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Poultry Hall of Fame—American Poultry Historical Society
Poultry Hall of Fame—American Poultry Historical Society
He joined the Watt Publishing Company in 1926 as Associate Editor of Poultry Tribune, and became successively, Editor, Editorial Director, Executive Vice President and Publishing Director. He retired from the Watt Publishing Company in 1967 and established a public relations-consulting service operated from his home. He was a Member of the Committee which planned and staged the 1939 World's Poultry Congress in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised some $20,000 to help finance U.S. participation in the 1958, 1962 and 1966 World's Poultry Congresses. He was a Member of the Organizing Committee for the Poultry and Egg National Board, and served as a Director and a Member of the Finance Committee, and a Member of the Organizing Committee for the National Turkey Federation. He raised about $7,000 for the work of the National Poultry Defense Committee during World War II, and was a
Member of the Special Publicity Committee, National Poultry Advisory Committee, 1944. Hanke served as Co-chairman of the National Poultry Industry Study Committee which coordinated poultry industry promotion under a plan known as the "Harrisburg Agreement," and he headed an industry committee which raised $3,000 for a study of the interior quality of eggs. He was President of A.P.H.S., 1969-1970. His honors have been many: Honorary Life Member, National Turkey Federation, 1961; Industry Service Award, Institute of American Poultry Industries, 1961; plaque in recognition of his exceptional service to the National Poultry Defense Committee, 1945; honored for distinguished service by the University of Wisconsin Journalism Institute, 1970; Honorary American Farmer degree, National Future Farmers of America; Silver Beaver and Silver Antelope Awards, Boy Scouts of America; Lamb Award for distinguished service to boyhood, National Lutheran Committee on Scouting; and a plaque for exceptional service to the people of Mount Morris presented jointly by nine civic, religious, educational and philanthropic organizations in 1967. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association; World's Poultry Science Association; American Agricultural Editors Association; American Association of Agricultural College Editors; Public Relations Society of America, Inc.; American Society of Agricultural Engineers; American Poultry Historical Society; Alpha Zeta; Sigma Delta Chi; and Phi Kappa Phi. VICTOR WILLIAM HENNINGSEN, SR., Pelham, New York, was born in Superior, Nebraska, August IS, 1895. He entered the produce business in 1916, after completion of a two-year course at the University of Nebraska. He served as Import-Export Manager of Henningsen Produce Company, Portland, Oregon, and Production Manager of the Henningsen Produce Company, Shanghai, China, from 1916 to 1921. From 1921 to 1939 he also was President of Henningsen Brothers, Inc., New York; and from 1939 to 1945 was President of Henningsen Brothers, Inc.; Henningsen Lamesa, Inc.; Henningsen Fort Worth, Inc.; and Henningsen Denison, Inc. From 1945 to 1963 he was President and Director of the above companies, and President and Director of Henningsen, Inc., and Henningsen Brothers Ltd. Canada. In 1963 all of the Henningsen Companies, except Henningsen Brothers Ltd. Canada, merged into Henningsen Foods, Inc. From 1961 to the
1931
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At the Awards Program, held on August 19th, during the 60th Annual Meeting of the Poultry Science Association at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Dr. E. M. Funk, President of the American Poultry Historical Society, announced the election of five distinguished poultry leaders to the Poultry Hall of Fame—O. A. Hanke; V. W. Henningsen, Sr.; J. D. Jewell; J. Holmes Martin; and D. C. Warren. Their portraits, and those of 27 persons previously honored, will be displayed in the Poultry Hall of Fame in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Library at Beltsville, Maryland. Honorees are elected from among persons who "have rendered a lifetime of outstanding service to the poultry industry." The American Poultry Historical Society Hall of Fame election is held every three years. The Society appoints a committee of 30 poultry industry leaders to select the honorees. OSCAR AUGUST HANKE, Mount Morris, Illinois, was born near Waterloo, Wisconsin, March 1, 1902. At the University of Wisconsin he majored in agricultural journalism with a minor in poultry husbandry. Following his sophomore year at the University, he served for a year as Head of the Texas National Laying Contest and Superintendent of the Poultry Farm at Texas A and M College (now University), then returned to Wisconsin where he received a B.S. degree in 1926. Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, of which he is a Member of the Board of Trustees, awarded him the honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters in 1954.
1932
POULTRY HALL OF FAME
He served as President of the Egg Products Association of America, 1938 to 1939; as President of the National Egg Products Association, 1942 to 1943; as Director of Research and Development Associates; as Director of the Institute of American Poultry Industries, 19S0 to 1959; as Director of the National Poultry, Butter, and Egg Association, 1958 to 1959. From 1950 to 1958 he was a Member of the Research Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Agriculture, and was a Foundermember of the Egg Solids Council of the Institute of American Poultry Industries in 1953. He was a Member of the Defense Supply Association, the NRA Egg Advisory Committee, and the OPA Egg Advisory Committee. Since 1963 he has been a Trustee of the Nutrition Foundation. In 1967 he was a recipient of the Industry Service Award of the Institute of American Poultry Industries. JESSE DICKSON JEWELL was born in Gainesville, Georgia, in 1893. He attended Georgia Institute of Technology in 1920, and the University of Alabama in 1922, leaving college to help his widowed mother operate a feed and fertilizer business. In the '30s he began raising chickens in a corner of the feed store. From this beginning, under his management, J.D. Jewell, Inc., Gainesville, Georgia, has grown to be one of the nation's outstanding broiler operations. He pioneered the development of the nation's modern meat chicken industry, vertical integration, bulk feeding, many new types of equipment, feed conversion contracts, better packaging, new products, aggressive merchandising, and the production and use of by-products. He was President of the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association in 1949, the first President and Board Chairman of the National Broiler
Council in 1954-1957; Director of the Institute of American Poultry Industries, 1950 to 1958; President and Board Chairman, Georgia Chamber of Commerce in 1955; and Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1954 to 1956; and a Director of the National Association of Manufacturers. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Brenau College, Gainesville. Mr. Jewell is an Honorary Lifetime Member of the National Broiler Council Board of Directors, the nation's only industry leader to receive this recognition to date. He was the first, and currently the only man selected for the Poultry Hall of Fame at the University of Georgia, and in 1957 received the Outstanding PouUryman Award of the Institute of American Poultry Industries. In 1960 he received the Georgia Poultry Federation Award for "outstanding service to the poultry industry of Georgia." In 1945, he received the "A" Award from the War Food Administration presented to food processors who had been outstanding in their support of the war effort. He received the Sullivan Award from Brenau College, in 1956, for "outstanding contributions to education in the South." Other honors are: honorary membership in the Future Farmers of America, the Associated Industries of Georgia's Award for distinguished industrial achievement, the Gainesville Rotary Club's "Man of the Year" 1950, honorary life membership in the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce, and the 1962 Hall County Community Chest Red Cross Award for "outstanding citizenship." JOSEPH HOLMES MARTIN, West Lafayette, Indiana, was born in Chicago, Illinois, June 25, 1895. He received a B.S.A. degree at Purdue University in 1917, an M.S. degree at the University of Kentucky in 1924, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1929. In 1918 he was appointed as Instructor at the University of Kentucky. From 1922 to 1938 he was Professor In Charge of Poultry Husbandry, and during 193738 he was also In Charge of Genetics. From 1938 to 1940 he was Director of the U.S. Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, and Research Professor at Michigan State College. In 1940 he became Head of the Poultry Department at Purdue University, and continued in that position until 1962. From 1962 to 1963 he was Assistant Head, Department of Animal Sciences at Purdue and from 1962 to 1965 Coordinator for the PurdueBrazil project. In 1944-45, he was on leave from Purdue, serving as Consulting Geneticist for DeKalb Agricultural Association. Dr. Martin was author or co-author of more than 80 scientific papers and bulletins; authored
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present he has been Chairman of the Board of Henningsen Foods, Inc., and from 1963 to 1967 was President and Director of Henningsen Brothers Ltd. Canada. He also has been a Director of Christie Transfer Company, Inc., and Christie Furniture Company, Inc., since 1963. Mr. Henningsen pioneered the freezing of eggs in China in 1917, developed spray drying innovations for eggs, and in 1936, promoted research and development leading to the production of egg products free of pathogens through pasteurization. He pioneered improved stability in dried whole egg, and his stable blend of pan dried whites and spray dried yolks led to research ultimately resulting in glucose free whole egg solids. Henningsen produced the first low-moisture, gas-packed dried eggs for the U.S. Army in 1944, and commercially applied enzyme desugaring in 1950.
POULTRY H A L L OF FAME
He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Poultry Science Association from 1926 to 1931; was a Member of the Executive Council of the World's Poultry Science Association, and of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the World's Poultry Science Journal, 1958 to 1965; Chairman, Technical Committee, Poultry and Egg National Board, 1940-1948; Member, Research Committee, Institute of American Poultry Industries, 1945 to 1965; Member, Executive Council, Purdue University, 1940 to 1943, and 1951 to 1954; Recording Secretary, Indiana State Egg Board, 1941 to 1953; Member, Board of Directors, Indiana Poultry Breeders, Inc., 1950 to 1957; Official Contact Representative for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Poultry and Turkey Improvement Plan, 1945 to 1962; U.S. Delegate to 10th, 11th and 12th World Poultry Congresses, 1954, 1958 and 1962, respectively; Member, Board of Directors, Indiana State Poultry Association, 1940 to 1962; Director of Research, American Poultry and Hatchery Federation, 1958 to 1962; Secretary, 1960, and President, 1963, American Poultry Historical Society. Dr. Martin has been the recipient of several honours: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Poultry Science Association, Indiana Golden Egg Award, Award for Meritorious Service in Research from the Quartermaster Subsistence Laboratory of the U.S. Army, Silver Medal from the Brazil Academy Agronome, and Honorary Life Member of the National Turkey Federation. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, World's Poultry Science Association, American Genetic Association, Genetics Society of Amer-
ica, Alpha Gamma Rho (Grand President, 19381940), Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Mu Alpha (Sinfonia). DON CAMERON WARREN, Fremont, California, was born in Saratoga, Indiana, in 1891. He received a Teacher's Certificate at the Indiana State Normal in 1910, A.B. and M.A. degrees at Indiana University in 1914 and 1917, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in 1923. He taught in elementary schools in Saratoga, Indiana, 1909 to 1910; was Assistant in Zoology at Indiana University, 1913 to 1914; Research Assistant, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1914 to 1915; Graduate Assistant at Indiana University, 1915 to 1917; Field Entomologist, Alabama Experiment Station, 1917 to 1918; Assistant Entomologist, Georgia State Board of Entomology, 1918 to 1921; Fellow in Zoology, Columbia University, 1921 to 1923; Professor, Kansas State University, 1923 to 1948; Director and National Coordinator, U.S. Department of Agriculture Poultry Breeding Laboratory, Purdue University, 1948-1956; and Geneticist, Kimber Farms, Inc., 1956-1968. He is the author or co-author of some 100 scientific and semi-scientific publications, and author of the text, Practical Poultry Breeding. Dr. Warren served as an Associate Editor of Poultry Science, 1930 to 1932, and 1935 to 1939, and was Consultant to India for the International Cooperative Administration, 1955. He has also made consulting visits to Puerto Rico, Egypt, and Turkey. He was the recipient of the Poultry Science Association Research Award in 1933, the Borden Award of that Association in 1940, the Superior Service Award of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1954; and the Exceptional Service Award, Freemont Unified School District in 1967. He was made a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association in 1938. His major contributions were in training students, many of them also outstanding in university and industry, and outstanding research in poultry genetics and physiology, including: feather and color sexing, chromosome mapping, inheritance of economic traits, formation of the egg and the physiology of reproduction, and hybrid vigor evaluation in crossbred chicks, and productive service in the commercial field. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association (President, 1941-1944), American Society of Zoologists, American Naturalists Society, American Genetic Association, American Society for the Advancement of Science (Fellow), Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Gamma Sigma Delta.
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the chapter on Sanitation in Biester and Des Vries text, Poultry Diseases, and co-authored the book Turkey Management. He was Coordinator of the Regional Poultry Breeding Research Project, North Central States, 1945 to 1948. He was Editor of Poultry Science from 1932 to 1935, Editor of Sickle and Sheaf from 1929 to 1936, and Associate Editor of Southern Agriculturist from 1920 to 1931. Dr. Martin has done extensive consulting work throughout the world, for both government and industry. His activities in this field include: Collaborator, Food Subsistance Research Laboratory, Quartermaster Corps; Collaborator, Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Consultant, Bank of Mexico; Consultant, American Food Company, Cuba; Consultant, Hens (Voeders) Feed Company, Belgium; and Consultant, U.SA.I.D.-State Department.
1933
He joined the Watt Publishing Company in 1926 as Associate Editor of Poultry Tribune, and became successively, Editor, Editorial Director, Executive Vice President and Publishing Director. He retired from the Watt Publishing Company in 1967 and established a public relations-consulting service operated from his home. He was a Member of the Committee which planned and staged the 1939 World's Poultry Congress in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised some $20,000 to help finance U.S. participation in the 1958, 1962 and 1966 World's Poultry Congresses. He was a Member of the Organizing Committee for the Poultry and Egg National Board, and served as a Director and a Member of the Finance Committee, and a Member of the Organizing Committee for the National Turkey Federation. He raised about $7,000 for the work of the National Poultry Defense Committee during World War II, and was a
Member of the Special Publicity Committee, National Poultry Advisory Committee, 1944. Hanke served as Co-chairman of the National Poultry Industry Study Committee which coordinated poultry industry promotion under a plan known as the "Harrisburg Agreement," and he headed an industry committee which raised $3,000 for a study of the interior quality of eggs. He was President of A.P.H.S., 1969-1970. His honors have been many: Honorary Life Member, National Turkey Federation, 1961; Industry Service Award, Institute of American Poultry Industries, 1961; plaque in recognition of his exceptional service to the National Poultry Defense Committee, 1945; honored for distinguished service by the University of Wisconsin Journalism Institute, 1970; Honorary American Farmer degree, National Future Farmers of America; Silver Beaver and Silver Antelope Awards, Boy Scouts of America; Lamb Award for distinguished service to boyhood, National Lutheran Committee on Scouting; and a plaque for exceptional service to the people of Mount Morris presented jointly by nine civic, religious, educational and philanthropic organizations in 1967. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association; World's Poultry Science Association; American Agricultural Editors Association; American Association of Agricultural College Editors; Public Relations Society of America, Inc.; American Society of Agricultural Engineers; American Poultry Historical Society; Alpha Zeta; Sigma Delta Chi; and Phi Kappa Phi. VICTOR WILLIAM HENNINGSEN, SR., Pelham, New York, was born in Superior, Nebraska, August IS, 1895. He entered the produce business in 1916, after completion of a two-year course at the University of Nebraska. He served as Import-Export Manager of Henningsen Produce Company, Portland, Oregon, and Production Manager of the Henningsen Produce Company, Shanghai, China, from 1916 to 1921. From 1921 to 1939 he also was President of Henningsen Brothers, Inc., New York; and from 1939 to 1945 was President of Henningsen Brothers, Inc.; Henningsen Lamesa, Inc.; Henningsen Fort Worth, Inc.; and Henningsen Denison, Inc. From 1945 to 1963 he was President and Director of the above companies, and President and Director of Henningsen, Inc., and Henningsen Brothers Ltd. Canada. In 1963 all of the Henningsen Companies, except Henningsen Brothers Ltd. Canada, merged into Henningsen Foods, Inc. From 1961 to the
1931
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At the Awards Program, held on August 19th, during the 60th Annual Meeting of the Poultry Science Association at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Dr. E. M. Funk, President of the American Poultry Historical Society, announced the election of five distinguished poultry leaders to the Poultry Hall of Fame—O. A. Hanke; V. W. Henningsen, Sr.; J. D. Jewell; J. Holmes Martin; and D. C. Warren. Their portraits, and those of 27 persons previously honored, will be displayed in the Poultry Hall of Fame in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Library at Beltsville, Maryland. Honorees are elected from among persons who "have rendered a lifetime of outstanding service to the poultry industry." The American Poultry Historical Society Hall of Fame election is held every three years. The Society appoints a committee of 30 poultry industry leaders to select the honorees. OSCAR AUGUST HANKE, Mount Morris, Illinois, was born near Waterloo, Wisconsin, March 1, 1902. At the University of Wisconsin he majored in agricultural journalism with a minor in poultry husbandry. Following his sophomore year at the University, he served for a year as Head of the Texas National Laying Contest and Superintendent of the Poultry Farm at Texas A and M College (now University), then returned to Wisconsin where he received a B.S. degree in 1926. Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, of which he is a Member of the Board of Trustees, awarded him the honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters in 1954.
1932
POULTRY HALL OF FAME
He served as President of the Egg Products Association of America, 1938 to 1939; as President of the National Egg Products Association, 1942 to 1943; as Director of Research and Development Associates; as Director of the Institute of American Poultry Industries, 19S0 to 1959; as Director of the National Poultry, Butter, and Egg Association, 1958 to 1959. From 1950 to 1958 he was a Member of the Research Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Agriculture, and was a Foundermember of the Egg Solids Council of the Institute of American Poultry Industries in 1953. He was a Member of the Defense Supply Association, the NRA Egg Advisory Committee, and the OPA Egg Advisory Committee. Since 1963 he has been a Trustee of the Nutrition Foundation. In 1967 he was a recipient of the Industry Service Award of the Institute of American Poultry Industries. JESSE DICKSON JEWELL was born in Gainesville, Georgia, in 1893. He attended Georgia Institute of Technology in 1920, and the University of Alabama in 1922, leaving college to help his widowed mother operate a feed and fertilizer business. In the '30s he began raising chickens in a corner of the feed store. From this beginning, under his management, J.D. Jewell, Inc., Gainesville, Georgia, has grown to be one of the nation's outstanding broiler operations. He pioneered the development of the nation's modern meat chicken industry, vertical integration, bulk feeding, many new types of equipment, feed conversion contracts, better packaging, new products, aggressive merchandising, and the production and use of by-products. He was President of the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association in 1949, the first President and Board Chairman of the National Broiler
Council in 1954-1957; Director of the Institute of American Poultry Industries, 1950 to 1958; President and Board Chairman, Georgia Chamber of Commerce in 1955; and Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1954 to 1956; and a Director of the National Association of Manufacturers. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Brenau College, Gainesville. Mr. Jewell is an Honorary Lifetime Member of the National Broiler Council Board of Directors, the nation's only industry leader to receive this recognition to date. He was the first, and currently the only man selected for the Poultry Hall of Fame at the University of Georgia, and in 1957 received the Outstanding PouUryman Award of the Institute of American Poultry Industries. In 1960 he received the Georgia Poultry Federation Award for "outstanding service to the poultry industry of Georgia." In 1945, he received the "A" Award from the War Food Administration presented to food processors who had been outstanding in their support of the war effort. He received the Sullivan Award from Brenau College, in 1956, for "outstanding contributions to education in the South." Other honors are: honorary membership in the Future Farmers of America, the Associated Industries of Georgia's Award for distinguished industrial achievement, the Gainesville Rotary Club's "Man of the Year" 1950, honorary life membership in the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce, and the 1962 Hall County Community Chest Red Cross Award for "outstanding citizenship." JOSEPH HOLMES MARTIN, West Lafayette, Indiana, was born in Chicago, Illinois, June 25, 1895. He received a B.S.A. degree at Purdue University in 1917, an M.S. degree at the University of Kentucky in 1924, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1929. In 1918 he was appointed as Instructor at the University of Kentucky. From 1922 to 1938 he was Professor In Charge of Poultry Husbandry, and during 193738 he was also In Charge of Genetics. From 1938 to 1940 he was Director of the U.S. Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, and Research Professor at Michigan State College. In 1940 he became Head of the Poultry Department at Purdue University, and continued in that position until 1962. From 1962 to 1963 he was Assistant Head, Department of Animal Sciences at Purdue and from 1962 to 1965 Coordinator for the PurdueBrazil project. In 1944-45, he was on leave from Purdue, serving as Consulting Geneticist for DeKalb Agricultural Association. Dr. Martin was author or co-author of more than 80 scientific papers and bulletins; authored
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present he has been Chairman of the Board of Henningsen Foods, Inc., and from 1963 to 1967 was President and Director of Henningsen Brothers Ltd. Canada. He also has been a Director of Christie Transfer Company, Inc., and Christie Furniture Company, Inc., since 1963. Mr. Henningsen pioneered the freezing of eggs in China in 1917, developed spray drying innovations for eggs, and in 1936, promoted research and development leading to the production of egg products free of pathogens through pasteurization. He pioneered improved stability in dried whole egg, and his stable blend of pan dried whites and spray dried yolks led to research ultimately resulting in glucose free whole egg solids. Henningsen produced the first low-moisture, gas-packed dried eggs for the U.S. Army in 1944, and commercially applied enzyme desugaring in 1950.
POULTRY H A L L OF FAME
He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Poultry Science Association from 1926 to 1931; was a Member of the Executive Council of the World's Poultry Science Association, and of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the World's Poultry Science Journal, 1958 to 1965; Chairman, Technical Committee, Poultry and Egg National Board, 1940-1948; Member, Research Committee, Institute of American Poultry Industries, 1945 to 1965; Member, Executive Council, Purdue University, 1940 to 1943, and 1951 to 1954; Recording Secretary, Indiana State Egg Board, 1941 to 1953; Member, Board of Directors, Indiana Poultry Breeders, Inc., 1950 to 1957; Official Contact Representative for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Poultry and Turkey Improvement Plan, 1945 to 1962; U.S. Delegate to 10th, 11th and 12th World Poultry Congresses, 1954, 1958 and 1962, respectively; Member, Board of Directors, Indiana State Poultry Association, 1940 to 1962; Director of Research, American Poultry and Hatchery Federation, 1958 to 1962; Secretary, 1960, and President, 1963, American Poultry Historical Society. Dr. Martin has been the recipient of several honours: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Poultry Science Association, Indiana Golden Egg Award, Award for Meritorious Service in Research from the Quartermaster Subsistence Laboratory of the U.S. Army, Silver Medal from the Brazil Academy Agronome, and Honorary Life Member of the National Turkey Federation. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association, World's Poultry Science Association, American Genetic Association, Genetics Society of Amer-
ica, Alpha Gamma Rho (Grand President, 19381940), Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Mu Alpha (Sinfonia). DON CAMERON WARREN, Fremont, California, was born in Saratoga, Indiana, in 1891. He received a Teacher's Certificate at the Indiana State Normal in 1910, A.B. and M.A. degrees at Indiana University in 1914 and 1917, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in 1923. He taught in elementary schools in Saratoga, Indiana, 1909 to 1910; was Assistant in Zoology at Indiana University, 1913 to 1914; Research Assistant, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1914 to 1915; Graduate Assistant at Indiana University, 1915 to 1917; Field Entomologist, Alabama Experiment Station, 1917 to 1918; Assistant Entomologist, Georgia State Board of Entomology, 1918 to 1921; Fellow in Zoology, Columbia University, 1921 to 1923; Professor, Kansas State University, 1923 to 1948; Director and National Coordinator, U.S. Department of Agriculture Poultry Breeding Laboratory, Purdue University, 1948-1956; and Geneticist, Kimber Farms, Inc., 1956-1968. He is the author or co-author of some 100 scientific and semi-scientific publications, and author of the text, Practical Poultry Breeding. Dr. Warren served as an Associate Editor of Poultry Science, 1930 to 1932, and 1935 to 1939, and was Consultant to India for the International Cooperative Administration, 1955. He has also made consulting visits to Puerto Rico, Egypt, and Turkey. He was the recipient of the Poultry Science Association Research Award in 1933, the Borden Award of that Association in 1940, the Superior Service Award of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1954; and the Exceptional Service Award, Freemont Unified School District in 1967. He was made a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association in 1938. His major contributions were in training students, many of them also outstanding in university and industry, and outstanding research in poultry genetics and physiology, including: feather and color sexing, chromosome mapping, inheritance of economic traits, formation of the egg and the physiology of reproduction, and hybrid vigor evaluation in crossbred chicks, and productive service in the commercial field. He is a member of the Poultry Science Association (President, 1941-1944), American Society of Zoologists, American Naturalists Society, American Genetic Association, American Society for the Advancement of Science (Fellow), Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Gamma Sigma Delta.
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the chapter on Sanitation in Biester and Des Vries text, Poultry Diseases, and co-authored the book Turkey Management. He was Coordinator of the Regional Poultry Breeding Research Project, North Central States, 1945 to 1948. He was Editor of Poultry Science from 1932 to 1935, Editor of Sickle and Sheaf from 1929 to 1936, and Associate Editor of Southern Agriculturist from 1920 to 1931. Dr. Martin has done extensive consulting work throughout the world, for both government and industry. His activities in this field include: Collaborator, Food Subsistance Research Laboratory, Quartermaster Corps; Collaborator, Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Consultant, Bank of Mexico; Consultant, American Food Company, Cuba; Consultant, Hens (Voeders) Feed Company, Belgium; and Consultant, U.SA.I.D.-State Department.
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