Associate Members
Associate membership is given to those persons who have provided valuable service to an active chapter of Nabor House. The first two associate members were graduate resident advisers.
Elin Edwin CockrumElin Edwin Cockrum became an associate member in 1939 when he was a graduate student in the Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois. A native of Fairfield, Ill., he received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois. In 1942, he worked at Libby, McNeill and Libby in Lake Mills, Wis., and in 1958, he was on the staff of the Department of Horticulture, Montana State University. In the early 1960s, he was in charge of sweet corn breeding at Ferry-Morse Seed Co. in Hollister, Calif.
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Herbert Lee SharpHerbert Lee Sharp became an associate member on Feb. 10, 1949. At that time, he was a resident graduate adviser at Nabor House and was in the graduate program in Rural Sociology. He received his B.S. from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1943, a B.S. in Agricultural Science from the University of Illinois in 1949, and an M.A. from Michigan State University in 1956. A native of West Virginia, he returned to West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1967, first serving as the Dean of Students and then as Associate Vice President for Development from 1968 to 1987 when he retired.
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William Weirich AllenWilliam Weirich Allen became an associate member on Oct. 14, 1967. A native of Palestine, Ill., he graduated in journalism from the University of Illinois in 1948. He gave valuable support to members of Nabor House through his talks and assistance in preparing publications. He served as Secretary of Information of the Illinois Agricultural Association. In 1967, he was appointed a member of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities (the policy-making body for Eastern Illinois University, Western Illinois University, and two teachers colleges in Chicago), and in 1970, was appointed a trustee of Southern Illinois University. His book on school-press-community relations was published by the National Education Association. He died Nov. 24, 1985.
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