Death claims noted authority in conservation
A. L. Hafenrichter, retired employe of the Soil Conservation Service in Portland and holder of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top achievement award, died Sunday in a local hospital. He was 76.
Mr. Hafenrichter received the Distinguished Service Award in 1963 for his direction in the selection and increase of grasses, legumes and other plants for conservation use. He was regional plant materials specialist for the Soil Conservation Service from 1954 until his retirement in 1967.
Mr. Hafenrichter joined SCS in 1933 as an agronomist after a stint as an assistant professor of agronomy and assistant in the Washington State Experiment Station at Pullman, Wash.
On April 27, SCS dedicated its Lockford, Calif., plant materials center to Mr. Hafenrichter. He was unable to attend the ceremony because he was hospitalized.
Born Oct. 12, 1897, in Plainfield, Ill., Mr. Hafenrichter graduated from Northwestern College in 1922 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1926.
Mr. Hafenrichter, a recognized international authority in plant materials and author of publications on plant physiology, forage crops, range seeding, erosion control and soil and water conservation, also received the Department of Agriculture’s superior service award in 1947 as chief of the SCS nursery division for the Northwest.
Survivors include his wife, Irene; two sons, Richard, Menlo Park, Calif. and Gordon, Palm Desert, Calif., and 4 grandchildren.
Caldwell’s Colonial Mortuary will announce funeral arrangements.
[The Oregonian, 21 May 1973, p10]i
A. L. Hafenrichter, retired employe of the Soil Conservation Service in Portland and holder of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top achievement award, died Sunday in a local hospital. He was 76.
Mr. Hafenrichter received the Distinguished Service Award in 1963 for his direction in the selection and increase of grasses, legumes and other plants for conservation use. He was regional plant materials specialist for the Soil Conservation Service from 1954 until his retirement in 1967.
Mr. Hafenrichter joined SCS in 1933 as an agronomist after a stint as an assistant professor of agronomy and assistant in the Washington State Experiment Station at Pullman, Wash.
On April 27, SCS dedicated its Lockford, Calif., plant materials center to Mr. Hafenrichter. He was unable to attend the ceremony because he was hospitalized.
Born Oct. 12, 1897, in Plainfield, Ill., Mr. Hafenrichter graduated from Northwestern College in 1922 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1926.
Mr. Hafenrichter, a recognized international authority in plant materials and author of publications on plant physiology, forage crops, range seeding, erosion control and soil and water conservation, also received the Department of Agriculture’s superior service award in 1947 as chief of the SCS nursery division for the Northwest.
Survivors include his wife, Irene; two sons, Richard, Menlo Park, Calif. and Gordon, Palm Desert, Calif., and 4 grandchildren.
Caldwell’s Colonial Mortuary will announce funeral arrangements.
[The Oregonian, 21 May 1973, p10]i
Death claims noted authority in conservation
A. L. Hafenrichter, retired employe of the Soil Conservation Service in Portland and holder of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top achievement award, died Sunday in a local hospital. He was 76.
Mr. Hafenrichter received the Distinguished Service Award in 1963 for his direction in the selection and increase of grasses, legumes and other plants for conservation use. He was regional plant materials specialist for the Soil Conservation Service from 1954 until his retirement in 1967.
Mr. Hafenrichter joined SCS in 1933 as an agronomist after a stint as an assistant professor of agronomy and assistant in the Washington State Experiment Station at Pullman, Wash.
On April 27, SCS dedicated its Lockford, Calif., plant materials center to Mr. Hafenrichter. He was unable to attend the ceremony because he was hospitalized.
Born Oct. 12, 1897, in Plainfield, Ill., Mr. Hafenrichter graduated from Northwestern College in 1922 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1926.
Mr. Hafenrichter, a recognized international authority in plant materials and author of publications on plant physiology, forage crops, range seeding, erosion control and soil and water conservation, also received the Department of Agriculture’s superior service award in 1947 as chief of the SCS nursery division for the Northwest.
Survivors include his wife, Irene; two sons, Richard, Menlo Park, Calif. and Gordon, Palm Desert, Calif., and 4 grandchildren.
Caldwell’s Colonial Mortuary will announce funeral arrangements.
[The Oregonian, 21 May 1973, p10]i
A. L. Hafenrichter, retired employe of the Soil Conservation Service in Portland and holder of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top achievement award, died Sunday in a local hospital. He was 76.
Mr. Hafenrichter received the Distinguished Service Award in 1963 for his direction in the selection and increase of grasses, legumes and other plants for conservation use. He was regional plant materials specialist for the Soil Conservation Service from 1954 until his retirement in 1967.
Mr. Hafenrichter joined SCS in 1933 as an agronomist after a stint as an assistant professor of agronomy and assistant in the Washington State Experiment Station at Pullman, Wash.
On April 27, SCS dedicated its Lockford, Calif., plant materials center to Mr. Hafenrichter. He was unable to attend the ceremony because he was hospitalized.
Born Oct. 12, 1897, in Plainfield, Ill., Mr. Hafenrichter graduated from Northwestern College in 1922 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1926.
Mr. Hafenrichter, a recognized international authority in plant materials and author of publications on plant physiology, forage crops, range seeding, erosion control and soil and water conservation, also received the Department of Agriculture’s superior service award in 1947 as chief of the SCS nursery division for the Northwest.
Survivors include his wife, Irene; two sons, Richard, Menlo Park, Calif. and Gordon, Palm Desert, Calif., and 4 grandchildren.
Caldwell’s Colonial Mortuary will announce funeral arrangements.
[The Oregonian, 21 May 1973, p10]i
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