Six garner Ag Alumni's top honor
|
|
Photo provided
2003 Certificate of Distinction winners from left to right are
Phil Anderson, Dale Butcher, Clarence Kaiser, Joseph Pearson,
Ralph Neill adn Bruno Moser.
|
Six men have received Certificates of Distinction from the Purdue
University Agricultural Alumni Association for their life-long contributions
to agriculture. The certificates, presented each year at the Ag Alumni
Fish Fry, are the highest honor presented by the alumni organization.
The honorees are:
Phil Anderson, BS '83, Indianapolis. He
has been the executive vice president of the Indiana Beef Cattle Association
since 1993 and has spent most of his career representing agriculture
commodity and producer groups. He was executive director of the Indiana
Corn Growers Association from 1985 to 1991 and communications director
for the American Veal Association in 1992-93. Since 1988, he also has
been the executive director of the Indiana Veal Association.
Dale Butcher, BS '61, MS '67, West Lafayette.
He started out in agricultural sales, but he found his niche in 1964
when he became the agriculture instructor at Benton Central High School
near Fowler, Ind., a job he held for 38 years until he retired in 2002.
He is the executive secretary of the Indiana Association of Agricultural
Educators and was the 1990 Benton Community Schools teacher of the year.
Butcher was named a Purdue Distinguished Agricultural Alumnus in 1995.
Clarence James Kaiser, BS '51, Eckerty,
Ind. Although he retired from the faculty of the University of Illinois
in 1993, he is still active in agriculture as the co-owner and operator
of the fourth-generation family farm in southern Indiana. During his
40 years of service at the university, Kaiser wrote more than 325 publications,
primarily on forage crops and pasture management.
Bruno C. Moser, West Lafayette. Moser
was head of Purdue's Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
from 1975 to 1996. Now he is a professor of horticulture and an Extension
specialist in nursery and landscape crops. He was honored for being
one of the first department heads in the country to recognize the potential
of new technology in horticulture research.
Page 1 | Page
2
