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Educated at the University of Illinois (B.S. ’49, M.S. ’50, and Ph.D. ’62 in agricultural economics), Harold D. Guither’s career has embraced teaching, extension, and research activities in agricultural, food, and environmental public policy programs, beginning in 1950 when he was agricultural economist and editor at Doane Agricultural Service, Inc., in St. Louis. He returned to Urbana in 1956 as an assistant professor with a Cooperative Extension Service appointment. Guither retired in 1995 as professor of agricultural policy. Professor Emeritus Guither is currently teaching an honors course at the university. Guither has been repeatedly recognized for his notable state and national leadership by the American Agricultural Economics Association, the national Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, the Chicago Farmers, Farm Foundation, University of Illinois Extension, Farm Bureau, and many other organizations. Guither’s immeasurable contributions to the college’s programs have also been acknowledged. Some of these awards include the Daryl Snyder Award for Alumni Service by FarmHouse, 1984; the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service Peer Award for Innovative Programming, 1986; the ACES Senior Faculty Award for Excellence in Extension, 1987; the ACES Paul A. Funk Recognition Award, 1988; the Epsilon Sigma Phi State Distinguished Service Award, 1989; the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service Sustained Excellence Award, 1992; and in the spring of 1995, students selected him to be on the "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent." Guither also organized the first, and many subsequent, Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation forums for this campus, which continue to influence the rural Illinois leadership in both the public and private sectors. His extensive writing has included articles in trade publications, bulletins, technical reports, monographs, educational materials, newsletters, and food policy insight features. He has also written several books; his latest, Animal Rights: History and Scope of a Radical Social Movement, was used as a basis for his recent "Discovery Course" given in response to an invitation by the Chancellor. Feeling that as an academic his responsibilities extend beyond the profession and campus, Guither is active in the Champaign-Urbana community within his church, his civic club, and as an election judge. |
