In Memorium: Harold Ford, U.S. Poultry & Egg Association
Harold Ford, retired executive director of what was then Southeastern Poultry & Egg Association (now U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, Tucker, Ga.), passed away Dec. 14.
In 1954, Ford, a Kentucky native, joined the association staff at its headquarters in Richmond, Va. In 1957, he was named executive secretary of the association, commonly called SOUTHEASTERN. The headquarters then moved to Decatur, Ga. In 1961, Ford left the association to join Mar-Jac Poultry Co. in Gainesville, Ga. In 1967, he was asked by the SOUTHEASTERN board of directors to return as executive secretary. Then, he guided the association to prominence as one of the most effective and influential trade associations, not only in the poultry industry, but throughout the United States. He grew the organization’s signature event, the International Poultry Expo, to become the largest, preeminent poultry industry convention and tradeshow in the world. Ford retired in 1992.