United States. Extension Service

Lewis F. Norwood, Jr., served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Purpose and Objectives, Task Force to study the Cooperative Extension Service. The Cooperative Extension Service (CES) consisted of a partnership between state land-grant colleges/Universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in cooperation with local governments and people in order to aid and diffuse among the people of the United States useful and practical information as provided for by legislation. Its main function was to educate the people on farming and homemaking. A joint committee to study the Cooperative Extension Service was formed to analyze and evaluate contributions of the CES, to review basic administrative and operational relationships between the USDA and respective land-grant universities, to examine the functions exercised by the CES in relationship to other extension and extension related programs of various executive departments of the federal government, and to project the future scope of the CES in order that it may make the maximum contribution to local, state and goals and needs of the people it served.

From the description of The Lewis F. Norwood Collection on the Joint Committee to study the Cooperative Extension Service manuscripts 1945-1967. (National Agricultural Library). WorldCat record id: 624304568

Cobb was one of nine northwest Georgia counties carved out of Cherokee Indian country in 1832 and today is part of the booming Atlanta metropolitan area. It was named in memory of U.S. senator Thomas W. Cobb of Greensboro. The county seat, Marietta, was chartered in 1834. Located in the upper Piedmont, Cobb County never had many large landholdings, developing instead around small subsistence farms. The greatest wealth was in the towns. Before 1932 the thriving industrial center of Roswell was part of the county. In the antebellum era Marietta became a popular resort community. Near the Western and Atlantic Railroad, a sanutarium and several hotels catered to summer visitors seeking a cooler, healthier climate than that of the Georgia and South Carolina coast. Cobb County - New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved May 12, 2009)

From the description of U.S. Extension Service annual report, Cobb County, 1935. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 428978128