Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation records : manuscript, 1985-2001
1985-2001
The Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation records include correspondence, agreements, minutes, financial records, briefing books and publications and reports produced by the foundation.
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English
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The Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation, collection no. 281, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.
The Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation was formally organized on November 4, 1985, when the bylaws were adopted and a memorandum of agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Riley Foundation was signed by then-Secretary of Agriculture John Block and the first president of the Board of Directors of the Riley Foundation, John Gordon. Its stated purpose is "to promote a broader and more complete understanding of agriculture as the most basic human endeavor ... To make secure the lever that is agriculture and its fulcrum, the natural environment during this and succeeding generation, [and] ...To facilitate the exchange of disparate views between individuals and groups and to make these views more apparent to the public at large without being an advocate for any particular point of view.
The Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation was formally organized on November 4, 1985, when the bylaws were adopted and a memorandum of agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Riley Foundation was signed by then-Secretary of Agriculture John Block and the first president of the Board of Directors of the Riley Foundation, John Gordon. Its stated purpose is "to promote a broader and more complete understanding of agriculture as the most basic human endeavor ... To make secure the lever that is agriculture and its fulcrum, the natural environment during this and succeeding generation, [and] ...To facilitate the exchange of disparate views between individuals and groups and to make these views more apparent to the public at large without being an advocate for any particular point of view.
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Monograph; Book
2024-02-27
2025-07-20
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