(1914 – 1994) Clinton Harold Johns was born on April 5, 1914, in Conecuh County and graduated from high school in Evergreen. After receiving a B.S. degree in agricultural education from Auburn in 1937, Mr. Johns began his county Extension work as the Assistant County...

(1892 – 1949) Those Extension workers who initiated programs while the service was just getting started were real pioneers. It was not easy to convince rural folks that college-educated young men knew more about how to produce crops than they did. That was the...

(1901 – 1977) Rennie Burton Jeter was born in Opelika on December 30, 1901. After graduating from Opelika High School, she attended Auburn University. Then she decided to get a job as a bookkeeper for Pepperell Manufacturing Company. Just prior to joining Auburn...

(1905 – 1977) Mary Dalene Jeter didn’t have to go far from home to find her final career destination. Born in Opelika on March 24, 1905, she earned her high school diploma from Opelika High School in 1922. For three years, Dalene worked as a stenographer and...

(1920 – 1996) Born Jasper Eidson Jernigan in Conecuh County, Alabama, to John and Ethel Eidson Jernigan, he was the oldest of six sisters and five brothers. He graduated from Conecuh County High School in 1940 and attended Auburn University, graduating in 1943 with a...

(1918 – 1997) A well-known civic leader who worked for 35 years with Alabama Cooperative Extension Service and named “Mr. Auburn” by friends and associates was the loss suffered by St. Clair County when William D. Jackson, Sr., died. He was born on January 3, 1918, in...