Charles Gibbings, a former president of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and commissioner of the Canadian Wheat Board, died recently in Kelowna, B.C. He was 92.
Gibbings was born on a farm near Rosetown, Sask., in 1916. After high school he sold brushes door to door and operated a half-section farm, eventually earning enough to finance enrolment at the University of Saskatchewan, where he obtained a degree in agriculture.
He was elected a Sask Pool delegate in 1946, a director in 1952 and second vice-president in 1955. In 1960 he succeeded J. H. Wesson as president. He resigned in 1969 to accept an appointment as commissioner of the wheat board, serving in that position until retiring in 1983 at age 64.
Gibbings then moved to Kelowna, where he worked as an agricultural consultant.
He also travelled to Ethiopia on behalf of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to study issues relating to crop forecasting.
