Echoes of Lloyd-Ricks-Watson Stories
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Mississippi State University; Mississippi State University--History; Mississippi State University--Employees; Mississippi State University. Extension Service; Agriculture; Agriculture--Research; Interviews; Agricultural extension workers; Lloyd-Ricks-Watson Building (Mississippi State, Miss.); Mississippi State University--Alumni and alumnae
Description
Oral history; interview with Dr. Bill M. Swoope, June 11, 2012, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Dr. Swoope was born in 1931 in Lowndes County, Mississippi. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at MSU. In total, his years of service to Mississippi State come to 30. During that time he was an Extension Agricultural Agent in Attala County, Mississippi for four years, and for 26 years he was a Livestock Specialist with the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service's Animal Science Department. He is a U.S. Army Veteran. He started working as an Extension Agent in 1956 and retired from Mississippi State in 1986. In 1977, Swoope, along with many other Extension workers, moved out of the Lloyd-Ricks Building and into the newly-built Bost Extension Center. In this interview, Swoope reminisces about his first experiences in the late 1930s with MSU through the Extension Service and 4-H, discusses many, many of the people who worked in the different departments housed in Lloyd-Ricks, and talks about testing and selling bulls.
Contributor
Semmes, Ryan, interviewer
Date
4-23-2012
Time Period
2010-2019
Foramt (original)
oral history; 1 sound cassette (62 min., 51 sec.) : 1 7/8 ips; 1/4 in. tape
Format (digital)
MP3
Object Type
sound; text
Digital ID#
A12_19_Swoope_William_audiotape
Relation
Deeply Rooted
Annotation
Location: Starkville (Miss.)
Rights
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Recommended Citation
Echos of Lloyd-Ricks-Watson Collection, Special Collections Department, University Archives Division, Mississippi State University Libraries
Contact Information
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