Thursday, July 22, 1982
Chancellor H.F. Robinson Is Chosen To Serve On National Panel
CULLOWHEE Western
Carolina University
Chancellor H.F. Robinson
has been chosen as one of
four Americans to serve on
a select 10 - member in
ternational panel that will
conduct the second
quinquennial, or five year,
review of the United Nations
Food and Agriculture
Organization’s Research
Center in El Batan, Mexico.
In preparation of the
quinquennial review, Dr.
Robinson left the United
States Saturday to chair a
three - man preliminary
mission to the South
American Republic of
Ecuador to review that
nation’s wheat and maize
programs.
Robinson was invited to
join the quinquennial review
panel by P.J. Mahler,
executive secretary of the
United Nations FAO
Technical Advisory Com
mittee in Rome. Robinson,
Mahler and Professor A.E.
Hall of the University of
California’s department of
botany and plant sciences
will survey the Ecuadorian
program July 4 - 10.
Vlt is an excellent op
portunity to represent the
United States, the
University of North
Carolina System and
Western Carolina
University in a very im
portant evaluation of a
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current veteran population
of 612,000 and is expected to
have 341,700 living veterans
in 2030 and their average
age will be 58.4 years.
The VA’s projections of
the number of living
veterans cover each year
from 1982 through 1955 and
every fifth year thereafter
up to the year 2030.
rPrepared by the agency’s
Office of Reports and
Statistics, these data show
the number of living
veterans worldwide by age
aSid period of military
sttvioe, and- they- -further
display the veteran
population of each state and
age.
"In announcing the release
of the data, VA Ad
ministrator Robert P.
Nimmo pointed out that
information of this type is
essential to the VA to best
address the needs of
veterans.
-“Effective management
of the wide range of VA
programs is greatly
enhanced when a detailed
profile of the veteran
population is at hand,” he
said.
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as a 'Vintage year" for
California wines because
the weather there is con
sistently tunny and dry
in the grawaig season.
center where work on
cereals is vital to meeting
the world food needs and in
some ways basic to our food
production,” Robinson said.
“For example, the germ
plasm banks of the corn
collected in Central and
South America, the native
home of the corn, are part of
the operation of the center to
be reviewed.
' “The proper preservation
and replenishment of the
basic races of corn in these
banks is of inestimable
value to corn production
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here and throughout the
world,” he said.
“Another reason for our
interest is that the United
States supplies financial
support amounting to
between S4O million and SSO
million a year for the
operation of these centers,
liie reviews are intended to
determine the appropriate
use of these resources,”
Robinson §aid.
The review panel’s ob
jective is to assess the
content, quality, impact and
value of the overall program
THE CHOWAN HERALD
of the International
Agriculture Research
Center and to examine
whether the operations
being funded are being
carried out in line with
declared policies and to
acceptable standards of
excellence.
Robinson, an expert on
corn - breeding methods, is
a quantitative geneticist.
Hall is a physiologist.
Other panel members, in
addition to TAC Executive
Secretary Mahler, are Dr.
Eliseu Alvez of Brazil, an
agricultural economist; Dr.
D. Plucknett of USAID in
Washington, an agronomist
and the panel’s scientific
advisor; Dr. J.D. ParlevKet
of the Netherlands, a cereal
pathologist - breeder; Dr.
Georg Popow of Switzer
land, a maize breeder;
Dr. Calvin O. Qualset of the
University of California -
Davis, a wheat breeder -
geneticist; Dr. F.J.
Wang’ati of Nairobi, Kenya,
an agrometeorologist; and
Prof. John L. Dillon of
Australia, an agricultural
economist and chairman of
the panel.
Ecuador is one of the
center’s off - campus sites
which will be reviewed.
Robinson’s mission to
Ecuador is scheduled to
begin in Quinto, the nation’s
capital on Sunday. Robinson
also will visit Pichilinque,
Santa Catalina, Ibarra and
Cayambe to see maize and
wheat programs.
Ecuador, located in north
western South America and
bordered by the Pacific
Ocean, Peru and Colombia,
has a population of more
than 8 million people. A
member of OPEC, the
country has benefited in
recent years from oil and
the trans - Andean pipeline,
but more than half of the
people are subsistence
farmers and the per capita
income is $1,050.
Dr. Robinson has been
actively engaged in a
number of assistance
projects involving
developing nations
throughout his career in
higher education. He is
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currently a member of the
foundation committee, t
establish the Sultanate of
Oman’s first university
Robinson recently travele
to Nepal in conjunction with
WCU’s involvement with
S2B million U.S. assistant
program to that Third Won '
kingdom.
Within the last month
Robinson has met wit
representatives from
Micronesia and Swazilar
in connection with program
based at Western Carolir
University.