Editor, Washington State Grange News
Author, People, Pride and Progress

David H. Howard has served as director of information for the Washington State Grange and editor of the Washington State Grange News from March 1993 to the present. He previously held the same position from 1981-1988.

Howard belongs, with his wife Georgetta, to Holley Grange, Sweet Home, Oregon. They have been Grangers since 1976. He also was a charter member of Green Lake Grange, Seattle, in 1988 and continues to hold membership there.

Howard earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington. After graduate study at San Diego State University, he was involved in the National Teacher Corps in southern California and was a classroom teacher in eastern Washington. Following several years as a social worker and labor union organizer, he returned to the Willamette Valley where he still resides on the family's 45-acre cattle and Douglas fir farm near Lebanon.

In 1992, in honor of the 125th anniversary of the National Grange, Howard's 336-page history of the organization was published. People, Pride and Progress: 125 Years of the Grange in America, released by the National Grange, has been well received by readers nationwide. The Foreword to the book was written by then U.S. Rep. Thomas S. Foley, speaker of the House of Representatives.

Previously, Howard wrote News Handbook for Granges which has enjoyed wide use nationwide.

Howard also served as moderator of the monthly television agriculture and rural affairs program, The Farm-City Forum between 1989 and 1994. The program aired on KSTW-TV in Tacoma. 

Howard can be reached through the headquarters of the Washington State Grange, P.O. Box 1186, Olympia, Wash. 98507; (360) 943-9911; or by contacting him at his Oregon office, 38281 Mountain Home Drive, Lebanon, Oregon 97355; (541) 367-4300; e-mail -- davehoward@wildblue.net