At the Society’s June 2018 meeting, convened as the Society’s annual meeting, the members unanimously elected the slate of officers which had been proposed by the nominations committee, led by Dr. Kevin Hicks.

 

Mark Myers is the newly elected president of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture. He and wife Anna live on their Walton Myers farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The farm has been under the care of the Walton Family since 1827. Formerly a dairy farm, it now features a herd of Belted Galloway beef cattle and it produces hay for the surrounding horse and mushroom farms. The cattle are cared for in a natural setting grazing in the spring, summer and fall and fed hay from the farm in the winter.

Myers retired as a senior vice present of the Xerox Corporation in 2001 after 37-year career in its research and development organizations. Although most of his career was in industry, for interim periods he served as a visiting professor in electrical engineering at Stanford University, 1989-1990, and visiting executive professor at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2005.

Myers graduated from Earlham College with an A.B. in geology in 1960 and from the Pennsylvania State University with a PhD. in materials science in 1964.