(1918 – 1994) The youngster, hot, tired, and dirty from digging Johnson grassroots, rested against his hoe handle in a field near Athens and watched as his father chatted with the visiting county agent. Impressed with the county agent’s late model car, neatly pressed...

(1901 – 1969) He was born to the land of Colbert County on January 6, 1901. His hometown was Riverton, Alabama. Claude N. Buchanan loved and served the land and its people all his life. After graduating from high school in Huntsville, he earned his B.S. degree in...

(1927 – 2013) Addre Bryant, Sr., was truly a leader in the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. In addition to being Alabama’s first African-American County Extension Coordinator in Montgomery County, he was one of the founders and the first president of the Alabama...

(1915 – 2010) Miss Elizabeth Bryan was born December 25, 1915, in Brundidge, Alabama. She graduated from Pike County High School in 1933 and attended Troy State Teachers College and Auburn University, receiving her B.S. degree in 1938 from Auburn. She later received...

(1939 – 2011) Phillip Washington Brown (known as P.W.) served with distinction for fifteen years as Director of the 1890 Programs at Tuskegee University and subsequently as Associate Dean of Extension. He then became the Affirmative Action Programming Officer and...

(1926 – 2012) Myra Brown was born in Tennessee and graduated from Lawrence County High (TN) class of 1943. She moved to Gadsden and attended Gadsden Business College. She started working for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at the Etowah County Courthouse,...