Growing up on a farm, Dr. James Forrest Evans always enjoyed agriculture and everything that it represented.
PHILO, IL, May 14, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present James Forrest Evans, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Evans celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Now retired, Dr. Evans served as head of the office of agricultural communications and education at the University of Illinois between 1985 and 1995. Additionally, he worked as the manager of teaching and research in agricultural communications at the University of Illinois from 1962 to 1985. Earlier in his career, Dr. Evans found success in agricultural broadcasting, advertising and marketing, and strategic communications, which led him to pursue a Master of Business Administration.
Growing up on a farm, Dr. Evans always enjoyed agriculture and everything that it represented. In high school, he became a member of Future Farmers of America, a rural youth organization. He also became involved in public speaking, English language skills and writing, all of which aided him for his professional endeavors in teaching, research and public service.
In the late 1960s, Dr. Evans served on the international communications development council for the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities. He later contributed as a consultant to the office of communications for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington in 1972. Between 1979 and 1980, Dr. Evans was designated as a Thomas Pawlett visiting scholar at the University of Sydney in Australia.
Authoring numerous works in his field, Dr. Evans first published "Prairie Farmer and WLS: The Burridge D. Butler Years" in 1969, followed by "Communications in Agriculture: The American Farm Press" in 1974 and "Marking the Land: A Collection of Australian Bush Wisdom and Humour" in 2005. Additionally, he was affiliated with the Agricultural Relations Council, the National Association of Farm Broadcasters, the American Agricultural Editors' Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He was also active with the International Association Agricultural Communicators in Education, from which he received a Teaching and Research Excellence Award in 1979 and a Communications Management Award of Excellence in 1993. Dr. Evans further maintained his involvement with the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, from which he received an E.B. Knight Award in 1973, and the National Agri-Marketing Association, from which he obtained a National Agricultural Excellence Award in 1990 and a Distinguished Service Award in 2012.
Moreover, Dr. Evans was presented with an Excellence in Communication Award from the Illinois Soybean Association in 2011, a Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award from Chicago Farmers in 2009, an Abraham Lincoln National Agricultural Award from Farm Progress in 2007 and a Distinguished Service in Agriculture Award from Kansas State University in 2006. Likewise, he was recognized as a Haydn Williams fellow by the Curtin University of Technology in Australia in 1991. Dr. Evans has been featured in the 21st and 23rd editions of Who's Who in the Midwest.
He contributed actively in founding and developing the global Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (from 1982), national Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) student organization (from 1968) and international Program for Agricultural Communications Education (from 1970). Through PACE, he helped plan academic programs at seven universities in countries abroad. He also served on committees that established National Priorities for Research in the Agricultural Social Sciences (1995) and the first National Agricultural Communications Research Agenda, 2007-2010.
Prior to embarking upon his professional path, Dr. Evans earned a Bachelor's degree at Iowa State University in 1954 and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing at the University of Chicago in 1961. He concluded his studies with a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois in 1968. Furthermore, Dr. Evans completed service as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force from 1955 to 1956.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, James Forrest Evans, PhD, has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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