Class Notes
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2010s
Jennifer Elliott (’16 ag and life sciences education) has joined Smithfield Foods as a sales and business trainee.
Rebecca Haugland ('16 ag and life sciences education) is the new customer success representative at Global/VetLINK in Ames.
Courtney Harder (’15 ag business) is the new commercial product trainer at CNH Industrial in Racine, Wisconsin.
Morgan Shrader (’15 ag business, agronomy) has been promoted to Account Manager with DuPont Pioneer.
Kelsey Carlson (’14 animal science, MS ’16) won the M.S. Research Award from the American Meat Science Association at the 2016 Reciprocal Meat Conference in San Angelo, Texas.
Carl Hanson (’14 ag studies) is the new business development manager for AgYield.
Amber Selman (’12 ag and life sciences education, dairy science, animal science) has taken a position as marketing executive at Filament Marketing in Saint Charles, Illinois.
Caitlin Wessel (’12 ag and life sciences education), ag educator at East Marshall Community Schools, has been appointed to the Iowa Council on Agricultural Educaton by Governor Branstad.
Kimberly Thayer (’11 environmental science, ’16 MS agronomy) has been hired as an agronomist for Tucker Consulting in Storm Lake.
2000s
Ryan Collins (’09 ag systems technology), a farmer near Harpers Ferry, was featured in Iowa Farmer Today for using a rotational grazing system on his farming operation.
Justin Rumple (’09 ag studies), a farmer near Casey, was featured in AgriNews for practices on his farming operation.
Peter Scharpe (’09 animal science) has been hired as a loan processor at Farmers State Bank in Albert Lea, Minnesota.
Leah Worth (’08 horticulture) is the new agriculture/horticulture program coordinator for Iowa State Extension in Jasper County.
Brianne Streck (’05 ag and life sciences education), grain merchandiser with Flint Hills Resources from Moville, has been elected public relations chair of the Iowa Farm Bureau Young Farmers Committee.
Jacob Handsaker (’04 ag studies), owner of Hands On Excavating in Radcliffe, has been elected chair of the Iowa Farm Bureau Young Farmers Committee.
Sarah Kaatz ('03 MS fisheries and wildlife biology) has been named director of the Iowa State Office for Responsible Research.
Brian Steward (’00 ag business) has been promoted to senior commercial field underwriter for Acuity.
1990s
Joel Rochleau (’96 ag business), senior vice president and branch manager of security state bank in Springville, was honored by the Northwestern Financial Review Magazine as one of the 2016 Rising Stars in Banking.
1980s
Juston Lamb (’86 ag and life sciences education), agricultural educator at Pekin Community Schools was featured by the University of Iowa for his student’s STEM Innovator business,The Chicken Tractor Project.
1970s
Dallas Maxwell (’77 animal science) has been named superintendent of the Iowa State Armstrong and Neely-Kinyon research and demonstration farms in southwest Iowa.
1960s
David Trauger (’64 fisheries and wildlife biology, ’67 MS, ’71 PhD zoology) has co-published the book Peak Oil, Economic Growth and Wild Life Conservation.
In Memoriam
Daniel Kiesling (’13 MS animal science), 34 of Williamston, Michigan, died July 11.
Douglas Fuller (’86 agronomy), 58, of Ames, died June 24.
Harold John Dane (’47 farm operation), 90, of Iowa City, died July 7.
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