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Dear Jerry,

 

     The first issue of Pomona was in 1967, not 1961.  I also recently acquired a complete collection of the Pomona issues, most of which I have packaged up to ship as a donation to the NAFEX library.  In the past John Hillbrand has listed these in Pomona for sale as individual items.  In studing these, I think I have figured out why we cannot find a description of the Milo Gibson award winner for 1986.  That year was the only year in which there were 3, rather than 4 issues of Pomona printed.  The October (#4) issue was never done.  Typically, the last issue of the year had the writeup of the award winner.  I think it just slipped through the cracks and never appeared in the first issue of 1987.  Ed Fackler thinks the winner in 1986 could have been Roger Way, an apple breeder from New York.  Does this ring a bell with you?  I wrote to TO Warren, who was appointed chair of the Milo Gibson committee in 1985, to see if he remembers.  His daughter fields e-mail for him and despite his age (around 90) he still has his marbles.  I have not heard back.  If we can determine if Roger Way was indeed the winner, I would like to write a belated award statement to go with the one for this years' winner.  Roger Way was listed in our 2002 NAFEX roster, so he was probably alive and kicking (perhaps not too high) at that time.

 

                                                               Regards, Ethan


-----Original Message-----
From: Jwlehman@aol.com
Sent: Aug 2, 2004 9:40 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org, nutgrowers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NAFEX] Pomona, Nutshell and NNGA Annual Reports to be auctioned.

Hello everyone,

Lois Davie, long time member along with her late husband Bill were members of several nut & fruit growing organizations. Lois has decided to donate their many years of collected material to NAFEX & NNGA by bringing all of it to be auctioned at the combined annual meeting Monday evening auction. All auction proceeds from the fruit publications will go to NAFEX and nut publications to NNGA. 

Here is the list as I have it.

Pomona issues from 1961 to 1992

Pomona Indexes printed 1967 & 1982

NAFEX membership Rosters 1980, 1993 & 1995

Compact Fruit Grower 1974 to 1982

Fruit Varieties Journal 1973 to 1991

Misc. American Chestnut Foundation material and reports 1986 to 2003  

Northern Nut Growers Annual Reports complete set, except the two years in which none were printed.
This is a nearly once in a lifetime opportunity to obtain the complete set of, "The Northern Nut Growers Annual reports." 

NNGA Directories 1987, 89, 91 & 1993

Indiana Nut Growers "Hoosier Kernel" 1990 to 2004
    INGA publishes 4 issues annually, each usually 20 pages of nut and fruit growing information as well as other material of interest to family members such as gardening. Most were Edited by Bill Heiman or Jerry Lehman.

The Nebraska Nut Growers "The NeNGA Newsletter" 1998 to 2004.

Nebraska Membership Directories 1995 & 1996

1904 USDA Bulletin 123 , report on Pennsylvania Agriculture    

You can still register for the meeting. Most NAFEX members still haven't received the summer issue of Pomona which includes the program. Nearly forty speakers, over 50 presentations to choose from. Expected attendance at this point is 200. Come join your fellow members at Columbia, MO. Sunday, Aug. 15 thru 18. The current program is at WWW.NAFEX.org & WWW.Nutgrowing.org.

Jerry