(1897 – 1973) James D. “Duck” Samford, a native of Troy, Alabama, was born on December 15, 1897. He grew up on a Pike County farm and graduated from Auburn University in 1920. He played guard on Auburn’s 1917 football team. He also served one year in World War I. Mr....
(1870 – 1969) “One of my first efforts was that of organizing clubs,” Charles Sampson recalled of his first year of work (1918) in Sumter County as Emergency Demonstration Agent. “But people failed to attend. They thought it was a scheme or [that we were] registering...
(1912 – 1986) T. L. Sanderson, known to all as “Sandy,” began his Extension career March 3, 1943, in Marshall County and served there as assistant county agent until 1949. He became Etowah county agent on January 1, 1949, and remained there thirty-one years until his...
(1865 – 1946) As unlikely as it might seem, a man born in the last year of the War Between the States became a county agent in Walker County, Alabama. The year 1910 — four years before the signing of the Smith-Lever Act — found John William Sartain beginning his long...
(1916 – 2000) William French Sconyers was the first of seven children born to W. S. Sconyers and Ethel Covington Sconyers in Henry County, Alabama. French Sconyers began his Extension career in 1947 as an Extension Agent in Pickens County. Five years later, he began...
(1920 – 1993) Charles David Scott II was born on January 16, 1920, to Rev. Charles Scott and Mrs. Sarah Bonner Scott in Dayton, Alabama. He graduated from high school in Selma and received his Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Education from Tuskegee Institute. Upon...