1950s
Gale R. Ammerman, BS '50, MS '53,
PhD '57, Aliceville, Ala., is into a second career as an adviser
to the Pickens County, Ala., County Commissioners after a 33-year
career in food science. In addition, he serves on the boards of
the West Alabama Economic Development Authority, the Pickens County
Community Action Corporation and the Aliceville Area Chamber of
Commerce. Ammerman's food science career spanned 10 years in research
with Libby McNeill and 23 years as a professor and head of the Department
of Food Science and Technology at Mississippi State University.
1960s
Nancy Sahnd Bauman, BS '64, MS '65,
West Lafayette, Ind., was presented a Sagamore of the Wabash award
for her work with children and families of the Lafayette community.
Bauman, a retired science teacher and guidance counselor who was
director of guidance at Tecumseh Middle School, worked with many
students and families outside of school, and she visited many families
in crisis in an attempt to make a difference. "I collect children
... in the grocery, on the street, at the library, and just strike
up a conversation and see where it goes from there," she says.
The Sagamore award, the governor's highest honor, is given to those
who have provided distinguished service to Indiana. |
1970s
Carl
G. Van Slyke, MS '70, Wilder, Idaho, retired from the University
of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences after 30 years.
His career included four years as a 4-H Extension educator in Bingham
County, Idaho, and 10 years as Extension educator-county chairman
responsible for livestock, crops, and vegetable garden programs
in Kootenai County, Idaho. He was a partner in a family farm in
southwest Idaho for a couple of years before returning to the University
of Idaho as the superintendent of the Parma Research and Extension
Center. In retirement he plans to spend time in the vegetable garden,
do some traveling, and perhaps take on some consulting work.
Darrel J. Kesler, BS '71, MS '74,
Champaign, Ill., a professor of animal sciences at the University
of Illinois, was appointed as professor of veterinary clinical medicine
and was awarded the Thorn Bioscience Award for Outstanding Accomplishment
in Veterinary Pharmaceutical Delivery at the annual meeting of the
Controlled Release Society in Seoul, Korea. The Controlled Release
Society has 3,500 members who study how to administer pharmaceutical
products.
1980s
Vickie J. Maris, BS '86, Battle
Ground, Ind., is marketing manager for the Center for Food and Agricultural
Business in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University.
In her free time, she raises and trains Connemara ponies, the native
pony of western Ireland, on her Dawn of Promise Farm.
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Ken Shaver, BS '89, and Lori Shaver,
BS '91, Crawfordsville, Ind., for the eighth year hosted the Ironman
GNCC series dirt bike and ATV race on Oct. 19 and 20. The event
draws more than 5,000 spectators and more than
400 racers.
1990s
Craig Hunt, BS '93, DVM '02, Indianapolis,
is an associate veterinarian at Castleton Pet Clinic in Indianapolis.
2000s
Jill M. Summerlot, BS '00, MS '01,
Kokomo, Ind., married Brian D. Early (BS '97 in Animal Agribusiness)
on June 8, 2002. Jill is the 4-H Youth Extension educator in Howard
County. Brian is an agronomist for Adler Seeds and operates his
own farm.
Todd Branson, BS '01, Anadarko,
Okla., is a 4-H educator in Caddo County, Okla., for Oklahoma State
University and the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. At the
recent state banquet of the Oklahoma Association of Extension 4-H
Agents, he was awarded the State 4-H Promotions and Visibility Award
for accomplishments in technology usage and his success in promoting
4-H on the radio and in newspapers.
Ryan M. Gehlhausen, BS '02, Richmond,
Ind., is a manufacturing engineer with NSK Corp.
Deaths
Walter G. Cantley, BS '40, St. Paul,
Minn., died on Aug. 28, 2002.
Virgil Griffith, MS '67, Conyers,
Ga., died on Sept. 21, 2002. |
