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Alumni Profiles
Reluctant College Student Became WSU Regent
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Robert “Mac” Crow grew up on a wheat ranch near the small town of Oaksdale on a section of ground that his great grandfather homesteaded in 1880. Mac reluctantly enrolled in college after graduating from high school at the age of 16. “All I wanted to do was stay home and farm,” he recalls. “I made an agreement with my folks that I would go to school for two years and then I could come home.”
His sister, who graduated from high school at the same time, enrolled at Washington State and later became a school teacher in Pullman. “I went one year to Whitworth College because at the time WSU looked too big. Then I decided I wanted an ag degree. I didn’t want some other vocation. I transferred to Pullman as a sophomore.” Continue reading »
Beth Hammerberg Always Knew
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Beth Hammerberg knew she wanted to be a teacher in kindergarten. Even though she had no doubts about her career path, she didn’t know what she wanted to teach until high school.
“In high school I toyed with the idea of teaching math and music, but I could never decide,” Hammerberg said.
As a dedicated FFA member in high school, Hammerberg’s teacher inspired her to teach agriculture. Continue reading »
Mission No. 1 – Feed a Hungry World
From the first time he met renowned wheat breeder Orville A. Vogel, Warren Kronstad’s professional mission was clear – help feed a hungry world.
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Considered among the most influential wheat breeders in the world, Kronstad’s work focused on developing high-yield wheat varieties that could be successfully grown in a variety of environments around the globe. He was an early innovator in the field of biometrical modeling to help in the parental selection and genetic variations within different populations of wheat, cited as one of the major accomplishments in plant breeding during the 20th Century. Continue reading »
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