3 collections related to Agriculture -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina

The Douglas Sanders Slides and Papers consist of materials gathered from Dr. Sanders's office on the campus of North Carolina State University. Over half of the materials consist of 35mm color photographic slides used by Dr. Sanders in his research, teaching, and presentations. The collection has not been fully processed yet. Douglas Sanders was a professor of horticultural science at North Carolina State University beginning in 1970. He received his bachelor's degree in 1965 from Michigan State University and his master’s degree and doctorate in 1967 and 1970 respectively from the University of Minnesota. His accomplishments included the establishment of the N.C. Vegetable Growers Association, introduction of numerous new vegetable technologies (drip irrigation, plasticulture, precision seeding) and introduction of new crops to North Carolina, including asparagus, broccoli, sweet onions and leaf lettuce. He served in various positions of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He was named a fellow of that organization in 1992 and received its Outstanding International Horticulturist Award in 2006. He died on April 17, 2006. Less

This collection contains coursework of John H. (Hinton) Parker while he was a student at North Carolina State College (later university) in the early 1940s. Includes are exercise and workbooks, mostly for agricultural economics courses. Of note is an eleven page report Parker wrote after a farm management tour in northeastern North Carolina in May 1941, in which he briefly described farms visited in Nash, Edgecomb, Greene, Beaufort, Washington, Tyrrell, and Martin counties. The tour included Farm Security Administration settlements. John Hinton Parker was a student at North Carolina State College (later NC State University) in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He received a B.S. in Agricultural Education in 1942. He was later owner of the Parker Seed Company of Dunn, North Carolina. Less