Historic Pictures of the NJHA

Arthur J. Pratt
December 8, 1944
At the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association 10th Annual Convention, Rochester, New York
Art Pratt was an NJVGA co-founder. After 30 years on the staff he retired from the Department of Vegetable Crops at Cornell University, New York, in 1962.

Terrace and Arthur Pratt
December 1964
This photo is from their stay in Morovia, Liberia, where Dr. Pratt was an instructor in horticulture at the University of Liberia.
Art Pratt was an NJVGA co-founder.

Indiana Team Wins at National
Biloxi, Mississippi/1958
“National Champion” in vegetable judging, grading and identification was the team from Indiana. The competition was help during the convention of the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association.
(Left to Right) – Professor Grant B. Snyder, NJVGA Chair; team members – Jim Huffman, Sandy Karn, John Roose; team coach – Alvin Boise.
Sanding is holding the award, called the “Snyder Trophy.”

NJVGA Convention – 1948 – Detroit, Michigan
Indiana – National Champions
(Left to Right) Professor Grant B. Snyder presents the Snyder Trophy to the national winning team in vegetable judging, grading and identification – Margaret Muesing, Janet Schaeffer, Evelyn Reecer and Robert Muesing, coach.

NJVGA Leaders Meet With Vice President Nixon
Circa 1957
(Left to Right) Grant B. Snyder, Chairman, Board of Trustees, NJVGA
Ralph Harper, Secretary-Treasurer, NJVGA
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Richard M. Nixon, Vice President, USA
Sara Pratt
John Porter, President, NJVGA

National Junior Horticulture Association
Board of Trustees
Circa 1984
(Left to Right)
Front
Bill Carter, Grant B. Snyder, Carl Hardin, _____________
Back
Charles Mahoney, _____________, Chet Gibbs, Lee Taylor, Bob Hawley, Maurice Hill

Nadine Thompson broadcast the Point IV Program worldwide on the Voice of America December 1952.

Indiana’s Roscoe Fraser Honored
NJVHA Convention – 1961 – Detroit, Michigan
Roscoe Fraser, left, receives the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association Diamond Pin Award from Professor Grant B. Snyder, NJVGA Chairman, Board of Trustees.
Mr. Fraser, a longtime state leader for NJVGA, often left the cheering for the Indiana attendees at the national convention. He was an outstanding leader in enrolling Indiana young people in horticultural projects, and he brought busloads of Hoosier youth to many NJVGA Conventions.