C Arthur Bratton

Esther Crew Weds C. Arthur Bratton. The Ithaca Journal, Jun 11 1949, P. 4

 "At 4:30 p.m. Friday, June, 10, 1949, in the First Presbyterian Church, Miss Esther Crew, Forest Home Road, became the bride of C. Arthur Bratton of 211 Bryant Ave. The Rev. Walter A. Dodds, pastor, officiated at the ceremony.
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  Robert W. Bratton of Ithaca was best man and the ushers were Edward A. Lutz, Robert C. Clark and Earl M. Kroth of Ithaca and William S. Plumer of Lyons.
  A reception was held in the Faculty Lounge of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, where the table arrangements were of gladioli in pastel shades. Miss Mary Eva Duthie and Mrs. Francena Nolan assisted as hostesses and Miss Helen Canon and Mrs. Lucille Williamson poured.
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  The bride was graduated from Ohio State University and is a candidate for a doctor of philosophy degree at Cornell on Monday. She will be assistant professor of economics of the household and household management at Cornell in the Fall.
  Mr. Bratton was graduated from Ohio State University and received the degree of doctor of philosophy at Cornell University where he now is an associate professor of farm management.
  The couple will reside at Forest Home Drive."

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."

Obituary for C. Arthur Bratton
The Ithaca Journal, Feb 1 2000, P.4 (with photo)
 
"C. Arthur Bratton, 85, of 311 Savage Farm Drive, Ithaca, died Tuesday, January 25, 2000, at his home, having completed a full, creative, and productive life with his wife, Esther. He was much admired and appreciated by his many friends and acquaintances at Cornell University, in Cooperative Extension, in the many Ithaca and Lansing community organizations to which he contributed, and at Kendal at Ithaca, of which he was a founding member and an officer of its Residents Council.
  Art Bratton was born and reared on a general farm near Delta, Ohio. He became active as a 4-H Club member and participated in the Grange and the Future Farmers of America. Following high school graduation he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at Ohio State University in Columbus and was graduated with a B.S. degree in Rural Economics in 1937. He then came to Ithaca and Cornell University, where earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1942. During the next three years he served in the U.S. Army, from which he was discharged as a captain in field artillery.
  Art's return to Cornell in 1946 as an Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture began a lifelong career in farm management and Agricultural Economics. He became a full professor of Agricultural Economics in 1954 and continued at Cornell until retirement in 1979.
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  When Art was not out and around 'doing good', he was at home, gardening. That was his great hobby.
  Survivors are his wife of 50 years, daughters Judith Van Pelt and June Townley, grandchildren Matthew and Kelly MacManes, brothers James of Athens, Ohio, and Carl of Delta, Ohio, and several nieces and nephews."