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Purdue alumnus Joyce Grimble
recruited Phil Dorroll at Lafayette Jeffereson High School where
she is a guidance counselor.
Photo by Tom Campbell
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She has volunteered to try to change that, enlisting as a "scout"
in Purdue's "GO in AG" recruiting campaign.
Dale Whittaker, associate dean of agriculture and head of academic
programs, has enlisted an army of 100 volunteers from across Indiana,
people like Grimble, committed not only to Purdue, but also to the future
of Indiana, its agriculture and its people.
The team of recruiters was hand-picked from lists of community leaders,
members of the Dean's Advisory Council, Distinguished Ag Alumni honorees,
former Ag Ambassadors, Extension educators, and ag teachers or counselors.
They have pledged to help
Whittaker identify and enroll Indiana's best high school seniors in
Purdue's College of Agriculture.
"We have one simple goal," Whittaker says, "and that
is to attract the very best high school students we can into the School
of Agriculture."
Students like Phil Dorroll, who ranks 35th in his senior class at Jefferson
High School and proudly carries a grade point average of 3.93.
Dorroll wasn't even on Grimble's list of student contacts. A fellow
guidance counselor noticed Grimble's "GO in AG" shirt one
day in school and mentioned that Dorroll might be interested in a career
as a forest ranger. Faster than you can say "GO in AG," Grimble
set up a meeting with Dorroll, eventually making him a scholarship offer
he couldn't refuse.
"Purdue is close, it has a great ag school, and my dad works there.
I can't see any reason to go anywhere else," Dorroll says.
Not that Dorroll, who will major in natural resources, did not look
elsewhere. With an eye on becoming a forest ranger in the state or national
park systems, he looked at the wide-open spaces out West.
"I've got some relatives in the western states, so, initially,
I looked out there," Dorroll says, "but it just makes more
sense to go to Purdue."
Especially after Grimble waved a $1,500 scholarship in front of his
face.
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