Andrew W. Hopkins ACE President 1933-34 University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
Andrew Hopkins, a charter member of AAACE, was born July 19, 1880 in Leeds,
Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1903. During
the next 10 years he helped organize a livestock breed association while also
working as a farm paper editor. He served on the University of Wisconsin faculty from
1913 to 1950, where he was chairman of the agricultural journalism department.
He was also extension editor, experiment station editor and college editor.
He was keenly interested in broadcasting and in 1919, made it a regular part
of his department's information service. This is thought to be the first use of
broadcasting by any university.
Professor Hopkins died April 4, 1973, in Madison. He was 92.
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