Hall of Fame to honor six
Six individuals will be inducted into the West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame at the annual enshrinement banquet to be held on Saturday, July 18, 2009, at the Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Camp in Weston, WV.
Honorees are:
Agriculture
- Barton S. Baker, Morgantown, WV
- Bayward Butler, Exchange, WV
- Edward C. Grose, Terra Alta, WV
Forestry
- Gerald William Waybright, Washington, WV
- James Ernest Deitz, Huntington, WV (posthumously)
- Harry J. Gordon, Circleville, WV (posthumously)
Youth groups to be recognized are the Barbour County 4-H – National Champion Land Judging and National Champion Homesite Judging and Taylor County FFA – National Champion Land Judging.
Tickets for the banquet are $30 each. To purchase tickets, please contact either Brenda Aldridge, WVU Extension Service, 815 Knapp Hall, Morgantown, WV 26506, 304-293-5691×3308, or Denise Hunnell, WVU Davis College, 1169 Agricultural Sciences Building, Morgantown, WV, 26506-6108, 304-293-2395.
Tickets must be purchased by July 1, 2009. Please make checks payable to the West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame. The banquet will begin with a reception at 5 p.m. at the West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame Building, followed by the banquet itself at 6 p.m. in the Mount Vernon Dining Hall.
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