Associate in Agricultural Economics,
The Agricultural Development Council, Inc.
630 fifth Avenue, New York 20, New York

I was born April 7, 1906 in Prentiss, Maine, and grew up on a farm in the adjoining town of Springfield. Our principal cash crops were potatoes and apples and we kept a few cows and other livestock. My father and mother, Harry A. and A. Louise Lewis, still live on the home place. I was the eldest of seven children.

After graduating from the Eastern Maine Institute at Springfield in June, 1923, I taught a one-room rural school in the adjoining town of Carroll for one year, and entered the College of Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, in September 1924. I majored in Animal Husbandry, for which many biological courses were required, minored in Agricultural Education, and also took all available courses in Agricultural Economics. After the first year I received tuition scholarships of the University and met other college expenses by janitor work, waiting on tables, assisting in the bacteriological laboratory and doing odd jobs for Dean Merrill and his family. In the summer of 1927, I acted as enumerator for the Department of Agricultural Economics, collecting farm business data from farmers for a study of apple farming in Western Maine and blueberry farming in Eastern Maine, and from grocers for a study of food consumption in Aroostook County. This was under the supervision of Professor Charles H. Merchant, Head of the Department, who retired in June, 1962. I was elected Valedictorian of the Class of 1928. It was then the custom for the Seniors to elect their Valedictorian from among the three students with the highest four-year marks.

Immediately after graduating from the University of Maine I was employed there as Executive Secretary to the Director of Extension, College of Agriculture. I served for one year in that work, performing a wide variety of executive and administrative tasks. The Dean and Director, Dr. Leon S. Merrill, was an excellent administrator. Under his direction I learned a great deal about the principles of administration as well as of agricultural extension work. I left Maine in June, 1929 in order to study for a doctorate in Agricultural Economics at Cornell University.

At Cornell, I held an assistantship in the Department of Agricultural Economics for four years. In the summer of 1929, I served as enumerator for Professor Gad P. Scoville in a highly intensive study of grape-farm management in several grape-growing areas of New York State, and later taught correspondence courses in Agricultural Economics. At that time, the State of New York was making a systematic effort to develop its land resources, and I chose as my thesis problem the economic classification and study of the agricultural land resources of Tompkins County, where the University is situated. The study required about three years, and entailed making a complete land use map of the county, an evaluation of all farms and rural non-farm buildings, the classification of all roads and electric power lines, plotting the assessed value of all rural real estate parcels, and the compilation and analysis of many other data. In previous rural land classification studies at Cornell and elsewhere, only areas submarginal for agriculture were delineated, but in my study we also developed a sub-classification of lands suited to agriculture, and studied the differential economic potentiality of the resources of the several agricultural land classes as well as of the submarginal lands. Reforestation and recreational use were recommended for submarginal lands, while improved roads and extension of electric power lines were suggested for agricultural land classes. The principles and methods of classification which were discovered and devised in this study have since been applied at various times in modified forms in studies of areas in New York, other American states, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Cuba, Canada, Japan, Mainland China (before the War) and Taiwan. My major field of study at Cornell was Farm Management and Land Utilization, under the direction of Professor George F. Warren (deceased). I took minors in Agricultural Prices under Professor Frank A. Pearson and Economic Theory under Professor Paul T. Homan. I received the Ph.D. degree in June, 1933.

Before finishing my studies at Cornell, I agreed to join the Department of Agricultural Economics of the University of Nanking, China, with the title of Agricultural Statistician, but with responsibilities similar to those of an Assistant Professor. I left the U.S.A. for Europe in 1933, planning to attend the International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Germany while enroute to China, but the conference was cancelled. Instead, I joined Professor J. Lossing Buck, Head of the University of Nanking Department of Agricultural Economics, and Professor Charles L. Stewart of the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois, in London, and visited agricultural economists and farmers, in company with one or both of these men, in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Eire, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and France. I took ship at Venice and went to Shanghai via Bombay, Colombo, Singapore and Hong Kong.

At the University of Nanking, for the next three academic years, October 1933 to June 1936, I taught "Elementary Statistics" and "Agricultural Prices", in alternate semesters, to Junior and Senior Chinese students, gradually using more and more Chinese references and materials, adapting these courses to Chinese conditions. I was in charge of the Department's statistical laboratory and responsible for the statistical methods used (after my arrival) in Dr. Buck's monumental study of Land Utilization in China, the data for which were being analyzed. With the help of Chinese colleagues, I made studies of the relation of the value of silver to the Chinese price level, and of the price level to the economic depression which had begun to afflict China, where the currency vas based on silver. As the result of these studies I was asked to serve on a committee of the Ministry of Industries to investigate the situation and recommend changes in the currency to alleviate the depression, and composed the report of the committee. In 1935 the Chinese Government abandoned the silver standard, and adopted a foreign exchange standard at a lowered exchange value. In consequence, prices rose and were stabilized, and the depression was relieved. I also coached my Chinese colleagues on the principles of economic land classification and supervised a reconnaisance study of economic land classification covering the four central provinces of China.

Although, during my three years in China, the economic and political pressure of the Japanese against North China was continually augmented, the rest of the country was undergoing a remarkable political, economic and social rejuvenation, and I have never been busier on larger or more constructive projects than in those days in Nanking. During the three years, I studied the Chinese language about six hours a week, and still retain some very limited use of it.

January l, 1936, I married Miss Christine Hall, a daughter of American missionaries, at Nanking.

My wife and I left Nanking in June 1936 and returned to the United States via Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Moscow, Leningrad, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen, England and Scotland. In Moscow, where we stayed three days, we were taken to see a collective farm, and I also tried to interview Russian agricultural economists about prices and the value of the ruble. In Scotland, we attended the International Conference of Agricultural Economists at St. Andrews.

On returning to this country, I joined the Farm Credit Administration as a Senior Agricultural Economist in a research capacity, at Washington, D.C. During the following six years, until April 1942, I devoted most of my time to economic studies of the relation of the productivity of land to Federal Land Bank loan experience, and to more fundamental studies of the relation of income to the accumulation of capital on farms. This relationship was of practical importance because the upper limits of Land Bank mortgage loans were legally based on percentages of the value of a farmer's land and buildings, but a farmer's loan-paying capacity depends on his income. Studies of economic land classification, farming returns and loan experience were made under my direction or with my assistance in one or more counties or areas in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana. Many of the mimeographed reports of these studies were treated as confidential by the Farm Credit Administration, because only Land Bank loans were included. In attempting to apply the principles of economic land classification in widely different climatic regions, new insights were gained into the relation of land productivity to farming returns and farm capital, beyond what had been learned in New York State and China.

On temporary leave from the Farm Credit Administration, I taught a course in Agricultural Prices in the Cornell University Summer School in 1938, utilizing, among other resources, the studies of silver values and commodity prices which I had made in China. In the Spring Semester of 1939, I taught a graduate course in Land Economics at Cornell. Teaching this course enabled me to codify and consolidate the land economic principles which had been uncovered up to that time through economic land classification studies in New York, other states and China. These are set forth in the mimeographed outline of the course. While employed by the Farm Credit Administration I also acted as Consultant to the Land Committee of the U.S. National Resources Board, and contributed to their publication entitled "Land Classification in the United States", 1941. The principal original achievement of this Committee was a classification of land classification projects into five basic types, as reported in this publication.

In April 1942, I left the Farm Credit Administration in order to try to utilize my Chinese experience in the war effort, and joined the Board of Economic Warfare, which successively became the Office of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration. This war agency was continually undergoing reorganization, but I was attached to a Far Eastern economic intelligence unit, and my work was always concerned with the collection and interpretation of agricultural, food and other economic intelligence on Japan, its occupied territories and China. I compiled a comprehensive report on the food resources of China, and many shorter reports. From January to May 1944, I headed the Economic Functions Sections of the Far East Economic Intelligence Division, and was in charge of classification and interpretation of all types of economic intelligence on agriculture, transportation, trade, manufacturing and the like. From June 1944 to April 1945, I was in India, and acted as leader of a four-man team interviewing Japanese prisoners of war concerning agriculture, food, and other economic matters in Japan and occupied areas. Returning to Washington,D.C., I was chief of the Population and Agriculture Section of my Division during May and June, 1945, and prepared a report on the food situation of Japan in which the crippling shortage of food in that country at that time was accurately described, prior to the Japanese surrender. In many ways, this war-time employment was frustrating, but through it I acquired personal experience in India and a statistical familiarity with agricultural resources and trade relationships throughout`the Far East. Without visiting Japan, I learned about Japanese agriculture through the many capable Japanese farmers, conscripts of the Japanese Army, whom I interviewed about their farm operations.

In 1943, while employed by the Foreign Economic Administration, I was requested by Dr. Kan Lee of the Chinese Embassy to prepare a paper for the Chinese Delegation to the International Food Conference, which was to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, in that year. My paper, entitled "Outline for the Post-War Development of Chinese Agriculture", was duplicated for the Delegation by Dr. Lee. In it I attempted for the first why time to diagram the characteristics of the traditional economy that stem from the lack of science in agriculture, and to present a comprehensive plan or set of national policies for overcoming this deficiency.

In June 1945, I became Agricultural Consultant to the International Training Administration, Inc., of Washington, D.C., a private agency (now discontinued). My function was to administer the training programs of more than 170 Chinese agricultural experts, who were among 1200 Chinese technical personnel whose training the ITA had contracted to supervise for one year for the Lend Lease Administration and the Chinese government. Those in my charge included large groups in forestry, entomology, veterinary medicine, plant science, soils, agricultural economics and extension methods, and smaller groups in meteorology, irrigation, fisheries, soil conservation, sugar-cane growing and other lines. Formal training for one semester, followed by six months' practical experience, was arranged for them in more than eight universities and many experiment stations, farms, government agencies and commercial firms throughout this country and in Canada and Puerto Rico. The purpose of the program was to enable the Chinese experts to strengthen the Chinese war effort, but the War ended before their training was entirely finished. All returned to China in the Summer of 1946, hoping to contribute to the rehabilitation of their country. The program provided me with useful experience in the administration of training in the United States for foreign students.

In June 1946, I joined the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington as a regional specialist on China and nearby countries. I prepared a number of papers, mostly unpublished, including one on the agricultural development of Formosa. I left the OFAR the following April, and joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), then headquartered in Washington, D.C., in June 1947. I was employed by FAO until October 1951.

In FAO I was an Agriculture Officer in the Land and Water Use Branch of the Agriculture Division. The Branch was headed by Dr. J, Lossing Buck, and the Division by Dr. F.T. Wahlen of Switzerland. My first task for FAO was to serve as land utilization specialist, technical secretary and rapporteur of the FAO Mission to Poland, which was headed by Dr. Noble Clark of the University of Wisconsin. In the Summer of 1947, the Mission, consisting of lO specialists from the United States, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Denmark and Canada, spent two months in Poland and one month in Rome, endeavoring to formulate recommendations for the post-war rehabilitation and the eventual modernization of Polish agriculture. I edited the report, "Mission to Poland", which was signed by all lO members.

For FAO, I also planned the agenda of the first meeting of European agricultural extension officials for the improvement of European extension organization and methods. I served as secretary of the meeting, which was held in Brussels and the Hague in 1949. I took part in a similar FAO meeting for the Americas, held the same year in Costa Rica. On the subject of land utilization, I attended two meetings of the Caribbean Commission, in Curacao and Puerto Rico, and in 195O was secretary of the FAO meeting on land and water use and conservation for Europe, held in Amsterdam. In 1951, I planned and was secretary-general of an FAO meeting on tropical land use problems of the Far East and the islands of the Pacific, held in Ceylon. In March 1951, the FAO moved its headquarters to Rome, and I remained in Washington as Washington representative of the Agriculture Division. I left FAO in October 1951.

During the last two months of 1951 and the first two months of 1952, I was in Puerto Rico, with my family, as consultant on land use planning to the Puerto Rican Department of Agriculture. I made an economic land classification study of Jayuya Municipio (or County), applying principles developed in previous studies. This study was published. I also made a detailed map of the rainfall regions of Puerto Rico, utilizing the exceptional amount of available data on topography, soils, and land use and the reports of about 5OO weather stations. The map showed more than 65 distinct rainfall areas. Unfortunately, after I left, the report was put aside and never published.

In March 1952, I moved to Costa Rica to work in the Technical Cooperation Program of the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAIAS). This program constituted the so-called Project 39 of the Organization of American States (OAS), and was designed to provide technical training for the agricultural and rural improvement workers of the 21 American republics. The United States participated on behalf of Puerto Rico. From March until September, 1952, I was Director of the Northern Zone of the Project, covering the ll republics from Panama northward, with staff headquarters at San Jose, Costa Rica. In that year, we gave seven international training courses for various types of agricultural or home economic experts of the ll countries, attended by 141 persons, and held six national training courses in five countries. Since the Project was new, there was at the outset a great need for the clarification of objectives and methods of operation, and I undertook such a clarification, with the aid of the Zone staff, shortly after being appointed. The resulting statement came to the attention of the Director of the IAIAS (Dr. Ralph H. Allee) and the OAS in Washington, and I was asked to become general Director of Project 39. A new Director of the Northern Zone was appointed and the Zone headquarters were moved to Cuba.

As Director of Project 39, I revised the administrative procedures, strengthening the autonomy of the three Zone Directors (with headquarters in Havana, Lima and Montevideo), devised systems of program planning, budgeting and accounting, was responsible for a central staff of specialists in Costa Rica, and maintained contact with the Economic and Social Council of the OAS in Washington. Around 4O people, including clerical help, were employed by Project 39. There were specialists in extension methods, agricultural economics, land utilization, rural sociology, horticulture, forestry, ecology, and agricultural engineering, besides consultants in other lines. In 1953 the Project provided training for 233 persons of the 21 republics, including participants in short courses, in-service trainees, and a few graduate Fellows at the IAIAS in Turialba, Costa Rica, and in the United States. I left the IAIAS at the end of 1955 to bring my family back to the U.S.A.

At times during the next two years, 1954 and 1955, I was a consultant for the International Development Services, Inc.(IDS), with headquarters at that time in New York City. From mid-July to mid-December, 1954, I assisted the IDS in a comprehensive study of the agricultural development of the Mantaro Region of Peru. This includes the large section of the Andean Plateau directly eastward over the mountains from Lima, stretching from Lake Junin on the North to the City of Huancayo on the South, of which the Mantaro Valley, where the city of Huancayo is situated, was studied most intensively. The Satipo area, on the Eastern footslopes of the Andes, was also explored, I supervised a reconnaissance of the soils of the Mantaro Valley, mapped its type-of-farming areas, made a farm business survey of a sample of farms, and prepared a report of findings and recommendations. I edited the complete report of the study, including contributions of three other specialists. This report was multilithed in English, and later translated into Spanish, to serve as the basis for a regional development program. I make frequent use of one section of this report, on "The Civilization of the Mantaro Valley of Peru", as a description of a typical traditional (or underdeveloped) agricultural economy.

In the following year I returned to Peru for one month to make a study for the Nestle Company of a dairy region in Northern Peru, centering at Chiclayo and Cajamarca.

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Andean Plateau (lying at 8,000 to 15,000 feet above sea level ), is that its high elevation provides a cool climate, while its nearness to the Equator means that the days vary little from l2 hours in length at any season. As a result, growing seasons for most crops are remarkably long. In 1955, from March until late in the year (except for the one month spent in Peru ), I was stationed in Guatemala for the IDS, advising the Guatemalan Government on land utilization and regional agricultural development, as part of the technical assistance program of the United States. In order to gain insight into local agricultural problems, I made a farm business survey of around 40 farms in Sta. Ana Mixtan, an old farming village situated in a clearing in the forests of the Pacific coastal plain, in an area which was slated to be c1eared and settled by farmers under Government auspices. I make frequent use of the "dittoed" report of this study as showing how farm management principles are expressed under primitive conditions. I also helped make a reconnaissance of four provinces of Guatemala, East of the capital, which are seldom visited by outside agricultural specialists.

While in Guatemala I assisted in training a group of supervised-credit workers, concentrating mainly on principles of land utilization. I was then able to lecture and conduct the discussions in Spanish. I still retain considerable use of this language.

During 1954 and 1955, when not otherwise occupied, I did a great deal of reading in the Library of Congress and elsewhere on the development of American technical assistance to other countries, which began long ago as part of our Christian missionary effort. I prepared a preliminary manuscript of about 200 pages, but did not find a publisher for it at the time, and I have since been too busy to revise it. I make use of certain sections of this manuscript in discussing agricultural development.

On January 1,1955, I joined my present organization, which was then directed by Dr. J. Lossing Buck, who has retired. Since February 1957, Dr. Arthur T. Mosher has been the Executive Director. The organization was known until recently as "The Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs,Inc.", but has now changed its name to "The Agricultural Development Council, Inc." The Council's main purpose, as a private, non-profit philanthropic organization, has been and continues to be that of increasing the competence of Asians in dealing with the economic and human factors related to agricultural development in Asia. Certain new programs of the Council, related to research and training in the field of agricultural development, are not restricted to Asia. The Council has been in existence since 1955, when it was founded by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd.

During the first years of my work for the Council, I visited Asia once or twice a year for around two months in each case, seeing mainly agricultural economists and rural sociologists. On different occasions I visited India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. More recently I have confined my visits mainly to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and have been responsible for developing the Council's program in that area. I have become personally acquainted with many agricultural economists and rural sociologists of Asian countries, and with the university departments, research institutes and government agencies which they represent. In the course of working with the Council's Fellows from Asia who are studying at American univerities and through numerous other Council activities, I have been able to keep up-to-date to a certain extent with the work of Departments of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology of a number of American universities.

As a Council Associate, I function in my professional capacity as an agricultural economist, even though my duties are often also administrative in nature. One of my main duties has been to maintain liaison with the Council's Fellows, and I have written a few short articles or reports on the training of foreign agricultural economists in the United States. In 1957, I was one of three instructors in a special Summer School course for Asian graduate students of agricultural economics, given by Cornell University under Council auspices, In the Summer of 1960, Professor C.A.Bratton of Cornell University and I gave a 30-day course in Farm Management Analysis at the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, in Tokyo, for 28 young Japanese agricultural economists from all parts of Japan. In the Fall of 1963, I was a visiting lecturer at a two-week national training center on Farm Management in Korea, sponsored by FAO. There were 40 Korean participants. For these and other occasions I have prepared in mimeographed form a few lectures on rural local self-government, agricultural development, economic land classification and farm management. I have advised Council Fellows and other Asians who have made studies of farm management, economic land classification or extension methods in their own countries through the use of research grants of the Council. In economic land classification studies in Taiwan and Japan, principles originally developed in my former studies and those of Dr. Arthur W, Peterson (of Washington State University) and others have been applied with considerable success. The first studies in Taiwan were made under the direct supervision of Dr. Peterson while serving there as a Council Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As a student I joined a number of scholastic honorary societies. These were Alpha Zeta (for agriculture), Phi Sigma (biology), Kappa Phi Kappa (education), Phi Kappa Phi (general), and Sigma Xi (scientific). I am a member of the American Farm Economic Association, the Canadian Farm Economic Association, the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. I am secretary of the Board of Deacons of the Norfield Congregational Church, Weston, Connecticut.

My wife and I have four children. Our eldest daughter, Mrs. Rachel Kuper, is an artist and textile designer. Son John B, Lewis is studying for a doctorate in electrical engineering on a fellowship of Yale University. Daughter Amanda L. Lewis is a Senior in Home Economics at the University of Connecticut. Son Clayton H. Lewis has entered Princeton University this year as a Sophomore, to study mathematics.

October 9, 1968
Continuation of CURRICULUM VITAE OF ARDRON BAYARD LEWIS after November 27, 1963.

My employment by The Agricultural Development Council Inc., which began January l, 1956, continued until retirement at age 62 on May 1, 1968.

In may 1964 I conducted an international discussion meeting in Kyoto, Japan,on methods of teaching farm management. Fourteen Japanese professors and four each from Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines participated. This meeting required one week and was designed to encourage a more scientific and practical approach to the subject. Many weeks of planning were required.

In July and August 1964, with Professor C. Arthur Bratton of Cornell University and Korean professors I taught a special summer course in methods of farm management analysis for 24 young Korean agricultural economists and officials at the College of Agriculture of Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea. I planned and arranged for the special course as part of the Council's program in Korea. Almost a year in advance a grant of funds was made to two Korean professors, former Fellows of the Council, to make an economic study of farms in several villages, and the results were analyzed by the students under supervision during the special course. In this way, both the methods of analysis and the principles of the subject were demonstrated to the students through the use of their own native information. Comparisons were then made with similar results of studies in this country. This intensive course occupied five weeks.

In September 1964 I began a one-year sabbatical leave from the Council as Visiting Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, Half of my salary was paid by the Council and half by the University. During the winter quarter I taught a graduate seminar on "Transformation of Traditional Agriculture," for which I have the mimeographed notes, reading lists, etc. In this course I made use of a few of the hundreds of colored slides which I have taken on study trips in Latin America and Asia as a means of bringing home to the students conditions of life different from those experienced by the Americans in the group. Several foreign students, of course, were familiar with some of the conditions that were pictured. In this course I emphasized the historical foundations of economic development, examining especially the origin of economic and social development in Western countries. I believe it is a serious defect of many examinations of this subject that attention is mostly given to attempting to explain the so-called backwardness of the technically less developed nations. Actually, the thing that is unique and must be explained first of all is the extraordinary scientific, economic, and social development of our own civilization. Unless students understand this they cannot possibly account for different conditions elsewhere.

During the sabbatical year the Council did not employ anybody to take my place in contacts with Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and I maintained full correspondence with Fellows and other friends there, and was also called on to assist in administering fellowships of Asians in the U.S.A. At the end of the year my wife and I went to Taiwan, Republic of China, where I continued to plan and administer the Council's program for Japan, Korea and Taiwan while also serving as Visiting Professor at the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics and the College of Agriculture of Taiwan Provincial Chung Hsing University at Taichung.

At Chung Hsing University, during the two spring semesters of 1966 and 1967, I taught a course for graduate students and seniors in Agricultural Prices, stressing among other things the relation of money to prices.

In the summer of 1966, with Professor Herman M. Southworth of Pennsylvania State University and Korean professors, I taught a special summer course for 24 young Korean professional workers in methods of agricultural marketing research, at the College of Agriculture of Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea, This was a highly intensive five-week course and was based on material gathered by a young Korean professor through the use of a Council grant of funds. The students learned methods of analysis and economic principles of marketing through analysing Korean data.

Special projects like the foregoing were undertaken in addition to to the usual program of selecting Fellows for advanced study in the United States and other countries, recommending research grants and advising on research procedures and in general keeping in touch with rural social scientists in the three countries. At the invitation of the President of Seoul National University I attended the University's Twentieth Anniversary celebration in October 1966 and was presented with a special letter because of my work in Korea for the Council.

Early in 1967 I was asked by Chung Hsing University to make an evaluation of an experimental agricultural extension program in which the College of Agriculture been engaged for more than three years. This program was intended to raise the level of teaching and research at the University because of the practical contacts with farmers which it would enable the professors to have. In planning the evaluation of the program I designed questionnaires to be administered to the seniors graduating in 1967, the faculty members, and the extension personnel inmore than sixty townships in the Central Taiwan region served by the extension program. The resulting data were prepared for analysis before I left Taiwan on home leave in in mid-August 1967. Soon after arriving home I resumed analyzing the data and wrote my evaluation report. This report, which ran to 210 pages and contained recommendations for strengthening the College in a number of different ways, was finished in mid-February 1968. Reports from the Dean of the College and other correspondents in Taiwan indicate that it was well received and that steps have already been taken to put some of the recommendations into effect.

Until retirement I devoted most of my remaining time to visiting the Council's Asian Fellows at several American universities for the purpose of counseling them and their professors on the educational problems which almost always are encountered by Asian students in our institutions.

For the time being I shall not bring up to date all the personal and family notes contained in the original curriculum vitae.

I am still a member but not now a deacon of Norfield Congregational Church. I have recently joined the Academy of Political Science. The Agricultural Development Council's former Fellows in Japan, a number of whom are well-known professors, expect soon to publish a book of special papers which they have written "for my sixtieth birthday," and Cornell Experiment Station Bulletin 590, based on my doctoral thesis, has been recently printed in Japanese. (This Bulletin is first on the attached partial list of publications.)

I am an invited member of the Committee on College and Society of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, and while in Taiwan served an a member of the Board of Directors of Tung Hai University, an institution sponsored by the United Board. During Commencement of 1967 I briefly addressed the graduating class as representative of the Directors.