Guide to the Robert N. Hampton Lecture Notes,
1946-1952.

Cornell University M.S. Agriculture, 1947, Ph.D., 1954. Robert Hampton graduated from V.P.I. in 1941, and worked as a soil conservationist before serving as a naval officer during World War II. He returned to do gradutate work at Cornell, focusing on Farm Management and Agronomy. He received a Ph.D. in Marketing, with minors in Business Management, International Trade, and Cultural Anthropology. He served on the staff of the Dept. of Agricultural Economics in Extension and Teaching from 1953-1955. From 1955-1959, he worked in Market Promotion & Development for Dow Chemical Company; from 1959-63 as Manager of the Marketing Research Dept. of International Paper Co.; from 1964-1982 as Vice President for Marketing & International Trade for the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; and from 1982 until his retirement in 1997 as an international trade consultant.

Graduate student lecture notes, reports, and other papers from Agricultural Economics 187, Farm Appraisal, fall 1946; Land Economics 181, spring 1947; Agronomy 101, spring 1947; Economics 202, Money, Currency, and Banking, fall 1947; Agricultural Economics 151, Prices, summer 1950; and Agricultural Economics 240, Introduction to Marketing Research, fall 1952.