1960s

Dave Betters, BS ’67, MS ’71, Fort Collins, Colo., retired from Colorado State University after 29 years as a professor of forestry. Betters, a Purdue ROTC graduate, also retired at the rank of colonel from the U.S. Army Reserve after 30 years of active duty and reserve service.

Lawrence Muller, PhD ’69, Lemont, Pa., retired from the faculty in the Department of Dairy and Animal Science at Penn State University after 34 years in academia. He is now professor emeritus in dairy science.

Jack Fenwick, BS ’60, MS ’73, PhD ’76, received the Crop Science Teaching and Agronomic Resident Education Awards from the American Society of Agronomy. Fenwick is coordinator of the resident instruction program and associate professor in the Colorado State University Department of Soil and Crop Sciences.

1970s

Caula Beyl, MS ’77, PhD ’79, received Purdue’s 2003 Distinguished Horticulture Alumni Award. Beyl is director of the plant science center and professor of horticulture and stress physiology at Alabama A&M in Huntsville, Ala.

1980s

Mario F. Nievera, BS ’87, is the recipient of Purdue’s 2003 Distinguished Landscape Architecture Alumni Award. His company, Mario Nievera Design Inc., provides landscape architecture and design services for residential, corporate, institutional and commercial clients in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

2000s

James Wolheter, BS ’00, his wife, Jenny, and their 14-month-old son, Coy, moved to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in September to serve a three-year term as missionaries teaching in a Bible institute and teaching agriculture in the Bolivian Evangelical University.

Deaths

Eugene R. Sieg, BS ’55, Plymouth, Ind., died July 10.

William Bramble, 95, professor emeritus of forestry and natural resources, died Oct. 4 in Lafayette. Bramble was head of the forestry and natural resources department from 1958 to 1973.

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