Lon Mann receives Johnston Lifetime Achievement Award

14 Feb '08

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Among the many awards Mr. Mann received during his lifetime was the NCC's Harry S. Baker Distinguished Service Award and the NCGA's Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year Award.

Many in the cotton industry considered Mr. Mann to be the quintessential southern gentleman and a pillar of U.S. cotton industry. The partnership he formed with Larry McClendon (the NCC's newly-elected 2008 chairman) and the Felton family is indicative of his forward thinking and his quest for progress.

Previous Oscar Johnston Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are: James E. Echols, a former NCC chairman, Memphis, TN; William Garrard, first general manager of Greenwood, MS-based Staplcotn Cooperative; Sykes Martin, a Courtland, AL, producer; Walter Montgomery, Sr., a Spartanburg, SC, textile manufacturer; William Rhea Blake, a former NCC executive vice president; Roger Malkin, long-time chairman and CEO of Delta and Pine Land Company, Scott, MS; and former NCC presidents, George C. Cortright, Jr., a Rolling Fork, MS, producer, and Jack Hamilton, a Lake Providence, LA, producer/ginner/warehouseman.

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