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//. L Manwaring
Fellow of S.C.S.
H. L. Manwaring, deputy director of the conservation and land use policy staff. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Washington, D, C. has been named a fellow of the Soil Conservation Society of America. Society president Cecil W. Chapman of Athens, Ga. presented the award to Mr. Manwaring at a banquet which concluded the organization’s three-day meeting held last week in Des Moines, Iowa. The degree of fellow is the highest award the 12,000 member Society confers to members. In addition to his daily responsibilities of administering conservation programs, ho owns and operates a 1,100 ocre farm near Woodville on which he has established a conservation program. In 1963 Mr, Manwaring was named outstanding conservationist in Rappahannock by the Culpeper Soil Conservation District for his program at his Red Oak Ranch. Mr. Manwaring was born in Utah and lived on a farm until entering college. He graduated from George Washington University and was first employed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1931. After the Agricultural Adjustment Administration was established, he rapidly progressed within the agency and its successors. He assumed his present position in 1961. More than a thousand resource conservationists from the United States and Canada attended the 22nd annual meeting of the Society last week which carried the theme “Soil and America's Future."
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