Daring Venture: The Life Story Of William H. Danforth

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1960. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Farm boys who visited the Purina Research Farm always had their picture taken with the Founder of the company. home economics colleges in the United States and Canada. These summer fellowships are given to promising boys and girls in order to better acquaint them with the professional opportunities open to them. Two weeks are spent in St. Louis visiting agricultural firms, the grain exchange, hospitals and industries allied with agriculture. Then for two delightful and stimulating weeks they are brought to a training course in Christian leadership at Camp Miniwanca. The experience at camp with these groups convinced Danforth he had a contact and an opportunity for multiplying the fourfold principles of the American Youth Foundation. Again these are leadership training fellowships, given to carefully selected boys and girls to stimulate their thinking, broaden their horizons, and increase their vision and ambition as they prepare for adult life. Over sixteen hundred young men and women took part in this program during his lifetime. Most of them went back into positions of leadership in agriculture and home economics. Today there are hundreds of county agents, professors, government officials, editors, radio commentators, dietitians, home demonstration agents, food editors, who are proud to be known as former William H. Danforth Fellows. None of them ever forgot the Danforth personality or the Danforth program of successful living. He had a way of making each contact a memorable one, probably because he made each one so personal. In addition to individual conferences with each boy and girl at camp, he asked each one to write him at least once a year for the next ten years. Most of them did and this meant he had hundreds of letters a year to read and answer. He rea...