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The June 30 retirement of Gilbert H. Rollins closed out an Auburn University dairy science teaching and research career that spanned an era of great progress in Alabama's dairy industry.

When Rollins joined Auburn's agricultural faculty in 1948, Alabama dairymen were getting only 23,608 kg of milk per cow. Thirty-three years later, average production per cow has passed 59,020 kg, a fantastic 153% increase.

Rollins' part in this progress was related by his coworker, George Hawkins, at a retirement party held by animal and dairy science staff of Auburn's School of Agriculture, Forestry, and Biological Sciences and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. Hawkins said both teaching and research efforts of Rollins, an associate professor of animal and dairy Sciences, had been important in development of Alabama's dairy industry into the high-producing, efficient business it is today.

Auburn's facilities for dairy research have undergone great changes during Rollins' tenure. An ultra-modern confinement facility at the E. V. Smith Research Center, Shorter, incorporates the modern technology now available for herd management, and facilities at substations with dairy units now permit research on a variety of dairy problems.