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Farmville's choice

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four female home demonstration agents surrounding a man holding a document

Ruth Current is the woman wearing a white hat. Provided by the Green ‘N’ Growing Collection (The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina), Special Collections, North Carolina State University Libraries. About the photograph

In 1947 Miss Current was named “Woman of the Year” by the Progressive Farmer magazine.

In 1950 she was chosen as “Carolina’s Farm Leader.”

In 1954 she received the Superior Service Award from the United States Department of Agriculture.