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Phil Nelson, the 2007 winner of the World Food Prize, started the highly successful wine program in Purdue’s Department of Food Science with the help of Richard Vine (right).
Sunrise, photographed by Phil Nelson from the front porch of the Michigan home on Lake Douglas where he and is wife, Sue, now live.
The Purdue flag flies above the green Michigan State flag whenever the Nelsons’ Boilermakers beat the neighbors’ Spartans.
Nelson’s deck table and chairs were gifts from the food science department when he stepped down in 2003 as head of the department that he founded.
Phil and Sue Nelson stay in shape by paddling along the Lake Douglas shoreline.
Much of Lake Douglas is undeveloped, providing the Nelsons miles of smooth water, perfect for kayaking.
One of Nelson’s major accomplishments was to help get the university to construct the Food Science Building on campus.
Nelson during a fly-fishing excursion in New Zealand.
Nelson was ready to take a job in the private sector until he had a conversation with Earl Butz, who created a position that kept Nelson at Purdue for his entire career.
Since he stepped down as department head, Phil and Sue Nelson have traveled extensively, including an extended trip to New Zealand where they learned to fly fish.
The Nelsons met as undergrads at Purdue and have been together ever since. Recently, each found their Mortar Board documenting their first encounter, Sept. 18, 1954. His said: “Met Sue Bayless … hmmmm!” Hers said “Met Phil Nelson … interesting!” “We were so lovesick,” she says. They still are.
The annual aseptic workshop, which Nelson started, is now in its 24th year of teaching industry leaders some of the breakthroughs developed at Purdue University.
