Appointment of Lamar C. Henry

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La...~ar C. Henry was appointed Vice President - Agriculture in February of this year, and just a few weeks ago was given the added responsibility of overseeing all of the operations of the Great Western Agricultural Research Center. He has nearly 29 years in sugarbeet crop management for our Company. His career in the last 17 years has included assignments as District General Manager for North Central Colorado and Agricultural Manager at GWS factories located in Goodland, Kansas, and Brighton and Ovid, Colorado. Earlier, he was Agricultural Staff Assistant at the Denver general office and Assistant Agricultural Manager at Scottsbluff and Gering, Nebraska. He grew up on ranches in western Colorado and is a 1941 graduate of Colorado State University.

FOR RELEASE THURSDAY, 12 NOON, FEB. 2, 1967

LaMar C. Henry, who helped to develop the sugar beet crop in the Tri=County area, today was named manager of The Great Western Sugar Company factory near Goodland.

His appointment was announced in Denver by Fred G. Holmes, company vice president in charge of agricultural administration. Henry moves to the Tri~County assignment on March 1 from his present post as manager of the GW factory at Brighton, Colo.

Henry's transfer provides beet growers in the three counties with a complete agricultural staff and service for further development of the crop. Previously, Henry divided his time between Brighton and the Tri-County area.

His service with growers in the three counties dates back to 1958 and almost the start of irrigated sugar beet agriculture in the area. Over the years, under Henry's direction, growers expanded their beet plantings from 500 acres to more than 19,000 last year.

It was this sound, gradual expansion of the crop that prompted Great Western last fall to announce plans for a new Tri-County sugar factory

to be completed in 1968. It will be the first sugar factory erected in recent years in the United States with a firmly established beet crop.

As manager, Henry will be assisted by four fieldmen already in the area -- William Gray at Goodland, Don P. Lindshield at Kanorado, Merle E. Worden and Charles Hefenieder at Burlington.

In his 20 years as a Great Westerner, Henry acquired a broad background in agricultural management. He became manager of the Brighton

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factory in 1958. Before that, he had been assistant to the then president, Frank A. Kemp9 in Denver. He was also manager of the Ovid factory in Colo-rado from 1956 to 1957.

In his earlier assignments, Henry served on the company's

agri-cultural staff in Denver, as assistant manager at the Scottsbluff and Gering faccories in Nebraska9 and as a fieldman at the Longmont factory in Colorado. He also worked on the design and development of the GW thinning machine, one

of the labor~saving implements used for springtime field work.

Henry began his career at the company's experiment station at Longmont in 1946 upon his return from five years of military duty. He was a first lieutenant in the Army Air Force.

A graduate of Colorado A & M College (now CSU), Henry took his degree in 1941. He was born in Sun City, Kan., was raised in western Colo-rado and graduated from Paonia High School.

Henry was married in 1942 to the former Nancy Rundle, the daughter of a retired Great Westerner. They have seven children -- Robert, 22, a junior at Adams State College in Colorado; Marinan, 20, and Charles, 19, both

students at CSU; Nancy, 16; Nadine, 11; Margaret, 9; and John9 7.

The Henrys are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Brighton, where he served as a trustee and an elder. He also belongs to Rotary and serves on the board of trustees of the Brighton Community Hospital.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON LAMAR HENRY

LaMar Henry, who succeeds C. R. Johnson as assistant to -the manager of

the Scottsbluff and Gering factories of The Great Western Sugar Company, has recently been serving as fieldman in the Longmont, Colorado, district. He brings to his new responsibilities a comprehensive knowledge of farming.

Mr. Henry was born at Sun City, Kansas, May

4, 1918.

As a small child

he accompanied his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Henry, to Paonia, Colorado, where he learned the cattle-ranching business. He attended Paonia grammar and

high schools and punched cattle on the Grand Mesa in the sunnners.

Mr. Henry was graduated from Colorado A & M in

1941

with the degree of

bachelor of science in forestry. He spent five years in the army, entering as

a private and leaving the service as a first lieutenant.

After farming a year near Longmont, Mr. Henry entered Great Western

ser-vice in

1946

at the Great Western Experiment Station at Longmont and was

trans-ferred to the field department in

1949.

He was married to Miss Nancy Rundle of Longmont at San Antonio, Texas, in

1942.

They have four children: Robert, 8;

Marinan, 6;

Charles,

4;

and Nancy, 2.

Mr. Henry's mother, Mrs. Maude Henry, lives in Longmonto

ADDITIONAL MATRRCAL ON LA MAR HENRY

La.Mar Henry, new assistant to J. R. Ma.eon, southern

district manager, Denver, was born in Sun City, Kana., and

attended elementary and high schools in western elope Colorado

where hie father, Charles N. Henry, was ranching at ,,aonia. He was graduated from Cqlorado A & Min 1941 and erpent five years in

the army, leaving as a first lieutenant. After fanning a year

near Longmont, Mr. Henry entered Great Western service in 1946 at

the exoer1m.ent station at Longmont and was transferred to the

field denartment in 1949. He went to Nebraska in 1952 as assistant

manager at Scottsbluff and Gering. Mr. Henry was married to Miss

Nancy Rundle of Iongmont in 1942. They have four children, Robert,

10, Ma.rinan,

8,

Charles,

6,

and Nancy,

4.

He is a member of Phi Ka~na Tau fraternity and is a Ma.son.

LaMAR C. HENRY

Born in Sun·City, Kansas

Raised in western Colorado, graduating from Paonia High School.

Graduated from Colorado A & M College (now CSU) in 1941 with the degree of bachelor of science in forestry.

Joined GWS in 1946 at the Great Western Experiment Station in Longmont.

1949 served as Fieldman in Longmont and has served on the company's agricultural staff in Denver, as assistant manager at the Scottsbluff and Gering factories. t958--Mene9e~-B~f9hton-feeto~y

Date?- Assistant to Frank A. Kemp 1956-57, manager Ovid factory 1958, manager Brighton factory

District manager of the NCC area.