management at Cornell when he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 1946. He rose rapidly through the ranks and was promoted to Professor in 1954. He was the department’s Extension Leader for nearly 20 years over two different time spans, 1954-68 and 1975-79. He served three terms in the University Senate and was a member of a number of college and university faculty committees.
  Throughout his professional career, Art worked tirelessly and effectively to improve the quality and breadth of extension education in agricultural economics. He was a teacher’s teacher. He saw as one of his most important roles the education of Cooperative Extension’s county and regional field staff as well new faculty colleagues. He was always available to help in program planning or implementation. He believed in team teaching. Although a major proportion of his professional time was spent in administering and conducting extension programs, he strongly believed that good teaching programs must be based on research. He was a mentor. His driving force was to be helpful to the agricultural community.
  He was a leader in the college’s farm records programs and the analysis of farm income and expense summaries. He coordinated the preparation and distribution of the annual New York Economic Handbook – Agricultural Situation and Outlook. He was the author of more than 200 extension and research publications as well as numerous articles for county extension and farm magazines. One of Bratton’s lasting legacies in Cooperative Extension was his effort to work across department lines in solving problems and developing teaching programs. He was a pioneer
in the farm and home development programs of the 1950s, bringing together faculty and agents in agriculture and home economics to work with farm families in programs to help them reach their goals.
  The Brattons participated in the University of the Philippines–Cornell project at Los Banos in 1952-53, as Cornell’s first Visiting Professor to that campus. He was a Fulbright lecturer at Kyoto, Japan in 1959-60, teaching farm accounting and farm management. In the summer of 1964, he was Visiting Professor at Seoul National University in Korea and worked again with Asian graduate students as Visiting Professor at the East-West Center University of Hawaii in 1968. He regularly hosted and planned programs for visiting agricultural economists from Asia and worked with many graduate students in farm management from these countries."