(1932 – 2021) Dr. Alfred Ray Cavender was born in Waverly TN, the youngest of five children. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps stationed in Germany. Cavender received a Bachelor and Masters degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville...
(1882 – 1918) John Absolom Chancellor served as Cherokee County’s first county Extension agent, beginning in the year the Cooperative Extension System was created. Although he held that position for only two years, from 1914 through 1915, he set the high standard of...
(1927 – 2000) Among his colleagues at Auburn University, Louie Chapman will be remembered as one of the nation’s preeminent Extension Service cotton specialists and, perhaps more importantly, he will be remembered by everyone who knew him with respect and affection —...
(1955 – 1987) Inspired by his father and encouraged by his professors, Charles Chapman excelled in subjects of the soil. At an early age, he set his sights on working with Extension. He always wanted to help the people of Alabama to further understand their precious...
(1932 – 2004) In the mid-1980s, someone got the idea that Extension specialists and agents ought to get together for a little fun and golf at Indian Pines Golf Course in Auburn. Walter Cheney, Extension’s senior artist, had just started to play golf at the time. And...
(1893 – 1984) William Taylor Cheney, born in Demopolis, Alabama, lived all of his early life on a nearby plantation. At age 16, without graduating from Demopolis High School, but by taking extra courses, William enrolled at Auburn University, and in June of 1914, he...