[Events - Conventions/Conferences - Speakers]

[various]

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

Consists of 17 photos:

(1) Delegate, Chet Rogers from Larimer County, speaking at RMFU convention, late 1980s.

(2) Farm Coalition picnic at the Tom Kuntz farm near Otis on June 23, 1985. NFU lobbyist Bob Denman discusses the congressional outlook for the 1985 Farm Bill. Photo by Dave Carter (RMFU)

(3) NFU President James G. Patton speaking at the banquet of the 1971 (November) RMFU convention. John and Marian Stencel were seated.

(4) Bob Wingfield from Wray, Colorado, chairman of the Policy Committee, speaking at RMFU convention, 1975. Photo by Myron J. Schober, RMFU Director of Communications.

(5) Congressman Teno Roncalio of Cheyenne, Wyoming, a member of RMFU, at RMFU convention in Cheyenne, Wyoming, c. 1970s.

(6) Sister Mary Thomas More speaking at the Farmers Union Wyoming District Leadership Conference in Riverton, Wyoming, on November 9, 1974.

(7) An unidentified young woman speaking at podium, 1981.

(8) An unidentified man speaking at podium at RMFU convention, 1978, with John Stencel in background.

(9) John Stulp, Prowers County RMFU president, speaking on policy adoption at RMFU convention, c. 1970s - 1980s.

(10) Charles Hanavan, Jr. at podium, when he was elected director of RMFU District Six, December 5, 1981. Left to right in picture: Catherine Miller, Marian Stencel, Charles Hanavan, Jr., Charles Brannan, Tom Daschle (US Rep, S.D.), Bob Pickett. Charles Hanavan served as RMFU president from 1968-1970, and as vice president from 1970-1981.

(11) Former RMFU President Harvey Solberg (center) being honored at RMFU convention, c. 1976. Far right: Tony Dechant, NFU president, and his wife Agnes (behind Solberg)

(12) County RMFU officers meeting in Bailey, Colorado, 1976.

(13) An unidentified man speaking at Laramie River Station groundbreaking, 1976. Seated far left: Congressman Teno Roncalio (Wyoming); far right: Fred Simonton from Wheatland, Wyoming.

(14) Bob Mailander speaking at RMFU convention, 1988.

(15) Mutsutami Harada (with interpreter), Leland Swenson, and Noel Devisch at conference, 1999. Mutsutami Harada was Zenchu coop president (a farmers' cooperative in Japan); Leland Swenson was NFU president; and Noel Devisch was COPA president.

(16) Youth speaking at convention, 1999.

(17) Kathleen Sullivan Kelley speaking at convention, 1999.

Colorado State University. Libraries

1970s - 1990s

Still Image

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Original: photos; black and white, color; various sizes.

Records of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Colorado Agricultural Archive, Archives and Special Collections, Colorado State University; Photographic Prints Series; Subseries IIA2: Events - Conventions/Conferences - Speakers. Finding Aid: "http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/agriculture/armf.html"

1970s - 1990s