David M Hovde Editor

Frederick Whitford has worked in the Purdue School of Agriculture and the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service for nearly twenty-five years. His interest in the history of the interaction between the campus extension specialist and the county extension educator with agriculturists turned into an adventure in writing numerous books on the subject.

Neal Harmeyer is an archivist at Purdue University Archives and Special Collections. Harmeyer grew up on a multigenerational family farm in northeastern Fayette County, Indiana, where he helped raise animals. He earned a BA degree in history from Purdue and an MLS degree from Indiana University.

David M. Hovde, the research and instruction librarian in the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, is an associate professor of library science and has been at Purdue University since 1989. He has authored or coauthored numerous monographs, books, book chapters, and articles in archaeology, history, semiotics, and pedagogy.