In ceremonies May 19, the Henry W. Garren Poultry Science Scholarship Endowment was established in the North Carolina Agriculture Foundation Inc., College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, N.C. State University. Dr. Johnny Wynne, interim dean of the College, hosted the event.

The endowment’s creation was made possible by a gift from N.C. State Professor Emeritus James R. “Ray” Harris, N.C. State Extension veterinarian from 1961 to 1986, to honor the distinguished career of Garren, his former colleague.

Garren, a 1949 N.C. State graduate, served first as faculty member in the 1950s and then as head of the College’s Department of Poultry Science from 1960 to 1968. He later served as dean and coordinator of the College of Agriculture at the University of Georgia and as professor of agriculture and Senior Rusk Fellow at the Dean Rusk Center of the University of Georgia School of Law. Retiring in 1988 as a research fellow for the Center for Improving Mountain Living at Western Carolina University, he died in 1995 in Cullowhee.

The endowment will fund merit-based scholarship awards to undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of Poultry Science. Entering freshmen are as eligible for the award as upperclassmen — a fact that was emphasized by Dr. Gerald Havenstein, head of Poultry Science, who said, “We are pleased that this is a freshman scholarship so we can use it to recruit students in high school.”

— Terri Leith