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2011 Alumni News In Brief ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Nunnikhoven Returns To Family Farm Chandler Nunnikhoven was featured on the Lang Chosen To Lead front page of the Des Moines Register in Board Of Regents,

July. The alumnus purchased his grandpar- Elbert Bob Photo: ents’ farmstead, tends cattle and intends to State Of Iowa renovate one of the barns on the property. Craig Lang, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau, was unani- Nunnikhoven earned a bachelor’s degree in mously approved in July as the new president of the body horticulture with a minor in agronomy in 2010. that governs Iowa’s public universities. Lang replaced David His day job is managing a staff of nine work- Miles, who was asked to resign as president by Gov. Terry ers for the city of Pella. For a link to the com- Branstad and returned to the position of board member. Lang plete article and a photo essay of his farm earned a bachelor’s degree in dairy science in 1973. He has visit www.ag.iastate.edu/stories. been Iowa Farm Bureau president since 2001.

IN MEMORIUM Norma “Duffy” Lyon, better known as the The Bells Toll: “Butter Cow Lady,” died June 26. She was Alumna Offers 9/11 Tribute on Carillon 81. Lyon sculpted the Iowa State Fair Butter On September 11 from the carillon studio Cow from 1960 until her retirement in 2004. in the campanile, alumna Amy Brandau She earned a bachelor’s degree in animal played “America the Beautiful” and science in 1951. She owned and operated then rang the bells 10 times, one for Lyon Jerseys Dairy Farm near Toledo with each year since the attacks. Brandau her husband, Joe. A life-size bronze cow earned a bachelor’s degree in agricul- McBreen Barbara Photo: honoring Lyon was installed when the new tural business in 2000 and an MBA in ISU Dairy Farm was dedicated. business administration in 2008. She is an academic adviser in the ISU College Charles Manatt, former U.S. Ambassador to of Engineering. Brandau studied the the , died July 22. He was carillon with ISU carillonneur Tin-shi 75. Manatt earned a bachelor’s degree in Tam as both an undergraduate and rural sociology from ISU in 1958. He founded graduate student. Brandau offers a First Bank. He was elected chair look inside the campanile in a STORIES of the Democratic National Committee in online extra video at: www.ag.iastate.edu/stories. 1981. In 1992, he was co-chair of the Clinton- Gore presidential campaign, and in 1999 President Clinton appointed Manatt as the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Iowa State University Alumni Newlin Receives First Association and ISU Foundation. Iowa Corn Lifetime Marvin Walter of Ames died June 1. He was Achievement Award

70. Walter earned bachelor’s and master’s Heemstra Jim Photo: A lumnus Owen Newlin, retired senior vice degrees in animal science in 1962 and 1964. president of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Walter worked for the American Meat Institute, received the first Iowa Corn Lifetime then as a commodity broker at the Achievement award in August at the Iowa Mercantile Exchange. Over the years, he Corn Growers Association annual meeting. operated Carriage House Meat, Provision Co. Newlin earned a bachelor’s degree in and several affiliated businesses. Walter was agronomy and a master’s degree in crop involved in many Iowa State activities, serving production. Read more about Newlin in on the Board of Governors and receiving the a 2010 article from STORIES online at Order of the Knoll award for Distinguished www.ag.iastate.edu/stories. Service. He also received the Floyd Andre award for Distinguished Service to Agriculture from the college.

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