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J. GEORGE HARRAR
December2, 1906—April 18, 1982
BY JOHN ]. McKELVEY, JR.
T GEORGE HARRAR lect from strength—from many
J strengths. He loved a battle; he expected to win, and few
indeed were the battles that he lost. Intuitively and with un-
canny accuracy, he assessed his odcis for success in whatever
endeavor he contemplatecT. Quick in minct, he reached de-
cisions easily—a quality most evident in the formative years
of his career. He never lost this quality, but sometimes it was
masked later in his life by the subtleties of many situations
he had to face.
Born on December 2, 1906, in Painesville, Ohio, George
shared with his brother Ellwooc! Scott, Jr., two years older,
and his sister Marjorie, three years younger than he, the pa-
rental guidance typical of an Ohio family at that time. Reg-
ular attendance at church school was a must. There, as in his
high school, the younger chilctren in the group would cluster
around him. E. S. Harrar, Sr., George's father, had earner!
his degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University.
When the family lived in Painesville, he worker! to establish
ore docks in nearby Ashtabula. When George was three years
oIcl, the family movect to Ashtabula; six years later, Youngs-
town became their permanent home. In Youngstown Mr.
Harrar was instrumental in the electrification of steel mills
for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. George's
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mother, Lucetta Sterner, taught school briefly but gave up
teaching after her marriage to devote herself exclusively to
her family.
George's father was a Boy Scout leader and stimulated his
sons' interest in nature. Both relished the merit badge chal-
lenges of the program and went beyond Eagle Scout rank.
As a Boy Scout, George became the troop bugler. His interest
in the bugle led him to cornet lessons, and soon he was play-
ing in the school band. He loved good music; he could iden-
tify almost any composition and its composer after hearing
only a few measures. The Scout sports program also ap-
pealed to George. Through its activities he became a fine
swimmer and diver. A nearby tennis court sparked his inter-
est, and he spent many hours practicing there. He also man-
aged the basketball team in high school. From riflery and
target practice he developed a penchant for hunting. During
the summer months, George turned his interest in sports to
good advantage, earning his spending money as a golfer's
caddie and trying golf himself with his own homemade golf
club. George also read from the best of the literature in the
.
family library, but at an early age his reading interests turned
to biology and the sciences.
The two brothers chose Oberlin for college, George en-
rolling at age sixteen in 1923, a year after his brother. Scott,
as a sophomore, suffered a serious automobile accident that
took him out of Oberlin; but he went on to study forestry at
Syracuse University and ultimately to serve as dean of the
College of Forestry at Duke University. George stayed at
Oberlin; he could have graduated in 1927 after the custom-
ary four-year period but remained for a fifth year to take
additional courses and to captain the track team.
Throughout his life, George was "George" to almost
everyone, but he was "Dutch" to the few who knew of his
prowess on the Oberlin track team. At college he earned the
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sobriquet "The Flying Dutchman" (shortened to Dutch) for
the records he set in 1928 in the 440-yard dash and as an-
chorman on the record-setting mile relay team. One of his
classmates wrote recently, "l remember 'Dutch' Harrar very
well and always enjoyed attending track meets when he ran.
He seemed to give every ounce of energy to it and ~ always
feared whether his endurance could hold out" an assess-
ment of performance that was characteristic of George's en-
tlre career.
Oberlin taught George academic rigor; it blessed him also
with the love and friendship of two persons who were to
influence his entire life Georgetta (Georgie) Steese, then a
student in the Conservatory of Music, and Frederick Grover,
emeritus head of the botany department. Georgie became his
wife, whose love and support he thoroughly appreciated.
Grover, a classical botanist and an impressive teacher, rec-
ognizec} George's intellectual talents and cultivated his inter-
est in botany. An intense mutual admiration developed be-
tween the two. The twinkle in Grover's eye when he later
spoke of George told of the human as well as of the intellec-
tual traits he knew George possessed and that he, Grover,
understood. (Perhaps from his Oberlin classmates or from
his colleagues at the Youngstown steel mills where he
earned money sharpening tools during the summer
months—he further acquired a colorful vocabulary and the
art of telling stories risque ones—that might deceive those
who were unaware of his high moral standards.)
Following graduation from Oberlin, George had hoped
to enroll in medical school, but the Depression precluded
such a long and expensive period of education. Instead he
won a teaching fellowship in plant pathology at {owe State
University where he studied under the direction of I. E. Mel-
hus, the head of the department, and John Aikman, a plant
ecologist. Within nine months he completed the require-
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meets for the master's degree and was on his way to the Uni-
versity of Puerto Rico as professor of biology in the College
of Agriculture; shortly thereafter, Georgie, his bride, joined
him. His subsequent four years in Puerto Rico gave him a
love of the I,atin temperament and facility with the Spanish
language.
George left Puerto Rico in 1934 to accept a Firestone fel-
lowship and to become an instructor in plant pathology at
the University of Minnesota. He went there because he
wanted to work toward his Ph.D. degree with E. C. Stakman
(Stak), the eminent wheat pathologist and a man with inter-
national interests who would later receive world recognition
as the elder statesman in his discipline. As in the case of Fred-
erick Grover, George and Stak became fast friends; once
again a relationship of mutual admiration and loyalty devel-
oped—each would pick on the other's weaknesses but pas-
sionately defend the other from outside attack.
Like George, Stak had a powerful and intensely compet-
itive intellect. One day when Stak and ~ were sitting in the
lobby of a hose] in New Delhi, India, amidst the haze of blue
smoke from his pipe, he blurted out, "John, have you ever
had an argument with George?" T answered, "No, not a real
argument. After all, first as one of his graduate students and
now in his employ, ~ have never been in a position to have an
argument with George." After a long silence, Stak offered,
"Well, an argument with George is not an argument—it's a
battle." And Stak halfway around the globe from George
who was then in New York—must have been nursing some
wounds from an "argument" he had lost and mulling over
what he should- have said and did not.
v
George went from the University of Minnesota to Virginia
Polytechnic Institute (VPl) in Blacksburg in 1935 to teach
plant pathology. ~ first met George in 1939 at the Interna-
tional Microbiology Congress in New York. A melange of
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impressions struck me then: his youthfulness; his slight build
and small features; his thinning hair, fine, slightly recictish,
and wavy; his conservative ciark-blue suit; and eyes, as blue
and sharp as ~ tract ever encountered, that ctivinec! instantly
what one might be thinking.
Seater! in the back of George's classroom at VPI, one had
difficulty in following his lectures because he spoke in such a
steady, low voice. Yet discipline never got out of hanct in his
classes an amazing fact given the nonacademic interests of
most of the VPI cadet corps "Highly Tighties," as they
called themselves in the 1930s. George said to me one clay,
"If trouble is brewing in my class, ~ just Took for the biggest
and roughest in the bunch and take him on; then the others
behave." No smart aleck lasted long in George's graduate
studies program, either. He demanded loyalty and work to
the best of one's ability. Whether or not an inclividual was an
A student clid not matter as long as one strove to clo one's
best. Anct George cared deeply about his graduate students.
He insisted that they participate at national scientific meet-
ings, where he made certain to introduce them to his col-
leagues. He sought job opportunities for them diligently,
even if an available job would! carry a student into a different
but related discipline.
George, Georgie, anc! their two children Cynthia Ann
and Georgetta Louise, born in Roanoke loved Blacksburg.
Although for George the academic pace set by the easygoing
heact of the Department of Biology I. D. Wilson was too slow,
the surroundings nevertheless offerect a spectacular succes-
sion of black locust, reel buct, clogwood, azalea, and rhoclo-
clendron in blossom. In the fall, the hunting for quail and
grouse was goocl. As a volunteer, George coached the VPI
track team.
The Harrars built a home in Blacksburg, but by 1941 the
challenges clearly lay elsewhere. So after six years at VPI,
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George accepted! the positions of professor and head of the
Department of Plant Pathology anct head of the Division of
Plant Pathology of the Agricultural Experiment Station at
Washington State College. (This prestigious set of posts had
previously been helct by F. D. Healct, whose text on plant
pathology had become the Bible of plant pathologists.) Dur-
ing these years, George and his brother Scott at Durham,
North Carolina, worked intensively on their book, Guide to
Southern Trees.
The Harrars stayer! less than two years at Washington
State College because George accepted] an offer to become
the local director of the Mexican Agricultural Program,
which the Rockefeller Foundation had clecicled to initiate in
1943. This program had originated in discussions among the
U.S. Vice-Presiclent Elect Henry Wallace, certain Mexican of-
ficials, ant! the Foundation's president (then Raymond B.
Fosdick). The talks explorecl how the Rockefeller Foundation
might be able to help bring Mexico out of its slump in agri-
cultural production to the point where it couict produce the
basic foods it needed corn, beans, and wheat. The Foun-
ciation callect on three eminent agriculturists E. C. Stak-
man, who was the project's Pearler; P. C. Mangelsdorf, pro-
fessor of botany at Harvard University; and Richard
Bradfielcl, head of the Department of Agronomy at Cornell
University to advise on the feasibility of the Foundation's
entering into an agreement with the Mexican government to
builct a program of research dealing with the basic fooct
crops.
Strange that the Foundation should have chosen George
to heacI a practical program in agriculture. He was city bred;
he had no farm experience; he had graduatecl from a liberal
arts college; and in his research in graduate school and his
subsequent assignments at the University of Puerto Rico and
VPI, he had focuses! and publishect—mainly on mycologi-
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cal problems associated with plant disease agents rather than
on pragmatic problems of producing basic food crops. The
choice was not so strange, however, when one considers three
things: George's total clectication to a task at hand; his grow-
ing awareness through his lanct-grant college assignments of
the vital importance of a healthy agriculture to the welfare
of a country; and his reputation as a proven scientist.
Free to builct a program in Mexico, George sharpened his
talents in administration and diplomacy. He exercised his in-
spirational leadership abilities, his deftness in the choice of
colleagues, and his ability to maintain a coo! exterior while
burning inside. Innate patience never figured among
George's strengths, but he click have a miraculous contro!-
in public of a fiery temperament. He hated to be kept "on
hold" outside the offices of Mexican officials, but he would
wait and burn. While he burned, he wouIcl exercise his
charm, wit, and diplomacy on the junior functionaries who
ofttimes held the keys to the inner sancta, whether of the
secretary, subsecretary, or other agricultural official. George
often got past those Coors when others couIct not.
In selecting the scientists anc! other staff for the Mexican
Agricultural Program, George exhibited one of his strongest
suits: the ability to choose the right person for the right job.
Most of those he selected spent their entire careers in one or
another of the Founciation's programs. One of his earliest
choices, Norman E. BorIaug, later received the Nobel Peace
Prize for his contributions not only in Mexico but worIcl-
wicle—to the alleviation of hunger through the production
of varieties of high-yielcling wheat resistant to disease.
No one, however, can achieve a perfect score in the choice
of inclivicluals for specific assignments. Once in a while a staff
member had to go. In such cases George wouIct fee} a re-
sponsibility toward that individuaT's career, and he would in-
variably work out an easy transition for the person leaving
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the Foundation. The Mexican civil service system, from
which it was almost impossible to fire an indiviclual, may have
reinforced this compassionate feeling. In that system an in-
ctividual who was unsatisfactory in his post likewise would
eventually fins] himself transferred! to another.
George set the life-style, the ethic, of the Mexican Agri-
cultural Program; to wit, "work harcI, play hard, but above
all, work hard." Even socializing at frequent house parties
(discotheques in a sense) and at bowling parties took on value
greater than merely releasing tensions engendered cluring
the work of a highly competitive group of colleagues. It was
a mechanism for achieving interdisciplinary cooperation and
for bringing wives into a full knowleclge of and participation
. . . .
In program activities.
Although George hac! found his metier in Mexico, toward
the close of his nearly ten years there he had obviously out-
grown the program. By 1952 the Mexican Agricultural Pro-
gram tract proliferatect. A similar effort was under way in
Colombia, anct arrangements hacl been macle to create an
additional program in Chile. Brazil, Ecuador, ancT Peru,
among other countries, were clamoring for assistance for
their agricultural, educational, and research institutions; anc}
a program in India was uncler consideration. Warren Weaver,
director of the Foundation's Natural Sciences Division, de-
cidec! he neecled George at headquarters in New York.
Reluctantly, George went to New York; but his heart never
left Mexico. The move to New York meant that those occa-
sional sorties at dawn, slogging through the marshes of To-
luca Valley to hunt clucks, would have to go. So would the lilt
of the mariachi music from the itinerant bands of Mexico
City. Something else wouIcl have to replace the satisfaction of
outfoxing the foxes who might-try to torpedo parts of his
program, the occasional lesser officials who cticl not always
appreciate George's motives and those of his colleagues. The
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lightheartedness, the companerismo, among staff families
wouIc! have to give way to a New York sedateness and for-
mality. Nevertheless, in New York his drive to inform staff
wives ant! to involve them in Foundation affairs lingered. It
cropped up in the occasional get-togethers at George's house
in Scarsdale ant] in the banquets at the Tower Suite of the
Time anct Life Builcling in New York.
In New York as deputy director for agriculture, George
sometimes chafed under Warren Weaver's clirection. Weaver's
program on molecular biology was well establishecT, ancT the
two programs were in a sense competitive for the same functs.
Moreover, Weaver, of diminutive physique, was another in-
tellectual giant, a mathematician with sparkling clarity in his
thinking and writing. He was charming, but he, too, could
inclulge in intellectual skirmishes with punitive results to his
adversary. It tickler! George that E. C. Stakman coup exas-
perate Weaver, who would lay a neat trap in an argument
only to finct that Stak was "batting on another wicket" by the
time Weaver thought he tract him in his clutches. "Ouchy"
about pain himself, George admired Weaver for his inure-
ment to it. For example, Weaver in shorts wouIcl tramp
through the brambles of his seven acres on Second Hill in
New Milforct, Connecticut, unmindful of the blooct trickling
down his legs from his brush with the thorns of those bushes.
Weaver hac! become the most powerful of the clirectors of
his time within the Founclation. He accepted the groundswell
of trustee and public concern about agricultural research and
development, even though it promised to engulf his cher-
ished program in molecular biology. Shrewdly he developecT
companion interests that he labelect "nonconventional agri-
culture," which was somewhat competitive with George's
practical program. Unpiler this rubric, Weaver couIcl support
research on solar energy for agricultural uses; on Chlorella,
an alga, for producing proteinaceous food under laboratory
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conditions; on discarded pea pods and vines ground and
compressed into pellets that when liberally doused with curry
were supposed to be palatable; and on Torula yeasts for con-
verting sawdust and similar cellulose waste products into
highly proteinaceous foods for human consumption.
During his years as Weaver's deputy director for agricul-
ture (1952-55), and subsequently as director of agriculture
(1955-59) in his own right, George brought to realization his
concept of international institutions devoted to practical re-
search for the improvement of basic food crops. The first of
these, the International Rice Research Institute (TRRI) in the
Philippines, had its origin partly in the successes of the Mex-
ican Program on wheat improvement. It also came partly
from the idea that an international effort might offer free-
dom from the constraints of operating at national levels
through the bureaucracies of foreign countries; but mainly
TRRI arose out of the need to improve rice production in
Asia. Harrar, whose vision always sought the financial hori-
zon beyond existing monetary barriers, knew that the Rocke-
feller Foundation could not by itself finance the first of the
international agricultural research centers- let alone those
to follow. Since Vice-President F. F. Hill of the Ford Foun-
dation shared George's belief that something should be done
about rice jointly, with USAID and other donor agencies par-
ticipating later, they could and ctid establish IRRI.
Once a professional, always a professional. While involved
with the administration and execution of the Foundation's
agricultural program, George collaborated with Stak to pro-
duce their text, Principles of Plant Pathology.
George and Warren Weaver never developed a "Frederick
Grover" relationship, although Warren became one of
George's most ardent mentors. When in 1955 Weaver became
vice-president for medical, natural, and agricultural sciences
under President Dean Rusk's administration of the Founda-
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1973 "Rafael Uribe Uribe" Order of Merit in Agriculture, Re-
public of Colombia
1974 Wilbur O. Atwater Medal
1974 Americas Award
1975 Underwood-Prescott Memorial Award, Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology
1980 Harrar Hall (training and dormitory complex of the Inter-
national Rice Research Institute) named in honor of Dr.
I. George Harrar
1980 Order of the Aztec Eagle, Government of Mexico, Mexican
Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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Selected papers of J. G. Harrar. In: Strategy for the Conquest of Hun-
ger. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. (Revised edition,
1967.)
1964
Moving frontiers of applied microbiology. (An address to the con-
ference, Global Aspects of Applied Microbiology, Stockholm,
Sweden, August 1963.) In: Global Impacts of Applied Microbiology,
ed. Mortimer P. Starr, pp. 19-27. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
A Commencement Perspective. (Commencement address at the Uni-
versity of Florida, Gainesville, April 19.) New York: The Rocke-
feller Foundation. 11 pp.
Foundations and the Public Interest. (Adapted from an address given
at the Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., November 16.) New
York: The Rockefeller Foundation. 11 pp.
New nations and new universities. (Paper presented at the general
session of the 78th annual convention of the Association of
State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, November 8-11.)
In: Proceedings of the Association of State Universities and Land-
Grant Colleges, pp. 9-13.
1965
The Race Between Procreation and Food Production. (Paper presented
at the spring meeting of the American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia.) New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. 29 pp.
1966
Statement of I. George Harrar. Hearings: War on Hunger, House
Committee on Agriculture, February 16, 1966. New York: The
Rockefeller Foundation. 13 pp.
Foundations for the Future. (An address to the 17th annual confer-
ence of the Council on Foundations, Inc., Denver, Colorado,
May 1 1.) New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. 18 pp.
The Quality of the Future. (Commencement address at Emory Uni-
versity, Atlanta, Georgia, tune 13.) New York: The Rockefeller
Foundation. 8 pp.
Agricultural Development in Latin America. (Statement of J. George
Harrar before the Subcommittee on International Finance of
the House Committee on Banking and Currency, August 29.)
New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. 15 pp.
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Principles for Progress in World Agriculture. (An address to the 33rd
annual meeting of the National Agricultural Chemicals Asso-
ciation, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, September 8.)
New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. 16 pp.
1967
Survival or Fulfillment. (An address to the California Institute of
Technology Conference on The Next Ninety Years, March 7.)
New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. 15 pp.
Education and responsibility. (Commencement address at Clemson
University, Clemson, South Carolina, May 61. Clemson, S.C.:
Clemson University.
1968
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cr~ses in human ecology. (Banquet address to the annual meeting
of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., April
23.) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 61:357-62. (Also: New York:
The Rockefeller Foundation; World Agric., 18~0ctober]: 3-5.)
Increasing Food Supplies Through Adaptive Research. (Principal ad-
dress, 25th Anniversary Celebration of Texas Research Foun-
dation at Renner, Texas, May 22.) Texas Research Foundation,
Special Series, no. 5.
United States public policy with regard to world food problems.
In: The Potential Impact of Science and Technology on Future U.S.
Foreign Policy (papers presented at a Joint Meeting of the Policy
Planning Council, Department of State, and a Special Panel of
the Committee on Science and Public Policy, National Academy
of Sciences, Washington, D.C., June 16-17~.
1969
With Sterling Wortman. Expanding food production in hungry
nations: The promise, the problems. (Paper presented at a
meeting of the American Assembly, Columbia University, Oc-
tober 31, 1968.) In: Overcoming World Hunger, ed. Clifford M.
Hardin. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. (Also in
French as Vaincre la Faim, Paris: Editions France-Empire, 1970,
pp. 89-135.)
Plant Pathology and World Food Problems. (Discourse given before the
First International Congress of Plant Pathology, London, July
16, 1968.) New York: The Rockefeller Foundation. 21 pp.
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Statement on foundations and tax exemption before the House
Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, D.C., February
19. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation.
Supplementary statement on foundations and tax exemption be-
fore the House Committee on Ways and Means, Washington,
D.C., July 9. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation.
Statement of I. George Harrar on effects of population growth on
natural resources and the environment at hearings before a
Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations,
House of Representatives, 91st Congress, 1st session, Septem-
ber 16. (Published in complete hearings by the U.S. Govern-
ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1969, #35-506, pp.
52-56.)
The challenge of hunger. (Banquet address to the annual meeting
of the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, Mexico
City, August 21.) Mex. Am. Rev., October:31-35.
1970
The Green Revolution as an historical phenomenon. In: Symposium
on Science and Foreign Policy: the Green Revolution, pp. 16-23.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
The global food supply. (A talk given at the Symposium on Aids
and Threats to Society from Technology, National Academy of
Sciences, Washington, D.C., April 29.) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
USA, 67~0ctober):900 - 907.
Ecological crisis demands new ethic of responsibility. Catal. Envi-
ron.Qual.,1:22 - 24.
Education and human ecology. Western Bulletin (Western College
for Women, Oxford, Ohio), Summer: 1-4.
1971
Human behavior and the environment. (Commencement address
at Utah State University, June 5.) 17 pp.
1972
Raymond Blaine Fosdick. Yearb. Am. Philos. Soc.: 157-65.
1973
Toward the conquest of hunger and malnutrition: The Rockefeller
Foundation's worldwide efforts to increase food supplies and
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improve nutrition. U.S. Information Service—Voice of America
series on nutrition, May 8.
Impressions of China (based on a visit to the People's Republic of
China on a scientific and scholarly exchange mission under the
auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Sci-
ence Research Council, and the Council of Learned Societies,
May 11-June 17~.
1975
Nutrition and Numbers in the Third World: The 1974 ~ O. Atwater
Memorial Lecture. Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Research Ser-
vice. 18 pp.
Agricultural Initiative in the Third World: A Report on the Conference
"Science and Agribusiness in the Seventies." Lexington, Mass.: Lex-
ington Books for The Agribusiness Council.
1979
E. C. Stakman Memoir. Yearb. Am. Philos. Soc.: 107-12.
Warren Weaver Memoir. Yearb. Am. Philos. Soc.: 1 13-17.
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